Nov 30, 2009 | Big Shot, Christmas, Circle Scissor Plus, class |
I found the cutest Big Shot project a few weeks back while searching blogs for ideas. I loved this one so much I made very few changes. I found it on Renee’s blog .
I decided to use it for my Holiday Big Shot class that I had a couple of weeks ago.
This was actually much easier to create than what it looks. You need 3 pillow box die cuts and then 2 circles (I believe they were 4″ and I used my Circle Scissor Plus to cut them) and three strips that were 1″ x 5″.
I used the same color combination that Renee used – Not Quite Navy and Old Olive. The snowman is stamped in Close to Cocoa and his nose is colored with the Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write Marker. The snowflakes are stamped in Not Quite Navy and I used my Shimmer Paint mist to spritz on some shimmer (you can’t really see it in the photo).
The handle is made from Old Olive ribbon in the Mistletoe Ribbon Originals pack from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday mini catalog. A trick we learned at the Chattanooga Regional was to attach a piece of card stock to the underside of the ribbon if you want the ribbon to stand up like a handle. So here I added a 1/4″ x 8-1/2″ strip of Old Olive card stock to the underside of the ribbon handle. I used the slot punch to add a slot in either side of the bucket. I added my holes at the crease line so that my snowman could be on the center of a flat panel rather than on a crease in the bucket. The handle attaches to itself with brads.
The bottom of the bucket is created like a basket – you score 1/2″ on each end of the 5″ long strips and then glue them in on opposite sides of the bucket. The three strips will cross in the center. Then you add a circle to each side of the strips creating the bottom of the bucket.
These are really cute and since I have three of them made and I have three boys – guess what – they will each get one filled with some type of little goodies. Now to figure out what I’m going to put inside.
People often talk about comfort zones and how you need to step outside your comfort zone to grow and challenge yourself. Many things that I have done related to my Stampin’ Up! business have sent me outside my comfort zone. And I just took two new steps outside my comfort zone. Last night I turned in an application to be a guest designer for an online class that two other demonstrators are having beginning in January. And today I sent an email to a scrapbook magazine to get information on how to send in submissions for publication in their magazine. Now I’ll have to wait and see what I hear back.
The count down towards Christmas begins and I’m finishing up an advent calendar project that I plan to post tomorrow. I won’t have a chance to hold it as a class so I’m hoping to include some general instructions for you to create one at home.
Thanks for visiting me today!
Nov 29, 2009 | Christmas, class, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
One more card from the Holiday card class – I think this is the last one and the class favorite!
It is really gorgeous in person – it sparkles with the new Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint – used two different ways on this card.
My card design came from a card that I made when I went to Christina Crawford’s Stamp Camp in Virginia. But she used a different stamp set and I don’t think we had a greeting on the card so the bottom portion was different. The scalloped square was one that I had done last year – but with a single layer – this card has a double scallop square.
The base is soft suede and the ink is soft suede also. The ornament is stamped, then punched out with the coordinating Ornament punch. I love that Stampin’ Up! coordinates the punches with so many stamped images. And this punch has lots of other possibilities besides being just an ornament. Th ornament has a gold shimmer that was created using the Stampin’ Up! Shimmer paint in Champagne Mist. Shake the bottle, remove the lid and then dab a Stampin’ Sponge on the rim of the bottle to pick up a small amount of pain, dab it on the ornament to give it shimmer. A little paint goes a long way so you don’t need much. And to make the most of my Stampin’ Up! sponges I always cut them into 8 pieces. I keep the sponge for the shimmer paint in the little ziploc bag with the bottle of paint then it all stays together. A piece of gold cord was wrapped around the top of the 
ornament and it was attached to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To create the scallop square piece – the Soft Suede card stock is cut to 2-3/4″ x 2-3/4″ and the Kraft card stock is cut to 3″ x 3″. For each layer center the Scallop Edge punch on each side and make one punch. So you punch one time on each side of both pieces. I sponged the edges with Soft Suede card stock and then layered them together. Use a paper piercer to poke holes and add the brads.
The base of the card is stamped with the little sparkle image from the Delightful Decorations stamp set. Then the base of the card is spritzed with shimmer paint. I use an old Stampin’ Mist bottle and pour in some rubbing alcohol and add a few drops of the Shimmer Paint. Shake well and then spritz lightly on your card stock. I didn’t use a particular amount of shimmer paint – I just added a few drops and then spritzed it. If it isn’t enough shimmer, add a couple more drops to the bottle, shake and spritz again. I have been adding lots of sparkle to many of my holiday cards and projects with this. It is very light. I am not a glitter girl so I like the faint shimmer that this adds to my projects and it isn’t as messy as glitter either.
The “Merry Christmas” stamp is from the Christmas Greetings stamp set and was stamped in Soft Suede ink on Kraft card stock. One edge was scalloped and all sides were sponged.
We stamped a matching Kraft envelope. This was the class favorite!
Have a great day.
Nov 28, 2009 | Christmas, class, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
I showed some cards using the Stampin’ Up! set Holiday Lineup a few weeks ago. Here is one more that we made in my Holiday Card class. Everyone that came to the class got to choose which image they wanted to use – either the reindeer, the snowmen or the elves. All of them have such funny expressions on their faces. The reindeer were the fastest because you could just color them all the same color. We stamped the image in Black StazOn ink and then used Stampin’ Write markers to color them in.
I thought I had a picture of the snowmen card – but I can’t find it on my computer – so maybe I didn’t take one after all – hmm….
The Designer Series paper is Merry Moments from the regular catalog. The colors are Old Olive, Real Red, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. You can’t see it much on this card but on the snowman card I used the white gel pen to add accents – like the pom-pom on the end of the hat (one reindeer does have a hat on) – the white stands out against the vanilla card stock. The Stampin’ Write markers were used for all the coloring. Some chunky glitter on the center reindeer would be cute too – but I didn’t have any for the class – I have some now, so I may add that to my card.
Have a wonderful day!
Nov 28, 2009 | Christmas, class, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, In Colors, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Buttons |
I’m back home – we drove all day today and we are home. I had a couple of days without posting – one was Thanksgiving – we spent the day cooking, then eating and enjoying our time with family, then cleaning it all up, then getting it all out and eating some more. We were all stuffed! Friday the girls went shopping and most of the boys went to the battlefield for a hike. Friday night we pulled out all the Thanksgiving left overs one more time. And packed up so we could leave early this morning. Aspen and Magnolia are VERY HAPPY to have us home and to be back in their own house instead of at the kennel.
Onto another card from my Holiday Card class – this is one my favorite cards. The colors are Soft Suede, Old Olive, Ruby Red and Whisper White. We received this stamp set from Stampin’ Up! at the Chattanooga Regional – it is called Berry Christmas from the Holiday mini catalog. There was a card on one of the display boards that I took a photo of and created my version for my class – I stuck pretty close to the original because I just loved it. I don’t know who the original creator was because we can’t see that on the display boards. It might have been someone at the corporate office – I’m not sure.
Stampin’ Up Supplies:
- Berry Christmas stamp set
- Soft Suede card stock and ink and marker
- Old Olive card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Ruby Red ink
- Scallop edge punch
- Linen thread
- Earth Elements buttons
- mini glue dots
- stampin’ dimensionals
- medium envelope
Thanks for stopping by today! I am thankful too for everyone that visits my blog, leaves me comments and sends me emails. I’m thankful for Stampin’ Up! and all the friends I have made and the opportunities that I have had. There is always something exciting around the corner and I can’t wait to share many more ideas and creations with you.
Nov 19, 2009 | Big Shot, Christmas, class, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
This is one of the cards that we made last week at my Holiday Big Shot class. The top panel of the card is embossed using the Stapmin’ Up! exclusive Petals-a-Plenty Embossing Folder from the Holiday Mini Catalog. In my class photo you couldn’t really see the embossing but on this close-up photo you can. The Designer Series paper is the Autumn Meadows paper from the Holiday mini – aren’t the blues and browns just gorgeous for a winter card!
I loved the end result of this with the softness of the Very Vanilla. I did notice though that I didn’t finish watercoloring the card – oops. I forgot to do her sweater and to add some color to his pants. I guess I got distracted and thought I was done. But you get the idea – the colors are Taken with Teal, Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and I used some Creamy Carmel too. I stamped the skaters with Black StazOn ink and used my Aqua-painter to watercolor with my classic inks.
The greeting is from the stamp set Many Merry Messages. It was one of the sets I selected for Free for winning the Stampin’ Up! Art Contest. The full stamp says “Warmest greetings of the season and every good wish for the coming year.” I stamped that on the inside of my card. To get only the “Warmest greetings” on the front I stamped on scratch paper and punched out with the Word Window punch – but in order to not get the next word ‘of’ in there you have to punch it so the right side lines up on “greetings”. But then it is off-center inside the word window which I didn’t like. To fix that take it and slide it back in the punch on the left side and punch again just to the side of “Warmest” – it gives you a shorter word window. I took that and layered it on the Modern Label.
I hope you like it!
I had a fun class this morning – the repeat of my Holiday Card Class – I’ll be posting those cards over the next week or so. I’m off to run some errands now.
Happy Stampin’!
Nov 17, 2009 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, Scrapbook Pages |
Sorry I’m so late getting a project posted. It’s about 10:30 pm now and the whole afternoon/evening disappeared on me. Somewhere in the definition of a mom needs to be the word “chauffeur” – because that is what I felt like today or maybe “taxi service”. I left the house at about 2:30 – stopped at the jeweler to get a new battery in Greg’s watch, went to Walmart to get ink for the printer (I got the wrong one) and make a bank deposit (nice to have my bank in Walmart), went to the high school to pick up Tyler, took Tyler to get a haircut, went back to the high school (Tyler drove), dropped Tyler off so he could go home with Haley, I drove home. Got home phone rings – Tyler needs me to come back and take them to Haley’s. So back to the high school, stop at Kroger (not sure what he wanted but I stopped), then went to Haley’s, went back home. Ryan’s ready to go to tennis, drive to the tennis courts – it’s now raining – tennis is canceled, take Ryan to Taylor’s house to get a text book, then go home. Then dinner, laundry, homework, etc. and back to get Tyler, get everyone off toward bed. And now I’m on the computer….
So here is my peek at one of the layouts we will be making in my scrapbook class. I am moving it from Wed the 18th to Wed. Dec 1st – we are going to celebrate Kyle’s birthday Wed. night because he is leaving Thursday afternoon to go to Va Tech to visit his cousin for a few days before meeting up with the rest of us for Thanksgiving. Kyle will be 18 on Saturday! Oh my – I can’t believe I have an 18 year old! Sorry back to the scrapbook page.
I was so happy with how this turned out – I just need to add my pictures to it.
I have really fallen in love with this Autumn Meadows Designer Series paper. Stampin’ Up! really comes up with some great patterned paper. This one is actually very versatile. It is designed to be a fall paper, but on each sheet that has the leaves the other side does not so it could be a generic theme as well. And later this week I’ll show you a winter card that uses this paper too. The browns and blues work great for the winter too.
We will make this 2-page layout at my class on Dec. 1st so while you are with your family over Thanksgiving think about what you are thankful and take some pictures to use on this layout. I’ll be adding pictures of my family to mine – although I won’t get to see everyone at Thanksgiving. If you’d like to attend this class visit my website and check my events schedule for the details and please RSVP.
The other layout that I am working on (I’m almost done) is an advent calendar layout for Christmas – it is going to be cute too. I need to create a template to make it easy to figure out the cuts and scores for all the windows. It will be fun!
Ok – I’m off to change my events calendar on my website to reflect the change of my class date. I hope to see you there!
Happy Stampin’!
I decided to use it for my Holiday Big Shot class that I had a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks for visiting me today!
