Jun 17, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Chipboard, Scrapbook Pages |
Hi girls (and maybe guys – I figure its mostly girls but who knows there are a some guys that are Stampin’ Up! demonstrators)!
Now that I’m done sharing all my cards from the Artisan Award contest it is time to share my last scrapbook page. If you follow my blog you know that in the spring I spend time bird watching, taking pictures and blogging about the visitors to my yard, the nests and the babies. So for one of my scrapbook pages I decided to focus on my birds from this spring.
The title is “backyard birds”. The letters are die cut with the Big Shot and then I stamped on them and some are tied with linen thread – in bows. I love linen thread – I don’t love to tie bows – but it needed it on here – knots just weren’t enough.
Here is a close up of part of the title. Again I have minimal journaling – I should have written more for my scrapbook pages.
In the upper left corner is a chipboard flower covered with DSP – the paper is the Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper. I wish this paper had been a little bit brighter – all the colors were very muted.
I used the white gel pen and did doodling on the flower, under the title, and around the photo frames. I added the punched corner with the card stock layered behind it – I still can’t decide if I really liked it or not. I originally didn’t have it but I thought it needed something else in that corner and once I did it I couldn’t undo it.
Each of the bird pictures are layered on a piece of Whisper White as a mat and then on a piece of the Designer Series paper. Then I used the word window and added labels on the bottom with the name of each bird.
That is my final scrapbook page and what I have left is my last 3D project. So come back again if you want to see it.
Have a beautiful day!
Jun 16, 2010 | 2-Step Stampin', Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Cards, Thank You |
I’m going to finish posting my Artisan Award projects. If you missed my earlier posts – this is an annual contest that Stampin’ Up! holds for its demonstrators. It is the biggy! Anyway this was the first year that I entered the contest – and while I had high hopes of winning – I was not chosen as one of the winners – they picked 10. To enter we had to create 5 cards, 3 scrapbook pages and 2 3D projects. I have been showing my projects over the past couple of weeks. If you want to go back and see what I already posted CLICK HERE.
Today I’m sharing my 5th card. This one is fun and really much easier to make than it looks. I have seen lots of versions of this card – called a Tri-Shutter card – all over the internet. I created this one earlier this year and shared it with my Stamper’s Club. I really loved it so I decided to use it as one of my entries since I hadn’t shared it online with anyone else yet. I made one minor change to my original before mailing it in.
The card is cut and scored so it has multiple panels that fold together to create a really cool card with lots of places to embellish and add little things here and there.
I used the Simply Said stamp set for this one. This is a two-step stampin’ set that has been around for several years and I think many people have forgotten it. The Designer Paper is the Tall Tales paper. My colors are Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron and Whisper White. 
I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit to die cut a variety of butterflies with my Big Shot. I also used the Big Shot to cut the large Scallop circle and for adding texture using Embossing folders on some of the panels.
The large butterfly on the front was cut twice – once in So Saffron and once in Chocolate Chip. The Chocolate Chip butterfly was cut in half and layered on the back of the So Saffron butterfly. The body and antenna are made from Linen Thread. The circle scissors was used to cut the inner circle. I used the distressing tool, sponging and the white gel pen as accents on the card.
The one thing I changed from my original card to the one I sent in to Stampin’ Up! was the addition of the center of the flower on the inner panel. I added some Tombow glue and added a swirl of linen thread to make the center of the flower. I really like how it turned out.
This is probably my favorite card out of the ones that I entered and of course the colors are some of my very favorite. I’m so glad they aren’t retiring!
I have two more projects to post – my last scrapbook and 3D projects – so I hope you will come back.
Thanks for stopping by!
Jun 10, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Animal Stories, Big Shot, Build-a-Bear, Rock 'n Roll |
I’m back with another project that I submitted for the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award Contest. This is one of the two 3D projects that I created.
I actually made this box originally as a project for Create with Connie & Julie and it was a birthday theme – click here to see that one. I recreated it for the contest and made a new baby theme. One of my friends, Jenn, said she thought the box would be perfect for a baby gift and I agree. I needed something to go inside so I bought cloth diapers and cut Build-a-Bears with pajamas on them and put those on the diapers and added the ribbon trim. I thought they would be cute burp cloths.
The box has 6 burp cloths inside – 3 in So Saffron and 3 in Old Olive. I rolled them up and tied them with the Striped Ribbon.
The box is made from the Fancy Favor box – actually two of them. On each side of the box I have two Build-a-Bears and they are all “holding hands” all the way around the box. I made a boy and a girl on each side. I added the animals in between. The paper is the Tall Tales Designer Series paper.
I was really happy with the little hanging tag once I figured out what I wanted to do. The giraffe is cute with the Rock-N-Roll technique – inked in So Saffron and rolled in Chocolate Chip. The tag is two sided since you could see both sides of the project and I didn’t want an “ugly” side. So the back of each animal is colored to match the front. You can just barely see the back of the other giraffe – it is So Saffron.
I hope you like it. It was fun to make. Although I don’t see myself making any more little bear burp cloths. The material of those cloth diapers was just hard to work with because the edges were pretty thin. Oh well. All in all a cute project.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Jun 7, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Bleaching, Cards |
And I’m continuing on with my projects that I created for the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award Contest. This is another card that I made. I know it is the wrong season for this winter card but I love how this technique turned out. I originally used this on a scrapbook page and decided to create a card for the contest using the same technique.
This is my bleached snowman card. I love the snowmen in the Holiday Lineup stamp set. They are just so fun. I cut out a Top Note with the Big Shot from Close to Cocoa card stock. I stamped the snowmen with Chocolate Chip craft ink and embossed them with clear embossing powder. This makes what I call little “walls”. Then I used fresh bleach in an aquapainter (I have one that I only put bleach in). And put bleach on the places that I wanted to be lighter – the snow parts. The bleach on the Close to Cocoa gives a Very Vanilla shade rather than white so the rest of my decorations were in Very Vanilla. The “walls” help keep the bleach from seeping into sections that you don’t want bleached.
The background is stamped with the snowflake from Tree of Friendship using Very Vanilla Craft ink. I also pulled the edges of the card across the ink pad to add some color there.
The card itself is not a traditional card opening. Instead the two end fold up to the center and the Top Note with the snowmen hangs over the front. The picture on the left shows you what the card looks like when it is opened. The inside panel was also decorated.
I added some Bashful Blue Designer Series Paper, a punched Very Vanilla Snowflake, Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, and a Chocolate Chip corduroy button all tied together with some Linen Thread.
My pictures are a little bit dark but I think you can see it all.
I think so far I’ve shown 6 of my 10 projects. I hope you’ll be back to see the rest.
These snowman look so cool on a hot day – we have bright sun today and a perfectly blue sky – not a single cloud was out this morning when I walked. And Kyle walked with me – we went all the way around our big neighborhood loop. I had forgotten how big those hills are. I think we walked about 45 minutes. Then I took Ryan to tennis camp. I have a workshop tonight at Kimberly’s house – going to pack up for that now – it should be fun! And yesterdays Simply Adorned class was great. I can’t remember if I have shared those ideas with you or not – I’ll have to do that this week too if I haven’t already done that.
Thanks for stopping by today – have a great day!
Jun 6, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Scrapbook Pages |
I took a few days break from posting my Artisan Award entries but now I’m back to showing you a few more. Today is my second of three scrapbook pages. All of my pages were 12×12. This is a really fun and bright page. I don’t often use the Bold Bright colors but I did on this page and guess what now most of them are retiring so perhaps that wasn’t a good decision.
I guess I may never know what they didn’t like about my projects.
This one I thought had a lot of creative elements to it. The base is Real Red. Then I added a large panel of Tempting Turquoise along with some strips of Summer Sun for the title and the bottom edging.
The title has a bubble gum border made with just punched out circles. I added a white gel pen highlight on each one. The letters are cut using the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet Die. In every closed area of the letters I added a colored piece behind it also with the white gel pen. I did realize one thing after it was finished – I put the gel pen highlights on opposite sides and should have had them all on the same side to show the imaginary light source coming from one direction.
The photos were added with this fun flip book concept. There are three flaps with photos on both sides. They are attached to the page with some of the Bold Bright Brads.
Each flip page also has a tab with some short journaling – “BLOW”, “POP”, or “YUCK”!
The pictures are just some random photos I took one day when Ryan was in my craft room and trying to see just how big he could blow a bubble. I was able to get a series of photos so it worked well with the flip pages.
I even got the big bubble popping and them where he was trying to clean it off of his face! Yuck!
I also added a Bubble Gum machine that was made into a shaker box – the front has a window sheet on it with a bunch of punched out bubble gum pieces on the inside. And then at the bottom I had a bunch of pieces looking like they just fell out of the bubble gum machine.
It reminded me of the little chant (or rhyme or game or whatever you call it) – Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum in a dish. How many pieces do you wish?
Does anybody else remember that? Ryan stuffed his mouth full trying to get a big bubble.
Well that is my fun colorful scrapbook page! Have a fun colorful rest of your weekend.
Thanks for visiting me today.
Jun 3, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
So far you got to see some of the cards I entered in the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award contest. Well I thought I would switch gears and show you a scrapbook page today. I think this one is my favorite out of the three I made.
This is my niece Ally – isn’t she just Cute as a Button?
I have actually used these pictures before on another page. They were fun and I had a whole bunch of her playing with this old hat. I used one large picture for the focal point and then added the two smaller photos on the side.
The base is 12×12 Old Olive Textured card stock. I used a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock and stamped it with the Manhattan Flower using Versa Mark ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. An easy way to create a tone on tone background. The photos are framed with So Saffron card stock.
I used the Flower Daisies #2 die and the Big Shot to create the flowers. There are multiple layers of the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper that was in the Occasions Mini catalog. The centers are the little Chocolate Chip Epoxy brads – I love those!
The title was also cut with the Big Shot and the Go Go Boots Alphabet Sizzlits die set. I use that one a lot in my scrapbooking because the letters are fun and different sizes. I added the little designer button inside the ‘O’ – I thought it was a perfect little touch.
There are a couple of pieces of Pretty in Pink on the edges punched with the Scallop Trim Border Punch that we had in the Sale-A-Bration brochure – but it will be back in the catalog on July 1st! I added doodling on this page too like I did on the card I showed earlier. 
I used the Top Note die for my journaling. I think that is probably where I lack on my scrapbooking is the journaling part. I’m not a good writer so I only had a very small amount of writing on each page and that probably wasn’t enough for the judges – I needed to tell a better story on my pages. I’ll have to work on that part this year.
I really liked this page and it was fun to create. Maybe I will have to make a duplicate since I sent my only one to Stampin’ Up!.
Remember to visit this post to see some of the other talented demonstrators that submitted entries to the Artisan Award Contest but didn’t win.
Thanks for stopping by today. I forgot to download my turtle pictures sorry about that.
The title is “backyard birds”. The letters are die cut with the Big Shot and then I stamped on them and some are tied with linen thread – in bows. I love linen thread – I don’t love to tie bows – but it needed it on here – knots just weren’t enough.
Here is a close up of part of the title. Again I have minimal journaling – I should have written more for my scrapbook pages.
In the upper left corner is a chipboard flower covered with DSP – the paper is the Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper. I wish this paper had been a little bit brighter – all the colors were very muted.
Each of the bird pictures are layered on a piece of Whisper White as a mat and then on a piece of the Designer Series paper. Then I used the word window and added labels on the bottom with the name of each bird.
