Each week my stamp room goes from clean and picked up to a hot mess…..sometimes in minutes and others a day! Then there are some weeks it never gets cleaned up and we just move into a new week and push forward. I find that cleaning up and starting fresh is always a good thing though. When it is messy, I spend more time looking for the bone folder….that is probably in my hand or right in front of me…than actually getting anything done.

I am an organizational freak so I do like things all put back and everything has a place. Cleaning up the scraps or the partial projects is probably my least favorite part. They are messy and I don’t know if I should put them away or leave them out to finish. The struggle is real. I have been using 3 ring binder sleeves for all of my projects. I bought a big box of these at Sam’s a long time ago for a project. They work perfect for holding a project, pieces for a class, etc. I don’t put them in a 3 ring binder though. They just lay in the 12″ x 12″ totes. I have a tote for each class, personal project, and more. Those things are amazing!!

What part of cleaning up the craft room do you hate the most?? Is your room clean more often or messy?? Let me know in the comments below!

Here is a little video of my messy room and my cleaning it. If only I could really clean it up this fast! Enjoy watching Claire play too!!! Click the video below or click here! Be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you liked it and don’t forget to subscribe if you are new. If you would like a notification when I post a new video, be sure to click the bell right next to the subscribe!!!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura

Happy 15 Years of Happiness to Me!!! I have been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for 15 years. FIFTEEN YEARS! How crazy is that?!?!?! It has been an amazing 15 years of creating, sharing what I love, traveling, and having fun!!!! It is always tradition for me to share my Top Products for each year I am celebrating so here are my Top 15 Products! These are the ones I’m loving right now! Want to check out past year?? Click here, here, and here!

My Top 15 Products that I’m loving right now are as follows:

~Stamp Blends Markers
~Stampin’ Blends Storage Trays
~Butterfly Gala Stamp Set
~Butterfly Duet Punch
~Lovely Lipstick
~Uninked Spectrum Pads
~Stampin’ Dimensionals…….check out my special offer for these!
~Well Said Stamp Set
~Glittered Enamel Dots
~Country Floral Embossing Folder (coming back in the Annual Catalog)
~Graceful Glass Designer Vellum
~How Sweet It Is Designer Series Paper
~Gingham Designer Series Paper
~Strong & Beautiful Stamp Set
~Simply Shammy

Are any of these your favorites??? Let me know in the comments below!! Also, because I want to celebrate with all of you and thank you all for making these 15 years so amazing, I’m offering a pack of Stampin’ Dimensionals for all orders placed through me this week! From April 15th to April 21st, any order placed will get a pack of Stampin’ Dimenionals sent to them! Woot Woot! Click here to start shopping and earning your Stampin’ Dimensionals!

If you would like to see these fabulous 15 products and why I love each one, check out the video below or click here! Be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe if you are new!!!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura

Graceful Glass 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.X Cm) Designer Vellum

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$11.00

Butterfly Gala Photopolymer Stamp Set

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$21.00

Butterfly Duet Punch

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$18.00

Butterfly Gala Photopolymer Bundle

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$35.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

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$4.00

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad

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$7.50

Strong & Beautiful Cling Stamp Set

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$25.00

Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

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$0.00

Stampin' Blends Storage Trays

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$14.00

Uninked Spectrum Pad

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$12.00

Glitter Enamel Dots

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$7.00

How Sweet It Is 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

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$11.00

Gingham Gala 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

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$11.00

Well Said Cling Stamp Set

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$45.00

Simply Shammy

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$8.00

Happy Friday, everyone!! It’s been a crazy week and I can’t believe we are almost already have way through the month! I also can’t believe that lil Miss Claire is almost 1 year old too! Today, I’m doing a Follow Up Friday!!!

Here are some photos of Claire (aka Ziggy) at 10 months. We just finished up 7 weeks of Kipper Swim Class which followed 7 weeks of Shrimp Swim Class. Claire LOVES water, swimming, and hanging out with her friends. Mommy is a bit tired of the weekly swim but love seeing her have so much fun! Now we need a new Tuesday/weekly activity. Claire loves to be outside so with warmer weather it might be more walks in the park, swinging, and play dates with friends!

A few weeks ago I did a contest for guessing Claire’s 1st Birthday theme. While there were a ton of great guesses….and ideas for future birthdays but no one guessed it correctly. We are going a One in a Melon theme with Watermelon! I am planning to use the Buffalo Check Stamp as well as the Watermelon Paper Pumpkin Stamps! If you have any fun decorating ideas or suggestions, let me know!

And a few reminders before we head into the weekend! The Free Stamp Set of the Month is the Vibrant Vases Stamp Set. This is free through me for orders of $75 or more in the month of April! Storage by Stampin’ Up is now available! Let’s start that Spring cleaning and have a fabulous craft space. These pieces fit in small spaces and big spaces. It is completely customizable! Click here to shop and get organized!

Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday! Happy Stampin’!

~Laura

Happy Friday everyone! It’s crazy to think that it is the end of March. That also means Sale-A-Bration is ending! WHAT???? You have till midnight on Sunday to get your order in and earn Sale-A-Bration goodies for every $50 you spend!!!

Lasting Lily is still my all time favorite from Sale-A-Bration 2019! I had so much fun with this stamp set and the greetings are perfect too! Check out some of my favorites here, here, and here! Click here to start shopping to earn your Sale-A-Bration goodies!

This also means that Sunday is the last day to join Stampin’ Up for just $99 and you get to pick out $175 in product!!! There is also the Craft & Carry Tote Kit as well. With that kit, you get to pick out $175 in product and get the tote for just $129. Click here for more information or to join!

Also, a big shout out THANK YOU to all of you for helping me achieve $200K in personal sales!!! I now have more bling for my apron! 🙂 That is a lot of stamps, ink, and paper!!!! Thank you!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday. Again, don’t forget that Sale-A-Bration is ending on Sunday night! As well at the Bloom By Bloom Free Stamp Set of the Month for orders of $75 or more!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura

Happy Friday everyone!!! I hope you are having a wonderful week and adjusting to Daylight Savings!!! Let’s have a little bit of Friday Fun before heading into the weekend!!!

Little Miss Claire (aka Ziggy) is 9 months! Here are some photos of 41 weeks in and 41 weeks out. It is CRAZY how time flies! She is getting so big, rolling all over, pulling up, and belly scooting. Crawling and walking are close but not yet. She “talks” so much and it is crazy how it seems she says certain words after we do. Brad and I are always like, “did you hear that?” My belly may have gone down but my heart has grown so much!!! With her first birthday around the corner, would you like to guess the theme??? Let me know in the comments below. First correct guess will earn a Stamp Set/Framelit Bundle!!!! Feel free to guess multiple times!

The Bloom By Bloom Stamp Set is the FREE Stamp Set of the Month for orders of $75 or more!!! This is an exclusive offer through me!

Sale-A-Bration is still going on till March 31st! Some items are selling out so don’t delay!!! Also, don’t forget the Sale-A-Bration Coordination items! The Lily Framelits and Blended Seasons Framelits are still available as well as the punch and stamp set. Click here to check it all out!!! You can check out samples using Sale-A-Bration items here, here, and here!

Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday!!! Happy Stampin’

~Laura

Happy Friday everyone!!! Today, I’m sharing some of my Friday Favorites of the Week today!!! Then let’s head into the weekend and dream of warm Spring days! Who’s with me???

I’m loving Lovely Lipstick…..no shock there as I love pink! This color is just jumping out at me for every project I go to create. The Dot To Dot Embossing Folder is my favorite. It’s so classic and can be used for lots of occasions. The different sizes and patterns make it really pop! The Stamparatus Bag is my new favorite bag/tool. I have just been so impressed by this bag lately. It’s so big and can hold so much whether it is the Stamparatus or even just stamps, ink, and a project. It’s super cute and strong and has a shoulder strap as well as little handles. If you have a Stamparatus and want cute storage, I highly recommend it. If you want something to put a project in to take with you on a trip or to get your oil changed or anywhere else you want to stamp, I highly recommend it!

Then last but not least my favorite is snuggling little Claire in that gray fuzzy blanket! I bought that gray/white blanket to take to the hospital as I love a soft blanket and it would help to calm me and give me something to snuggle. It was just that and I loved it. After we got home, I used it in the chair in the nursery that I nurse Claire in. Soon after she fell in love with it and now I’m pretty sure it’s not my blanket any more. She loves it as much as I do but who wouldn’t? It’s sooooo fuzzy and soft! There is nothing better then snuggles with her and the blanket. Some days I put her down for a nap and go to my Stamp Pad to work and  other days I just hold her and snuggle. 🙂

Let me know what your favorite things are right now in the comments below!!!

Don’t forget the Free Stamp Set of the Month is the and Sale-A-Bration is still going on! That means every $50 spent earns you a Sale-A-Bration item and at $75 you will also earn the Free Stamp Set of the Month (Flowering Desert)! Woot Woot! Click here to start shopping!!! Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday!!!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura

Happy Monday!!! It’s February so of course that means a new Free Stamp Set! The February Free Stamp Set of the Month is…….

…the Flowering Dessert Stamp Set from the Occasions Mini Catalog! There are beautiful images as well as greetings. My favorite greeting is the “be your own kind of beautiful.” Who cares if someone else doesn’t think that’s the cool thing or pretty color. You do you!!! Stay true to what is in your heart.

Here’s a little side story to that and inside about me! I purchased some Krispy Kreme Donuts from my Niece for a fundraiser. Anyone else loves these as much as me??? Let me know in the comments below! Other donuts, I can pass on but a Krispy Kreme…..Mmmmm! Anyway, she needed to be paid in advance and I wasn’t going to be in town before the date of delivery. I asked her to ask her Ma (my mom) or her dad (my brother) and I would pay them back! She got it from her Dad! So donut day arrived and I was in town to pick them up those little heavenly O’s. I went to put the money in my brother’s truck but wanted to leave a little note as well. I went with a little donut pun! The note went like this….Donut you know you are loved! Thanks for paying for my donuts in advance! I just know my brother probably rolled his eyes when he read it and I don’t care.

Everyone wants to hear they are loved or they are cared about or they look nice. Why don’t we say it more often?? What’s holding up back?? If you can’t say it in person, send a card or leave a note! Make someone’s day! Make them feel special. Donut you wanna make someone smile? 🙂

I hope you enjoyed my little story and I hope you are excited about the Free Stamp Set of the Month for February! Click here to start shopping so you can earn this set for FREE as well as FREE Sale-A-Bration items all month long!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura

Happy Friday!!! I hope everyone is excited for the weekend and has some fabulous plans whether that is doing nothing or having a full schedule! I’m headed to stamp with the ladies over in Paris…..Illinois that is! 😉 I’m so excited because these ladies are super fabulous and I just wish I could stamp with them more often then I already do! Today I’m sharing some Friday Favorites!!!

This is what I’m loving right now!!! Everything Butterflies is got me like gaga. The Butterfly Gala Stamp Set and coordinating Butterfly Duet Punch are amazing. I just love the 4 different styles of butterflies as well as adding color with the solid images. Also, it’s a bonus when you can stamp and punch 2 butterflies at the same time! Butterflies remind me of Spring and I’m counting down the days! That leads me to the Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper. Hello fabulous Spring colors!!!! Of course I love PINK so the Sale-A-Bration item that is Lovely Lipstick and Grapefruit Grove Foil Paper is a favorite. It’s just so shiny and fabulous! And then there is cheese popcorn!!! I just love cheese any time all the time but lately I had some cheese popcorn and it’s my go-to snack now!

Okay, those are my Friday Favorites! What are yours??? Let me know in the comments below! Want to purchase any of these items (minus the cheese popcorn), click here to start shopping and earning Laura’s Loyal Stampers Stickers and Sale-A-Bration goodies!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura