May 23, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Masculine, Summer Mini 2010 |
On Friday I had my monthly hands-on class and this month we made Masculine Cards. For many stampers the masculine, manly cards are the hardest ones to make. I guess because we are girls we like pretty things with flowers, and butterflies and pretty colors. But I have 3 boys, a husband, a brother, a father, 2 brother-in-laws and 2 nephews – so I have a lot of need for masculine cards!
Here is one of the cards that I designed for my Friday class.
I really liked how it turned out. I used the new Cogs punch in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog and decided it would work perfectly with the Sense of Time stamp set with the clock and the gears. The colors are two that will be retiring – Close to Cocoa and Bordering Blue.
To create this card I did random stamping on the Bordering Blue panel using the clock image and the gears image. I also stamped on the inside of the card. 
I punched out the cogs and also stamped the gears on those to add some texture to them. I sponged the edges of all the pieces. I cut a piece of a top not and used the Wonderful Favorites stamp set. I stamped “father” on a scrap of Close to Cocoa, punched it with the Word Window punch and then shortened it to fit the word. To shorten it use a bit of adhesive and attach to your grid paper or scrap paper – then line it back up inside the Word Window punch and punch again to make it shorter.
I put the whole card together including the ribbon. Then I put the card in my Color Catcher – against the back fall lying flat on the bottom. I used the Log Cabin Smooch Spritz and Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz. What I did was aim the sprayer against the back wall and let the spritz fall over my card so it would be a finer mist across. You do need to spray inside something and make sure you know where you are aiming!! Ask me – I know – I have some very pretty punches and ink pads now that are beautifully decorated with vanilla shimmer!
I have a couple of other masculine cards I will share later this week. I also created a full set of masculine cards – 10 total – using the Travel Journal Designer Series Paper – for Create with Connie & Mary. If you would like to have those ideas too – head on over there and sign up for your own subscription – it’s not too late. You can access all the projects and tutorials (16 so far) we have already posted and we have more coming this week. Play along with our weekly challenge and have a chance to win some great prizes!
And I almost forgot to tell you the exciting news – Tyler got his Driver’s License yesterday! He scored a 100 on the road test! The ladies in the office were surprised apparently the tester that he had doesn’t give a lot of 100s. We were all excited!
Have a great day – thanks for stopping by!
May 22, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2010 |
This week on Create with Connie & Mary we have been featuring some of the new stamp sets from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog – Watercolor Trio, Bouquet Bunch and A little Bit of Magic. And as the week comes to an end we have another challenge – this week Connie created a sketch for us to use. It looks like this:
This week I have been working with the Bouquet Bunch stamp set – out of the three that was the only one that I have. But I sure have seen some beautiful things made with the Watercolor Trio set that I might just have to add that one to my next order. For now though my card for this weeks challenge uses the Bouquet Bunch stamp set.
And here is what I came up with. Again using Close to Cocoa and Old Olive – I seem to have that as a theme this week. The base is Close to Cocoa with some paper piercing, some scattered Itty Bitty Backgrounds and a bit of sponging. The rectangle in the center has an embossed/sponged layer and ribbon. The accents on the side were made with the modern label punch and I added a brad to each one. My main little image is a tree with the little chipmunk (or squirrel – I still can’t decide) – water colored and punched with a wide oval. The layer behind it is actually two more wide oval punches just added on each side to create a frame.
I took a close up of it so you can see how the wide oval was layered. I added a little tag from the Tiny Tags stamp set – I thought this looked like a fun “hello” card. I hope you like it too!
Check out what the other designers did with this sketch challenge:
Connie Babbert – Inspired Treasures
Kerin Sylvester – Stamps, Paper, Glitter
Mary Brown – Stamper Camper Corner
Supplies:
Sets: Bouquet Bunch (118529w, 120039c), Tiny Tags (118091w, 118592c), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (114996)
Inks: Jet Black StazOn (101406), Close to Cocoa classic (103139), Old Olive (102277)
Cardstock: Close to Cocoa (101341), Old Olive (100702), Whisper White (101731)
Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine (113439), Finial Press Embossing Folder (115963), Wide Oval punch(112082), Modern Label punch (116630), Medium Jewelry Tag punch (117190), 1/16″ Circle punch (101227), Paper Piercing tool (116631), Mat Pack (105826), Stampinng Sponges (101610), Chocolate Chip 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (115617), Old Olive 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon (109054), Silver Brads (104336), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430).
May 20, 2010 | Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2010, Thank You |
I have some new 3×3 tags that I made this week and then I saw a sketch challenge that I wanted to play along with so I decided to turn my 3×3 into a card for the sketch. If you have ever heard of progressive scrapbooking it is where you create a 6×6 scrapbook page then turn it into an 8-1/2 x 11 scrapbook page by adding elements and then turn it into a 12×12 scrapbook page – so you progress from one size to the next. I used the same concept for this card – starting with a 3×3 tag and progressing it to a 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 sized card. I used the Bouquet Bunch stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog as my main image it is perfect for the 3×3 size.
I used the Technostamper Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 122 as the design for my card.
Here is what it looks like. And this is my card – 
instead of a rectangle and an oval mine uses the squares from my 3×3 tag. So it is a bit of a different interpretation of the sketch. But I think it still works.
I used the bitty buttons on the bottom with little punched pieces of the Old Olive Designer Series paper underneath and Linen thread tied through the buttons in little bows for the four circles on the bottom.
The Bouquet Bunch is one of the stamp sets we are featuring on Create with Connie & Mary this week. If you haven’t joined us yet it is not too late – new ideas every day and you can catch up on all the ones that we already posted. I hope you will join us we are having a ton of fun creating!
Just a bit of a family update if you are interested – we are nearing the end of school. Kyle is done except for Graduation practice and Graduation which will be next week. Tyler has finals left and this weekend he is taking his on the road driving test – so we may have another official driver in the family this weekend. Ryan also has finals left and he is in the middle of percussion tryouts for the marching band for next year. Soon he will know what part he will have for next years show.
May 18, 2010 | Cards, class, Masculine, Summer Mini 2010 |
Stampin’ With Monika
Class Reminder
Come join me for my Hands-on Class on
Friday, May 21st – 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
Masculine Class
This class will be featuring masculine themed cards for the men in our lives.
Please sign up for this class by the end of day May 19th.
The class fee will be $15.
I hope you will join me for a fun class!
May 14, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2010 |
I already showed you the little gift box I made at Pam’s workshop last week so today I’m going to share the make-n-take project that everyone made.
This is my version of a card that was originally created by Wendy Randall. I made a few little changes to it. I changed the base to Old Olive and added the Melon Mambo panel that was textured with the new Stampin’ Up! Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.
I do have to tell you when I saw this folder in the Summer Mini catalog it really didn’t look like anything at all. So I did not order it. But then I started seeing samples of this really cool embossed background and wondered where it came from. Well it was the new embossing folder! So you can’t always tell by the picture in the catalog what it looks like in real life. So I had to order it and I finally got it. This was my first card with it. You really need to see it in person.
The other change was that I added the linen thread and the little flower on the side. I like this card because the little squares look like window panes. We used the square punches to create that look – the 1-1/4″ punch was used on the Whisper White with the stamped images from the Tropical Party stamp set. The 1-3/8″ punch was used to punch the colored mats – So Saffron, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive. Then the squares were arranged on a larger Chocolate Chip square.
Isn’t it a fun little summer card that could be used for any number of things? I hope you like it.
If you want to see more great project ideas featuring products from the Summer Mini Catalog then join us at Create with Connie & Mary. Last week we featured the tropical items, this week the travel items. Next week think flowers and fairies. There is a new project every day – at least two tutorials each week (I think so far there have always been more than 2) – a chance to win prizes by playing along with our weekly challenges. Come back tomorrow to see the designers Challenge projects for this week.
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition – its not too late to join!
May 10, 2010 | Cards, Graduation, Summer Mini 2010 |
Two weekends ago I went to a stamping retreat at my upline’s house – she calls it Weekend at Wendy’s and I think this is our 3 or 4 year to do this. It is such a fun weekend of stamping and sharing with a group of women that have the same passion that I do. There were 10 of us this year from Georgia and Texas. Our weekend included a shoebox swap, a group meeting with a card swap and we made fabric purses. So for the next little while I’ll be sharing projects from our weekend.
I’m going to start with a graduation card that we made as part of one of the shoebox swap projects – we created a card holder using one of the Thoroughly Modern file folders and a couple of cards to go inside. My son, Kyle, is graduating in just a few weeks so I have Graduation on my mind.
This card was designed by Nancy Hewitt and uses the new Go, Graduation stamp set and the Happy Grad stamp that is sold individually in the back of the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog.
The card opens and has a pocket to hold cash or a check to give to a Graduate. The stamp with all the feet works perfectly for this card. I love it and plan to make some more in our school colors for friends that we need to give gifts to.
Have a great day!
I really liked how it turned out. I used the new Cogs punch in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog and decided it would work perfectly with the Sense of Time stamp set with the clock and the gears. The colors are two that will be retiring – Close to Cocoa and Bordering Blue.
I punched out the cogs and also stamped the gears on those to add some texture to them. I sponged the edges of all the pieces. I cut a piece of a top not and used the Wonderful Favorites stamp set. I stamped “father” on a scrap of Close to Cocoa, punched it with the Word Window punch and then shortened it to fit the word. To shorten it use a bit of adhesive and attach to your grid paper or scrap paper – then line it back up inside the Word Window punch and punch again to make it shorter.
