Mar 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, Sale-A-Bration 2011 |
Yesterday I told you about all the great ideas that other Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators share. My card today came from one that I saw on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only online community) – the original was created by Christy Galang.
The front panel on the card is Very Vanilla that was embossed with the Tulip Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. In the very center I stamped the large flourish image from the Sale-A-Bration Bliss stamp set using Not Quite Navy ink. The butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die and the Big Shot. One is cut from Blueberry Crisp Designer Series paper – the edges are stamped with the little swirls on the edges of the bliss stamp in the set. The smaller butterfly is Very Vanilla and then stamped with the large flourish. The butterflies are layered and add to the center of the card. In the very center of the butterfly is a pearl – if you look closely the pearl is blue – on this particular sample I colored the pearl with a Night of Navy Stampin’ Write marker and let it dry for a while, then wiped it off and let it dry overnight – this gave it a very light blue tint. I made some darker ones by coloring with the marker then covering the pearl with Clear Embossing Powder and heat setting it. 
I put my card on a Not Quite Navy card base so I created an inside panel to match.
And added a greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set to finish. We made this card in my Towne Lake Card Club and everyone was able to choose what they wanted to use the card for. Teeny Tiny Wishes has ended up being one of my most used stamp sets since it has so many greetings in and covers all different occasions. It is perfect to use in a class because everyone can choose what they need.
I watched American Idol this morning – I had my neighborhood friends over last night to play Pokeeno – so I had to record it and watch this morning. I wonder what everyone thought. I think as a group the boys are stronger than the girls but I was having a hard time deciding who would be the one to go tonight – I’m assuming they are eliminating only 1 person but I’m not sure. I think my least favorite was Ashton. The best for me include Casey, Jacob, James, Pia and Scotty. Some of them just didn’t choose the best song. I guess we’ll find out tonight what happens.
And on to Monika’s Spring Bingo – we actually played this for Pokeeno last night instead of the traditional pokeeno cards. We all had fun doing something a bit different – I had a garden themed night – so the gifts were garden themed which was fun. I had decorations and made little boxes that I’ll share in a later post. So for my bingo players I’ve decide for the next several days I’m going to call two pieces at a time. So mark your cards and let me know when you have a Bingo. Here are the pieces for today.
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Good Luck!
Feb 24, 2011 | Birthday, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2011 |
This is a quick and easy birthday card. I saw this idea at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference in January. I’m not sure who created it – I believe it was on one of the display boards.
For my card I used a Pear Pizzazz card base and ribbon. The center panel is Marina Mist with a piece of Chocolate Chip Patterns Designer Series paper on the side.
The owl from the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Punch Bunch was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink on a piece of Whisper White cards stock – and on the envelope too. Punch the owl out of the card stock using the Owl punch. Add it to the front of the card with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
You can get the Punch Bunch stamp set FREE with a $50 Stampin’ Up! product order – if you’d like to place an order visit my website HERE or send me an email.
The greeting that I used is from the Sincere Salutations stamp set but you could use something else that you have in your collection. This happens to be one of my oldest stamp sets – it was one that I bought before I became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.
I hope you like this quick card!
Our gutters were put back up on our house yesterday – yeah! It is supposed to rain overnight tonight so I really wanted those gutters back up. Everything is looking good – a few small things left and the rest will be up to Greg to finish. I’ll share some pictures soon.
Feb 17, 2011 | Decor Elements, Sale-A-Bration 2011 |
During Sale-A-Bration (now through March 31st) you can earn the Notes Chalkboard Decor Elements for free. I just got mine and put it up in my craft room this morning. I thought I would show you the steps for putting it up. It actually comes in two pieces and is larger than I thought it was going to be – 16 inches tall and 8 inches wide.
The first piece is the chalkboard background. It is one large piece and you need to peel off the back paper leaving it on the sticky sheet – normally you have to burnish the side with the grid paper but I didn’t have to do that for this one and it wasn’t on the grid paper. Then position it on the wall where you want it. Use the little applicator tool and burnish the entire piece starting in the center and working out so you don’t get bubbles in the center. Go over the entire piece until it is adhered to the wall.
Then start in one corner and peel back the sticky sheet. Peel that piece all the way off. If you have any bubbles work them out to the edge using the applicator tool.
Now you have the chalkboard piece up and ready. You could use it just like this if you wanted but it is boring so you probably want to add the second piece to it.
Next you need to prepare the second piece which is the part that has the doodle and the word “notes”. This one is on a grid sheet so the first thing you have to do is burnish the entire image on the grid side so that it sticks to the sticky page.
Then slowly peel up a corner to remove the grid paper. If you any part of the image is still sticking to the grid paper then lay it back down and burnish it some more. I find that the smaller the piece the more it takes to get it to transfer to that sticky sheet. This one was pretty easy since none of the piece are very small and detailed.
Now you want to take the image on the sticky sheet and position it on the wall where you want it. In this case you want it right over the chalkboard background that you already hung up. This piece fits exactly so I lined up one edge of the doodle with the edge of the chalkboard. If it is straight it should match up exactly on the other side. One trick that I do is gently tap down the sticky paper in a place where the design is NOT there – this holds it for a second so you can move your hand and see if you have it in the right spot. You can still lift it back up if you need to and reposition it.
Once you have it in position you will do the same thing as the background – burnish the entire image so that it transfers to the wall. Pull up a corner of the sticky paper and carefully pull back to see that it transferred – if it didn’t lay the sticky paper back down and burnish some more. Once it is all transferred remove the entire sticky paper piece.
Ta-da! Now your chalkboard note pad is ready to use. I put mine on my craft room wall right by my door above the light switch. I’ll see it every time I leave the room. Right now I wrote on the next few classes that I have coming up that I need to prepare for.
That’s what I have for you today. It’s been a hectic week. The painters are outside – I can see their van but they haven’t come in yet – I’m not sure what they are doing – but they aren’t in here painting! I cleared almost everything out of my kitchen, breakfast room and family room for them to paint and now half the day is almost gone…..and tomorrow I have class and don’t want them in there painting. Let me go out there and see what’s up.
Feb 8, 2011 | Designer Series Paper, Medallion, My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2011, Scrapbook Pages, UDI Color Challenge |
Yep – its another MDS page – I know I’m showing a lot of those lately. But you know what the cleanup from creating a My Digital Studio scrapbook page is so fast – just save and shut the laptop! Plus it is a totally portable workspace – so on Sunday night I sat downstairs in the basement with my husband to watch the Super Bowl. And I used My Digital Studio to create my project for week 22 of the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. Gretchen sent us this for our Color Challenge inspiration:
Some nice masculine colors this time. I have been missing my oldest son Kyle (he is away at college and doesn’t call me quite as much as I would like him to) so I created a scrapbook page featuring a picture of him after the Convocation Ceremony at Georgia Tech this past August. That’s the GT Rat cap that he is wearing all the freshman got one at the ceremony and part of the ceremony were the traditions on how to personalize your hat. I’ll have to check if he ever did that. Here is a quick run down on what they are supposed to do –
The Georgia Tech Rat Cap Diagram. On the underside of the bill, write RAT in the center of the bill. Write your name above RAT and your hometown below RAT. On the left of RAT, write your incoming major and on the right, write your expected graduation year. On the back of the hat, write TO HELL WITH GEORGIA. If you are planning on co-oping, circle the tip of the cap.
For every football game write TECH above the opponents name with the respective score. If Tech loses, write the game score upside down. If Tech wins, write the score rightside up.
I looked through the different Designer Templates that I had in My Digital Studio and found this one – I switched out all the colors and Designer Papers to fit the color challenge but kept the layout of the page the same as the template. I did add a digital stamp from the Bliss set in the So Much to Sale-a-brate CD – you can get it for free during the Sale-A-Bration promotion going on right now. So it is a great time to purchase My Digital Studio if you haven’t already done it.
This is also my page for this week for Project 52. I ahead for week 6 – got it done at the beginning of the week instead of the end. By the way I did talk to Kyle on Monday and he is coming home Friday for the weekend – yeah! He said he has been busy at school with a heavy load of classes and his TA position.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- MDS Card stock: Chocolate Chip
- MDS Ink: Very Vanilla
- MDS Stamp sets: Medallion, Bliss, Schoolbook Serif Alphabet, Greatest Moments II
- MDS Designer Series paper: Tangerine Tango Patterns, More Mustard Villa, The Write Stuff II More Mustard large dots, 2011 Notable Desktop Calendar Kit – pattern 11
- Accessories: My Digital Studio
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 5, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Pierced Circle, Sale-A-Bration 2011, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon |
Good morning everyone! I think our rain has stopped – we had a little bit of snow/sleet on Thursday but it stopped and I was able to head out to a class at Tammy’s house that night. The rain is not helping the work that is going on at our house. We are having our old screened porch/deck converted to a large sunroom/small deck. The construction has been going on the days in between the bad weather – I’m hoping for nice weather all week so they can get it done. And hopefully all the construction isn’t keeping my birds away. I’m would expect to see them already shopping for bird houses to nest in but I haven’t seen much activity. It might be because the weather has been colder than normal or a combination of the two. This year I have added the woodpecker house and I have one more house to add but I haven’t put that one out yet. I’ll keep you posted as soon as the action starts.
On to my project for today. These are some cute cards featuring Sale-A-Bration stamps and accessories. I have been using these cards in some of my classes/workshops the last couple of weeks and everybody loves them.
The idea for this card came from the Stampin’ Success magazine that Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators receive each month. It is packed with ideas and articles for us to read. I decided to use the layout and then make more than just the one card that they showed but create more cards using the other stamps in the Punch Bunch stamp set. I gave everyone at my classes the choice of what they wanted to make. Each card was unique as every person used a different stamp and selection of the die cuts from the Ice Cream Parlor pack.
The card base is Old Olive. At the bottom is a die-cut strip, then above that is a piece of the double-sided Designer Series paper – some people chose to show the dotted side and others the pink side. Above that is a piece of the Ice Cream parlor ribbon – this ribbon has flowers printed on one side so when you tie it in a knot make sure you twist the end so the printed side shows. Stamp the image and punch out with the coordinating punch and add it to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals. See below for the instructions on creating the pierced circle and do that before you add all the die-cuts and the buttons. One trick that you might want to know about the die-cuts – if you want to pop them up with Stampin’ Dimensionals – stick them to your jeans first to remove some of the adhesive on the back and then add the dimensionals to pop them up.
Do you see the pierced circle in the background? I love that idea but I thought there is no way I can make an even circle like that. I remembered that Stampin’ Up! used to have the brass embossing templates and many of those had piercing patterns on them too. We don’t sell those anymore so I wanted to come up with a way to do the same thing with what we do have. It just so happened I had one of the large die-cut scallop circles lying on my craft table and that gave me this idea. So here are the instructions on how to create a pierced circle:
Step 1: cut a die-cut scalloped circle using the Big Shot machine and one of the dies – you can vary the size of your circle by using a different sized scallop circle for your template.
Step 2: Place a piercing mat underneath your card stock and the scallop circle on top. Use a paper piercer and pierce in between each pair of scallops to create a circle – using the scallop keeps the holes evenly spaced.
Step 3: If you want the holes closer together add another hole in between each pair that you punched.
Ta-da! A pierced circle!
How easy was that? I’m going to use this idea on some other cards not that I figured it out and I’m going to take a look at my other dies to see if I can create some other piercing patterns. To save the templates cut them out of the cardboard backer from the Designer Series paper and it will last longer than using a piece of card stock.
Have a fun weekend!
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.
Feb 2, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2011, Sale-A-Bration 2011, Simply Adorned Jewelry |
Sorry I missed yesterday’s posting. I went out of town with Greg for the day and we left earlier than I originally planned on Monday and didn’t finish my projects or posting for Tuesday. Today I’m sharing my Simply Adorned swap – I used the Nature Walk stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. I originally created this for a Simply Adorned class that I held in late December. Then I decided to use it also for my Leadership Swap – just the front side. And then again for my PAWS meeting Swap. I actually made minor changes in each one but I don’t have pictures of the last version – and I swapped them all away.
Here are my original front and back for my class. The little bee on the front is cut out and popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The flowers and the wings of the bee are covered with the Smooch Illuminate Top Coat Pearlized Accent Ink.
For my Leadership swap we only needed the fronts so the picture to the right shows the front again. Here I added a tiny piece of Linen Thread that is tied around the stem of the flowers.
While we were at Leadership I learned a new little technique that I really liked and ended up using that on the version I used for my PAWS group swap. We used an Aqua Painter to “paint” the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint. I don’t know why I haven’t thought of that before – you don’t need water in it – you are basically just using the brush so I guess you could also use a fine tipped paint brush to do the same thing. So I did that on the bee’s wings and on the flowers. And because I was short on time I left off the linen thread on my PAWS swaps. I’ll have to make one like that again so you can see the difference in how the wings look.
Have a great day! Oh, I have a new signature file using the Sale-A-Bration My Digital Studio CD elements – what do you think?
The front panel on the card is Very Vanilla that was embossed with the Tulip Embossing Folder and the Big Shot. In the very center I stamped the large flourish image from the Sale-A-Bration Bliss stamp set using Not Quite Navy ink. The butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die and the Big Shot. One is cut from Blueberry Crisp Designer Series paper – the edges are stamped with the little swirls on the edges of the bliss stamp in the set. The smaller butterfly is Very Vanilla and then stamped with the large flourish. The butterflies are layered and add to the center of the card. In the very center of the butterfly is a pearl – if you look closely the pearl is blue – on this particular sample I colored the pearl with a Night of Navy Stampin’ Write marker and let it dry for a while, then wiped it off and let it dry overnight – this gave it a very light blue tint. I made some darker ones by coloring with the marker then covering the pearl with Clear Embossing Powder and heat setting it. 
And added a greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set to finish. We made this card in my Towne Lake Card Club and everyone was able to choose what they wanted to use the card for. Teeny Tiny Wishes has ended up being one of my most used stamp sets since it has so many greetings in and covers all different occasions. It is perfect to use in a class because everyone can choose what they need.
