Jan 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You, Thank You Kindly |
So today I took a break from Valentines – well actually I did a Valentine project this morning but I’ll be posting that one on Wednesday – make sure to come back. But this afternoon I worked on a non-Valentine’s project. I also tried another sketch challenge – called Mojo Monday. I see this mentioned all the time in our yahoo groups where we share our projects but I haven’t tried it before. So this is my first Mojo Monday sketch attempt….here is the sketch
and here is my card….
instead of the brads I used a greeting in that spot.
I used four new Stampin’ Up! products: the Garden from the Heart stamp set, Satin Ribbon, and the Scallop Trim Border Punch, and the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack. All of these are available to order beginning tomorrow – January 5th.
Here is a complete list of Stampin’ Up! products that I used for this card:
- Garden from the Heart stamp set (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Thank You Kindly stamp set
- Taken with Teal card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Chocolate Chip ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Watercolor Wonder Crayons: Earth Elements, Rich Regals
- Aqua painter
- Big Shot die cut machine
- Scallop Circle #2 die
- Circle Scissor Plus and Glass mat
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Chocolate Chip satin ribbon (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Linen Thread
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
I’m going to like this new gardening set. And I do have it in the new Clear-Mount version which worked so nicely on the new Stampin’ Up! Clear blocks. I cut the white circle first and then stamped the image – it was easy to position on the circle with the Clear-Mount option. Happy Stampin’!
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Jan 3, 2010 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
I just made this quick Valentine card for a sketch challenge on a new blog I found called Card Positioning Systems. Sometimes when you are creating you need a little jump start and a sketch can often help. Here is the sketch for the challenge:
It is a very simple sketch so that makes for a quick card. I decided to do a Valentine card since that is what I had on my craft table. In fact – I only used items I already had out on my table. So it made the card even faster since everything was ready to use. Note to self: Goal for 2010 – try to do a better job of cleaning up after you are done with a project so your room doesn’t turn into such a mess.
Ok – on to my creation –
What do you think – quick and sweet isn’t it? And I used four new products from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel; Well Scripted Stamp set; Chocolate Chip 5/8″ Satin Ribbon; and Pretty in Pink Corduroy Buttons.
I am trying to take some of my photos outside on my back porch. The sun was already setting and it is windy today so I had to hold the card and snap a quick photo and grab it before it blew away – it took me about 4 tries to get a picture of it. I wanted to try the natural outside light and see how my pictures turn out. What do you think?
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Join me for Create with Connie & Julie – early bird pricing through January 3rd – so sign up today! This week we are giving away Free passes to the class – each team member has a different day that they are giving away a free pass so make sure to visit each day to see who is giving away a pass. Just a hint – you really should stop by my blog on Wednesday…..
Dec 29, 2009 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Valentine's Day |
Christmas has come and gone and the next big card/craft holiday is Valentine’s Day. Every year around 1 Billion Valentine’s cards are sent. I found a website on Valentine facts and it says Teachers receive the most Valentine Cards. It says children between ages 6-10 exchange more than 650 million Valentine’s with teachers, classmates and family members. So it is time to start thinking about Valentine’s Day cards and ideas…..
I didn’t get any time to do anything creative until very late last night. But I didn’t want to go to bed without making at least something. I had been itching to do something all day but spent most of the day doing other things. So here is my creation based on a card I saw in a magazine and using some of my new Stampin’ Up! products that will be out in January.
The card base is Pretty in Pink. It is hard to tell in the photo but it is. The bottom of the front was punched with the new Scallop Trim Border punch that will be available for FREE in the new Sale-A-Bration Brochure. Inside the front I attached a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock – so it shows behind the Scallop trim.
On the front is a piece of Very Vanilla card stock – the edges are done with a faux stitching look. I used the perforating tool from the Cutter Kit – first I rolled it in Chocolate Chip ink and then on the card stock. It creates a faux stitched look. I stamped the x-o-x-o definition from the Define Your Life stamp set in Chocolate Chip ink. The edges were lightly sponged with Chocolate Chip ink.
The hearts are punched with the middle sized heart in the Heart-to-Heart punch. The paper is the Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper. Two of the hearts are Very Vanilla card stock that are lightly sponged with Chocolate Chip ink. All the hearts are attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I added two small Pretty In Pink buttons – these have retired – and I didn’t have the Sherbet Designer Buttons which do have Pretty in Pink in the set. The buttons are threaded with very thin strips of Very Vanilla card stock instead of thread. These are attached with mini glue dots. The Tabletop Paper Cutter works great for cutting super thin strips of card stock or paper – so if you want to thread your button to match and don’t have thread you can use card stock. Last I added a thin strip of the Sending Love Specialty paper to the front.
I’ll have more ideas to share as part of the Create with Connie & Julie class. I am a guest designer and I’m working on my projects. So be sure to sign up for this online class – there will be new ideas every day for 9 weeks featuring products from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions mini catalog and the Sale-A-Bration brochure. There are only a few more days left for the early bird pricing – it ends Jan. 3rd. The preview week starts Jan. 3rd and will be open to everyone. On January 10th the site will only be opened to those that are registered for the class. There are weekly challenges and prizes. You can join the class at any time. It should be loads of fun! I hope to see you there.
Dec 28, 2009 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper |
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I know I did. We had a fairly quiet Christmas eve. Greg’s mom joined us at our house for dinner and opening of presents. Santa came over night and filled stockings and left some presents for the boys. Greg’s mom came back (she lives near by) Christmas morning and ate breakfast with us. In the afternoon we packed up all of us and the dogs and headed to my parents house. A much more chaotic evening as my brother and his family and his wife’s family all came to my parents house. There were 15 of us for dinner and more exchanging of gifts. Noah, my 4 year old nephew was unwrapping gifts as fast as he could only to discover that we got him (and my parents too) the same lego set that Santa brought. What a sad little face when he realized both lego sets were duplicates and he had nothing new to play with. Ally, my 3 year old niece was a little bit slower with opening her gifts and happy with her doll, books, and the little bag I made her.
The non-toy gift that I got them were these Alphabet Letter frames – well they aren’t really frames but I added pictures to them. This was a project that my friend Wendy designed for her gift making class. I decorated an ‘A’ for Ally and an ‘N’ for Noah.
For Noah’s letter I used the Pawstively Prints Designer Series paper to cover chipboard stars. I sanded the edges and sponged the stars. The stars were cut using the Big Shot and the Stars #2 die using the Long Board chipboard pieces that you can order from the Stampin’ Up! catalog.
I stamped sailboats – colored with Stampin’ Write Markers on Whisper White card stock and cut those out. The ‘N’ was stamped with Black StazOn ink using several stamp sets – Extreme Elements, Priceless, Lovely Letters Alphabet, and Just Perfect Alphabet.
The photos are matted with Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, and Ballet Blue card stock. I printed the photos using a collage format so it printed a variety of small sizes that worked great for this project.
For Ally’s letter I used the Tea Party Designer Series Paper to cover chipboard flowers. The flowers were cut using the Big Shot and the Stampin’ Up! Blossom Party die from pieces of the Long Board Chipboard. The flowers were sanded and sponged.
The ‘A’ is stamped with Black StazOn ink using the Priceless stamp set. The name is stamped using the Lovely Letters Alphabet and the Just Right Alphabet. A Rhinestone brad accents the center of the large flower.
The pictures are matted in So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery and Almost Amethyst.
The letters set inside the stand so you can put them on a shelf or dresser in each of their bedrooms. They turned out very nice and I hope that they will like looking at them. I tried to choose photos that I had taken so that they were photos that their mom and dad hadn’t seen before.
I gave several hand-made gifts this year. This was one of them.
I need to clean my craft room – I have lots to do in here – working on projects for the Create with Connie & Julie class. Don’t forget to sign up for early bird pricing!
Dec 11, 2009 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
I wanted to share this funny photo of my dog – Magnolia – from a couple of days ago. Right now during the Holidays our UPS delivers our packages using a Golf Cart – I’m going to try to get his picture but I haven’t yet. Earlier this week we had another downpour day of heavy rains. Unfortunately heavy rain and packages on a golf cart don’t work so well together. UPS did leave the box on my door step wrapped in a plastic bag – but it must not have been that way the whole time it was on the cart because the box was still wet when I took it out of the bag and set it in my foyer. I went to throw away the plastic bag and returned to the foyer to find this…….
Magnolia was doing her best to lick all the water off of my Stampin’ Up! box! It was funny – I tried to get a picture from the other side but she stopped once I walked around her – I wonder if it tasted good?
Speaking of boxes – I got two boxes today – my pre-order items from the new Occasions Mini Catalog and Sale-A-Bration Brochure are here! I’m so excited to see it all and start playing with it. Over the next few weeks I’ll be working on projects for the Create with Connie & Julie class that starts in January. Click below to get more details on the class, sign up, meet the team and see some preview projects. I’m a Guest Designer and very excited about it! I hope you’ll join us.
Dec 7, 2009 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
Remember a week or so ago I told I took a step outside my comfort zone and submitted an application for a Guest Designer position? Well guess what? They picked me!!
I couldn’t believe it when I got the email. I could hardly sit still all day and then I had to wait to tell and now the day is finally here and I can tell everyone!
I have been selected as a Guest Designer for the Create With Connie & Julie team! I’m so excited! I’ll be participating in weekly challenges with them and creating some class projects during the 9 week class (a preview week plus 8 weeks of class). The Team Members are Connie Babbert, Julie Dinn, Mary Brown, Kerin Sylvester, and me – click here to MEET THE TEAM. I hope you will join us as we create some wonderful projects for this class. Keep reading for more on the Create With Connie & Julie Occasions Edition class and how to join.
Each week we will focus on a different collection of products that can be found in the Occasions Mini Catalog or Sale-A-Bration brochure. Our goal is to show you some new and unique ways to use Stampin’ Up!’s fabulous products. Every day there will be a new project posted and each week there will be at least two tutorials available for you to download. Our exclusive projects will include cards, scrapbook pages and 3D items, the quick and easy ones and the more complex larger projects.
For our Early Bird and Preview Week (January 3 – 9, 2010), we will be focusing on the I (Heart) Hearts stamp set, The I (Love) Love Wheel and the new Pretty in Pink and Real Red Corduroy Buttons. During this time period, the site will be open to everyone, but starting on Sunday, January 10, only those that have registered will have access to the site. Click here to see some PREVIEW Samples on the Create with Connie & Julie site!
Each week we will also issue a Create with Connie & Julie Creative Challenge. The top two winners each week will receive one of the products featured! Our Creative Challenges will be posted early Saturday morning, the winners will be announced the following Friday night. Although the Challenge posts will be shared on our personal blogs, only those registered for the site will be eligible to win the Creative Challenge.
Head on over to the Create with Connie & Julie blog and register. Early Bird Pricing is available through January 3rd.
We are so excited to share our creativity with you and we hope you will join us for our Occasions Edition of Create with Connie and Julie!
instead of the brads I used a greeting in that spot.
