Jan 21, 2015 | Cards, class |
My monthly Card Maker’s Class is this Friday – January 23, 2015. I offer the class twice – once at 10:00 am and then again at 7:00 pm. If you wanted you could even come to both time slots. This is a great class for any level of stamper from a brand-new never stamped before or made a card in my life person to someone that has a craft room full of supplies and makes cards all the time. I hold it towards the end of the month so that you can prepare for the upcoming month. Take a minute to make yourself a list of what kind of cards you may need – next month is February – so that includes Valentine’s Day. Are there any birthday’s, anniversary, do you have invitations to any showers, what about thank you notes or do you have a friend that needs a thinking of you card or just a hello? Come to class with a list and then you’ll know what cards you need and you can create beautiful hand made cards for everyone on your list.
The way I have this class set up is that you get to work at your own pace on the cards that you want to make. I’ll have about a dozen different choices for you and you can make one or more of the ones you want. The class fee is $15 which includes 6 cards plus the envelopes. If time permits you can make additional cards for $2 each. Cards rotate in and out each month and typically stay for more than just one month. Bring your own basic adhesive – like Stampin’ Up! Snail or the multi-purpose glue. I also have some here you can purchase including refills for your snail. If the card needs anything special like glue dots or dimensionals I have those in the box with the card.
Here is an example of one of the cards you can choose from this month.
Plus you will have some Valentine choices too. I hope you will join me. You can RSVP on my website by Thursday night – just click on the event you want to attend and select the RSVP button. I hope to see you on Friday.
Oct 19, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Thank You |
Here is a Fall Thank You card with a fun little technique that is perfect for the Seasonally Scattered stamp set.
To create the stamped image ink the stamp with the Crushed Curry ink. Then use a sponge dauber and the Pumpkin Pie ink to add color directly around the word. This leaves you with the outer edges of the stamped image in the Crushed Curry color and the words in the darker Pumpkin Pie color. You could try different combinations of colors to get a different effect. Then cut the image out with the Oval framelit dies to add to the front of the card.
The card base is Crumb Cake with an additional layer of Crumb Cake that has been embossed with the Wood Grain Embossing Folder. Adding Baker’s Twine, the branch underneath and the gold button finish off the card.
Here is a full supply list for you with links to my online store.
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Thanks for stopping in today. Have you tried this technique? It was one that they showed us at convention.
Oct 16, 2014 | Birthday, Cards, Masculine |
Not sure about you but I seem to have a lot of Fall birthdays in my family. And let’s just say that even though I make tons of cards I’m not very good at actually getting them in the mail to people. Bad me. I was doing a pretty good job of leaving digital birthday cards on friend and family Facebook pages as they pop up every day. But then I took that trip to Alaska and while I was gone and since I’ve been back I haven’t really been doing that either. Bad me. So I owe a lot of people birthday wishes. Now to come up with a plan to tackle this problem. What do you do to keep up with birthdays and do you send cards out to everyone – or just to family?
So speaking of Fall birthdays I do have a nice card that would work for anyone – and it’s a good masculine card or teen card which can be hard to create at times.
A couple of tips for this card.
- Cut the circle in the Designer Series Paper
- Turn the paper upside down and lay it on the Very Vanilla card stock and stamp the greeting – this way you won’t accidentally stamp on the front of the designer paper when you position the words inside. And if you don’t like your first try – turn the Vanilla card stock over and try it again.
- Attach the Designer Paper right side up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Use one of the frame wooden pieces and tie it on with the linen thread.
Here are the products I used to create this card:
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Thanks for stopping by today. Let me know your system for birthday cards and actually getting them sent out. One idea for everyone else is to attend my Card Maker’s Class each month. You can make the cards you need for the upcoming month. Now I just need to figure out actually getting them out in the mail.
Sep 17, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Thank You |
As you look through the Stampin’ Up! catalog each year there are certain pages that catch your eye more than others. Sometimes you don’t even notice a stamp set on the page because the colors and projects on that page don’t catch your eye. And the next year that same stamp set is presented differently and you see it – you thinks its new – but it isn’t – it was already there last year but presented in a way that didn’t appeal to you. Do you ever feel that way?
In this new catalog one page that really catches my eye is page 163 – I love the blue, the brown, the natural feel of what is on that page. Mosaic Madness was in the last catalog and presented in a different way with bright colors and a coordinating designer paper very graphic and bright. It wasn’t my favorite. But I LoVE this soft card on page 163 so I decided I wanted to recreate it. Mine has a few changes but is generally the same card.
We made this back in August as part of my Big Shot class. We used the Modern Mosaic Textured embossing folder for the background. And by the way this pattern is very popular out in fashion/decor – I’ve seen it a lot. Plus we used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit – it makes the cutest little butterflies! And of course the stamp set and coordinating punch. Some water-coloring with an aqua-painter, a little pearl bling, and a sentiment on a vellum strip. A nice card don’t you think?
I’m so glad you stopped by today. Do you try to recreate any of the cards in the catalog – let me know by leaving a comment?
Sep 8, 2014 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, class, family |
I’m finally home again and will get back on schedule posting to my blog. Greg and I took a 2 week trip to Alaska to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. I’ve been saving money since I became a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator and used that savings to pay for this trip. It was an incredible vacation! We were on a Cruisetour with Royal Caribbean Cruise lines – the first portion of our trip was a land tour and the second part was a 7 night cruise. We loved it all!
I’m working on downloading all my photos and videos – I had 2 cameras – my small pink one which also takes video and then my big cannon rebel with the big lens – plus I took some on my iphone. I had hoped to post pictures from my iphone to my personal FB page throughout our trip but guess what my cell phone did not work in Alaska. I was only able to connect to the internet a few times when we were at one of the hotels during the first part of the trip. But we were on the move so we weren’t at any of the hotels for very long. And sometimes the weather impacted the service anyway. So my posting was very minimal. I did manage to post a few times here to my blog using the app on my phone. if you’d like to hear about our trip I think I’ll write and post some about that in between my Stampin’ up! project posts.
The first card from the pink camera has 785 photos/videos on it. Then I have more to get to. So while all my photos are downloading let me move on and show you a card that I made last month.
I don’t think i’ve shared this one with you yet. This one uses the Zoo Babies stamp set. I just love this set. The little animals are so cute. And I got this idea that I was going to have a card with this stamp set at my monthly card class every month. I added this one to my August Class and it will also be available as a card option in September’s class too.
I wanted to create a birthday card rather than a baby card so I paired it with some Designer Paper and the Itty Bitty Banners stamp set. I thought it turned out to be a fun card!
Here is the list of Stampin’ Up! supplies that I used – to visit my online store and/or place an order CLICK HERE.
- Smoky Slate card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Real Red card stock
- Smoky Slate ink
- Crushed Curry ink
- Real Red ink
- Pool Party ink
- Flashback Designer Paper
- Zoo Babies stamp set
- Itty Bitty Banners stamp set
- Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Magnetic Platform
- Circles Collection Framelits
- Bitty Banners Framelits
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Come back for another visit.
Aug 27, 2014 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
I used the Big Shot and the Star Framelits to create an alternate card using the stamps and ink from the August Paper pumpkin kit.
I stuck with the same concept as the kit. I used a piece of designer paper underneath the whisper white piece that has a “window” cut out with the star framelits. I added the little dot stamp and a greeting. Corner rounded the edges and tied on some Bakers Twine.
I hope you like this idea.
Thanks for visiting.
Monika Davis
Www.monika.stampinup.net
Plus you will have some Valentine choices too. I hope you will join me. You can RSVP on my website by Thursday night – just click on the event you want to attend and select the RSVP button. I hope to see you on Friday.
