Aug 27, 2009 | Big Shot, class, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons |
Last night was my scrapbook class for this month and we had a great time. It turned out the be the perfect night for being inside with friends – why? Because a storm came through – thunder, lightening, and rain – so what else is there to do….
I had a full house in my little craft room this time – if my class grows bigger I’ll have to expand to two rooms. Everyone said they loved the pages we made. The first layout was based on a scrapbook page that was featured in our monthly Stampin’ Success magazine. This is the magazine that all Stampin’ Up! demonstrators receive each month. It has information on new products, promotions, techniques, ideas, business topics and recognitions for demonstrators through out the company. So this time there was an article about punch art and they showed an 8×8 scrapbook page. I really liked it and I also like punch art so I decided to expand the page into a 2-page 12×12 layout for my class. Here is the result:
This morning when I woke up I had an idea of something I forgot to put on this page. So if you came last night and wonder where the little worm came from – I added him this morning. If you want to add one I’ll punch you some circles – that’s all he is – a bunch of circles – I think I used the little 1/2″ punch – and give it to you next time I see you.
This morning I added my pictures to it. I still need to add journaling which I plan to do at the bottom in the grass. These are pictures that I took in July when Greg and I went on our anniversary trip. We were in North Carolina and we hiked part of the Appalachian Trial and these are some of the pictures I took along the way. See the red mushroom on the left page that looks like someone took little bites out it. Well I saw it on the hike up the mountain but didn’t take a picture of it. After we got to the top – the picture of me is when I’m resting at the top – I decided that I did want a picture because I didn’t see anything else like it on the rest of the trail. So going down I searched for that mushroom all the way back so I could take a picture – I found it! I know I’m weird like that.
Anyway back to the page – the mushrooms and flowers were shown in the Stampin’ Success magazine. I made my lady bug differently, then added the turtle (idea from Heather Summers Simply Punches class), the worm and the die-cut butterflies. The title is also die-cut with the Big Shot. The background is direct to paper technique where you drag the end of the ink pad across – it gives the look of wood planks and then we added “nails” with the marker. This page used lots of punches and not really any stamping. We just used the ink to sponge the mushrooms, flowers, grass, and butterflies. The buttons in the center of the flowers are Playground Buttons. The main colors used on this layout are Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Creamy Carmel, More Mustard, Real Red, and Whisper White.
It turns out the Late Night Stampers challenge this week is punches – so I’m going to go enter this layout into the challenge. I’ll show you our other layout tomorrow – let’s just say I set a personal challenge and I think it was accomplished – come back tomorrow to find out what that was…
Have a great day!
May 18, 2009 | class, Designer Series Paper, Punch Art |
Today is just disappearing so fast – jazzersize, then a trip to the vet – Aspen is much better but still needs 4 weeks of rest – no running, jumping, etc…. – then I think I’ve been on the computer all day, emails about my May Class to Go kit, and the Designer Paper Share for May, updating some things on my website, then working on all the “finance” stuff and now I’m ready to go to the bank, also need to stop at the dry cleaners (Ryan’s pants for tomorrows band concert) and grocery store (rest of tonight’s dinner – and milk is on sale!) But I wanted to get this done before I go do that.
At Friday’s class the theme was Masculine projects – we made the little suitcase using Sense of Time that I featured during the April blog tour – the post is April 27th (I think that was the date). And we made the little note card set that uses Forest Friends – I had that on my blog earlier too. You can click on a category to see posts only related to that category – both of those projects featured sets from the Occasions Mini Catalog so click on that category to look for those. And I have a search option – although I honestly haven’t tried it to see if it works – I should go check that out.
So then we made two other card projects and here is one of them
– the shirt card.
I saw this idea at the Leadership conference back in January and have been waiting for it to get close to Father’s Day so I could use it in a class. There was a demonstrator that had made a bunch of shirt cards for a swap that I was not part of but she let me take a picture and showed me how she made it – wasn’t that sweet! I just don’t know who it was since I didn’t get one of her cards.
Anyway – I’m not positive that I made it exactly the same way that she did – I only had a picture so I played around with the measurements. I also used different colors. What I decided that I liked was to use a 1″ cut. So on the fold from the center cut 1″ down. Then cut 1″ across towards the center of the card. On the outer edge, start 1″ down and cut 1″ across toward the center. You end up with two flaps which you fold over to create the collar of the shirt – is that not clever! I created a tie template by drawing it out on my grid paper to the shape I wanted. I used the small tag punch for the knot on the tie and for the pocket. Everything is sponged to give it dimension. Some other ideas would be to add little buttons to the collar, I even considered adding textured to the shirt but decided not too. On the inside I stamped “to my Wonderful father” from the Wonderful Favorites stamp set. You could also use uncle, son, grandfather, nephew and other from that stamp set and make it a personal card for one of the guys in your life. The patterned paper we used was Manchester, card stock is Always Artichoke. This is really a quick card!
Have fun with it!
I’ll have the instructions from the blog tour tin either tomorrow or Wed. so if you are looking for that – I haven’t forgotten.
Apr 25, 2009 | family, Punch Art, Stamper's Club |
Happiness is a beautiful spring day!
This morning I spent some time outside planting flowers and watching the birds. I took some pictures but haven’t put them on the computer yet. I’ll do that tomorrow. All the babies are growing by next week some might be ready to leave the nest – the Robin babies are pretty big now and keep stretching their wings like they are ready to fly.
This afternoon I took Ryan to his tennis match he played the boys line 2 singles match for his team and won 8 games to 5. He had a good sports weekend so far – one more soccer game tomorrow afternoon. I took pictures of him playing tennis and want to work on some tennis scrapbook pages.
Tonight all of us went out to dinner as a family – we haven’t had the chance to do that in a while. It seems somebody always has something going on. And then we came home and sat outside on the porch for a little while enjoying the weather while Ryan and the dogs played in the backyard.
So a beautiful spring day reminded me of this card that we made in the Stamper’s Club back in March. The ladybug is a punch art project and the card itself is actually a slider card. The ladybug can slide around on the little track that is cut into the front of the card. We used one of the new jumbo brads to hold the ladybug in the track. It was a fun interactive card.
I worked in the craft room tonight – finishing up samples for the Blog Tour on Monday – I have all of mine completed now – my stamp set is the Sense of Time set. Come join the tour on Monday – all the links along the tour will be available from 8:00 am to Midnight. 
I hope you will take some time to stop by and join me and others on the tour – traveling around the country visiting demonstrator blogs and seeing samples using products from the Occasion Mini Catalog. All the deomstrators are very excited!
I also finished one of the scrapbook pages for my Wednesday night class. I’ll show you a sneak peek tomorrow.
Apr 11, 2009 | Big Shot, Punch Art |
Happy Easter!
Mar 19, 2009 | class, Punch Art |
This card is another punch art card. The Sesame Street characters are so fun! I think these guys would be cute on a scrapbook page too. If you had pictures of your little one eating cookies (maybe more than he should have, made a big mess, why not take a bunch of pictures) put cookie monster on there with more cookies of varying sizes and a cute title – I can just picture it in my head I just don’t have any pictures to go with it. The idea for these little fellows came from a couple of different demonstrator ideas that I have seen floating around. I get lots of punch art ideas from Heather and I think this card layout was from her too. The main punch is the scallop circle punch, eyes are made with the 1/2″ and 1/4″ circle punches. The mouths are made with pieces of ovals or circles. The beak is a small oval folded in half.
Next week is my monthly scrapbook class on Wednesday night March 25th. Click here to visit my website and see the details on my events calendar. Class starts at 6:30 pm and I need to know your coming so RSVP by the 23rd email me at [email protected]. I hope you can make it.
Happy Stamping,
Monika
www.monika.stampinup.net
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Mar 17, 2009 | Punch Art, Wildlife |
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
This is what I made for the boys today. I found this leprechaun idea from Becky Roberts and combined it with the idea I saw at leadership to create these guys for my boys.
I used a regular Hershey bar and cut the card stock (Kiwi Kiss) at 5-1/2″ (one way) and then either use 5-1/2 or 6-1/2 depending on if you want it to completely cover the candy bar or not – see the one in the center has the ends of the wrapper sticking out.
For my candy bars I scored at 2-1/4″, 2-1/2″, 4-3/4″, and 5″. Wrapped it around the bar and attached the flap in the back with sticky strip. The candy bar can just be pulled out. The leprechaun is a Tangerine Tango Scallop circle, Pink Pirouette 1-3/8″ circle, eyes are 1/4″ black circles, nose is 1/2″ pink pirouette circle. Ears and mustache are the 5 petal flower punch – two petals cut off. The hat is Key tag punch in Kiwi kiss cut in half and then a word window – these were sponged. A 1/4″ strip of black across the hat. I used a GOLD painty pen to add the buckle on the hat. The stamp set is the hostess set from the last catalog with all the occasions in it. I hope you like them!
And I found a new visitor in the back yard yesterday – actually they are setting up residence for awhile. 
It is a Robin building a nest on the gutter right by my kitchen window. I have been hearing alot of noise and he/she keeps flying into the windows. They have been working on the nest for the last two days. It looks like I also have a pair of blue birds building a nest in the bluebird house. But the Black-capped Chick-a-dee wants the same house. We had this problem last year too. I have seen both birds going in the house today. I checked the nest and it appears the Chickadees started a nest and the bluebirds are building on top of it. I’ll some pictures of them maybe tomorrow.
Have a nice rest of the day!
Monika
www.monika.stampinup.net
