Aug 28, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, class, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Summer Fun Cookout, Wanted |
Stampin’ Up! created a Summer Cookout Kit to sell the past few months. It is still available until the end of August and it is now on sale for $14.95 (40% off) and the refill (all the consumable supplies) is $9.95. At convention we were able to get a free refill with a certain purchase amount at Memento Mall. So I had my refill and a couple of my roommates gave me there’s too. Why – because Tyler’s birthday is this weekend and I wanted to plan a summer cookout theme party for him. But then he decided he did not want to have a birthday party after all – so now what to do with all the supplies. Since my scrapbook class was this week I decided instead I would try to turn this Summer Cookout Kit into a scrapbook layout – so my challenge was created – use the pieces from the kit to create a two page 12×12 layout…
The kit included the die-cut pieces for the invitation – including the skewer, food wrappers that were like tissue paper, coasters, tent cards, die cut tags, and linen thread.
So I got busy planning – colors in the kit are Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Ruby Red and Night of Navy. There was one problem that I ran into – all the die cut pieces for the invitation had pre-printed words and holes in them that I didn’t necessarily want in my layout. Solution – tuck the words/holes under something or put something over them. The only thing I didn’t use was the envelope – although I considered creating a hidden journaling pocket – the envelope could have been covered in the tissue paper, and there was one die-cut piece I didn’t use – I think it is supposed to be a piece of meat – it just looked strange to me. I even added all the little circles that were left from the holes – kind of a confetti sprinkled on the page. It turned out to be kind of a busy page (which is not normally what I end up with) and I don’t have my pictures on it yet. So here it is:
I added card stock – Bashful Blue, Ruby Red, Night of Navy and So Saffron. I added buttons in the same colors. The skewers are tied on with the linen thread at the bottom of each page – I used my paper piercer to poke holes through the page and then tied the linen thread through it. The Bashful Blue and So Saffron coasters were punched with the small star punch – those were glue around as needed to cover holes and add accents. The background is stamped with the Wanted stamp set.
To create the title I glued a piece of the tissue paper to a piece of card stock – so the red tissue paper went on Ruby Red card stock and the blue on Night of Navy card stock. Then the letters were cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots alphabet dies.
When I add pictures later I plan to cut two of them with my Circle Scissor Plus to go on the coasters that are my circle mats. The tent cards were cut in half and these are picture mats – depending on the size of the picture I may leave the checked edge showing or cover it. I thought I did a pretty good job of using my kit.
So now everyone that has a kit – plan a party, take pictures and scrapbook using your kit left overs. We have something planned for the weekend (I’ll tell you about it next week) that I plan to take pictures of for this layout.
Have a happy scrappin’ day – it is raining here which is always a good day to stay inside and work on your scrapbooks….
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!
Aug 25, 2009 | Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages, SU Ribbon |
Here is a scrapbook page that my niece, Emily, created. How creative is she? I think I need to recruit her as a demonstrator as soon as she is old enough….
This is an 8×8 page that she just put an assortment of Designer Series Paper strips, ribbon, buttons and staples on.
She added the doodles with a fine tip marker around the edges – all hand-drawn.
Let’s see if I can point out all the Stampin’ Up! supplies that she used:
- Going Gray card stock for the base
- Designer Series Paper from Summer Days Simply Scrappin’ Kit
- Designer Series Paper from Walk in the Park pack
- Rose Red 1/4″ Grosgrain ribbon
- Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot ribbon
- Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon
- Baja Breeze Striped Ribon
She added various buttons that are not Stampin’ Up! And used staples too.
Great job Emily!
Have a great day today!
Aug 24, 2009 | Scrapbook Pages |
We have made some changes to the WOW Scrapbook Kits blog and kit offering. Hopefully the changes will make it easier to find the information you need about each monthly kit and layout and how to order. We are also adding some new ordering options and will be posting to the blog more frequently with tips related to scrapbooking, stamping and Stampin’ Up! products. These tips will start tomorrow on 8/25.
- Stampin’ Basics – will have tips and information related to stamping
- Scrappin’ Tips – will have tips and information related to scrapbooking
- Tool Time – will feature a Stampin’ Up! tool
Hopefully you will find the information useful and come back to visit our blog each week. Go take a look at wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com to read all about the changes and what we currently have available. A new September Wow Scrapbook Kit will be available after Sept. 1st.
Happy Scrappin’!
Jul 22, 2009 | All in the Family, Chipboard, family, Scrapbook Pages, Stamps |
Yes – we are still happy together after 20 years. Today is our 20th wedding anniversary – can you believe it? I just really don’t feel like I have been married for 20 years – that sounds like such a long time but like they say time flies when you are having fun – and I must be having fun!
This is the card I made Greg for our anniversary.
I used the All in the Family set and the Family Phrases set – stamped on Whisper White with Black ink and colored in with Stampin’ Write Markers.
The ’20’ is chipboard from the On Board Lots of Letters set. I colored them with a sponge dauber and Old Olive craft ink.
“Anniversary” comes from the Fundamental Phrases stamp set and is punched with the Modern Label punch.
The Designer Series Paper is retired it was the Maine Blueberry paper from last year that I really liked. That gave me the colors that I used – Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue and Old Olive.
Something that I didn’t think about was that 20 years ago we didn’t have digital cameras. I can’t think of when that started really but my digital pictures start in 2002 and we were 
probably a few years behind the trend anyway. I wanted to share a picture of what I looked like on my wedding day 20 years ago. I found a scrapbook page that I made using some of my pictures that were taken at the wedding reception (the non-professional ones). This was an old Simply Scrappin’ Kit that Stampin’ Up! had several years ago.
My dress was what I call a Southern Belle dress with lots of ruffles on it – probably not what anyone would want to wear today. I made my hat – got the plain white hat and added trim and pearls and stuff to it. I even made the hoop that I needed for my dress (I didn’t bustle it but carried it instead). Our reception was in one of the historic homes in Roswell, GA.
So it’s 20 years later and we are still happily married. We went away over the weekend on an anniversary trip – no kids. I found a secluded mountain cabin in North Carolina – it was a really nice place to stay. They had everything you could want or need in that cabin. The only thing I didn’t like was the drive up the mountain to get there – gravel road, very steep and curvy! It was like being on a roller coaster – and I don’t like roller coasters. You had to go fast to get up but if you hadn’t already been up you didn’t know where the turns were. So when we first arrived it took us three tries to get up in our SUV. Now I wish we had the 4-wheel drive. Once we were up I wasn’t sure I wanted to leave until we went home. But Greg said it would be fine and we would get back up so we did end up going out during the day on Friday and Saturday. Aside from the ride up and down the mountain to actually get to the cabin everything else was perfect – an awesome view of the mountains and the sunset.
Saturday we found a little road that took us to the Appalachian Trail (if you aren’t from somewhere east that is the trail that you can hike from Georgia to Maine). We have been on short day hikes here and there. This time we took a 1-1/2 mile hike in (and up) to the top of the mountain where there was an observation tour . We climbed the tower (up 2 flights of stairs to get to the top) and had a 360 degree view of the mountains! It was quite amazing! Our picture is below with the mountains in the background. The view was like that all the way around the tower.
Have a great day!
Jul 7, 2009 | Circle Circus, Circle Scissor Plus, Scrapbook Pages |
Gosh – I’m feeling so behind and like I can’t catch up….
I have the July Wow Scrapbook Kit posted now – go on over to the blog to check out all the details – wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com – here is a sneak peek of the pages for this month:
My favorite is the Circle Circus summer layout – some of the pictures from our beach trip should fit perfectly on there. The Dad layout uses the Totally Tool set and we have lots of pictures of home projects that could work on this layout – I’ll have to see what I can find. I have tons of pictures that I have never scrapped and I have become a totally random scrapper. Lately I have been creating the pages first and then remember an event or pictures that I might have that will go on it. Other times I have the pictures and create a page to go with them – but that is not normally what I do. I want to spend alot more time on my personal scrapbooking. I have several vacation albums I want to complete and then one big goal for this year is to complete an album for Kyle before he graduates high school next spring! I am also working on a year in review album that Wendy has created – we get together once a quarter and make about a double page layout for each of three months. I have to finish my March, April and May pages now.
The day is quickly getting away from me – AGAIN! How does that always happen? I want to go create in my craft room with my new stuff so I have more to share with you and I need to finalize my plans for all of my convention swaps and classes for this month. I’m expecting the rest of my new catalog stuff (what I ordered on the 1st) to come tomorrow!! I can’t wait!
Happy Stampin’ and Scrappin’!!
