Apr 29, 2010 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Cards, Embossing |
I am so excited to welcome you to the ROYAL BLOG TOUR!
I hope you are excited to be here!
I will go back to my regular posting schedule after the tour – this post will be at the top of my blog until the tour is over. I will have a Create with Connie & Mary Challenge Post on Saturday – so scroll down below this one if you want to see that one. Create with Connie & Mary winners and new blog candy are posted below this one so scroll down if you want to see those.
On the tour you will visit Princesses from all over showing you different styles of stamping and different stamp sets.
Have fun on the tour!
My featured Stampin’ Up! stamp set is the Herb Expressions (#113224) set! This set offers images from four different herbs – Thyme, Basil, Rosemary and Lavender along with four sayings that coordinate with each one. I have Thyme and Rosemary growing in my yard – lots! I have created three projects to show you during the tour I hope that you enjoy them.
Project 1 – Set of Cards in a Box
This is a set of 4 cards in a clear box. The colors I used are Kraft (the new Crumb Cake), Soft Suede, Certainly Celery and Lavender lace.
Each card uses one of the four herb images and on the inside I added the coordinating quote.
I used the Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon along with the Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon on each card and the box. A Certainly Celery Button and some Linen Thread finish the front.
Check back on my blog next week to see each card in detail and a full supply list. I can’t show you everything today because I want you to have time to complete the tour. You can sign up for email updates by clicking on the link to the right and then you won’t miss it.
Project 2 – Herb Seed Journal
My second project is an Herb Seed Journal. This is based on the design of a matchbook. I originally created a small version of this project (I’ll be sharing that in the future) for something else and decided to adapt the idea to this. 
The inside consists of pockets made from the Glassine Bags in the Occasions Mini Catalog. Inside each pocket I have a card that includes places to keep track of your seeds and a packet of seeds. I created the journal card using My Digital Studio.
I included 4 pockets – one for each of the images in the stamp set. You can keep the seed packet and the journal card in the pocket so that the following year you’ll know what you bought, what you did, what worked and what you need to change so you will have lots of herbs.
I will have more information on this project later next week and more pictures for you to see – so be sure to come back. I need to move on to my next project now.
Project 3 – Flower Pot
When I first decided to use the Herb Expressions stamp set for this tour I had this idea in my head to stamp on a flower pot. I went through several pots and several different ways to get the effect that I wanted. I also made a plant marker which needed to be waterproof so it couldn’t be made out of paper. I was very happy with my end result. If you want the details on how I made these please come back to my blog next week and I’ll posting the instructions.
Inside the pot is a bag of potting soil tied with ribbon and a tag and a packet of seeds. I think this little flower pot would be a great little teacher gift – tell the teacher thanks for all the “thyme” they spent with your child this year. I did something similar years ago when my boys were younger.
I hope you liked all these ideas. Come see me again and leave me a comment – you have the chance to win blog candy!
I’ll be giving away Blog Candy after the tour is over. You must live in the US to win the blog candy – but you can leave me a comment even if you don’t. Here are the details on how to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and if you are demonstrator or customer and which project is your favorite.
2. Sign up to receive email updates from my blog – there is a link in my side bar on the right-hand side of my blog .
Blog Candy prize:
Picture This stamp set (wood mount), Botanical Blooms stamp set (wood mount), and the consumable supplies to create the card box project and the herb seed journal project featured in this post.
The winner will be announced on my blog after the tour and I’ll also send the winner an email.
And don’t forget to visit the main Royal Blog Tour Blog – if you didn’t start there it is the start of all the Royal Tours and has the details on the Royal Blog Tour Blog Candy. Along each tour there are clues for a chance to win a BIG SHOT die cut machine or other prizes! That’s very exciting so be sure to read the rules on how to enter. Good Luck!
Your Royal Carriage awaits you please click on the Glass Slippers to continue your journey!
Thanks for stopping by!
Apr 29, 2010 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Create with Connie & Mary |
Here is another tile coaster that I made last week. I was preparing for the Royal Blog Tour and playing around with the Herb Expressions stamp set at the same time I was working on the designs for my tile coaster class.
With the four images in the stamp set these would make a nice set of coasters. The corners are stamped with the Elements of Style stamp set. It is the vine image from that set.
The images are stamped with the Old Olive craft ink and then I added a little bit of Lovely Lilac with a marker to the flowers before I added the clear embossing powder over all the stamped images.
If you ‘d like the instructions and box template see my earlier post – HERE. Be sure to come back between Friday and Sunday to join the Royal Blog Tour and see the other projects I made using the Herb Expressions stamp set. Each demonstrator on the tour features a different stamp set – there are 6 legs to the tour – take one or all six – its up to you!
Would you like to WIN a subscription to Create with Connie and Mary? Each of our team members will be giving away subscriptions on their blogs this week. To enter to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on our team member’s blog on the day that we are featuring them. Today, Thursday, you can leave a comment over on Create with Connie and Mary in order to get a chance to win one of six FREE subscriptions! Don’t leave it here…you must leave it on today’s post over there!
And for Friday you need to visit Kerin’s blog to leave a comment for a chance to win one of the free subscriptions!
All the winners will be announced on Saturday, May 1st! If you are a winner and have already subscribed, we will refund the price of your subscription!
Thanks for stopping by today.
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – don’t miss out!
I’m also a princess on the Royal Blog Tour: April 30 – May 3rd – visit my blog to take the Royal Tour.
Jul 30, 2009 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Designer Series Paper |
I was totally thrilled with all the nice comments I received during the blog tour. I hope everyone will return and leave me comments again – it makes me feel good!
I had two drawings for Blog Candy and the winners are:
Customer Drawing – Designer Paper Share of the new papers in the catalog:
Winner is: Jessica Gosline from Seattle, WA
Jessica G. Says: July 28, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Loving the scrapbook pages! (customer)
Demo Drawing – one of my class tutorials:
Winner is: Tracey Clay from Deland, FL
Tracey Says: July 26, 2009 at 9:18 pm e
I like the elegant thank you card the best. I am a newbie demo and I am enjoying the blog tour. THANKS FOR SHARING
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I will be sending both winners an email to work out the details. Thank you again to everyone that participated in my blog candy drawing.
I hope you enjoyed the tour. My scrapbook class enjoyed the scrapbook pages – we made them tonight.
I’ll have more details about the tile card after convention – if you are part of Wendy Randall’s STARZ group – this is my project for the group meeting on Wednesday night at convention.
Have a great day!
Jul 25, 2009 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Circle Circus, Stamps |
I am so excited to welcome you to the ROYAL BLOG TOUR!
I hope you are excited to be here.
I will go back to my regular posting schedule after the tour – this post will be here until the tour is over.
Sit back and relax as you take the tour and see wonderful samples using stamp sets and accessories from the Stampin’ Up! 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog.
On the tour you will visit Princesses from all over showing you different styles of stamping.
Have fun on the tour!
My featured stamp set is the new CIRCLE CIRCUS stamp set! This set offers circles with all sorts of lively, fresh designs to choose from. Stampin’ Up! had another circle based stamp set that I just loved but it retired a few catalogs ago and I have missed it. When I saw the Circle Circus set I knew this would fill that void. Circles are everywhere and so fun to use. And Stampin’ Up! has plenty of circle punches and the new Circle Scissor Plus that work perfectly with this set.
My first project is a card that I made with a kaleidoscope in mind.
You know the little toys we had as kids that you turned and they made pretty colorful designs.
It is a spinner card and when you rotate the wheel the beads spin inside the window.
The colors I used are Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Ballet Blue along with white and black. These are the large beads from the Bead Duos and I happened to have blue and orange ones so I was pretty much pointed in that color direction. The main stamp set here is of course the Circle Circus stamp set. Other sets that I used to make this into a birthday card are the Family Phrases stamp set and on the inside I used the Birthday Wish stamp.
Visit my blog next week to see a tutorial on how to make the window with the beads and the spinner for the card. EDITED TO ADD: Instructions were posted on 7/29/2009.
My second project is another card that is a totally different style of card. This one has a more elegant look to it and while I used it as a Thank You card I think it could even be a wedding/anniversary type card too.
This is what I call a Tile card because it is supposed to look like tiles. The colors I used are the new Soft Suede, More Mustard and Very Vanilla. I added the Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon which I love. One side has the polka dots but the other is plain so it is like getting two ribbons for the price of one. The main stamp set is Circle Circus but I used only one image from the set. The greeting is the Elegant Thank You stamp.
I will have instructions on creating this card posted after I return from the Stampin’ Up! convention which is Aug. 5 – 8.
My third project is my favorite and I have had such a hard time keeping it under wraps. I was ready to share as soon as I finished it!
It is a 2-page 12×12 scrapbook layout with the title “Hangin’ Out Together”. 
While on the last card I used only one image from the Circle Circus stamp set this time I think I used them all! And lots of circle punches too.
The colors are so fun – Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie. I like layouts with lots of pictures and you could even take the large Old Olive mats and add collages of smaller pictures. You can use one of the Pumpkin Pie mats as a journaling block too.
The various circles are layered some with and some without Stampin’ Dimensionals. Some have brads in the centers too – Silver, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise and even a Filgree flower brad.
We will be making this fun layout in my scrapbook class on July 29th.
I have the perfect pictures of this page of my son, Tyler, and my niece, Emily, together on the beach one night just hangin’ out. I have to get the pictures printed and will post these pages again with pictures later.
And one more card…. I loved the scrapbook page so much I wanted to use the same idea to create a birthday card. The colors in this picture are off – it is the same color combination that is on the scrapbook page, not sure what happened to my picture this time. I have decided to remove the picture of the card so I can retake it – it looked worse this morning than I though it did yesterday – totally the wrong colors. I’ll repost after the tour so come back and visit again or sign up to receive email updates and you will know when I make updates. Thanks so much.
I hope that you like my samples and that you will bookmark my blog or sign up for email updates (see my side bar) and visit me again.
I’ll be giving away some Blog Candy after the tour is over. Here are the details:
I will have two Blog Candy prizes – one for blog tour visitors that are Stampin’ Up! customers (and live in the US) and one for Stampin’ Up! demonstrators.
For both prizes you need to do two things:
1. leave a comment on this blog post with your name and if you are demonstrator or customer and which project is your favorite.
2. send me an email to [email protected] with the same information including your contact information so I can get your prize to you.
Blog Candy prize for Customers:
A Designer Paper Sampler – it will include one 6″x6″ piece of each double-sided print in the 12 new Designer Papers introduced in this catalog (not including the In-Color patterns).
Blog Candy prize for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators:
One of my Class To Go Kit Tutorials – instructions only in a pdf file – you can choose one from a prior month (some products may be retired but you can always substitute current product and stamp sets) or choose my August tutorial which will be released after the tour.
And don’t forget to visit the main Royal Blog Tour Blog (that should have been where you started – the crown at the top of this post will take you there) for a chance to win a BIG SHOT die cut machine! That’ very exciting so be sure to read the rules on how to enter.
Good luck! Thanks for stopping by!
Jul 24, 2009 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour |
Hi Everyone!
The Late Night Stampers Royal Blog Tour is almost here. I hope you will be able to join me. The Tour will last for three days – July 26th, 27th, and 28th. There are four different tour lines that you can follow. Each tour will have 20 different blogs connected together through links at the end of each Royal Blog Tour post. Each blog on one tour will feature a different stamp set. If you get on another tour you may see repeats of stamp sets but since it is a different demonstrator the projects will be different. You can start all four tours from the main Royal Blog Tour blog – so be sure to visit that one – click on the princess crown on my blog. There are interviews with many of the demonstrators that will be on the tour – you can read about them and see some samples of their work.
Some blogs will offer blog candy and I will be one of those offering blog candy. I will have two different drawings – one for Stampin’ Up! demonstrators and one for Stampin’ Up! customers. You’ll need to follow the instructions in my tour post to be entered in the drawing – be sure to complete both steps so you will be eligible. I’ll draw the winners after the tour is over. I hope you will come on the tour!
Here are some little peeks at my projects!
May 24, 2009 | Blog Candy |
The blog candy winner is….. Becky R.
And here is her nice comment:
Hi Monika,
I too found you on the blog tour….and I am so glad that I did! I really like your blog, it is easy to read and very organized. Your projects are very nice and I have already found things that I want to make! Thank you so much for sharing! The tin is very pretty and I even have the stamp set already! 
(I live in Thomaston, Maine)
Congrats on your blog hits! Becky R.
Thanks so much to everyone that left me a comment – I loved reading all of them. I hope you will come back again and continue to leave comments.
Becky, I will send you an email to get your shipping address and mail it out to you next week.
I’m working on a couple of projects today and will be back later to post something. Have a great weekend!
This is a set of 4 cards in a clear box. The colors I used are Kraft (the new Crumb Cake), Soft Suede, Certainly Celery and Lavender lace.
My second project is an Herb Seed Journal. This is based on the design of a matchbook. I originally created a small version of this project (I’ll be sharing that in the future) for something else and decided to adapt the idea to this. 
When I first decided to use the Herb Expressions stamp set for this tour I had this idea in my head to stamp on a flower pot. I went through several pots and several different ways to get the effect that I wanted. I also made a plant marker which needed to be waterproof so it couldn’t be made out of paper. I was very happy with my end result. If you want the details on how I made these please come back to my blog next week and I’ll posting the instructions.
