Oct 1, 2011 | Cookie Stamps, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
Lookie, Lookie, Lookie – you can now stamp your cookies!
Yep – Stampin’ Up! has a brand-new product called Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. Something fun for crafter’s, baker’s and kids! The cookie stamp is a solid wood handle with three interchangeable stamp images: a heart, a jack-o-lantern, and a snowflake.
Just make your favorite shortbread cookie dough (or one of the two included recipes) and stamp away! Create beautiful, hand-stamped cookies in a flash. The stamp images are completely food-safe and child-friendly.
There easy to use and no ink required!
Turn your cookies in to home made gifts by packaging them in a Kraft Gift Box from the Holiday Mini Catalog (find them on page 15). The boxes are made from food-safe material. And the perfect tag can be made with our A la Carte stamp – Homemade – on page 20 of the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog.
To order these items and more visit my online store – click here.
Sep 28, 2011 | Cards, class, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
Here is a quick card for you today. This will be one of the choices at the Card Maker’s Club today. I got the idea from a candy treat project that Mary Fish made – I just turned it into a card.
I’ve got lots to do so I’m keeping this short. Stamp sets are the new Warmest of Wishes Hostess set in the Holiday Mini catalog and Wicked Cool.
Sep 24, 2011 | Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Thanksgiving, uStamp |
Hi everyone! I am once again so thrilled to be a designer for the Ustamp with Dawn & Friends class that is just starting. This current class is called Paper Parade and it is all about the paper in the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog – every Designer Series Paper, Simply Scrappin’ Kit, Card Stock and Specialty paper will be represented with projects in this class – it is going to me a wow! And a big tracking job for Betty to make sure we (the designers) have it all covered.
So today I get to show you the first project that I created for this class – I decided to do a scrapbook layout and also created a coordinating card. This layout is full of lots of details and fun stuff. If you join the Paper Parade class you can get the complete tutorial including the pumpkin templates along with at least 40 other projects that all have tutorials. It is such a great inspiration for every paper crafter.
Are you ready to see it?
The inset picture is the coordinating card. So are you ready to join the class to get all the details? I really think you should but that is just me. Here is some more information about it….
Paper Parade will be focusing on showcasing Stampin’ Up! Paper from the USA/Canada 2011 – 2012 Idea Book & Catalog as well as the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog!!
This is a HUGE Challenge to cover all the papers in 40+ projects…but all the Designers are way excited and are more than up for the challenge!! Keeping in mind that the most important element is the AWESOMENESS of the project, each Designer is working MAGIC with the Stampin’ Up! Papers!!
Since our focus this round is PAPER and not just the upcoming Holiday Season, we have a VAST VARIETY of FANTASTIC Projects!!
Click the blinkie below to start the payment/signup process….it’s E*A*S*Y*!!
The website is open and project started posting yesterday the 23rd! Every 12 hours there is a new project!
Hope you join us…I will “see” you over at the Paper Parade Website!!
Sep 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
I was inspired by the little treat bag in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog. It is on page 5 – the little bag that uses the owl from the Warmest of Wishes Hostess stamp set. If you have ever received a box from Stampin’ Up! you know that they fill the empty space with brown paper. I end up with lots of brown paper and I like to come up with ideas to use it instead of throwing it away. Last year I saved it and wrapped all of our Christmas gifts in it. I am going to start saving it to do that again. But for now this little treat bag inspired another idea. I can make my own treat bags!
This was one of the projects from my class on Friday –
I took a piece of the brown paper from my last Stampin’ Up! order and cut a section out. I folded it in half and put it on my Scallop Square die – making sure the fold was inside the cut line of the die – so you only cut three sides of the folded paper. I ran it through the Big Shot die and ended up with a scallop square with one folded side. I put snail adhesive on the two sides and left the top open. I ran each side into the crimper a little bit and rolled it back out.
The front is decorated like the sample in the Holiday Mini catalog. Punch a circle from Daffodil Delight. Stamp the Owl on Whisper White using Early Espresso ink and punch out. Stamp again on Pumpkin Pie card stock and cut out just the trick or treat bag – add this on top of the punched owl – I used a little bit of Stampin’ Dimensional. I added a strip of Lucky Limeade. Stamp Happy Halloween (from Teeny Tiny Wishes) at the bottom. Insert candy!
These were really quick and they are really cute! And you don’t even have to buy any bags just make your own.
Have a nice day!
Sep 16, 2011 | Big Shot, class, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Thanksgiving |
I wanted to share a quick little treat that we will be making in my Hands-On Stamping Class today. And I’m learning about my new iphone – I took the picture with my phone and then emailed to myself so I could edit it on my computer. I’m not sure how much faster that is than just using my camera but i wanted to know how to do it anyway.
One thing I did notice is that I need to send a bigger version of the picture – this one is full size and not that big – usually I have a larger picture and I include a reduced version in my blog post and then you can click on it to see the larger photo – this one is as big as it gets from what I sent from my phone. I do think I can choose to send a larger version from my phone – so I’ll try that next time.
Back to the project – I used the new 1″ x 8″ Cellophane Bags in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog. I filled them loosely with Reese’s pieces so that I could close it and then fold it in half. The holder is Chocolate Chip card stock cut with the Two Tags die and the Big Shot. To close it I wrapped a piece of the wide striped Daffodil Delight Ribbon around it pulling the ribbon through the slot in the back of the tag. Then I used a large Rhinestone brad to go around the ribbon and then through the hole in the back of the tag so it would be secure. Trim the ribbon.
For the front I stamped the turkey image from the Gift Givers stamp set in the Holiday Mini catalog – I used black ink, then colored the turkey with my Stampin’ Write markers – Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake. Punch that out with the Curly Label punch. Then punch out a Pumpkin Pie Decorative Label punch to layer behind it. Attach to the front over the ribbon with some Stampin’ Dimensionals.
You can easily make this treat for any of the holidays using the other images in the Gift Givers stamp set – just adjust the colors to that holiday. Click Here to look at all the Stampin’ Up! images in the set. You can order online at my website store.
Have a nice day!
Sep 13, 2011 | Cards, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, UDI Color Challenge, Watercoloring |
So did you like the bats from my last post? Weren’t they fun? I can’t wait to fill the ones I made with treats for my boys for Halloween. But that won’t be for a little while yet. Now it is Tuesday and time for another UDI Color Challenge.
Are you ready? Guess what week we are on? Week #53! What does that mean? We have completed a full year of color challenges! I can’t believe it has been a whole year. And we are starting year two…..
So on to the inspiration picture for this week –
Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Always Artichoke, Old Olive and Whisper White. I pulled out my color coach and fanned out these colors. The first thing that popped into my mind was the stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog called Gift Givers and the image with the little girl in the snow. So I pulled it out and created this card –
I stamped the image with Black StazOn on Whisper White card stock and then watercolored it with my aqua painter and classic ink. Then i punched it out with the Scallop Circle Punch. Every image in this stamp set matches one of our punches and the images cover all the holidays/seasons – winter, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I wanted to frame my image with a mat of Always Artichoke – guess what fits perfectly – the Two Tags Die scallop tag. I cut one tag out with the Big Shot and then put it back on the die in the opposite direction so it would cut out a scallop circle to layer behind my punch.
There is a square of Marina Mist card stock with a piece of the Letters to Santa Designer Series Paper on it. White Gel pen dots around the edge. The trim on the side is a piece of Bashful Blue cut with the Clear Scallop Square Die and the Big Shot and then trimmed off one side so I had 2 scallops wide strip. The Always Artichoke strip was cut from the Petal Cone Die and then run through the crimper. I tied White Baker’s Twine around them and tied a bow. I added some gel pen doodles on the scallops. That’s it.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Whisper White
- Ink: Jet Black Staz On, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Always Artichoke, Old Olive
- Stamp sets: Gift Givers
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Two Tags Die, Clear Scallop Square Die, Petal Cone Die, Crimper, White Bakers Twine, Scallop Circle punch, Aqua Painter, white gel pen.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Yep – Stampin’ Up! has a brand-new product called Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. Something fun for crafter’s, baker’s and kids! The cookie stamp is a solid wood handle with three interchangeable stamp images: a heart, a jack-o-lantern, and a snowflake.
