Jan 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
It’s Challenge Day at the Create with Connie & Julie – Occasions Edition class. Our challenge this week is a color challenge – Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip. This week in class we are featuring the following products from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog: With All My Heart stamp set, Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, and the Sending Love Epoxy brads. If you aren’t part of the class yet you can still join – all the projects and tutorials that have already been featured are still available and there are 7 more weeks of new projects and everything will continue to be available to all members for a long time. Class members are encouraged to participate in the challenges so you can win prizes each week! So get busy with this color challenge and then go to the class site and link your entry to the challenge post. Good Luck – I hope you win!
Last weeks winners were Lisa Martz and Jessica Taylor. Congratulations ladies!
Here is my entry for this weeks color challenge:
This is a 12″ x 12″ scrapbook page and I used the Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper and the Epoxy brads to create elements on this page.
I saw this idea at least a year ago where they showcased both sides of double-sided paper by folding over the ends. Some people hate not being able to see both sides of the paper so here is one solution to that. I cut strips of different widths. One end was scalloped with the Scallop Edge punch and then folded over and secured with one of the Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Epoxy brads.
I added doodling with the Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker. The title was cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies – I used a mixture of upper and lowercase letters in the title. And then added one little button from the Playground Designer Buttons. The photo is my niece – I took a bunch of pictures of her playing with this hat and this was one of the cutest ones – most of the time she had it completely covering her face and I was trying to play peek-a-boo with her – so this was right after she lifted the hat – cute!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies used:
- Kraft card stock 12″ x 12″
- Pretty in Pink card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Very Vanilla card stock
- Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper (Occasions Mini Catalog)
- Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker
- Modern Label punch
- Scallop Trim Border punch (Sale-A-Bration)
- Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Sending Love Epoxy Brads (Occasions Mini Catalog)
- Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
- Playground Designer Buttons
- Linen Thread
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
- Go Go Boots Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Dies
To see what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge visit them here:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
Thanks for stopping by today.
Jan 15, 2010 | Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Valentine's Day |
I made another version of my Build-A-Bear card from yesterday – this one is my “boy” version – it uses the little boy bear.
My Build-a-Bear, Bella is modeling again. The supplies are the same as yesterdays card. I tried to use more Real Red and Chocolate Chip instead of the Pretty in Pink.
The shirt and shoes are paper-pieced. I stamped the bear image using black stazon ink onto the patterned paper and then cut out the pieces that I wanted to use. In this case the shirt and then the shoes.
I used my aquapainter to color my bear – using the classic ink.
He is holding a hand full of hearts to give to someone he loves!
I have another post coming right behind this one showing a scrapbook page I made last night with My Digital Studio.
Thanks for checking in today.
Jan 14, 2010 | Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Valentine's Day |
Finally I sat down to work on a challenge card – I had intended to do it earlier in the week but the week is getting away from me. I haven’t used my Build-A-Bear set recently so I decided to pull that out and make a card that fit two different challenges again. First is the sketch challenge from the Card Positioning Blog and second the Late Night Stampers group challenge – which was to create a Valentine (I forgot about the masculine twist – so I’ll try to make a boy card to match it a little bit later).
The sketch looks like this 
And here is my card – Bella my bear is showcasing it for you! 
Stampin’ Up! Supplies used:
- Real Red card stock and ink and marker
- Chocolate Chip card stock and ink
- Very Vanilla card stock
- Close to Cocoa ink
- Creamy Carmel ink
- Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper
- Beary Best Friends stamp set
- Beary Nice Wishes stamp set
- I {Heart} Hearts stamp set
- Full Heart Punch
- Heart to Heart punch
- Aqua painter
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
This also fits the Challenge on the Create with Connie & Julie class for this week. If you are part of the class remember to leave a link to your Valentine creation on the Challenge post so you can have a chance to win a prize this week. If you aren’t part of the class yet its not too late to join – Click Here for more details. We have lots of great projects to share with you.
And I have some exciting news to share!!!
I got an email this morning from Stampin’ Up! – and this is what it said:
Good morning—and Congratulations!
I work in Shelli Gardner’s office at Stampin’ Up! and she has asked me to notify you that she has selected you as a SoShelli Creative Challenge winner, for the Neighbor Gift Challenge.
How exciting is that?!? The project I entered were the tile coasters I made before the holidays – click here to see them. If you want to go to Shelli’s blog (she’s the owner of Stampin’ Up! in case you didn’t know) and see all the challenge entries click here. Here contest is open to anyone you don’t have to be a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator so check out her latest challenge and enter your creation.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Jan 11, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper |
Happy Monday! I wish I could say that I’m home alone and everyone is back to school and work – but that is not the case. School was cancelled again today – it would help if our temps would get above freezing so all the ice would melt. Very unusual for us to stay below freezing for more than 1 day and it has been I think 5. That is the problem we get a little snow, then we get a little sun and it melts and then it freezes and we end up with roads covered in sheets of ice. All the main roads are pretty driveable but the secondary roads, neighborhoods and school roads apparently have enough ice to close school again today. We are at the south end of the county so while we are probably all good here the northern part of the county isn’t. Tyler and Ryan did get to give Kyle a hard time because he did have to go to school today. Maybe tomorrow everyone will be on a normal schedule.
So enough rambling….my project I want to share today is from my Desktop Calendar class. I had the class on Dec. 30th – but half of the class was sick so I had it again the first week of January. I’m working on adding all the pictures to mine – I hope to finish that tomorrow. So today I’ll just share one month that has a picture and I’ll show you the rest later.
June calendar page
This 2010 calendar uses the Stampin’ Up! Days-To-Remember Calendar on page 159 of the catalog (#104144). There are 2 pages for each month – one to put a 6″ x 6″ scrapbook page on and the other is the monthly grid. All the pages are perforated and if you put them in the correct order (there is a map to follow) at the end of the year you can take them out and put them in a 6″ x 6″ scrapbook for a year in review album. Throughout the year you can have the calendar sit on your desk since it had a built in stand.
My scrapbook pages are designed to hold a 3-1/2″ tall by 5″ wide photo (or two smaller width photos). You could fill your calendar with old pictures or add them as you go along for the current year. I think I’m going to do a combination and just write a caption under each photo with the who, when, where, what information. Right now I found that Wolf Camera/Ritz Camera has 6 cents prints (3-1/2 x 5) on Tues and Wed – for 1 hour pickup. So this is what I do – I find the pictures I want to print and upload to their site and then print them on Tues/Wed. These are the perfect size for this project.
I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Paper Stack from the Occasions Mini Catalog throughout the calendar and took all the colors from those papers. Most of the months have embellishments that were either punched or cut with the Big Shot and a few are stamped. The Calendar grid uses the Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set for all the numbering. I used the Holiday Blitz stamp set on the grid to add images for the holidays and also used other stamp sets when I needed different images – the Family Accessories and Family Accessories Too sets have nice small images for this including a lot of the sports and activities that the kids do.
I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting me today.
Jan 10, 2010 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Wildlife |
If you haven’t noticed I have been trying to participate in various challenges. I figure it keeps me thinking and my creativity flowing – maybe sometimes pushes you to use/do/try something you wouldn’t normally do. A personal challenge is I always try to take what I see and make it with all Stampin’ Up! items. I am on a mailing list from one of the scrapbook magazines and received an email from one the ladies this weekend about a new blog she started and a new challenge – 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking – now that sounded interesting so I went to check out her blog and she has week 1 scrapbook layout posted. I normally create 2-page layouts but this was a single page and the challenge is to make one a week for 52 weeks – that would certainly fill up a scrapbook for 2010 – so why not – I can do this – yesterday I worked on my week 1 layout – I changed a few things – and used all Stampin’ Up! product, of course.
The background is a 12 x 12 piece of So Saffron. Then I layered a 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 piece of Sahara Sand. I used the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper – two different patterns – the So Saffron dots and the stripes of So Saffron and Old Olive.
The circle is chipboard from On Board Batch of Blooms chipboard. I “painted” it with Old Olive craft ink and a sponge dauber. Then punched holes in it with my Crop-A-Dile. I add Basic Grey Tafetta Ribbon by threading it through the holes and typing a bow at the bottom of the circle. So now I can enter this one in the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week – which was to use ribbon.
I stamped with Basic Grey ink using the new stamp set Garden from the Heart that is in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I colored the images with my Stampin’ Write Markers – So Saffron, Old Olive and Sahara Sand and a White Gel Pen. 
For the hat I added a So Saffron flower button from the Button Latte Designer buttons – in the center I added a silver brad. Under the hat I added just a little bit of Sahara Sand with an Aqua painter to add a shadow.
I also stamped with the splatter image from Itty Bitty backgrounds and Sahara Sand ink around the corners and edges on the layout. The photos are some that I took earlier this year of a flock of Cedar Waxwing’s that came through our yard this spring. I usually see them only once maybe twice as they migrate through our area. They come in a big flock and these pictures show them enjoying the bird bath and fountain in my back yard.
I also stamped the curly label tag image and punched it out. Since I didn’t have a Basic Grey marker and wanted to use the image with out the words I used a masking technique. I covered the words with a piece of tape – then inked the image on my Basic Grey ink pad. Removed the tape and then stamped on my Whisper White card stock. That gave me the label without the words. It was punched with the Curly Label punch and then layered with a die cut using the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die. I added a Basic Grey corduroy button – with some white crochet thread (ok I had one non- Stampin’ up! item).
It is much prettier in person than in these photos. The White Gel pen really pops on the Sahara Sand card stock. I’m done with my week 1 scrapbook page – 51 more weeks to go…..
Thanks for visiting today!
Jan 7, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Valentine's Day |
Hi everyone! Yesterday was so exciting…. a record number of visits to my blog and lots of comments trying to win the free pass to Create with Connie & Julie – check back tomorrow to see who won.
This is my original Hugs & Kisses holder – Click Here – for the original post.
Based on the comments I received I wanted to show you some more pictures of the Hugs & Kisses Holder project. I used the Stampin’ Up! Scallop Square Bigz Clear Die (#115950). I used my Paper Cutter with a scoring blade to score – here are some more pictures so you can see the scoring more clearly.
score on all the dashed lines and punch 1/8" holes at the four circles in the corners
Here is what it looks like on the paper cutter - line up the track in between the scallops on each side.
This is how you line up the diagonal - put the corners in the track and then start your scoring blade where the other lines cross (inside corner) and go out to the outside corner.
Some people also asked about doing this without the Scallop Square Die – and YES you can – any square will work – just divide each side into thirds and score it like a tic-tac-toe board. I decided to make a larger one today – it takes longer because if you want the edges scalloped you’ll need to do that (the Big Shot did all that work for you when you use the scallop square die) with a border/corner punch.
large Hugs & Kisses holder
My large Hugs & Kisses holder started as a 8-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ square of Real Red card stock. I used the new Scallop Trim Border and Scallop Trim Corner punch. With this size square it worked out perfectly with 18 scallops on each side – so divide by three – I scored after every 6 scallops.
I used the Full Heart punch to punch hearts from the Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper. I also used the Heart to Heart punch. I added buttons and brads. I also used the Big Shot with the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die and the Heart from the Punch Windows dies to create the larger heart.
Here are a couple more pictures.
large Hugs & Kisses holder
view from the top and the tag on the large Hugs & Kisses Holder
I hope that answers all the questions and show you another option on how to make a large version. The small one is quick and perfect if you need a small something for Valentine’s Day. The larger one you can give to your sweetheart!
And we have snow here in Georgia! My Christmas tree is still sitting on my back porch and it is starting to get a dusting of snow. The kids got out of school early and we are still waiting to hear about tomorrow. There is ice forming on the roads and the main roads outside our neighborhood have already had gravel/sand put on them. I’m still waiting on Greg to get home – he decided to stop and get gas for the car before coming home.
We don’t get much snow so I haven’t really looked closely at a snow flake – but today I had on a black coat and went to get the mail and snow flakes were falling on me. I looked and saw perfect little six point star snowflakes – it was so cool – they were tiny – but more than just little blobs – actual little snowflakes! And they were so pretty.
I found a new blog today (1/9) called Our Creative Corner and they had a 3-D challenge so I added this to their challenge link.
Thanks for stopping by!
I saw this idea at least a year ago where they showcased both sides of double-sided paper by folding over the ends. Some people hate not being able to see both sides of the paper so here is one solution to that. I cut strips of different widths. One end was scalloped with the Scallop Edge punch and then folded over and secured with one of the Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Epoxy brads.
