Sep 5, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Smooch Spritz techniques, Summer Mini 2011 |
Happy Monday! We are hoping to take the boys and head north to go apple picking today – however the weather might not cooperate with us. We are supposed to have 100% chance of rain with 6-10 inches over the next day or two. That’s a lot of rain and we haven’t had any in quite a while – we just don’t need that much at one time. So we will see if we actually get to go.
I have two more mini cards today. The first one came from the +FUN class that I took at convention called Every Last Detail. I took just one element from our project and used it on a 3×3 mini card.
This picture doesn’t show the sparkle on the butterfly very well. Let me tell you how I did it and then I’ll show you a close up of the butterfly so you can see the sparkle. A piece of Vellum Paper is punched with the Butterfly punch and also a piece of the Daffodil Delight card stock. Then take a Stampin’ Sponge (I cut mine into 1/8s) – spray a little bit of water on it – then dab the Smooch Pearlized Top Coat on the sponge.
Now dab the sponge on the vellum butterfly – it will curl up a bit and then flatten out as it dries. Layer the vellum butterfly on the Daddofil Butterfly. Punch hole in the center and add a small paper flower and then a brad.
In the close up you can see the sparkle on the vellum.
The base of the card is Lucky Limeade. The bottom is stamped with the image from the Borderlines stamp set. There is a strip of Daffodil Delight and Whisper White. And some Lucky Limeade Ruffled ribbon tied on the side. The butterfly is attached with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
The second card was and idea from one of the swaps I received – I changed the stamp set and orientation of the card.
I called it a window card or peek-a-boo card because the inside peeks through to the front. It is similar to one of the swap cards that I made for convention but this one is just smaller. To begin with you need to punch the scallop edge on the card front. Then you can punch the circle into the front using the 1-3/4″ circle punch.
Then for the inside I punched a circle from Whisper White card stock using the 2-1/2″ circle punch and stamped on it using the Love & Care stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. On the front of the card use a white Gel pen to add the doodles around the circle.
There is also a strip of So Saffron card stock on the inside that shows off behind the scalloped front. To finish I added a jewelry tag punch stamped with Hello and added with the White Baker’s Twine to the side of the card.
I hope you like these little cards today! Have a happy Labor Day!
Sep 3, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Mini - Love Notes |
Back to the Mini Cards…..
This first card was a swap that I received at convention from my friend Linda Madison.
It is such a beautiful little card. The technique is a marker technique – you color directly on the stamp with the Stampin’ Write Markers. For this card the leaves are Old Olive and the flowers are More Mustard and Poppy Parade. After you are done coloring you re-moisten the stamp by huffing on it. Then stamp on the paper. The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. A thin mat of Poppy Parade was added between the stamped piece and the base.
This next card uses the cute stamp Elebration from the A la Carte section of the catalog. I love this little guy….
Somewhere around the age of 10-12 I started collecting elephants. I had many in my collection from all over and all different types. In one of my school classes we even hand carved a stamp and guess what mine was – an elephant – that was so long ago and who would have thought then that now many years later I would be stamping every day. I still have that elephant stamp in my craft room – maybe I need to put some ink on it and make a card with it. Or at least take a picture of it to show everyone on my blog. While I don’t really collect new elephants any more I still am drawn to them and tempted to buy every stamp set that I see with an elephant I am tempted but I haven’t actually done it. I did however get this little guy since he was all by himself – he is cute for birthday or baby and I have a couple of other ideas for him that I have yet to try out.
Anyway on to the card itself. The base is Old Olive with a layer of Pacific Point that was embossed with the new Stripes Textured Embossing Folder. I don’t think you can see it well in this picture – but there are stripes on it. I stamped the elephant on Whisper White card stock using JetBlack Stazon ink. When I watercolored him with an aqua painter and watercolor crayons – a little bit of grey and some pink in his ears, bottom of his feet and tail. Then I cut him out. I also stamped again on patterned paper – the cake on a striped piece and the balloon on a polka dotted piece and cut those out just exactly on the outline and pieced them on top. The candle is colored just with Stampin’ Write Markers. Here is a close up –
One little trick to tell you is how to cut the small area between the arm, trunk and string of the balloon. The easiest way to cut out small places like this is to first punch a hole with the 1/16″ handheld punch inside the space. Then insert the tip of your paper snips and work your way around the space. This is how I do all small spaces rather than just trying to poke the scissors in which tends to bend the paper.
That’s the two I have to share with you today. Have a great weekend!
Sep 1, 2011 | Cards, class, Masculine, Mini - Love Notes, Summer Mini 2011 |
I hope you enjoyed the box yesterday. Today I’m going to start sharing some of the Mini cards that we created to go in the box. These are all 3×3 finished cards so you start with a piece of 3″ x 6″ card stock and fold it in half. They fit inside the mini square envelopes.
This first card features the Open Sea stamp set and Nautical Expedition Designer Series paper from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. The base of the card is Not Quite Navy and a strip of the designer paper. Next a piece of Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. The images are stamped on the Crumb Cake square – the globe in Crumb Cake ink and the Anchor is actually Basic Gray ink. Before I attached this piece to the Early Espresso square I added the little Vintage Trinket safety pin. Here is a close up picture of how I did that.
I used the 1/16″ circle punch and punched a hole inside the top of the anchor and another just outside. Then slide the open end of the safety pin through both holes and close it up again. Tie the Early Espresso Baker’s Twine to the safety pin. This design came right out of the Summer Mini Catalog.
That’s it for that one. Now on to the second card for today –
This one features the Button Buddies stamp set along with the Extreme Elements set and the Happiest Birthday Wishes hostess stamp set. The base of the card is Sahara Sand. Stamp the block of dots from Extreme Elements in More Mustard ink. Here is a close up of where I stamped.
There is a strip of Well Worn Designer Series Paper across the card and the greeting was stamped on the bottom. The snail from Button Buddies is stamped on a piece of Whisper White card stock using Early Espresso ink. Punch out with the wide oval punch (I know that is the old name but I just can’t remember what the new name is). Behind that is a punch out of More Mustard card stock using the 1-3/4″ circle punch. On the snail shell I added a More Mustard button tied with a piece of Linen Thread. Cute!
I hope you like these two little mini cards. I have more to come in the next few days so check back again. Thanks!
Aug 31, 2011 | Big Shot, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Mini - Love Notes, Smooch Spritz techniques |
Last week I had my monthly Hands-On class and we made Mini Cards – little 3×3 cards with envelopes. I wanted a box to hold them all in and found the perfect box in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog. It is the new Kraft Gift Box. This one decorated in a very vintage style because I wanted to stick with neutral colors since I had an assortment of various colors and styles of cards that we were making in the class. The box is the perfect size to fit 3×3 mini cards and envelopes but it is also a food safe box so you can fill it with cookies, candies or a muffin or cupcake – yum yum!
This is the side view of the box. I stamped directly on the box using Early Espresso ink. I used two different stamp sets – Best Friends Forever and French Foliage. I also sponged the edges of the box on all corners with Early Espresso ink. Around the base of the box is a strip of Early Espresso Patterns Designer Series paper – you need two strips punched with the Lace Ribbon Border punch. You need a strip that has 12 full flowers – three for each side of the box. So match up the ends of the two strips and glue together – I use a 2-way glue pen. Then punch out 1″ circles in Very Vanilla card stock and glue to the back of the strip behind each flower. It will look like this:
Then glue the strip around the base of the box – I used the Multipurpose Liquid glue in the green bottle to do this. Just put a tiny bit on the back of each circle and then glue three on each side of the box meeting in the back.
Here is a view of the top of the box –
I created a 3d flower for the top of the box. I used the First Edition Specialty Designer Series paper. I cut 3 of each layer – 3″ Circle die, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punch, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle punch, and 1″ Circle punch. Crumple up all the circles and then flatten out a bit and stack them. They are not perfectly lined up on top of each other you want them to be a little off center from one another. Once they are all stacked poke a hole through with the paper piercer and then stick in an Antique Brad. Also poke a hole in the center of the box lid – push the brad through to secure the flower to the top of the box. Take a Stampin’ Sponge and Early Espresso ink and sponge the petals of the flowers.
To finish I stamped “hand crafted” from Tiny Tags on Crumb Cake card stock and punched with the Jewelry Tag punch, sponge the edges, poke a hole and tie to the brad with a piece of Early Espresso Baker’s Twine. Tie a piece of Crumb Cake Seam Binding around the base of the flower.
Now close the lid and take the whole box and put it inside the color catcher. Spritz it all over with the Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz. On all sides and the top. Let dry and you are done! A beautiful gift box to give to someone special.
Over the next few days I’ll be sharing all the 3×3 mini cards that we made along with some instructions for each one. So please come back to see them.
And here are a couple of other pictures I wanted to share with you from the class. Aspen and Magnolia love my stamp classes because they get lots of attention from all of my stampers. And they like to sit with us too. So most everyone is willing to share a chair with the dogs – especially Aspen. Here he is sharing a chair with Jeannette.
The chairs are just the perfect little head rest for the dogs. Usually they sit on the other side of the table because then they can look out the window and see the chipmunks, squirrels, and birds out there.
A couple more things – it’s the LAST DAY for the Summer Mini Catalog on the Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series paper sale. Hurry and order today Wednesday, August 31st by midnight. You can order online through my website store – click here.
Aug 15, 2011 | Cards, class, Mini - Love Notes, Stamps |
This Friday my Hands-On Stamping Class features Mini Cards.
We will be making an assortment of Mini Cards and a decorated box to store them in.
Come join me at my house on Friday, August 19th at 10:00 AM or 7:00 PM.
Class fee is $15.
Please bring snail adhesive and paper snips.
RSVP by Wednesday 8/16.
Visit my website to RSVP for the class you would like to attend.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Aug 13, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
So here are the rest of the 3×3 Mini Cards (or Love Notes as I sometimes call them) from my convention swap. I hope you like seeing all the different ideas. If you are interested in coming to my Mini -Card class Friday, August 19th visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to.
If you see your card here and I don’t have your name on it please let me know. Some of them the names got separated and others just didn’t have names on them at all.
Top Row: Heather Wilbur, Lyn Shepherd, no name
Middle Row: Cindy Ewertz, Denise Donald, Lonni Hatch
Bottom Row: Stephanie Ferrara, Debra LaFountaine, Nicole Watt
Top Row: Lorelei Stone, Cami Eastwood, Debbie Moczek
Middle Row: Allison Okamitsu, Kathya Hidalgo, Marci Snyder
Bottom Row: no name, no name, Carol Densmore
Top Row: no name, Gilda Fellows, no name
Middle Row: Debbie Ham, Yvette Kreb, Julie Brewer
Bottom Row: Denise Kasanda
And the last group
Top Row: Diana Bock, Nancy Bates, Debra Brown
Middle Row: Karen Albin, Pamela Rollings, Ann Quattrin
Bottom Row: Michelle Ryder, Karen Lawrence
Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!
This picture doesn’t show the sparkle on the butterfly very well. Let me tell you how I did it and then I’ll show you a close up of the butterfly so you can see the sparkle. A piece of Vellum Paper is punched with the Butterfly punch and also a piece of the Daffodil Delight card stock. Then take a Stampin’ Sponge (I cut mine into 1/8s) – spray a little bit of water on it – then dab the Smooch Pearlized Top Coat on the sponge.
Now dab the sponge on the vellum butterfly – it will curl up a bit and then flatten out as it dries. Layer the vellum butterfly on the Daddofil Butterfly. Punch hole in the center and add a small paper flower and then a brad.
In the close up you can see the sparkle on the vellum.
I called it a window card or peek-a-boo card because the inside peeks through to the front. It is similar to one of the swap cards that I made for convention but this one is just smaller. To begin with you need to punch the scallop edge on the card front. Then you can punch the circle into the front using the 1-3/4″ circle punch.
Then for the inside I punched a circle from Whisper White card stock using the 2-1/2″ circle punch and stamped on it using the Love & Care stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. On the front of the card use a white Gel pen to add the doodles around the circle.
There is also a strip of So Saffron card stock on the inside that shows off behind the scalloped front. To finish I added a jewelry tag punch stamped with Hello and added with the White Baker’s Twine to the side of the card.
