Sep 24, 2011 | Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Thanksgiving, uStamp |
Hi everyone! I am once again so thrilled to be a designer for the Ustamp with Dawn & Friends class that is just starting. This current class is called Paper Parade and it is all about the paper in the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog – every Designer Series Paper, Simply Scrappin’ Kit, Card Stock and Specialty paper will be represented with projects in this class – it is going to me a wow! And a big tracking job for Betty to make sure we (the designers) have it all covered.
So today I get to show you the first project that I created for this class – I decided to do a scrapbook layout and also created a coordinating card. This layout is full of lots of details and fun stuff. If you join the Paper Parade class you can get the complete tutorial including the pumpkin templates along with at least 40 other projects that all have tutorials. It is such a great inspiration for every paper crafter.
Are you ready to see it?
The inset picture is the coordinating card. So are you ready to join the class to get all the details? I really think you should but that is just me. Here is some more information about it….
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!!
Click the blinkie below to start the payment/signup process….it’s E*A*S*Y*!!
The website is open and project started posting yesterday the 23rd! Every 12 hours there is a new project!
Hope you join us…I will “see” you over at the Paper Parade Website!!
Sep 21, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages |
As I was planning for my August Scrapbook class I decided I wanted to do a sports themed page. But I wanted it to be generic enough that it could be for a variety of sports or even not a sport at all. For me the star is a shape that covers so many things including sports so I wanted to use the star element and then I wanted a paper that was flexible enough that it could be used for most any sport or other event – I decided on the Well Worn Designer Series paper. I found a sketch in a magazine and took some ideas from a few other layouts that I have seen and put it all together to create this scrapbook layout for my class.
You can change the title to suit your needs – use it for a sports layout, a bbq layout, 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial day, an outdoor camping layout, playing ball with the dogs, any number of things would work here. That’s the flexibility of using stars!
The stars are the Big Shot die and I cut them out of chipboard and then out of the Well Worn DSP. I mixed up the patterns, sanded all the edges and even stamped on some of them. I personally like to use the Anywhere Glue Stick to attach the Designer Paper to Chipboard – it has enough wiggle room that you can slide your paper into the exact spot that you want it and then it drys and hold tight.
The strips of Designer Paper are torn on the ends and curled back just a little. The background stamping is from Extreme Elements stamp set. I used various images from the set including the stars.
I also used the Top Note Die (love that one) and cut two – one from Not Quite Navy card stock and one from River Rock card stock (it gets trimmed inside the perforated lines). These are layered together and stamped with the Notes & Details stamp set for the journaling.
The title letters are cut using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters dies. The ones that over lap the photo mat are not glue to it – that way I can slip my picture up under the letters if needed. I plan to put a focal picture on the Cajun Craze mat and then a collage of photos on the River Rock mat across the two pages.
The Notes & Details stamp set even has a date stamp which I added at the bottom of the photo mat on the left page.
I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by – I hope you’ll leave a note a say “hi”.
Sep 9, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages |
Today I have a scrapbook layout for you. Yeah – I’m all done with the mini cards and yes for those that wondered all 9 cards and envelopes did fit inside the box and there was room for a few more!
This layout was one of the ones we made at my WOW Scrapbook Class in August. I have a class once a month – typically the last Friday of the month. You can see my calendar on my website and RSVP directly from there.
Smile Your Heart out is the title with the Heart turned into a strawberry to match the paper. The designer paper is the Berry Blossoms in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog. It uses several of the new In-Colors – Wild Wisteria, Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral. The layout idea for this was from a scrapbook magazine. The pictures are of my niece after we went to a Mother’s Day tea this past spring. I spent all morning trying to get her to smile for me and finally when we were leaving she game me some big smiles. And then she walked away toward the car and it was so cute I took pictures of her from behind.
The strawberry is made with the Big Shot Embosslit Heart of Hearts. I turned it over so the dots are indented since a strawberry is like that. The leaves on the top are made from the 5-petal flower punch. The one underneath has one leaf trimmed to be a stem, and the one on top is trimmed to three leaves and layered on top. Then I added a bitty flower punched from Whisper White. I added a little dot from the Lucky Limeade Stampin’ Write marker in the center.
The strawberries turned out cute – I could have added some sponging and maybe scores in the center of the leaves for more dimension.
I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today.
Sep 7, 2011 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Mini - Love Notes |
Well it was confirmed that it was a tornado that came through here Monday afternoon. 1/4 mile wide and made a 25 mile path through our county. I found out yesterday that the street just past ours had trees down and maybe even one on a house – that is what a neighbor told us. There was a huge crane there late yesterday – I could see it from my sunroom. They said 400 homes were damaged, most of them right here near us. Luckily no one was seriously hurt.
Today I have another mini card – it is a pinwheel card and I’m going to try to show and explain how to make the pinwheel. I have actually made them two different ways so I’ll try to describe both. But first here is the finished card.
I used the Big Top DSP – the base is Real Red, then a layer of Whisper White with a little strip of punched Tempting Turquoise. The happy birthday is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. The stars on the envelope are from Extreme Elements set – I used them because the paper had stars.
So here is how you made the pinwheel. Start with a square piece of paper. Fold one point to the opposite so you get a triangle – do this in both directions and you end up with a cross through the paper. On the fold lines you will cut from the outside corner toward the center and stop about 1/4″ from the center of the square.
Now what you will be doing is taking all points from the same side and folding them in to the center – you need to slightly cross over the center. Do this one at a time. To help them stay in place put a little bit of adhesive on each point.
fold first point across the center
fold the point in to the center - overlap the first point
now the third point comes across
and the fourth point comes across
Once all four points are across the center you will use the paper piercer to poke a hole through all four points and the center of the square. Then put a brad through – I put a small turquoise circle on the brad before poking it through.
Another method to get to this point is to punch a hole through each point and thread them on the brad and then through the center of the square. This can be trickier for some people but then you are sure to have a hole in each point, you don’t need to use adhesive and you don’t need to overlap the points quite as much.
I put this on my card with a Stampin’ Dimensional. Mine is a tiny one but you could make them any size you want by adjusting the size of the square that you are starting with.
Since this one had so many pictures I’ll wait and finish the mini cards tomorrow. Have a great day!
Aug 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Masking, Scrapbook Pages, Summer Mini 2011 |
Today is Scrapbook Day. It is my monthly scrapbook class. And I have two fun 12×12 2-page layouts planned. I’m not going to show you those today instead I’m going to show you the layouts we made last month – since apparently I never shared them. So here is the first one –
The back ground is Sahara Sand 12×12 card stock. The stamp sets that I used are The Open Sea and Sail Away. Both of these are in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog which ends on August 31st. So you only have a few more days left to order these.
On this left page I stamped the manifest image in Soft Suede down the left edge. There are strips of Patterns Designer Series Paper in Pool Party, Soft Suede and Cajun Craze. In the upper corner is the featured sailboat with the sunset. See this post for details on how to do the masked sunset. Th Big Shot dies are 3″ Circle, 3-1/2″ Circle, and the Scallop Circle.
There is the panel of Pool Party and a mat for a grouping of photos framed in Cajun Craze with a scallop border strip in Soft Suede on the side. A couple of anchors are stamped around the page.
The right hand page added a few more elements. First the pennant banner at the top. This is the new Petite Pennants Builder punch. The letters for “beach” were stamped using the Just Perfect Alphabet set. I used the 1/16″ punch to put holes in the top of each pennant. Then strung them on a piece of White Baker’s Twine. My idea is that above the banner you would stamp the name of the Beach that the pictures are about. So I plan to use our summer beach photos and will add “North Myrtle” to the top of the page. If you aren’t at a specific beach it could just say “A Day at the”.
There is also a tag hanging down with the date – I just tied a knot to the twine at the end of the banner to attach the Modern Label punch. It kind of blends in with all the Pool Party so I probably should have use a different color card stock for it.
Down in the corner is an idea I got from a swap at convention. Using the Modern Label punch to create the mooring posts. I used a Stampin’ Write marker to add some lines to make them look like wood. A piece of Bakers Twine is wrapped around one and tied in a knot.
Now I need to print my beach photos so I can add them to this page.
I also wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the emails and comments about the Shadow Box Advent Calendar project I shared this week. I have been getting tons of emails and I have tried to reply to each one. I created the project for the UStamp class so I can not share the tutorial with you. But you can join this awesome class and get it there. The cost works out to less than 75 cents per tutorial and there are some awesome projects so it is well worth the money. The box kit was something I purchased online at a big box craft store – but I can’t post that specific information here per my demonstrator agreement with Stampin’ Up!
Have a great day! I can’t wait for my scrapbookers to here so I can show them this months layouts. I will share those with you guys later.
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!!
