Jan 27, 2010 | Designer Series Paper, family, Great Friend, In Colors, Stamper's Club |
The stamp club orders came on Monday and look at the new Stampin’ Up! Boxes –
Not only do they have the Sale-A-Bration logo on them, but look at this new Caution statement.
I’m ready for some extreme excitement!
I’m always happy to open up Stampin’ Up! boxes because there is always something fun inside. I think I heard it is only this particular size box that has this label on it because it is the most common size for orders during Sale-A-Bration.
So anyway the club orders were in that box and if you are a part of my Stamp Club then I have all of your stuff ready for you. Our last club meeting for this session is in February and I’ll start new groups in March. If you are not already in my Stamp Club and want to be a part of the fun please contact me – I’ll be sending out more information later this week.
Here is one of the projects we made at our last Stamper’s Club meeting – it is a skinny tin that has been altered to be a picture frame. My friend Wendy shared this with us at our STARZ group meeting and I decided to use it as our club project.
This is the front of the tin. And when you open it up you can stand it on your desk and it shows two photos on the inside.
I added a couple of photos of Tyler and Haley when they went to the Homecoming Dance last fall.
This is a great little gift idea – perfect for a Mother’s Day or Father’s day gift – just adjust the colors and accents to what you need.
Have a great day! I’ll post later with some bird photos – they were busy today.
Dec 24, 2009 | Big Shot, Christmas, Designer Series Paper, In Colors |
It is here. It is Christmas Eve! And I still have so much I want to do but I wanted to take a quick break to share this project I just finished.
I found carved wood icicle name ornaments when I went to the craft fair in Virginia – yes that was October so I had what at least 2 months to make these little boxes – but I waited until the last day…
In this photo you can see Noah’s ornament – I took it out of the box so you could see one. I added the Riding Hood Red ribbon to the tops so that they would have a hanger. The boy ornaments I tied in a knot and the girl ornament I tied in a bow.
The ornaments are long and skinny and I decided to make a little box to put them in. Most of what I used is retired from last year. Riding Hood Red card stock, Ski Slope and Holiday Treasures Designer Series Paper, Little Felt Flurries, and the 1-1/4″ Riding Hood Red Grosgrain Ribbon.
Since they were so skinny rather than make tags I decided to use the felt flurries with their initial as the tag. I used the Big Shot and the Stampin’ Up! Billboard Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die to cut the letters. 
To determine the size of the boxes I used my grid paper. I laid the ornament on the grid paper and drew around it – then added sides for the box that were deep enough to hold the ornament, and a lid and a flap. I extended each end the same amount as the sides. Cut and score, snip the flaps, glued it together with Tombow adhesive.
Yesterday I did baking and wrapping. Made a trip to the Honey Baked Ham store (it was packed full of people), the bank (that was empty), one more trip to the grocery store (also crowded) and I’m sending Kyle back today because I realized I’m still missing one thing. I made more M&M treats because I gave all the ones I made away to the teachers last week and the kids still wanted some. I think I have made probably 800 of those things this year. Each tray holds at least 100 because I put as many pretzels as I can on the tray. I made a Rum cake yesterday – I had to go to the store to buy the rum – they were also pretty busy. I also made Cinnamon Sledges – an old recipe that I got from one of my mom’s friends when I was probably in college.
The other night we had dinner at my mother-in-laws house. It was wonderful. My parents came to join us and Tyler’s girlfriend came over too. Now she has met all of Tyler’s grandparents. Here is a picture of me with my boys and Tyler’s girlfriend, Haley.
Merry Christmas Everyone! If I have time today I’ll set up a couple of posts to go up this weekend. Otherwise it will be Monday before I post again. Have a wonderful Holiday with your family, travel safely and enjoy.
Dec 14, 2009 | Big Shot, In Colors, Occasion Mini 2010 |
I finally played with my new Stampin’ Up! stuff yesterday! And here is the first card that I made and my first time ever to use a clear-mounted stamp. I have only used would mounted so far – but the feel of the clear block is so nice – the grooves on the sides – on all four sides – instead of just two like the would blocks. I think I’m going to like them.
I love how this turned out! I used the sketch from the Stamping 411 blog for this week. 
The sketch card is tall and mine is turned to be a wide card but the basic layout remains the same.
I choose the colors Soft Suede and Crushed Curry – why – basically because I had a scrap of Crushed Curry lying on my craft table when I wanted to try out my new Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die. This new Die will be available in the Occasions Mini Catalog which starts on January 5th. After I cut the butterflies I remembered that the Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper has a pretty piece in it that was mostly Crushed Curry – so I pulled that out. One of my favorite cards that I made this year was a convention project that we made at our STARZ group meeting and it used that same Designer Series paper and the Soft Suede – so I decided to stick to that color scheme for this card.
I sponged all the little butterflies with Crushed Curry ink to give them dimension. And added a piece of cross-stitch thread around the body of the large butterfly – although looking at it in this picture Linen Thread would have given the same look and a very similar color. So pretend it’s linen thread….
I pulled out my new clear mount stamp set called Well Scripted – this will also be available on January 5th in the new Occasions Mini Catalog. It is one of my favorite sets from the mini – beautiful script for all the basic occasions. I mounted it on a clear block, inked it with Crushed Curry ink and stamped it on Whisper White card stock. I punched it out with the Wide Oval Punch and sponged the edges with Crushed Curry ink.
I also punched out a 1-3/4″ Circle out of Crushed Curry card stock to put behind the greeting. It was sponged with Crushed Curry ink also.
To assemble the card – fold the Soft Sued in half to form the card base. Add the Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series paper strip at the bottom. I added a piece of Crushed Curry Polka Dot ribbon – tied in a knot. The greeting was put over the ribbon with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I added the butterflies – the largest one with a Stampin’ Dimensional, the smaller ones with some Tombo Multipurpose Adhesive.
Finally I decided to get out my Spritzer tool and my In-Color Markers – I spritzed with the Soft Suede on the upper portion of the card and with the Crushed Curry on the lower portion, the greeting and the large butterfly.
I hope you like my card – I have lots more fun stuff to play with so check back again. Have a wonderful Stampin’ Up! Day!
Nov 28, 2009 | Christmas, class, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, In Colors, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Buttons |
I’m back home – we drove all day today and we are home. I had a couple of days without posting – one was Thanksgiving – we spent the day cooking, then eating and enjoying our time with family, then cleaning it all up, then getting it all out and eating some more. We were all stuffed! Friday the girls went shopping and most of the boys went to the battlefield for a hike. Friday night we pulled out all the Thanksgiving left overs one more time. And packed up so we could leave early this morning. Aspen and Magnolia are VERY HAPPY to have us home and to be back in their own house instead of at the kennel.
Onto another card from my Holiday Card class – this is one my favorite cards. The colors are Soft Suede, Old Olive, Ruby Red and Whisper White. We received this stamp set from Stampin’ Up! at the Chattanooga Regional – it is called Berry Christmas from the Holiday mini catalog. There was a card on one of the display boards that I took a photo of and created my version for my class – I stuck pretty close to the original because I just loved it. I don’t know who the original creator was because we can’t see that on the display boards. It might have been someone at the corporate office – I’m not sure.
Stampin’ Up Supplies:
- Berry Christmas stamp set
- Soft Suede card stock and ink and marker
- Old Olive card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Ruby Red ink
- Scallop edge punch
- Linen thread
- Earth Elements buttons
- mini glue dots
- stampin’ dimensionals
- medium envelope
Thanks for stopping by today! I am thankful too for everyone that visits my blog, leaves me comments and sends me emails. I’m thankful for Stampin’ Up! and all the friends I have made and the opportunities that I have had. There is always something exciting around the corner and I can’t wait to share many more ideas and creations with you.
Nov 5, 2009 | In Colors, Upsy Daisy |
I have started making 3×3 tags to put on all of my orders – they serve two purposes – one to say thank you to the person that ordered and two it has their name on it so I know whose bag it is without having to look inside. I saw this idea when I visited Christina Crawford, a demo in Virginia. She had tags on all of her orders and they just looked so pretty. This week I made some fall looking ones using the Upsy Daisy stamp set. They turned out cute – the layout was one from Stampin’ Up! and I just changed the colors to suit what I needed.
Stampin’ Up! supplies used:
- Crushed Curry card stock
- Dusty Durango card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Upsy Daisy stamp set
- Crushed Curry ink
- Chocolate Chip ink
- Linen Thread
- Crop-a-Dile
- Tag corner punch
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
The 3×3 cards are quick and easy to make so I whipped out a small stack in no time. And then I decided to make a full size card using the exact same design, colors and stamp set. I needed a card to send off as a Thank You. Once you find a layout that you like or a color combination just adapt it to the size card that you need.
To create the large card – I stamped the daisy image twice. I made the Chocolate Chip strip a little wider and added the paper piercing along the bottom of the card. The Tag for the Thank You is also longer and the Dusty Durango circle is a 1/2″ circle on that tag.
So additional Stampin’ Up! supplies needed for the larger card include
– 1/2″ circle punch
– Paper Piercer
– Mat Pack
After having so much rain for so long this week has been beautiful with clear sunny skies. But fall is definitely here – the leaves are turning and falling to the ground faster than Greg can keep them off the yard. It would be a great time to drive up to the mountains and take some pictures.
Have a wonderful day!
Oct 28, 2009 | Big Shot, In Colors |
Finally – I made a card for the Stamping 411 challenge. I think I participated the first 2 weeks when they started and then tried a couple more but kept missing the deadline. I think this time I made it. And I’m pleased with my card too.
I wanted to make a card to send to all the wonderful new ladies that I met this month either at events or workshops. Just a little note to says thanks and to invite them to join me for stamping. If you are one of those people and you gave me your mailing address – then you should be getting one in the mail soon. As an added bonus this little card includes a special coupon for $5 off one of my stamping classes. I have been thinking on this for a while but nothing popped into my head as being the right thing until I saw the sketch for this weeks 411 challenge.
The sketch was a square card and while the measurements given on the blog – by the way it is here – were for a 5-1/4″ square card I had an idea…….
If I make a regular size card – 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ but here is the neat part – I’ll trim the front of the card to be a square – so 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ and leave the back with the extra 1-1/4″ showing and that piece becomes my class coupon! I used the handy little perforating tool on the Cutter Kit to perforate that extra piece so that you can rip that part off to bring it back to me and still keep the little card.
I sketched it out on my grid paper last night and got to work – what stamp set and colors to use were my next decision – but that didn’t take long – I have had the “For All You Do” stamp set on my desk ready to work with and decided it would be perfect. Colors – the Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive colors have been very appealing to me and in the front of the catalog where the color families are pictured they used these colors along with So Saffron – which is what I ended up with. I created my flowers like they did on that sample.
So here is my creation…………….
I also used the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder on the Rich Razzleberry card stock. The embossing folders are so cool – I hope Stampin’ Up! creates lots more.
The butterfly was inked with So Saffron ink and then I used the Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Write Marker to outline the edges of the wings and color the body before I stamped it on Whisper White card stock. The Butterfly and flowers are all hand cut. That’s the part that is taking me the longest. I am in production mode so I have the different pieces of card stock cut and the images stamped and now I’m cutting all the flowers and butterflies before I put all the pieces together. They should be going out in the mail tomorrow – I hope.
The coupon information was put on a label and I added a few stamped flowers. This concept could be used for any kind of coupon – have the kids make mom or dad (or a grandparent) a personalized coupon card. Or use the tear off part to make a little bookmark – just decorate to suit your need.
So I think it fits into the Stamping 411 challenge and it is perfectly suited to what I wanted to send out. I hope everyone likes them.
Thanks for visiting today – go get creative!
Not only do they have the Sale-A-Bration logo on them, but look at this new Caution statement.
I’m ready for some extreme excitement!
This is the front of the tin. And when you open it up you can stand it on your desk and it shows two photos on the inside.
I added a couple of photos of Tyler and Haley when they went to the Homecoming Dance last fall.
