April Blog Candy (Staying at the top)

Find out about the April Blog Candy Giveaway by clicking here! Scroll down for recent posts!! **BLOG CANDY NOW CLOSED. Check back in a couple of days to see the winner!!

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Daquiri LO

I made this LO using the April Kit at Vintage Plum. This patterned paper was on the back of an orange patterned paper that I used for my Happy Pumpkins LO earlier this month.
This is an ABOUT ME LO. I just love strawberry daquiris, but without the alcohol. We make them at home with the Bacardi mix and I just add ice and water rather than the Bacardi. I thought they looked so pretty one day, I just snapped a photo.

This is just a super simple LO because I wanted the pink patterned paper to be the main focus.

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Get Ready for National Scrapbooking Month!!

Stampin' UP is celebration National Scrapbooking Month the entire month of May!

There are three awesome parts to the May celebration!

1. Buy a brand new alphabet set from the upcoming catalog before the catalog comes out! This alphabet is called Jumble and it is super cute! Click here to see the new Jumble Alphabet set PDF!!

2. Buy any 3 packs of DSP or Textured cardstock and get 1 free!!! You can mix and match whatever packs you want and there is no limit so you can stock up! All the paper that includes the In Colors will be retiring so now is the time to stock up.

3. Become a demonstrator with a special scrapboking starter kit that costs $75!! This is a great deal for anyone even thinking about signing up to be a demonstrator. I love being a demonstrator and I would love having you on my Inkalicious Divas team!! I've got 6 great ladies on my team!

If you have any questions on becoming a demonstrator or anything else about SU, please contact me today scrapmastersparadise@yahoo.com!!

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Dog Mini Book Part 2

**I  am on a ProvoCraft/Cricut Boycott! They won't get another dime from me!  Got a Cricut? Well use it! Don't have one yet? Consider a different  machine!! Click here for more details about my boycott and how I got here!! You can join the boycott too!**

Here are some pages from my dog mini book:

First pages read: Eat with Gusto
Supplies used:
Title is DCWV spring stack paper cut with the Cricut Lyrical Letters cartridge
Dogbowls were cut with the Cricut Paper Pups cartridge and colored in with SU Markers
Ribbon is SU Tangerine Tango and Pretty in Pink1/4grosgrain
misc. button
Page title: Love Unconditionally.
This is a photo of Bella when she was a puppy, now she is a 60lb dog :O)
Supplies used:
Puffy Thickers accents
Stampin' UP Photo Corner Punch
Stampin' UP Simply Scrappin Love Stories embellishments
K&Company alphas
Page Title: Be Loyal no matter what
Supplies Used:
Stampin' UP ribbons
K & Company alphas

Page Title: Make Time 2 Play
Supplies Used:
K & Company alphas
Making Memories alphas
Glimmer Mist
Stampin' UP Pacific Point & Baja Breeze ribbon
Stampin' UP Sense of Time stamp set (from the current Occasions Mini)

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Use it Tuesday #5

Somehow I forgot to schedule my post and this appeared on my blog last week. If you saw it last week, just pretend like it is new LOL :O)

Every Tuesday, I am digging into my stash and using something I have been hoarding. I have a room full of stuff and I am going to try to USE IT!! I hope you will join me and start using your own stuff more.

For this week's challenge, I used my Stampin' UP A Rose is A Rose stamp set and a paper pack called Tiffany's from We R Memory Keepers. These have both been in my stash for quite a long time so it was definitely time to USE IT!

Here is my "It's a Girl" LO:

These are the first photos I took of Emma when she came home.

The title is glitter Thickers. The journaling square came from my March Vintage Plum kit.

The roses and leaves are from the A Rose is a Rose stamp set. They are stamped in two colors of ink using the Stamp a ma jig (LOVE that thing!!)

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1 stamp set, 2 looks!

For the following two cards, I busted out my new set called Quinceanera. This set is from the Spanish Stampin' UP catalog and I just loved this trendy looking diva so I got this stamp set as one of my free sets I earned recently.

I thought of course she could be a trendy bride and not just a teen gal so I made two different cards. They are very similar but the sentiment is what makes them totally different.
The first card is actually for a Quinceanera card. The girl, flower and sentiment are from the Quinceanera stamp set. Then I used a circle punch and the Scallop Circle Punch to go with the sentiment and then the Ticket Corner Punch was used on the corners of the Whisper White cardstock.
For this card, I used this sentiment from K and Company. The corners were punched with the Photo Corner Punch that SU makes.

Both girls were colored with Stickles glitter glue and SU Markers.

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Trying something new here

Hello everyone,

I am going to be trying something new for the next couple of days. If I use a SU product, I am going to try to link it to a product description page here on my blog. The product descriptions are going to be pre-dated so that they won't show up on my main page. It may not make sense so just bear with me for a couple of days.

Linked items will be in bold font, click those products to see what I am taking about! :O)

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Sketch Challenge #15

Here is sketch challenge #15! Have fun!

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Crack Dip Recipe LO

My friend Stephanie came to my house and showed me her awesome recipe swap cards a while back and I just loved the idea of a 6X6 recipe book (that is the size her swap was). The cards were just so cute and I have been meaning to start mine for a long time now. Well, I finally did!

This recipe is called "Crack" Dip. It is a twist on a cheese and bean dip and it is simply to die for good. All my family and friends just adore this dip. It is so good and addictive, like crack, hence the name!! LOL. Traditionally sausage is put into the recipe, but we do not eat pork ( for health reasons, migraines and nitrates don't mix).

The recipe is written out at the end of this post in case you want to find yourself addicted to crack dip!!

The LO was made using my cute Stampin' UP Viola and Voila To Go stamp sets. OMGosh I just love these stamp sets!! I have loved them from the day that I saw them. The dip cup is actually supposed to be a coffee mug, but I just left off the handle when I was using a Stampin' UP Marker on the stamp. I colored the images with an aqua painter and ink.

The cardstock is creamy caramel, baja breeze, and the patterned paper is from the Good Morning Sunshine pack. I used the SU Scallop egde punch on the patterned paper. The creamy caramel was embossed with a Sizzix Texturez plate. The alphas are Glitter Thickers and misc. sticker alphas.

And now for the recipe:

CRACK DIP RECIPE

Ingredients:
1 can black beans
1 can Rotel tomatoes
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
2 tbsp cumin
pinch of garlic
pinch of chili powder
8oz sour cream
8oz cream cheese

1. Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan and mix well.
2. Heat over medium heat until the cream cheese melts.
3. Let simmer 5-10 minutes until ingredients are well combined.
**If adding ground sausage, cook the sausage before combining all the ingredients.

Enjoy!!!

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Stamptivity #10

This week's Stamptivity challenge is a recipe challenge. Use your Stamptivity stamps on a project including:
Embossing
Glitter
and ribbon!

I don't have mine finished so it will be posted later.

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$5 off sale NOW until April 30th!!

Hello everyone! I am $40 away from my sales goal for April so I thought I would offer a special sale to you!

Receive $5 off your Stampin' UP purchase of $50 or more now until the end of the month (April 30th is this coming up Thursday) !!

You can purchase online via my online store or via email at sstracha@utk.edu, but payment must be received no later than April 30th to receive this special offer. If you purchase online from my SU website, I have no way of taking off the $5 so I will refund you $5 after I receive your purchase.

I hope you will take me up on my special offer!! It helps me and my Stampin' UP business and gives you a good deal so we both benefit! :O)

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Dog Mini Book

**I  am on a ProvoCraft/Cricut Boycott! They won't get another dime from me!  Got a Cricut? Well use it! Don't have one yet? Consider a different  machine!! Click here for more details about my boycott and how I got here!! You can join the boycott too!**

Here is a mini book I started last night:
This book is made with file folders cut in half. My mom brought home these pretty natural file folders from work and I took them! LOL (really I asked her first). They are beautifully textured and have leaves pressed into them. I bound them with my bind it all. I sprayed the paper with glimmer mist.

The alphas were cut with the Cricut Lyrical Letters cartridge. I love the fonts on here!! I outlined the big letters with glitter stickles and the little letters with a Stampin' UP marker. The "Dogs" is cut out of some Basic Grey paper. I stamped a stamp from Stampin' UP's boho backgrounds stamp set. The grass at the bottom was stamped with the SU Pocket Silhouettes. The puppy is from the Cricut Paper Pups cartridge. I put a little rhinestone for it's little eye.

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Vintage Plum Crop May 2-3!!

Vintage Plum Online Crop May 2nd - 3rd
There is a count down in my sidebar :)
www.vintageplum.com
Please join us at Vintage Plum on May 2nd - 3rd from 12pm - 10pm cst for our VP Online Crop. We will have layout challenges, card challenges, altered projects and games. Prizes will be awarded for every challenge and game. All challenges will be due by Monday 8pm (CST) to be eligible for a prize. The overall winner of the crop will be spotlighted on Vintage Plum's blog. They will be interviewed and have all of their projects made during the crop posted on the blog. They will also win a $20.00 gift certificate good toward a kit purchase in Vintage Plum's store. We hope to see you there!

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IBCC #14

Sorry this is late, my blog has been acting weird lately. All the posts I prescheduled last Thursday ended up disappearing or being posting on the wrong day! I hope it is under control now!

For this week's IBCC, use the above card as your inspiration card.

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Prima Happy

I got a good deal on some Prima Sprites from a nice little lady I met on SCS so I got 8 different kinds. There is just no way I can use 35 flowers in 8 colors all on my own, so I am listing little dollar packs on my ebay store!!

Check out the dollar section in my ebay store. More dollar items are to come! http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Scrapmasters-Paradise

Here are the colors I have:
Pink Gingham

Pink Polka dots

Red Polka dots

Pastel yellow polka dots

Mint green gingham

Blue polka dots

Black & White polka dots

Bright yellow polka dots

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Mosaic Background Tutorial

Learn how to make the mosaic background on my learning blog by clicking here.

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Button Crazy

Need Duttons?? Come to my ebay store!! http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Scrapmasters-Paradise I have a bunch of buttons listed in my dollar section.

I ordered buttons in bulk and now I have tons of buttons. I am hoping to sell some of them so I am not overrun with buttons!

Here are the color options I have available:
All Black

All White

Black & White

Baby Blue

Dark Blue

Blues

Hunter Green

Brown & Pink

Floral Mixture

Think Pink Mixture

Hot Pink

Yellow

Lime

Browns

Creams

Neutrals

Purple

Deep Pink

Jewel Mixture

Citrus Mixture

Aquas

Pastels

Baby Pink

Primary Mixture

Fall Colors Mixture

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