Spring is Blossoming promotion card

Apr 16, 2011 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Embellishments, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon | 0 comments

During the month of April Stampin’ Up! has a special called the Spring is Blossoming promotion.  It is a sneak peek of two new products from our next Idea Book & Catalog that will be out in July.  During April is you spend $20 you can buy the Four Frames stamp set and the Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper.  The stamp set contains four images that fit in the Decorative Label Punch – so you’ll want that to go with this set.  I’ve already shared one project that I made with this set and today I have another.

This was one of the cards we made on Friday in my Hands-On Class.  The layout for the card came from one that I saw in a magazine – I followed the sketch from that card but everything else was different.  The card base is River Rock.  And the top left corner is corner rounded.  A piece from the Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper is layered on the front (also corner rounded in the top left corner).  Going across the card is a strip of Baja Breeze that was punched with the Eyelet Border punch.  And then another piece of the Designer Series Paper is added to that.  The Four Frames stamp with the bird was stamped with Early Espresso ink on Whisper White card stock.  Punch out with the Decorative Label punch.  Add a greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  Using the Baja Breeze Stampin’ Write marker color the very edge of the label and also color in the bird.

Now on the left side of the card is some Early Espresso Satin Ribbon, a Paper Daisy, an Early Espresso button and some Linen Thread – it is all tied together – trim the ends of the ribbon and thread and it creates a pretty embellishment on the card.  Do you like it?

I seem to gravitate towards the frame with the bird – but I’ll have another card tomorrow that uses a different frame.  I hope you’ll be back to see it.

Another Vintage Card

Apr 11, 2011 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2011, Vintage | 1 comment

I have another Vintage card to share today.  This idea is one that I found on Stampin’ Connection – an idea from Regina Cornelius.  I love the Love Letters Designer Series paper and it works perfectly for vintage.  So when I saw Regina’s card I knew I had to make one too because I love the colors.  I have also been wanting to try out the Distressing Essentials kit from the catalog – I can’t believe I have waited this long to try it out.  So here is my version of the card.

The dress form from the Sew Suite stamp set in the Occasions Mini catalog is stamped onto the Very Vanilla card stock and then stamped again on different pieces of Designer Series paper from the Love Letters pack.  These were cut out and layered on top of the others so each form looks like it has a dress on it.  The edges of the paper were crumpled and then distressed using the Tea Stain spot and the square stamp that comes in the Distressing Essentials kit.  The one dress has a little piece of Chantilly Lace attached with mini glue dots to create a pleated skirt look.  Some rhinestones were added to each dress too.  I think Regina’s card was great and I hope you like my version too.

Have a great day!

Vintage Jar

Apr 2, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, SU Ribbon | 1 comment

Last night was my April Stamper’s Club meeting and we made this cute Vintage Jar.  At least I thought it turned out cute.  It was another last minute project that I finally figured out as I was going to bed.  And then got up the next morning and still remember what I had finally figured out so I could actually create it.

I got these little jars through the bulk buy group and had used them for the pin cushion button jars but wanted to come up with something else too.  I have made these little scrunchy folders for the last few weeks and thought it would pretty to add one to the top of one of these jars.  I used the First Edition Designer Series paper and punched using several punches lots of layers.  I scrunched them all up and then flattened them back out, stack them up and punch a hole through the center.  Add the antique brad.  Here is a close up:

The Love Letter DSP is on the lid – cut with the Big Shot and the 3″ circle die – this one is just flat.  The punches I used on the First Edition papers were 2-1/2″ Circle punch, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punch, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle punch, 1″ circle punch.  I cut a piece of Cherry Cobbler card stock with the Big Shot and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit – added the largest one to the top of the flower and the bitty one to my ribbon.  Oh, the ribbon around the lid is the 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon in Basic Black – cut in half – so just half of it was used to wrap around the jar lid and tie in a bow.  The last little thing is the stamped jewelry tag using the “{love}” from Tiny Tags.  It was tied around the brad using some Linen Thread.

Put something you love inside.  Your favorite candy, your favorite buttons, ticket stubs, little notes, ribbon, etc.

Have a great day!

Sew Suite Mini Scrapbook

Mar 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, Tutorial | 2 comments

Look at this cute mini scrapbook using the Sew Suite product line from the Stampin’ Up! Mini catalog.  This was a project that the fabulous Bonnie Thurber showed on stage at the Leadership Conference.  I sent Bonnie a message asking if she could give me the dimensions and she did!  So I was able to recreate it and used it as a Make&Take project at my downline meeting this month.  So here are the details for this little project. There are 4 pages that are glued to an accordion folded spine that creates the top where the chipboard letters are glued on to.  The spine and all the pages are Early Espresso card stock.  To create the spine you need a piece that is 8″ x 5-1/2″ then score it at every 1″ to create the accordion – so that is 1″, 2″, 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, and 7″.  Fold that into an accordion.  I’ll come back to how to finish the spine at the end.  Now I’ll show you each page from the bottom up –

So here is the back page – cut the Early Espresso to be 6″ tall by 5-1/2″ wide.  Cut a piece of the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 5-3/4″ tall by 5-1/4″ wide and glue it to the back page.  Take the back page and glue it to the back flap of the accordion fold.  Here is the next page

For this page cut the Early Espresso to be 5″ tall and 3-3/4″ wide.  Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 4-3/4″ tall and 3-1/2″ wide.  Attach this page to the next step on the accordion towards the left side.  On this page there is a flower – it is the Flower Fusion Sizzlet cut from Tangerine Tango.  The center is one of the buttons from the Button Embosslit cut from Daffodil Delight.  I’ll tell you how I did the words in a minute.  Ok next page –

This one cut the Early Espresso to be 4-1/4″ tall by 3-1/2″ wide.  Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series Paper to be 4″ tall by 3-1/4″ wide.  Attach this page on the next step of the accordion toward the right side.  For this page wrap a piece of Linen Thread around it and tie on one of the Sew Suite Big Designer Buttons.  Then add some of the buttons cut with the embosslit from Tangerine Tango card stock.  And the next one –

This page cut the Early Espresso to 2-1/2″ tall by 4″ wide.  Cut the Sew Suite Designer paper to 2-1/4″ tall by 3-3/4″ wide.  Attach to the next step of the accordion centered over the other pages.  Now to finish up the front of the accordion –

Cut a piece of Sew Suite Designer paper to be 5-1/2″ wide and 2-1/4″ tall – then score at 1″ from each side – leaving 1/4″ in between – this piece will wrap around the spine – glue it to the back of the spine and then to the front.  Cut a 5-1/2″ piece of Tangerine Tango card stock and punch it with the border punch Dotted Scallop Ribbon.  Glue this under the front flap of the scrap book.  I used a piece of On Board Chipboard and cut the letters using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters die set.  Cover the letters with Early Espresso Craft ink using a sponge dauber.  Well I should have told you this part first – I would recommend cutting out the letters putting the ink on them and set them aside to dry while you do everything else.  You can use the green bottle glue or crystal effects to glue those to the front flap.

Now the words – Bonnie used the stamp set Fabulous Phrases for her example (and she used precut chipboard letters from one of the packs in the catalog).  I don’t have that stamp set so I thought  – hey I can use it in My Digital Studio and print them out – well the stamp set isn’t yet available in MDS either – so instead I chose a font that I thought was similar and just add text boxes in MDS.  To make sure I had the size close I added a Word Window punch in MDS to see that my words would fit.  I printed out a sheet of words on Whisper White card stock.  We punched them out with the Word Window punch and layered them on a Modern label punched out of Tempting Turquoise.

Now I just need to add pictures and it will be done.  How cute is that?

Is today’s Bingo piece going to be the one that makes you the winner?  Here it is……

images copyright Stampin' Up!

 

Have a great day today!

In Color Flowers and Bookmarks

Mar 4, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Stamper's Club, Tags | 4 comments

Way back in January at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference I bought some Stampin’ Up! In Color Bookmarks.  I wanted something to give to my downline and my hostess club members.  I got them home and they sat in my craft room.  I want to present them in some fun way but couldn’t come up with anything – so they continued to sit in my craft room.

In February I needed to make some more tags for my customer orders.  I usually make something out of things lying on my table or whatever my pop into my head.  I decided I wanted to play with my Fancy Flower punch.  I had my In Color Patterns Paper pack out from the candy wrapper project I showed the other day.  So I decided to punch out some flowers.  I remembered seeing flowers that other demonstrators were making where they just crumpled up the paper and stacked it up to make a flower.  So that is what I did – for each one I punched 5 Fancy Flowers from different In Color Prints.  I crumpled them up (when your mad at some one like your 14 year old that is a good project to work on).

I opened them back up and stacked them together and looked around for what I was going to use in the center.  I was going to just use little brads but remembered I had a package of the In Color Glitter Brads – they were perfect for these flowers.

These are all Poppy Parade which I decided to use for my customer orders.  I went back and added the tiny tag to the center it says “thanks so much”.  I punched a hole in the back and tied some crochet thread through to tie them onto my order bags.  I decided these were so cute I wanted to make some more in the different In Colors.  Then I got the brilliant idea that I needed to combine these flowers with my In Color bookmarks and it all came together.

I cut tags using the Two Tags die and my Big Shot machine.  I used the crop-a-dile to punch two holes in the tag and then cut in between to create a slit that the book mark slides through.  I’m not sure you can tell but the bookmark is magnetic and is folded in half – so the back half is on the back of the tag.  Then I added the matching flower above it with a dimensional.  Here is what the whole lot of them look like –

They are super cute and the great thing is once the book mark is removed you can still use the whole tag or pull of the flower and just use the flower for something else.  Now to get them out to everyone……tonight is Stamper’s Club so they will get theirs then.

Thanks for stopping by today – I’ll be going to pick up Kyle in a little while once he gets done with his last class at GT – and he’ll be home for the weekend.

And I almost forgot about American Idol – how did you do on your picks for the top 10?  I got them all right and I didn’t even vote.  Now we’ll see how they do going forward.  They added 3 more but they weren’t any of my favorites.

Chocolate Candy Wrapper

Mar 2, 2011 | Birthday, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Occasions Mini 2011 | 1 comment

At the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference in January I participated in a candy wrapper swap and got some really great ideas that I’m incorporating into my classes and club meetings.  This idea was from my friend Connie Babbert (from Create with Connie & Mary).

These are made from a 6×6 piece of Designer Series Paper.  I decided for my Birthday class we would make these using the In Color Patterns Paper Pack that you can get as a Level 1 Hostess set.  I let everyone choose the color that they wanted. There is just one score line to create the top fold.

We used a strip of Whisper White card stock that was punched with the Scallop Border punch and glued on the inside front panel.  You can’t see them to well in the picture but we used a coordinating Stampin’ Write Marker to add dots to the scallops – everyone thought it was pierced and the paper was showing through the holes but it is just the marker.

Punch two hole in the top through the front and back layers using the Crop-A-Dile and tie a piece of ribbon through.  The tag uses the Eat Chocolate stamp set punched with the Wide Oval punch and layered on the Decorative Label punch in the matching In Color.  On the corner we added a Bitty Button – punch the button shape using the Punch Pack punch that matches the button shape.  What I do is use a bit of snail and attach the button to the punched card stock.  Then with a Paper piercer I pierce the button holes.  Then I use a dental flosser to pull a piece of crochet thread through the holes and tie it in a knot.   Punch a hole to add the tag to the ribbon.

Slide a skinny candy inside – something like a SKOR or Dove bar – you can use two mini glue dots to secure it on the inside so it doesn’t slide right back out.  These were quick and easy especially if you use the 6×6 paper stacks so you don’t even have to cut the paper.

Thanks Connie for this great project!