Jun 14, 2009 | Big Shot, Blog Tour, class, In Colors, Retired List, Stamps, SU Ribbon, Wild About You |
Wild About You is another stamp set that is retiring this month and one that I think is so much fun. It works for cards, great for kids stuff and great for scrapbook pages too. Today is the last day for the Late Night Stamper’s challenge to use one retiring stamp set and create three different cards with it. So I just finished doing that with the Wild About You stamp set. We will make atleast one of these card at my Last Chance Stamp-a-Stack class on Friday.
The first card was an idea from Wendy that we made atleast 2 years ago and used the same 3-d layering technique that I did on the watercoloring cards I’ve shown lately. The lion gets stamped three times and you cut out his mane and his face seperately and layer with dimensionals.
The second card is a design from Stampin’ Up! and uses the In Colors – Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Pacific Point. The heart is punched with the Heart to Heart punch. The corduroy button in Pacific Point adds a little pop. The Tangerine Tango edge is done with the scallop border punch. Punch the edge once then slide it over and punch again and it gives it a jagged look like the teeth of the alligator – also a good way to cover up when you mess up aligning the scallop punch – you meant to do that!
The third card was my design – I have collected elephants since I was a little girl and love this little elephant. 
Not sure why but I decided to do a pink and brown card and make it a new baby card. I don’t have any baby girls but the pink and brown seem to be popular for decorating these days when it comes to baby girls. I wanted the card to be a little frilly since it was a girl card so I added the eyelet border punch and the organdy ribbon. I also ran the littl close to cocoa piece through the big shot to give it some swirly texture. The Pink Pirouette DSP and the white layer of card stock are sponged on the edges with the Pink Pirouette ink. The elephant was edged with the Regal Rose marker before I stamped it but it is hard to see in the picture.
I have a new Class Kit to Go ready and will send that information out to my email list later today and post on my blog tomorrow. I hope you are having a good weekend.
Hey did you notice that I am a PRINCESS now? See the crown at the top of my side bar…
The girls that are on the next Blog Tour all have crowns! The tour will be in July for 3 days.
Happy Stampin’!
May 27, 2009 | Big Shot, Celebrate Everything, class, Designer Series Paper, Sporting, Stamps, SU Buttons |
I thought I posted this card already – but couldn’t find it on my blog – but I finally figured it out – I posted the information for this one on my Stampin’ Up! website. This was the other card that we made at my class this month. So if you want the details for it go visit my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – I really like this card but it was not my original idea, it was an idea I had saved while searching around on various blogs and websites or it might have been in a magazine. I added the textured panel and if I remember I used different colors than the original card that I saw. I think the actual layout could be great for many things – birthday, teens, boys – just change the colors as needed and the words to match the occasion. How about a graduation card in the school colors and replace a button element with one that looks like a cap.
I have several ideas for Father’s Day cards ready to go and I’ll have to decide which one to use for my Father and then the boys can pick what they want to give to Greg for Father’s Day. I guess it will be here soon as June is right around the corner.
I’m excited for June to get here because we (Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators) get to see the new Stampin’ Up! catalog! I’ll be ordering mine on June 1st and waiting patiently (well maybe not so patiently) for it to get here. And if you want to know what is in it – well you will have to come see me in June because I can’t post any information about it until July 1st. I’ll also be taking pre-orders for the new catalog – I’ll have more information about that in my customer newsletter for June. So if you want a peek in June when I have my catalog make sure you come to a class!
Two more days of school left – well really 1 and a half – since they are all done by 10:30 am on Friday.
I should make that card into a Celebrate Summer card – then I could send it in for the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week.
I have been working last night and part of tonight on the ribbon share. I’ll have it all done tomorrow. It is taking me longer to put the little packages together than I expected but they sure are cute. I’ll post that tomorrow.
Good Night!
May 18, 2009 | class, Designer Series Paper, Punch Art |
Today is just disappearing so fast – jazzersize, then a trip to the vet – Aspen is much better but still needs 4 weeks of rest – no running, jumping, etc…. – then I think I’ve been on the computer all day, emails about my May Class to Go kit, and the Designer Paper Share for May, updating some things on my website, then working on all the “finance” stuff and now I’m ready to go to the bank, also need to stop at the dry cleaners (Ryan’s pants for tomorrows band concert) and grocery store (rest of tonight’s dinner – and milk is on sale!) But I wanted to get this done before I go do that.
At Friday’s class the theme was Masculine projects – we made the little suitcase using Sense of Time that I featured during the April blog tour – the post is April 27th (I think that was the date). And we made the little note card set that uses Forest Friends – I had that on my blog earlier too. You can click on a category to see posts only related to that category – both of those projects featured sets from the Occasions Mini Catalog so click on that category to look for those. And I have a search option – although I honestly haven’t tried it to see if it works – I should go check that out.
So then we made two other card projects and here is one of them
– the shirt card.
I saw this idea at the Leadership conference back in January and have been waiting for it to get close to Father’s Day so I could use it in a class. There was a demonstrator that had made a bunch of shirt cards for a swap that I was not part of but she let me take a picture and showed me how she made it – wasn’t that sweet! I just don’t know who it was since I didn’t get one of her cards.
Anyway – I’m not positive that I made it exactly the same way that she did – I only had a picture so I played around with the measurements. I also used different colors. What I decided that I liked was to use a 1″ cut. So on the fold from the center cut 1″ down. Then cut 1″ across towards the center of the card. On the outer edge, start 1″ down and cut 1″ across toward the center. You end up with two flaps which you fold over to create the collar of the shirt – is that not clever! I created a tie template by drawing it out on my grid paper to the shape I wanted. I used the small tag punch for the knot on the tie and for the pocket. Everything is sponged to give it dimension. Some other ideas would be to add little buttons to the collar, I even considered adding textured to the shirt but decided not too. On the inside I stamped “to my Wonderful father” from the Wonderful Favorites stamp set. You could also use uncle, son, grandfather, nephew and other from that stamp set and make it a personal card for one of the guys in your life. The patterned paper we used was Manchester, card stock is Always Artichoke. This is really a quick card!
Have fun with it!
I’ll have the instructions from the blog tour tin either tomorrow or Wed. so if you are looking for that – I haven’t forgotten.
May 17, 2009 | class, Stamps, SU Ribbon, Wow Flowers |
May 2009 Class to Go
Wow Flowers Class to Go
All images Stampin’ Up!© 2009
The May Class to Go Kit is now available to be ordered. You will need to have some supplies at home to complete the kit as shown. There are two options for this Class to Go Kit – one will include the stamp set and the other will be without the stamp set. So if you already have this stamp set (or prefer to use another set you already own) then you can purchase the second option that includes only the consumable supplies. Or purchase both and have materials to make two sets – one for you and one to give as a gift. I am also adding an option for Demonstrators to purchase only the instructions. Below are all the details for the May Class to Go Kit – featuring the Wow Flowers stamp set and Flower Power Card Elements from the Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book. This class features a cute card holder that holds 12 textured cards and matching envelopes.
May 2009 Class to Go Kit
Wow Flowers Kit 1 (with the stamp set) is $40
OR
Wow Flowers Kit 2 (only the project materials no stamp set) is $25
OR
Demonstrator Option (instructions only) is $8
Payment due by May 30th. Kits will be ready by June 14th or sooner.
Kit 1 includes:
Wow Flowers stamp set ($12.95+S&H+Tax) on page 167 in the Spring Summer 2009 catalog
Flower Power Card Elements ($15.95+S&H+Tax) on page 167 in the Spring Summer 2009 catalog
Step-by-step Instructions to make cards and card holder
Materials to make twelve cards with envelopes and the card holder
Materials included with this kit:
Card Elements Kit
Additional card stock to create the card holder
Ribbon
Flower Brad & Jumbo Grommet
White Medium Envelopes
Kit 2 includes:
everything from Kit 1 except the Wow Flowers stamp set.
Additional items that you will need to complete the Wow Flowers kit as shown are:
Rose Red Classic ink pad, Old Olive Classic ink pad,Perfect Plum Classic ink pad, More Mustard Classic ink pad,
Sticky Strip, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots,
1/2″ circle punch, Corner Rounder punch, Scallop Edge punch.
A bone folder and a stamp-a-ma-jig would be helpful.
If you need any of these additional items they can be added to the cost of your class.
The kits will be ready by June 14th for you to pick up at my home if you are local. I can mail them to you for $5.00 if you are not.
If you order additional items there may be an extra charge to mail those items to you.
Please send me an email if you would like to purchase the May Class to Go Kit. Payment must be made to me by cash or check by May 30th. I’m not set up yet to accept Paypal payments but will be in the future.
I think I covered it all. I have been wanting to do something with this stamp set and the card elements for a few months now and when I saw the June Stampin’ Success it all came together. My inspiration piece was the treat holder on the front cover. I hope you like it. The cards include a combination of birthday, thank you and blank cards.
Happy Stampin’!
May 10, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, class, Pocket Silhouettes |
I hope you are having a wonderful Mother’s Day!
I wanted to share the projects from the Mini Mother’s Day class I had last week. Everyone had a great time and said I needed to add more last minute classes! I just knew I hadn’t had a class with anything Mother’s Day, not that you couldn’t use almost anything we make as a Mother’s Day card and gift, but I wanted to do something specific for Mother’s Day. NOTE: to my mom – don’t read or look any further until I see you or it won’t be a surprise.
I saw the book mark idea last year at convention – that was at the end of July and have wanted to make them for a class ever since then. I ordered the hardware pieces and have just been waiting for the right class to add the book mark too. I finally just decided to do the book mark for Mother’s Day and build a class around it instead. So I announced the class with plans to make the book mark, a Mother’s Day card – I have been seeing the flower pot cards and thought it would be perfect, and then a box of some type to hold the book mark for gift giving. Then the next day I went to the retreat and by the time I came home I had everything figured out. One of the projects that Wendy shared was the cutest little purse made with the Big Shot and several dies. I changed the colors and designer paper and ta-da the box for my bookmark was born. Michelle shared her version of a flower pot card – that was just what I needed for my class. I took her idea, changed the colors and actually made it smaller because I needed it to fit in the medium envelopes – I didn’t have any large envelopes here and wanted a matching envelope for the class. The ideas and the retreat were perfect timing and my class projects were figured out and ready in time for class Wed. night.
So here is what everyone made –
Hardware Book Mark
- Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware
- Baja Breeze Double-stitched ribbon
- Old Olive Grosgrain ribbon
- Very Vanilla card stock
- Designer Label Punch
- Pocket Silhouettes stamp set
- Lovely Letters Alphabet stamp set
- Baja Breeze and Old Olive classic ink and Stampin’ Write Markers
- Crystal Effects
- piece of thick cardboard from the designer paper package
Big Shot Purse
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Top Note Die
- Scallop Circle Die
- Flower Daisies #2 Die
- Circle Scissor and Glass Mat
- Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper
- Chocolate Chip card stock
Wendy's Big Shot Purse - So Saffron, Bella Birds Designer Paper
- Baja Breeze card stock
- Baja Breeze classic ink
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Chocolate Chip Corduroy Brad
- Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon
- Pop-Up Glue Dot
- Sticky Strip
- Paper Piercer
- Magnetic closure
Flower Pot Card
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Baja Breeze card stock
- Kiwi Kiss card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Walk in the Park Designer Series paper
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Flower Daisies #2 Die
- Small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch
- 1″ Circle Punch
- Chocolate Chip Ink
- Baja Breeze Ink
- Kiwi Kiss Satin Ribbon
- Linen Thread
- Dimensionals
- Tombo Multipurpose Glue
- Stampin Sponger
- Scallop Edge Punch
- Blooming with Love stamp set
Enjoy your day!
May 1, 2009 | class, Pocket Silhouettes, Stamps, SU Ribbon |
I have decided to have a MINI CLASS on Wednesday, May 6th at 6:30 pm.
It is going to be a Mini Mother’s Day class – you will make a card, a bookmark and a box to hold the bookmark.
These don’t have to be Mother’s Day if you don’t have a need for that.
Depending on how many people sign up you may be able to make two sets if you need to.
The class fee will be $10 – please bring your scissors and adhesive.
RSVP by Tuesday, May 5th so I know how many people to expect.
