Sep 15, 2009 | Big Shot, Build-a-Bear, SU Ribbon, Tutorial |
I don’t know what it is about Chocolate but I never have enough. I’m actually talking about Chocolate Chip card stock – but that statement holds true for the real stuff too!
I swear I must eat my card stock in my sleep – I think I order lots of it and then all of a sudden my Chocolate Chip card stock is gone – AGAIN. What am I doing with it? I think I can safely say that it is my most used color of card stock. I just placed another order and put 5 packs on my order so maybe I won’t run out so fast. I need to make a habit of ordering one pack every time I place an order then I will never run out – right?
So let me see what have I been doing that used up the Chocolate Chip card stock – well you know what – some of it was used for Build-a-Bears, and some of it was used for my last Class to Go Kit – which by the way is now available as a tutorial – it just needs to be added to my tutorial for sale page – here is a photo of it –
And I used some in my new 50-50 JAR!
I wanted to try something else besides the 50/50 board but couldn’t come up with another idea so instead I decided to tweek the 50-50 board idea and I have turned it into a 50-50 jar. 
It is the same basic concept – place a $50 order and get a chance to win $50 of Stampin’ Up! product from me. I used a big cracker jar. Tied the new 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon in Chocolate Chip around the jar. I made a tag using Bella Bear’s stamp that says ” “LIFE WITHOUT STAMPS……UNBEARABLE….”
The tag was created like this – I stamped on Whisper White in Chocolate Chip ink and punched out with the 1-1/4″ Circle Punch.
I layered that on a 1-3/8″ Circle punch of So Saffron. Then I punched a Scallop Circle from Chocolate Chip card stock – this one I added White Gel Pen dots. The stamped layered circle was added on to this one with a Stampin’ Dimensional to pop it up. Then the next layer was my newest little discovery…..
I just got the Stampin’ Up! Two Tags die (THANKS GLORIA!) and I can tell this one will be one that gets used a lot. One of the tags has a scalloped circle at one end that layers perfectly with the Scallop circle punch – but it only goes half way around – so this is what I did. I used the Big Shot to cut one tag out of Old Olive card stock – then I placed that tag back on my die in the opposite direction matching up the scallops and cut it again – Ta-Da – a larger scallop circle to layer with my punch!
It shows a few of the perforated lines but that’s ok – I love how it layers! I tied the tag with linen thread to my ribbon.
The inside of the jar is the other tag – the one that folds up. I cut 50 of them in Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie. On each one I stamped Bella’s stamp – by the way I named my Stampin’ Up! Build-a-Bear “BELLA” – I’m not sure I announced that on my blog yet. The idea with the tags inside the jar is that when someone has a $50 order they get to pick a tag and write their name and information on it – fold it in half and place it back in the jar. Once all the tags are filled out I’ll draw a winner.
The top of the jar is the large scallop circle die – decorated with the White Gel Pen to resemble the perforated lines on the tag die. And then I added the numbers/letters from the GoGo Boots Alphabet die. I like how it turned out. So lets fill up the jar!
One other weird thing to mention – I had this jar in a plastic storage box with a bottle of etching cream – the bottle was closed – we did some glass etching a year or so ago for the holidays – I may need to do that again using the Decor Elements!! Anyway when I took out the cracker jar the back side is now frosted like it has been etched – do you think fumes from that bottle of etching cream got out and etched that jar? It was all clear like the front to begin with. That’s the only thing I can think of is that it was sitting next to the jar closed up in a plastic container and over time it just happened somehow…..weird isn’t it….
Enough for today…….it is pouring down rain here and thundering. Stay dry!
Sep 10, 2009 | Big Shot, Scrapbook Pages |
Here is a SNEAK PEEK at the pages for the September Wow Scrapbook Kit:
September 2009 Wow Scrapbook Kit
This month’s Wow Scrapbook kit has three unique layouts. The first one is a great back to school layout but could also be used as a fall layout for an outing like apple picking. The second one features the Extreme Elements and the Extreme Skater – a great page for teens especially boys! The third layout uses the new Nouveau Chic Designer Series Paper and a technique to make paper flowers. Each layout is a 2-page 12″ x 12″ layout.
We have a new ordering options this month for demos that don’t want the supplies – order the whole kit or individual layouts.
Hop on over the Wow Scrapbook Kits blog – wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com and see all the details and ordering information.
These are great pages I hope you’ll check them out.
Have a great end of the week!
Sep 5, 2009 | Big Shot, Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper |
I’ve been having so much fun today making bears!! The other night when I was working I came up with an idea that I thought was very clever. Do you ever have one of those days where you just keep smiling cause you came up with something and it just makes you happy? Today I’ve been playing again and I just have to smile ’cause I’m tickled pink with this idea. So are you just dying to know what it is……..well the Top Note Die is the perfect size to making sleeping bags for the Build-A-Bears! Look at this……
Look at all my bears in their little sleeping bags!! Here is a close up of a boy and a girl bear.
I cut two Top Note dies from the Pawsitively Prints Designer Series Paper and scored one of them and folded it down. What I did to score was line up the center points on the 1″ line and score carefully. Then fold that over. I used snail on the sides and bottom to put the sleeping bags together. I added buttons (from the sizzlet die) or ribbon to each one. I stamped one of the greetings on the bottom – I decided to use “I ‘heart’ YOU BEARY MUCH!” and I cut a heart using the Beary Girl Sizzlets die and popped it up with a tiny piece of a Stampin’ Dimensional. I did trim the points off of the sides of the sleeping bag. Maybe I should have done it on the bottom too – that is the only thing my boys thought was weird because their sleeping bags never had points on them…..oh well.
The bears are cut from the Bear die using Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, and Creamy Carmel card stock. I punched a 1-1/4″ circle out of Basic Black card stock and glued it with a 2-way glue pen to the back of each bear head for the facial features (this is much easier that dealing with the tiny little piece from the die). I glued on the muzzle from a different color of card stock.
The clothes are cut from the Beary Essentials die using the Pawsitively Prints Designer Series Paper and I just mixed up the different pants and shirts. On some of the girls I cut the bottoms of the pants off at the perforated line to make them look more liked cropped pjs. The girls also got bows in their hair – it is on the Beary Girl Sizzlits die. I glued on all the clothes – a few of them I added the cuffs for the shirt. I also added the hearts on the outside of their shirts. Then the bears were tucked into their sleeping bags.
The card is run through the Big Shot with the new Perfect Details texture plate (just the front) to give it a little texture – it looked too plain without it to me. The card base is Old Olive since that is one of the accent colors in the designer series paper.
So I’m thinking about sending this idea in to Stampin’ Up! for one of the monthly contests. What do you think?
I was going to plan a scrapbook page with the bears in their sleeping bags – Ryan whenever he went to visit my parents when he was little always took all of his Build-a-Bears and had a “sleep-over”. I know I have pictures somewhere…..I just haven’t figured out where that is yet. So my dilemma (is that spelled right?) was what to send in for the contest – a scrapbook page or a card?
These are my swaps for the STARZ group meeting tonight.
Have a BEARY FUN WEEKEND!!
Sep 2, 2009 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, family, Summer Fun Cookout |
Surprise Tyler!
That was what we yelled Sunday night when we had a surprise party for Tyler. Tyler turned 16 on Saturday and had a most uneventful day. What he didn’t know was that I was planning a surprise party for Sunday! If you only want to see the stamping related stuff go to page 2 of this post.
I have been asking Tyler for about a month if he wanted a party for his 16th birthday – yes, then no, then yes, then finally he said no. So Friday night we went out as a family to dinner, came home, opened presents and ate cake. Below you can see the card and the little gift I made him. Saturday, Greg was gone all day at a tennis/golf tournament, and I was in and out – shopping for the party, taking stuff to my friend, Gina’s house – and by the way – the Best Friend ever – how many people would let a bunch of teenagers that they don’t even know come and have a party at their house. Since it was a surprise I couldn’t have it at my house. So Saturday was a boring day for Tyler – except that he did get his birthday balloon and I made him breakfast in bed!
Sunday I quietly went to Gina’s house to help with final preparation and plan B since it turned out to be a rainy Sunday so all the outside entertainment was a bust. My one concern – was anybody coming to the party….. Just an FYI – not a good idea to put a 17 year old boy in charge of inviting other teenagers to a surprise party – first I didn’t know who ended up getting invited and second teenagers don’t RSVP – maybe they don’t know what that means…..But it all worked out and teenagers did appear at Gina’s door, some on time and some later. We were able to get Tyler up to Gina’s house without any clue and I think Tyler had a fun party and celebration for his 16th birthday. Later that night he told me that he really did want a surprise party – hmmm did I know that somehow ’cause I don’t remember him telling me that…
Here are a few party pictures and on the next page are some stamping projects. (Click on page 2)
kids hiding
some of the kids
gotta have a pinata - and this one was a car!
Aug 28, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, class, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Summer Fun Cookout, Wanted |
Stampin’ Up! created a Summer Cookout Kit to sell the past few months. It is still available until the end of August and it is now on sale for $14.95 (40% off) and the refill (all the consumable supplies) is $9.95. At convention we were able to get a free refill with a certain purchase amount at Memento Mall. So I had my refill and a couple of my roommates gave me there’s too. Why – because Tyler’s birthday is this weekend and I wanted to plan a summer cookout theme party for him. But then he decided he did not want to have a birthday party after all – so now what to do with all the supplies. Since my scrapbook class was this week I decided instead I would try to turn this Summer Cookout Kit into a scrapbook layout – so my challenge was created – use the pieces from the kit to create a two page 12×12 layout…
The kit included the die-cut pieces for the invitation – including the skewer, food wrappers that were like tissue paper, coasters, tent cards, die cut tags, and linen thread.
So I got busy planning – colors in the kit are Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Ruby Red and Night of Navy. There was one problem that I ran into – all the die cut pieces for the invitation had pre-printed words and holes in them that I didn’t necessarily want in my layout. Solution – tuck the words/holes under something or put something over them. The only thing I didn’t use was the envelope – although I considered creating a hidden journaling pocket – the envelope could have been covered in the tissue paper, and there was one die-cut piece I didn’t use – I think it is supposed to be a piece of meat – it just looked strange to me. I even added all the little circles that were left from the holes – kind of a confetti sprinkled on the page. It turned out to be kind of a busy page (which is not normally what I end up with) and I don’t have my pictures on it yet. So here it is:
I added card stock – Bashful Blue, Ruby Red, Night of Navy and So Saffron. I added buttons in the same colors. The skewers are tied on with the linen thread at the bottom of each page – I used my paper piercer to poke holes through the page and then tied the linen thread through it. The Bashful Blue and So Saffron coasters were punched with the small star punch – those were glue around as needed to cover holes and add accents. The background is stamped with the Wanted stamp set.
To create the title I glued a piece of the tissue paper to a piece of card stock – so the red tissue paper went on Ruby Red card stock and the blue on Night of Navy card stock. Then the letters were cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots alphabet dies.
When I add pictures later I plan to cut two of them with my Circle Scissor Plus to go on the coasters that are my circle mats. The tent cards were cut in half and these are picture mats – depending on the size of the picture I may leave the checked edge showing or cover it. I thought I did a pretty good job of using my kit.
So now everyone that has a kit – plan a party, take pictures and scrapbook using your kit left overs. We have something planned for the weekend (I’ll tell you about it next week) that I plan to take pictures of for this layout.
Have a happy scrappin’ day – it is raining here which is always a good day to stay inside and work on your scrapbooks….
Aug 27, 2009 | Big Shot, class, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons |
Last night was my scrapbook class for this month and we had a great time. It turned out the be the perfect night for being inside with friends – why? Because a storm came through – thunder, lightening, and rain – so what else is there to do….
I had a full house in my little craft room this time – if my class grows bigger I’ll have to expand to two rooms. Everyone said they loved the pages we made. The first layout was based on a scrapbook page that was featured in our monthly Stampin’ Success magazine. This is the magazine that all Stampin’ Up! demonstrators receive each month. It has information on new products, promotions, techniques, ideas, business topics and recognitions for demonstrators through out the company. So this time there was an article about punch art and they showed an 8×8 scrapbook page. I really liked it and I also like punch art so I decided to expand the page into a 2-page 12×12 layout for my class. Here is the result:
This morning when I woke up I had an idea of something I forgot to put on this page. So if you came last night and wonder where the little worm came from – I added him this morning. If you want to add one I’ll punch you some circles – that’s all he is – a bunch of circles – I think I used the little 1/2″ punch – and give it to you next time I see you.
This morning I added my pictures to it. I still need to add journaling which I plan to do at the bottom in the grass. These are pictures that I took in July when Greg and I went on our anniversary trip. We were in North Carolina and we hiked part of the Appalachian Trial and these are some of the pictures I took along the way. See the red mushroom on the left page that looks like someone took little bites out it. Well I saw it on the hike up the mountain but didn’t take a picture of it. After we got to the top – the picture of me is when I’m resting at the top – I decided that I did want a picture because I didn’t see anything else like it on the rest of the trail. So going down I searched for that mushroom all the way back so I could take a picture – I found it! I know I’m weird like that.
Anyway back to the page – the mushrooms and flowers were shown in the Stampin’ Success magazine. I made my lady bug differently, then added the turtle (idea from Heather Summers Simply Punches class), the worm and the die-cut butterflies. The title is also die-cut with the Big Shot. The background is direct to paper technique where you drag the end of the ink pad across – it gives the look of wood planks and then we added “nails” with the marker. This page used lots of punches and not really any stamping. We just used the ink to sponge the mushrooms, flowers, grass, and butterflies. The buttons in the center of the flowers are Playground Buttons. The main colors used on this layout are Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Creamy Carmel, More Mustard, Real Red, and Whisper White.
It turns out the Late Night Stampers challenge this week is punches – so I’m going to go enter this layout into the challenge. I’ll show you our other layout tomorrow – let’s just say I set a personal challenge and I think it was accomplished – come back tomorrow to find out what that was…
Have a great day!
