Stamper’s Club
Tonight is Stamper’s Club night. I always look forward to everyone coming over for a fun girl’s night out. I love the projects we make and the time we get to visit together. One of the projects we are making tonight is the frame with the Decor Elements. I made one in February for my Mom and probably posted it on my blog then. This is the one I made for me and I changed a couple of things. First I used a different Decor Elements – mine is the “Welcome” – and this is the small size. Then on the butterflies I tied Linen Thread around the centers instead of using thin strips of Chocolate Chip card stock.
Tonight the club members will be making theirs and I hope that they’ll let me take pictures and post them on here. There are a few different Designers Series papers that I used for them and everyone has the Inspiration Decor Elements – which has four word choices so I’m sure everyone will have something different.
The stamps set I used are the Inspired by Nature and Baroque Motifs (on the butterflies). The Designer Series paper is from Urban Garden. The colors used are Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip. T
he Decor Elelments is in Chocolate Chip. The butterflies are die-cut with the Big Shot and the Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Butterflies die – one of my favorite.
For an update on the birds today – the blue bird now has four eggs – we’ll see if there is anothe one tomorrow or if they are done with 4. Normally they have 4-5 eggs. Mrs. Robin is nicely sitting on her nest – here is a better picture of her.
I checked the Towhee nest – mom was out for a bite to eat – and the strangest thing – now there are 3 eggs – one is missing and it looks like the littest egg is still there – I’ll to see if I can figure out what happen with that. Very strange… a missing egg.
Have a fun evening – I’m having girls night!
It has been some time ago that I started a Technique Book. As I teach various stamping techniques I incude a Technique Card with the class. Lately I have been sharing new techniques as part of my Stamper’s Club meetings. Sometimes I include them in my regular hands-on classes. The book itself is a 4×6 photo album. I created a cover for it – I used the Heartfelt Thanks stamp set in Bravo Burgandy. An added bonus to the Technique Book is that we are also building a card stock sampler. Each technique page is on a different color of cardstock and I include the name on the card so you will know what it is. 
Two-Step Stampin’ –
Last night was my Stamper’s Club meeting. This was our second meeting for this group and I have a couple of different things going on in the club. First we have what I call an on-going project. At the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference we made the cutest box as one of our Make-n-take projects and then made other items to go inside. I decided to take this project and use it for my Stamper’s Club but I’m going to add to it. So at our first meeting we made the
box and at each subsequent meeting we’ll making something to go in the box. This month we made a small box of tags. All the projects are using coordinating products including Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series Paper, Good Friend stamp set, and So Tweet Chipboard. The color scheme is from the Stampin’ Up! Retro Fresh Style Watch – see it on page 10 & 11 in the Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book. Next month we’ll add something else to the box.
