Jan 18, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper |
Last week I wrote about the Desktop Calendar Class that I had a few weeks ago. Here is the original post.
Here is the January page and the list of Stampin’ Up Supplies:
- Sahara Sand card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
- Scallop Border punch
- Jumbo Snowflake punch
- Big Shot die-cut machine
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink
And the February page and list of Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Pretty in Pink card stock
- Sahara Sand card stock
- Rose Red card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack
- Scallop Trim Border punch
- Full Heart punch
- Big Shot die-cut machine
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder
- Rose Red ink
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink
Punch the hearts first and then run them through the embossing folder. I used a sponge to go over the embossing with Rose Red ink to make it pop just a little bit more.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Jan 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
It’s Challenge Day at the Create with Connie & Julie – Occasions Edition class. Our challenge this week is a color challenge – Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip. This week in class we are featuring the following products from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog: With All My Heart stamp set, Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, and the Sending Love Epoxy brads. If you aren’t part of the class yet you can still join – all the projects and tutorials that have already been featured are still available and there are 7 more weeks of new projects and everything will continue to be available to all members for a long time. Class members are encouraged to participate in the challenges so you can win prizes each week! So get busy with this color challenge and then go to the class site and link your entry to the challenge post. Good Luck – I hope you win!
Last weeks winners were Lisa Martz and Jessica Taylor. Congratulations ladies!
Here is my entry for this weeks color challenge:
This is a 12″ x 12″ scrapbook page and I used the Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper and the Epoxy brads to create elements on this page.
I saw this idea at least a year ago where they showcased both sides of double-sided paper by folding over the ends. Some people hate not being able to see both sides of the paper so here is one solution to that. I cut strips of different widths. One end was scalloped with the Scallop Edge punch and then folded over and secured with one of the Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Epoxy brads.
I added doodling with the Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker. The title was cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies – I used a mixture of upper and lowercase letters in the title. And then added one little button from the Playground Designer Buttons. The photo is my niece – I took a bunch of pictures of her playing with this hat and this was one of the cutest ones – most of the time she had it completely covering her face and I was trying to play peek-a-boo with her – so this was right after she lifted the hat – cute!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies used:
- Kraft card stock 12″ x 12″
- Pretty in Pink card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Very Vanilla card stock
- Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper (Occasions Mini Catalog)
- Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker
- Modern Label punch
- Scallop Trim Border punch (Sale-A-Bration)
- Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Sending Love Epoxy Brads (Occasions Mini Catalog)
- Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
- Playground Designer Buttons
- Linen Thread
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
- Go Go Boots Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Dies
To see what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge visit them here:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
Thanks for stopping by today.
Jan 13, 2010 | Big Shot, Rub-Ons |
I get together with a group of friends every month to play a game called Pokeeno. While the members of the group have change slightly over the years there are about 4 or 5 of us that have been part of this group for over 13 years! We originally played Bunko but change several years ago to Pokeeno because we didn’t have to have a certain number of people to play. So anyway – tonight is Pokeeno night. And my friend Molly is the hostess. Her theme is Real Simple and she asked that our gift that we bring (those are the prizes for each game) be wrapped in recycled items of some sort and to keep it simple.
So my project to share with you today is my super simple wrapping idea.
I used the paper packaging that Stampin’ Up! uses for our boxes when they ship our orders. I wrapped that around my gift and tied it with a piece of Pacific Point Ribbon that I had left from last year. I used that color because my gift inside is blue and it sort of matched. I like to match.
Then to dress it up I decided to make a simple tag.
Here are the rest of the Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
- Stampin’ Up! Two Tags Die
- Pacific Point card stock (retired)
- Whisper White card stock
- Pacific Point ink (retired)
- Sweet Season stamp set
- Scallop Circle Punch
- Circle Ice Rhinestone Brad
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set
- Rub-ons – this was from a retired set.
I hung it on my ribbon with some white crochet thread. It took only a few minutes to make.
My Real Simple wrapping idea!
Thanks for stopping by today – it is still Wednesday but if you are on email updates you won’t get this until Thursday – sorry I posted it so late.
Jan 12, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Circus, Scrapbook Pages |
I wasn’t sure what to write as a title. I don’t actually have a new project to show today. The last couple of hours I have been poking around on the new demonstrator tool that Stampin’ Up! gave us today. Our very own network to share ideas, ask questions, discuss things. There are a variety of “communities” already out there and many different discussion groups but this one is the one that is put together by Stampin’ Up! and it is very exciting. I think it will be another great resource for all of the demonstrators.
Other things I did today – got all the kids to school – yeah – finally everyone is back to their schedule – although Tyler just called and his day is done and Ryan will be home soon. So my day is ending and what did I do – I went to Jazzercise this morning – yeah for me – I really need to get back on a schedule with that. I finished uploading pictures and sent them to print at the wolf camera – now I need to go pick them up. They are for my calendar that I showed yesterday, my Christmas Advent scrapbook page and a year in review scrapbook album that I am working on. I worked on pulling down wall paper in the half bath – the forever long project of taking down that wallpaper – I think I’m half way done now. I just can’t stand on the ladder forever so I can only work so long.
So I’m back to Hmmmm……. what should I share today. Oh, I know – I have a scrapbook layout that I shared quite some time ago but it didn’t have pictures on it. I have added the pictures now so I’ll share it again. Besides that I think I have more visitors now (at least my daily numbers are up) so probably some people didn’t see it the first time anyway.
The title is “Hangin’ Out Together”. This is Tyler and his cousin Emily when they were hanging out this past summer.
The stamp set is the Circle Circus set and I stamped and punched lots of circles for this layout. Added brads here and there.
I really like how the title turned out. I used the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies. Every letter that had a closed space in the center I added a backing behind it to give the title some character. I like how it turned out and really like this color combination – Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie.
I hope you like it. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Jan 11, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper |
Happy Monday! I wish I could say that I’m home alone and everyone is back to school and work – but that is not the case. School was cancelled again today – it would help if our temps would get above freezing so all the ice would melt. Very unusual for us to stay below freezing for more than 1 day and it has been I think 5. That is the problem we get a little snow, then we get a little sun and it melts and then it freezes and we end up with roads covered in sheets of ice. All the main roads are pretty driveable but the secondary roads, neighborhoods and school roads apparently have enough ice to close school again today. We are at the south end of the county so while we are probably all good here the northern part of the county isn’t. Tyler and Ryan did get to give Kyle a hard time because he did have to go to school today. Maybe tomorrow everyone will be on a normal schedule.
So enough rambling….my project I want to share today is from my Desktop Calendar class. I had the class on Dec. 30th – but half of the class was sick so I had it again the first week of January. I’m working on adding all the pictures to mine – I hope to finish that tomorrow. So today I’ll just share one month that has a picture and I’ll show you the rest later.
June calendar page
This 2010 calendar uses the Stampin’ Up! Days-To-Remember Calendar on page 159 of the catalog (#104144). There are 2 pages for each month – one to put a 6″ x 6″ scrapbook page on and the other is the monthly grid. All the pages are perforated and if you put them in the correct order (there is a map to follow) at the end of the year you can take them out and put them in a 6″ x 6″ scrapbook for a year in review album. Throughout the year you can have the calendar sit on your desk since it had a built in stand.
My scrapbook pages are designed to hold a 3-1/2″ tall by 5″ wide photo (or two smaller width photos). You could fill your calendar with old pictures or add them as you go along for the current year. I think I’m going to do a combination and just write a caption under each photo with the who, when, where, what information. Right now I found that Wolf Camera/Ritz Camera has 6 cents prints (3-1/2 x 5) on Tues and Wed – for 1 hour pickup. So this is what I do – I find the pictures I want to print and upload to their site and then print them on Tues/Wed. These are the perfect size for this project.
I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Paper Stack from the Occasions Mini Catalog throughout the calendar and took all the colors from those papers. Most of the months have embellishments that were either punched or cut with the Big Shot and a few are stamped. The Calendar grid uses the Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set for all the numbering. I used the Holiday Blitz stamp set on the grid to add images for the holidays and also used other stamp sets when I needed different images – the Family Accessories and Family Accessories Too sets have nice small images for this including a lot of the sports and activities that the kids do.
I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting me today.
Jan 10, 2010 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Wildlife |
If you haven’t noticed I have been trying to participate in various challenges. I figure it keeps me thinking and my creativity flowing – maybe sometimes pushes you to use/do/try something you wouldn’t normally do. A personal challenge is I always try to take what I see and make it with all Stampin’ Up! items. I am on a mailing list from one of the scrapbook magazines and received an email from one the ladies this weekend about a new blog she started and a new challenge – 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking – now that sounded interesting so I went to check out her blog and she has week 1 scrapbook layout posted. I normally create 2-page layouts but this was a single page and the challenge is to make one a week for 52 weeks – that would certainly fill up a scrapbook for 2010 – so why not – I can do this – yesterday I worked on my week 1 layout – I changed a few things – and used all Stampin’ Up! product, of course.
The background is a 12 x 12 piece of So Saffron. Then I layered a 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 piece of Sahara Sand. I used the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper – two different patterns – the So Saffron dots and the stripes of So Saffron and Old Olive.
The circle is chipboard from On Board Batch of Blooms chipboard. I “painted” it with Old Olive craft ink and a sponge dauber. Then punched holes in it with my Crop-A-Dile. I add Basic Grey Tafetta Ribbon by threading it through the holes and typing a bow at the bottom of the circle. So now I can enter this one in the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week – which was to use ribbon.
I stamped with Basic Grey ink using the new stamp set Garden from the Heart that is in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I colored the images with my Stampin’ Write Markers – So Saffron, Old Olive and Sahara Sand and a White Gel Pen. 
For the hat I added a So Saffron flower button from the Button Latte Designer buttons – in the center I added a silver brad. Under the hat I added just a little bit of Sahara Sand with an Aqua painter to add a shadow.
I also stamped with the splatter image from Itty Bitty backgrounds and Sahara Sand ink around the corners and edges on the layout. The photos are some that I took earlier this year of a flock of Cedar Waxwing’s that came through our yard this spring. I usually see them only once maybe twice as they migrate through our area. They come in a big flock and these pictures show them enjoying the bird bath and fountain in my back yard.
I also stamped the curly label tag image and punched it out. Since I didn’t have a Basic Grey marker and wanted to use the image with out the words I used a masking technique. I covered the words with a piece of tape – then inked the image on my Basic Grey ink pad. Removed the tape and then stamped on my Whisper White card stock. That gave me the label without the words. It was punched with the Curly Label punch and then layered with a die cut using the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die. I added a Basic Grey corduroy button – with some white crochet thread (ok I had one non- Stampin’ up! item).
It is much prettier in person than in these photos. The White Gel pen really pops on the Sahara Sand card stock. I’m done with my week 1 scrapbook page – 51 more weeks to go…..
Thanks for visiting today!
Here is the January page and the list of Stampin’ Up Supplies:
And the February page and list of Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
