Mar 23, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper |
Lollipop Flowers – that’s what I call them – maybe you call them something else – but to me they look like lollipops – here is a card that Wendy made for her swap at our Starz meeting.
The flower is made from a bunch of circles cut with the Big Shot and the Circles #2 die. Wendy used the Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper for this card. Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence and Old Olive are the colors. The center of the flower is a white jumbo brad.
All the circles are cut and crumpled up to add texture to them – so they aren’t flat. Even the leaf is a circle with a fold to make it look like a leaf.
A quick, cute card – don’t you think?
So I think Spring is really here now – yesterday was cold and rainy but today the sun is out, the sky is blue, the trees are really starting to bloom and the birds are busy. The blue birds have been very busy today at house #2 so I think they are finally building a nest. They started one in house #3 but it seems they have decided to try the other house now. I’ll try to get some pictures today so I can post tomorrow.
I’m also working on projects for the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award – the big award that demonstrators can win – actually there are 10 winners. We have to create 5 cards, 3 scrapbook pages and 2 3-d items. I’m a bit behind but I do have a few more weeks left to finish and mail my entry. I finished one 3-D, I’m working on the second one and I have 1 card completed. I’m working on the scrapbook pages. My problem is I keep changing my mind or thinking of something else I should do instead. I have too many thoughts rolling around in my head I can’t get them out so I’m not getting it done as quickly as I had hoped. And I can’t show any of the projects – that’s hard for me too – I want to show you the things I’m excited about. But you will have to wait – sorry.
Have a good day – thanks for stopping by.
Mar 14, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
I almost forgot to tell you who won the last Create with Connie & Julie Challenge – 1st place was Lori, 2nd place was Becky and honorable mention went to Lisa – thanks to everyone that played along. I hope you enjoyed all the projects and tutorials – I know I did.
I had a great Stamper’s Club meeting Friday night. It was so much fun with several new members joining us. Everyone made three projects – 1 3d and 2 cards. One card was what I considered the quick and easy card. It was with the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration stamp set called Vintage Labels. I designed the card so that everyone could use the frame that they wanted along with the words that they wanted – I didn’t see what everyone picked but I know they all turned out great. This would make a great masculine card (even with the pink in the striped paper).
I used one of the beautiful striped patterns in the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack. The paper has Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip in the pattern so I used those colors on the card.
On the base I originally had it plain but then decided to dress it up just a bit – I wheeled across it with the Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel to add a faint background. And then I went back and added paper piercing on the corners. It really made the card pop when I did that.
I hope you like it. Hopefully you remembered to change your clocks for Daylight Savings time – spring FORWARD – we knew about it but none of us actually changed the clocks – oops.
Tomorrow I’ll share some bird pictures again – I’m still waiting on them to work more on the nest building – I think with all the rain and then it is kind of cold again maybe they are holding off on actually building – I’ll check again tomorrow to see if they made any progress on the nest – they didn’t do anything for the 2 days that it rained.
See ya!
Mar 5, 2010 | Birthday, Build-a-Bear, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Watercoloring |
Monika’s March Madness Mystery Hostess Birthday Celebration!
Well that was a mouthful! Now what does it mean….
Today, March 5th is my birthday and I have decided to celebrate with all of you – its madness.
All Stampin’ Up! orders that are emailed to me from Friday, March 5th through Sunday, March 7th will be entered into a Mystery Hostess Drawing –
So if the combined orders total $150 or more then I will draw a Mystery Hostess (or 2) to receive the hostess benefits.
AND
I will pay the shipping (10%) on everyone’s orders
AND
You can qualify for Sale-A-Bration rewards if you order over $50 in product!
Email me your order and/or your questions to [email protected]
Happy Birthday to you!
The birthday card above is one that I made for Tyler to give to his girlfriend – her birthday is tomorrow. Tyler said it was going to be hard with my birthday and hers right together. He was invited to go with her family today. But decided to stay with us for my birthday tonight and spend the day with her tomorrow. Although I think it was maybe the fact that we are having steaks tonight that swayed him. Tyler made a rum cake for me yesterday it should be good tonight!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for the Happy Bearthday Card:
- Brocade Blue card stock and ink
- Pretty in Pink card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Pawsitively Prints Designer Series paper
- Beary Best Friends stamp set
- Beary Best Wishes stamp set
- Jet Black StazOn ink
- Creamy Carmel and Close to Cocoa Ink
- Stamp-a-ma-jig
- Aqua-Painter
Thanks for stopping by today!
Feb 21, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Watercoloring |
Picnic Parade is the Level 2 Hostess set in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog. It is the cutest little stamp set. It reminds me of the Beatrix Potter designs that were big when my kids were babies – not sure if that is still popular now.
This card was one that we made at my class on Friday. It could be an Easter card, or birthday card, or a whatever you want it for card.
This particular card design is from another demonstrator but now I can’t figure out where I found it. I know I left her a comment. So if it was you please leave me a comment back so I can add your name here.
If you get this stamp set in the Clear Mount Version the great thing is you can mount all the stamps on one of the large rectangle blocks and stamp them all at the same time! Or you can do them individually which is nice in the clear mount because you can see. The down side is they are fairly small which makes them harder to clean. And the little lady bug by itself is also hard to stamp with out catching an edge in ink – it did help to mount it with the other animals.
These are all watercolored with an aquapainter using classic ink. I added the bunny on the inside too – he turned out cute directly on the Sahara Sand card stock. And I stamped the bunny and the raccoon on my envelope. It all matches.
The animals in my back yard are happy today – it is sunny, fairly warm – although we don’t have any green grass yet.
I hope you like this cute card.
And as my card says “Have a happy day every step of the way!”
Feb 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper, family |
Yesterday I went to visit my parents and my brother and his family. We were trying to get together to celebrate 4 birthdays. My sister-in-law, Tammy’s was in late January, my nephew’s was last week, my mom’s is tomorrow and my niece’s is next week. Tyler and Ryan are out of school this week for winter break so they came with me and we took Haley. Kyle had to go to school and Greg went to work. As it turned out my brother was going out of town for business so I only got to say hi for a minute and I briefly saw Tammy because she was sick.
So for the 4 birthday’s I decided to make them each a cupcake box to go along with their gifts. I got my niece and nephew Build-a-Bear gift cards so their boxes were decorated with the Stampin’ Up! Build-a-Bear die cuts.
Ally’s has the girl bears and a pink lid. Noah has the boy bears and a blue lid.
I changed the boxes slightly from how I made them last year. The other design seemed to be hard to get the cupcake out because you had to reach down into the box. So I made these like an exploding box – so when you lift up the lid the sides fall down and you are left with the cupcake in the center sitting in the little stand. For these Build-A-Bear boxes the bottom of the bears are attached to the outside of the box with Stampin’ Dimensionals. That left room for the lid to tuck behind their heads and arms.
For Tammy I made one using the Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper. The colors actually matched the sweater and top I bought her – they were Cameo Coral and Summer Sun.
Cupcake box when it is open
I decided to wrap the cupcake in baggies and tie them with ribbon. It was good that I did that since 3 year olds don’t really understand the concept of keeping the box upright. Yummy, Yummy cupcakes!
All Supplies were Stampin’ Up! – the Build-A-Bear boxes used the Pawsitiviely Prints Designer Series Paper and the colors come from it – Pretty in Pink, Brocade Blue, Old Olive, So Saffron. The base of the boxes are Sahara Sand. The bears are Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa and they are cut the with Big Shot and the dies along with the clothes.
Tammy’s box is Real Red and Summer Sun and I used the Whimsical Words stamp set for the tag. Punch with the Wide Oval and then layered with two Tempting Turquoise Wide ovals.
I had one more for my mom – it was actually one I made last year and hadn’t given away – it used the Tall Tales DSP with the colors Old Olive, So Saffron and Chocolate Chip. 
It has the owl on the tag and birds on the sides.
It wasn’t a big celebration but we had it.
Late in the afternoon we had a real life version of Police Chases right in front of my parents house and we watched from the porch. There house is almost at the end of a dead end street – it ends at a camp ground that is gated shut right now for the winter and then there is the lake. Apparently the police were chasing a couple that made a bad decision when they picked this road to come down – when they got to the gate they got out of the car and ran into the park on foot. A police car was chasing them and somehow at the same instant he came in this big truck was trying to turn out of the road before the house and to do that they had to swing wide across both lanes blocking the police car – who pulled into the ditch jumped out of the car and ran down the street after these people. Apparently the girl wasn’t fast as he quickly caught her, cuffed her and brought her back up to his car. After yelling a lot at the tucker he told them to “get out of here”. Then more police came and eventually a K-9 unit came and they went on a search for the missing guy. They finally found him, cuffed him and took him away. By the time it was done I think we had 7 or 8 police/sheriff cars, an ambulance, an emergency truck from the fire station and a tow truck all lineup on the small road in front of my parents house. It made for an exciting afternoon – and I’m just glad they caught who ever it was. We were calling all the neighbors to tell them to lock their doors and stay inside – many of the people walk in the park including my parents – luckily we were there so they didn’t go for their afternoon walk. Now I wonder what those people did wrong…
Anyway…..enough rambling from me. Have a nice day!
Feb 13, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Watercoloring |
Last week’s challenge winners were Lisa Martz and Robin Gregor with Cynthia Stevenson having an honorable mention! Thanks to everyone that played along. I hope you will join us this week!
It is time for another challenge at
Create with Connie & Julie! This week our challenge is a SKETCH challenge. The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure – Happy Moments, Tote-ally Tess, and Tiny Tags stamp sets. I decided to use the Happy Moments stamp set – it has turned out to me one of my favorite’s from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. Once I started to use it I realized this is one of those sets that covers almost any occasion – change the colors and combine various sentiments with the images and you can use it for almost anything.
Here is the sketch that we had to work with.
I picked the colors because I had some ribbon that was sitting together in my craft room – Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery – I like how they looked together so I decided to use that for my color scheme. Based on the sketch I decided to get out the Sweet Pea Designer Paper Pack and I chose papers that had those colors and cut them into 1/4″ strips to layer on my card.
As I was creating the card I didn’t like the sentiment coming off the top of the image so I decided to flip the sketch upside down.
The image is stamped on Watercolor paper and I used my Classic ink and an Aqua Painter to do the watercoloring. I added some linen thread at the top.
I also wanted to decorate the inside of the card. So I used the same image and added a “hanger” for the bird cage by tracing around a punched circle. I really like how it turned out. I actually made a full set of cards using all the images in the happy Moments stamp set. I will show that later – it will be one of my new Quick Cards classes – I’m just trying to choose the date and then I’ll let everyone know.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Chocolate card stock and ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Bashful Blue card stock and ink
- Certainly Celery ink
- Old Olive ink
- Sahara Sand ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Watercolor paper
- Sweet Pea Designer Paper pack
- Whimsical Words stamp set (SAB)
- Happy Moments stamp set (SAB)
- 1-3/4″ Circle Punch
- 1″ Circle Punch
- Aqua Painter
- Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon
- Linen Thread
- Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
And here is a look at the rest of the Create team:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet now is the time to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week. 
There is a new project posted every day and there will be a minimum of two fabulous tutorials each and every week. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Julie site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
The flower is made from a bunch of circles cut with the Big Shot and the Circles #2 die. Wendy used the Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper for this card. Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence and Old Olive are the colors. The center of the flower is a white jumbo brad.
