Aug 17, 2011 | Cards, Catalogs, Demonstrator |
I wanted to share the swap cards from my last PAWS team meeting. Enjoy.
created by Lisa Bryan - My Friend, Occasions Alphabet
created by Lisa Swantek - Elegant Thank You
created by Laree Stewart - Creative Elements
Created by Joyce Pandolfi - Posy Punch
created by Fran Kennedy - Best Friends Forever, Raining Flowers
Created by Dannette Concepcion - Crosses of Hope
created by Cindy Schuster - Circle Circus, Thank You Kindly
created by Christine Wilkins - Happiest Birthday Wishes
I swapped my turtle card with the masked window that was posted previously. I hope you enjoyed all the ideas from the Stampin’ Up! 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog. I listed the stamp sets used with each sample. Thanks for stopping by today!
Aug 16, 2011 | Cards, Masculine, Masking, SU Ribbon, Summer Mini 2011, Techniques, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi all! This weeks color challenge was one that I wasn’t quite sure about. Gretchen went back up to lots of colors again after several weeks of just a few. I can’t decide which is more challenging a few colors or a lot of colors. So here is the inspiration –
Six colors in this one – Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Basic Black and Whisper White. I wasn’t quite sure where to go with these aside from flower like the inspiration but I wanted to do something other than flowers. I think my last few challenge project have all had flowers. And then I finally figured it out and I love this card that I came up with – and no flowers! Looky here it is……
I made a masked sunset card using the Sail Away stamp from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. Now this was the card I needed to make for my brother for his birthday – I just didn’t think of it until this week and his birthday was last week so I sent him something else. He may just get two cards from me this year.
I took step by step pictures for you too. So here is what I did.
step 1
Step 1: First stamp the boat on the Whisper White card stock – mine was 3″ x 3-1/2″ – and I used Jet Black StazOn ink. Then stamp it again on a post it note and cut out right on the lines for the two sails and the hull of the boat. Here is a helpful trick – use the two-way glue pen and put some glue on the back of the cut out pieces and let dry. Now these become sticky but it is repositionable.
Add the mask on top of the stamped image on the white card stock matching up so that the sails are covered. And then you will also need to cover the hull of the boat in just minute (I don’t have it covered in this picture).
step 2
Step 2: Punch a 1″ circle out of a scrap piece of card stock. You will use the scrap piece as a mask to create the sun. In this case your are covering the area around the circle that will become the sun. I overlapped just a bit with the sail on the boat so it looks like it is behind the sail.
Step 3
Step 3: Use a Stampin’ Sponge and sponge the inside of the circle with So Saffron ink. Then take another sponge and sponge the edges of the circle with the Pumpkin Pie ink. This will make the center lighter and the outer edges darker.
Step 4
Step 4: Remove the circle mask for the sun, but leave the sails covered and make sure the boat hull is covered. Now punch a scrap strip of card stock with the scallop edge punch and use this as a mask to create waves at the water line. I sponged with Marina Mist ink, starting darker near the scallops and going lighter as you go down the card stock. Move the scallop mask down into different spots so that you can make various waves as you sponge.
Step 5
Step 5: Now you have the sun sponged in and the water and waves sponged in.
Step 6
Step 6: Last I sponged Baja Breeze in the sky. You can either cover the sun with the circle you punched out earlier or carefully sponge around it. You can leave white space in the sky too, it doesn’t all need to be covered.
Once you are done with the sponging then remove the masks from the sails and the boat.
I stamped the greeting along the bottom. And mounted the piece on Basic Black card stock. I added a strip of Marina Mist card stock that was scalloped. This is put on the front of the Pumpkin Pie card stock with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The final addition to the card is the Basic Black wide grosgrain striped ribbon on the side – the ends are overlapped and then tied together with a piece of Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
I hope you like it as much as I do!
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: Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Jet Black StazOn, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze
- Stamp sets: Sail Away, Bring on the Cake
- Accessories: Scallop Edge Border punch, 1″ Circle punch, Stampin’ Sponge, Basic Black Striped Grosgrain ribbon, White Baker’s Twine.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project 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!
Aug 12, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Time to share more 3×3 Mini Cards with you. These are all cards from a Stampin’ Up! convention swap that I took part in. I swapped 105 mini cards. Speaking of Mini Cards my next Hands-On Class which if Friday, August 19th will be a Mini Cards class. If you’d like to attend visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to. For the class I will be choosing some ideas from the swaps that I received and creating a few new ones. I hope you will join me for this fun mini card class.
Now on to some more of the swaps from convention – I’ll have a picture of each grouping and then below I’ll list the creator of the card if I have it. Some of the cards either didn’t have a name with them or they became separated from the card. So if one of these is yours and I don’t have your name please let me know.
This group is all Christmas/winter –
Top Row: no name, Martha, Cindi Layendecker
Middle Row: Lynn Johnston, no name, Jennifer Campbell
Bottom Row: Tami Morkan, Maria Kosturik, no name
Top Row: Kim Smith, Kerrie, Snyder, Lisa Horton
Middle Row: Becky Kittaka, Carol Valentine, Miriam Permut
Bottom Row: Barbara Dykhouse, Teresa Guerdana, Jen Blank (this one looks just like one of mine I posted earlier this year but mine is a larger size)
Top Row: Connie Bjork, Laura Haffke, Cindy Castleman
Middle Row: Carol Siers, Freda Laureano, no name
Bottom Row: Becky Barnett, Charlotte Coombes, Lisa Rodriguez
I’ll have the rest for tomorrow. Have a great day!
Aug 11, 2011 | Cards, Inspired by Nature, Stampin' Up! Convention, Tutorial, uStamp |
Sorry about that – I created the tutorial and then sent it to be converted and it took so long! Not sure why, maybe because I have a lot of pictures. Anyway I have the tutorial for making the Masked Frame card that I posted yesterday.
This idea was something that I saw on a crafting blog while searching the internet earlier this summer. I wanted a unique and different idea for my card that I was creating for the UStamp swap at Convention. This was something that I haven’t seen on any of the Stampin’ Up! blogs so I wanted to try my hand at it. I did have several attempts and trying different combinations of stamp sets and colors before I finally landed on this one. So here is the tutorial click here.
Have fun trying this out!
