Thanks for visiting my Site. My name is Lynn Kolcun and I'm a Stampin Up Demonstrator. I love being creative with paper and ink, learning new techniques and sharing my craft with you.

Cute little pumpkin

Just a cute CASE for you today.  I saw this on Pinterest and recreated it.  The original was from Sue Becker at www.RnRStamping.com .  I might make enough for all the place settings for our Thanksgiving dinner, filled with goodies of course. The box is just a clear acrylic box.…

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A Paisley Pop Up Birthday

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My husband and I went to Olive Garden the other night for dinner.  Hanging over our table was this beautiful Italian style plate.  I took a picture and made this card from the inspiration.  It goes to show you that inspiration can come from lots of places and take you…

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Where do you get inspiration

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This past weekend was a full fledged Stampin Up weekend for me.  I traveled to Atlanta Ga for two full day events all about stamping, crafting and friends.  The first was Brian King and Pam Morris’ World Card Making Day 2016 event.  What a great day.  I was able to…

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Work of Art Christmas Tree

Happy Halloween everyone.  Of course since it is Halloween I have a Christmas card for you today.  I saw this on Pinterest and thought it was just too cute.  Using the Work of Art stamp set create an abstract Christmas tree.  Two of the large swooshes on the bottom, two…

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An Owlery Christmas

AN OWLERY CHRISTMAS One of the Hostess Sets in the Holiday Catalog is Cozy Critters.  It coordinates with the Owl Builder and the Fox Builder punches but I especially like the tree branch and the ornaments.  A little washi tape across the bottom and a cute tag.  Ta Da. To…

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Thankful for the Inking Royalty Blog Hop

Welcome to this month’s InKing Royalty Blog Hop!  This month’s hop is dedicated to showing our thankfulness.  We are celebrating with thank you notes, cards that show our appreciation and projects of thanksgiving.  We are excited to share our projects with you and hope they inspire you to create!  After…

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For my Husband

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Today is Steve, my husband’s birthday.  He’s not an sentimental kind of guy so I didn’t want to make him a sappy card or anything and since it is the height of fall i decided to modify the paper pumpkin kit to make his card. OCTOBER PAPER PUMPKIN Here is…

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Be Jolly

My card today combines some washi tape and ribbon accent.  I used the Be Jolly stamp set sentiment and the ornaments, ‘hanging them’ strategically around.  I rather like this simple card.  You could certainly dress it up a bit with rhinestones for some bling. Thanks for stopping by today.  I…

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A Vintage Father Christmas

I like a square card every once in a while.  I saw this design on Pinterest and recreated it.  I’ve been making a lot of cards lately but not so many of my own ‘original’ design which was one of the reasons why I wasn’t posting very frequently.  But I…

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