Oct 21, 2009 | Christmas, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
I had my eye on this stamp set when it first came out and for some reason never ordered it – I guess I always had something else to get so I would wait. And then Stampin’ Up! puts out cute stuff in the Holiday mini so I get that stuff and wait. At Christmas time last year I still didn’t have this stamp set – and I still thought it was the cutest thing – so when do you think I finally bought it – in JANUARY and when do you think I finally got it out to actually use it – in OCTOBER! How bad am I?
Last week while I was at Stephanie’s I brought the Holiday Lineup stamp set with me – because I was determined to make something with it. On Thursday, Stephanie’s friend, Kara came over for the day to stamp with us – guess what she brought – Holiday Lineup! She also had plans to make a card with this set for her co-workers. So we got busy. And look at how CUTE these cards turned out!
The one with the elves is the one we designed for Kara to use for her co-workers. I played around with the others for me. I’m thinking about using the snowmen for our family card – I need to leave off one snowman to make it a family of 5 instead of 6. And the little reindeer are funny too! The Designer Series Paper is Merry Moments from the Idea Book and uses traditional colors – Real Red, Garden Green, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla. Everything on these is colored with Stampin’ Write Markers and the White Gel Pen was used to add the white on the hats and beards. This set was a lot of fun to play with because the characters have such personality to them!
Have a happy day!
Oct 17, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Designer Series Paper, Season of Friendship, Stamper's Club |
At the Stamper’s Club meeting last Friday we made another gift project. This time it was a Seasonal Decorative Plate. This idea was presented at convention I think 2 years ago as a monthly idea. Using a glass plate the presenter made a circle that fit in the center of the plate for each month of the year. Since that time I have seen many variations on this idea some with the decorated circles behind the plate and others on the front. A few months ago Stampin’ Up! had one of their stamping challenges and a plate project was submitted by Mary Beth Brown – it didn’t win the challenge but it was shown on the demonstrator website. It was a seasonal plate using the Season of Friendship stamp set which is one of my favorites. So I put together this project for my club using Mary Beth’s idea with current Designer Series Papers. I loved how it turned out.
Today I’ll share the fall and winter inserts and when I get home I’ll share the others. It is such a dreary day here – raining and COLD. The news said tonight there could be snow flurries mixed with the rain. I’m in VA and I think the weather in Georgia is very similar.
The fall plate insert uses the Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper. The colors are Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Really Rust, Taken with Teal and Very Vanilla. This paper is so much prettier in person than it is in the mini catalog.
The Winter plate uses the Merry Moments Designer Series Paper – the piece with the Chocolate Chip snowflakes. The other colors I used are Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Ruby Red, and Very Vanilla.
I will say though that my feet are nice and warm since we just got back from getting a pedicure. Girl time sure is fun!
Tonight is Homecoming at Etowah where my boys go to school and Tyler is going to the dance – with a girl – and I’m not there… I think he is glad about that so I can’t fuss over him. I had most things taken care of before I left – got a new jacket, had it altered, had a new shirt, got it dry-cleaned, got a new tie, had the shoes and pants, ordered the corsage. Today Greg had to take care of picking up the flowers, and being the chauffeur and taking pictures – I hope he takes pictures! And I hope he calls me with all the scoop…
Stay dry and warm – thanks for stopping by today.
Oct 16, 2009 | Designer Series Paper, Stamps |
This Halloween card was another swap card from convention. When I get home I’ll update with the creator – I don’t have that with me right now. This is a gate fold card that opens in the middle. The Skull image is on a piece that is attached only to the right side of the card. And tucks under the spider to hold it shut.
The stamp set is From the Crypt and the skull is embossed with Black. You could create the white part of the skull with a white gel pen, or use a bleaching technique. You could probably even “paint” on white craft ink. The little spide accent was also embossed in black.
Inside the card are the Spooky Treats rub-ons.
It is a really dreary day here in VA. But we stayed inside at the Craftsman Classic Arts & Crafts Fair. we walked around through all the vendor booths and did a little bit of shopping. We came home and stamped a little and now we are headed to dinner at the Melting Pot – I’ve never been there before so I’m looking forward to it. Have a great rest of the day!
Oct 15, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, Lovely as a Tree, Scrapbook Pages |
Today I wanted to share a scrapbook layout from last month’s class. This was actually a layout I made at least a year or more ago – but I updated it to use the new Autumn Meadows Designer Series paper and colors and changed the accent pieces, stamp sets, etc. So it looks completely different.
The left page has the pockets with the tags that pull out for hidden journaling or extra photos. You could add more if you needed.
I doodled around the edges with a chocolate chip marker and did alot of sponging. The stamp set is Lovely as a Tree – it is good for so many things. I plan to add my hiking pictures from our fall break mini vacation to Red Top Mtn.
It looks like the rain followed me from Georgia to Virginia. But it is cold here and I didn’t bring that along – it was at least warm at home. Time to go to the craft room and start stamping!
Have a great day!
Oct 12, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club |
It’s a Halloween Test Tube Project!
This idea is floating around all over the stamping blogs and yahoo groups right now. When I was out shopping the other day I found these Halloween Test Tubes in the seasonal candy aisle – they have gummy eyes, finger or brains in them and they come in green, orange and purple- which made them the perfect match to the Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Paper. After seeing so many other people make test tube holders I thought I would try my hand at it too.
Now I wanted something quick – I didn’t want to cut and measure a box – so I pulled out my Big Shot Die-Cut machine and the Box #2 Bigz XL die and thought I would adapt that to this project. I turned the box up on its end and punched a hole in one side with the 1″ circle punch – which just fit my test tube inside – a tight fit so it holds it secure. The box is folded up and then wrapped with a piece of the Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Paper.
On the back I added a piece of Basic Black card stock to give it some support (and that’s what everyone else seems to be doing too!). A little piece of DSP to dress it up.
I stamped the Trick or Treat image from the hostess set – Holiday Best – the pumpkin is the same as the one in the paper. That was punched with the Wide Oval Punch and then layered on the largest label from the Matchbox Die that was cut out in Black. The wide oval by itself didn’t look right to me so I added that label behind it and it seemed to do the trick.
This was one our projects at the Stamper’s Club meeting Friday night. It was pretty quick and easy since we used the Big Shot to cut our box for us.
Sorry I didn’t post over the weekend – it was another busy one and I’ll tell you more about it later.
It is raining again here and there is another flash flood warning…
Have a great day and stay dry!
Oct 9, 2009 | Designer Series Paper |
Just a quick post today – 
This is another item I had at the Holiday Bazaar – I sold all that I had which wasn’t very many – so I guess I needed to make more. These are the little tins. I covered them with Designer Series Paper – this is the holiday paper from last year. Added ribbon around the edge. Used a crop-a-die to punch holes to add a handle – so they look like a little purse. Then added the decoration to the front – snowflakes with rhinestone brads and then the 5-petal flower punch for the stamp set (also retired). I don’t remember where the idea came from – I first made these a couple of years ago – so it has been awhile that the idea has been floating around.
Stamp club tonight…..
Oh and if you ordered the DSP purse tutorial I should be sending the emails out tomorrow assuming no more unexpected things crop up. I’m still resolving an issue from earlier in the week. I have mixed emotions about the weather tomorrow – if it rains then I’ll have time to get things done at home. But Ryan has a soccer game in the morning, a tennis match in the afternoon and Tyler has a band competition tomorrow too. It is a busy day…..
Gotta go….
