Jul 19, 2014 | In Colors, Stampin' Up! Convention, Uncategorized |
I’m very excited this year to have two of my downline going to the Stampin’ Up! Convention with me! And since they aren’t staying in the room with me (so I didn’t make them roommate gifts) I decided to make them special downline gifts.
This little pouch idea was something I saw on Pinterest and the idea book was something I got as a swap many years ago at convention and decided to make them each one for their pouch. I also included a “ticket” for dinner – my treat during convention.
I actually pulled out my little sewing machine and stitched the piece of designer paper to the front of the folded bag. That creates several pockets and one has the idea booklet in it and the other has their dinner ticket.
i did go back and add a flower to the Mossy Meadow ribbon on the front – but forgot to take another picture. I’ll try to do that when I get them back out of my suitcase. As I write this they are packed away. Look for another picture on my Facebook Page.
I did use a retired set of dies to cut my letters but you could use whatever you have or even and e-cutter to add the letters to the front. The covers are a piece of heavy card board cut to size and covered with some Designer paper – the Park Lane paper is what I used for this project.
I love how they turned out and I hope Sue & Diane do too.
Here is a list of supplies from Stampin’ Up! –
Jul 10, 2014 | Big Shot, In Colors, Tags |
What? A Fry Box full of tags? Stampin’ Up! has a new Big Shot die that creates a Fry Box. I wish I had that last year when I had cut about 25 fry boxes! Now with the new die it’s quick and easy to make a bunch of Fry Boxes. Here is a project that we made in my hands on class last month – a fry box full of tags.
For this project I wanted to use the new In-Colors but while I was creating my project ended up being way to busy with all the new In-Colors so I decided to focus on two – Hello Honey and Blackberry Bliss – why those? Well they were both part of the prints in the Moonlight Paper stack. If you look closely at the Moonlight paper stack on one side of the prints you have the Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss colors and on the flip side you have the Hello Honey and Lost Lagoon colors. The fry box is lined on the front panel and inside back panel with the Moonlight Paper. Then the front has the Linen thread and flowers added to it.
For the tags – I had 6 in the box – 3 featuring Hello Honey and 3 featuring Blackberry Bliss. I used the Scallop Tag Topper punch to make my tags – love it! I prefer to round the corners on my tags when I used the scallop top – so I used the Project Life corner rounder punch to do that. To create the back grounds on my tags I used the new Decorative Masks – hearts & stars – with Stampin’ Sponges to add the images to the back. Then each tag has flowers added and a little message from the And Many More stamp set. I finished with a piece of ribbon added to the top.
Here is a quick look at the tags for the other in-colors – I did not use these in my final project but thought you might want to see them.
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Here are the products I used for the Fry Box full of tags:
Jul 7, 2014 | Cards, In Colors |
Well somewhere it’s Happy Hour time – not exactly where I am right this minute while I’m writing. It’s not even 10 am here yet. But in any case I’m going to share with you this cute card using the Happy Hour stamp set.
I wanted to use the new In-color Tangelo Twist on this card – that way I could make oranges. I wasn’t sure what color I wanted to use with it so I pulled out my Color Coach (you can buy the cards for the new in-colors) and one of the color combo suggestions included Island Indigo. Which now makes me remember the Halo Clementine orange commercials – not sure they have those every where – but where I live they have the commercials on TV and the only colors they use are the orange and blue (and white).
I wanted a piece of the designer paper to use on the card but I didn’t have any current papers that had Island Indigo. So I ended up using the Sweet Taffy paper that has Tempting Turquoise in it. The one printed seemed to work just perfectly with my Island Indigo card stock.
Oh – I have a trick for the little orange slice – a perfect way to cut it out that is super easy! Stamp the little orange on Whisper White card stock – punch it out with the 1/2″ circle punch – then cut it in half – a perfect orange slice just for adding to the edge of the glass.
Enjoy a nice drink for Happy Hour today!
Here is one more view of the card.
Jun 26, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, In Colors, Thinlits |
One of my favorite new Stampin’ Up! In Colors is Hello Honey. I think it’s just a happy color and perfect right now for the summer months. Here is a card I created featuring Hello Honey –
I paired it up with Soft Suede on this card. The background is pretty light but I used the Hexagon Hive Thinlit and cut a stencil from a thin piece of card board (I used the ones in the back of the regular packs of Designer paper). I sponged through it with the Hello Honey ink to create a honeycomb background.
The “So happy for you” comes from the new Bravo photopolymer stamp set. I wasn’t sure I would like the photopolymer sets but I do like them. I did find though that for me I clean them on a paper towel with some Stampin’ Mist rather than using the Stampin’ Scrub – which tends to pick up ink from all the other stamps I clean and then they stain my photopolymer stamps. I found that red and brown inks seem to leave a faint stain and its worse if you don’t clean them right away. I do like that they are see through and so sticky. I also think they pick up ink well from our new style ink pads but not so well from the older style ink pads – so I’ll be replacing the rest of mine soon I have about half of mine replaced now with the newer style.
I also included a little background sponging and a butterfly on the inside of the card peeking out in the corner. And if you didn’t notice I corner rounded just the top right hand corner. Just a little different look I thought.
Here is a list of all the products that I used –
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Jun 25, 2014 | Cards, In Colors, sympathy |
Have you picked out a favorite from the new Stampin’ Up! In-Colors? I have two favorites right now – Hello Honey and Lost Lagoon. This card features the new Lost Lagoon In-Color.
I used two stamp sets for this card – Blooming with Kindness and Thoughts & Prayers. At one of my card classes this month I had a request for sympathy cards. I designed it as a sympathy card but with the greetings in the Blooming with Kindness stamp set those that didn’t need a sympathy card could easily make a birthday or thank you card by using a different greeting.
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Jun 18, 2014 | Cards, In Colors |
I’ve been introducing the new Stampin’ Up! 2014-2016 In-Colors to my clubs and classes this month and wanted to share another project with you. One of the benefits of being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator is we get a magazine just for us! Inside it there are lots of creative ideas so you don’t have to come up with your own ideas if you don’t want to. In our last issue there was an article about the new In-Colors and some various project ideas. For this project I used one of their ideas.
The whole set of note cards was put inside a cello bag and tied with a piece of ribbon and a tag – this makes a nice little gift for a hostess or friend.
For each note card they stamped a coordinating envelope. The stamp set that we used was the Work Of Art set. I have found it to be a very versatile set. Here are all the individual cards….
Blackberry Bliss
Hello Honey
Lost Lagoon
Mossy Meadow
Tangelo Twist
It’s a great time to join Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator. The starter kit this month is $50! Once you become a demo then you’ll also get the magazine and you’ll have access online to all the back issues too. You won’t be lacking for creative ideas! I’d love to have you be part of my team. Learn more on my website or send me an email with any questions – Join the Fun!
I did use a retired set of dies to cut my letters but you could use whatever you have or even and e-cutter to add the letters to the front. The covers are a piece of heavy card board cut to size and covered with some Designer paper – the Park Lane paper is what I used for this project.
