Aug 4, 2010 | Baby Wipe, Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Rock 'n Roll, Summer Mini 2010 |
One of my favorite stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog is the Sweet Scoops stamp set. I didn’t think it would be that great but it is one of those sets that you can use for a lot of fun techniques! Last week I had the girls from the Towne Lake Card Club over for their monthly get together and I decided to use this fun stamp set for one of our projects. I redesigned a card that I had made earlier and used for my Ice Cream Party class. This card was based on Neapolitan Ice Cream my original was Mint Chocolate Chip.
This fun card uses two techniques – Baby Wipe and Rock ‘n Roll.
The colors for the ice cream are Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink. To create the ice cream fold up a baby wipe and use the Stampin’ Up! Reinkers for the colors to put small drops on the baby wipe. You are basically creating your own multi-colored ink pad. In a few spaces where the colors don’t meet you will have white (that’s the vanilla). Use this pad to ink up your ice cream stamp.
For the cone I used Crumb Cake ink – ink up the stamp with this lighter color first. And I used Chocolate Chip ink – take the already inked stamp and roll just the edge in the darker ink. For mine I did the left side and the top and a touch on the bottom edge. This gives the cones a little shadow making it look more 3-dimensional.
To dress up the card I added a scallop edge with white gel pen dots. And also a panel of Crumb Cake that was run through the Big Shot machine with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. I love this folder and think it resembles the texture of an ice cream cone. Another strip of Chocolate Chip was added on the bottom with some white gel pen dots.
I stamped “Have a sweet celebration!” on the bottom in Chocolate Chip ink. A quick birthday card for someone special.
I ‘m going to try adding a full list of supplies at the bottom of my post – but I can’t promise I’ll do that every time.
I did want to add a note about the white gel pen. I store my gel pens on their sides (which is also how you should store your Stampin’ Write Markers). I originally stored them tip down and discovered that they would stop working before the ink ran out. Since I changed to storing them on their sides I have not had any problems and use the pen until there isn’t any more ink in it. My thought is that if you store them tip down the ink sits at the edge of the tip and if you aren’t using it daily the ink dries in the tip and clogs it, on it’s side the ink doesn’t fill the tip while it is being stored. This is just my thought – I have no proof that is makes a difference other than my experience.
So have a Sweet Day!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
- Ink: Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake Classic Ink pads, Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink Classic ink Refills
- Stamps: Sweet Scoops Stamp set
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder
- Scallop Edge Border Punch
- White Gel Pen
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this card click here.
Jul 30, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Punch Art, Stampin' Up! Convention |
My Bobble-head Dog card was very popular at the two meetings I shared it at. He is really cute in person. First I made them for a full-card swap for the UDI dinner and then I also used it as my demo at the Udderly Awesome gathering. I told everyone at my demo that I would share some more details on how I made the punch-art dog and the card since they didn’t actually get one. Everyone also wanted to know where the inspiration came from so I wanted to show you that too. Here is the link to my original post during convention – CLICK HERE – there are more pictures and some of the creation process on that post.
The swap for the UDI dinner had some specific guidelines and based on those I was thinking of ideas in my head. Every day I walk into the house from my car and past a metal dog that hangs on the wall – that became my inspiration for this card. Looking at him gave me the idea for the Bobble-head – after I had my idea I just had to figure out how to get it to do what I wanted.
Here is a picture that Sandy took of me doing the demonstration at the Udderly Awesome gathering – I got there late so if you left early you missed it. I didn’t even remember Sandy taking the picture but I was looking directly at the camera so I guess I knew it was happening at the time.
The head on the dog bobbles or spins or whatever you want to call it.
I created a separate Cherry Cobbler panel that I punched a small circle in using the new little circle in the punch pack.
I used a jumbo brad and put it through the hole. Because it isn’t tight it wobbles around in the hole.
I attached this panel to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals to keep it raised so the brad could move.
The dog head is glued to the top of the jumbo brad – I used the Tombow glue for this. The dogs body is then attached to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals so that it tucks behind the head.
Here are some details on the punches I used to create the dog. All the white pieces were sponged with Black StazOn ink.
Head = Wide Oval punch
Tongue = end of Wide Oval punch (then add chunky red glitter)
Snout = Jumbo Heart punch – with the point folded over
Nose = tip of Jumbo Heart punch (then add chunky black glitter)
Eyes = large circle punch from the Crop-A-Dile and white gel pen
Ears = Modern label punch – with one end rounded
Body = Wide Oval Punch
Legs = Modern Label punch – cut in half – mark toes with black marker
Tail = thin strip of black card stock cut on the paper trimmer and curled around a skewer
Big spot = piece from the butterfly punch
Small spots = random pieces of card stock or black marker
Bone = Modern Label punch – trim out the insides to make it skinny – words were printed using My Digital Studio on card stock and then punched
I hope that answered the rest of the questions that people had about this card. I was so excited that everyone loved it so much.
Thanks for checking in with me today!
Jul 25, 2010 | Cards, Stampin' Up! Convention, Thank You, Upsy Daisy |
This is my last swap for the Stampin’ Convention this year.
I had the Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black and Very Vanilla combination on my mind and decided to work with that. I made several different attempts at the swap before deciding on this one and I am happy with the result in the end. The card base is Cherry Cobbler and I stamped the Upsy Daisy set randomly on the front of the card – stamping multiple times before reinking so there would be multiple shades. I did the same thing on the Very Vanilla square. The square is on a Basic Black mat which was attached over a piece of Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon.
I added my greeting on the front which is from the new stamp set called Perfect Punches. It is stamped in Cherry Cobbler and punched out with the scallop oval and then layered on a Basic Black wide oval.
I finished this swap on the airplane flying from Atlanta to Salt Lake city.
Today is Sunday and convention is over and I am on my way back home.
I hope you had a great week – I sure did!
Jul 24, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, In Colors, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Ribbon |
Saturday is the last day of convention and while the official Stampin’ Up! events will end in the afternoon. My roommates and I are going to a Shoebox swap Saturday night. I think there are supposed to be 48 of us total. The shoebox swap works like this – everyone designs a card and brings all the supplies to make the card for everyone. For this particular swap we bring half of them completely made and half of them in pieces in a baggie. Everyone will get divided and make half of the 48 cards on Saturday night. We rotate from table to table until we are done with them all.
Here is my design:
I used the new Butterfly Prints stamp set. I love how this card turned out. I used Basic Grey, Pear Pizazz, and Whisper White as my colors. I did have to get a bit creative so that I could get enough cards out of the paper I had. It didn’t occur to me that I would run out of ribbon either. So some of the swap cards that I made up have different ribbon.
This is the new In-Color Poly-Twill ribbon and it is going to be so nice to use. It is really soft and look at what you can do – fray it! I love the look 
of the frayed ends on my knot.
First tie the ribbon around the card and tie the knot. Then I carefully trimmed off the white edges up to the knot. Then pull apart the green strands and remove the white ones that are left. Fun!
For those cards that I ran out of the poly-twill ribbon I used Satin ribbon in Basic Grey or Certainly Celery which matched well to the Designer Series Paper.
The patterns papers now come in paper stacks and this is one of the new In-Colors so you get a stack of Designer Paper that includes all 6 colors and the two double-sided patterns.
I added distressing on all the layers. And the tag is cut from the Matchbox die using the Big Shot.
I really like the softness of this card and I hope everyone at the shoebox swap does too!
Jul 23, 2010 | Cards, My Digital Studio, Punch Art, Stampin' Up! Events |
I joined a new demonstrator group earlier this year – a group that shares ideas and business tips. They have a dinner and swap at convention so I signed up to attend along with my 3 room mates. The card swap for had some specific rules or guidelines that I found quite challenging. I decided that the reason I waited so long to make all of my swaps for convention was because I was struggling with what to do with this one. So here are the specifics that I had to work with:
– Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Whisper White
– Theme: Whimsical or Funny
– Royal in nature with bling
Somehow for me the whimsical/funny didn’t go with royal bling – but I thought through it and played around with various ideas until I finally came up with something and everyone I have showed my end result to has loved it! I’m so excited that they liked it and I hope the ladies I’m swapping with like it too!
Here are all the pieces of my card. It was a lot of pieces and next time I need to do a swap with not so many pieces and steps. Can you see what it is – little heads and little bodies…..
Here they are all finished – do you see the dog bones, the dog, the newspaper rolled up in his mouth?
It is my punch art dog and I forgot to take a picture of my inspiration – it is a piece of metal art that hangs on the wall by the garage door. This piece happens to have the head and legs that move so my card is supposed to resemble that – so I call it my bobble-head card.
The dog is made out of punches and the legs are dangling – they are attached with brads so they move. The head moves because I attached it to a jumbo brad that is then inserted through a hole on the embossed Cherry Cobbler layer and it rotates around.
My “bling” on my card include 3 brads on the left side and some chunky glitter – I don’t know how easily you can see it in the picture so here is a close up of his head. The nose is covered in black chunky glitter and his tongue is covered in red chunky glitter.
The newspaper in his mouth is a piece from the new News Print Designer Series paper. The tail is a thin strip of Basic Black card stock curled around a skewer to make it curl up. I shaded all the punched pieces with Black StazOn ink – for me the regular basic black looks to much like purple when I use it for sponging. I added spots cut/punched from pieces of black card stock or with a black marker.
He really is a funny little dog with a bobble-head. I’m also going to demo this card at the Udderly Awesome gathering at convention. I hope I don’t get to nervous showing it in front of people. I did pre-assemble most of the dog parts ahead of time. I’ll come back after convention and add more on the punched pieces for the dog.
And I forgot to get a picture of the inside. By the way the “Heard the News” was made using My Digital Studio and printed on card stock and punched out. I’ll show you later how to create the bone shape.
Have a “dog-gone” great day!
Jul 22, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper |
Here is another Stampin’ Up! Convention Swap for you today.
This one features the new Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper. I cut strips from different patterns and attached them to a Chocolate Chip card base.
I tied the Real Red Satin ribbon around the card. Thanks to my friend Lisa who traded some ribbon with me so I could finish my swaps!
I had to take a close up picture of the flower because it didn’t show up well in the photo. I used the flower image from the Friends Never Fade stamp set. I used the Stampin’ Write Markers to color the image – Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and Real Red. Then I used my paper piercer to pierce a hole on either side of the flower stem and threaded a piece of linen thread through and tied it in a little bow. I love to add linen thread to my projects. I sponged some Chocolate Chip ink around the edges.
At the bottom I added the greeting inside the small oval. It is actually a simple card but takes some time to hand color the stamp each time.
I love the pop of red on this card. I hope my convention swaps are big hits at convention.
Have a great day!
This fun card uses two techniques – Baby Wipe and Rock ‘n Roll.
