May 23, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Masculine, Summer Mini 2011 |
You Mean the World to Me. Yes you really do!
That’s the phrase that I used on this masculine card.
The idea for this card came from a magazine. I combined the new The Open Sea stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog with the Word Play stamp set that is on sale this month for 30% off. They worked well together.
The card base is Early Espresso and it is stamped with the globe and manifest images from The Open Sea stamp set. Then I added Not Quite Navy and and embossed/torn layer of Crumb Cake.
On top of that is a Whisper White piece stamped with “You Mean the World to me” and sponged to give it an old look. I wrapped around a piece of the new Baker’s Twine (this one is the Early Espresso) and tied a button through it.
To pop out the “world” – I stamped it on scratch paper in Not Quite Navy and punched it out with the circle punch and popped it up with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
My envelope was stamped to match. And on the inside is a panel of Whisper White and the corner of it was also stamped to match.
A very nice masculine card. I hope you like it!
May 20, 2011 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Masculine, Summer Mini 2011 |
This desk organizer featuring the Nautical Expedition Designer Series paper and The Open Sea stamp set was one of the projects we made at my hands-on class last week.
The organizer is made using square coasters. I covered the outsides and insides of the coasters with the Designer Series Paper. Then use a Crop-A-Dile to punch holes – I hold two coasters together where the sides will match and then punch the holes through at the same time so they line up. I usually mark each corner A, B, C, D so I know which two match up when I’m trying to put it all together.
To put it together I used Jute – which is thicker than hemp that Stampin’ Up! sells but you could also use that for this project. I liked the look of the Jute and had some in my stash so that was what I went with.
Here is a view of what the inside looks like.
For the front decoration I actually cut another coaster with my Big Shot and the Circles #2 die – I used the largest circle on the die which happens to be the same size as our largest circle punch. On a piece of card stock I stamped the various images from The Open Sea stamp set – in sort of a collage. I punched it out and sponged the edges and glued it to my coaster circle – I suppose I could have stamped directly on the coaster since it was plain white but I didn’t. I added the star punched from Crumb Cake card stock, stamped with the manifest image, and put in a Cherry Cobbler brad. I tied a couple of pieces of the Jute into a square knot and added it to the front.
This could sit on a dresser and be a drop off spot for a cell phone, car keys, wallet. Or on the end table and hold all the tv remotes. Or on a desk and hold pencils, scissors and stuff. I have one in my craft room – its got my pens, pencils, my different scissors, my bone folder, paper piercer, and more. Decorate with flowers and such if you want it to be feminine or like this one to make it masculine.
May 17, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Summer Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Here it is Tuesday and time for a Color Challenge. Are you ready for this one?
This week we have a another bright summery color combination – Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Garden Green, More Mustard and Very Vanilla. Here is the inspiration picture that we got.
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.
I needed a card swap for my demonstrator meeting Saturday night so I decided to use the colors for this challenge for that and get two things done at once. I already had planned on using the new On the Grow stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. I didn’t buy this set at first but I did think it was cute. But then I saw other demos using it and you know we are such bad influences on each other – it became a “have to have” set and I put it on my next order.
To create the focal point I did a little trick that you can do with the Clear Stamps – I mounted both the scooter and the words on one clear block and stamped them at the same time. Here is what it looks like –
I really need to mount them on a larger block but this one worked and was within arms reach when I was making this card. To create the card I stamped the images in VersaMark ink and then embossed with Black Embossing Powder. Next I water colored the image using my Aqua painter and classic inks – except for the black tires I used a Water Color Wonder Crayon for it.
The card base is Garden Green stamped with the grass from Inspired by Nature. I added the little More Mustard Butterflies cut with the Big Shot and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit. Behind the focal image I tied some Very Vanilla ribbon – I used Seam Binding on some of the cards and then ran out and switched to the Taffeta ribbon – both looked good.
In this picture I have the added flower from the new Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch with a pearl in the center. I didn’t actually have this on my meeting swaps only because I ran out of time. I was still cutting and gluing on butterflies as everyone was walking in the door.
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: Garden Green, Basic Black, More Mustard, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard, Garden Green, VersaMark
- Stamp sets: On the Grow, Inspired by Nature
- Accessories: Black Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Aqua Painter, Neutrals Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Very Vanilla ribbon, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, Basic Pearls, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
May 16, 2011 | Cards, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2011 |
Oh my gosh – it has been three days and no blog posts from me! Sorry about that. I’ll have projects for you all week so come back every day. Saturday night I had my demonstrator meeting and it was so much fun! I love getting together with all of these ladies – we had a good time and Cindy Schuster did an awesome presentation for us on My Digital Studio Hybrid projects and then we made two scrapbook pages that I’ll share later this week. I showed everyone about the new Triple Punches in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog and I’m going to show you the card that I designed for everyone to make. I combined two different ideas from Stampin’ Up! – I really liked the look of the scrapbook page in the Summer Mini catalog – page 6. And then an Easel card that was in our Stampin’ Success magazine. And here it is:
I liked the fact that it is an easel card so that you can set it out for everyone to see the different punched pieces that you get from the two new punches. This picture shows the card standing up – the front panel with the Hello Blossoms is on the inside of the card and attached with dimensionals. The front of the card is scored and has a second panel – the one you can see here with all the punch flowers attached to it. When you fold the front at the score the panel pops up and you tuck it behind the inside piece to make it stand up. Did that make any sense at all? Here is a side view –
The two punches are the Doily Triple Layer Punch and the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch. The colors I used are Old Olive, Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Rose Red, and Blushing Bride. There are lots of different combinations that you can create with all these punched pieces. I hope you like it!
Come back tomorrow for this weeks UDI Color Challenge.
May 12, 2011 | class, Masculine, My Digital Studio, Newsletter, Summer Mini 2011 |
I have a bad feeling that my May Newsletter and Class Reminder emails are not getting to my email list. Why – I do not know. But several people this week have commented to me if I was having a class and I said yes – I sent out the newsletter the first of the month and a reminder the first of this week – my hands-on class is TOMORROW. Hopefully many of my email listers are also blog subscribers or Facebook friends and will see this post. I am going to put my May newsletter here in this blog post – we’ll see how that works – I’m not sure all my pictures will stay in tact and I’ll probably have to figure out how to add those back in the right place and I know the fonts and probably colors won’t stay – oh well. And by the way my hands-on class is supposed to be tomorrow – but perhaps I need to reschedule – we are making masculine projects and here is a look at some of what we are doing –
I need to know TODAY if you want to attend at either 10:00 am or 7:00 pm so I can cut your class materials. I’ll look at my calendar for next week and may hold another session due to this problem with my emails going out. I may have to look into another method for sending out newsletters. Anyway here is my May newsletter –
May 2011
Last month I showed you the eggs in the nests in my yard – now we have babies!
Chickadee babies on 4-23
Tufted Titmouse babies 4-23
The chickadees actually fledged (left the nest) in the last day or so – they are pictured on the left. The tufted titmouse babies are almost ready to fledge too – but the picture above is earlier in April – I think they are so funny when they have those big beaks open waiting for food. They didn’t stay open long once they realized I wasn’t mom or dad.
This month I am planning to start a new club – the Card Maker’s Club – our focus will be all about cards. The club will meet on the last Wednesday of the month from 7-9:30pm. So this month we will meet on May 25th. Bring a list of cards that you need for the month of June – birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, thinking of you – whatever you might need. Each club meeting will be $15 and you will make 6 cards with envelopes. If time permits you can make additional cards for $2 each – so you make as many as you need in the time of the class. And you can choose which cards you want to make and how many – there will be at least 10 different card choices. And card designs will be available for more than one month – so you can come back to make more or make some that you didn’t get to the last time. This should give you flexibility to create what you need each month.
Please bring adhesive – if you’d like me to order Stampin’ Up! Snail Adhesive, Snail refill, or Tombow Multipurpose glue to have on hand for you please let me know before the class.
BYOB – I will provide a small snack. I think it will be fun and I hope you will join me. Everyone is invited – earn free cards by bringing a friend that I don’t know.
Read on below for my full schedule for May and what’s new at Stampin’ Up!
Your Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator,
Monika Davis
Check out my class schedule and the details of my Ribbon Share for May. I hope to see you soon.
NEW FEATURE – RSVP directly from the events on my website calendar.
Below is my class/event schedule for May:
- Sunday, May 1st – Alexan Card Club
- Friday, May 6th – Stamper’s Club – Hostess is Jeanette 7 pm
- Friday, May 13th – Hands On Class – 10am & 7pm – Masculine Projects
- Saturday, May 14th – PAWS Downline Meeting – 6pm
- Tuesday, May 16th – Stamping at the Ronald McDonald House
- Thursday, May 19th – KSU Card Club – Hostess is Pam
- Friday, May 20th – Scrapbook Class 10 am & 7 pm
- Sunday, May 22nd – My Digital Studio Class 2 pm
- Wednesday, May 25th – **NEW** Card Makers Club – 7pm
More News for You
I had a lot going on in April and didn’t get this ribbon share done so it is still open for the month of May – the share will be the 1-1/4” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (page 191 in the big catalog). You will receive 2 yards of each of the following colors – Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Rich Razzleberry, Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Early Espresso, and Basic Black. The cost of the ribbon share will be $26.00. Please email me and pay by May 13th if you would like to participate in the May Ribbon Share. Here is a project with the Early Espresso
News from Stampin’ Up!
The SUMMER MINI CATALOG is here!! The mini catalog started on May 1st. There are some fun new products in this little mini catalog. New Triple Punches! I’ll be showing these in my classes and clubs this month to teach you how to use these fun punches that punch three different designs. Masculine stamps and papers, summer themed products, Baker’s Twine and colored embossing powder.
One of the new stamp sets in the Summer Mini is called Strength & Hope. There is also a Strength & Hope Digital Kit for My Digital Studio. Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 from these purchases to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This set is one of my favorites in this mini catalog. I hope you’ll make a difference with me and purchase this beautiful stamp set and/or Digital kit to support BCRF.
And finally it is National Scrapbooking Month and Stampin’ Up! has a special – including select stamp sets at 30% off, My Digital Studio download bundles at 30% off, select My Digital Studio Professional print products at 30% off. I’ve already sent off some print projects this week – I can’t wait to get them back. And the My Digital Studio+ Starter Kit is also 30% off – so you can join Stampin’ Up! for $125.50 (over a $320 value) and the Stampin’ Memories Add-On is only $35 (over a $60 value).
Click on each of the images on the right side of my blog to link to my website and see the details – or go directly to my website.
My Digital Studio Updates
If you have purchased My Digital Studio make sure that you register and select to receive email updates from Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Up! will be sending out a monthly email to all registered users with a list of all the download releases for the month.
A new FREE Update for April is available so make sure you run it. CLICK HERE to go see projects I have created with MDS. You can order the Digital Downloads through my online store – CLICK HERE. I have started My Digital Studio classes – there will be one each month. Ask me for more details. Make sure to join MyDigitalStudio.net where you can find all things about My Digital Studio.
If you would like to see more projects that I have been creating – visit my blog at http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/
Below are some projects featuring Strength & Hope stamp set and the new Hello Blossoms stamp set in the Summer Mini catalog.
Happy Stamping!
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May 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2011, Thumping |
This week Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition is full of surprises and I am SOOOO excited to announce that I’m Surprise #3.
I am the SURPRISE GUEST DESIGNER for Week 3. If you are a subscriber to Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition I will be sharing with you a FABULOUS 3D project and tutorial using one of that week’s featured sets. But WHICH set is a SURPRISE, too!
Now remember…the only way to see my SURPRISE GUEST DESIGNER project is to be a subscriber to Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition and sign up now while you can save $5 off the subscription price. The early bird special of $24.95 ends Saturday, May 14th at 11:55 pm. Don’t delay!
I was so excited to get the email from Connie & Mary and can’t wait to create something to share with subscribers. For now here is a fabulous card using the Strength & Hope stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog.
This is a fun window card. The circle in the front of the card is punched out and everything inside is actually on the inside of the card. The fun butterfly accent was created using the thumping technique. Here are some other views of the card.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: So Saffron Textured, Peach Parfait, Early Espresso, Whisper White
- Ink: So Saffron, Early Espresso, Peach Parfait, also Stampin’ Write Markers in the same colors
- Stamp sets: Strength & Hope
- Accessories: 2-1/2″ Circle Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, 3″ Circle Die, Scallop Circle #2 Die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Basic Pearls, Pumpkin Pie Taffeta ribbon, Color Spritzer, Stampin’ Sponge
The idea for this card came from a magazine. I combined the new The Open Sea stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog with the Word Play stamp set that is on sale this month for 30% off. They worked well together.
