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.

Bravo Graduate

My very best friend from Grade School and High School lives in Chicago.  A bit of a ways from Ohio, so we don’t see each other often.  A wedding here or there and class reunions are about the extent.  Whenever we are together though it is like we have never…

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Sneak Peek for InKing Royalty Blog Hop

Stampin Up 2016-2017 In Colors Averys Owlery

Welcome to InKing Royalty’s May Blog Hop!  As Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, we’ve already been able to order some fun, new products from the upcoming 2016 Annual Catalog.  What a thrill!  Today’s Blog Hop is filled with inspiring projects that feature sneak peeks of projects from the new catalog.  After you…

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Giraffe for Baby

Stampin Up Punch Art Averys Owlery

One of my staff members is a new father, baby boy number two,  born this weekend.  Throughout the last few weeks of his wife’s pregnancy the doctor had been monitoring the ever growing size of the baby.  He came in at nearly 9 lbs and was 21 inches long.  No…

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Happy Day After Mother’s Day

Happy day after Mother’s Day everyone.  I’d like to share a picture of me and all my girls, plus Hank, from yesterday.  I had foot surgery last week so the girls came over and fixed a wonderful brunch and we watched Sound Of Music.  That was a previous tradition we…

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Make Your Own Plaid background

Another entry in the love fest I’m having with my new Clarity Stencil Brushes.  To see my previous post, click here. These brushes can be used with or without stencils.  I starte off just with masks (stencils) so I could get a feel for how to use them.  The card…

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Hello Friend

Stampin UP Helping me Grow AverysOwlery.com

Hello Friend, thank you for Helping Me Grow.  : ) My card today is another CASE from the upcoming new annual catalog.  I can’t show you the picture in the catalog yet, not until June 1, but this is a pretty close representation. All the stamps are incuding the top…

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Heartfelt Sympathy

This is my second Sympathy card this week.  I mentioned in my last post that I had two friends lose family memebers last week so I was making Sympathy cards this weekend.  You can see my earlier card by clicking HERE. My upline, Brian King, challenged his team to find…

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I love to make cards but there is one kind I don’t like to make, sympathy.  And this past week was a tough one.  Two family members of friends passed away.  One suddenly, the other after a long illness, but both hard to see their families so saddened.  Here is…

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