Mar 14, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Occasion Mini 2010 |
Stampin’ With Monika
Class Reminder
Come join me for my Hands-on Class on
Friday, March 19th – 10:00 am and 7:00 pm – Birds & Butterflies
We will be making the three items in the picture above –
a divided box with butterfly tags, a cute mini butterfly notepad, a beautiful birdhouse card and another card that is not included in the picture.
I just love birds and butterflies and have more ideas than what we can do in this class.
The last day to sign up is March 17th!
The class fee will be $15.
You need to bring your paper snips and adhesive.
I hope you will join me for a fun class!
Mar 12, 2010 | Big Shot, Build-a-Bear, Cards, Designer Series Paper |
Stampin’ Up! is a national sponsor of the Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC). They have partnered to bring comfort and creativity to the lives of Ronald McDonald House guests. Each year, thousands of families stay at more than 160 independently operated Ronald McDonald Houses in North America. These Houses serve as temporary homes for the families of seriously ill children who are being treated in nearby hospitals.
One of the things that Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators do is volunteer time at the house helping the guests make cards. I was finally able to reach the coordinator of the house here in Atlanta and got to visit on the Stampin’ Up! night in January. This month I designed the card and will be going to the house with all the supplies on Tuesday night. Here is what I designed for this months project:
This is very similar to a card I made last year. Using the Big Shot die-cut machine and the Top Note die I made sleeping bags and then cut Build-a-Bears to go inside. I think they will really like this project – at least I hope the kids will really like this project!
The Designer Series paper is retired paper that I had – I thought this one would be fun for the “boy” cards and then I’m using a different one for the “girl” cards – I’ll show you that one next week.
Part of the work will be pre-done – I’m going to have everything cut, the sleeping bags glued together and the faces finished on the bears. The house guests will choose a sleeping bag, dress their bear, stamp something on the sleeping bag and then add it to the front of their card.
I hope it will be a successful evening at the Ronald McDonald House – I’ll report back next week.
Tonight is Stamper’s Club night so I’m off to finish getting ready for that.
Have a great weekend.
Mar 11, 2010 | Big Shot, Punch Art |
Yesterday I showed my treats that I took to my Pokeeno friends last night. Everyone also brings a $10 gift and those become the prizes for each game that we play. So today I wanted to share what I brought for my gift.
It was a Leprechaun and his pot of gold! I went to the bank and got 10 $1 gold coins – remember those – they came out several years ago and I’m not sure anybody ever spends them – the grocery stores didn’t have any but the bank did.
The Leprechaun idea came from Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator Ellen Kemper’s blog – if you haven’t seen her blog she has some absolutely amazing punch art characters including lots of pointy chinned people as she calls them. To create mine I just looked at her photo so I’m not positive I used exactly the same punches that she did – some are obvious and others I guessed. I did add the beard which she didn’t have on hers. The colors I used were Green Galore, Really Rust, with Basic Black, More Mustard and Garden Green for the accents. The box he is on is the Fancy Favor box – the die for the Big Shot. The bag of gold coins fit inside the box.
So let me see if I can tell you what each piece is – here it goes:
- Head – ornament punch
- Ears & Nose – 1/2″ circle
- Eyes – 1/8″ circle and smallest heart on Heart to Heart punch
- Hat – 1-3/8″ circle and the word window
- Hair – scallop oval
- Beard – scallop circle
- Body – wide oval – one cut in half glued on the second one
- Belt – word window, short word window, horizontal slot
- Arms – small oval and wide oval – cut in half on the short side
- Legs – small oval and wide oval – cut in half on the long side
- shoes – butterfly punch, cut in half then cut with circle punch
- buttons on shoes – small punch on crop-a-dile
I think that is all the pieces of the leprechaun – i wanted him to match the little treats from yesterday so I used the green galore. Other wise I think I would have used a different green.
It was fun! Now you have a few ideas for St. Patricks day if you need them.
Oh – Tyler’s finger is now in a custom made splint and he needs to keep it straight for the next 3 weeks – it was called a Volar Plate Fracture. So he’s good – no big deal.
Mar 10, 2010 | Big Shot, family, Rock 'n Roll, Wildlife |
I would have thought in March it would be easy to find green candy – especially jelly beans since Easter is coming soon. But no – it took some searching. I guess I should have bought some of those green M&Ms they had at Valentine’s Day (not sure what those were about) but I wasn’t thinking about St. Patrick’s Day then. I’ll have to remember that for next year. So I finally found Key Lime Jelly Beans – there are green and white ones in the bags.
Here are the little treats I made – this idea came from Julie Grenier. Aren’t they the cutest? I made some Easter ones (and will be making lots more before Easter), but yesterday I made some for St. Patrick’s Day. These are for my friends tonight that I’ll see at our St. Patrick’s Day themed Pokeeno night.
This project fits the Paper Pals challenge this week (at least I think it does) – it is a color challenge – to use Green – the color combo there is Garden Green, Certainly Celery and Kraft. Mine is similar – I used Garden Green, Green Galore and Whisper White.
The little shamrocks are stamped with the Rock ‘n Roll technique – I inked it with Green Galore and then rolled the edges in Garden Green before stamping. That gives it some variation in color which I like.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies are:
- Garden Green card stock, ink and marker
- Green Galore card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Holiday Blitz stamp set
- Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set
- Scallop Circle Punch
- 1-1/4″ Circle Punch
- 1″ Circle Punch
- white gel pen
- Modern Label punch
- Big Shot die cut machine
- Movers & Shapers Die and modern label shape die
- 1/16″ punch
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Apple Green grosgrain ribbon (retired)
Non-SU supplies are the 1×8 clear bags, white crochet thread, and jelly beans.
I just wanted to give you a few other updates – one is a bird update – yesterday the Bluebirds started building a nest in House #3. The female was bringing in pinestraw and was working it around inside the house – she only got a little done. Today it is pouring (really pouring) rain so I don’t know if she’ll work on it today. The other two houses in the yard are empty.
Second is a Tyler update – we picked up his tux for the prom yesterday – after we went to get x-rays of his finger. Yep for the first time in forever the boys were outside throwing a football and Tyler jammed his finger. Turns out his pinky finger on his left hand is broken. We have an appointment with an orthopedic hand specialist today. I don’t think it is bad but I guess I’ll know more after the appointment this afternoon. Hopefully he can still play his horn because the band has a concert performance next week.
Thanks for stopping by today! Maybe all this rain will help everything around here turn green – like the grass and the trees…..I’m ready for spring. My daffodils are coming up they should be popping their blooms soon.
Mar 9, 2010 | All in the Family, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
More pages from my Desktop Calendar…..
For the month of November I used the turkey stamp from the Holiday mini catalog. I made a slight change to mine after the class because of suggestion from one of the girls at the class. I originally didn’t have the circle behind the turkeys but added them later.
My dog Magnolia has a birthday in November so the little dog image from the All in the Family stamp set worked perfectly for that. I tried to color it with markers to make it kind of look like Magnolia.
November Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Sahara Sand card stock
- Old Olive card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
- Scallop Trim Border punch
- 1-3/4″ Circle punch
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- All in the Family stamp set
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink and marker
- Stampin’ Sponge
Happy Stampin’!
Mar 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages |
More pages from my Desktop Calendar – Here is October – without a picture on it – not sure what to use on it yet – halloween dress up is really not happening at our house any more so I’ll have to find something else for the month of October.
The pumpkins are made with punches – can you tell which ones? The wide pumpkins are the Wide Oval, then the 1-3/8″ circle, then the Small Oval. The skinny pumpkins are just the circle and the small oval. I sponged the edges of all the punched pieces so you can see the “sections” of the pumpkin. The stem is the Modern label Punch and the leaves are the Little Leaves Sizzlit for the Big Shot.
October Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Old Olive card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
- Scallop Trim Border punch
- Wide Oval punch
- 1-3/8″ Circle punch
- Small oval punch
- Modern label punch
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Little Leaves Sizzlit
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink and marker
- Stampin’ Sponge
Happy Stampin’!
