Mar 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, Sale-A-Bration 2011 |
Yesterday I told you about all the great ideas that other Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators share. My card today came from one that I saw on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only online community) – the original was created by Christy Galang.
The front panel on the card is Very Vanilla that was embossed with the Tulip Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. In the very center I stamped the large flourish image from the Sale-A-Bration Bliss stamp set using Not Quite Navy ink. The butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die and the Big Shot. One is cut from Blueberry Crisp Designer Series paper – the edges are stamped with the little swirls on the edges of the bliss stamp in the set. The smaller butterfly is Very Vanilla and then stamped with the large flourish. The butterflies are layered and add to the center of the card. In the very center of the butterfly is a pearl – if you look closely the pearl is blue – on this particular sample I colored the pearl with a Night of Navy Stampin’ Write marker and let it dry for a while, then wiped it off and let it dry overnight – this gave it a very light blue tint. I made some darker ones by coloring with the marker then covering the pearl with Clear Embossing Powder and heat setting it. 
I put my card on a Not Quite Navy card base so I created an inside panel to match.
And added a greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set to finish. We made this card in my Towne Lake Card Club and everyone was able to choose what they wanted to use the card for. Teeny Tiny Wishes has ended up being one of my most used stamp sets since it has so many greetings in and covers all different occasions. It is perfect to use in a class because everyone can choose what they need.
I watched American Idol this morning – I had my neighborhood friends over last night to play Pokeeno – so I had to record it and watch this morning. I wonder what everyone thought. I think as a group the boys are stronger than the girls but I was having a hard time deciding who would be the one to go tonight – I’m assuming they are eliminating only 1 person but I’m not sure. I think my least favorite was Ashton. The best for me include Casey, Jacob, James, Pia and Scotty. Some of them just didn’t choose the best song. I guess we’ll find out tonight what happens.
And on to Monika’s Spring Bingo – we actually played this for Pokeeno last night instead of the traditional pokeeno cards. We all had fun doing something a bit different – I had a garden themed night – so the gifts were garden themed which was fun. I had decorations and made little boxes that I’ll share in a later post. So for my bingo players I’ve decide for the next several days I’m going to call two pieces at a time. So mark your cards and let me know when you have a Bingo. Here are the pieces for today.
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Good Luck!
Mar 9, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Occasions Mini 2011 |
One of the awesome things about Stampin’ Up! demonstrators is that they share their creative ideas. Often I hear someone tell me that they could never be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator because they aren’t creative – they could never come up with ideas. Well ladies, let me tell you that is not a reason at all. You don’t need to come up with any ideas on your own if you don’t want to. There are sooooo many places for you to go to get ideas. Demonstrators all over the world post their ideas on their own personal blogs, on their websites, on yahoo groups, on online classrooms, on online communities; not to mention the resources that Stampin’ Up! provides – a monthly demo magazine, videos, training at events, ideas on their websites, and more. In fact there are way more ideas out there than any one person could ever use or show. So don’t let that be the reason you don’t join. Now is a great time to sign up as a demonstrator and I would love to have you join my team. Are you interested? The starter kit is 15% OFF plus you get a $50 bonus product bundle -Stampin’ Up! is such a wonderful company – if you want to know more let me know – I’d love to talk to you about it – just contact me – click on the contact me button at the top of my blog.
So now on to another cute project that was shared by Angie Juda on her blog – if you want the instructions visit her here.
This cute little thing is made from the Petal Cone Die in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions mini catalog. Really it is! Basically you cut off the bottom of the cone portion and create flaps to make the bottom of the little container.
I don’t know about you but this Eat Chocolate stamp set is so yummy. I have to keep it put away because it makes me want to go eat chocolate. This little box is made with Soft Suede an Blush Blossom card stock. I added sponging on the white and pink pieces.
So go eat some chocolate today!
And now for the next Spring Bingo piece – here you go – 
Good Luck players!
Mar 8, 2011 | Bingo, Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
It’s Tuesday and the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge Day. Honestly I waited until the last minute to make my card this week – and I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do but when it was done – it is so cute! I think I’ll be using this in a class or club at some point. Here is the inspiration photo for this week –
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along. Normally I work only with the colors that are in the inspiration piece and not the piece itself but this week was different – I decided to try to create a purse card like the one in the photo. And here is the result –
What do you think? It is quite cute in person. It will fit in the open-ended envelopes that we sell – it is basically a 3×6 finished size but the corners are angled to make it look like a purse. Colors are Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Daffodil Delight, and Tempting Turquoise.
Are you wondering at all about the ribbon handle? Stampin’ Up! used to carry lots of Chocolate Chip ribbon, but then we got Early Espresso and all the Chocolate Chip ribbon went away and we got Early Espresso. I considered using it for this card but it wasn’t one of the colors in the challenge – while in reality you probably wouldn’t notice the difference I wanted to stick to the colors. So instead I used Very Vanilla Taffeta ribbon and colored it with a Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker to make it all Chocolate Chip.
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Daffodil Delight
- Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise
- Stamp sets: Fast & Fabulous
- Accessories: Designer Label punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker, Gold Brads, Very Vanilla Taffeta ribbon, Paper piercer, mini glue dots, velcro dot.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Day 3 – Monika’s Spring Bingo – here is the next piece –
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Mar 6, 2011 | Bingo, My Digital Studio |
This month my customers will be playing Spring Bingo with me. Everyone that had $50 orders last month (February) got a Bingo card from me and today we will start playing. I created these in My Digital Studio using the Bingo Card digital Download and a variety of other stamp brush sets with spring time images. I decided to set it up similar to a game we play called Pokeeno – it is Bingo using a deck of playing cards – so there are four suits and 13 images in each one. So I chose 4 colors for my game – So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz, Baja Breeze, and Pretty in Pink. And then chose spring images to use on my cards. I created 14 different cards in My Digital Studio and then created my “deck of cards” with each image in each color that I’ll use to play the game. Here is an example of one of the cards.
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At first I had the FREE SPACE in the center but on a real Pokeeno card there is no free space so I wanted to get rid of that. In My Digital Studio when you don’t want to see something you basically cover it up. So I added a square punch filled with white and placed it inside the center square to get rid of the FREE SPACE that was part of the Bingo Stamp. Then I could add an image over the top.
This is what the calling cards look like for this game – there is a set for each color –
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For this game the images in each color can be anywhere on the card and not just in a particular column like regular Bingo. I emailed out cards to all my players yesterday (late last night). That means we are ready to play Monika’s Spring Bingo! Check back daily for the next Bingo piece and mark your cards – when you have your 5 in a row email me that you have Bingo! Here is your first piece –
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Feb 13, 2011 | Bingo, My Digital Studio, Valentine's Day |
For Valentine’s Day each year we have a special family dinner and scavenger hunt. We have been doing this for many years – for us it is more about me spoiling all the boys rather than a romantic evening for just Greg and I. Our traditional Valentine Dinner is Lobster, Crab Legs and Steak – we couldn’t afford to go out as a family of 5 and eat a surf & turf dinner so we started cooking it at home. I have the lobsters and crab legs figured out and Greg does the steak. This year we celebrated last night while Kyle was home from college.
Normally as part of our activities I do a scavenger hunt – every year they each have their own set of clues and treats hidden around the house. When they were younger the clues were easy and as they got older the clues got harder. This year I decided to use My Digital Studio and create a Valentine’s Day Bingo game. I made a Bingo card for each of the boys and an extra one that I cut apart with all the pieces. I still hid their treasures but they had to have Bingo first before they could go look.
For the markers I punched hearts from Real Red card stock using the Small Heart punch.
In My Digital Studio I created an 8-1/2″ x 11″ photo album with one page that had four Bingo Cards on it. The Bingo card is one of the digital downloads that was released in the past few months. Then I went through all the stamp sets, embellishments and digital kits and selected different elements that were Valentine related to put in the squares. I resized any that were too big so they would fit in the square and used colors that were pinks, reds, and browns. I even used buttons and brads in some of the squares.
To make it easy I took an image, sized and colored it the way I wanted it and then copied it and positioned it in a different square on each of the Bingo Cards. I used the 4th card as the one I would cut the pieces apart for me to call while we played.
When I was done I just printed it out on my printer and cut the cards apart. This is what the My Digital Studio page looks like that I printed:
I love the Bingo card – both the My Digital Studio one and the actual stamp – it is fun to create Bingo cards to go with any theme that you need them too.
So if you need a quick idea for Valentine’s Day on Monday – these are really quick to make and print out. Have fun!
Dec 12, 2010 | Bingo, Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, Tags |
These are tags you could use for your Christmas gifts. I used them as thank you tags on my customer orders but if you need them for your gifts leave off the “thank you”.
These are 3×3 tags made from Real Red card stock.
Then I used my scraps from the Candy Cane Christmas Designer Series Paper. I just cut little strips or squares of the various papers and added them to my 3×3 squares.
The Stampin’ Up! Sweet Snowglobe stamp is an individual stamp in the Holiday Mini catalog. I inked the whole thing with Baja Breeze ink and then used Stampin’ Write markers in Real Red and Garden Green to color the house and the trees. Stamped it on Whisper White card stock and cut it out.
I also stamped “thank you” in Real Red – but you could leave that off for just regular gift tags.
Believe it or not I added some glitter. I used the 2-way glue pen and put glue everywhere I wanted the glitter – then sprinkled it with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.
Punch a hole in the corner and add some white string to hang it from your gift.
Are you wondering about Monika’s Blog Bingo? I have a new winner for Round 7!
Here is her email:
I have Bingo!
I have the “N” column filled.
N1 is #10
N2 is #6
N3 is FREE
N4 is #5
N5 is #1
Thanks for all the fun and great ideas.
Judy J
The winner is Judy from CA. Congratulations Judy and I’ll be sending you out a prize.
Well ladies – that is it for Blog Bingo for right now. I’m going to take a break and get through Christmas and New Year and then I’ll look at doing something again. When I’m ready I’ll be posting it on my blog. I hope you’ll continue to visit me for the stamping ideas and leave comments for me too. I love to read them and try my best to reply to them all.
We have teeny tiny snow flurries coming down right now and I need to decorate my Christmas tree. Luckily we bought it last night when the weather wasn’t so bad – before the rain started and now the temps are dropping – my fountain is starting to freeze again and there is a white dusting on everything that is somewhat “cold”.
Thanks for visiting today!
The front panel on the card is Very Vanilla that was embossed with the Tulip Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. In the very center I stamped the large flourish image from the Sale-A-Bration Bliss stamp set using Not Quite Navy ink. The butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die and the Big Shot. One is cut from Blueberry Crisp Designer Series paper – the edges are stamped with the little swirls on the edges of the bliss stamp in the set. The smaller butterfly is Very Vanilla and then stamped with the large flourish. The butterflies are layered and add to the center of the card. In the very center of the butterfly is a pearl – if you look closely the pearl is blue – on this particular sample I colored the pearl with a Night of Navy Stampin’ Write marker and let it dry for a while, then wiped it off and let it dry overnight – this gave it a very light blue tint. I made some darker ones by coloring with the marker then covering the pearl with Clear Embossing Powder and heat setting it. 
And added a greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set to finish. We made this card in my Towne Lake Card Club and everyone was able to choose what they wanted to use the card for. Teeny Tiny Wishes has ended up being one of my most used stamp sets since it has so many greetings in and covers all different occasions. It is perfect to use in a class because everyone can choose what they need.
