UDI Color Challenge #62

Nov 22, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, family, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge | 0 comments

Hi all – I hope you are having a productive week leading up to Thanksgiving – is everything ready?  Do you have the turkey, the ham?  We have both.  I have more little turkey milk cartons to make – one for each of the kids although the kids are really kids any more they are becoming adults.  Yesterday was Kyle’s 20th birthday!  I can’t believe I have a 20 year old!  Where did the time go?  Since I needed a card for Kyle for his birthday I used this weeks color challenge for his card.   Here is the inspiration picture –

I thought these colors were good for a masculine card even though the inspiration photo isn’t.  I am working on another project that uses the Peek-a-Boo die for the Big Shot so I had that on my craft table and decided to play with it for this card too.  After playing around with it quite a bit I finally came up with this –

This is the front – I made owls using the owl punch and set them on each of the peek-a-boo windows – each one says “got birthday?” – and when you open the windows you get –

one cupcake and then two cupcakes with candles –

And then on the inside of the card – it’s better than the outside –

This time the peek-a-boo window reveals the best part of the birthday –

The gift card (or cash) – I created a pocket under the window – used the word window punch to make the opening for the gift card – or fold up some case and slide it in there.  So that is the card that Kyle got for his birthday.

Click on this link to go to the  Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog.   There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Garden Green, So Saffron, Soft Suede
  • Ink: Soft Suede, So Saffron
  • Stamp sets: Got Treats, (and an old birthday set – I had limited supplies with me, sorry)
  • Accessories:  Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Peek-a-Boo Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Owl Builder punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch, Word Window punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Sponge.

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Thanksgiving Turkey Mini Milk Carton

Nov 18, 2011 | Big Shot, Thanksgiving | 12 comments

I have another Mini Milk Carton creation for you.  This will be cute on your Thanksgiving Table – fill with some treats for all the kids.

I made this using the Big Shot – the Mini Milk carton die and Scallop Circle die.  Some punches add details and he is done.  I wrote a tutorial with pictures of each step – CLICK HERE.  I am very thankful for all of my Stampin’ Friends and appreciate the comments you leave and encouragement you give to me.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Have fun this weekend getting ready for your Thanksgiving gathering.

Spice Cake Fabric Bears

Nov 17, 2011 | Big Shot, Demonstrator, Fabric, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 | 0 comments

Well I am away from my blog for a day or so and things have changed.  I guess everything changes all the time and while I would like to say can you me some warning – the truth is they probably did and I didn’t pay attention to it.  The first thing I noticed was a change in adding my pictures to my blog post.  I wonder what else has changed – I guess I’ll find it as a I find it.

And now for the cutest little bears ever…..these are the teeniest little fabric bears.

I saw these on Patty Bennett’s blog – you can see her post and the instructions HERE.  I wanted a fabric project for my last downline meeting and when I Patty shared these I knew they would perfect.  These are teeny tiny little bears and we used the Spice Cake fabric to make the.  This is a Big Shot project – using the Scallop Circle dies – the large, medium and small scallop circles were all used.

I got a picture of the three different fabrics in the Spice Cake assortment – I made one and the others were made by some of the girls at my downline meeting.  These were assembled using hot glue but they are tiny enough that I think hand sewing them together would have been almost just as easy.  I may try to make another one and just stitch the pieces together.

I am trying to finish up a tutorial for my Thanksgiving Turkey box so if you are looking for an idea for next week hold one for another day or so and I’ll have it out here for you.

Have a nice fall day!  We had storms yesterday with tornado sirens (no tornado though) and the power kept going off (didn’t stay off long) and we have lots of wind today so there are leaves everywhere – falling leaves is why we call it fall.

 

Glimmer Paper Snowflakes

Nov 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 | 4 comments

I wanted to share a few tips on using the Glimmer Paper with the Northern Frost Decorative Strip Die for the Big Shot.  The glimmer paper is a little different because it actually has a layer of plastic on the back which causes some problems with cutting detailed designs such as the snowflakes in the Northern Frost Decorative Strip Die.  But the silver glimmer paper (and the red too) make such pretty snowflakes I really wanted to cut them easily so I played around with some different combinations until I found one that worked for me.

First one of the things that I have done with some of my sizzlits especially these strips that have lots of little details is I covered them with clear packing tape.  So they look like this –

Can you see the tape on my die?  Just put a piece of clear packing tape across the die and then cut like normal – the slick tape helps the little bits pop out of the holes instead of getting stuck in them.  But that wasn’t the real problem with the glimmer paper.  The real problem was getting a good cut through the plastic backing.  So this is the sandwich that I found works the best for me and it was cutting the snowflakes through every time – even though it doesn’t look like it does initially.

So start on the bottom with the Decorative Strip Spacer Platform, next add the Decorative Strip Cutting Pad, then the Northern Frost Strip die (cutting blades face up), the glimmer paper (glimmer face up), then a piece of plain paper, then on top the second Decorative Strip Cutting Pad.  Run this through the Big Shot to cut the snowflakes.  When you get it out it will look like it didn’t cut when you see the glitter side of the paper but turn it over and look on the back and it looks like this –

Now push out the cut snowflake and then poke out all the little details with a paper piercer.  I poke from the back since you can’t see them on the front.

And once you have all the little details poked through, pull them off and here it the pretty little snowflake that you get –

And here is a project I made with the glimmer snowflake – A glass ornament.  Inside the bottom are the Mica Flakes.  The glimmer snowflake is hanging on the inside (two glued back to back).  And ribbon on the top.  Use a strip of card stock glued in a ring to make a base to set the ornament in.  It’s very pretty in person.

You’ll find the Silver Glimmer paper and the Mica Flakes in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog.  You can order them on my website or send me an email.

We will be making these today in my gift making class.

Have a glimmery day!

Stamper’s Club makes the Advent Shadowbox

Nov 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, uStamp | 0 comments

For the last two months my Stamper’s Club girls have been working on their Advent Shadowbox Calendars.  I took these pictures while they were working on the different parts.  My original post for this project is HERE. I created this project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends – I Heart the Holidays class.

I took pictures of all the girls working on their boxes.  I had everything divided between two tables and half the group worked at each table.  They started at the October Club meeting and then finished at the November Club meeting.  Now I need to have them bring them in December so I can take pictures of their finished boxes.

It was a lot of work but I think everyone was very happy with the end result.  I still have one more to finish that I’m giving to someone special.  I didn’t have time to work on mine during the club meetings so I better get a move on.

Have a nice day – thanks for stopping by!