One of the problems with going away is that you loose track of the days and then it takes a few days to get back into a routine. Luckily I checked my calendar Monday night or I would have missed my dentist appointment on Tuesday – I thought I still had another day before I had to go. I still need to go look at all of last week’s creations – I haven’t caught back up since I was gone from Thursday through Sunday for the Getaway Trip. And Monday and Tuesday I was gone to various appointments finally a couple of days at home so I can get myself back together – I don’t like being disorganized – but I really am right now.
On to better things – at least I did remember this! It’s time for this weeks Create with Connie & Mary weekly challenge! This week is a new sketch CCMC221 – and I think this is a good one. I started thinking of lots of different things to do with this sketch but I didn’t have time to implement them all for this challenge. I do plan to go back though and use this one again!
For now I decided to use this one for a 6×6 Halloween Scrapbook Page. I think a My Digital Studio page would be cute too, or a card, or a framed piece, and more…..
Here is my little layout. I actually want to add this to a 12×12 layout and include the rest of my photos but I haven’t had a chance to do that yet nor did I decide what the rest of the layout would look like. I’m headed to a scrapbook crop on Saturday and I may let them do this as a Make ‘n Take project if they visit my table – what do you think?
I had to dig deep for a good Halloween photo – it has been a while since all the boys have dressed up – this may have been the last year that Kyle wore a costume – this is from 2005. He isn’t actually in this group picture but I did get an individual picture of him – that’s part of the reason I want to include this on a larger layout so I can add the boys individual photos that I do have.
Did you see the news about Stampin’ Up! selling some of the stamps individually out of the stamp sets? Well the Happy Halloween that I used on this layout is one of them that you can buy all by its little ol’ self. I’m excited to hear what everyone thinks about the idea. Stampin’ Up! is trying it out on three of the greeting stamp sets and I guess they will evaluate the results towards the end of the year to decide if they want to continue once January gets here.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: Seasonal Sayings
Ink: VersaMark
Card Stock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Tangerine Tango Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Houndstooth and Scaringbone Designer Series Paper, Silver Stampin’ Dazzle Marker
Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. Have you been enjoying all the holiday creations at the online 2012 Create Class – the final week is here – but it’s not to late to join – there are some really fun projects!
Today we are driving to Hilton Head for the Stampin’ Up! Getaway Trip! I’m so excited to be going and can’t wait to see what little surprises Stampin’ Up! has for us there. Thank you to everyone that helped me earn this trip.
It’s time for a new challenge at Create with Connie & Mary. This week we have a color challenge – and let’s just say when I pulled up the colors – I was less than thrilled – Pink Pirouette, Cherry Cobbler and Baja Breeze.
Now I LOVE Baja Breeze and lately I’ve been using lots of Cherry Cobbler – but the pink I guess is throwing me off. What in the world was I going to do with these colors…. I can’t wait to look at all the other design team creations because I need help with this one. But I muscled through and came up with a creation for you.
It’s really a simple card. Just not much to it. Cherry Cobbler base. Baja Breeze layer – embossed with the strip of hearts and stamped with the sentiment from Blooming with Kindness. I unraveled some of the Cherry Cobbler Sweater Trim to use for the “ribbon” on my card and also used a bit through one of the crystal baubles. I punched several layers of the Pink Pirouette with the 1-1/4″ Scallop Circle punch and one layer with the larger Scallop Circle punch. I crumpled them all up and layered them together – I used a mini brad to hold the layers together. Then spritzed the whole flower with the Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker. To finish the flower I added the crystal button with the Cherry Cobbler unraveled sweater trim pulled through.
Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Adorning Accents Folders, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, 1-1/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, 1/16″ circle punch, Color Spritzer Tool, Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons, mini brad, Cherry Cobbler Sweater Trim, Dimensionals
VisitCreate with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. Have you joined the Create Holiday Edition online class yet? My guest designer project was posted earlier this week – it’s a fun card set but you have to join the class to see it and all the other great projects. It’s a great deal with tutorials for all the projects. So come join the fun!
It’s Thursday once again – where does the time go? This weeks challenge Create with Connie & Mary is a sketch challenge.
I struggled with this one. I started in one direction, then switched to something else and then finally ended up with this little Christmas card using the No Peeking stamp set.
I had the little animals already made from a different project I was working on and they were sitting on my table just smiling at me. I was also working on ideas for my Paper Piercing class that I have tomorrow. So I ended up combining all of these things together. This will be one of the cards we will make in my Friday class. The layout was based on the sketch and the cute little animals were just sitting their waiting for me to do something else with them. I think we are all happy now.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: No Peeking, Delightful Dozen
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Island Indigo and Markers
Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Piercing Mat, Paper Piercer, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Island Indigo Bakers Twine, Dimensionals
Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued. I hope you’ll play along with us!
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Happy Thursday! There’s a new challenge at Create with Connie & Mary this week and this time it’s a color challenge! Tangerine Tango, Lucky Limeade and Rich Razzleberry.
And for me I thought Halloween…. Look at these cute mini Halloween Treat Bags!!
Aren’t they adorable. The idea was from a crafting magazine. There were tons of little Halloween treats and I want to try to recreate more of them but here is one.
The little bags are recycled brown paper – the paper that comes in our order boxes – yep another use for that and I have tons of it lying around. I put a piece through my Big Shot with the Petite Pocket Die!
I glued the sides together and ta-da the perfect little mini treat bag. I used my ink pads by dragging them across the bags to add color – it picks up on the creases and edges.
I used the Googly Ghouls stamp set create the little ghouls for each bag and added googly eyes to each one. The bags are held shut with a decorated wooden clothes pin. I covered each side with paper and then added a button.
Just fill the bags with a little bit of candy and you have some cute little treats. What can you create with these fun colors? Play along with us this week! And for more fun crafting ideas the Holiday edition class is going on too. Connie & Mary and the rest of the team just finished a whole week of Halloween projects! And this week there are lots of fun Fall themed ideas. So join today if you want more great projects. I’m a guest designer and have a fun project planned for later this month.
Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Petite Pocket die, Howlstooth & Scaringbone Designer Paper, Polka Dot Parade Designer Series paper, In Color Designer Series paper stack, Brights Designer Buttons, Neutral Designer Buttons, Linen Thread, Lucky Limeade Baker’s twine, Googlies, mini glue dots, Stampin’ Sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Recycled brown paper, wooden clothes pins, candy
Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued. I hope you’ll play along with us!
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
We went apple picking on Labor Day and had a fun family day together. All the boys were with us and we drove north to Blue Ridge, GA and went to Merceir Orchard. They take you by tractor out to the middle of the orchard and turn you loose to pick whatever kind of apples that you want. You have to buy a bag and then you fill it up with all of your apples and while your out there you can eat the apples too. So my project today was inspired by the apples!
This week’s Create with Connie & Mary Thursday challenge is a Sketch Challenge. I love to have a sketch to start with and I like to take a card sketch and use it for other things – and turning it is fun too. I like to do something different – be unique. And this time I decided to take the sketch and create a gift bag instead of a card – but it would make a cute card too. We picked some apples on Monday for my mother-in-law and so I thought wouldn’t it be fun to put them in a cute little bag, and since I needed to create something for this weeks sketch I figured I would use that for inspiration. One big problem though – I don’t have any current apple stamps right now – ugh! I’m trying really hard not to buy everything in the Holiday catalog and every couple of days I think – I wish I had the Perfectly Preserved stamp set – and here we go again – it has apples in it! I really needed it for this project. But do you know what you can do instead? It’s My Digital Studio to the rescue! Yep – I did buy the Digital Download for Perfectly Preserved – yeah! So not only did I not make a card, and I turned the sketch, but I also made a My Digital Studio Hybrid project – how do you like them apples!
This bag turned out so CUTE! And while I gave it to my Mother-in-law it would be an awesome teacher gift too! Or a welcome gift for a new neighbor. This is a small paper bag and there are about 5 small apples inside of it. I used the sketch to create the front panel. Here is the sketch –
So I started by creating the white panel in My Digital Studio 2 – have you tried it yet? OMG – the new feature where you can color the stamp images is so awesome! Here is that piece –
The apple is one stamp and I used the color feature to recolor the seeds to Early Espresso. The stem/leaf is another image and I used the recolor feature to change the stem to Early Espresso. And the “just for you” banner was also colored – so the letters were Cherry Cobbler. Love it!! So I printed that out on Very Vanilla card stock and then cut it to fit my project.
I added the Ribbon Border strip – that’s Gumball Green. Tied some Cherry Cobbler ribbon around my Early Espresso piece and then attached the apple piece over it. I added that to a Cherry Cobbler piece and put in three little brads from the vintage trinkets. Then glued the whole piece to the front of my bag. Its’ really cute! I hope it inspires you to try something different with a sketch! Play along with us this week! And for more fun crafting ideas the Holiday edition class is going on too. You can see last weeks preview projects but if you want the class projects you have to join the class. Do it today – I’m a guest designer and have a fun project planned for later this month.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: Perfectly Preserved Digital Stamp Brush Set
Ink: digital colors – Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Card Stock: Early Espresso, Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
Accessories: My Digital Studio2, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Vintage Trinkets, Paper piercer, Scalloped Ribbon Border punch, brown paper bag, printer
Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued. I hope you’ll play along with us!
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Are you ready? I made another video! This was a fun technique that I taught at my Hands-On class last month. The class was all about Baker’s Twine and different ways to use it. In this video I’m going to show you how I used Baker’s Twine to make a cool stamp! I’m still learning how to create videos so sorry for the shadow puppets at the beginning, and for moving off the screen a couple of times. Hopefully you can hear me better – I tried to talk louder – that was the most common comment from my first video. I learn something new every time!
Here is the card that I’ll be showing you. You can see the original post for this card HERE.
I hope you enjoy the video and this fun technique!
Let me know what you think. Could you hear me better?
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Here is my little layout. I actually want to add this to a 12×12 layout and include the rest of my photos but I haven’t had a chance to do that yet nor did I decide what the rest of the layout would look like. I’m headed to a scrapbook crop on Saturday and I may let them do this as a Make ‘n Take project if they visit my table – what do you think?
