Nov 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
It is Tuesday – welcome to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
These are nice cool colors. I decided to use a sketch from a crafting magazine. I had marked it some time ago. I usually look through my magazines and fold down a corner on ideas I want to try. And then some time later I pull the magazines out and try an idea or two. This one was actually a June issue – so I’m not very timely with some of these ideas – but that’s ok. Here you go – my color challenge card:
In fact there isn’t really much stamping on this card at all. I would be more tempted to call it a Big Shot card – since that is what I used on it. I just added the splatter stamp from French Foliage because the background looked a little plain. The strips of card stock are cut at 1/2″ and then I embossed each color with a different Embossing Folder. I used a little bit of Designer Series Paper and the Many Thanks Sizzlit is where the “thanks” comes from. The flower is a Filigree brad with a rhinestone brad in the center instead of the silver one. I doodled with a marker – the card in the magazine had real stitching on it – but I didn’t want to do that.
That’s my interpretation. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Old Olive, Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, Tempting Turquoise, Perfect Plum
- Ink: Old Olive, Night of Navy Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: French Foliage
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Finial Press Embossing Folder, Many Thanks Sizzlits Die, Cutter Kit, Filigree Designer Brads, Circle Ice Brads
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
And we are on to Bingo…..
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #4 –the snowflake from Season of Friendship stamp set (stamped in Concord Crush).
Oct 12, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Poppin' Pastels, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
Welcome to week 5 of the weekly Color Challenge over at the Utah Diva’s International Blog. Gretchen picked some bright spring colors this week. At least I think they are very spring like. I always start by pulling out the colors for the color challenge and putting those pieces of card stock on my craft table. I had them out while I worked on other projects. I didn’t have anything in mind so I just wanted to look at them for awhile.
I was working on another project with the Just Believe stamp set and the Butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit. I decided the colors for the color challenge could be flowers or butterflies so I started rolling around different ideas in my head. And this is what I came up with.
I pulled out my Stampin’ Pastels – I have the new box with all the new colors in it and I haven’t used them yet. I stamped the large floral image from the Just Believe stamp set in VersaMark ink and then used the Stampin’ Pastels to color the image. This technique is called “Poppin’ Pastels”. I use qtips to add the color and it sticks to where you have the VersaMark ink making the image “pop”.
Then I cut butterflies with the Big Shot and the Beautiful Wings embosslit die. I added those scattered around the flowers. And then I added the little pearls to some of them.
The last thing I did was add some sparkle to the whole card. You can’t really see it in the picture I took of the whole card. So I took a close up while I held it up in the sunlight so you can see the fine sparkle that is all over the card. I hope you can see it – it really sparkles. I used an empty Stampin’ Mist bottle that I cleaned – I put some rubbing alcohol in it and mixed in some Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint. Shake it up and it sprays out a fine shimmery mist over your card. I did do this inside my Color Catcher so I won’t shimmer my craft table!
Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White
- Ink: Pacific Point, Certainly Celery, VersaMark
- Stamp sets: Just Believe
- Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint
- Basic Pearls
- Big Shot Die-Cut machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit
- Modern Label Punch
- Stampin’ Pastels
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Color Catcher
- Q-tips, Rubbing Alcohol, fine mist spray bottle
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I’m starting a new round of Monika’s Blog Bingo today – this is Group 5.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #1 –the Pear from Cheep Talk stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz).
Sep 12, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, Thank You |
Last night I had a demonstrator meeting and we had a great time. There were nine of us and we had fun sharing and stamping and learning from one another. I’ll share more about our projects and swaps later this week after I take pictures of everything.
Now I have another card to share using the Just Believe stamp set again. I created this one to show a group of my stampers how to use a Brayer to add ink to one of our Embossing Folders.
For this card I used the Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder. Using a brayer and the Old Olive ink I added ink to the inside of the folder on one side – I put the ink on the side where the pluses are raised. Then put a piece of Crumb Cake card stock inside the folder and run it through the Big Shot Die-Cut machine. When you do this ink gets pressed into the depressions that are created by the embossing folder.
To finish the card I sponged the edges of the embossed piece with Early Espresso ink and tied a piece of Satin Ribbon around it. That gets layered on the front of the card base.
The leaf image is stamped in Old Olive on Whisper White card stock and punched out with the new Decorative Label punch from the Holiday Mini catalog. This piece was sponged a little bit. I punched another piece out of Old Olive and cut it in half lengthwise. You’ll need to trim the little tips off and then you can layer it on the back of the white on each side. It gives the illusion of a larger layered punch. Add the finished piece to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I stamped a matching envelope and also stamped on the inside of the card to match.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Old Olive,Whisper White
- Ink: Old Olive, Early Espresso
- Stamp sets: Just Believe
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder
- Decorative Label punch
- Early Espresso Satin Ribbon
- Stampin’ Sponges, Brayer
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Let’s play some more Bingo…..
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 3 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1 and 2 winners.
Here is piece #3 –the owl from Cute by the Inch stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
Good Luck to all the players in Round 3!
Have Fun!
Aug 22, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Stampin' Up! Convention, Thank You, Watercoloring |
This was my favorite card from the Make & Take class at the Stampin’ Up! Convention. For one it is one of my favorite new stamp sets called Just Believe. And it used a water coloring technique that makes it look like your a real artist! The stamp does all the work because it is such a nice image. Using Stampin’ Write Markers you color your image. Using a fine mist spritzer (like our Stampin’ Mist cleaner spritzer) – spritz the stamp with water and then stamp onto Watercolor Paper. I hold it on the paper for just a few seconds before lifting it. The water makes it look like a real watercolor painting.
We made this card in my hands-on class on Friday. It looks harder than it is and turns out just beautiful every time.
I also wanted to update you on a few Stampin’ Up! Products. First there are some new Digital Downloads available for your My Digital Studio Software. To order these visit my online store on my Stampin’ Up! website – CLICK HERE.
The latest group of digital downloads for My Digital Studio are now available!
| Item | Description | Price |
| 122157 | Striped Grosgrain Ribbon Color Pack | $3.95 |
| 123367 | Flower Brads Brights Pack | $1.95 |
| 123374 | Flower Brads Subtles Pack | $1.95 |
| 123381 | Flower Brads Regals Pack | $1.95 |
| 123388 | Flower Brads Neutrals Pack | $1.95 |
| 121438 | Play Date Designer Series Paper | $4.95 |
| 123432 | Play Date Quick Accents Kit | $5.95 |
| 123433 | Play Date Embellishments | $3.95 |
| 121439 | Forest Friends stamp brush set | $1.95 |
| 121440 | Letters stamp brush set | $9.95 |
| 123431 | Funky Four stamp brush set | $3.95 |
Then I have a couple of catalog product updates.
The Play Date Rub-Ons (Item #118760) on page 184 in the catalog are now available to order.
The Punch Caddy on page 200 in the catalog are not going to be available at all. I know I had them on my wish list and I was disappointed to here this announcement. Due to serious production and quality issues with the product Stampin’ Up! has decided not to offer this product at all. I’d much rather know that now that find out it is a bad product after selling it to someone.
Now it is time for Monika’s Blog Bingo! Does anyone have all the called pieces so far?
I am continuing with Round 1 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. Round 2 is full and I’m taking names for Round 3 right now which is close to being full too. See this POST for more details.
Here is piece #4 – the Owl image from the Cute by the Inch stamp set – hostess set- (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
I hope you are having a nice weekend!
Jul 25, 2010 | Cards, Stampin' Up! Convention, Thank You, Upsy Daisy |
This is my last swap for the Stampin’ Convention this year.
I had the Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black and Very Vanilla combination on my mind and decided to work with that. I made several different attempts at the swap before deciding on this one and I am happy with the result in the end. The card base is Cherry Cobbler and I stamped the Upsy Daisy set randomly on the front of the card – stamping multiple times before reinking so there would be multiple shades. I did the same thing on the Very Vanilla square. The square is on a Basic Black mat which was attached over a piece of Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon.
I added my greeting on the front which is from the new stamp set called Perfect Punches. It is stamped in Cherry Cobbler and punched out with the scallop oval and then layered on a Basic Black wide oval.
I finished this swap on the airplane flying from Atlanta to Salt Lake city.
Today is Sunday and convention is over and I am on my way back home.
I hope you had a great week – I sure did!
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.
In fact there isn’t really much stamping on this card at all. I would be more tempted to call it a Big Shot card – since that is what I used on it. I just added the splatter stamp from French Foliage because the background looked a little plain. The strips of card stock are cut at 1/2″ and then I embossed each color with a different Embossing Folder. I used a little bit of Designer Series Paper and the Many Thanks Sizzlit is where the “thanks” comes from. The flower is a Filigree brad with a rhinestone brad in the center instead of the silver one. I doodled with a marker – the card in the magazine had real stitching on it – but I didn’t want to do that.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
