Nov 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, uStamp |
For the last two months my Stamper’s Club girls have been working on their Advent Shadowbox Calendars. I took these pictures while they were working on the different parts. My original post for this project is HERE. I created this project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends – I Heart the Holidays class.
I took pictures of all the girls working on their boxes. I had everything divided between two tables and half the group worked at each table. They started at the October Club meeting and then finished at the November Club meeting. Now I need to have them bring them in December so I can take pictures of their finished boxes.
It was a lot of work but I think everyone was very happy with the end result. I still have one more to finish that I’m giving to someone special. I didn’t have time to work on mine during the club meetings so I better get a move on.
Have a nice day – thanks for stopping by!
Nov 7, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Punch Art, Thanksgiving, uStamp, Valentine's Day |
I designed this fun project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 online class.
This is a Holiday Treat Making Kit. I used the Gift Givers stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog for this project. It is one of my favorites! The picture shows the box and then a sample of each of the six Holiday treats that you would make. My idea for this project was to have a ready to go kit full of everything you would need to put together treats for each holiday – except the candy. So once you have your kit created you just sit back and wait for the holidays to arrive – go buy your candy – fill the bag – assemble and give out the treats.
My box is designed to hold enough for 10 of each of the 6 holidays – so there are sections for the large fold over tags, the skinny cello bags, and then the tags, ribbon and brads for each of the holidays. I think it is fun and now I can be ready to mail off treats to my kids, and my nieces and nephews.
There is a complete tutorial for this project in the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 class. Click on image below if you would like to join the class. You will go to the main site for the UStamp classes. This one is all about punches and there are over 45 projects with full tutorials – new projects are being posted every day.
I hope to see you there. This is the first of my two projects and let metell you the other one is super duper cute!!!
Have a great day!
Nov 4, 2011 | Christmas, My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up! Events |
Celebrate with Stampin’ Up! all weekend November 4 – 7 – Digital Scrapbooking Day is this weekend and we are celebrating.
Welcome to Stampin’ Up!’s four-day Digital Scrapbooking celebration. We are kicking it off by offering free downloads to EVERYONE! (See below for details.)
Plan to visit MyDigitalStudio.net frequently throughout November 4-7 to view new project ideas.
If it’s your first time hearing about My Digital Studio—Stampin’ Up!’s digital design software—you can learn more here.
Now for the fun part: during our online event, we are giving away FREE digital content that can be used with most design software. Fill out a brief survey and then you will be given the following brand-new, never seen before FREE downloads:
- · So Typefelt Stamp Brush Set
- · Neutral Delightful Digital Tape
- · Home for the Holidays Ensemble
- · Delight in the Day Photobook Template
To learn what’s included in the downloads and how to access the downloaded files, choose one of the following:
Want another FREE download? If we get 5,000 new friends to download the content we will give everyone a fifth download. So share MyDigitalStudio.net with your friends today!
It’s simple. Get your four FREE Digital Scrapbooking Day downloads today; just fill out this brief survey!
Here is a project I made using the Home for the Holidays Ensemble –
It is a Holiday Planner. I used My Digital Studio to create the cover, I printed it on Whisper White card stock on my home printer and then trimmed it to fit inside one of the Clear Mount Stamp cases. I decorated it with a piece of Baja Breeze Seam Binding and a die cut snowflake.
On the inside I created some helpful inserts weekly planners, to do lists, gift lists and card lists.
This useful fun project is one of the choices at my Gift Making Class next weekend. If you want to come be sure to email me. So spend some time this weekend visiting MyDigitalStudio.net. Stampin’ Up! will be posting projects all weekend – so far there is a Christmas Card idea with the Home for the Holiday ensemble and a scrapbook layout using the Delight in the Day template. And demonstrators and My Digital Studio customers will be posting their ideas in the Showcase too. Come see what we are all up to.
Have a fun weekend!
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!
Sep 1, 2011 | Christmas, Demonstrator, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
I’m so excited that the Holiday Mini Catalog starts today and everyone can order! Have you seen it yet? It is packed full of great products!
Some of my favorites are the new Simply Scored scoring tool (yipee!), the 1″ x8″ skinny cello bags, the Spice Cake product suite, the Holiday Stocking die for the Big Shot, personalized address stamps for the holidays, the Stitched Stocking stamp set with a matching PUNCH (yeah!), the Peekaboo Frames die for the Big Shot and the 25 & Counting stamp set and more. This may be my favorite mini catalog yet. And if you open up the first page of the mini (US version) you see this:
That’s me in the bottom corner! I was so excited to see this at convention! I didn’t think they would actually pick me when I got an email months earlier and then didn’t hear anything back. I don’t consider myself to be good with words, in fact I think I am a terrible writer, so I thought for a long time about how to answer the questions they asked trying to make it sound good. And when I didn’t hear back I figured they picked someone else. Thanks so much Stampin’ Up! you really (I mean really) made me feel special! I love this company!
So online ordering is up and ready for you to order any time day or night – just go here to my website.
Aug 24, 2011 | Christmas, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, uStamp |
Hi all! I am so excited about this project. It was something that I started thinking about more than a year ago. What I started with then was not coming together so I set it aside. I described the project to my stamp club and they wanted to make one so I tried to order more of the kit online – out of stock – every place I looked in the US was out of stock – for almost a year! So we never made the project. Then this year rolled around and Dawn asked me to be a designer for the Ustamp with Dawn & Friends I heart the Holidays class. And I remembered this project and proposed it to Dawn as one of my class projects – she said yes. So now I was committed to getting this project done.
But most of a year had passed so the Designer Paper I was using was retired. My 3d tree using the Big Shot die was also retired. So I started from square one. And the frames were now in stock again – things were looking up. I ordered the Letters from Santa Designer Paper and Quick Accents and got to work. For the shadow box center I decided I wanted it to look like the inside of a home at Christmas – I made a cross-stitch stocking (actually I’ve made 5) and it had a scene with a fire place, mantel with stockings, a tree, a window, etc. So this was my “model” for my project. Then convention came and they showed us the new Holiday Mini catalog – oh my gosh! There was a stocking stamp set and a matching punch! I had to have it for this project so I begged Dawn to let me finish my project after the deadline so I could order, receive and create my project and include these new products from the Holiday Mini catalog – she said yes! And by the way if you are in the US – check out page 3 of the Holiday Mini – that’s me!
So are you ready to see it? My stamp club will be making these – luckily the frames were in stock and I ordered a bunch. They may run out soon since all the Ustamp subscribers are ordering them up right now so they can make this project. If you are a member of the class you can get a full step-by-step tutorial for my project – plus about 40 others – there are some awesome projects on there – visit the site here to join.
Ok – so now are you ready?
I wish you could see it in person – it is one of my all time favorite projects (I still love my Build a Bear Sleeping Bags!). The tree turned out so well. I went through several different attempts at creating a 3-d tree and finally settled on this one and I love it!
The little tiny jingle bells are in the new Holiday Mini and so are the Mica Flakes which are the snow in the window. And I was so surprised at how big the jar of Mica Flakes was – I thought it would be small like our embossing powders – but no this guy is huge – about the size of 3 button containers.
This was my first project for the class and I have one more that will post later.
And now for some more Ustamp class news – I will be designing for the next class too!
I am super super excited to announce that Early Bird Registration is now open for UStamp with Dawn & Friends!! Paper Parade – Early Fall 2011!!
WOOHOO!!!!!!!
UStamp with Dawn and Friends!! has implemented a new FAST AND EASY way for everyone to join as a member and you no longer need to wait for Opening Day to receive and invite!!
BIG YAY on that one!!
What do you think of the new banner…I LOVE IT of course…hope you do too!!
Are YOU a Paper LOVER?? Who isn’t, right??!!
Paper Parade will be focusing on showcasing Stampin’ Up! Paper from the USA/Canada 2011 – 2012 Idea Book & Catalog as well as the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog!!
This is a HUGE Challenge to cover all the papers in 40+ projects…but all the Designers are way excited and are more than up for the challenge!! Keeping in mind that the most important element is the AWESOMENESS of the project, each Designer is working MAGIC with the Stampin’ Up! Papers!!
Since our focus this round is PAPER and not just the upcoming Holiday Season, we have a VAST VARIETY of FANTASTIC Projects!!
Come join us and take advantage of the Early Bird Savings!! ONLY $19.99
Click the blinkie below to start the payment/signup process….it’s E*A*S*Y*!!
The Paper Parade website is OPEN NOW,
so you will not need to wait for an invite on Opening Day!!
Remember, with the implementation of the new payment process allows YOU to enter the website as soon as you make your payment!! Woohoo!!
Hope you join us…I will “see” you over at the Paper Parade Website!!
I took pictures of all the girls working on their boxes. I had everything divided between two tables and half the group worked at each table. They started at the October Club meeting and then finished at the November Club meeting. Now I need to have them bring them in December so I can take pictures of their finished boxes.
