Classy Black & Gold Wedding Wishes

Weddings are quite personal with color themes running through the events from invitations to decorations (and even the food!) so as often as I can, I create a card to match the occasion. But sometimes they come in bunches and I just need a card NOW, so I came up with this classy black and gold version that seems to do the trick for any formal event.

You can change the words and/or colors to make it a sympathy, birthday or thank you card (all included in the Rose Wonder stamp set!). Download the tutorial and shop in my Stampin' Store for supplies to create your own.

There's a party going on right here

No matter how many times I clean the kitchen, it still gets messy within hours! Sometimes you just need to run away and make something pretty that STAYS pretty, don't you?

Here are a few opportunities coming up that may help fill the need to create something beautiful and long-lasting. You can click on the images or links for more details or see them all on my Creative Juice by Loni Facebook Events Page.

Stamp-A-Stack Card Class (Spanish Fork, UT)

Saturday, January 30 at 1 PM

Shadowbox of Love Class (Spanish Fork, UT)

Thursday, February 4 at 7 PM

Stampapalooza Stamp Camp (St. George, UT)

Saturday, February 27 11AM - 4 PM

Stampapalooza Stamp Camp (Spanish Fork, UT)

Saturday, March 12 11 AM - 4 PM

It's your choice: Stay home to clean the bathroom ONE MORE TIME or come get crafty with me??

Visit the Pyramids

Playful Pals Bundle You won't need to leave home to visit these pyramids: So much creativity packed into one playful bundle of fun~ The Playful Pals stamp set and Pyramid Pals framelits go together like milk and cookies so it just makes sense to get them together and save 15% with the Playful Pals Photopolymer Bundle...let the adventure begin!

 

The COLLECTION Playful Pals stamp set (50 stamps) and Pyramid Pals Thinlits Dies (18 dies) are used with the Big Shot Die Cutting Tool.

   

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SALE-A-BRATION TIME

Host & Save

Need another excuse to get together with friends? Just host a qualifying party during Sale-A-Bration and earn $30 more Stampin' Rewards! You can even apply your Stampin' Rewards toward your Starter Kit.

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The holidays are over. The tree is down. All of the decorations have been packed away for next year. Hopefully Santa brought everything that was on your wish list. But, just in case he didn't have enough room in his pack for all the Stampin' Up! supplies that you had listed, here are some great projects that will fill up your winter with ideas and inspiration.

Sale-A-Bration is a great opportunity to earn free products. That's right - free. Isn't that a great word after your holiday season? For every $50 spent, before taxes and shipping, you will receive a free, exclusive Sale-A-Bration product.

So brighten those long winter months with ink, stamps, and paper. No better way to spend a snowy day then inside preserving memories or making cards to brighten other people's days. Stampin' Up! is there to help you every step of the way!

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Sale-A-Bration Inspiration

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This special is from January 5th to March 31st. Sale-A-Bration products are exclusive to this promotion. You won't be seeing these items again. Remember you earn free products when you spend $50, so now is the time to check off that wish list.



Products shown on the Sale-A-Bration brochure on pages 16-19 are limited-time products available only until February 15th. Watch for another batch of limited-time products arriving February 16th.

Walking Through a {black & gold} Winter Wonderland

How do you feel about Christmas cards that aren't the traditional Red & Green?

I tried a little "out of the holiday color box" card with the (sadly) soon-to-be-retiring Wonderland stamp set and I think it is quite elegant:

To create the stars on the background, I squoze 5-6 drops of multipurpose glue into an empty button or brad container and added a few drops of water, then mixed it with an Aqua Painter. Then I tapped the Aqua Painter on my hand over the top of the embossed card stock so it splattered all over it. Finally, I sprinkled gold glitter over the splatters and shook off the excess. 

On this version I used gold baker's twine in the button, but I can tell you the gold cord trim is MUCH easier to thread through the holes. 

For a .pdf tutorial of this card, click here! 

Thanks for ordering from my Stampin' Store and don't miss the Online Extravaganza going on right now through November 30, 2015: Click below to shop!

Still time for some haunting...

This bag is easy to make and fun to stuff with treats for co-workers, friends and special little ghouls and goblins and uses the Gift Bag Punch Board:

Click on the picture or HERE to download the .pdf tutorial and have a Happy Halloween!

Thankful Fall Wreath Card

Glad I had a moment to stamp today because the challenges at TGIF and Friday Mashup were a perfect pairing:

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Though I'm not blogging as much, I'm sharing DAILY on my Facebook page Creative Juice by Loni and often on Instagram!  Support a small business by ordering your crafting supplies (including those used for this card) from my Stampin' Store :)

Salt Star Background for The Kindness Projects

A friend asked for cards for a teenage boy who needed some encouragement and it was so 

delightful to create something to bring a smile to someones face (I hope!):

Boys are hard to stamp for sometimes. Especially teenage boys. So I pulled out the Calling All Heroes stamp set (Item #138002...only available while supplies last!) and put on my thinking cap. I started by turning my cardstock to landscape for a different look to the circle card thinlit die. I used a 4.25" x 7.25" piece of Pacific Point card stock and didn't run it all the way through; just over the circle side and back. 

My friend Lou Ann showed me how to make a starry night with salt so I decided to incorporate that into my card, too:

Start with a Daffodil Delight (or white) piece of card stock and sprinkle salt over it. Place it between the cutting pads and run it through the Big Shot on the Multipurpose Platform with all tabs closed. Shake/brush off the salt (remember to wipe off the cutting pads too!).

Next, brayer over the salt-embossed paper with a dark color (I used Night of Navy). Make sure the salt/dot impressions are pushing DOWN and your ink won't reach them, creating a starry, starry night. Add a city or space-scape and voila, the milky way appears!

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Please purchase the supplies to create your own from Loni's Stampin' Up! Store.

If you want to create something as a random act of kindness, I suggest visiting the Kindness Projects blog and sharing your he(ART)-felt good works!

Birth-Date Color: A Thai-Tradition!

At convention Stampin' Up! announced that the 2017 Grand Vacation demonstrators can earn will be to Phuket, Thailand! Now I have a goal :)

Did you know that according to Thai tradition, each day of the week is assigned a color and the color for the day you were born is supposed to be your lucky color?! Find out your lucky Stampin' Up! color by finding out which day of the week you were born on and then click here for your SU! Birthdate Hue.

In honor of the birthday I recently celebrated, I created this monochromatic card in MY color (Melon Mambo) and used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

What is your birth date color? Leave a comment below! 

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Order supplies in YOUR lucky color from my Stampin' Store!

A Gift Bag for the New Mr. & Mrs.

Is your refrigerator covered with wedding invitations like mine? 

You need to make a few of these to have on hand: Just drop in a gift and go! 

Click for Gift Bag Tutorial!

I'm kind of in love with the new Mint Macaron In-Color for 2015-2016: It's so elegant! Paired with the new Tip-Top Taupe (another new In-Color) it's a perfect marriage of color (pun intended). The gorgeous Dotted Lace trim comes in all 5 of the new hues, too. I picked up the handled-bag at the dollar store, but everything else can be found in my online store.

And if you don't have the Bow Builder Punch, order it immediately. Seriously.

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Serendipity that this coincides with the #TGIFC08 challenge and co-ordinates with their colors, too:

Thanks for checking in and wishing you wonderful weddings!