Jan 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Fabric, Occasions Mini 2011, Simply Adorned Jewelry, Stampin' Up! Events |
At every Stampin’ Up! Event there are Make ‘n takes – we have to have our stamping time. This year at Leadership the Make ‘n Takes were the best ever! Our Make ‘n Take session was on Friday night at the end of the Leadership Conference – I hope no one left early because they missed some WOW projects. I wanted to share them all with you. The stamp set they gave us was Clearly for You so the projects we made use that as the main stamp set. The tables were sprinkled with punched pluses to match our +ONE theme (I wonder if that will be a future punch?) and our stamp set and supplies were packaged up in a little box this time.
Box of M&T supplies and a bag of yummy carmels
table supplies and punched pluses decorating our tables
DVD notebook - Botanical Gazette DSP, Trinket Keys
For You card
Simply Adorned Charm Bird Insert - Botanical Gazette DSP
Simply Adorned Charm Amour Insert - First Edition DSP, Red Glimmer paper, Trinket Keys
Simply Adorned Charm Monogram Insert and Chain - First Edition DSP, Springtime Vintage DSP, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Vanilla Pearl Bauble, Trinket Crowns, Trinket Keys
Brooch - First Edition DSP, Seam Binding, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Beveled Windowpane, Fun Flowers Bigz Die, Trinket Keys
We received the large Simply Adorned Charm and the long chain along with all the trinkets as part of our Make&Takes – everyone was so excited! Now I wonder what the convention projects will be like??
Jan 15, 2011 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2011, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day |
So sorry for not posting. I thought I would have time to get back to the computer during Leadership but they kept us busy from the minute we got up until we got back to our rooms and fell down in our beds. Leadership officially ended last night about 11 o’clock. But we are up again this morning with another full day planned of stamping, friendship and fun in Nashville – although with a smaller group. I wanted to get this quick post out and I’ll tell you more about all the exciting things from leadership when I get back home tomorrow and over the next week.
This is a project I made for two different swaps – a candy wrapper swap and a Valentine WOW swap. You may recognize it from last year when I originally created this idea. I’ll share some more specific details later – I need to go now!
Hugs & Kisses Holder – Valentine swap
Jan 13, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, D is for Dog, SU Buttons |
This was one of the cards that we made at Stamper’s Club Friday night. The card idea was one that I found on a blog somewhere but it wasn’t a Stampin’ Up! blog so I wanted to use the idea with our products. I liked the black and the white and needed to add a third color – I pulled out my Color Coach and this was one of the color combination’s for the Whisper White card – Whisper White, Basic Black and More Mustard.
The Bitty Button does not have thread in it but instead it is a thin piece of More Mustard card stock that is pulled through and tied in a knot. When you don’t have thread in the color you want just use a piece of card stock!
I made the dog and cat look like they were really white by watercoloring around them with a little bit of Sahara Sand Watercolor Wonder Crayon.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: More Mustard, Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: More Mustard, Black StazOn
- Stamp sets: Every Little Bit, D is for Dog, Friends Fur-ever
- Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, 1″ circle punch, 2-1/2″ circle punch, 1-3/8″ circle punch, Bitty Buttons, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Sponge, Watercolor Wonder Crayons – Neutrals, Aqua Painter.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jan 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club, Valentine's Day |
I adapted this box idea from Stampin’ Up! to be a “Rules of Chocolate” box. Inside the box are 12 Hershey nuggets wrapped in some of the Love Patterns Designer Series paper.
I printed out 12 rules of Chocolate on regular printer paper – cut them into strips and then folded them up and tucked them under the Designer Paper on the bottom of each nugget. It is sort of like a fortune cookie where you pull out your fortune – only here you are pulling out a rule of chocolate to remind you that it is OK to eat it!
The Love Patterns Designer Series paper is available right now through Jan. 24th either by itself or as part of the Filled with Love Bundle. The box is the Box #2 BIGZ XL Die for the Big Shot. I cut it out of Pretty in Pink card stock. I stamped the string of hearts from the Valentine Defined stamp set on the box in Pretty in Pink – so it is hard to see in this picture. Some of the girls Friday night stamped in Real Red and that was cute too and easy to see. There is a strip of Pretty in Pink designer paper around the box. The front has 2 pieces of ribbon – Pear Pizzazz 1/2″ Stitched-Poly and Pretty in Pink 1/4″ Grosgrain. If you attach the ribbon at an angle it looks like a cupid’s arrow going through the heart but I attached mine straight across the box.
The heart on the front is some of the Real Red designer paper punched with the Full Heart punch. The Pear Pizzazz heart behind it was cut with the Big Shot using the Movers & Shapers Curly label die with the Punch Windows Movers & Shapers heart. This one was distressed with the distressing tool from the Cutter Kit. Happy Valentine’s Day is stamped in Real Red ink on Pear Pizzazz card stock and punched out with the Modern Label punch. Curl it a little with a bone folder and glue it down at the ends to the front of the box. The stamp comes from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. I also added one of the heart shaped Bitty Buttons – it has a piece of 1/8″ Real Red Taffeta Ribbon pulled through the holes and tied in a knot in the front.
The “Rules of Chocolate” was added to the lid – now what do you think of that handwriting? Isn’t it GORGEOUS? Well it isn’t mine – one of the girls in my Stamper’s Club has this beautiful handwriting and we told her she needs to create a font called Sabrina (that’s her name) and sell her handwriting for all of us that don’t have nice handwriting. I’m not sure how you go about doing that but I think she should do it.
I’m writing this on Sunday night as we wait on a snow/ice storm to come – it is moving closer with every news report but so far nothing is here yet and our schools haven’t been closed but many others have. We are supposed to have 100% precipitation tonight and all day tomorrow. I’ll put and update on here when I get up in the morning and see if we scared it all away by getting so prepared.
SNOW UPDATE: the snow did come – started about 10:00 pm and we got 1″ in the first 30 minutes. This morning we have 6″ – record highs all over GA for snow. The snow has stopped and we are now getting some freezing rain. Almost everything is closed and the airport is pretty much not moving right now. I don’t know how little dogs handle places with lots of snow – mine couldn’t walk because it is up to their bellies – they finally figured out they needed to hop to get through it. I’ll post pictures later today.
UPDATE: CLICK HERE for a pdf file of the 12 Rules of Chocolate that I used – I found several lists on the internet and picked from those.
Jan 3, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper |
January always seems to be the time to get reorganized. It’s a new year and maybe a slow time as far as other activities go – at least we are in between sports it seems for right this minute. High School Tennis Team tryouts will be later this month and Ryan plans to tryout – we’ll see how that goes. He hasn’t played in probably a month and he broke his racket about that time so he is going to be rusty…..
Anyway back to organizing – I have discovered that the Clear Stamp set boxes are very handy for doing some organizing. And luckily we can buy them in a pack of three from Stampin’ Up! – Now if you purchase a clear stamp set your stamps will come in their own case. But Stampin’ Up! also sells empty cases and I’m going to be sharing some ideas on what you might want to do with them.
I tend to save coupons – for the grocery store or various restaurants and fast food places that we eat at. I save them and stick them in places and then when I need them I can never find them. So just before Christmas I was working on cleaning up some piles of stuff that had various coupons mixed in and I realized I needed a better way to keep my coupons handy so that I would actually use them. So here is my idea –
I used two of the clear stamp cases and got out some Designer Series Paper. The one on the left uses a piece of paper from the Play Date Designer Series Paper. The one on the right uses a piece from the retired Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack.
I used one of the insert from a clear stamp set to measure the size I needed to cut my paper to. I cut the paper and slid it inside the plastic sleeve on the outside of the box. Close the boxes and it naturally creates the folds in the right place.
I cut the letters using the Big Shot die-cut machine and the GoGo Boots Sizzlits Alphabet dies. I decided to separate my coupons into store coupons – those for the grocery store – and restaurant coupons – those for the places we go out to eat at. Then I just stick my coupons inside and they can sit nicely in the center console in my car or I can slide them into my purse.
This is a super quick and easy project – just order some of the empty cases. I have more ideas to share later. Tomorrow Tyler and Ryan go back to school and we can get back to a more normal routine. I love having the “vacation” time but our days get so messed up and I loose track of what day of the week it is. So I am looking forward to being back on a schedule. Kyle will still be home for the rest of the week and we’ll take him back to school this weekend.
Dec 30, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Scrapbook Pages |
I am doing a year in review of my favorite projects for each month of 2010. Below are my picks for April, May and June 2010 – I added the links below each one that will take you to my blog post with more details about the project. Enjoy!
April 2010 – Herb Expressions card set
http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/royal-blog-tour-5/
May 2010 – Sweethearts Scrapbook Page
http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/sweet-hearts-scrapbook/
June 2010 – Of the Earth card
http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/last-chance-cards-of-the-earth/
It was hard to pick just one favorite project each month – and I seem to want to pick the 3Ds or scrapbook pages over the cards. Maybe I need a favorites category of cards and a favorites of the non-cards. June I had many of my Artisan projects posted and most of those are ones I really loved – that’s why I submitted them for the contest.
