Dec 17, 2011 | Baby, Decor Elements, Stamper's Club |
You might wonder what Flower Garden Decor Elements have to do with a Diaper Genie. And no – I don’t have a diaper genie, and if you saw one at my house it wasn’t mine. Jamie brought me her diaper genie and I decorated it for her with the Flower Garden Decor Elements. And look at how cute it turned out.
I purchased two sets of the flowers and put them on all the way around.
And to finish it I added a piece of Pretty in Pink wide ribbon at the top and attached it with mini glue dots. Now it sits in the baby room at Jamie’s house and it fit in so perfectly. Here is a picture from Jamie –
See the diaper genie on the left side – it matched all her decor just perfectly. And who is the room for – well for Baby Chloe –
born on Dec. 15th! Congratulations to Jamie and her husband on welcoming their new little one into the world!
Hopefully Jamie will be back for stamp club in January.
Have a great weekend!
Sep 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Halloween, Stamper's Club, Tutorial |
What do you get when you cross a mini milk carton idea from the Stampin’ Up! Convention with a bat idea from Shelli Gardner at a Stampin’ Up! Regional?
Vampire Bat Milk Carton Boxes!
Aren’t they fun?
We made these at my Stamper’s Club September meeting and my PAWS Downline meeting this weekend. Now do you want to know how to make one? Well you are in luck because I’m going to tell you. I’m writing a tutorial and will attach here as a pdf file for you to download.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: Wicked Cool
Ink: Basic Black
Card Stock: Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Mini Milk Carton Bigz Die, Perfect Pennants Bigz Die, Spider Web Embossing Folder, 1-1/4” Circle Punch, ½” Circle Punch, Bitty Shapes Punch Pack Circle, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Two-Step Bird Punch, Brights Brads, Crop-a-Dile, Basic Black 1/8” Taffeta Ribbon, White Gel pen, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, Illuminate Top Coat Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink, Stampin’ Sponge, Sticky Strip
CLICK HERE to download the tutorial on how to make these. It also includes the instruction for how to make the hexagon shaped milk carton box with pictures of how to assemble the bottom in case you just want that part on not the bat in particular. Enjoy!
Mar 4, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Stamper's Club, Tags |
Way back in January at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference I bought some Stampin’ Up! In Color Bookmarks. I wanted something to give to my downline and my hostess club members. I got them home and they sat in my craft room. I want to present them in some fun way but couldn’t come up with anything – so they continued to sit in my craft room.
In February I needed to make some more tags for my customer orders. I usually make something out of things lying on my table or whatever my pop into my head. I decided I wanted to play with my Fancy Flower punch. I had my In Color Patterns Paper pack out from the candy wrapper project I showed the other day. So I decided to punch out some flowers. I remembered seeing flowers that other demonstrators were making where they just crumpled up the paper and stacked it up to make a flower. So that is what I did – for each one I punched 5 Fancy Flowers from different In Color Prints. I crumpled them up (when your mad at some one like your 14 year old that is a good project to work on).
I opened them back up and stacked them together and looked around for what I was going to use in the center. I was going to just use little brads but remembered I had a package of the In Color Glitter Brads – they were perfect for these flowers.
These are all Poppy Parade which I decided to use for my customer orders. I went back and added the tiny tag to the center it says “thanks so much”. I punched a hole in the back and tied some crochet thread through to tie them onto my order bags. I decided these were so cute I wanted to make some more in the different In Colors. Then I got the brilliant idea that I needed to combine these flowers with my In Color bookmarks and it all came together.
I cut tags using the Two Tags die and my Big Shot machine. I used the crop-a-dile to punch two holes in the tag and then cut in between to create a slit that the book mark slides through. I’m not sure you can tell but the bookmark is magnetic and is folded in half – so the back half is on the back of the tag. Then I added the matching flower above it with a dimensional. Here is what the whole lot of them look like –
They are super cute and the great thing is once the book mark is removed you can still use the whole tag or pull of the flower and just use the flower for something else. Now to get them out to everyone……tonight is Stamper’s Club so they will get theirs then.
Thanks for stopping by today – I’ll be going to pick up Kyle in a little while once he gets done with his last class at GT – and he’ll be home for the weekend.
And I almost forgot about American Idol – how did you do on your picks for the top 10? I got them all right and I didn’t even vote. Now we’ll see how they do going forward. They added 3 more but they weren’t any of my favorites.
Jan 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club, Valentine's Day |
I adapted this box idea from Stampin’ Up! to be a “Rules of Chocolate” box. Inside the box are 12 Hershey nuggets wrapped in some of the Love Patterns Designer Series paper.
I printed out 12 rules of Chocolate on regular printer paper – cut them into strips and then folded them up and tucked them under the Designer Paper on the bottom of each nugget. It is sort of like a fortune cookie where you pull out your fortune – only here you are pulling out a rule of chocolate to remind you that it is OK to eat it!
The Love Patterns Designer Series paper is available right now through Jan. 24th either by itself or as part of the Filled with Love Bundle. The box is the Box #2 BIGZ XL Die for the Big Shot. I cut it out of Pretty in Pink card stock. I stamped the string of hearts from the Valentine Defined stamp set on the box in Pretty in Pink – so it is hard to see in this picture. Some of the girls Friday night stamped in Real Red and that was cute too and easy to see. There is a strip of Pretty in Pink designer paper around the box. The front has 2 pieces of ribbon – Pear Pizzazz 1/2″ Stitched-Poly and Pretty in Pink 1/4″ Grosgrain. If you attach the ribbon at an angle it looks like a cupid’s arrow going through the heart but I attached mine straight across the box.
The heart on the front is some of the Real Red designer paper punched with the Full Heart punch. The Pear Pizzazz heart behind it was cut with the Big Shot using the Movers & Shapers Curly label die with the Punch Windows Movers & Shapers heart. This one was distressed with the distressing tool from the Cutter Kit. Happy Valentine’s Day is stamped in Real Red ink on Pear Pizzazz card stock and punched out with the Modern Label punch. Curl it a little with a bone folder and glue it down at the ends to the front of the box. The stamp comes from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. I also added one of the heart shaped Bitty Buttons – it has a piece of 1/8″ Real Red Taffeta Ribbon pulled through the holes and tied in a knot in the front.
The “Rules of Chocolate” was added to the lid – now what do you think of that handwriting? Isn’t it GORGEOUS? Well it isn’t mine – one of the girls in my Stamper’s Club has this beautiful handwriting and we told her she needs to create a font called Sabrina (that’s her name) and sell her handwriting for all of us that don’t have nice handwriting. I’m not sure how you go about doing that but I think she should do it.
I’m writing this on Sunday night as we wait on a snow/ice storm to come – it is moving closer with every news report but so far nothing is here yet and our schools haven’t been closed but many others have. We are supposed to have 100% precipitation tonight and all day tomorrow. I’ll put and update on here when I get up in the morning and see if we scared it all away by getting so prepared.
SNOW UPDATE: the snow did come – started about 10:00 pm and we got 1″ in the first 30 minutes. This morning we have 6″ – record highs all over GA for snow. The snow has stopped and we are now getting some freezing rain. Almost everything is closed and the airport is pretty much not moving right now. I don’t know how little dogs handle places with lots of snow – mine couldn’t walk because it is up to their bellies – they finally figured out they needed to hop to get through it. I’ll post pictures later today.
UPDATE: CLICK HERE for a pdf file of the 12 Rules of Chocolate that I used – I found several lists on the internet and picked from those.
Dec 19, 2010 | Cards, Christmas, Season of Friendship, Stamper's Club |
Are you still in need of Christmas card ideas? Here is a card using a stamp set you may already have in your stash – Season of Friendship. It is an all season stamp set and might not come to mind when you are thinking about making Christmas cards. But look at how beautiful this card turned out to be.
The idea for this card came from a non-Stampin’ Up! blog. But the idea translated perfectly to this Stampin’ Up! stamp set.
I started with a Cherry Cobbler card base, then a layer of Whisper White, then a layer of Crumb Cake. On the Crumb Cake card stock I stamped the tree from Season of Friendship using Early Espresso ink. Then the snowflakes using Whisper White Craft ink. The bird is stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink. I punched a heart using the small heart punch and then used the white gel pen to draw a string.
This sentiment comes from Heard from the Heart stamp set – it was stamped in Early Espresso ink on Whisper White card stock. Underneath is a strip of Cherry Cobbler that was punched with the scallop border punch.
We made this one at the Stamper’s Club meeting last week. Roxanne wanted an idea for this stamp set and this was it.
This year I’m mostly sending out Christmas Cards that I made using My Digital Studio – but I have some like this one that are hand stamped to send out too.
Kyle came home from college on Friday – I picked him up after my Treats & Tags class was over. Everyone is home for Christmas now! My decorating is done. My cards are mostly done – just adding the addresses, stamps and sealing the envelopes. Oh by the way – if you hate licking the envelopes – doesn’t everyone? – use your AquaPainter to moisten the strips! I even have presents wrapped and under the tree. I have a few more Christmas projects to share with you this week.
Dec 3, 2010 | Bingo, Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, Stamper's Club |
I found this cute project at Create with Connie & Mary. It was a preview project for the holiday class and Connie originally made it as a Halloween countdown project. I decided it would be perfect as a Christmas countdown project – but you could use it to countdown all kinds of things – mine as 24 numbers like Connie’s but you could do half and just do a 12 day countdown or find a different size gum pack – I think there are some that might have 14 pieces instead of 12 – that would be perfect for Valentine’s day. We made this in my Stamper’s Club last month. Anyway onto my creation.
Here is the front view. I used Real Red card stock to create the box – you can get the instructions from the Create site (link is above). I decorated with the Candy Cane Christmas Designer Series paper from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog. Unfortunately this cute paper was very popular and is now sold out. It had two sheets with glitter accents – one is the paper on the front of this project – the red dots are glittered and the other was the striped pattern that had red glitter stripes.
I’m not typically a glitter girl – I don’t like that it gets everywhere – so this paper works for me because it is built in to the paper and there is no mess! While the paper is now sold out it is also available as a Digital Download for My Digital Studio – so you can still have the patterns but you would have to add your own glitter.
I used the Real Red wide striped ribbon to close this one up. Stephanie and I made 6 of these over the Thanksgiving break and we used different ribbons on them. The front is the cute Snow Globe stamp from the Holiday Mini. I stamped it once in Read Red and cut it out and then stamped it a second time – inked with Baja Breeze ink and then use a Garden Green marker to color the two trees before stamping on the Whisper White card stock. Punch out with the 1-3/4″ Circle punch and then layered it back on top of the red one. I did break down and add some Dazzling Diamonds glitter here – just a very little bit – I used the 2-Way glue pen to put some glue on the snowflakes, the top of the house and the trees, and then sprinkled on a little bit of glitter. Now do you want to see the inside?
When you untie the ribbon and open it up there are two pockets on the inside and in each pocket is a pack of gum. These packs each have 12 pieces and I used the Calendar Alphabet and Number set to stamp numbers, punch them out with the 1/2″ circle punch and glued them onto each piece.
So I had one for each of my boys. I gave one to Kyle when I took him back to college last Sunday night. Then on Wednesday I gave one to Tyler – so he looked at it and said “that’s nice Mom”. I said “open it”. And he did and then he closed it and nothing. I figure he is 17 and it should be obvious what it is right – he hands it back to me and says thanks. And then says “Mom, I don’t like gum. I haven’t liked gum since I was like 5 years old.” What? How do I not know that – I knew during the time he wore braces he didn’t chew gum because he wasn’t supposed to. But doesn’t everyone chew gum? Maybe not all the time but on occasion. He told me thanks but I could give it to someone else.
So then I had one for Ryan – which I was sort of in a dilemma over anyway because he DOES have braces and can’t chew gum. My plan A was to find another candy to fit inside the openings – and pop out all the gum, but the other candy in and figure out how to cover it back up with foil or something. My Plan B thought was to give it to him and then trade him the pieces of gum each day for a mint of something. But then when Tyler gave me his back I ended up not even bothering to give one to Ryan. Was that bad? Now I think I’ll give the two to my niece and nephew – they’ll just get them a little late – but I bet they will chew the gum!
Not to worry I have other countdown/advent creations – I just have to get the candy to fill them and another one I’m still creating. Now my boys will just have to start their countdown a few days late. I suppose at their age the countdown to Christmas is quiet the same as it was when they were little…..
Let’s continue with Bingo – it’s too early to have a winner yet but from now one there are enough pieces that someone could win at any time.
Here we go with Monika’s Blog Bingo. This is Round 7! The group is full and all the cards were emailed out Monday 11/29. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners and the players for this round.
And now for today’s piece – Here is piece #4–the heart crown from the Family Accessories Too stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade).
See the diaper genie on the left side – it matched all her decor just perfectly. And who is the room for – well for Baby Chloe –
