Feb 22, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, class, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Punch Art |
Valentine’s day has passed and while I’m mostly thinking about Easter – I created a St. Patrick’s Day card for last weeks class. There are about 24 days left before St. Patrick’s Day. And don’t think that you can’t create a St. Patrick’s Day card when you don’t have anything with leprechaun’s or shamrocks. The easiest way to create a shamrock is with a heart punch!
Punch 4 hearts and put the points together – look what you get!
For my card the base is Old Olive and it is embossed on the front only with the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. The hearts are put on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then I added the Jumbo Brad to the center. The stem is actually the branch from the XL Two-Step Bird punch in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions mini catalog. I just trimmed off the leaves and tucked it under my hearts.
The “happy st. patrick’s day” is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. I’m using this stamp set a lot more than I thought. It has something for every holiday and they all fit in the Modern Label Punch.
This is really a quick card. I didn’t have a picture but on the inside I have 4 of the small hearts for a little shamrock in the corner.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Old Olive card stock and ink
- More Mustard card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock and Stampin’ Write Marker
- Whisper White card stock
- Old Olive Patterns Designer Series paper
- Big Shot Die Cut machine
- Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder
- Movers & Shapers Die and the Modern Label Die
- Full Heart Punch
- Modern Label Punch
- Small heart Punch
- XL Two-Step Bird Punch
- Paper Piercer
- Jumbo Chocolate Chip Brad
- Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Thanks for checking in with me today – leave a comment – I love to read them. Everybody is back at school today – Tyler and Ryan were off for winter break last week so today we can get back to a regular schedule.
I decided to make a “Snow Day” scrapbook layout for my scrapbook class this week. It turned out great – I’m really happy with it. I’ll share it later this week. If you plan to come to my class please let me know right away.
Happy Stampin’!
Feb 21, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Watercoloring |
Picnic Parade is the Level 2 Hostess set in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog. It is the cutest little stamp set. It reminds me of the Beatrix Potter designs that were big when my kids were babies – not sure if that is still popular now.
This card was one that we made at my class on Friday. It could be an Easter card, or birthday card, or a whatever you want it for card.
This particular card design is from another demonstrator but now I can’t figure out where I found it. I know I left her a comment. So if it was you please leave me a comment back so I can add your name here.
If you get this stamp set in the Clear Mount Version the great thing is you can mount all the stamps on one of the large rectangle blocks and stamp them all at the same time! Or you can do them individually which is nice in the clear mount because you can see. The down side is they are fairly small which makes them harder to clean. And the little lady bug by itself is also hard to stamp with out catching an edge in ink – it did help to mount it with the other animals.
These are all watercolored with an aquapainter using classic ink. I added the bunny on the inside too – he turned out cute directly on the Sahara Sand card stock. And I stamped the bunny and the raccoon on my envelope. It all matches.
The animals in my back yard are happy today – it is sunny, fairly warm – although we don’t have any green grass yet.
I hope you like this cute card.
And as my card says “Have a happy day every step of the way!”
Feb 17, 2010 | Cards, class, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Watercoloring |
So last week while I was lying in bed drifting off to sleep one night I cam up with an idea for a new class. A Quick Cards class. I had been working on my challenge card for the Create with Connie & Julie class and I was using the Happy Moments stamp set. It was hard to create only one card when there were four great images in the stamp set – so I actually made four cards and then started thinking that I could turn this into a Quick Cards class. It would be all cards, quick, simple – something for beginners or those that haven’t done much stamping or when you are short on time.
And here is my first class…
Quick Cards class - March 2nd
Quick Cards Class – Happy Moments
When: Tuesday, March 2nd
Time: 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
You are invited to join me for my new Quick Cards class. This month we will be using the Happy Moments Sale-A-Bration stamp set and doing basic Watercoloring on these quick and easy cards.
You will be making 4 cards with matching envelopes.
Please bring adhesive (like snail) and some scissors (like our paper snips).
The class fee is $10.
Please RSVP by end of day on 2/27.
I hope you can join me and come have some fun!
Feb 14, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You |
Like I said yesterday I really like this Happy Moments stamp set (Sale-A-Bration set) – so you will probably be seeing it several times in the next couple of weeks. I needed a Thank You card and happen to have one of the water colored images left from my cards I worked on for my Quick Cards class so I decided to use it for my card. And then I decided I wanted to do double duty and find a challenge where I could use a circle image. I searched around and found the Mojo Monday sketch challenge and when I was done I realized it also fit the Late Night Stampers challenge – which was a technique challenge to use some type of embossing technique.
Here is the sketch and here is my card. 
I used the same colors as yesterdays card – Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. The flowers are stamped on Watercolor paper and colored with classic ink and an Aqua painter.
Two layers are dry embossed using the Big Shot on the new Perfect Polka Doats embossing folder. The patterned paper is from the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack.
I added Bashful Blue satin Ribbon and the Curly Label punch layered with the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die for the Big Shot.
On the inside is a Whisper White layer stamped with the flowers and then I stamped on the envelope to match too.
I’ll take it to the post office on Monday to send to Zoe – thanks for sharing your skinny clear bags with me!
Thanks for stopping by!
Feb 13, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Watercoloring |
Last week’s challenge winners were Lisa Martz and Robin Gregor with Cynthia Stevenson having an honorable mention! Thanks to everyone that played along. I hope you will join us this week!
It is time for another challenge at
Create with Connie & Julie! This week our challenge is a SKETCH challenge. The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure – Happy Moments, Tote-ally Tess, and Tiny Tags stamp sets. I decided to use the Happy Moments stamp set – it has turned out to me one of my favorite’s from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. Once I started to use it I realized this is one of those sets that covers almost any occasion – change the colors and combine various sentiments with the images and you can use it for almost anything.
Here is the sketch that we had to work with.
I picked the colors because I had some ribbon that was sitting together in my craft room – Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery – I like how they looked together so I decided to use that for my color scheme. Based on the sketch I decided to get out the Sweet Pea Designer Paper Pack and I chose papers that had those colors and cut them into 1/4″ strips to layer on my card.
As I was creating the card I didn’t like the sentiment coming off the top of the image so I decided to flip the sketch upside down.
The image is stamped on Watercolor paper and I used my Classic ink and an Aqua Painter to do the watercoloring. I added some linen thread at the top.
I also wanted to decorate the inside of the card. So I used the same image and added a “hanger” for the bird cage by tracing around a punched circle. I really like how it turned out. I actually made a full set of cards using all the images in the happy Moments stamp set. I will show that later – it will be one of my new Quick Cards classes – I’m just trying to choose the date and then I’ll let everyone know.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Chocolate card stock and ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Bashful Blue card stock and ink
- Certainly Celery ink
- Old Olive ink
- Sahara Sand ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Watercolor paper
- Sweet Pea Designer Paper pack
- Whimsical Words stamp set (SAB)
- Happy Moments stamp set (SAB)
- 1-3/4″ Circle Punch
- 1″ Circle Punch
- Aqua Painter
- Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon
- Linen Thread
- Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
And here is a look at the rest of the Create team:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet now is the time to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week. 
There is a new project posted every day and there will be a minimum of two fabulous tutorials each and every week. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Julie site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Feb 12, 2010 | Cards, Embossing, In Colors, Occasion Mini 2010, Stamper's Club |
I LOVE this card! Love, love this technique and just don’t use it enough. It is so easy but is such a WOW when you see it – almost like magic….
It is the Emboss Resist technique. This card is almost an exact copy of a card on the Stampin’ Connection site (for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators) posted by Shannon West. I made really only two changes – the sentiment on the card since I didn’t have the one that she used and I put my card on a Soft Suede card base, her card was the white card as the base. Personally I don’t like to use the white or vanilla as my card base since it isn’t quite the same thickness as all the colored card stock. But that is just a personal thing for me – other people use those for the base of the cards all the time.
The little strip on the card is a piece of Soft Suede card stock created with the Faux Suede technique (convenient that the card stock was named the same as the technique). You can’t really see it in this photo but it has a soft texture to it.
The Vintage Vogue Stamp set works so nicely for this technique. The largest flower is the part that is embossed with clear embossing powder. Then it is sponged with the Soft Suede ink and that is what makes the flower pop out on the card.
Just a simple, elegant card that would work for many occasions. This was one of the cards we made at Stamp Club.
Guess what? We have SNOW coming down. I know….many people have had tons of snow and the snow we get would be nothing but we don’t get snow very often and it is actually snowing right now – I can look out my craft room window and watch it. The grass/trees/porch/roof and cars are starting to get covered. The streets I think are just wet because the temps are still above freezing right now. I’m waiting on school to get out so I can get the boys and have them home. Hopefully in about an hour we will all be home. Anyway it isn’t a big deal for most people but when you rarely get snow it makes it a big deal to us! I need to get some pictures of our Georgia snow.
Have a great weekend! Stop in tomorrow for my challenge card for the Create with Connie & Julie class.
Happy Stampin’ in the snow!
Punch 4 hearts and put the points together – look what you get!
