Mar 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Bleaching, Scrapbook Pages |
It is another Snow Day here in Georgia – yep another one – this has been the winter for snow all over the US – I think everyone has had more than normal. The schools closed early – Tyler and Ryan are already home. Kyle is on his way – I hope he gets here safely with no road troubles. The streets in our neighborhood were already getting slushy a couple of hours ago. And the snow hasn’t stopped since about 8 this morning – it was mixed with rain in the beginning but not right now.
So in honor of another Snow Day I’ll share my SNOW DAY scrapbook layout with you!
We made this layout at my Scrapbook class last week. The snow flake is from the Season of Friendship stamp set and stamped in Very Vanilla Craft ink randomly on the background. The background is Chocolate Chip. 
I used Bashful Blue Patterns Designer Series paper for the wide strip and for the scalloped strip on each page.
The Jumbo Snowflake punched was used to punch snowflakes for each page – 1 in Chocolate Chip, 1 in Very Vanilla, and one in Close to Cocoa. The title is cut on the Big Shot with the Simple Letters Alphabet Dies – these are Chocolate Chip and are also stamped with the snowflakes. The are attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop them up off the page. I added a piece of Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon on the ‘O’ and the ‘D’.
The fun part was the snowmen – I cut a piece of Close to Cocoa card stock with the Top Note Die and the Big Shot. On each I stamped the Snowmen from Holiday Lineup in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder.
Then to make the snowmen “white” I used an aquapainter filled with Bleach! The bleach removes the color from the card stock and turns it into a vanilla color so they look like snow men. It was fun – you may need to go over them more than once to get the color that you want and make sure to use fresh bleach.
I plan to add pictures of the dogs – Aspen and Magnolia – playing in the snow when we had our last Snow Day – it was the light fluffy dry kind of snow. What we have today is wet snow. I hope you like the page – I really liked how it turned out.
Have a fun SNOW DAY!
Mar 1, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Demonstrator, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Ribbon Flower, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon |
On Sunday afternoon I had a group meeting with the Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators in my PAWS group. Not everyone was able to come but the ones that did had a great time. I would love to have more people join Stampin’ Up! and be part of my group and this is a great time to do it. During Sale-A-Bration (thru the end of March) there is a special on the Starter Kit – 15% off plus you get an extra FREE stamp set. I joined during Sale-A-Bration the year that I signed up so I could get the extra stamp set – I was able to pick the most expensive one in the catalog at that time – I don’t think the kit was discounted that year though.
Anyway at our meetings we talk a little business, share ideas with each other – Lisa brought a bunch of cute decorate milk cartons using the new Big Shot die from the Occasions Mini catalog. And of course we do some stamping. One of the cards we made was what I guess you would consider a fancy fold card – it is called a Tri-Shutter card. I designed this one using several products from the Occasions Mini catalog and the Sale-A-Bration brochure. This was a fun card and not nearly as hard as it looks. I’m thinking about using this as a Stamper’s Club project for our March meeting – not this exact design but this style of card.
Here is the card when it is folded closed. It has lots of different panels and you could decorate each one with various things.
For the whole card the base is Old Olive card stock, each layer is Taken with Teal card stock and on each panel I used various pieces from the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pack.
On the front panel I added a ribbon flower. This was easy to make using our Double-Stitched Grosgrain ribbon. You cut a length of ribbon (short piece creates a smaller flower), then pull the white stitching on one side to gather the ribbon in the center – I pulled from both ends until it was tight and then tied the white thread into a knot and trimmed the excess. I just overlapped the two ends – since the flower is gathered you can’t really see where the cut ends are unless you look for them. I used a Jumbo Glue dot to attach the flower to the front of the card. Then used another Jumbo Glue dot to add one of the little circle from the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt Flowers. A stitched felt leaf was added under the flower.
I also cut some butterflies using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit for the Big Shot – these are in Pumpkin Pie. The tiniest one is glued to the ribbon flower. Two of the others are glued on the panel next to the flower.
When you pull the card open you can see some more of the panels. The far right one matches the front minus the ribbon flower. For the bottom panel I added a piece of Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon.
One view shows all the “front” facing panels.
And the other view also shows you the “back” facing panels including the large one in the center. Here I added a bird punched with the new XL Two-Step Bird Punch. And then stamped with the Whimsical Words stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure – I used “you’re to Kind” for my card. This would also be fun for Mother’s Day, a birthday or Thank you. You could do more decorating on each panel and stamp some more too. My top panels that look really plain in these photos actually have the paper with the clouds on them so it is supposed to be the sky part of my card.
I also used the Scallop Trim Border punch from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. I didn’t realize just how many products I used from that were SAB and from the Mini – 2 Sale-A-Bration items and 5 from the Occasions Mini.
Have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by – if you have time leave me a comment – I love reading them!
Feb 27, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Stem Sayings, Thank You, Watercoloring |
Boy the week just flies by – its Saturday again and challenge day at Create with Connie & Julie!
Congratulations to last weeks winners of the Easter Card challenge – 1st place was Lisa, 2nd place was Robin and Honorable mention to Cynthia. Thanks to everyone that played along the entries were all great. I hope you will play this week too.
This week our challenge was a COLOR challenge – So Saffron, Certainly Celery and Orchid Opulence. And it was definitely a challenge for me! Why? Because my least favorite color out of all the Stampin’ Up! colors is Orchid Opulence – so I don’t have an ink pad and only a couple of pieces of card stock – luckily I did have my Stampin’ Write Marker! One of the big reasons that the Stampin’ Write Markers are so great – if you buy the whole set like I did then you will have ink in every color so when you need one and don’t have an ink pad – pull out the marker and you are set! It saved me with this color challenge!
The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure – Abundant Hope stamp set, Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Butterfly Accent stamp and Decor Stencils – Paisley Patterns and Folk Flowers. My choice was to use the Beautiful Wings Embosslit – because I love it and because it was the only one of the featured items that I had this week. And here is what I created….
Are you wondering where the background is from, the flowers under the butterflies? It is a piece from the Storybook Designer Series Specialty paper. If you haven’t taken a look at this pack of paper on one side of each is what looks like a coloring sheet. It is textured card stock so it was similar to watercolor paper. I picked a piece of one of the patterns that had flowers on it so the butterflies could be flittering around the flowers. And with no color on the design I could watercolor it with any colors that I wanted. I used my Aquapainter and the classic ink pads. But since I didn’t have the Orchid Opulence ink pad what I did for those was scribble on one of the plastic stamp cases to make a puddle of ink to use for watercoloring. I always loved to color in coloring books when I was little so I had a lot of fun with this and now that I got the pack out I think I need to play some more.
I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit in the Big Shot to cut the Butterflies in So Saffron and Orchid Opulence. I edged the butterflies with a Soft Suede marker to make them stand out a little bit more. I used some white crochet thread around the centers to make the antennas. The butterflies are on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- So Saffron card stock and ink
- Certainly Celery card stock and ink
- Orchid Opulence card stock and Stampin’ Write marker
- Storybook Designer Series Specialty paper
- Soft Suede ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Sahara Sand ink
- Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslit
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
- Stem Sayings stamp set
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (SAB)
- Aqua Painter
- White Crochet Thread (not SU)
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Check out what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet it isn’t too late to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week. 
I counted today and there are at least 27 tutorials out there already. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Julie site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Feb 26, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Punch Art, SU Ribbon |
As it turns out when I work in my craft room on projects I usually end up with a small pile of leftover punched pieces and die cut pieces. I hate to throw them away. But if I keep them I don’t ever really use them, occasionally but normally I just punch or die cut what ever I need right when I need forgetting to look back at what I have done.
I also have a bunch of these little round tins that you find in the wedding section at the store. I bought them once for a project and then bought more so now I have more than I really need.
Another Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator made the suggestion the other day that she was giving away punched pieces as a thank you. So when I cleaned up the other day I had my little pile of punched pieces and thought about this suggestion. I found my little tins and filled a tins with punched pieces – this one has flowers, birds, butterflies, and some other punched elements. I added a strip of Designer Series Paper around the bottom of the tin. Tied a piece of So Saffron Striped Ribbon around the tin and added a tag stamped with the Oval All stamp set. The little butterfly is colored in with markers.
Come back tomorrow and you’ll see one of the projects that I was working on where some of these leftovers came from. Some were also from one of my scrapbook pages earlier this week. I decided that I would group the items each tin by a similar color/theme. I have another one that has a bunch of Valentine related pieces, one with some Christmas/Holiday punches – they have been lying on my desk for a few months now (see I hate to throw them away).
I gave this tin to Becky at my scrapbook class on Wednesday night because she brought two friends with her to the class. We had a great time and I know Becky will enjoy the little collection of punched pieces that she can use on her projects at home.
You could use the same little container and fill it with candy if you need to give it to a teacher or someone that did something nice for you and you need a little thank you.
Have a great day!
Feb 25, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Create with Connie & Julie, Easter, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon |
At last weeks class we made three Easter projects – a pocket card/invitation, a place card/candy holder, and a candy treat bag. Sometimes I’m just not sure what to call things. These were made using the Eggscellant Eggs Kit in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the Chocolate Bunny stamp. My class photo shows the projects made with all Pretty in Pink accents. Ok – to me these pictures don’t look as good as the other ones that I took – I was trying to use the white back drop that many people use but the lighting wasn’t so good. I’ll have to keep working on that.
Everyone had different colors because the kit came with different colors so I decided to take photos of some of the projects finished in the other colors:
Bashful Blue w/Certainly Celery
Pale Plum w/Whisper White
Pretty in Pink w/Certainly Celery
So Saffron w/Certainly Celery
These were fun! I’ll be making more in all the colors for our family Easter gathering.
These three projects along with 3 more were part of a collection I created for Create with Connie & Julie. We are in the last couple of weeks of adding new projects but everything will be available for a long time so you can still join. So far there are 27 tutorials available along with many more projects – everything includes a full supply list and some basic instructions – so you are getting a ton of ideas for the price of the subscription.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Feb 24, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Good Friend, Scrapbook Pages |
Have Fun, Play Hard, Be Happy!
This is my week 6 page for the 52 weeks challenge. I pulled out some old photos from 1996! This is Kyle (he is now 18) and Tyler (he is now 16) when they were little.
I thought this turned out to be a fun page. I used some retired Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper called Rainbow Sherbet. The colors in the paper are Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Apricot Appeal and Gable Green. I decided to add Brilliant Blue for my lettering, photo frames, and scalloped accents since that was the color of the pool. The colors worked well since the boys swim suits were blue and green too.
The stamp in the background is the sparkle image from the Good Friend stamp set. It matches the sparkle in the designer paper. I cut the scallop circles and the top note using the Big Shot and the letters too. I added little accents with my Brilliant Blue Stampin’ Write maker. I used some randomly placed brads from the Bold Bright Brads scattered around the circles and the top note just for fun.
It turned out to be a fun page with bright colors!
Thanks for stopping by today!
We made this layout at my Scrapbook class last week. The snow flake is from the Season of Friendship stamp set and stamped in Very Vanilla Craft ink randomly on the background. The background is Chocolate Chip. 
The fun part was the snowmen – I cut a piece of Close to Cocoa card stock with the Top Note Die and the Big Shot. On each I stamped the Snowmen from Holiday Lineup in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder.
