Jul 21, 2010 | Cards, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Ribbon, Thank You |
I bought the Nature’s Nest stamp set last year in my first order from the catalog. I had planned on using for convention swaps last year. Well that never happened and it sat in my craft room for almost a year – how awful was that. I finally used it and made a beautiful card for some of my convention swaps this year. I’m really happy with the result.
I’m not sure the picture on my blog show just how pretty it is. I actually used the same layout that I had used in some cards I created early this year for the Royal Blog Tour.
The colors this time are Crumb Cake, Marina Mist and Soft Suede. The dragonfly image is stamped in Basic Black StazOn ink. I colored the dragonfly body with the Marina Mist marker and then wings with a Bashful Blue marker. Then I added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the wings.
If you know me, you know I rarely use glitter. But these wings really needed the extra sparkle. It is pretty in real life. I tried to get a close up pictures but I still don’t think it shows the sparkle and shine.
I also used the color spritzer tool to add spritz on the front of the card – I sure do miss that splatter from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds set – we need that one stamp back in the catalog.
To finish the card I added the new 1/8″ Marina Mist Ribbon tied with Linen Thread and a little jewelery tag. I hope you like it.
Jul 18, 2010 | Baroque Motifs, Cards, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2010, Wedding |
I’m continuing to share with you from our STARZ meeting last weekend. I asked several of the girls to bring a make&take project for everyone and I have two I’m going to show today. I decided that both of these would be perfect for Wedding Cards. I know for me I had my wedding on my mind during this time of year. Our wedding anniversary is next week on July 22nd. It will be our 21st anniversary! And I will be in Salt Lake City at the Stampin’ Up! convention. I told Greg to make sure he went out and played golf that day.
So on to the cards to show you. The first is a wedding card that Cindy brought and you can find out more about it on her blog – click here. She got the idea from another demonstrator and added her own little touch to it – the flower bouquet. We decided the new rhinestones and pearls that are in the new catalog would work well on this card too for adding bling to the dress.
This card was not very hard to make – it is a regular sized card but scored a bit different. There are two sides that fold in to meet in the center. Then one side is decorated as the groom in his tux and the other is the bride in her dress. When you close the card they are standing next to each other with the brides dress overlapping the front of the card. I’m sure that I will use this idea again when I need a wedding card. We used the Trio Flower punch to make the bouquet and it was one of the punches that retired. But any flower ideas would work. I’m so glad that Cindy shared this with us and that we all got to actually make it.
This next card is another share that Michelle brought for us to make. She taught us how to make these beautiful rose buds using the Two-Step Bird punch. It really is the bird punch – can you believe it!
Michelle does not have a blog yet but you can see another one of her projects this month on the Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator website in the Online Extras for the Monthly art contest – she didn’t win but she got an Honorable Mention. She does some beautiful work with sponging and shading on her projects that really make things look real.
I think this card could also be used as a wedding card and you could even adjust the colors of the card and rose buds to match the wedding colors. This card took some time punching out the various pieces, shading them all with the sponge dauber and then glueing them together. When working with little pieces like these I prefer to use a pair of craft tweezers and a 2-way glue pen.
The ideas from these cards could also be used on a scrapbook page for a wedding – you could create a bouquet of roses if you spent some time with it. Thank you to both of them for sharing their ideas with our group.
Here is my convention prep work update – I have 2 more full days to work on stuff and then I leave on Tuesday!
Shoebox swap – 49 cards – designed, cut, all the kits are assembled and I have 24 assembled with just one more step to finish on most of them – and then I need to make one more – I was supposed to have 25. Then I need to pack the supplies to make the kits and I will be done – so Almost Done.
UDI card swap – 19 cards – designed, cut and needs to be assembled
UDI 3-D swap – I only have to make 1! And I know what it is just need to decide if I want to give away my sample or make a new one.
General swap 1 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 2 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 3 – 25 card fronts – I have an idea in mind, I just need to work on it – this may not get done at all.
General swap 4 – 25 card fronts – I realized I started cutting for a swap, used part of it for my STARZ swap this weekend, but I think I want to redesign this because I wasn’t completely happy with it, so I need to work with what I already cut
Friend gifts – planning to make some amount of something to give to friends I see
Roommate gifts – 3 – designed
Well I better go get busy – I still have lots to do!
Jul 16, 2010 | Bleaching, Cards, Embossing, Thank You |
Just a quick post today. Thursday was the first day or orientation at Ga Tech – I learned lots of information – I hope Kyle did too. We were together for parts of the day and apart for others. Today is the important stuff – like registering for classes and getting a student id.
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
Wendy and her family have moved to Saudi Arabia – they left on Thursday. I wish them the best in their new adventure and safe travels where ever they may go. We will be in touch regularly as I help her with keeping the STARZ group connected. I’ll be including the STARZ group in my downline meetings so if you live near me I hope you will join us.
I didn’t get anything done on my convention swaps since we were gone all day Thursday and I’ll be gone most of Friday too.
I’m officially a Ga Tech Mom!
Jul 10, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Stamper's Club, Thank You |
I have another card using the Because I Care Level 1 Hostess set from the new Stampin’ Up! 2010-1022 Idea Book & Catalog. I found this idea on Stampin’ Connection just like my first sample and it is from the same designer – Jo-Ann Pullen. She has some really pretty designs out there using this stamp set with Baja Breeze and Early Espresso colors. I made a few changes to mine but the basic design follows her original.
My second card is actually the new Marina Mist color with the Early Espresso. I was out of the Baja Breeze and had a new package of this new color so I thought it would work equally well.
We made this card during my Stamper’s Club meeting this month. For me I found it best to first cut the little squares and then stamp a portion of the hydrangea image on each square so I could get the parts that I wanted. When I tried to stamp just the flower on a large piece and then cut it I found I had more white space than I wanted.
I also decorated the inside of the card like this – 
I stamped the hydrangea off the left side and added the thank you from the stamp set. You could have also stamped that on the front instead of the little border image.
The new Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Folder was used on the panel on the front – I know I’m going to be using it a lot. I hope they come out with more of these folders because they add so much texture to cards and scrapbook pages.
Thanks for checking in today!
Jul 5, 2010 | Cards |
A year or more ago I found this organization called “From Our Hearts” – you can read more about them at their blog – CLICK HERE. A couple of months ago I sent them a box of cards – full cards and card fronts. The organization is run by volunteers who take the donated cards and get them prepared to send over seas to the servicemen and women serving our country. These are cards that they can use to send back here to their family and friends. If you have a minute visit their site and read about those sending cards and about the letters they get back from those that get to use them.
Today’s post on their blog has my last box – CLICK HERE – it was a collection of cards and card fronts that I had accumulated plus some that other demonstrators in the STARZ and PAWS groups had given to me to include in my shipment. I kept planning to sort and count and get them organized but it never got done and I finally decided it was better to send them on their way than for them to sit here in my house. I forgot to count them but the volunteers at From Our Hearts did that and here was the final tally:
76 Full cards and 242 card fronts! That was a lot. There are more pictures on their blog – I’ll just post this one here.
Now that we have a new catalog it is time to start a new box to send their way of cards that I can’t use or don’t need anymore. If you have cards you have made and no longer need but you don’t want to throw them away either – consider donating them to this cause. You can also help by donating money or other supplies – all the details are on their site.
I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July!
Thanks for stopping by today.
Jun 28, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, class, Summer Mini 2010 |
So I made this cute card for Kimberly’s workshop that I had earlier this month. 
I used the sweet new Sweet Scoops set from the Summer Mini catalog and made my favorite Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream. And I planned to write where I got the inspiration from this card from but I have been away on vacation for a week and for the life of me I can’t remember where I got this from. I’m pretty sure it was a sketch from somewhere and I think I changed a few things on it – but I just can’t remember at all right now. I may think of it later. Anyway I really liked how this turned out. And I plan to use it for one of my cards for my July Hands-on Class. This time I’m going to do a themed class – an ICE CREAM PARTY! I think it will be lots of fun. I am having the class a week earlier than normal on Friday, July 9th instead of the following week – that week I will be at Ga. Tech with Kyle for his orientation. I’ll be sending out more details to my email list later and post them on my blog and website too.
I was actually gone for a whole week for vacation. We were in Boone, NC for the week in a house on a mountain. We had a lot of fun with our family but also had some issues. First let me just say that we have been renting places for many years and more recently I have been finding places through VRBO – and all have been great. But this time I would not recommend renting from this company/resort or whatever you want to call it. I will tell you more about it later this week. We had a nice week together with family and with the help of wireless internet at the Panera store in town I was able to get all my blog posts done for the week and check a few emails. The rest of the time we had no internet access so I didn’t get some things done like I had planned. I caught up on a few things on Sunday and will do some more this week. I share pictures and more about our trip during the week.
Have a great day!
I’m not sure the picture on my blog show just how pretty it is. I actually used the same layout that I had used in some cards I created early this year for the Royal Blog Tour.
