Aug 4, 2010 | Baby Wipe, Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Rock 'n Roll, Summer Mini 2010 |
One of my favorite stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog is the Sweet Scoops stamp set. I didn’t think it would be that great but it is one of those sets that you can use for a lot of fun techniques! Last week I had the girls from the Towne Lake Card Club over for their monthly get together and I decided to use this fun stamp set for one of our projects. I redesigned a card that I had made earlier and used for my Ice Cream Party class. This card was based on Neapolitan Ice Cream my original was Mint Chocolate Chip.
This fun card uses two techniques – Baby Wipe and Rock ‘n Roll.
The colors for the ice cream are Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink. To create the ice cream fold up a baby wipe and use the Stampin’ Up! Reinkers for the colors to put small drops on the baby wipe. You are basically creating your own multi-colored ink pad. In a few spaces where the colors don’t meet you will have white (that’s the vanilla). Use this pad to ink up your ice cream stamp.
For the cone I used Crumb Cake ink – ink up the stamp with this lighter color first. And I used Chocolate Chip ink – take the already inked stamp and roll just the edge in the darker ink. For mine I did the left side and the top and a touch on the bottom edge. This gives the cones a little shadow making it look more 3-dimensional.
To dress up the card I added a scallop edge with white gel pen dots. And also a panel of Crumb Cake that was run through the Big Shot machine with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. I love this folder and think it resembles the texture of an ice cream cone. Another strip of Chocolate Chip was added on the bottom with some white gel pen dots.
I stamped “Have a sweet celebration!” on the bottom in Chocolate Chip ink. A quick birthday card for someone special.
I ‘m going to try adding a full list of supplies at the bottom of my post – but I can’t promise I’ll do that every time.
I did want to add a note about the white gel pen. I store my gel pens on their sides (which is also how you should store your Stampin’ Write Markers). I originally stored them tip down and discovered that they would stop working before the ink ran out. Since I changed to storing them on their sides I have not had any problems and use the pen until there isn’t any more ink in it. My thought is that if you store them tip down the ink sits at the edge of the tip and if you aren’t using it daily the ink dries in the tip and clogs it, on it’s side the ink doesn’t fill the tip while it is being stored. This is just my thought – I have no proof that is makes a difference other than my experience.
So have a Sweet Day!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
- Ink: Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake Classic Ink pads, Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink Classic ink Refills
- Stamps: Sweet Scoops Stamp set
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder
- Scallop Edge Border Punch
- White Gel Pen
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this card click here.
Jul 22, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper |
Here is another Stampin’ Up! Convention Swap for you today.
This one features the new Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper. I cut strips from different patterns and attached them to a Chocolate Chip card base.
I tied the Real Red Satin ribbon around the card. Thanks to my friend Lisa who traded some ribbon with me so I could finish my swaps!
I had to take a close up picture of the flower because it didn’t show up well in the photo. I used the flower image from the Friends Never Fade stamp set. I used the Stampin’ Write Markers to color the image – Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and Real Red. Then I used my paper piercer to pierce a hole on either side of the flower stem and threaded a piece of linen thread through and tied it in a little bow. I love to add linen thread to my projects. I sponged some Chocolate Chip ink around the edges.
At the bottom I added the greeting inside the small oval. It is actually a simple card but takes some time to hand color the stamp each time.
I love the pop of red on this card. I hope my convention swaps are big hits at convention.
Have a great day!
Jul 19, 2010 | Birthday, family, Stampin' Up! Events |
Ryan’s birthday was last week – he is my baby – well he isn’t really a baby anymore – he turned 14 years old! He has been playing a lot of golf lately so his birthday gifts were pretty much golf themed. According to Greg he is quite the good golfer for his age and gets to play occasionally with Greg and his friends.
With the golf theme in mind I used one of the new single stamps from the Stampin’ Up! catalog. It is called On the Green.
I combined it with some retired products to make his birthday card. Do you remember the Stampin’ Up! wrapping paper that we had one time. I still have some of the dots and stripes and I like to use those for birthdays. So I wrapped Ryan’s present with the paper and then used a piece on the front of his card. I stuck with the colors – Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, and Bashful Blue. Riding Hood Red is one of the old In-Colors that has returned.
I stamped the image twice – once in Riding Hood Red for the base and then a second time in Old Olive and cut a couple of things out to layer on top. I added some of the striped Bashful Blue ribbon which did retire – darn – I liked that striped ribbon.
Here is a picture of Ryan with his cake. And here is the cake story…. I asked Ryan what kind of cake he wanted and his reply was a store bought cake (normally I make the birthday cakes) and he wanted a Chocolate Cake with Chocolate icing. So I believed him. And went to the store and looked at the cakes. It was late and I had to choose from what they already had made – I had the lady search through all the cakes to find me a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting – and no flowers or girly decorations. Apparently that was not easy – there was one. So I bought it and took it home. There were two surprises – one was that he was joking and didn’t want a store bought cake – but it was too late to change now. And second when we cut the cake – it wasn’t even Chocolate! It was a yellow cake with the wrong label on the outside. So Ryan didn’t even eat any – no one else really did either. One small corner is missing and I do plan to take it back to the store and let them know I was disappointed and so was he.
Sunday was a productive day for my convention preparation:
Shoebox swap – 49 cards – DONE
UDI card swap – 19 cards – DONE
UDI 3-D swap – I am making the second one since I want to send the first one to Stampin’ Up! for a contest. I am almost done with the second one – all the pieces are there and it is more than half way put together.
General swap 1 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 2 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 3 – 25 card fronts – I have an idea in mind, I just need to work on it – this may not get done at all.
General swap 4 – 25 card fronts – I realized I started cutting for a swap, used part of it for my STARZ swap this weekend, but I think I want to redesign this because I wasn’t completely happy with it, so I need to work with what I already cut
Friend gifts – planning to make some amount of something to give to friends I see
Roommate gifts – 3 – designed
Thanks for stopping by – I’ll be leaving soon for convention. You can keep visiting my blog while I’m gone. I plan to schedule posts of all of my swaps.
Jun 28, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, class, Summer Mini 2010 |
So I made this cute card for Kimberly’s workshop that I had earlier this month. 
I used the sweet new Sweet Scoops set from the Summer Mini catalog and made my favorite Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream. And I planned to write where I got the inspiration from this card from but I have been away on vacation for a week and for the life of me I can’t remember where I got this from. I’m pretty sure it was a sketch from somewhere and I think I changed a few things on it – but I just can’t remember at all right now. I may think of it later. Anyway I really liked how this turned out. And I plan to use it for one of my cards for my July Hands-on Class. This time I’m going to do a themed class – an ICE CREAM PARTY! I think it will be lots of fun. I am having the class a week earlier than normal on Friday, July 9th instead of the following week – that week I will be at Ga. Tech with Kyle for his orientation. I’ll be sending out more details to my email list later and post them on my blog and website too.
I was actually gone for a whole week for vacation. We were in Boone, NC for the week in a house on a mountain. We had a lot of fun with our family but also had some issues. First let me just say that we have been renting places for many years and more recently I have been finding places through VRBO – and all have been great. But this time I would not recommend renting from this company/resort or whatever you want to call it. I will tell you more about it later this week. We had a nice week together with family and with the help of wireless internet at the Panera store in town I was able to get all my blog posts done for the week and check a few emails. The rest of the time we had no internet access so I didn’t get some things done like I had planned. I caught up on a few things on Sunday and will do some more this week. I share pictures and more about our trip during the week.
Have a great day!
Apr 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, My Digital Studio, Occasion Mini 2010, Upsy Daisy |
So sorry about not posting yesterday – just trying to get a lot done. So today I’ll share two cards. These are birthday cards that I received earlier this month.
This first card is from my sister-in-law, Stephanie. This is a hybrid card – she created the focal element using My Digital Studio and printed it on Whisper White card stock and then added it as a layer on the front of her card. Here is a list of Stampin’ Up! supplies that she used:
- Old Olive card stock
- Regal Rose card stock
- Basic Grey card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Sweet Always Designer Series paper (retired)
- Upsy Daisy stamp set (in My Digital Studio)
- Canvas stamp set (retired) – it is on the Old Olive background
- Garden Whimsy (in My Digital Studio)
- Fundamental Phrases (in My Digital Studio)
- Small Oval Punch
- Large Oval Punch
- 1/16″ punch
- Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon
What do you think of that? A quick way to create a card using My Digital Studio and it still looks like it is completely hand stamped card. The great thing about My Digital Studio is you can adjust the size and make images smaller. And you can flip and turn the images – if you have the Garden Whimsy stamp set the butterfly stamp is actually facing the other way – so on this card it was flipped in My Digital Studio so it would face the flowers. This would be a quick for making cards – create the focal image and print it out multiple times, cut and add to the front of your card.
And here is another card from the Utah Divas International Group – I don’t know specifically who made it because there wasn’t a name on the back of it.
The card uses just two colors – Melon Mambo and Whisper White. Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used:
- Melon Mambo card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Wedding Sweet stamp set
- Well Scripted stamp set
- Melon Mambo ink
- Melon Mambo Polka Dot ribbon
- Scallop Trim Border Punch
- Perfect Polka Dots Impression Folder
- Big Shot Die Cut machine
It is so much fun to see these hand stamped cards coming in the mail!
I’m off to finish up for my Stamp Club Meeting tonight, this afternoon we will be at an awards ceremony at KSU for Kyle. And Saturday I’ll be finishing up everything for Easter – my shopping is done and the house is clean (need to keep it that way though). Sunday I’ll have 36 people here for Easter lunch. Busy, busy for the next few days and then it will be spring break.
Thanks for stopping by.
Mar 29, 2010 | Birthday, In Colors, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
Today’s card is one that I received for my birthday earlier this month from my friend Yvonne. She used the Stampin’ Up! Totally Tess stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog. Totally Tess is a fun new set with Tess and a bunch of stamping accessories – a bag, an apron, a stamp, a card, scissors, a marker, and a stampin’ wheel and the phrases “I (heart) STAMPS” and “The best things in life a made, not bought.” For this card Yvonne used the Family Accessories to create a birthday card – look how perfectly they fit.
I love the ruffled circle that Yvonne made using the Scallop Trim Border Punch from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. And if you haven’t already received this punch for FREE you better hurry you only have a couple more days. Sale-A-Bration ends on March 31st. Spend $50 on Stampin’ Up! products and earn this punch or other items for free. You can email me or call me with an order or place an order online – visit my website HERE and shop at my online store.
A little bit more about the card – Yvonne used last years In-Colors – Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point. And the Designer Series Paper is a retired pack. But you could make the same card using Old Olive and Bermuda Bay and choose a coordinating Designer Series paper.
Thanks Yvonne for my FUN birthday card!
I checked the bluebird house this morning – no eggs yet. But they are hanging around and tapping on all my windows which is driving the dogs crazy. Thanks for stopping by today!
This fun card uses two techniques – Baby Wipe and Rock ‘n Roll.
