Mar 22, 2012 | Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, SU Ribbon |
There was lots of fun ribbon in the Occasions Mini catalog. My favorites are the seam binding and baker’s twine. Plus the Sale-A-Bration had some fun ribbon too. For everyone that participated in my ribbon share for the Occasions Mini catalog I made them the cute little craft box and filled it with all their ribbon (and the SAB brads too).
I covered each of the four sides of the box with some of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper and then wrapped some of the Calypso Coral ribbon around it. I added a little jewelry tag too.
I hope everyone likes their ribbon share. I’m hoping to have another ribbon share in April – I’ll make plans and send it out with my April newsletter.
On another note remember Monday all the things I rambled on about. Well the fridge/freezer seems to be working just fine now – the repairman thinks someone left the freezer door open which caused the snowstorm inside and then I guess the freezer was trying to eliminate all the frost so it was getting warm – I don’t know but I cleaned out the inside, cleared out all the frost and now it seems to be working. Then my itchy spot that I thought was a mosiqito bite – well it wasn’t exactly that and by Wednesday I had spots on my arm and all over my stomach and they were spreading and red and itchy! So i went yesterday to the dermatologist and now I have meds and cream – they said it was a delayed allergic reaction to a bug bite that I probably got last week during the one hour that I did some yard work ( I also got a blister that day) – so doctor’s orders – don’t do yard work in March – he really did say that but Greg doesn’t believe me.
Ok – moving on about my day – getting ready for scrapbook class tomorrow.
Mar 12, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Tags |
Yeah for Sale-a-Bration orders!
Hostesses during Sale-A-Bration get the cutest shopping bag –
for my hostesses I have been putting their orders in the shopping bag and then adding this cute Thank You tag. All the rest of the customers orders also get a Thank You tag.
These tags were made using My Digital Studio and it is actually a tag template that is included in the 2011-2013 In-Color Pack (item #127339).
I had these printed through the Stampin’ Up! Print service and then when I got them home I dressed them up a bit. I added the Calypso Coral ribbon that comes in the Sale-A-Bration pack and finished them by adding Rhinestones to the centers of the flowers.
They match nicely to the Sale-A-Bration Hostess shopping bags.
Contact me today to schedule your workshop or place a qualifying order so you can get one of these cute bags. But hurry this offer ends at the end of March!
This week is my Hands-On Class – you can RSVP from my events calendar – we will be making Easter and spring projects and I will email out a reminder later today. I hope to see you there!
Mar 7, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Thank You |
I’m back – so sorry for being MIA for a while. I had a super busy weekend – I spent all day Saturday (literally all day – left at 7:30 am and got back at 11:00 pm) at the Bascomb UMC Scrapbook Crop. What a fun day! The days leading up to that I was frantically getting ready, printing flyers, packing scrapbook layouts, die-cutting hearts, butterflies, buttons and more for goody bags, prepping a make&take and packing up everything for my booth. The crop was a blast and I met so many nice ladies! I can’t believe I have never been to a crop before – they were so right about having more stuff than you had room for – even I needed more table space and I had 2 6foot tables for all my stuff. But one table was my M&T station which was a lot of fun. I hope to see many of those ladies at my classes and then again in October at the next crop.
So after that my parents came on Sunday to spend the night so I could spend time with them for my birthday. Kyle and Tyler both came home from college too and we had my birthday dinner Sunday night. That was a good thing because Monday (my actual birthday) was not a good day. I was sick and spent most of the day horizontal – so my parents went on home and I slept most of the day and missed my whole birthday. Yesterday I was up and about but not 100% – so I still ate very little but I was able to get back to work. I think I lost weight on Monday since it had to be an almost zero calorie day – I drank water, ate 4 saltine crackers and had some gatorade. Greg brought flowers home that evening and my dad brought me an orchid before they left to head back home. We make up our lunch and dinner plans later. Does this mean I didn’t really get a year older if I slept through my birthday?
Ok – sorry for the rambling but I wanted to let you know why I was gone for so long….
And I have one other issue – I put my camera in a safe place and now I can’t find it. So until then my pictures are from my iphone – so this one isn’t that great. This card uses both Sale-A-Bration and Occasions Mini Catalog products.
The main image is Apothecary Art which coordinates perfectly with the new Label Collection Framelits. I really love the framelits and can’t wait to see what new designs they have in our next catalog (coming June 1st). I stamped the image on Very Vanilla card stock first. Then use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to add the words in the banner section – I used Soft Suede ink by the way. I find it easier to color first – I used my Stampin’ Write Markers – Blushing Bride and Certainly Celery – then cut it with the Big Shot and the Label – and sponge the edges. I cut a Blushing Bride layer in the label that was one size larger – and sponge the edges of it too.
On the base of the card I stamped the Fresh Vintage stamp set which is one of the Sale-A-Bration stamp set choices – it is very subtle – Soft Suede ink on the Soft Suede card stock. I used Very Vanilla Seam Binding tied around the card base – tied in a knot. Attach the layered labels over the top with Stampin’ Dimensionals. To finish – cut some of the butterflies using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit – sponge those too – and add a couple of basic pearls.
The idea for this card came from the box that I created in February – I just decided to turned that idea into a card – here is that post.
I hope I didn’t bore you today with rambling – I wish I was a better writer – but I’m not sorry. I will probably be posting some more MDS projects since I don’t need my camera for those pictures. Have a great day!
Mar 2, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2012 |
This card uses the Elementary Elegance stamp set that is one of the Free sets you can get during Sale-a-Bration. The inside of the frame is the perfect fit for the Curly Label punch. This card idea is from Shelli – the head of Stampin’ Up! (there is a link to her blog in the side-bar).
First Edition Designer Series Paper, the Beautiful Wings Embosslit (one of my favorite) and some Lucky Limeade Baker’s Twine all finish off this card.
The front panel is cut short and punched with the scallop border punch. The First Edition Designer paper is attached to the front behind the scallop. Here is a little trick that I do so that it is lined up with the back of the card. Put adhesive on the inside of the card front right where the scallops are punched. Lay the First Edition designer paper on the inside of the card back and line it up with the right edge and top and bottom. Now close the front of the card and the adhesive will stick to the designer paper and it will be in exactly the right place.
Busy, busy today and for the weekend.
Feb 28, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, Wildlife |
Hey! I have been busy playing with My Digital Studio. Cindy and I held our first My Digital Studio Club meeting this month and it was so much fun. We are planning a demo retreat for my next downline meeting in March – we have some fun new projects planned for that. And then I decided to take Heather Summer’s Online class to try to learn some of the tips and tricks she uses to create her awesome projects. I also thought I would challenge myself to create each day using the project that was shared in the class. So far so good – it’s been 8 days now and I have 8 layouts done and I’m happy with each and every one. I have a link to Heather’s blog on the right side bar of my blog.
So far I’m pretty much using the layouts as they were designed for the class but usually changing up the colors, designer papers, stamp sets because I don’t always have the same downloads that she uses.
Day 1 – this is the Leadership March this year at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. That’s me on stage – I’m not sue what I was doing with my arms out like that but one of my friends got a picture. I guess it was a “hey look at me I’m on stage”. Its always exciting to get to be on my stage for something and since I haven’t done it very often I don’t quite know what to do. My first walk across stage was at convention last summer.
The designer paper I used here comes from the Sale-A-Bration My Digital Studio CD. I stuck with the Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Soft Suede colors because the pictures showed the blue and red of the stage decorations. I also added brads from the same CD – I love that little butterfly brad.
Soon it will be time for the bird to build nests in the yard. The last two days I’ve seen bluebirds checking out the houses – we’ll see which house they pick this year – they seem two go back and forth between two and the chick-a-dees usually take the one they don’t. I’ve also had a red-bellied woodpecker spending a lot of time looking in the woodpecker house we mounted more than a year ago. Oh and the Cedar Waxwings came through this weekend – they always come in a big flock and pass through – I happened to see them as they made a brief stop in the yard (seemed like most just stopped to rest and “relieve themselves” – big mess). I tried to take some pictures but they were way up in the tops of the trees – I’ll download them soon they are on my big camera. So I’ve rambled enough – time to move on. Have a great day!
Feb 22, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Thank You |
Have you earned any of the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration items for free yet? This is a set you might want to get – it’s called Outlined Occasions.
This was a quick card to make using strips of Designer Series Paper from the Everyday Enchantment paper (also a Sale-A-Bration item). You could easily use strips of any paper that you have. I used the Stampin’ Write Markers that matched the colors in the paper to color the Outlined Occasions word. There are three word choices – Thanks, Celebrate, and Love. Any of them could be used on this card. I stamped the word first with JetBlack StazOn ink on Whisper White card stock. Then cut the word out with one of the labels from the Framelit Labels Collection (in the Occasions Mini Catalog).
The coordinating phrase was stamped on Lucky Limeade card stock and punched out with the Modern Label punch. I added some Rhinestones as accents.
The background is Crumb Cake and the colors I used that match the paper are Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Peach Parfait.
Sale-A-Bration continues through the end of March. For every $50 of product that you order you can choose 1 Sale-A-Bration item for Free. If you’d like to see the brochure CLICK HERE.
Thanks for visiting today!
There was lots of fun ribbon in the Occasions Mini catalog. My favorites are the seam binding and baker’s twine. Plus the Sale-A-Bration had some fun ribbon too. For everyone that participated in my ribbon share for the Occasions Mini catalog I made them the cute little craft box and filled it with all their ribbon (and the SAB brads too).
