Nov 29, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Christmas, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
Hi Everyone!
Here is a quick Christmas card for you. I got the idea from Connie Babbert (at least I’m pretty sure that is where it came from). I know I made some modifications but I can’t find the original one I saw so I’m not sure what I changed and what I left the same.
I used the Pines & Poinsettias stamp set and Holly Berry Bouquet Specialty Designer Series paper from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog.
I also used two new embossing folders from the regular catalog – the Designer Frames and the Stripes.
There is some Satin Real Red ribbon and that’s about it.
Colors are Real Red, Early Espresso and Wild Wasabi.
There is some fun coming up at the end of the week a Ustamp with Dawn & Friends Blog Hop. So check back later in the week for that.
And there are only two days left for the Online Extravaganza Sale – visit my website and online store to see what is on sale. Sale ends Nov. 30th!
Also my Card Maker’s Club class is on Wednesday – that’s tomorrow – let me know if you would like to come.
Have a great day!
Nov 28, 2011 | Cards, Punch Art, uStamp |
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday this past week (if you are in the US that is). We spent the week in Virginia with Greg’s family and had a great time. We did some shopping, played some games, did some cooking, a little bit of crafting (making turkey boxes and advent calendars), and enjoyed each others company. Our trip home on Saturday was a tad bit more interesting than our usual – as we drove through Tennessee we happened to see the highway sign that said the interstate was closed – this was probably a couple of hours before we got to that point – so the iphone came in handy – I searched for traffic and then live cams and the maps to figure out what was going on and what we needed to do – as it turned out the interstate was completely shut down for 5 hours – no cars through at all. We stopped at an exit for lunch before we got to that point and decided that we could go around it or home another way from that point. Tyler drove from this point on – I was the navigator using the iphone and found a path around the accident and back to the interstate in Knoxville – problem #2 – the bridge across the river was closed and we had to follow a detour for that too. But we got back on our path and made it all the way home with Tyler driving (a young 18 year old driver is still a little stressful but he did a good job and got lots of good practice). Tyler and Kyle are both back at college and Sunday I did lots of laundry. But hey – that’s not why you are here enough chatter and on to my project today.
I wanted to share this super cute punch art project with you today. I created this box set of cards for the Knockout Punches online class for Ustamp with Dawn & Friends.
It is a box with 6 cards – each one featuring a different punch art garden animal. A great project for scrap and lots of fun to make. I’ll be offering this as a class next year as we get ready for spring – so keep an eye on my hands-on class schedule. And if you don’t live near me the full tutorial is available as part of the Knock Out Punches version of UStamp with Dawn & Friends – you can sign up for that and get over 45 great punch projects all with a tutorial and pictures. Lots of fun stuff – here is the link to the Ustamp site. You can also click on the button on my side bar.
And guess what – they are predicting that north Georgia will get some snow on Tuesday! We’ll have to see if that happens and if it gets to us. Have a wonderful day!
Nov 23, 2011 | Cards, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Stampin' Up! Events |
I don’t think I ever shared the cards we made at the Birmingham Regional. So here they are today. They use the stamp set You Are Loved from the Holiday Mini Catalog. It’s way in the back of the mini and is more suited to Valentine’s Day so you may over look it back there – but it would be pretty for many other things. We also used the Distressing Kit with it and I really like how they turned out – gives it an aged look.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.
Nov 22, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, family, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi all – I hope you are having a productive week leading up to Thanksgiving – is everything ready? Do you have the turkey, the ham? We have both. I have more little turkey milk cartons to make – one for each of the kids although the kids are really kids any more they are becoming adults. Yesterday was Kyle’s 20th birthday! I can’t believe I have a 20 year old! Where did the time go? Since I needed a card for Kyle for his birthday I used this weeks color challenge for his card. Here is the inspiration picture –
I thought these colors were good for a masculine card even though the inspiration photo isn’t. I am working on another project that uses the Peek-a-Boo die for the Big Shot so I had that on my craft table and decided to play with it for this card too. After playing around with it quite a bit I finally came up with this –
This is the front – I made owls using the owl punch and set them on each of the peek-a-boo windows – each one says “got birthday?” – and when you open the windows you get –
one cupcake and then two cupcakes with candles –
And then on the inside of the card – it’s better than the outside –
This time the peek-a-boo window reveals the best part of the birthday –
The gift card (or cash) – I created a pocket under the window – used the word window punch to make the opening for the gift card – or fold up some case and slide it in there. So that is the card that Kyle got for his birthday.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Garden Green, So Saffron, Soft Suede
- Ink: Soft Suede, So Saffron
- Stamp sets: Got Treats, (and an old birthday set – I had limited supplies with me, sorry)
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Peek-a-Boo Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Owl Builder punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch, Word Window punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Sponge.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Nov 1, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge |
So how was your Halloween? I think we had the fewest kids ever – one small group came by like 6:30 and then maybe 20 minutes later a couple of kids, then some small groups every 10 -15 minutes – i was giving out hand fulls trying to get rid of the candy. I’m not sure where everyone was – although I do think we have a lot of families around us that are like us – their kids are now in college and high school and they don’t have any more trick-or-treaters – so maybe that is it our neighborhood is older and we don’t have very many young families around us.
But enough of that – there is a new UDI Color Challenge in town – and I had some fun with this one!
Here is the inspiration picture:
And I really like how well these colors work together – I’m not sure that I would have used them together but I am very happy with how my card turned out. The idea from my card came from one that I saw on Pinterest – it was a non-SU card but mine of course is made with all Stampin’ Up! products.
It is basically a bunch of punched pieces aligned in a grid on the front of the card. I layered different pieces and added some embellishments like brads and buttons. What do you think? I love it! See below for all the supplies that I used – I think it is pretty self explanatory – each set of punched pieces is on the card with a Stampin’ Dimensional. The only hard to figure out thing might be the “thread” in the buttons on the top row – well it isn’t thread at all it is a thin piece of card stock. You can cut very thin slivers with the Tabletop Paper Cutter – that is what I use for just about all my cutting – I love it.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip
- Stamp sets: Tiny Tags, Sweetly Said
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Subtles Designer Series Patterns Stack, White Baker’s Twine, Jewelry Tag punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Heart to Heart punch, Itty Bitty shapes – flower, Neutral Designer Buttons, Brights Brads, Bitty Buttons, Brights Designer Buttons, Basic Pearls, Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads, 5/16″ Jumbo Neutrals brads, Scallop Edge Border punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack , Stampin’ Sponge, mini glue dots.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Oct 28, 2011 | Cards, Christmas, Demonstrator, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, My Digital Studio |
Earlier this month we had a retreat for demos at my house and we learned all about My Digital Studio. It was so much fun! My friend, Cindy and I came up with the idea last summer as we flew out to Salt Lake City for the Stampin’ Up! Convention. We started talking on the flight over and then had even more ideas after attending the classes that they offered at convention. We worked on our plans and on our projects and scheduled the retreat for mid October.
There were 12 of us here for an entire day learning and playing with My Digital Studio.
all of us
A picture of the whole gang eating out in my sunroom. We set up tables out there so we wouldn’t have to clear the computers off our work spaces. We set up two classrooms – the kitchen table had the beginner group that I taught and the dining room table had the intermediate group that Cindy taught.
Beginner Classroom
Intermediate Classroom
We planned our day with class time in the morning, lunch and dinner breaks, three hybrid projects, and free create time at the end of the day. For each hybrid project the time was split between actually completing the project – adding the hybrid elements – we had the MDS part pre-printed – and going over how we created it in MDS. We covered topics such as printing through the Stampin’ Up! print service, using Designer Templates, printing at home, and more.
One project was a Welcome Banner. This one was modeled after one that we saw at one of the classes at Convention. I changed it to use the Spice Cake Designer Paper in MDS. This one I printed on my home computer and then we added the elements such as die cut letters, punched flowers, ribbon, pearls, linen thread, hemp twine and the mini clothes pins for hanging.
The second project was a card. This is the card sample in the Holiday Mini catalog. It is made using a postcard template so we showed how to take that template (it is a digital download) and create a card with it. And then add the hybrid elements. Cindy created this project for the class. These were printed through the SU print service.
The third project was the calendar. Cindy recreated the calendar that was made in the MDS +FUN class at convention in the portrait option. And she made it a 2012 calendar. For the class we added little hybrid pieces to each month. These were printed through the SU print service and they are so nice.
Everybody received a Make ‘n Take bag that included a personalized name tag. I got this idea from another demo – Heather. I created the tags as a MDS Swatchbook project and had them printed through the SU print service. The swatch books are really nice – see the hole in the corner – that is where the rivet is and then the book has a plastic cover on the front and back. I just took it all apart to create the tags which we tied to the bags with Very Vanilla Seam Binding. Inside the bag were all the pieces for the projects we made (we pre-punched everything!) and all the handouts with instructions for our class topics, printing, and the projects.
We had good food – Chicken Salad for lunch and Chili and baked potatoes for dinner. We had some desserts – look at these little brownie bites – 
We punched out the detailed flower from the Triple Flower punch – laid it on each brownie and sprinkled them with powdered sugar. They matched the cover of our calendar!!
I think everyone learned a lot in that one day – even Cindy and I learned from each other as we prepared and held the retreat. We enjoyed ourselves so much we started planning the next one before the night even ended. If you live near us – I hope you will be able to join us for the next one!
Have a great day!
Hi Everyone!
