Mar 18, 2010 | Cards, Occasion Mini 2010 |
Today’s card share is a card I made for a friend of my mom’s. She called and wanted a special card that she could send to her sisters. This is what I came up with –
It is a pocket card with an insert that you pull out – in the picture I have one in the pocket and one shown out of the pocket. I used the Garden from the Heart stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – it is a pretty set. Here is the list of supplies that I used:
- Garden from the Heart stamp set
- Wonderful Favorites stamp set
- Kraft card stock: Kraft, Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum, Whisper White
- Jet Black StazOn ink
- Stampin’ Write Markers: Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Creamy Carmel
- Linen Thread
- Curly Label Punch
- Scallop Trim Border Punch
- Corner Rounder Punch
- Color Spritzer
- Stamp-a-ma-Jig
- Medium Whisper White Envelope
Spring is coming – the trees are getting little blossoms – I can just see the first white flowers on our Bradford Pear trees – they are pretty but they stink. It has still been fairly cool here so still no bird nests but I have seen some activity around the houses this morning. The Bluebirds have been inside both house #2 and house #3 today. The Chick-a-dees have been hanging around too and I saw a Tufted Titmouse looking inside house #1. So maybe soon they will be busy building nests.
Mar 14, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Occasion Mini 2010 |
Stampin’ With Monika
Class Reminder
Come join me for my Hands-on Class on
Friday, March 19th – 10:00 am and 7:00 pm – Birds & Butterflies
We will be making the three items in the picture above –
a divided box with butterfly tags, a cute mini butterfly notepad, a beautiful birdhouse card and another card that is not included in the picture.
I just love birds and butterflies and have more ideas than what we can do in this class.
The last day to sign up is March 17th!
The class fee will be $15.
You need to bring your paper snips and adhesive.
I hope you will join me for a fun class!
Mar 14, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
I almost forgot to tell you who won the last Create with Connie & Julie Challenge – 1st place was Lori, 2nd place was Becky and honorable mention went to Lisa – thanks to everyone that played along. I hope you enjoyed all the projects and tutorials – I know I did.
I had a great Stamper’s Club meeting Friday night. It was so much fun with several new members joining us. Everyone made three projects – 1 3d and 2 cards. One card was what I considered the quick and easy card. It was with the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration stamp set called Vintage Labels. I designed the card so that everyone could use the frame that they wanted along with the words that they wanted – I didn’t see what everyone picked but I know they all turned out great. This would make a great masculine card (even with the pink in the striped paper).
I used one of the beautiful striped patterns in the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack. The paper has Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip in the pattern so I used those colors on the card.
On the base I originally had it plain but then decided to dress it up just a bit – I wheeled across it with the Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel to add a faint background. And then I went back and added paper piercing on the corners. It really made the card pop when I did that.
I hope you like it. Hopefully you remembered to change your clocks for Daylight Savings time – spring FORWARD – we knew about it but none of us actually changed the clocks – oops.
Tomorrow I’ll share some bird pictures again – I’m still waiting on them to work more on the nest building – I think with all the rain and then it is kind of cold again maybe they are holding off on actually building – I’ll check again tomorrow to see if they made any progress on the nest – they didn’t do anything for the 2 days that it rained.
See ya!
Mar 9, 2010 | All in the Family, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
More pages from my Desktop Calendar…..
For the month of November I used the turkey stamp from the Holiday mini catalog. I made a slight change to mine after the class because of suggestion from one of the girls at the class. I originally didn’t have the circle behind the turkeys but added them later.
My dog Magnolia has a birthday in November so the little dog image from the All in the Family stamp set worked perfectly for that. I tried to color it with markers to make it kind of look like Magnolia.
November Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Sahara Sand card stock
- Old Olive card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
- Scallop Trim Border punch
- 1-3/4″ Circle punch
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- All in the Family stamp set
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink and marker
- Stampin’ Sponge
Happy Stampin’!
Mar 7, 2010 | class, Occasion Mini 2010, Simply Adorned Jewelry |
If you haven’t seen the Stampin’ Up! Simply Adorned Charms and Chains in person – you need to. I love mine and the fact that I can create inserts for the charm to suit my mood, my outfit, the season, the holiday, whatever I want is awesome!
Later this month I have a special class planned – everyone that attends will get to make at least 12 inserts for their own charm, we will make a holder to hold the inserts that you are currently using and decorate the box. I’ll add the details at the bottom of this post – I also sent email to my email list yesterday.
I knew that I wanted to create a Monogram insert as well as a Black & White insert so yesterday I combined those two ideas into one and came up with this. This is the side of the charm has the beveled glass. I used Lovely Letters for the Monogram – the ‘M’ happens to be wider than the charm so I decided to cut it out and trim off the little tails (that’s what I call them) on the sides so that it would be narrow enough to fit in the charm. It is also popped up on little bits of Stampin’ Dimensionals – so it is raised off the bottom layer.
The bottom layer is stamped with images from the Charming stamp set. And you can just barely see a piece of black card stock on the left side that I punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch.
The back of the charm also has a piece of flat glass so I have been creating a coordinating insert to face the back of my charm. When I wear mine it tends to flip back and forth so now which ever way it faces it will look nice.
For the back I also used the images from the Charming stamp set and added a little piece of ribbon.
I was able to make these in just a few minutes to go with what I was wearing yesterday. I’m ready to make some more. You could use little scraps to create these inserts – you are working on a small canvas so you only need small bits.
Below are the class details – thanks for visiting me today!
Come join me for a Special Class on
Sunday, March 28th – 2:00 pm – Simply Adorned Jewelry Class
The class fee will be $28 – prepaid by March 16th.
The class fee will include the 1” x 1-1/4” Simply Adorned Charm and box,
We will create at least 12 inserts for the charm, a holder for the inserts, decorate the box and make a gift tag (if you plan to give it away).
You need to bring your paper snips and adhesive.
If you would like a chain there are two sizes and you can add that to the cost of the class –
24” chain – add $12.75
34” chain – add $15.00
The charms have a lobster clasp so you can use on a chain your already have or even with ribbon or cord.
Please RSVP and give me your payment by March 16th. I will be placing an order for the charms/chains that have been pre-paid. If you miss this deadline you can still attend the class but you may not receive your charm/chain until after the class. Final RSVP cut-off to attend the class will be 3/24.
Our Simply Adorned line beautifully combines the best of two worlds: stamping and jewelry! The charms are designed to hold a creation that you make yourself; making your jewelry truly unique. Simply Adorned charms are lockets – they open up so you can insert your creation or a photo. The frame surrounds tempered beveled glass on the front and flat glass on the back. Because there’s glass on both sides of the charm, you can display an image on one side or both. You can create a custom heirloom piece that you’ll never want to change, or you can swap artwork in and out, depending on your mood or your wardrobe.
The charms are nickel-plated and the chains are anodized stainless steel.
I have my charm and a 24” chain if you would like to see them in person.
They are really nice and would make a wonderful gift (think Mother’s Day or birthday) for someone but you can always keep it for yourself!
I hope you can join me!
Mar 6, 2010 | Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
We are finally at the end of the Create with Connie & Julie – at least the end of new project posts – the site and all the projects will be there for some time. This week our challenge was to create a Mother’s Day card. And the featured products this week were Garden from the Heart and Messages for Mom stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog.
Congratulations to last weeks winners of the color challenge – 1st place was Sandra, 2nd place was Lori and Honorable mention to Jessica. Thanks to everyone that played along the entries were all great. I hope you will play during this last week too.
This weeks challenge was so much easier for me – I love the Garden from the Heart stamps set – right up my alley. And guess what I even used some more purple colors! I used Perfect Plum and Pale Plum on this card. I don’t use them often but they were perfect for what I wanted to do here.
I actually made the card and was happy with it but I kept looking at it like I forgot something. I finally figured it out – so I came back and added one more thing. The sprtizing with the Color Spritzer Tool – I used a Soft Suede Stampin’ Write Marker and just added some spritzing on the card. For me that was it – exactly what it needed, something really minor but it was what it needed.
The flowers are stamped with Jet Black StazOn ink on Whisper White card stock. I colored them with Stampin’ Write markers – Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum, and Pale Plum. I also sponged the edges of the white piece with Mellow Moss. A piece of Perfect Plum punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch is layered behind and a piece of Linen Thread is tied around the top.
I LOVE using Linen Thread – I even had a dream (or nightmare) that it was being retired and I had to order a whole bunch so I would never run out…..LOL. The flowers on the bottom are part of the hat image and I carefully cut them out – that was the hardest part! I’m not sure I would do that more than once.
I decorated the inside of the card too – stamped the hat in the corner. The ribbon is also stamped on Perfect Plum card stock and cut out and glued back on the hat. I like to use the 2-Way Glue Pen when working with small cut pieces or punched pieces. The hat is actually colored in with a VersaMarker – it darkens the card stock just a bit. I did spritz on the inside too but didn’t retake the picture.
I hope you like it. I want to find some other stamps to use with the same layout – it is very simple.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Kraft card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Perfect Plum card stock and Stampin’ Write marker
- Pale Plum Stampin’ Write marker
- Mellow Moss Stampin’ Write marker
- Soft Suede Stampin’ Write marker
- VersaMarker
- Jet Black StazOn ink
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (SAB)
- Corner Rounder Punch
- Garden from the Heart stamp set
- Well Scripted stamp set
- Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set
- Color Spritzer Tool
- Linen Thread
Check out what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
It is a pocket card with an insert that you pull out – in the picture I have one in the pocket and one shown out of the pocket. I used the Garden from the Heart stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – it is a pretty set. Here is the list of supplies that I used:
