Stampin Stresss Away with Carole'Anne

Stamp-a-holics 3 D Challenge and BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

yes today is the BIG DAY

The Stamp-a-holics news

ready?

yes.............................. you are

Drum Roll Please!

here it is............. WE HAVE a NEW BLog

just for our challenges

thank you Heather is you are the best!

soooooooooooooo now you will get to see everyones cards in one spot!

ouh yes this is so exciting

I will post the link at the end

this is wher you will post your card as well

we will have a brand new Mr, Linky up there with the photos and everything

aint that just so cool????
EXCITED

okay soooooooooooo this week we have a challenge

it is a 3D challenge and YOU even have a template!

cool beans uh?

check it all out on our blog okay

it's called a 2,4,6,8 box

I chose to do mine with fabric I really really love the New STAMPIN UP Fabric

 
here we go the time is set for our new time

45 minutes for 3 D challenges now fun

 
I got out our new sticky sheets

I adhered to the card stock that I had cut to 8 1/2'' x 5 1/2

 
voila

now let's do the scoring

 
score at

2'' - 4'' - 6'' and 8'

flip and score at

2''

 

now use sticky strip to adhere your box

 
like so

 
whow I am doing good on time

let's decorate now

 
I am doing little border here

 
ribbon

 
making a tag and I am almost done

 
look at me

 

voila

I added a lot of bling

 
so pretty

should I say cute

 
cute little tags

 
and there we have it

all done in record time for me

with 6 min to spare

now the good part right

won't you please join me celebrating the new

STAMP-A-HOLICS

Blogs

Just Click

HERE

to get to our new blog

you will get to see the entire teams hard work!

and you will get to play along with our new Mr. Linky!

 

ouh la la the weekend is here!

I am pumped

wish me luck in getting all my Stampin Up work done!

thank you for all your wonderful comments

means the world to me truly does

Embossed hug to you from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway 

holiday line up meets inspirational sketch for stampaholics 10 min challenge

 
I created a circle card with the Holiday line up stamp set!

the creation of this card came fromt he card that Sandi, Lee and I tought in Salt Lake City at Convention!

ouh you will love this inspirational challenge this week by Debbie

so here's what I did with this

 
I chose the snowmen for after this thought!

 
I always use staz on when I colour

 
I created circle with my Big Shot remember it's big shot week

hum?

what should our theme be next week

any suggestions?

 
 
doing good so far

I used the smooch to make my snowmen white

 
coloured and blended

looking good but look at the time!

 
more Big Shot action

I used the circle scallop #2 on this card

when we did it for convention we use the bigger one

but snowmen just weren't big enough to go into the other one

 
I am getting there but I am almost out of time

 
okay for some greetings I used two

I used two from the Occasional quotes

I barely have 1 min left and don't have ribbon and not adhered ghuhr

 
I used this wondrful ribbon and out of time

 
I used dimensionals on the back for my coloured circle

 
okay I am 3 min over

I know but for me that is awesome don't you think??

 
voila here is my little holiday line circle card!

 
middle part of my card

 
top view

 
back view

 
snowmen up close

cute uh?

 
and well there we have it

and It's FRIDAY

I made it thru the week

happy happy! :-)

sooooooooooo now you know the drill right

you just have to go see what my sis is up to on this fine morning

we all know that she is the QUEEN of creativity!

so all's you have to do

is

CLICK HERE TO GET TO SANDI'S blog

oh but wait please don't forget to go give some love to our wonder design team

we are so close on unvealing something special for y'all

we have been busy behind the scenes to put something sweet together for you!

and ofcourse you just have to play along !

right??

all right my friends I am off to work now

I do wish you a VERY FABULOUS FRIDAY

Embossed hug

from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

Gifts of Christmas along the 10 min sketch challenge

 
Stampin Up Christmas card created with Gifts of Christmas!

for our 10 min card sketch challenge!

FUN STUFF and You'll be so proud of me he he!

I did pretty good!

 
so now I have my sketch and I have my card stock and stamp

I chose Gifts of Christmas

 
so now I have cut my cherry cobbler cardstock

and my brushed gold

 
now for my DSP

I chose the New

Deck of Halls from the Stampin Up Holiday Mini Catalogue

 
I stamped the image with Versa Mark and then embossed it with Gold Embossing powder

 
now to create a circle really quickly with my Big Shot

 
now for the greeting

it's going to be Season's Greetings fromt he set called Curly cute

its in the Stampin Up idea Book

on page 149

and did you know if even comes in French??? Cool uh?

 
so now I have the " Seasons Greetings" stamped in Cherry Cobbler

 
I used my wonderful bow maker that I got from my dear friend Lee!

to make this bow from the seam binding in Cherry Cobbler

 
I am out of time but I only have to adhere and add my brads

so that is pretty good right?

 
voila my card

in 13 min

I am soooooooooooo HAPPY with that time!

 
the bow up close

 
the pretty brads

if this was not a ten a min card I would of embossed the brads as well!

 
and this is really what made me go over he he

I just had to tie it all together with this little embossed area!

 
and well there we have it

you all know the drill right?

please make sure to go visit my sis' blog

you will be totally AMAZED with her BLOG!

all's you do is Click here to Get to Sandi's Blog

and ofcourse the design team always needs some love rigth?

cause each one of our wonderful team members are so talented

and then YOU get to play this is fabulous sketch that Mitzi created don't you think?

so it's your week to play along!

wishing you a super fabulous day!

I teach tomorrow

sooooooooooooooo I will be posting Sunday instead

sorry friends

I was going to post tomorrow morning before class

I will still try but i have had a lot of turbulance in my week and I am not as ahead as I wanted to be

sooooooooooo I hope you all understand if I post on Sunday instead of Saturday

Happy Friday

Embossed Hug from

ME

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

 

Happiness Shared 10 min colour challenge SAH-136

Stampin Up Happiness Shared Colour Challenge for Stamp-a-holics!

Good day y'all

It's Friday you all know what that means right?

first it's the weekend tomorrow - second it's the 10 min card challenge for the Stamp a holics

and you all know how great I am at this challenge

NOT LOL
take a look at this fabulous challenge I love the colours but some reason my thinking cap took a while to fit on my head correctly he he

 
the colour challenge is Cherry Cobbler

Certainly Celery

and chocolate chip

at first I was going to use Just Beleive

and then I changed my mind

no really I did lol

 
then I thought hum?

maybe I could use the new letter press with my new morning cup stamp set

well guess what?

 
hum?

 
yhukky

okay back to the drawing board

guess how much time I have used here?

I started at 2:50am

at this point I looked a the clock and it was 4:35pm!

 
okay so I decided to take out the stamp set called

Happiness Shared

and a BRAND NEW thought!

 
with only 1 min left I finished water colouring on my watercolour card stock

yhap I know it's a 10 min card colour challenge

oh my goodness

now to add some card stock

 
 
I love adding a bow to my cards!

I am almost done

it's at 7 min over at this point!

 

it's almost done a few more little details and I will have this card completed

 
I coloured a few pearls

 
voila here is my card!

 
the center of my flower upclose

 
the little chocolate chip pearls

 
and well there we have it

as you can tell it took way way longer then 10 min

maybe my sis did better!

what do you think??

I am sure she did cause after all she is always such an inspiration

alls you need to do is

 click here to get to Sandi's Blog

ouh and then please don't forget to visit our wonderful design team

cause they were hard at work and they sure do deserve some love!

thank you all so much for your kind comments

truly means the world to me

oh and please play along with us won't you?

thanks a bunch

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

 

 

Notably Ornate meets a 10 min card challenge with the Stampaholics

Notably Ornate along with Welcome Christmas Stampin Up Stamps!

good Friday Morning

well today's progess was much better then yesterdays that is for sure lol!

sooooooooooo I started with a fabulous sketch that Lesley created for our Stampaholics 10 min challenge!

 

all right let me show you what I was thinking at first okay

I took out some very Vanilla Cardstock

 

took out two stamp sets and changed my mind

yes me I changed my mind too funny uh??? LOL

 

went with Welcome Christmas and Notably Ornate

here's where I start my timer!

 

I used my stampin write marker

this is Early Expresso

 

i did the two little flowers on either side with Baja Breeze

interesting combonation I know!

 

things are coming together very nicely

now I am going to do some sponging

 

with Baja Breeze

 

I am feeling like I may run out of time!

GHUHR

this part was easy

put then after this I ran into some difficulties

take a look what happened!!!

 

ahw poor little Baby Max

he wanted to visit with his mama

goodess

it`s hard to make a card with this!

lol

(not to mention that I sit on a ball lol)

 

how could I not stop what I was doing for that face!!! 

okay sorry 

I am back to the card now

now for my little accent piece on the side

I went with some pretty little lace ribbon

ofcourse I am out of time at this point

 

voila there is my card

even with a little Max time I got it done lol

in less then 15 min

now we all know that is amazing for me right!

I wonder how wonderful my sis did!

 

kinda pretty don`t you think

 

i just think this little 1/8" ribbon is so very very pretty!

 

pretty little bling bling

 

I hope you enjoyed my card today

hopefully better then yesterday lol 

I wasn`t thinking Christmas at the beginning of this sorry

but it just turned out that way

ouh and I something to share with you

so my new tutorial will be released next weekend

I am very excited - I will be working with two cool new prouducts

the seam binding and waffler paper

cool uh

okay so now you know what to do right!

please go visit Sandi you all know by now that she is my IDOL and I just know how much you will love what she created - cause she is fabulous

you just need to

Click here to get to Sandi`s Blog

she even has neat new button share!

I know she is brilliant!

then I ask you to please go visit our wonderful design team!

they work so hard and I am so proud of them!

and please play along with us!

would just love to see what you can create with Lesley GREAT sketch!

I wish you all a wonderful day!

Embossed hug from me

CaroleÀnne M. Sluchinksi

AKA Stampin Stressaway

ps - I am almost done my card that I tried to do yesterday

he he

did some research and I am on my way

I look foward to you visiting me tomorrow!

ouh and something else I will be chatting with you tomorrow

I have been nominated to be honerary Queen for The Up and Coming Royal Blog Tour

I know remember that wonderful Tour!

It`s coming in November! FUN STUFF UH!

sooooooooooo tomorrow I will have the details as to where you can vote for the nominated Queens!

okay I promise I am done here today!

Welcome Christmas & the 10 min Stampaholic Colour Challenge

Stampin Up Welcome Christmas along with a NEW RIBBON Wreath!

good day y'all!

so today is our 10 min Stampaholic Colour Challenge

it was my week to come up with a colour challenge!

so here is what I did!

 

here is our colour challenge for today

I chose  to go with Wild Wasabi for my extra colour

okay I have to tell you that it's taken me 3 1/2 hour to finish this card

he he

well a CARD anyways - here's what happened - my card once I actually decided it took me 18 min

 

my original thougth was to go with this stamp set

Welcome Christmas

 

this is just not going to work I am going to try something different

and then I found the jackpot

this lovely lady on Splitcoast had an amazing ribbon wreath posted

click here to get to the video on how I did it! 

so I went in that direction

mind you I did lot's of mind changing along the way so more time chewed up!

 

look at the time now

 

okay so now I have tried alot of different types of ribbons

then I thought okay let's go with this ribbon

 

now I coloured this one with Poppy Parade

 

this is what I ended up with in 8 min 2 seconds

now I used another ribbon and used my marker "Wild Wasabi"

 

this is going to be for my bow 

I will attach to my wreath

 

I just have to show you my mess

I have to clean this up before I can mount this wreath

holly cow

now onto the stamp set that I actually was going to use LOL

 

I used my stampin write markers AGAIN

 

looks great

I am out of time so I am going to start my timer again

I want to cut this out

 

I have cut out and put brads in

I also used my big shot and gave my white cardstock some texture

 

then I rounded the corners 

 

ouh and pretty little pearls

 
 
and I am done

I know a far cry from 10 min

but yha I know I am working hard at make simple cards

well as you can tell

3 1/2 hours hard LOL

good golly what a goof I am he he

 

so here is my card

hope you like it!

 

here is my first crack at making a ribbon wreath card

 

my reath upclose with the pearls and the ribbon

 

and my greeting up close

one last photo I have for you

and then you know the drill right

you just have to go check out what my dear sis is up to this fine morning

she always blows us out of the water

and our fabulous design team 

we can't forget about them - they are hard at work as well!

 

and well my blogging friends this is my card with our colour challenge today

I sure HOPE you will join us today in this 10 min colour challenge

please go visit Sandi first and you will get inspired I know YOU will

click here to go to my IDOL Sandi

and please take the time to visit our wonderful design team!

thank you for spending some time here with me today

and you know I have not fergoten to announce the blog candy

it's amazing 

but I want to take  a photo of it and I have not had time yet

SUNDAY I promise 

so please don't leave whithout posting a comment!

so you have a change to win

Wishing you a super FABULOUS FRIDAY THE 13th

Embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

PS don't forget to play along this week!

Stampaholics 10 min Friday challenge

It's Friday and it's our 10 min challenge

so today I am going to be totally LAME sorry my blogging friends!

I am really working hard to get my NEW Tutorial in a PDF format for y'all!

so I thought I would consentrate on that toda!

having said that I still have the challenge, it's just that I had all ready done this one!

so it's a repeat! I am so sorry! Hope you understand!

so now for our wonderful colour challenge

Thank you Delys

You did a GREAT job

here is the colour challenge

and I ran with this idea!

if you want I could do a complete tutorial if you wish??

just let me know okay?? I did not really have time today! sorry my friends!

soooooooooooo...................... anyways let's play!

I started with Real Red

 

and Yes Mr. Big Shot and some Texture

PS Annette this is the plates you use those rubber matts with for your Big Shot - do you see it??

I was trying to decide which one I liked best!???

 I used a plate and folder!

then I rubbed Versamark all over the card stock

 
and covered it with Embossing powder

I heat embossed after

this effect give us Faux Leather!

 really cool uh?!

then I did some cool stuff to turn this into a lip gloss holder

 

now keep in mind if you would like me to do a complete tutorial I am game :-)

then I added a wonderful cordoroy button!

my measurments are not exactly like the one on the tutorial for Project Tuesday

I made changes to fit my lip gloss he he :-)

now for some ribbon

I coloured it Baja Breeze

 

I always let my ribbon dry on my lamp

which I sadly cracked the other day with my coffee cup

I don't like have those ROSA moments!

 

now I am making it look like a book

but I am sure I will run out of time

even though on a 3 D project I have 30 min

 

I am changing my mind!

 

okay that is better

 
ouh now for some stamp sets!

I chose to use Herb Expression and Define your life!

and I am so running out of time!

I am not sure how over I will be with this silly timer

I miss Madame Vilaine! ahw she is still not so well!

 

  

it just goes so fast you know?? does not help that I keep changing my mind LOL

I am liking this

it's kinda cool

don't you think?

 
whow I am done! holly cow!

okay so I for sure over at least 10 min!

 

the inside!

the button with the ribbon - which keeps it closed in a fashionable way he he :-)

upclose details now!

I think the leather looks cool don't you???

how about a side view?

 

okay last photo for today! 

then I will be out of here

but you all know what you have to do first right??? Please take a minute to go visit my sis

cause I think Sandi is one of the best out there!

so you go look at her blog and her wonderful work for yourself!

Click here

to get to Sandi's Blog

then you will get to play!

ouh and please don't forget to go visit our wonderful DT to see what kind of stuff they were creative with today! That is always the fun part uh??

thank you my friends for being so understanding

until tomorrow and OH YES with the Aurum lily PDF Tutorial!

have a good day

Embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

Scrapbook page for the Stampaholic!

 

hello everyone

I am so sorry that I am just posting today!

I am have been really slacking this week - well for my blog anyways

certainly not for the rest of my life that is for sure he he :-)

so I did this little project on Wed. I did it for my little chikie's birthday!

and it worked for the Stampaholics sketch I know I am so lame uh?

sorry my friends!

okay so here is the fabulous sketch that we had to work with!

Thank you Sage!

okay so here's what I did!

now I do have to say that I turned into a huge Easel Card after my time

and I do not have the exact time onto how long it took me!

sorry 

I need to get a new Madame Vilaine as she is going on a trip this weekend!

She gets to hook up with Mr. Nasty! :-)

 
so I started with some Presto DSP

I love this DSP!

I used Old Olive and Marine Mist!

I also made little film strips 

cute uh?

k let's see how this is coming together!

pretty cute uh?

then I put some pretty butterflies

embossed on velum

and then some Big Shot action!

it's going to be so special for my special daughters birthday!

The greeting is so cute!

so at this point I was like at 25 min

then I decided to put this wonderful page onto a very very

LARGE easel card HE HE :-)

I did some recycling

this is the backpiece to the Presto DSP

it's really nice and rigid

I covered it completly and created it into the large easel!

kinda a cool idea don't you think??

okay ready to see what it looks like???

sooooooo What do you think??

I did three litle ribbons and I coloured one of them to match the Certainly Celery Card stock!

I also used some Filbree brads I think that is correct wording right??

here is that up close!

now for more up close photos for you!

 

ribbon upclose! 

hope you have enjoyed this post I know it's a bit different!

I want to say thank you for all your patiences with me lately

I am totally sorry for not posting every day

I promise to get back into the swing of things when I get back from Convention!

this is the side view of the large easel scrapbook card!

I have a few more photos for you!

ouh and by the way Renee really really loved her card!

 

I wanted to highlight our Toronto Trip!

well my dear blogging friends that is my post for today

now for it's your turn to play and please don't forget to go visit my sis' blog

cause we all know how wonderful she is !

oh my goodness I can't wait I get to spend a week with my sis!

yhahooooo!

Click here is Sandi's Blog!

We hope you will also take time to go visit our really wonderful design teams hard work!

and we look forward to seeing your beautiful projects!

all right I got to go

I have been working since 3:40am today to get 

everything done before I leave!

take care of you my friends!

embossed hug to you

from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway 

 

 

Inspiration Challenge for The Stamp-A-Holics

Whow It's Friday

kinda feels like a Monday to me LOL
I actually took yesterday off!

It was amazing to have day off after working 32 days straight!

I had such a good time with my company! We even made a fun card with the three precious children!

so today I am back at work..................

This week's challenge is a GREAT one!

take a look at Becky's wonderful Inspirational Photo!

 

so I did not take the colour

but I did take the sea shell

my colours are

Pretty in pink

Pink Pirouette

Regal Rose

Melan Mambo

& White

I know I went crazy with the pinks he he

oh I have to say as well that Madame Vilaine was not in the mood to work today

so we have a fill in today

I am sure that Mr. Nasty will miss Madame Vilaine even more after this week

 

so I went with Bleach technique for this one!

 

now to heat emboss

 

now for some bleach

 

then I added a little shimmer white

 

then I cut out the sea shells

 

and so I did my greeting and a lot of layers

 

and thanks to Lee's wonderful ribbon maker I have a beautiful bow!

 

and voila my card for the wonderful inspiration challenge

I just want to show you how pretty the sea shell are

oh and yes it took me 29 min I am so bad

I am having issues focusing lately with everything that has occured with my business!

 

and that is it for me for today!

thank you all so much for all your wonderful kind and thoughtful comments

they truly are so special to me!

thank you from the bottom of my heart!

okay so now you need to go visit Mr. Nasty and wonderful sister!

Click here to go to Sandi's blog

you know it's going to be awesome cause she is MY IDOL!

and then please don't forget to visit all of our hardworking design teams!

ouh ofcouse after all that you will be filled with inspiration and you will

want to play along right???

sooooooooooo please don't forget to come back and link up your card!

all right I got to get to work before ny company gets up!

Cause it's their last day!

how sad!

I do wish you all a wonderful Friday and a super GREAT long weekend

Embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway    

   

 

Pocket Silhouettes 10 min colour challenge

 
oh my goodness........................

Guess what day it is today???

it's FRIDAY!

ouh yes I am a happy girl!

The crane will not be ready for me to decal on Saturday (they are painting it)

soooooooo I think Iwill get part of the weekend off (well at least not installing decals but cutting decals he he)

all right enough blah blah blah

I have a card that only took me 3 hours and 5 min!

did you know that it's a 10 min card!????

okay well let me explain what I am talking about! he he

 

so as you can see I was ready to go at 3:20am

Had a nice hot coffee in hand - Max had gone outside

and my radio was on so was my computer READY

 

take a look at this fabulous colour challenge!!!

 

see this why it took me 3 hours to make a 10 min card

whos says it's easy for me LOL

yha rigth

look at all the trial and errors 

I like nothing and the things I like seemed to be things I have done or overdone

sooooooooooo a FRESH start

 
so I got this set called Pocket Silhouettes

you know funnything I thougth I owned this set all along

but I didnt

anyways I do now

I also used the dragonfly from Asian artistry hostess set

I am really going to miss that set

 

so I got some shimmer card stock and created a little cloud 

and I sponged my first colour Ballet Blue

 

so then I sponge the curry and then the Green Galore

after that I stamped with Black Staz on

 

now I did something illegal sorry guys

but I tried a many different colours from the challenge I could not make it look good

but hey Black is a NEUTRAL right??

Neutrals a permitted right??LOL
 
I have a dragonfly on velym and I will cut out

 

all right things are coming along nicely

 

I modified the punched on shimmer white

 

onto some big Shot action!

I did all four colours at once

just so I would not waste time and I could try them all out!

 okay so now my gretting is almost done

I sponged the white shimmer back piece

the blue cardstock was just to bold compared to the sky!

 

so you can see I am almost done

well that is until I had a disaster

sad

I have a cut on my thumb and I got blood on my card ghugh

let see if I made it all better without starting all over!

 

I kinda covered it he he

okay so it took me 13:53 I know I am so bad

ouh and look at the time

 

yhap I rock LOL
NOT

now you all know why I get up at 2:45am!

 

greeting up close

 

the little dragonlfy upclose

okay one last photo and I got to run to work!

 

all right my friends hope you enjoyed my 13:53 min card(or should I say 3 hours and 5 min LOL)

all right you know the drill right - it`s time to go visit my hero

that would happen to be my sis!

oh yes you got to go visit Sandi and see what she is up to on this fine Friday morning

My wonderful sis Sandi

ouh but please don`t forget to give some love to our wonderful design team!

and well ofcourse you got try your hand at this fabulous colour combination!

and that will be it for me today my friend

wishing you all the BEST Friday EVER!

take care

Embossed hug from ME
CaroleÀnne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway