Nov 19, 2014 | Christmas, Holiday Catalog 2014 |
Yesterday I shared the first card from my Christmas Card Stamp A Stack classes. Here is number 2.
This card idea started with a card I saw on Pinterest. It’s a pretty simple card with the Washi Tape – I embossed first and added the washi tape over the embossed trees but you could also do it the other way around and then the embossing would be embedded in the washi tape too. With the matching Tree punch for the Festival of Trees stamp set you just stamp and punch and done! This is a good one to replicate and make a bunch of. In my Stamp a stack class everyone made 5 of these. For my customers that were waiting on the Tree Punch – the backorders have shipped and should be here any day now.
Here is a full list of supplies – all are available in my online store.
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Nov 18, 2014 | Christmas, Holiday Catalog 2014 |
I’m back – hopefully blogging pretty regularly for the next little while. My boys will be home for Thanksgiving and I’m very excited about that. I have one more class Wed. night and then Kyle will be home Thursday night. Ryan will be here next week just before Thanksgiving. I’m looking forward to a long weekend with everyone being home.
I had two Christmas Card Stamp A Stack classes this year. One was this past weekend and the other was last month. At each one there were 4 different card designs and everyone made 5 of each design for a total of 20 cards. I wanted to share some of those with you. This first card is one that I created with a simple little technique using the Magnetic Platform and framelits in a different way.
Here is how I created this card –
- On the Crumb Cake layer I stamped the Beauty of the Season cardinal image in the center with Black StazOn ink.
- Place the cardstock on top of the magnetic platform. Place the Labels Collection Framelit over the stamped image – the magnet will hold it in place so you can trace the frame – both inside and outside – using the Project Life Pen. This creates a frame around the stamped image. Just a different way to use the magnetic platform and your framelits.
- Stamp the bird image again on Cherry Cobbler card stock and cut out – glue it on top of the first image.
- Use the Stamp & Pierce Mat, the Essentials Piercing template and the Piercing tool to add a pierced accent to each corner of the panel.
- color in the berries with the Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker.
- Tie a piece of Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding around the card stock piece and then attach with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the front of a Cherry Cobbler card stock base.
- Stamp a Crumb Cake envelope to match.
Here is a full list of the supplies – click on an item for the link to my online store:
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Nov 10, 2014 | Christmas, Holiday Catalog 2014 |
I’m back from a long weekend away scrapbooking in the mountains. It was a gorgeous fall weekend in North Georgia and we had perfect weather. Spending time crafting and hanging out with friends you just can’t beat that.
Before I left I had a card class at KSU and this was one of the cards that everyone made –
I wasn’t sure when I started it how I would like it. It seems every time I get out the Bearing Gifts stamp I use it with the All is Calm Designer Paper and colors. But I wanted to use more traditional colors this time. And this is what I ended up with. I used my Stampin’ Write Markers – Real Red, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight – to color in the little kids. The Filgree Frame Embossing Folder added a nice little frame around the image. The finishing the touch was a little bit of baker’s twine tied around the edge. Here is a complete list of supplies –
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Thanks for stopping by. I have lots going on this week. A card class tonight, the MDS Virtual Crop on Tuesday night, my neighbor friends are coming over for our monthly pokeeno group on Wed (my turn to be the hostess), Friday is Card Maker’s, Saturday I have a private scrapbook class scheduled and Sunday my Christmas Card Stamp A Stack. Not sure what I was thinking when I put all this in one week! My blogging may be sparse for the rest of the week.
Nov 3, 2014 | Christmas |
Today I’m doing something a little different. I’m participating in a Creative Blog Hop. A friend and fellow Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator – Rhonda Morgan – tagged me to participate. I’ve added the link to her blog so you can check it out too just click on her name. Today is my day to post. For the hop I’ll be answering some questions and then I’m adding a twist that the others weren’t including. But I’m wondering if going forward others will (you don’t have to). I’ll be sharing a creative project! So here we go.
What am I working on now? I’m usually always working on a variety of things. Mostly for the classes and things I have coming up. I have 2 private card groups coming up – I’ll create 3 cards for each group. I also have a private scrapbook class this month for a new group of ladies – I’ll be creating 2 layouts for them. Plus I’m packing for a scrapbook weekend away with another group of friends – a really long weekend and I have to decide what I’m working on and what to take. I’m sure there will be something I don’t bring that I’ll need. I’ll be taking mostly personal projects. These are some that I have going right now – a traditional scrapbook from a trip out west that we took many years ago; a My Digital Studio scrapbook for the Alaska trip we took this year; making some tile coasters for my youngest son to have at college (themed for his school), and a project life album of just every day life.
How does my work differ from others on my genre? Hmm – not sure how to answer that one really. I think my work is really just whatever I’m feeling at the time. I think my stuff is pretty clean for the most part and I like things very natural. I like colors from nature not too bright or glitzy. I’m not a glitter girl at all. I don’t know – what do you think?
Why do I create what I do? I enjoy being busy with my hands. I don’t often just sit still and do nothing. And stamping and crafting is just great therapy. I used to do cross-stitch a long time ago but I was working full time and had three young boys and it took so long to get anything done so I started stamping and making cards because I could get to the end result faster. Many years later I became a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. I create for fun, for my friends, for my family, for my escape from whatever else was going on, because it keeps be sane & happy. I enjoy sharing with my blog readers, Facebook followers, and everyone that comes to my classes and events.
How does my creative process go? As I think about what is coming up I am normally thinking of ideas in my head, occasionally I get an idea while I sleep, or while I’m the shower, or some other time I see something and get an idea. So I may be thinking of ideas for a long time but don’t necessarily do anything with them until much closer to my event. I often finish creating the night before! Late at night and at the last minute is when things really start happening. I do like to plan and make lists and things but the final creative product usually happens at the last minute. I also feel like the more time I have the less I tend to accomplish – but if I have a tight deadline I can get a ton of things done! I’m weird like that. I do also browse pinterest, blogs and other creative places for inspiration and ideas – some projects end up close to the idea I found and other times they end up totally different.
Tag You’re It! I’m going to tag my friend and another Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, Diane Squires to continue on the Creative Blog Hop. Diane and I often chat late at night as we are trying to create – we discuss our businesses and also work through creative blocks together. I’m so glad that she called me one day and that we have become such close friends. Stop by
her blog to check out what she is working on and visit her on Monday November 10th as she answers the Creative Blog Hop Questions and tags the next person to keep things going!
And here is one of my projects to share with you today. This one I created for a swap that I participated in. I think I made about 28 of these – I mailed them in to the swap coordinator and along with everyone else that participated and she divides them up and mails back one of every card in the whole group. It’s a great way to get lots of different ideas from a variety of other demos.
I loved the single stamp in the catalog called Bearing Gifts. I had recently made a couple of other cards that used a circle cut out of Designer Paper with an image layered underneath – like a window. And I thought this stamp would work for that – except for the words at the bottom.
- So I carefully inked up the stamp with Black Stazon without getting ink on the words.
- The Polar Bear is watercolored just a bit to give it some dimension.
- The kids are colored with Stampin’ Write markers – Pear Pizzazz, Soft Sky, Lost Lagoon and a little bit of Sahara Sand.
- The designer paper is All is Calm Specialty Paper – the square with the circle cut out using the Framelits & Big Shot. And also a strip of the silver dots on the left side
- I added 2 strips of Silver Glimmer paper punched with the Scallop Border punch.
- The card is finished with some Silver Baker’s Twine tied through the edge of the circle.
- The card base is Lost Lagoon.
I love how it turned out and hopefully the other demos in this WOW Christmas Card swap liked it too!
Thanks for stopping by! Remember to check back with Rhonda and see what she is up to and check in with Diane too – next week she will post for the Creative Blog Hop and we shall see who she tags.
Oct 22, 2014 | Big Shot, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving |
A few weeks ago I had my Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat at my house for the weekend. It was tons of fun and I can’t wait to start planning a spring retreat. One of my favorite projects was this cute trio of holiday boxes made with the Curvy Keepsake Die. There is one for Halloween, one for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas.
I really love this die! It is so easy to assemble these little boxes and you just need some adhesive to attach the two pieces together – I used Fast Fuse. The little boxes are fun to decorate and there are already tons of ideas out there. Here is a photo of some of the girls working on their boxes during the retreat –
The Halloween box is fun – made from clear window sheets with a little tea light inside and a ghost hanging on the handle.
The Thanksgiving box is a fun little pumpkin. I used the lines from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set to create the lines that would be grooves on a pumpkin. And then we added leaves – stamped, die cut ones and a wood one.
The “boo to you” and “thankful” stamps are from the Good Greetings stamp set which a special hostess stamp set that you can earn through the end of October. It has lots of fun little greetings in it for the holidays. You need a $300 workshop/party to get this set for free!
And the Christmas one – or even just a winter holiday one – is just so pretty with the Lost Lagoon and silver. And the cute little snowflake charm is a fun accent.
and here is one more picture of it so you can see the silver snowflakes stamped on two sides of the box.
I hope you like these little projects. Here is a list of all the supplies that were used:
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Thanks for stopping by. I’ll share more about the retreat later.
Jan 4, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Christmas, Stamper's Club, Weekly Deals |
Living in Georgia it doesn’t really get that cold here – I like it that way. It’s cold already and getting colder. I suppose most of the country is the same. Here they are saying the coldest temps since 1986! Monday a low of 6 degrees – yikes! Ryan should be going back to school on Monday but I have a feeling they may not have it. I guess we shall see.
I realized I didn’t share this card earlier – it was actually one of my November Stamper’s Club projects! I completely forgot to take photos of the projects we made in November.
It’s actually pretty fitting to share this now – since it is so cold. It’s my telescoping snowman card! He is all twisted up to fit inside an envelope but when you stretch him out – he looks like this –
I used the Circle Framelits to make this fun card! And guess what – the Circle Framelits are part of the weekly deals this week – so you can get them for $20.21 – regular price is $26.95. And I used Bermuda Bay ink which is also on the weekly deals – $4.46 for the classic ink pad. To see all of this weeks deals or place an order – CLICK HERE.
Here are a few more notes about this card –
- Circle Framelits to create all 3 pairs of circles – Bermuda Bay/Whisper White, Real Red/Whisper White, Pool Party/Whisper White
- The bottom two sections were stamped with the Endless Wishes stamp set
- The buttons in the center are punched from Basic Black using the Itty Bitty Circle punch
- The nose is punched from Tangerine Tango using the Itty Bitty Ornament punch
- The eyes are rhinestones that were colored black with a sharpie
- The hat is a 1-1/4″ square punch with two corners rounded and a word window punch at the base – all in Basic Black.
- A piece of Real Red ribbon around the hat.
- A white flower is from the Boho Blossoms punch with a Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine bow added to the center of the flower.
- The arms are the retired snowflake punch.
- The circles are connected with the Silver Mini Brads.
Stay warm!!
