We have a winner in Spring Bingo! Congratulations Debbie!
Debbie wins the stamp set – A Slice of Life from the Occasions Mini catalog.
Debbie is my first winner – did I tell you I was going to play until we had 5 winners? Well we are – so the rest of you don’t get rid of your cards – keep playing! And by the way some of the Bingo cards went to two people – so carefully check your card – you could be a winner too if you had the same card as Debbie.
Look at this cute mini scrapbook using the Sew Suite product line from the Stampin’ Up! Mini catalog. This was a project that the fabulous Bonnie Thurber showed on stage at the Leadership Conference. I sent Bonnie a message asking if she could give me the dimensions and she did! So I was able to recreate it and used it as a Make&Take project at my downline meeting this month. So here are the details for this little project. There are 4 pages that are glued to an accordion folded spine that creates the top where the chipboard letters are glued on to. The spine and all the pages are Early Espresso card stock. To create the spine you need a piece that is 8″ x 5-1/2″ then score it at every 1″ to create the accordion – so that is 1″, 2″, 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, and 7″. Fold that into an accordion. I’ll come back to how to finish the spine at the end. Now I’ll show you each page from the bottom up –
So here is the back page – cut the Early Espresso to be 6″ tall by 5-1/2″ wide. Cut a piece of the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 5-3/4″ tall by 5-1/4″ wide and glue it to the back page. Take the back page and glue it to the back flap of the accordion fold. Here is the next page
For this page cut the Early Espresso to be 5″ tall and 3-3/4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 4-3/4″ tall and 3-1/2″ wide. Attach this page to the next step on the accordion towards the left side. On this page there is a flower – it is the Flower Fusion Sizzlet cut from Tangerine Tango. The center is one of the buttons from the Button Embosslit cut from Daffodil Delight. I’ll tell you how I did the words in a minute. Ok next page –
This one cut the Early Espresso to be 4-1/4″ tall by 3-1/2″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series Paper to be 4″ tall by 3-1/4″ wide. Attach this page on the next step of the accordion toward the right side. For this page wrap a piece of Linen Thread around it and tie on one of the Sew Suite Big Designer Buttons. Then add some of the buttons cut with the embosslit from Tangerine Tango card stock. And the next one –
This page cut the Early Espresso to 2-1/2″ tall by 4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer paper to 2-1/4″ tall by 3-3/4″ wide. Attach to the next step of the accordion centered over the other pages. Now to finish up the front of the accordion –
Cut a piece of Sew Suite Designer paper to be 5-1/2″ wide and 2-1/4″ tall – then score at 1″ from each side – leaving 1/4″ in between – this piece will wrap around the spine – glue it to the back of the spine and then to the front. Cut a 5-1/2″ piece of Tangerine Tango card stock and punch it with the border punch Dotted Scallop Ribbon. Glue this under the front flap of the scrap book. I used a piece of On Board Chipboard and cut the letters using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters die set. Cover the letters with Early Espresso Craft ink using a sponge dauber. Well I should have told you this part first – I would recommend cutting out the letters putting the ink on them and set them aside to dry while you do everything else. You can use the green bottle glue or crystal effects to glue those to the front flap.
Now the words – Bonnie used the stamp set Fabulous Phrases for her example (and she used precut chipboard letters from one of the packs in the catalog). I don’t have that stamp set so I thought – hey I can use it in My Digital Studio and print them out – well the stamp set isn’t yet available in MDS either – so instead I chose a font that I thought was similar and just add text boxes in MDS. To make sure I had the size close I added a Word Window punch in MDS to see that my words would fit. I printed out a sheet of words on Whisper White card stock. We punched them out with the Word Window punch and layered them on a Modern label punched out of Tempting Turquoise.
Now I just need to add pictures and it will be done. How cute is that?
Is today’s Bingo piece going to be the one that makes you the winner? Here it is……
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Have a great day today!
Look at this cute project! It is a pin cushion top on a button jar. The jars are short wide mouth jars that I was able to purchase as part of a bulk buy group.
The project idea is from Stampin’ Up! – it is one of the projects shown in their Fabric projects pdf that you can find on the Stampin’ Up! website – click here.
I pretty much followed the instructions. I cut a 6×6 inch piece of the button print out of the Sweet Stitches Designer Fabric collection. Then cut three layers of batting using the Big Shot and the 3″ Circle Die. Also trace the lid onto a piece of thin cardboard and cut out – it should be just bigger than the 3″ circles.
I glued the 3 layers of batting to the card board and then covered the whole thing with the fabric. I used a hot glue gun to attach all the fabric to the bottom of the card board piece and then I fit it into the ring. I glued the jar lid on the bottom of the card board – so that it covers all the ends of the fabric and make it looked more finished.
I finished the jar by adding ribbon around the lid and the little jewelry tag punch with “hand crafted” from the Tiny Tags stamp set. Fill the jar with buttons and add some straight pins in the top. The buttons in my jar are Sweet Stitches Designer Big Buttons also in the Stampin’ Up! occasions mini catalog. The buttons and the fabric are part of the Sew Suite Collection which also includes stamps, designer paper, and more.
I heard some of the Spring Bingo players are getting close to Bingo! Maybe today is the day – will you be the winner? Here is the next piece.
Have a wonderful rest of today!
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I finally have some birds that seem to have moved in. So it will be time to start watching for them to lay eggs. This year I have five bird houses in the yard – I added two new ones from last year. I have been checking the past week or two and finally noticed some activity in one of the houses.
The first house that has some activity is house #3 – it appears that the Chick-a-dees are building a nest.
House #3 on 3/18
These pictures are from the top of the house looking in – on 3/18 the birds have been bringing in moss and have almost the bottom covered about an inch or so deep.
House #3 - 3/22
The second picture I took this morning and it looks like they have lined the top with fur and insulation. I hope the insulation isn’t bad for birds – it is just little bits – there isn’t really a cup in the nest for the eggs so I’ll have to see what happens.
Then today I found a nest in House #1 – it looks like it could also be chick-a-dees. The pictures is also from the top of the house looking in and the base is moss.
House #1 - 3/22
They have been going in an out of the house today so I’ll get another picture of it tomorrow and see how much work they have done.
The rest of the houses are still empty – I checked house #2 and it has a drop or two of moss – maybe they were thinking about using it. I see the Bluebirds occasionally in the yard but not really looking at the houses this year – they must have gone somewhere else. The new houses are still empty but I’ll keep checking and hoping that someone moves in.
How is everyone doing with Spring Bingo – are you marking your cards as the pieces are called? Is anyone close? Here is the next piece –
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Have a great day – it is a beautiful spring day here at my house!
Hi All! Sorry I missed you yesterday – I just didn’t get a chance to write up a blog post. I spent the afternoon with a wonderful group of ladies sharing with them what Stampin’ Up! is all about. Everyone seemed to have a good time and I hope to be back in a month or so to do a card class for them.
Last week we went to the Ronald McDonald House to stamp. This month’s card was designed by Linda (she is in the red shirt). Every month we take turns designing a card and preparing the supplies for that month. Right now there about 5 of us – Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators taking turns. Linda, Joyce and I usually ride together and we have been getting creative with our route – due to it being rush hour traffic we end up getting stuck right near the exit that we have to get off on. And this last time the traffic was the worst it has been yet – traffic on I-285 was all the back up past the Chattahoochee River – so I decided to dig deep in my memory banks and pull out the GPS and find another route. It turns out that worked so well we may have to go that way every time.
We arrived just in time and they were ready and waiting for us – usually we set up why they finish dinner but this time they beat us to the table. And everyone that participated enjoyed getting creative with their cards. Here are few pictures of our visit this month.
Have a great day! Kyle is home. I picked him up last night after my workshop. We are spending today going to various appointments for him and running errands – we had a short break in between so I’m writing this real quick – now we are off again.
Spring Bingo pieces – here are the next two (and I’ll be back to posting one a day after this).
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It was time to make more tags this week so I used some of the items that were already on my craft table from another card project (I’ll show that one later).
These tags are bright and colorful and very fun. I used Wild Wasabi card stock – and to determine the size for this tag what I really did was evenly divide a piece of 8-1/2″ x 11″ card stock – so that would be 4-1/4″ x 2-3/4″ tags and you get 8 from a piece of card stock.
I used the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Sweet Summer and stamped on the Wild Wasabi with Garden Green ink – the reason I used Garden Green ink was because the Wild Wasabi ink was already packed up for a different class and I didn’t want to get it back out. The Garden Green is a little bit darker and worked great for the background stamping. On the bottom I added the “thanks” from the Sale-A-Bration stamp set So Happy For You.
Then I punched with the Ribbon Border punch a piece of Melon Mambo and attached that to the back of a piece of Peach Parfait Designer Series patterns paper. That was glued on the tag above the thanks. Then I punched butterflies out of the First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper. On the butterflies (I’m not sure you can see it in this picture) I stamped one of the flower images from Sweet Summer using Peach Parfait ink. In the center of each butterfly is a Melon Mambo punch out using the Punch Bunch flower punch. Two butterflies were attached to the front of each tag and I curled the wings up just a little bit on each one.
This is a stepped-up version of the tag. I added Melon Mambo buttons to the centers of the butterflies. These come from the Sale-A-Bration Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon and Button Pack. I tied some white crochet thread through the buttons. I also used the thread for my hangers for the tags.
I added the regular tags to all of my orders that have come in this week. I hope you like it.
And for today’s Spring Bingo pieces we have – not one but two snails! Here they are –
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Have a great weekend!
Milton, Georgia
Hi! I am a Stampin’ Up! independent demonstrator in Milton, Georgia. I love being creative and want to share it with you! On my blog I will share creative ideas using Stampin’ Up! products and you’ll also hear about my family and my dogs.
I look forward to helping you get your creative juices flowing!
Lets get crafty,
Monika Davis
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