3 Tier Trays

Happy friday!

I wanted to share my 3 tiered trays and show you how easy it is to style them throughout your home.

Also look around before you think you have to go and by items

to style them.  You may find that you already have decor items

in your home to use.  

The above 3 tier tray is a taller type one.

You can see all the different things I have tucked in each tray. 

Use what you have if you can. 

This black metal tray is a smaller one measuring about 

15" tall.  Holds fewer items but still quite a bit.  

Here are some other ideas I pulled for you to see how the tiered

trays can be used.  This one has canned sparkling water, glasses

and fresh fruit. 

This one is being used for a brunch with each tray loaded

with fresh fruits. 

Another great summer idea would be to use it to 

serve lemonade and fresh fruit. 

And possibly my fav would be this cute Halloween

treat tray set up.    

You can use them for almost any occasion.

I leave mine out all year round and change it out based

on the holiday or if I'm entertaining.

Here's  a few I picked for you to look at;

This is one from Amazon similar to mine at Amazon.

This is a wooden one with the sweet wooden beads

running around the sides of each tray.

you can find this one at Michael's 

And this last one can be found at Hobby Lobby and if you use their online coupon the price drops to $19.99!

I owned this one for quite a while and it holds quite a lot

and for the price its a steal! 

Hope you find this fun and helpful and you think about adding a 3 tier tray to your home decor.  You can use it anytime of the year for dinner parties, events, holiday decor.

Gratitude

So much gratitude!

Giving you a little sneak peek of one of the new stamps from 

the mini catalog called "Well Defined" 

You can start to order from this catalog August 3rd.

I will be showing you some cards with some of the sets

in the upcoming weeks.

The background paper is called 

"In Good Taste"

There are so many great textures and different

styles to create with. 

I used a paper bag and tore a piece to

add to the top of the card stock. 

I rolled the ends of the paper to give it some depth. 

Stayed tuned for some more cards made with this 

set.  You can order it beginning August 3rd. 

Mini Starbuck's cups

Happy saturday!

Sharing these adorable photos sent to me from various newborn

photographers who have purchased the little mini starbucks

cup in my shop.   

How creative are each of these?

These little faces......

I love how customers are even using

the cups for puppacino parties for their doggies!

The creativity just keeps coming!

I originally made these little cups up for treats to

give my team. 

I had a few left over and decided to put them in my shop

and boy,  who would have guessed how ya'll would use them!

I had requests from my east coast customers to

make a Dunkin Donut cup as well since they all

mostly drink dd on the east coast.  

So these tooo are now in the shop. 

You can even pick the color of the straws you like for your cups.

Other ways you can use them us for corporate gifts, bridal showers,

birthday parties.  I am sure there are many more and I love seeing what you all share with me once you purchase them.

Keep the ideas coming! 

The Adventure Begins: Paper Pumpkin July 2021

                    

The June Paper Pumpkin "The Adventure Begins" is just adorable!

By far one of my most fav!  These colors of nature are stunning and the kit is possibly one of the easiest yet to put together.  It comes with updated instructions and you also have the video to go from. 

Aren't the cards so cute!

I pushed them out just a bit so you could see them better.

The lantern one I added a little glitter to the flame to 

make it pop.

I also put a touch of glitter on top of the camper 

These kits just keep getting better and better!

If you are interested in having one sent monthly to your home

you can get it out HERE

You don't want to miss out on this adventure!

PNW Beauty

It's been a busy fast week with my sister Shana

and her son visiting from Arizona.

We did some great hikes east of the mountains and

took in much of the sunshine each day.

Above is one of my fav walks around Gold Creek Pond Trail

just east of Snoqualimie.

It's just beautiful in every season, but the biggest treat while if you visit, you just may get a personal fly-by by some F-18's that 

train there throughout the canyon. 

We happen to get lucky the day we were there with 4 fly by's!

The tend to fly low and turn the jet in circles so it's quite a show!

This large pond is glacier feed leaving the colors

that reflect off the sky and clouds and depth of the water

beyond stunning......

Next up was a hike along the Yakima river

which was running high with from the run off. 

Here's my sissy..

The hubs and my nephew Kian 

Our last stop was Lake Cleelum

We kept so busy this week taking in all of the outdoors

for them to enjoy.  The heat in Arizona is in the 100's

so this was a treat for them. 

Expressions in Color

It's sometimes a challenge for me to use colors that I'm not

drawn to. 

This is one of the colors in this kit that makes it hard

for me to create something. 

Challenge on!

I used the flower stamp and in black ink stamped the flowers

on one side of the card.  By using an exacto knife

I cut away part of the flowers so I could slide

the little card into the main card. 

To finish it off I added the buffalo plaid ribbon and 

closed it off with a safety pin. 

Pretty cute and easy even with the color challenge.

Hope Box by Shelli

                         

Empower yourself and others with the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin Kit! 

Created from the heart and soul of Stampin’ Up! cofounder, Shelli, the Hope Box Paper Pumpkin Kit reminds us why life is precious. This month’s Paper Pumpkin kit includes supplies to create nine encouraging cards and coordinating envelopes in an inspiring color palette, and a specially designed Hope Box!

The Hope Box is designed to be a keepsake box—keep mementos of cherished memories or reminders of what’s yet to come. Collect treats and trinkets that represent what hope means to you in your Hope Box and look inside for inspiration or share it with a friends who could use some uplifting!

What will you put in your Hope Box? Letters, song lyrics, inspiring quotes, and photographs are powerful reminders of hope and connection—and great additions to a Hope Box. For more inspiration on how to build your Hope Box, watch Shelli herself put one together in this video.

If you'd like a little hope in your life, head over to Paper Pumpkin to order your

hope kit for August.  You can order one HERE  Let's all have a little hope.......

 

Weddings!

Happy monday!

It has been a busy last three days with two weddings,  family get together's and my daughter visiting from Arizona.

But friday night's wedding was no disappointment!

The couple was married at the Columbia Center in Seattle and the reception was held at Optimism Brewery in Capitol Hill.

Above is the sign I created for their wedding, they had a friend

create this logo that they had printed on glasses that were given away

to the guests.

I scattered vintage beer growlers and vintage

wine bottles throughout the venue.  

I was able to find these vintage bottles locally from a 

apple cider orchard and the florist filled them

with beautiful white hydrangeas and greens.

I truly love getting to decorate and prepare

a reception for the Bride and Groom and their

families.  Getting to get to put together and make

their dream come true is so much fun and rewarding!

They even had corn hole with these adorable 

bean bags that a friend made just for them for the wedding. 

The beautiful Bride and her nieces.

It is so fun to see the differences in the weddings,

both equally beautiful and special in their

own personal ways.  

Here was saturday's wedding.  

I wish I had gotten more photos of this one, 

here are a few....

Personalized neon sign......

The Bride and Groom

This event was held at Trinity Tree Farm in Issaquah, Washington

complete with a on the go photo booth VW Van!

Such a clever idea and so dang cute!

At night the sign on top lights up!

You just climb on in and have a seat, put on your props

and push the button!

I just LOVE this!

There wasn't a detail left out at this wedding,

from personalized mugs to their hashtag #happycampers

Their send off included exploding confetti and a drive off

in a Tesla.

It was a whirlwind of a weekend filled with so much

love and running.  All well worth it! 

One more......

the table seating chart, I mean wow.....