Jun 5, 2011 | Cards, Demonstrator, Summer Mini 2011 |
Today I am sharing the swap cards from my last demonstrator meeting. I have a meeting every other month at my home and any demonstrator in the area is welcome to come. If you would like to join me just let me know and I’ll add you to my PAWS group so you can get the meeting information. Many of the swaps this time use sets from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
Diane Squires
Becky delValle
Fran Kennedy
Laree Stewart
Sue Patterson
Linda Madison
Travice Obas
I have a couple more that I forgot to take pictures of so I will add them later. Everyone at the meeting got to make Travice’s swap as one of our Make&Take projects.
My Friday was really busy so I didn’t have time to post to my blog and then Saturday I was just too tired. Friday I took Tyler to KSU for orientation. We spent all day listening to various people speak and in the afternoon Tyler got his ID, parking pass and registered for classes. So he is an official college student. We did a drive by of his apartment too. Then came home and finished up for Stamp Club. The girls came over Friday night to stamp and my boys had their friends over too. So I sent all the college boys to the basement. Saturday morning I wanted to post on FB (but didn’t) – “do you know where your college student is? They might be at my house I have extras.” Some of them stayed the whole night and every sofa had a boy sleeping on it the next morning – I didn’t really know that so when I let the dogs out in the morning – one of the boys got a big surprise – Aspen found him sleeping on the sofa and gave him a big lick and woke him right up – and since I didn’t know he was there – when I saw his head pop up off the sofa all of a sudden it kind of startled me too.
Have a nice Sunday!
Jun 2, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Retired List, Sale-A-Bration 2011, Summer Mini 2011 |
So far I feel like I’ve had a productive day. Got up and showered, got Ryan up and off to drum line practice, went to the post office, stopped by the bank, picked up dry cleaning, checked my email and the SU website. Now I’m writing my blog post and its still before 10. Maybe that’s a good sign that I’ll get lots done today. I have to get my Stamper’s Club Projects ready. I finally decided on the last project about midnight last night and went to bed. So today I’ll cut everything and have it ready. Tomorrow I’ll be gone all day with Tyler – we are headed to KSU for his orientation and hopefully by the time we leave he’ll be registered for Fall classes, have his ID and parking pass – that would make him officially a college student. They sure do grow up fast!
So enough about that let me show you this super cute little birthday card I made.
It is a little party hat card made from the Petal Cone Big Shot die. You cut your card stock with the Petal Cone die and trim off the two scallops and the little flap on the side. That gives you the triangle shaped hat. I cut a piece of the Celebrations Designer Series paper (it’s on the Last Chance list) to get just one of the triangles – trim off any extra from the petal cone shape. Then I punched the edge of a strip of Real Red card stock with the Scallop Border punch and added it to the base of the hat – trim the sides to match the hat.
To decorate I cut a number ‘5’ (choose whatever number you need) using the Big Shot and the Simple Numbers die. I tied a piece of the White Bakers Twine (in the Summer mini) around it and attached it to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals. At the top of the hat I went with a Pacific Point button (from the Sale-A-Bration button set) – also tied with some White Baker’s Twine.
It is a cute little card. Do you want to make one? Then you should come to my Card Maker’s Club on June 29th. Everyone is welcome to come! We had a great time in May. There were 11 different card designs to choose from in May. For June I will be adding more and taking a couple of them away. You can choose to make the cards that you need out of what I have available. Your class fee of $15 includes 6 cards plus envelopes. I hope to see you there!
Have a great day and try to stay cool – we are supposed to be in the high 90s today.
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Last Chance Accessory List
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May 29, 2011 | Cards, family, Graduation, Punch Art |
We had high school graduation this weekend. Tyler graduated – here he is
That’s #2 for us and we have one more to go. I can’t believe I have two boys that have graduated high school and will both be gone in August living at college. My how time flies! Weren’t they just little babies not too long ago? Tyler will be going to Kennesaw State University in the fall and we go this week for orientation. I’m excited for him to start this new part of his life.
I made graduation cards this week and this is what I finally decided on –
I found this idea on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only web site) from another demonstrator named Katherine Pritchard. I used the owl punch to create my owl – her owl was made from a variety of other punches and was bigger. The hardest part of this card was creating the tassel to go on the cap at the top. Not sure what my problem was but it took me forever to get something that resembled a tassel. The cap is a 3/4″ square (I used the retired SU punch, but you could also cut by hand). The diploma is the 1-1/4″ square punched from the First Edition Designer Series paper and then rolled and tied with the Whisper White Baker’s Twine (that’s what the tassel is too). I made several of these in various colors – trying to match the school colors for each of the graduates. We had a lot in our family this year – there was Tyler, then my niece will also graduate high school in June, my nephew graduated college, a cousin that is graduating from vet school, and my little nephew graduated from kindergarten.
Have a nice Memorial Day and I’ll be back tomorrow with the UDI color challenge.
May 27, 2011 | Cards, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You |
Well today is the last official day of school here were we live. It wasn’t much of a day though. Ryan was the only one that had to go – the seniors were finished last week so Tyler only had graduation practice this week. Ryan’s last day was one final – Band – which wasn’t a final since their spring concert counts as their final and we already had that. Tomorrow morning is Graduation for Tyler – I’m headed out in a little bit to pick up balloons to hang on the mailbox. He doesn’t want a party and Kyle didn’t want one last year either. So we will go out to a fancy dinner just the 5 of us one day next week.
With that being said I thought I would share this card today as I thought it made a cute Thank You card for a teacher. It was one of the cards offered in my Card Makers Club this week – which by the way was a lot of fun!
I stuck to some of the more basic school colors – a red (Real Red), a yellow (Daffodil Delight), and a green (Old Olive). And combined it with the cute little Summer Mini Hostess set called Swirls & Curls Verses. It has 5 different versus in it – “thanks so much”, “thinking of you”, “happy birthday”, “hello”, and “congratulations”. I think you could just as easily use this for a graduation card since owl’s are often associated with being smart. Remember the tootsie pop commercial on TV ages ago? Just out of curiosity I thought I’d see what the internet had to say about how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop – well through various studies the results showed anywhere from 70 to 3,481 – hmmm…..
Oh well – I hope you have a fun day on the last day of school!
May 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Pocket Silhouettes, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You |
More with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch…
Traditionally I don’t use a lot of the purples in my stamping projects – I don’t really know why. In fact when I was little I loved purple – my bedroom had wallpaper with a floral print in purple and brown and I had a canopy bed and it was all decked out in purple. I must have liked purple at some point in time. But a while back when I did an inventory of my ink and card stock the ones that were missing – were all shades of purple. But I have rediscovered Perfect Plum so you may start seeing more projects with some purple.
This card came from a card I saw on Heather Summers blog. Her’s was a big square card and I think she got the idea from someone else. These were the colors that she used and they really were pretty together – Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery, and Baja Breeze. I wanted a card that would fit in the open-ended envelopes and ended up with this creation.
I used Pocket Silhouettes to create the greenery. The “thanks so much” is the new hostess set in the Summer Mini Catalog called Swirls & Curls Verses. Then I punched out flowers with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch and layered the pieces and added some details.
flower 1 is Perfect Plum base, Certainly Celery for the middle and Baja Breeze for the top with a Certainly Celery brad in the center.
flower 2 is Certainly Celery base that has been cut in between the petals, the center is the Bitty Punch circle that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder
flower 3 is a Baja Breeze base that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder, the top is Perfect Plum and then a Bitty Button threaded with White Bakers Twine for the center.
Have a nice day – we are expecting rain and storms this afternoon/evening – ugh – hopefully no tornados.
May 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Masculine, UDI Color Challenge |
Oh my goodness – I knew I was forgetting something yesterday but couldn’t figure out what it was. It just hit me! I needed to write my blog post for today for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Oops! I’m here now. So on to today’s challenge……
This weeks color combo was a more neutral muted combination of colors. While our inspiration picture was a purse with flowers I decided to go a different route – and ended up with something probably more suited for a boy. Here is the inspiration picture:
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.
And here is the card I created based on a sketch and card idea from a paper craft magazine.
It isn’t one of my favorites but it includes all the colors for this challenge. The base of the card is Soft Suede, then I have a layer of Basic Black. On each end of the black is a strip of Pear Pizzazz that was embossed with the Big Shot and the Square Lattice embossing folder – I also punched out a notch – I was sure I had them lined up because I punched them a the same time but it turns out I had one flipped the wrong way and I wasn’t quite in the center – although I did try to measure for the center. So I’m not really happy with it.
The Wish Big is from the Word Play stamp set that is on sale this month – so if you want this set make sure to buy it now. I stamped it on the black with Versa Mark ink and covered it with White Embossing Powder and heat set it. In the two notched out areas I added White Jumbo brads and then on the brad I stamped with Jet Black stazon the little star from Itty Bitty Bits (I think that is what it is called – I need to double check). Then I punched large stars from Basic Gray, Pear Pizzazz, and So Saffron – two of each and they are stacked with dimensionals in between – so there is dimension to this card that you can’t see in this photo. It makes a good boy card and isn’t everyone always looking for boy cards?
So there you have it – my color challenge card for the week. Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Soft Suede, Basic Black, Pear Pizzazz, Basic Gray, So Saffron, Whisper White
- Ink: VersaMark, Jet Black StazOn
- Stamp sets: Word Play, Itty Bitty Bits (I had it right)
- Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Jumbo Brads, Star Punch, 1/2″ circle punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
