tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43213721423741375902024-03-13T11:21:49.963-07:00Stamping with KarenJThis blog is a about sharing my love of rubber stamping.Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-91417830864843434432018-04-24T18:42:00.001-07:002018-04-24T18:42:41.226-07:00Share What You Love!<span style="color: purple; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Hi Friends!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It's been a very long time since I've posted anything here! I've been mostly using the blog on my demonstrator website for sharing information and projects. I thought it was time to return to this format too. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I made this card with some fun new products from the Share What You Love Suite. Demonstrators were able to preorder these products during the month of April. Customers can order 3 different bundles from this suite starting May 2, 2018. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>For this card I used the newly returning Mint Macaron card stock, Basic Black, and whisper white card stock. The embossed layer on the white card is from that suite! It is so pretty! And that designer paper is just gorgeous!! Several of the papers in the pack have a pearlized sheen to them as does the doily under the banner strip. Pearl is for the 30th Anniversary that Stampin Up is celebrating this year. So many of the items in this suite have a pearlized effect. It is just beautiful!! </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The first bundle is called the Just Getting Started Bundle. It has some basic supplies to get started on creating beautiful projects. It is $57.00.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>It's been way too long since I've posted anything on my blog. But I'm back in business so they say! I'd like to share some cards I've made. Most have been for the card classes I teach each month. Some items have been gifts to my class attendees.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>This card was made with the new masks (stencils) that is from Stampin Up. We also sell a fast drying paste but I didn't have that product yet so I decided to use sponges and ink. I used elegant eggplant, daffodil delight, and tempting turquoise inks. I also used the Label Me Pretty and matching punch. I wanted a thank you card but the center circle stamp image had thank you for caring. So I just used the elegant eggplant marker and only colored the parts of the stamp I wanted. It think it turned out just great. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>All these supplies are available in my online store: www.karenharper@stampinup.net</b></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><b>I'd be happy offer this card as a kit for anyone not in my area of NW Washington State and would be interested in ordering the products.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>Karen</b></span>Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-64070891443965457682014-10-31T15:14:00.001-07:002014-10-31T15:14:24.098-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night after a very busy fun filled day of stamping, chatting and then a little bit of work at the salon, and fantastic encouragement to sell my cards and gift boxes, I met with a lovely gal that works with Mike. Her name is Pupul, her family is originally from India but they have lived in Australia for many, many years. She even has relatives that live in Issaquah, Washington. That was cool to find out. Anyway...she helped me create my own fascinator for the Melbourne Cup. All week there are events and of course races happening. I'm going to Cup Day on Nov. 4th and Oaks Day Nov. 6th. Oaks day is ladies day and fashion is the key word, so I'm told! It will be fun to see all the fashions the ladies and men will be wearing. It's supposed to be quite a show!! Well, I had purchased my first fascinator at Myer when I bought my dress. Well, after seeing so many styles I thought how fun it would be to make my own! So that is where Pupul comes in, she made her own for last year's cup and being experienced I thought she'd be the one to help me. Here are the 2 fascinators I have. The purple one is for Cup Day and the pink is for Oaks Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I wonder if you can tell which is the one I made???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-3738168875162677592014-10-31T14:45:00.002-07:002014-10-31T14:45:29.389-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exciting News!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a lovely meeting with my friend Sue today I decided to become an official Aussie Demonstrator. Sue has welcomed me from even before I moved to Australia. After attending a few get togethers with her group of fun ladies, I just knew this would be the direction I'd be going. I'm still keeping my US demonstratorship so I can continue to take orders that way as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deciding factor for me was encouragement by local business people to sell my cards. I've already sold a few and am going to be busy making up more samples for the 2 businesses that are excited to showcase my work! Of course one is the hair salon where I work. The other is an apartment management company that used to handle the first apartment we lived in here. As soon as I showed Evelyn my cards and gift boxes she and her staff were amazed! She said I just had to sell them!! She even went right over to the little grocery store across the street to ask about selling my cards there as well. Too bad they have a strict contract with Hallmark so they couldn't take on my cards as well. She insisted I take my samples to the shopping center and put my cards in the some of the stores there! That's a bit ambitious for me right now. But in the meantime, Evelyn is going to bake up some of her famous macarons and see how many will fit inside the gift box I made and we'll package them up and hopefully sell for $15-$20 each. My cards will be between $5 and $6.50. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I feel more secure in starting up my stamp classes in my home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now for some more inspiration. These are 3 Christmas cards I made at a recent class. I want to thank Pamela for her creative inspiration. It is my plan to sell these cards very soon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are made with the oh so easy treat cups that can be filled with anything from candies to confetti. Red and green M&M's were just perfect for the 2 cards on the end. And mini marshmallows are also perfect for the snowman! Arent they o</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">h so cute????</span><br />
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Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-58545097211137395982014-10-29T14:08:00.001-07:002014-10-29T14:08:16.799-07:00Making embossed images pop<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWd54yrJe4Q" width="459"></iframe>Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-20801204652054906802014-10-26T22:04:00.000-07:002014-10-26T22:04:33.337-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of the scrapbook pages I made for a wall collage of some of our memories here in Australia. The picture above is actually from last December when Justin and I came out for Christmas. We took a trip on the Great Ocean Road and saw amazing scenery and of course the oh so cute koalas. Justin was much braver than me about trying out the driving here. He did really well. I was so impressed, but had no desire to even try!!<br />
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This is a page of postcards from our trip to Uluru. I learned about the symbols drawn in their paintings and decided to add some to this page. The one on the left is a campsite near running water, next is a little boomerang, and then running water, finally stars in the night.<br />
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This is another page from my first trip here last December. We went to Phillip Island to watch the penguin parade in the evening. So during the day we went to a wildlife preserve. We were able to feed the kangaroos. At first I was a bit apprehensive, but after watching others I jumped right in. The kangaroos are so used to people feeding them, they are so calm around us.<br />
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This page is from our recent trip to Uluru. After landing at the Uluru airport we were whisked away in our tour bus to get right out for an afternoon hike up Kata Tjuta. It was a pretty strenuous hike and after sitting on 2 airplanes all morning (we flew out at 7am) it was a bit of a challenge getting right into a hike. But we were pressed for time as we needed to be finished and set up for the sunset at Uluru. That was an amazing sight! I will have to get those pictures posted here too.<br />
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This is a post card collage of our trip to Sydney. Throughout the year different colored lights are used to light up the opera house. It is just beautiful. I'm really looking forward to spending New Year's Eve here this year year.<br />
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Here is our clock wall! I am always having to count the hours to figure out what time it is back home. So, on the left is Seattle, middle is Melbourne, and on the right is Miami. The picture below the Melbourne clock is of Brighton Beach and the very colorful beach huts people have set up there. They are each painted by the owner and are all so colorful. In the background is the city of Melbourne.<br />
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I will post the scrapbook pages that I arrange on the wall as soon as I get more supplies to hang them up. I mounted them on the heavy duty chipboard that comes with scrapbook papers. I was thinking it would add stability to the page when I hang it on the wall.<br />
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Till next time, happy stamping all!<br />
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:) Karen<br />
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This was just a sampling of the lightning strikes that occurred in Melbourne last night. This was a huge storm! And this picture was taken in an apartment building just next to the one I live in. I'd love to find the photographer of this picture!! It's just one of many amazing photos taken last night.<br />
<br />Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-6672275282476134822014-10-14T14:49:00.001-07:002014-10-14T14:49:23.843-07:00Good morning friends! Here is another card I made a couple of weeks ago. I used the Wondrous Wreath Stamp set and cased Sandi McGiver's card. I used the babywipe technique for this card.<br />
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<br />Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-11941660866463072032014-10-12T23:34:00.001-07:002014-10-12T23:34:50.474-07:00<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have another card I want to share with you. This is from a set that I made for my students from last year to let them know I was thinking of them and incorporating some Aussie flair too.</span><br />
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Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-52660843328711528302014-10-12T23:19:00.001-07:002014-10-12T23:19:38.282-07:00It's been a loooonnnnngggg time!!! <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi friends,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know I've been away for awhile, a long while!!! So much has happened in my life since last year. First off, I moved to Melbourne, Australia for a year...maybe a little longer. I moved here in late June of 2014 and have been settling in quite nicely. Now instead of living out in the rural countryside I live right in the heart of the city. I've made some new friends, friends who share the love (passion) of creating cards with rubber stamps, lovely papers, inks, and fabulous embellishments. In fact, I am ready to start hosting some classes in my new home. Yay!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm off to a little birthday party this evening and here is the card I made for the occasion.</span><br />
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Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-87129675112860518442013-10-05T19:47:00.000-07:002013-10-05T19:47:08.783-07:00Hi friends,<br />
I had my fall stamp camp today and had a wonderful turnout. I had a houseful of good friends all having a stamping good time. Now I can't wait to plan the next stamp camp. We're also planning another shoe box swap. The swap we did last year was so much fun. It's always so good to get to see what everyone else comes up with for their card.<br />
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Well as promised, here are the rest of the cards we made at today's stamp camp:<br />
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This card features the Regarding Dahlias stamp set #130324 for $19.95 and the Mosiac Madness stamp set #130246 for $26.95. I embossed the dahlia with white embossing powder and sponged first with crushed curry ink and then with pumpkin pie ink. There was some "fussy" cutting but the effect is beautiful. The dahlia is popped up with dimensionals. Hope you like it!!<br />
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<br />Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-27375387590523215852013-10-02T07:32:00.001-07:002013-10-02T07:32:08.196-07:00Here are 2 more cards from my upcoming stamp camp this Saturday:<br />
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This card features the beautiful Gently Falling stamp set, the Mosaic Madness embossing folder, and the labels framelits. This technique involves the 2 step stamping and a little bit of "fussy" cutting.<br />
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Here's another card sample:<br />
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This card features the sponging and masking techniques. This has the striped embossing folder and the label framelits again. I used the wide oval punch for the pumpkin. Elegant eggplant and old lucky limeade inks were used for the background.<br />
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That's it for today. Hope you enjoy these samples.<br />
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Have a great day!<br />
Smiles,<br />
KarenKaren Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-85961535514750659032013-10-01T20:31:00.001-07:002013-10-01T20:31:48.204-07:00Wow what an offer!!!<br />
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Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-73890768251095570852013-09-29T16:34:00.000-07:002013-09-29T16:34:00.917-07:00Hello again, It's been awhile!<br />
Hi Friends!<br />
I've been away for awhile. Back in August my dad and his wife Carol came from Florida for a visit. It was good to see them. We took them to a Mariner's ball game and were treated to a fun fireworks show.<br />
Right after their visit we helped our son, Justin, get settled into apartment living over in Pullman. He's an official WSU student now. I miss him bunches, but he calls, texts, or video chats with me everyday. It may seem a bit unusual, but both of my guys are away from home for awhile now.<br />
Mike is off to Melbourne, Australia for awhile. We video chat every evening. We actually get to eat "together"! It's his lunch time and my dinner time (only a day apart!). He's been taking some great pictures and I can't wait to see these places in real life.<br />
On top of all that, I started back to school, so I've been very busy with my classroom and getting to know my new second graders. They are a fun bunch of kids. We've had a great first month of school.<br />
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So now, I'm ready for some stamping! I went to the annual shoe box swap up in Bellingham. There were 24 of us. I had a great day and came home with 23 cool cards. I will take pictures of them and post them soon. But first I wanted to share some of the projects we'll be doing at my fall stamp camp next Saturday. It's going to be a stampin funfilled day! I look forward to having the house filled with happy stampers :)<br />
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Here are 2 of the 5 cards we'll be making:<br />
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This card features the Bootiful Occasions stamp set (131967 wood, or 126597 clearmount) and some fun punches. I cased this card from SCS but now can't remember the gal's name. It includes lots of bling on the hat and boots! Gotta love the bling!<br />
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Here is card number 2:<br />
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This card features the curly and cute stamp set and the hounds tooth embossing folder and some fun flowers. It also features the new Candy Dots. They add just a pop of color without the bulk of some other embellishment, but could also be put on a brad base and be used just like a brad.<br />
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I'll be back soon with cards 3 through 5 from my stamp camp and the card I did for the shoe box swap too.<br />
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Have a great day. Smiles,<br />
KarenKaren Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-32629589306211866222013-07-30T18:11:00.001-07:002013-07-30T18:11:13.138-07:00I am working on a card for an shoe box swap I'm going to at the end of September. It's a new technique for me called "out of the box" and I can't wait to finish up the card. I'll upload that when it's all done. I will have to make 24 kits for this card so that will keep me busy for a bit!<br />
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If you're stopping by my blog, leave me a comment and let me know what you think!<br />
Have a happy day!<br />
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<b><i>Karen</i></b>Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-85792458995925649992013-07-30T18:06:00.002-07:002013-07-30T18:06:24.071-07:00Here are a couple of fun pictures from the Stampin Up convention earlier this month. We were able to choose from a set of background scenes. This one is the main stage.<br />
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Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-80866937086465724772013-07-28T19:39:00.003-07:002013-07-28T19:40:08.158-07:00Happy Sunday!Hi friends,<br />
I wanted to share a card that my planescrapper friends gave me in June after we had a scrappin/stampin weekend getaway retreat at my home.<br />
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Hope you all had a fun weekend! We almost sold the camper, but it just wasn't meant to be today. Hopefully we'll get more takers this coming week.</div>
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Karen Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714995542778447774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321372142374137590.post-1641463962480187832013-07-27T23:43:00.000-07:002013-07-27T23:55:57.148-07:00Welcome to my blog!<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Friends! Welcome to my brand spankin new blog! I want to share my stampin card creations, provide inspiration, and share what I love about paper crafting. I hope you will enjoy this site and come by often to check out new ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I attended the Stampin Up convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is the 25th anniversary for the company. I had a super great time. Stampin Up knows how to put on a fantastic party. It was great to go down memory lane and watch the progression of the company from its beginning to where it is now. </span></span><br />
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