Jan 6, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
It’s Preview week over at Create with Connie & Julie, and I hope that you have been over there to see the preview projects that have been posted. There have been some cute Valentine Projects already shared by our wonderful team! So go check it out if you haven’t already. Connie has a new project posted on the Create site today and I have my own project to share with you here today since it is my turn to give away a FREE Pass to the Create with Connie & Julie class. How exciting is that?!? Read below for all of the details on how to enter for your chance to win, and then you can see more pictures and the supplies I used to create this project at the bottom of the post.
The Occasions Edition site will run from January 3 – March 6. Each week we will focus on a different collection of products that can be found in the Occasions Mini Catalog or Sale-A-Bration brochure. Our goal is to show you some new and unique ways to use Stampin’ Up!’s fabulous products. Every day there will be a new project posted and each week there will be at least two tutorials available for you to download. Our exclusive projects will include cards, scrapbook pages and 3D items, the quick and easy ones and the more complex larger projects.
To find out more about the site and to order a subscription, please visit us at Create with Connie & Julie.
Would you like to win a subscription to the Create with Connie and Julie site? Each of the team members will be giving away subscriptions on their blogs this week. To enter to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on our team members’ blog on the day that we are featuring them. It’s MY turn today to give away a free subscription, so leave a comment here on my blog (click on Comments right at the bottom of this post!). All the winners will be announced on Friday January 8! If you’ve already joined, we will refund your subscription price!
The free subscription give away has ended – thanks to all of those that participated.
And now more about my cute little project – I had something different in mind and when I started with my first idea things just started heading in a different direction. I ended up with this cute little Hugs & Kisses holder using some new Stampin’ Up! products from the Occasions Mini Catalog instead.
Are you wondering where the “hugs & kisses” phrase came from on the little tag? It’s on the I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel. I just used a Real Red Stampin’ Write marker to color just that part of the wheel – wheeled it on Whisper White card stock and punched it out with the large oval punch. Cute isn’t it? You have a whole bunch of different ways to say “Love” using the parts of that jumbo wheel.
To make the little holder I cut a Scallop Square using my Big Shot and the clear die. Then I used my paper trimmer with the scoring blade to score in between every three scallops in both directions – it creates a tic-tac-toe board. Then on the four corners make a diagonal score from the outside corner to the inside corner. Now fold on all the score lines – punch holes in the four diagonals and pull a piece of ribbon through to tie it shut.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: I {Heart} Hearts, I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel
Ink: Real Red ink & Stampin’ Write marker, Chocolate Chip ink
Card Stock: Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, Big Shot die Cut Machine, Scallop Square Clear Bigz Die, Red Gingham Ribbon, Stampin’ Sponge, Paper Trimmer w/Scoring Blade, 1/8″ hand held punch, Heart to Heart Punch, Small Heart Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals
I hope you like it! We will be making this project at my January I {Heart} Hearts class.
Leave me a comment today for a chance to win a Free Pass to the Create with Connie & Julie class – good luck!
Jan 5, 2010 | Birthday, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Ribbon |
One more quick post – I was trying to complete another challenge that has a deadline of today and then decided to double it up for one that has a deadline of tomorrow. So I’m going to go ahead and post it tonight so I can submit it to both of those blogs. I’m not a 100% happy – i already thought of one change that it probably needed but I’m not going to do that now. I want to go watch Ga Tech in the Orange Bowl and I only have a few more minutes before that starts.
Ok – challenge #1 is from the Artistic Avenger Blog and it was to use a Christmas stamp set in a non-Christmas way.
And the second challenge is the Stamping 411 Blog sketch challenge – the sketch this week looks like this:
And here is the card I made real quick – it uses the Punch Pals stamp set – it is the Christmas set with the snowman, tree, penguin, and several others that fit various Stampin’ Up! punches but I created a Birthday card with it. For the sketch I turned it on its side since I used the tags and they fit better in that direction.
The colors are Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal, Sahara Sand, and Whisper White. I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Series paper with it too – I had to get a new product in there also.
And one non-su product would be the orange staples that hold the ribbon on.
It needs some work still….off to link to the challenge blogs and then on to the football game.
Jan 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You, Thank You Kindly |
So today I took a break from Valentines – well actually I did a Valentine project this morning but I’ll be posting that one on Wednesday – make sure to come back. But this afternoon I worked on a non-Valentine’s project. I also tried another sketch challenge – called Mojo Monday. I see this mentioned all the time in our yahoo groups where we share our projects but I haven’t tried it before. So this is my first Mojo Monday sketch attempt….here is the sketch
and here is my card….
instead of the brads I used a greeting in that spot.
I used four new Stampin’ Up! products: the Garden from the Heart stamp set, Satin Ribbon, and the Scallop Trim Border Punch, and the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack. All of these are available to order beginning tomorrow – January 5th.
Here is a complete list of Stampin’ Up! products that I used for this card:
- Garden from the Heart stamp set (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Thank You Kindly stamp set
- Taken with Teal card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Chocolate Chip ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Watercolor Wonder Crayons: Earth Elements, Rich Regals
- Aqua painter
- Big Shot die cut machine
- Scallop Circle #2 die
- Circle Scissor Plus and Glass mat
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Chocolate Chip satin ribbon (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Linen Thread
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
I’m going to like this new gardening set. And I do have it in the new Clear-Mount version which worked so nicely on the new Stampin’ Up! Clear blocks. I cut the white circle first and then stamped the image – it was easy to position on the circle with the Clear-Mount option. Happy Stampin’!
Thanks for stopping by!
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Jan 2, 2010 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Thank You |
Here is a sneak peek at some new products from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack and the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt pieces.
Didn’t this turn out so cute?
Here is my list of Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack
- Sweet Pea Stitched Felt
- Taken with Teal card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock, ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Whisper White card stock
- Family Phrases stamp set
- Tombow multi-purpose adhesive (to glue on the felt)
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
You will be able to order from the Occasions Mini Collection beginning January 5th!
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Dec 31, 2009 | Big Shot, Decor Elements, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club |
I can’t believe it is the end of another Year – 2009 is leaving us and we are on to 2010 in just a few hours. How can that be? Have a safe New Year’s Eve!
I don’t think I mentioned this yet but I got a new laptop for Christmas – yeah me! I decided a few months ago that I really did want one so that I wasn’t tied to my desk all the time. Now I can work from anywhere in the house (or out). But with the new laptop comes some changes and getting used to new things. And my husband decided to change a whole bunch of other stuff too – new internet service, new email addresses, new printer and more. So I’m trying to get everything back up and running on this new laptop. So one thing was the way I download my pictures from my camera. It is going to be a little different than the way I did it before but I atleast have it working (although maybe not the way I want it).
I was able to download the pictures from the last Club meeting so you can see the rest of the EAT Decor Elements Frames that the girls made – there were two done in Real Red with the Night & Day Designer Series paper. And they used the Viola stamp set to create some of the magnets.
There was also one done in Old Olive with Old Olive Patterns Designer Series paper.
The “EAT” Decor Elements comes in five different colors – Black, Chocolate, Real Red, Old Olive and White. So you can mix those with various Designer Series papers and make one to coordinate with any kitchen.
Click Here to see the original one made with the Black EAT and Soft Suede.
Don’t need a recipe holder – here is an idea that Lisa shared with me last night. She cut some vinyl to put on the top – you can purchase just the sheets and cut your own designs using your Big Shot machine – and used paper and stamps to make her husband a ” Honey Do” list board. Put that in your husband’s workshop or garage and leave him notes where he is sure to see them. Lisa decorated the magnets with some stamps from a retired stamp set.
The Decor Elements sheets come in Kraft, Chocolate, White and Dark Gray now. And they should be available in more colors in January.
Other ideas – maybe for your teens or kids create a “to do” board or HW board that they can set on their desk. Attach a list of chores or homework that needs to be done for the day or the week. For the New Year – it could have your goals listed and set it in your bedroom or bathroom where you can see them every day. Mark them off as you complete them.
Enough of me today….I’ll leave you with one of our Decor Elements quotes….
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Dec 30, 2009 | Decor Elements, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club |
This is not the best picture of this project – sorry. The idea comes from the Stampin’ Up! Decor Elements catalog – on page 19 there is a Recipe Holder on the stove top. They have a better picture.
For mine – I used the From the Kitchen of stamp set to make a set of recipe cards and the two magnets. The images are stamped with Black StazOn ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Write Markers. I made a set of 6 cards to go with the holder. And there are 2 magnets – one has the ‘Yum Scale’ and the other has “From the Kitchen of” on it.
The ‘eat’ is the small Black one. The Designer Series Paper is from the Soft Suede Patterns collection. The ribbon is Basic Black Grosgrain.
A friend of mine made these and her husband cut the wood bases and the metal sheets. I had him make some for me and used this project as the December Club project. The club girls made some with other colors and I did take pictures but haven’t gotten them off my camera yet. I’ll do that and post their creations on another day.
This was a great gift for almost anyone. And a great guy gift. I gave one to my brother-in-law and he loved it.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Are you wondering where the “hugs & kisses” phrase came from on the little tag? It’s on the I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel. I just used a Real Red Stampin’ Write marker to color just that part of the wheel – wheeled it on Whisper White card stock and punched it out with the large oval punch. Cute isn’t it? You have a whole bunch of different ways to say “Love” using the parts of that jumbo wheel.
To make the little holder I cut a Scallop Square using my Big Shot and the clear die. Then I used my paper trimmer with the scoring blade to score in between every three scallops in both directions – it creates a tic-tac-toe board. Then on the four corners make a diagonal score from the outside corner to the inside corner. Now fold on all the score lines – punch holes in the four diagonals and pull a piece of ribbon through to tie it shut.
