Jun 15, 2009 | Big Shot, class, Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
June 2009 Class Kit To Go
Cleary Thanks Class Kit To Go
All images Stampin’ Up!© 2009
The June Class Kit To Go is now available to be ordered.
You will need to have some supplies at home to complete the kit as shown. I am not including a stamp set option this time.
The featured item is the Cleary Thanks printed window sheets and you can make the cards with just these.
I did use the Oval All stamp set on two of my cards but you could use any greeting set or even rub-ons to complete your cards.
There are 10 cards – 2 each of 5 different designs. This class features a box with a clear window sheet cover and decorated belly band that holds 10 cards and envelopes.
June 2009 Class Kit To Go
Cleary Thanks Kit 1 is $20
Payment due by June 26th. Kits will be ready by July 13th or sooner.
Kit 1 includes:
Cleary Thanks printed window sheets on page 10 in the Occasions Mini catalog
Step-by-step Instructions to make cards and box
Materials to make ten cards with envelopes and the box
(including card stock, ribbon, rhinestone and jumbo brads, die cuts, clear window sheet, and envelopes)
Demonstrator option:
Demonstrator option – instructions only – $6. Please contact me at monikastamp@bellsouth.net.
Additional items you need at home:
Additional items that you will need to complete the Cleary Thanks kit as shown are:
Basic Gray Classic ink pad, Pink Pirouette or Pretty in Pink Classic ink pad,
White Gel Pen, Paper Piercer and Mat Pack,
Sticky strip, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots,
Oval All stamp set, a bone folder,
Stampin’ Sponge, Paper Cutter with scoring blade,
Large Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch, and Wide Oval punch.
If you need any of these additional items they can be added to the cost of your class.
The kits will be ready by July 13th for you to pick up at my home if you are local. I can mail them to you for $5.00 if you are not.
If you order additional items there may be an extra charge to mail those items to you.
Please send me an email if you would like to purchase the June Class to Go Kit. Payment must be made to me by cash or check by June 26th.
I will be placing the order for the materials the night of the 26th.
Jun 8, 2009 | Occasions Mini 2009, Stamper's Club, SU Ribbon |
The Wagon Full of Fun set from the Occasions Mini Catalog is a great set to use for Watercoloring. I recently made a card using the flower pot and posted it on here. I had it laying on my craft table and decided to use the same layout for a card for the Stamper’s Club meeting but I wanted to use a different image and colors that what I had originally done. I browsed my catalog for a color combination that I liked and came up with Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red and So Saffron with Kraft as the neutral – these were used on page 133 in the catalog. I used watercolor paper and stamped the image twice – so that I could create a 3-D effect by cutting just the part I wanted to pop-up out of the second image – in this case it was the frosting and candle on the cupcake. It is hard to see in the picture but it looks very 3-d in person. I made the same card using the little duck – but don’t have a picture yet.
My Thoughts & Prayers Emergency Card Kit class is this week – Wed night class is almost full (1 spot left) and I have a Thursday afternoon class with space left. If you would like to attend call be right away to reserve your spot.
Have a happy stampin’ day!
May 31, 2009 | Lifes a Breeze, Masking, Occasions Mini 2009, Stamps, Wild About You |
My share for today is one of those projects that covers several things that I wanted to accomplish this weekend. As it turned out I didn’t do any stamping yesterday – I cleaned the house, did laundry and then we went to a graduation party and then ended up at another party until late. So no stamping and no blog post for yesterday. 
Today I wanted to stamp and decided to combine my ideas. First the Late Night Stampers group had a weekly challenge to create a summer themed card. Then there is a new blog – stamping411.blogspot.com – with a weekly sketch challenge that I wanted to try. And I had an idea from a friend that I wanted to turn into something too. So combining those three things here is my card that I just finished:
A few weeks ago I met a new friend, Patty, that came to one of my classes and she came up with an idea to combine the float from the Life’s a Breeze stamp set with the Giraffe from the Wild About You stamp set but she didn’t know how to do that. “I can do that and what a great idea!” I told her. I used the “masking technique” to create the float by stamping the float first on a piece of Whisper White card stock and then on a piece of post -it note. I cut out the post-it note and stuck it on top of the one that I stamped on the card stock. Then stamp the giraffe image over it so the head is where you want it on the float – and the body and legs are on the post-it note. When you peel up the post-it note you end up with a giraffe float! I cut it out to add to my card. A trick for cutting out the center of the float is to first punch a hole in the center with a handheld punch and then use your paper snips to cut. I do this instead of trying to poke a hole with the tip of my scissors which always bends the card stock.
The dock-post is one slat from the wagon in the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set. It is watercolored (actually a left over from a different project.) I tied linen thread around the float – using a knot I learned as a girl at sailing camp – yes we took knot tying as part of camp which helped later on when I was a cub scout leader for my boys – I taught them all how to tie basic knots. And now I use some of those knots in my stamping projects!
Here is the complete list of supplies for this card:
- Pacific Point card stock and classic ink
- Pumpkin Pie card stock and classic ink
- Bashful Blue card stock and classic ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Life’s a Breeze stamp set
- Something Fishy jumbo wheel and handle
- Wild About you stamp set
- Wagon Full of Fun stamp set
- Linen Thread
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Aqua Painter
- Close to Cocoa classic ink
- Paper snips
I think I accomplished all three tasks – now I need to go add my entries in the appropriate places and I have one more that I’m trying to do today. I’ll be working on my newsletter – so look for that tomorrow if you are on my email list and the Last Chance list will be out tomorrow too – I’ll add that to my blog on the Last Chance page and send via email to my email list.
We are having a beautiful weekend and I hope you are too!
May 29, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
I did get teacher gifts made yesterday/last night. I made 6 for Ryan’s teachers for this school year. Since Ryan has several male teachers this year I needed something that would work for both men and women. While looking at blogs I found a project that I thought would make a great teacher gift. I also remembered another friend of mine making a similar project. I finally found through several links a template for what I wanted to make – a Scratch Pad Holder. The template is from Connie Stewart. I made a boy version and a girl version and while playing around I also came up with this cool thing to do with the Jumbo Grommets.
Girl version supply list:
- Old Olive card stock
- Maine Blueberry Designer Series Paper (retired)
- Not Quite Navy card stock
- Bashful Blue card stock
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Daisy #2 die
- Jumbo Grommets – silver
- Old Olive wide grosgrain ribbon
- sticky strip
- RSVP pen
- Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Bashful Blue classic inks
- Sweet Little Sentiments stamp set
- Darling Dot stamp set
- Bone Folder
- copy/printer paper
Notes on this project – the Maine Blueberry paper is the same patterns as our current Washington Apple paper – I just really like the colors in the other one and had enough to make the three scratch pad holders. I cut four of the medium sized daisy flower – 2 in Not Quite Navy, 1 in Old Olive and 1 in Bashful Blue. They are layered like this – Not Quite 
Navy, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Not Qutie Navy. Then insert a Jumbo Silver Grommet through the hole in the center and push back the prongs with a bone folder – it is a tight fit with 4 layers. The two ends of the ribbon are pulled up through the center of the grommet and tied in a knot in the front – see I can do knots just fine. The printer paper is cut in half both ways to get 4 pieces per sheet – 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″. On about half of the stack I stamped “a note for you” and then the flower from Darling Dots. That was the longest part of the whole project. The matching patterned paper is just rolled and stuck inside the barrel of the RSVP pen. I cut my piece to be 3-1/4″ x 1″ – I used the bone folder to soften up the paper and help it curl.
Boy version supply list: 
- Kraft card stock
- Manchester Designer Series Paper
- Twill Tape (medium width)
- Jumbo Grommets – Vanilla
- Clear Embossing Powder
- Heat Tool
- Powder Pal
- craft tweezers
- Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write marker
- Always Artichoke Classic ink
- RSVP pen
- copy/printer paper
- Sweet Little Sentiments stamp set
- Seeing Spots stamp set
- Old Olive Craft ink
Notes on this project: Pen and printer paper are done like the girls project. I decided to use the twill tape for this one because I didn’t have any other ribbon that I liked with the Manchester Designer Series paper. But then the Jumbo Vanilla Grommet didn’t stand out much against it because they were nearly the same color. So I decided I wanted to try to color my Grommet. I tried coloring the grommet with the Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write marker and dipping it in clear embossing powder and heat set it – due to the nature of the metal grommet most of the ink pooled up and “disappeared” so it didn’t add much color. I tried another layer and again it didn’t add much color. I decided to try 
using craft ink – but I didn’t have the Always Artichoke in craft ink so I had to use Old Olive. I dipped the whole front of the grommet in the ink until it was completely covered (this time the ink didn’t puddle up much) and then dipped in clear embossing powder and heat set it. It gave it a really crackled kind of look to it and was enough to make the grommet stand out from the twill tape. By the way I pushed back the prongs on the grommet first except for one I only pushed part way and used that for my craft tweezers as a holder. When you heat the metal it will get hot so you need to use the craft tweezers for holding – it also makes it easier to dip in the ink and the embossing powder.
On my second one I tried to skip the step with the Always Artichoke marker and use only the Old Olive craft ink – while this would have been great wit the Always Artichoke craft ink (if I had it) my second attempt gave me a very Old Olive colored grommet which was not the exact color I wanted for this project. I have a picture of each – can you tell the difference? For the third one I went back to adding color with the marker first and got more the result I had the first time which was a more artichoke color.
I took them all to school when I went to get Ryan after his exams were done. We handed them out to all the teachers and we are all home – school is done – another year complete – a our summer has begun!
Have a great weekend!
May 28, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
The May Ribbon Share is ready and here is the cute little container I made to hold everyone’s ribbon.
I’ve seen this little holder idea in many places. It uses the Big Shot Box #2 die cut – you need two boxes. Don’t fold down the lids instead glue them together back to back. I cut off the little tabs from either side of the box – other people have glued them down inside – but I didn’t want to waste the adhesive since it wasn’t a necessary piece of the project. The lids then become a handle – I punched a large oval – first in one then glued them together with sticky strip and then through the other. Tie ribbon through the handle. (That is the part that took me the longest – I’m great with the knots but trying to tie a bow is just not easy for me – I think I took 4 or 5 tries at each one before it looked decent – and some I still didn’t really like). It ends up looking like a small drink holder. I wrapped the two boxes with a 1-1/2″ piece of Designer Series Paper. Added a little accent using the Oval All stamp set and scallop oval punch. All the ribbon is tucked in to the two sides of the holder – tied with hemp and a tag identifying the ribbon.
I’m hoping to get some teacher gifts made this afternoon – considering it is the last day of school tomorrow – I’m kind of down to the wire on that one – I found an easy project (I hope) and I’ll share that with you tomorrow assuming I get them done.
Have a great day and Happy Stampin’!
May 26, 2009 | Big Shot, Graduation, Occasions Mini 2009 |
I came up with a new idea over the weekend – probably someone else already thought of this too but I have not seen this anywhere yet. What I did have was a tiny graduation cap that someone made to hold a very small piece of candy – like one small mint would fit inside and it was designed like a small jewelry box where you lift off the lid.
Well I thought what if I took the new Matchbox Die and used that to create a graduation cap – but the Matchbox is a rectangle but I cut the top to be a square. 
You need a 12″ x 12″ piece of Basic Black card stock to cut your matchbox die and the a 3″ x 3″ piece of Basic Black card stock for the top. You will need some sticky strip and a black brad from the Vintage set. Then a tassel for the top. Slide a check or some cash inside the drawer part. Add a tag. This was super quick.
UPDATE: Several people have asked about the tassel – this one I already had. I found them online at www.craftsetc.com (this is the Hobby Lobby online craft store) but they are currently out of stock (at least the black ones are other colors may not be). They are Tiny Tassels and are 1-1/4″. I also have black crochet thread to make my own in the meantime.
And there is a trick to cutting the 12×12 cardstock so that you can get two sets of pieces for the Matchbox die from one sheet. This idea was shared with me by a friend at the retreat and she found it on the internet on another demonstrators website. I don’t know who originally came up with the idea but it is a brilliant one. UPDATE: The person that came up with the cutting template is Lisa Freeman.
Use a piece of the cardboard backer from a package of Designer Series Paper – it is 12″ x 12″. Create a template by measuring 5-1/2″ from each side and drawing a line to the center. Once you have all four sides marked you end up with a small square in the middle – cut this out and throw it away. Now on your card stock lay down your template and trace out the small square – this will help you cut your card stock. Line up each side a 5-1/2″ and cut down to the square. Turn and repeat for all four sides – you end up with four pieces that are 5-1/2″ x 6-1/2″. Use two of these pieces on your Matchbox die to cut the base of the box and the cover plus the three tags. Here is a picture of the template:
The Matchbox Die is longer than 12″ so if you just cut a 6″ x 12″ piece to cover the whole thing – it won’t fit!
It is raining – again – it has rained almost every day for a long time – so much that we are no longer in our drought – that has lasted for several years. Lake Lanier where my parents live was at an all time low last year and I can’t remember exactly but something like 14 feet low with boat ramps and docks out of the water and on dry land – it was bad. And now – as of this weekend it was only 5 feet below full summer pool! And with all the rain we had the last couple of days it is probably less than that now. If you live on the lake that is big.
Anyway have a great week – it is FINALS week, the LAST week of school for us.
