Jan 9, 2012 | Big Shot, Birthday, Stamper's Club, Stampin' Up! Events |
Well it is Monday – and all my boys are back to school. Ryan actually went back last week – that’s the high school. Kyle and Tyler went back to college on Friday and their classes start today. So I’m in the house alone today. I have lots of work to do to get ready to go to leadership so I’m trying to work on that this week. Next Tuesday I’ll be going – my friend Diane is traveling with me and we will be rooming with Michelle and Becky and our friends Fran and Linda have a room in our hotel too. We will be in San Antonio, TX for the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. I’m very excited – it will be my very first Manager’s Reception. That reminds me I need to take pictures of the invitation and post that for you to see – very unique!
But for today I have a fun cheery project – we made this Friday night at my Stamp Club. I have been wanting to make this project for the last year – it was an idea that I got in a swap last year at the leadership conference. So I have held on to it waiting for the right time to use it and it happened to be at this months’ stamp club meeting. Here it is –
Doesn’t it look like a bright happy project? This would be fun as a treat at a birthday party or come up with other ideas – you just need something flat that will fit inside the CD case as the treat. I used Twizzlers for this project – we cut the long ropes in half to put them in the case. The inside of the case is lined with a piece of the Big Top Birthday Designer Series paper. Then the outside is wrapped with a belly band made from a piece of Tempting Turquoise card stock and another strip of the Big Top Birthday Paper. Then tie a piece of ribbon around it. To finish the front I added a scallop circle (cut with the Big Shot) and a punched circle and some balloons.
the stamp set is called Up, Up & Away. A fun hot air balloon set. I saw a tip on another demonstrators blog for an easy way to cut out the balloons since we don’t have a balloon punch. 
Stamp the balloon and then use the 1-3/8″ circle punch to punch it out – line up the top and bottom of the balloon. Then you have a circle and just trim the two sides to get the balloon shape. It’s a little bit faster than cutting out the whole thing and gives a nice curve across the top.
Tie two little bows with White Baker’s Twine – and then roll up a mini glue dot to attach them to the base of each balloon. Attach the balloons with dimensionals to the circle.
I hope you like this fun cheery project. I wish I knew who to thank for the idea but my swap from last year doesn’t have a name on it. She used different paper and a different stamp set to decorate hers – what I used is in our current Idea Book & Catalog. If you would like to order these products contact me directly or visit my online store at my website –
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
- Ink: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise
- Stamp sets: Up, Up & Away
- Accessories: Big Top Birthday Designer Series Paper, Real Red Satin Ribbon, Scallop Border Punch, 2-1/2″ Circle punch, 1-3/8″ Circle punch, Big Shot die-cut machine, Scallop Circle Die, White Baker’s Twine, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jan 5, 2012 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012 |
Here it is – a card with new Stampin’ Up! products from the Occasions Mini Catalog – plus a sneak peek from Sale-A-Bration too!
This new stamp set is called Take It to Heart and it coordinates with the brand new Hearts Collection Framelits. What are Framelits you might ask? I’m so excited about these Framelit Dies for the Big Shot. They are thin, wafer-like dies that let you see where you’re placing the design before you cut! You can layer the dies inside each other to cut frames, or cut single hearts for layering. I used two sizes here – one for the stamped image and one for the Lucky Limeade layer – there are 6 total sizes.
The image is watercolored. The ribbon is part of a ribbon-brad pack that you can earn for free during Sale-A-Bration which starts later this month.
Happy Birthday Wishes sentiment is from the Petite Pairs stamp set in the big Idea Book & Catalog. I added some of the pearls for accents – in the bird eye, the letter ‘i’ in birthday and around the edge of the heart. The base of the card is Crumb Cake. Enjoy!
Nov 22, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, family, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi all – I hope you are having a productive week leading up to Thanksgiving – is everything ready? Do you have the turkey, the ham? We have both. I have more little turkey milk cartons to make – one for each of the kids although the kids are really kids any more they are becoming adults. Yesterday was Kyle’s 20th birthday! I can’t believe I have a 20 year old! Where did the time go? Since I needed a card for Kyle for his birthday I used this weeks color challenge for his card. Here is the inspiration picture –
I thought these colors were good for a masculine card even though the inspiration photo isn’t. I am working on another project that uses the Peek-a-Boo die for the Big Shot so I had that on my craft table and decided to play with it for this card too. After playing around with it quite a bit I finally came up with this –
This is the front – I made owls using the owl punch and set them on each of the peek-a-boo windows – each one says “got birthday?” – and when you open the windows you get –
one cupcake and then two cupcakes with candles –
And then on the inside of the card – it’s better than the outside –
This time the peek-a-boo window reveals the best part of the birthday –
The gift card (or cash) – I created a pocket under the window – used the word window punch to make the opening for the gift card – or fold up some case and slide it in there. So that is the card that Kyle got for his birthday.
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.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Garden Green, So Saffron, Soft Suede
- Ink: Soft Suede, So Saffron
- Stamp sets: Got Treats, (and an old birthday set – I had limited supplies with me, sorry)
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Peek-a-Boo Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Owl Builder punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch, Word Window punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Sponge.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Oct 14, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Stampin' Up! Events |
Here is another bag project from the Birmingham Regional. This is my circus bag or birthday bag.
For this one I added a 1″ strip of Big Top Birthday Designer Series paper around the bag before I crimped the edges. I wanted the paper to be crimped also.
On the front is one of the scallop circle die cuts from the Perfect Pennants die. I cut it from Real Red card stock. In the center is a White piece that was stamped with the Clown image from Under the Big Top stamp set that was punched out with 1-3/4″ Circle punch. The clown is colored with Stampin’ Write Markers – Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Peach Parfait. I used the White Gel Pen to add dots around the scallop circle.
And can you guess what might be inside?
Peanuts! Since the are in the shell I just filled up the bag and stapled it shut at the top.
If you need directions on how to make the paper bag – I posted those yesterday – see my Snowflake bag project.
Have a nice day today! Cindy and I are making final arrangements for the first ever My Digital Studio Retreat on Saturday. We can’t wait for everyone to spend the day with us learning about My Digital Studio – we have a fun day planned.
And I’m excited today to hear from Kyle – her flew Thursday night to California and today he is interviewing for a summer internship. His first real trip by himself – the company arranged for a limo to pick him up and take him to a hotel. I am excited for him but does it have to be so far away!
Oct 4, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Masculine, UDI Color Challenge |
I finished this card and have it sitting on my desk so I remember to write my blog post. It makes me smile! I keep looking at it and see all the smiling faces and I smile right back. I think I’ll just keep it there all week. Do you want to see it too and see if it makes you smile?
See all those smiling dogs – aren’t they so happy looking? I hope it brings a smile to your day today. This is my card for the UDI color challenge this week – #56. Here is the inspiration picture that we had for these colors –
These are all in the Neutrals Collection – Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla. After looking at the colors the first thing that came to mind was dogs and the fun little stamp in Not So Seriously stamp set. So that is what I decided to use. Then I decided it would be fun to put a big bone on the card. Well did you know that you can make a bone from two hearts and a rectangle – yep you can. That was what I did – I opened My Digital Studio and added two of the heart punches to my page – then I made them bigger and added the rectangle in between. With My Digital Studio I can line them up nicely too – so I made the bone the size I wanted and printed it out to create a template which I traced onto Very Vanilla card stock. Then I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink and stamped it with the Wonderfully Worn stamp. That gave me a big bone for the front of my card.
The base of the card is Chocolate Chip and also stamped with Wonderfully Worn. The dogs were stamped on Very Vanilla and watercolored with the Neutrals WaterColor Crayons and an Aqua-painter. I did use the Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker for the collars and the spots. I punched them out with the 2-1/2″ circle punch. Then cut a 3″ Soft Suede circle with the Big Shot. Layered those and trimmed off the bottom and attached to my bone. I tied some Crumb Cake seam binding on the side. They still make me smile.
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.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede
- Ink: Jet Black Staz On, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip ink and marker
- Stamp sets: Wonderfully Worn, Not So Seriously
- Accessories: Big Shot die-cut Machine, 3″ Circle die, 2-1/2″ Circle punch, Crumb Cake seam binding, Aqua-painter, Neutrals Watercolor Crayons, My Digital Studio
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Sep 27, 2011 | Birthday, Cards, UDI Color Challenge, Watercoloring |
Oh my – I forgot to create my color challenge post for today. That is why it is late this morning. I was so busy yesterday pricing retired items for a sale that I totally forgot. I did some cleaning out the last few weeks and I have lots of stuff to sell – stamp sets, ribbons, embellishments, Designer Paper, etc. I will be posting a list soon so check back if you are looking for anything.
Ok so on to this weeks color challenge -here is the inspiration picture for the UDI Color challenge –
I usually pull out my Color Coach and get the color for the week together and let them sit in my craft room while I think about what to do. This week Wisteria Wonder, Pacific Point, Basic Gray, Basic Black and Whisper White. Really it was almost a masculine color scheme but the Wisteria kept throwing me off. I had a couple of new stamp sets on my table that I hadn’t used yet and one was a new set called Under the Big Top. It has a weightlifter, a seal and an elephant – all of which could be gray, and the blue would fit again it was the Wisteria that was throwing me – a weightlifter wearing Wisteria tights – hmmm. So which one did I end up using? I decided on the Seal.
And I used the Wisteria on the cake. The image is stamped in Jet Black StazOn ink. Then I watercolored with my aqua painter – the seal is Basic Gray, the stand is Pacific Point, the cake is Wisteria Wonder. I went over the frosting with a white gel pen. The card base is Basic Gray with a layer of Basic Black and a layer of Basic Gray Deisgner Series Paper. I pierced holes on either side of the paper and tied around some White Taffeta.
You could make a whole set of cards from that stamp set using this layout, just adjust the colors to suit each image.
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.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Basic Gray, Basic Black, Whisper White, Pacific Point
- Ink: Jet Black Staz On, Basic Gray, Pacific Point, Wisteria Wonder
- Stamp sets: Under the Big Top
- Accessories: Neutrals Patterns Designer Series Paper, White Gel Pen, Whisper White Taffeta ribbon, Aqua-painter, Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
the stamp set is called Up, Up & Away. A fun hot air balloon set. I saw a tip on another demonstrators blog for an easy way to cut out the balloons since we don’t have a balloon punch. 
Stamp the balloon and then use the 1-3/8″ circle punch to punch it out – line up the top and bottom of the balloon. Then you have a circle and just trim the two sides to get the balloon shape. It’s a little bit faster than cutting out the whole thing and gives a nice curve across the top.
