Feb 25, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, class, Occasions Mini 2011, SU Buttons |
Look at this cute card!! Guess what it is made out of – it’s a Big Shot die – do you know which one?
The Petal Cone die in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. 
I originally saw this idea as a swap card at the Leadership Conference that one of my roommates had received. Then I saw other versions of it on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only online community). Mine uses a little bit of several of the different versions that I saw.
To make this cute card cut one petal cone from Crumb Cake card stock. Cut off the tab on the side. Next I folded it in half and ran it through the Big Shot inside the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. And then I sponged the edge with Soft Suede ink.
Now cut a piece of Whisper White card stock on the petal cone die making sure to get one of the triangles in the cone shape. Cut off any of the excess keeping just the triangle. Sponge the edges with Soft Suede ink and glue that on the inside of the card.
Next cut 2 scallop half-circles and one banner from Pretty in Pink card stock. I stamped “happy birthday” in the center of the banner. The stamp set is Family Phrases stamp set. Fold the banner under at the ends of the greeting and then back out again. Using the Soft Suede ink sponge the edges of all the Pretty in Pink pieces. I smooch spritzed the two half scallops with the Vanilla Shimmer to give them a frosty look.
The best way to add the half scallops – or in this case they become ice cream scoops – open the card and add one to the back piece on the inside. Then close the card and add the second one to the front top of the card so that they line up. That gives you an ice cream scoop on the front and on the inside of the card. Attach the banner with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the front of the cone.
The cherry on top is one of the Brights buttons – the big Real Red one with a piece of Pretty In Pink Taffeta ribbon tied through in a knot.
This card was part of my Birthday class last week – the Big Shot makes it really a quick card. I put this one inside a clear envelope to give to my niece for her 4th birthday.
Have a great day!
Feb 22, 2011 | 2-Step Stampin', Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
I’m back – I took a few days to go visit my parents and saw my brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephew. We took 4 birthday gifts, had a birthday party, a birthday dinner, walked in the park, rode bikes, played games and legos and had a relaxing weekend. Only Ryan and I went while Greg and Tyler stayed home to work on the deck. I need to take pictures of their progress. Last week I tried to shop for birthday presents for Noah (6) and Ally (4) and just couldn’t find anything that I thought was the right thing. So I went back to the basics – I got them each a hula hoop, a big bouncing ball, bug nets and sand toys. And that seemed to be the perfect gift – all the kids at the party wanted to play the hula hoops and the balls.
So today’s card for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge is a birthday card – and if you can believe it wasn’t even one of the four cards that I used for this weekend. Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. This is our Color Challenge inspiration for week 24:
I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with these colors – So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke. Originally I thought flowers since that is what was in the inspiration picture but nothing came to me. I was working on projects for a class last week and I wanted to use the Create a Cupcake stamp set and the new Build a Cupcake punch. I had a swap card from the Leadership conference last month that I copied the layout from and used these color challenge colors. It turned out to be a really cute card and colors that I would not have used together worked perfectly for this.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
- Ink: Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: Create a Cupcake
- Accessories: Build a Cupcake Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.
Feb 18, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2011 |
This pocket card idea was a demonstration that Richard Garay did on stage at the Leadership conference. Yes he is a guy and he is a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator! Richard demonstrated how to make this pocket card. It has two pockets – for this one I made an insert for the top pocket and left the lower pocket empty. You could stick a gift card in there or a picture or some money.
I used the Sweet Stitches Designer Series paper to cover each panel on the front of the card. The insert was stamped with the matching Button, Button stamp set.
The front is decorated with the Sweet Buttons Embosslit and a trimmed Round Tab punch covered with some embroidery floss.
The card base is Wild Wasabi, the border trim is Daffodil Delight, then the decorations are in Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo and Tangerine Tango.
Yesterday was stressful with too many people doing too many things around our house. I am having my class in the morning and they appear to me done painting the ceiling on the inside – yeah! The electrician hung the lights. And the gutters have been removed from the house. Today they’ll be back but they will be working outside. I have pictures on my facebook page of the construction progress. Talk to you later.
Feb 15, 2011 | Baby, Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge, Watercoloring |
This week for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge I made a Baby card. I don’t seem to make very many of those. Most of my friends are beyond the baby years and we are all dealing with teenagers! I’ve decided there are also the terrible teens – not that my kids are terrible actually they are really good kids but they just enjoy aggravating me! So I don’t really have a need for a baby card – I’m not sure that I can even think of anyone I know that is pregnant right now – but I have a card in case I need it!
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. This is our Color Challenge inspiration for week 23:
It just seemed like such pretty little girl colors. I have all boys so I didn’t use pinks for decorating baby rooms, but wouldn’t this be a pretty color combo for a little girls room. I ended up using both of the hostess sets in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – A Slice of Life and Something to Celebrate. I water-colored the little baby clothes and cut the out to hang on the “clothes line”.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
- Ink: Basic Black StazOn ink
- Stamp sets: A Slice of Life, Something to Celebrate
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Petal Cone Die, Linen Thread, Aquapainter, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, 1/16″ circle punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.
Feb 12, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, Valentine's Day |
I loved the scrapbook layout I showed you yesterday so much that I decided to take the Top Note design and turn it into a Valentine card. It works both ways sometimes you see a part of a scrapbook page that you want to make into a card and other times you see a card and think that would work perfectly on a scrapbook page….
It is basically the same element as I had on the scrapbook page and I put it on a Riding Hood Red card base. I stamped the bottom edge of the card with the little heart flowers and spritzed it a little with the Color Spritzer but you can’t really see it in this picture.
For the inside I added a Very Vanilla card stock and stamped the heart flowers on it with the Cherry Cobbler ink. “Sweet Valentine” is from the Level 2 Hostess set called Something to Celebrate in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog.
We got this set for free at the Leadership Conference – that was a surprise!
You could really make this card without having a specific Valentine stamp set. Use die cut or punched hearts. Find Love or an appropriate greeting in one of our many stamp sets. I hope you get inspired to create something this weekend for Valentine’s Day if you haven’t already done it.
Feb 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Valentine's Day |
I love the scrapbook layout that I made for my January Scrapbook Class!! I love the colors, I love the stamp sets, I love the layout, I love the accents! Now I just need to find some pictures to put on it. Yes sometimes I just create my pages because I like the pages not because I have pictures to put on them.
But this doesn’t need to be a Valentine page. It could be for a wedding or anniversary or in loving memory of someone (I was actually thinking of my friend Lisa when I was making this and that is what she needed). And someone else used it as a Things I Love page and she plans to add all the things that she loves to it.
The layout was an idea I saw in a scrapbook magazine and I stretched it to create a 2-page spread. Often the scrapbook pages in the magazines are single pages and for my scrapbook classes I like to do 2-page layouts so the test is always to see how to take a single page and stretch it to two and also how to convert it to a 100% Stampin’ Up! page.
I used the Love Letters Designer Series paper and took my color combination from it – Riding Hood Red, Basic Black and Very Vanilla. I stamped my hearts from the Heart to Heart stamp set and they weren’t quite as bright as I wanted and I didn’t have any Riding Hood Red ribbon either. So I looked at what I did have and decided to add Cherry Cobbler to the color palette and I LOVE it! I restamped the hearts in Cherry Cobbler and the popped so much more. I had Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding ribbon which worked perfectly and I die-cut and punched all my hearts from Cherry Cobbler card stock.
The other stamp sets that I used were Valentine Defined and Word Play. The Big Shot dies that I used on this layout were the Top Note, Hearts & Brackets, the Simple Alphabet, and the Two Tags die. I also used the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder – can use see where? The easy one to see is the tag from the Two Tags die. But look at the Top Note – what I did for this is glued the pieces of Designer Series paper to a piece of Very Vanilla card stock – then cut out the Top Note – then embossed it with the Vintage Wallpaper folder. It is easier to see in real-life but if you look closely you can see the bottom left (which is just the vanilla card stock) and the top right, the other papers are harder to see in the photo.
All the Vanilla card stock is sponged with Crumb Cake ink which gives it an antique look. I’m so glad they gave us this color ink – it is fast becoming a favorite for me for sponging.
I have to go buy paint for my new sunroom – all the sheet rock went up this week and next week they will paint – I am planning on So Saffron for the color. I showed Greg the colors on my color coach and he wanted to know what paint store the samples were from! I said these are my Stampin’ Up! colors and the paint store will just have to match it. They are working on framing the new deck and then Greg and Tyler are going to finish it – maybe this weekend – we’ll see how fast they work. Then we need to pick out tiles for the floor which Greg’ also plans to do himself. Hopefully by next week it will be basically done except for what Greg is doing himself and all these people will be gone. The rest of the day I’m finishing up Valentine’s for my boys! See you later.
Look at this cute card!! Guess what it is made out of – it’s a Big Shot die – do you know which one?
I originally saw this idea as a swap card at the Leadership Conference that one of my roommates had received. Then I saw other versions of it on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only online community). Mine uses a little bit of several of the different versions that I saw.
The best way to add the half scallops – or in this case they become ice cream scoops – open the card and add one to the back piece on the inside. Then close the card and add the second one to the front top of the card so that they line up. That gives you an ice cream scoop on the front and on the inside of the card. Attach the banner with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the front of the cone.
