Jan 9, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Love You Much, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
It’s the first Challenge for the Create with Connie & Julie – Occasions Edition class. Our challenge this week is a theme challenge – Valentines Day Cards. During our preview week we are featuring the following products from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog: I (Heart) Hearts stamp set, I (Love) Love Wheel, and the Corduroy buttons. Here is my entry for this weeks challenge:
I used the I (Love) Love Jumbo Wheel – it was wheeled on the background of the card using VersaMark ink and covered with clear embossing powder and heat set with the heat tool. This card features a heart shaped “window” that I made using sticky strip and clear micro beads. You need the love bird image (from Love You Much stamp set) stamped in Black StazOn ink (except the heart color with a Real Red Stampin’ Write marker) and colored with an Aquapainter and Real Red ink on a piece of Whisper White card stock. To get the two shades of color – color the birds once with the aquapainter and Real Red ink – let it dry and then go back over the wings again with more color until you have the desired shade. Then you need the front of the window which is made with Basic Black card stock and the Heart from the Stampin’ Up! Punch Windows Magnetic Movers & Shapers die for the Big Shot. I used the Movers & Shapers Curly Label Die and instead of cutting a full card I placed the Heart in the open area and covered it with the Black card stock. The edges of the black square are distressed with the tool from the cutter kit. Once you have these two pieces then you can create the window.
On the Whisper White card stock use Sticky Strip to cover the image – place the strips right next to each other to cover the entire image that will show through the punch out window. Next place the Basic Black card stock piece on top of the white piece position so the image shows through the cut out as desired. Place this inside a Powder Pal tray and sprinkle Clear Micro Beads on the window – pressing them into the sticky strip until it is completely covered. Shake off any extra beads that didn’t stick.
To finish the outside of the card I added small dots with a White Gel Pen around the heart and in the corners. In the top left corner of the black square I punched out with the Horizontal Slot punch and then tied a piece of the Red Polka Dot Ribbon through it. Attach the square to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To finish the inside of the card cut a piece of Whisper White card stock and punch with the Full Heart punch from the bottom corner. While it looks like I stamped directly on the back of the card I actually stamped on an extra piece of Real Red card stock and glued it behind the window. It was much easier to get it in the right place that way. I added the dots with the Real Red Stampin’ Write marker. The “love you much” is from the new Well Scripted stamp set and the small “LOVE” heart is from the I (Heart) Hearts stamp set both are stamped with Real Red ink.
To see what the rest of the team did with this challenge visit the Create with Connie & Julie site. If you haven’t signed up for the class do it right away so that you’ll continue to have access to more wonderful ideas.
Thanks for stopping by today. And you may have noticed I highlighted all the supplies in red instead of re-writing them as a list – I hope that’s ok.
Jan 8, 2010 | Big Shot, SU Buttons, Thank You |
I wanted to do some more challenges and decided to make a Thank You card. I got the Stampin’ Up! stamp set called For All You Do a couple of months ago. Whenever I saw other people use this stamp set I just loved the results. I don’t think I’ve seen anything with this set that I didn’t like. But now that I have it I haven’t used it much – I’ve been working on all the different holidays for the last few months and haven’t done much with flowers. So I pulled it out last night to use for the challenge I found. I found Pals Paper Arts and they had a sketch challenge (PPA24) and I decided to pair that with a color challenge (#105) from the Stamping 411 blog.
Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- For All You Do stamp set
- Tempting Turquoise card stock, ink and marker
- Brilliant Blue card stock and ink
- Green Galore card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Basic Grey ink
- Vellum paper
- Big Shot
- SU Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
- Color Spritzer Tool
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Playground Designer Buttons
- Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads
- Paper Piercer & Mat pack
I used the Rock-n-Roll technique on the butterfly 
– inked it with Tempting Turquoise ink and then rolled the edges in the Brilliant Blue ink. I used a small amount of Tombow Multi-purpose adhesive on the body of the butterfly to attach a piece of Vellum paper. Then I cut the butterfly out – cutting the card stock and vellum at the same time. The Tombow glue dries clear so it worked well on the butterfly. I pulled the vellum paper up for the wings.
I did realize after I made my card that the Stamping 411 color challenge was supposed to be a kids card but I missed that and just used the colors.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Be sure to visit the Create with Connie & Julie site today – Mary posted a cute project that uses the Movers & Shapers die in a new way – you won’t want to miss this one and she wrote a tutorial for the project. And the winners for the free pass to the class are in the post below this one.
Jan 7, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Valentine's Day |
Hi everyone! Yesterday was so exciting…. a record number of visits to my blog and lots of comments trying to win the free pass to Create with Connie & Julie – check back tomorrow to see who won.
This is my original Hugs & Kisses holder – Click Here – for the original post.
Based on the comments I received I wanted to show you some more pictures of the Hugs & Kisses Holder project. I used the Stampin’ Up! Scallop Square Bigz Clear Die (#115950). I used my Paper Cutter with a scoring blade to score – here are some more pictures so you can see the scoring more clearly.
score on all the dashed lines and punch 1/8" holes at the four circles in the corners
Here is what it looks like on the paper cutter - line up the track in between the scallops on each side.
This is how you line up the diagonal - put the corners in the track and then start your scoring blade where the other lines cross (inside corner) and go out to the outside corner.
Some people also asked about doing this without the Scallop Square Die – and YES you can – any square will work – just divide each side into thirds and score it like a tic-tac-toe board. I decided to make a larger one today – it takes longer because if you want the edges scalloped you’ll need to do that (the Big Shot did all that work for you when you use the scallop square die) with a border/corner punch.
large Hugs & Kisses holder
My large Hugs & Kisses holder started as a 8-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ square of Real Red card stock. I used the new Scallop Trim Border and Scallop Trim Corner punch. With this size square it worked out perfectly with 18 scallops on each side – so divide by three – I scored after every 6 scallops.
I used the Full Heart punch to punch hearts from the Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper. I also used the Heart to Heart punch. I added buttons and brads. I also used the Big Shot with the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die and the Heart from the Punch Windows dies to create the larger heart.
Here are a couple more pictures.
large Hugs & Kisses holder
view from the top and the tag on the large Hugs & Kisses Holder
I hope that answers all the questions and show you another option on how to make a large version. The small one is quick and perfect if you need a small something for Valentine’s Day. The larger one you can give to your sweetheart!
And we have snow here in Georgia! My Christmas tree is still sitting on my back porch and it is starting to get a dusting of snow. The kids got out of school early and we are still waiting to hear about tomorrow. There is ice forming on the roads and the main roads outside our neighborhood have already had gravel/sand put on them. I’m still waiting on Greg to get home – he decided to stop and get gas for the car before coming home.
We don’t get much snow so I haven’t really looked closely at a snow flake – but today I had on a black coat and went to get the mail and snow flakes were falling on me. I looked and saw perfect little six point star snowflakes – it was so cool – they were tiny – but more than just little blobs – actual little snowflakes! And they were so pretty.
I found a new blog today (1/9) called Our Creative Corner and they had a 3-D challenge so I added this to their challenge link.
Thanks for stopping by!
Jan 6, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
It’s Preview week over at Create with Connie & Julie, and I hope that you have been over there to see the preview projects that have been posted. There have been some cute Valentine Projects already shared by our wonderful team! So go check it out if you haven’t already. Connie has a new project posted on the Create site today and I have my own project to share with you here today since it is my turn to give away a FREE Pass to the Create with Connie & Julie class. How exciting is that?!? Read below for all of the details on how to enter for your chance to win, and then you can see more pictures and the supplies I used to create this project at the bottom of the post.
The Occasions Edition site will run from January 3 – March 6. Each week we will focus on a different collection of products that can be found in the Occasions Mini Catalog or Sale-A-Bration brochure. Our goal is to show you some new and unique ways to use Stampin’ Up!’s fabulous products. Every day there will be a new project posted and each week there will be at least two tutorials available for you to download. Our exclusive projects will include cards, scrapbook pages and 3D items, the quick and easy ones and the more complex larger projects.
To find out more about the site and to order a subscription, please visit us at Create with Connie & Julie.
Would you like to win a subscription to the Create with Connie and Julie site? Each of the team members will be giving away subscriptions on their blogs this week. To enter to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on our team members’ blog on the day that we are featuring them. It’s MY turn today to give away a free subscription, so leave a comment here on my blog (click on Comments right at the bottom of this post!). All the winners will be announced on Friday January 8! If you’ve already joined, we will refund your subscription price!
The free subscription give away has ended – thanks to all of those that participated.
And now more about my cute little project – I had something different in mind and when I started with my first idea things just started heading in a different direction. I ended up with this cute little Hugs & Kisses holder using some new Stampin’ Up! products from the Occasions Mini Catalog instead.
Are you wondering where the “hugs & kisses” phrase came from on the little tag? It’s on the I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel. I just used a Real Red Stampin’ Write marker to color just that part of the wheel – wheeled it on Whisper White card stock and punched it out with the large oval punch. Cute isn’t it? You have a whole bunch of different ways to say “Love” using the parts of that jumbo wheel.
To make the little holder I cut a Scallop Square using my Big Shot and the clear die. Then I used my paper trimmer with the scoring blade to score in between every three scallops in both directions – it creates a tic-tac-toe board. Then on the four corners make a diagonal score from the outside corner to the inside corner. Now fold on all the score lines – punch holes in the four diagonals and pull a piece of ribbon through to tie it shut.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: I {Heart} Hearts, I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel
Ink: Real Red ink & Stampin’ Write marker, Chocolate Chip ink
Card Stock: Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, Big Shot die Cut Machine, Scallop Square Clear Bigz Die, Red Gingham Ribbon, Stampin’ Sponge, Paper Trimmer w/Scoring Blade, 1/8″ hand held punch, Heart to Heart Punch, Small Heart Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals
I hope you like it! We will be making this project at my January I {Heart} Hearts class.
Leave me a comment today for a chance to win a Free Pass to the Create with Connie & Julie class – good luck!
Jan 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You, Thank You Kindly |
So today I took a break from Valentines – well actually I did a Valentine project this morning but I’ll be posting that one on Wednesday – make sure to come back. But this afternoon I worked on a non-Valentine’s project. I also tried another sketch challenge – called Mojo Monday. I see this mentioned all the time in our yahoo groups where we share our projects but I haven’t tried it before. So this is my first Mojo Monday sketch attempt….here is the sketch
and here is my card….
instead of the brads I used a greeting in that spot.
I used four new Stampin’ Up! products: the Garden from the Heart stamp set, Satin Ribbon, and the Scallop Trim Border Punch, and the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack. All of these are available to order beginning tomorrow – January 5th.
Here is a complete list of Stampin’ Up! products that I used for this card:
- Garden from the Heart stamp set (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Thank You Kindly stamp set
- Taken with Teal card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Chocolate Chip ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Watercolor Wonder Crayons: Earth Elements, Rich Regals
- Aqua painter
- Big Shot die cut machine
- Scallop Circle #2 die
- Circle Scissor Plus and Glass mat
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Chocolate Chip satin ribbon (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Linen Thread
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
I’m going to like this new gardening set. And I do have it in the new Clear-Mount version which worked so nicely on the new Stampin’ Up! Clear blocks. I cut the white circle first and then stamped the image – it was easy to position on the circle with the Clear-Mount option. Happy Stampin’!
Thanks for stopping by!
Join me for Create with Connie & Julie – sign up today! This week we are giving away Free passes to the class – each team member has a different day that they are giving away a free pass so make sure to visit each day to see who is giving away a pass. Just a hint – you really should stop by my blog on Wednesday…..
Dec 31, 2009 | Big Shot, Decor Elements, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club |
I can’t believe it is the end of another Year – 2009 is leaving us and we are on to 2010 in just a few hours. How can that be? Have a safe New Year’s Eve!
I don’t think I mentioned this yet but I got a new laptop for Christmas – yeah me! I decided a few months ago that I really did want one so that I wasn’t tied to my desk all the time. Now I can work from anywhere in the house (or out). But with the new laptop comes some changes and getting used to new things. And my husband decided to change a whole bunch of other stuff too – new internet service, new email addresses, new printer and more. So I’m trying to get everything back up and running on this new laptop. So one thing was the way I download my pictures from my camera. It is going to be a little different than the way I did it before but I atleast have it working (although maybe not the way I want it).
I was able to download the pictures from the last Club meeting so you can see the rest of the EAT Decor Elements Frames that the girls made – there were two done in Real Red with the Night & Day Designer Series paper. And they used the Viola stamp set to create some of the magnets.
There was also one done in Old Olive with Old Olive Patterns Designer Series paper.
The “EAT” Decor Elements comes in five different colors – Black, Chocolate, Real Red, Old Olive and White. So you can mix those with various Designer Series papers and make one to coordinate with any kitchen.
Click Here to see the original one made with the Black EAT and Soft Suede.
Don’t need a recipe holder – here is an idea that Lisa shared with me last night. She cut some vinyl to put on the top – you can purchase just the sheets and cut your own designs using your Big Shot machine – and used paper and stamps to make her husband a ” Honey Do” list board. Put that in your husband’s workshop or garage and leave him notes where he is sure to see them. Lisa decorated the magnets with some stamps from a retired stamp set.
The Decor Elements sheets come in Kraft, Chocolate, White and Dark Gray now. And they should be available in more colors in January.
Other ideas – maybe for your teens or kids create a “to do” board or HW board that they can set on their desk. Attach a list of chores or homework that needs to be done for the day or the week. For the New Year – it could have your goals listed and set it in your bedroom or bathroom where you can see them every day. Mark them off as you complete them.
Enough of me today….I’ll leave you with one of our Decor Elements quotes….
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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On the Whisper White card stock use Sticky Strip to cover the image – place the strips right next to each other to cover the entire image that will show through the punch out window. Next place the Basic Black card stock piece on top of the white piece position so the image shows through the cut out as desired. Place this inside a Powder Pal tray and sprinkle Clear Micro Beads on the window – pressing them into the sticky strip until it is completely covered. Shake off any extra beads that didn’t stick.
