Feb 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2011 |
I added another picture to yesterday’s post on the ice cream cone card – it shows the inside of the card.
Today’s project share is a cute little cupcake box designed by Becky Roberts – if you would like the measurements and directions you can find them on her blog – here.
This was another project for my Birthday Class this month. I like the clear window added to the top and the side of the box so you can see what is inside. The box fits one normal sized cupcake inside.
I used the Celebrations Designer Series Paper to determine my colors for this project. Pacific Point, Real Red, Old Olive and Bashful Blue. The sides and back of the box are decorated with the Designer Paper.
The front and top of the box are decorated with the Create a Cupcake stamp set and Build a Cupcake Punch both from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions mini catalog.
I will tell you a little trick that I found to be easier for me to create the little punched cherry. I just use a white punched cherry and then color it with Stampin’ Write markers. The cherry stamp does fit in the punch but I can never seem to line it up perfectly to punch it because it is so small. So I use the stamp when I’m not punching it out and just color a plain white cherry when I need the punched version. I hope that made sense.
And before you put the lid together send it through the Big Shot inside the Dots embossing folder if you want the dots. I did it on my sample and forgot to do it when I demonstrated it in the class. That’s when I say – “do what I say not what I do” – if you want to match my original sample . The tag on the top of the box is the “happy birthday” punched with the Modern Label punch and then I doodled around the edges with the Real Red Stampin’ Write marker. I love this fun little project and I hope you do to!
For the handle use the Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in each side and add some ribbon for the little handle.
Enjoy your weekend.
Feb 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
We finally have had some spring like weather this week – I’m so excited! This morning I saw that my daffodils are already up above the ground and will soon start popping their little heads. All my bird houses are up, clean and ready for new home owners but until the workers leave the yard they probably won’t be ready to set up house in my yard. But based on the title of this blog post what I’m showing you today is not Spring related – it is a SNOW scrapbook layout that I created for my January Scrapbook class.
I was planning to get my pictures printed from our big Snow Storm in January, but as you can see that hasn’t happened and with spring right around the corner I thought I better get this snow page out there for you to see.
The base is Soft Suede card stock and the other colors are Night of Navy, Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla. The snowflakes are Vellum card stock. The designer paper is the Elegant Soiree Designer Series paper. Some vintage brads finished up the Very Vanilla snowflakes and staples hold the grosgrain ribbon in place.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla
- Ink: none
- Stamp sets: none
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, GoGo Boots Alphabet Sizzlits dies, Hearts & Brackets die, Northern Frost Decorative Strip Die, 1/4″ Night of Navy Grosgrain ribbon, Corner Rounder punch, 2-way glue pen, vintage brads, Elegant Soiree Designer Series paper, Stampin’ Dimensionals, staples.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.
Feb 18, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2011 |
This pocket card idea was a demonstration that Richard Garay did on stage at the Leadership conference. Yes he is a guy and he is a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator! Richard demonstrated how to make this pocket card. It has two pockets – for this one I made an insert for the top pocket and left the lower pocket empty. You could stick a gift card in there or a picture or some money.
I used the Sweet Stitches Designer Series paper to cover each panel on the front of the card. The insert was stamped with the matching Button, Button stamp set.
The front is decorated with the Sweet Buttons Embosslit and a trimmed Round Tab punch covered with some embroidery floss.
The card base is Wild Wasabi, the border trim is Daffodil Delight, then the decorations are in Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo and Tangerine Tango.
Yesterday was stressful with too many people doing too many things around our house. I am having my class in the morning and they appear to me done painting the ceiling on the inside – yeah! The electrician hung the lights. And the gutters have been removed from the house. Today they’ll be back but they will be working outside. I have pictures on my facebook page of the construction progress. Talk to you later.
Feb 8, 2011 | Designer Series Paper, Medallion, My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2011, Scrapbook Pages, UDI Color Challenge |
Yep – its another MDS page – I know I’m showing a lot of those lately. But you know what the cleanup from creating a My Digital Studio scrapbook page is so fast – just save and shut the laptop! Plus it is a totally portable workspace – so on Sunday night I sat downstairs in the basement with my husband to watch the Super Bowl. And I used My Digital Studio to create my project for week 22 of the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. Gretchen sent us this for our Color Challenge inspiration:
Some nice masculine colors this time. I have been missing my oldest son Kyle (he is away at college and doesn’t call me quite as much as I would like him to) so I created a scrapbook page featuring a picture of him after the Convocation Ceremony at Georgia Tech this past August. That’s the GT Rat cap that he is wearing all the freshman got one at the ceremony and part of the ceremony were the traditions on how to personalize your hat. I’ll have to check if he ever did that. Here is a quick run down on what they are supposed to do –
The Georgia Tech Rat Cap Diagram. On the underside of the bill, write RAT in the center of the bill. Write your name above RAT and your hometown below RAT. On the left of RAT, write your incoming major and on the right, write your expected graduation year. On the back of the hat, write TO HELL WITH GEORGIA. If you are planning on co-oping, circle the tip of the cap.
For every football game write TECH above the opponents name with the respective score. If Tech loses, write the game score upside down. If Tech wins, write the score rightside up.
I looked through the different Designer Templates that I had in My Digital Studio and found this one – I switched out all the colors and Designer Papers to fit the color challenge but kept the layout of the page the same as the template. I did add a digital stamp from the Bliss set in the So Much to Sale-a-brate CD – you can get it for free during the Sale-A-Bration promotion going on right now. So it is a great time to purchase My Digital Studio if you haven’t already done it.
This is also my page for this week for Project 52. I ahead for week 6 – got it done at the beginning of the week instead of the end. By the way I did talk to Kyle on Monday and he is coming home Friday for the weekend – yeah! He said he has been busy at school with a heavy load of classes and his TA position.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- MDS Card stock: Chocolate Chip
- MDS Ink: Very Vanilla
- MDS Stamp sets: Medallion, Bliss, Schoolbook Serif Alphabet, Greatest Moments II
- MDS Designer Series paper: Tangerine Tango Patterns, More Mustard Villa, The Write Stuff II More Mustard large dots, 2011 Notable Desktop Calendar Kit – pattern 11
- Accessories: My Digital Studio
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.
Jan 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Fabric, Occasions Mini 2011, Simply Adorned Jewelry, Stampin' Up! Events |
At every Stampin’ Up! Event there are Make ‘n takes – we have to have our stamping time. This year at Leadership the Make ‘n Takes were the best ever! Our Make ‘n Take session was on Friday night at the end of the Leadership Conference – I hope no one left early because they missed some WOW projects. I wanted to share them all with you. The stamp set they gave us was Clearly for You so the projects we made use that as the main stamp set. The tables were sprinkled with punched pluses to match our +ONE theme (I wonder if that will be a future punch?) and our stamp set and supplies were packaged up in a little box this time.
Box of M&T supplies and a bag of yummy carmels
table supplies and punched pluses decorating our tables
DVD notebook - Botanical Gazette DSP, Trinket Keys
For You card
Simply Adorned Charm Bird Insert - Botanical Gazette DSP
Simply Adorned Charm Amour Insert - First Edition DSP, Red Glimmer paper, Trinket Keys
Simply Adorned Charm Monogram Insert and Chain - First Edition DSP, Springtime Vintage DSP, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Vanilla Pearl Bauble, Trinket Crowns, Trinket Keys
Brooch - First Edition DSP, Seam Binding, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Beveled Windowpane, Fun Flowers Bigz Die, Trinket Keys
We received the large Simply Adorned Charm and the long chain along with all the trinkets as part of our Make&Takes – everyone was so excited! Now I wonder what the convention projects will be like??
Jan 14, 2011 | Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2011, Stampin' Up! Events |
I signed up for several organized swaps at Leadership – for one of them I made these Designer Paper Purses. This is for a Candy Wrapper swap – inside you could put candy – I actually put sunflower seeds in mine since I was trying to stick with a bird theme. I used two different paper packs from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. Some are made with papers from Springtime Vintage collection and the others are made from the Botanical Gazette collection.
They all have Early Espresso for the top of the purse, Clear Rhinestone Brads for the latch, a two-step Bird punched out for the front, the Seam Binding handles and an Oval Punched tag tied with Linen Thread.
I stamped on the Botanical Gazette papers with the Nature Walk stamp set. The papers and birds are speckled with a Color Spritzer and either Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker or a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write marker.
The stitching is the White Gel Pen.
I love making these purses. I also tried making them in smaller sizes but decided to keep them big so they would fit the Sunflower seeds inside.
I hope you like them.
We are enjoying the trip to Nashville. Once I got out of my neighborhood Wed. morning – straight up a hill of ice to get out – the roads were clear, mostly dry and it was smooth driving all the way up and over the mountains. It took one hour for me to get out of the neighborhood (part of that was getting up the nerve to try to tackle the hill of ice) and then four hours or so to get to Nashville.
We are having fun packed, busy days and I’ll have lots to share when I get back!
This was another project for my Birthday Class this month. I like the clear window added to the top and the side of the box so you can see what is inside. The box fits one normal sized cupcake inside.
I used the Celebrations Designer Series Paper to determine my colors for this project. Pacific Point, Real Red, Old Olive and Bashful Blue. The sides and back of the box are decorated with the Designer Paper.
