May 25, 2009 | Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
About a month ago I joined the Late Night Stampers Yahoo Group and every week they have a card challenge. This past week was challenge #20 which was a color challenge – you had to create a card using these colors – Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Ruby Red. These are colors from the Earth Elements and some that I really like to use so I wanted to make sure I made a card for the challenge. It just took me until 10 o’clock Sunday night until I started – and the entries are due by midnight. I do feel that I am literally a Late Night Stamper – my creative juices flow at night and even while I sleep I really do come up with ideas – no joke. The picture of this card isn’t the best since I took about 11 last night and it was of course dark and no sunshine to help me with lighting. It is really pretty and 3-D in person.
Supplies:
- Kraft card stock
- Ruby Red card stock and classic ink
- Chocolate Chip card stock and classic ink
- Old Olive card stock and classic ink
- Black Stazon ink
- Watercolor paper
- Wagon Full of Fun stamp set
- Stampin’ Sponges
- Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon
- Paper Piercer and Mat pack
- Water Color Wonder Crayons – Earth Elements
- Aqua Painter
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Instructions:
- Cut Kraft card stock to 11″ x 4-1/4″ and score at 5-1/2″. Sponge the front edges with Chocolate Chip ink.
- Cut Ruby Red card stock to 5-1/4″ x 4″. Sponge the edges with Ruby Red ink.
- Cut Chocolate Chip card stock to 2″ x 2″. Sponge the edges with Chocolate Chip ink.
- Cut Old Olive card stock to 1-3/4″ x 1-3/4″. Sponge the edges with Old Olive ink.
- Adhere Old Olive piece to Chocolate Chip piece. Adhere Chocolate Chip piece to the Ruby Red piece allowing space for the greeting underneath and the ribbon to the left.
- Use the Paper Piercer and mat pack to pierce a box around the Chocolate Chip square.
- Adhere the Ruby Red piece to the front of the Kraft card.
- Tie the Chocolate Chip Ribbon around the front of the card on the left side and tie in a knot. Trim ends.
- Stamp greeting in Chocolate Chip ink on the bottom of the card front.
- Stamp the flower pot image on Watercolor Paper twice with Black StazOn Ink. Watercolor both images using the Aqua Painter and Water Color Wonder Crayons and Classic Ink. I first used the WWC to add a light layer of each color then went over with the Classic ink to darken areas.
- Cut out both images. On one I cut out the flower head by itself and the front portion of the pot by itself.
- Adhere the full image to the Old Olive square with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add the cut portions on top of the full image using Stampin’ Dimensionals. This gives it a real 3-D look – because the flower stem and back of the pot end up in the back ground. It doesn’t show that well in the photograph but looks real good in person.
I think I’ll make some more cards to match using the other images in the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set.
I hope you like it. Have a happy Memorial Day!
May 20, 2009 | Blog Tour, Occasions Mini 2009 |
I wanted to share some of my favorite projects from the blog tour last week. If you didn’t get to take the tour or maybe you didn’t have time (or realize) that there were actually three separate tours taking place at the same time then here is your chance to see a bit of what I saw. I was part of Tour #5 and there was also Tour #6 and Tour #7 – I had a link at the bottom of my tour post but I don’t know that everyone saw it. Since all the links have now been removed that connected the blogs together I just wanted to share some of my favorites so you could visit those blogs if you want to. I picked a few from each tour that were ‘WOW’ for me. I hope you like them too!
Tour #5
Tiffany Bauer – featured Forest Friends – one of my favorite little sets from the Occasions Mini Catalog
Barbara Dondero – featured Great Friends – another favorite set from the Occasions Mini Catalog
Eileen Lefevre – featured Paper Piercing techniques – I thought these were some great ideas
Tour #6
Tangii Crain – featured the Bloomin’ Beautiful stamp set
Stephanie Zeto – featured the Nursery Necessities stamp set – I wish I knew about Stampin’ Up! when my babies were born…
Tour #7
Nicole Tugrul – featured the Wild About You stamp set – I love these animals and just look at the diaper cake she made! I made a diaper cake once but it wasn’t this cute.
Amanda Coughlin – featured the Just Beachy stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog – check out her creativity! Love this little tackle box – probably my favorite project from all the tours.
Cindy Beach – Big Shot and Dies – yep one of my favorite sections in the catlog – the Big Shot and the dies – how do you like her idea with the new matchbox die!
Barbara Welch – featured the Best Ever Simply Scrappin’ Kit – you can do so much with one of these kits they really are a great deal!
So those are some of my favorite picks from the tours. I hope you enjoyed blog hopping and seeing lots of new ideas. Don’t be surprised to see some ideas creeping their way into my classes and projects….
Don’t forget to go to my Blog Candy post to enter to win.
Have a fun blog hoppin’ day!
May 13, 2009 | Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2009 |
Well this is one of the new stamp sets in the Occasions Mini Catalog that I did not order. I already had so much I was 
trying to hold back. But everytime I see projects made with the set I just love them. I don’t think I’ve seen anything yet that I didn’t like. Carolyn brought this project to the retreat so I was able to use the set when I was making this project. This is the front of the portfolio (that is what I am calling it). Her original sample include real stitching around all the edges which added just a bit more detail to the project. We did not do this on ours – she actually had the folder put together for us we just added the decorations on the front and all the contents on the inside. I do have a little craft sewing machine that I should get out and try some sewing on my projects.
Inside the folder we had a small notepad which we covered and decorated to match the outside. A pen that we added the matching designer paper too and a couple of cards. This stamp set is great for the spotlighting technique that we used on this project. If you need help lining up the boots use the stamp-a-ma-jig to get them all in a straight line and position on the paper.
Too cute!
It is raining again today. Not hard but just enough that everything is wet – I didn’t have to water my plants on the back porch. Aspen is feeling much better and wants desperately to chase a chipmunk – I’m taking him out only on a leash and making him walk. He isn’t very happy about that. And Magnolia doesn’t understand why he can’t play – she wants to wrestle and run with him. Tonight we are going to Tyler’s band banquet at the High School. I also had another PTA board meeting (I’m a committee chair at both schools) tonight but I’m not going to this one and tonight is Pokeeno night too – I’ll have to miss that also. In June I’m hosting Pokeeno with two other ladies in the group and it will be a pool party with our husbands (normally we just play with our group of 12 ladies). I’m planning to make invitations using the Game Night and Card Games stamp sets.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by – leave a comment to say “Hi!”. And come back later this week for the blog tour!
May 7, 2009 | Blog Tour, Occasions Mini 2009 |
The blog tour was on April 27th and the links were only available for the one day. I printed off the list of blogs from each tour (there were actually 3) so that I could go back to them and them bookmark the ones that I want to return to. 
The next Blog Tour that I am participating in will be on May 15th and 16th – the links will be available for 2 full days. The group is different from the one on the 27th and there will be 20 stops. My featured set will be the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set from the Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book and catalog. Other demos will feature sets from the Occasions mini or from the Idea Book – you will have the opportunity to see a variety of ideas and stamping styles from around the country. I hope you will join me.
I have made a list of some of the blogs that included my favorite projects from the April 27th tour. I have added the links below so that you can go visit them if you like.
Wagon Full of Fun
Lisa Milliron – Tour 1 Stop 10
Janice Urke – Tour 2 Stop 10
Great Friend
Jenn Diercks – Tour 1 Stop 4
Gretchen Barron – Tour 2 Stop 4
Scene in the Garden
Connie Babbert – Tour 1 Stop 2
Lora Sinkler-Lake – Tour 4 Stop 1
Linda McClain – Tour 2 Stop 2
Forest Friends
Cindy Beach – Tour 4 Stop 13
And Many Mower
Mary Jo Price-Williams – Tour 2 Stop 17
Matchbox Messages
Loni Spendlove – Tour 2 Stop 14
Lazy Days Jumbo Wheel
Teri Wells – Tour 2 Stop 2
Hopefully I have gotten all of the links in here correctly. Have fun browsing some other blogs today.
I was going to post the pictures from last nights projects but decided to wait a few more days – I’ll show them on Sunday.
May 7, 2009 | Occasions Mini 2009 |
Several people asked me for the dimensions for the treat boxes I posted from Stampin’ Up! – often we don’t get all the dimensions but I checked for them this morning and they did provide dimensions for these. So here they are:
Square Treat Box
- card stock = 5-1/2″ x 3″
- score horizontally 1-1/4″ from the bottom edge
- score vertically at 1-1/4″, 2-1/2″, 3-3/4″, and 5″
- cut out the small tab from the lower right corner
- cut along the vertical score lines to the horizontal score lines forming the tabs for the bottom of the box
Triangle Treat Box
- card stock = 5-1/2″ x 3″
- score in half at 2-3/4″
- score a small notch or mark with a pencil at 1-1/2″ (midpoint) on the short ends
- score diagonal lines from the middle of short ends (notch) to middle of long ends (it makes a diamond shape)
The triangle box is smaller than the one we made earlier this year. I hope that is helpful.
I’ll be back later with a bird update and the rest of the projects from last nights mini class – everyone had a great time!
May 5, 2009 | Blog Tour, Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
I found these little treat boxes on the Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator website today. They are made using the Eight Great Greetings stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog. One is done in Kiwi Kiss and tied with the Satin Kiwi Kiss ribbon and the other is Baja Breeze and the Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon. Both of these ribbons are part of my May ribbon share.
The Eight Great Greetings stamp set has something for almost every occasion – Easter, Thanks, Dad, Wedding, Congrats, Birthday, Mother, Shower. You can create treat boxes like these for occasions all year long by changing the color and ribbons and using a stamp from this set.
Here are some birthday treat boxes done in Pacific Point with the Pacific Point striped ribbon – also part of the May ribbon share.
The triangle box is the same box we made earlier this year for Valentine treats – a very easy treat box that doesn’t need adhesive to hold it shut – the ribbon holds it shut at the top. To make one cut your card stock into a rectangle and score it in half – this will be the bottom of the triangle. Then mark the center on either end and scor diagonally across the card stock from the center score to the center mark on each side – you will be making four more score lines forming a diamond shape on your card stock. Now fold in on the score lines and punch a hole where the sides meet to tie the ribbon through. The size of your triangle will depend on the size of card stock that you start with. Add your decoration to the front. Have fun making treat boxes!
I have added a new picture to my side bar – it is a reminder that I will be participating in another Blog Tour on May 15th and 16th. I’ll be with a new group of people and some items will be from the Occasions Mini Catalog and others will be from the main catalog. I hope you will join me.
