Jul 18, 2012 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Well it’s the final project for my Stampin’ Up! Artisan Design Team Entry. My last 3D project – this was the “big one”. It is a Baby Keepsake Shadow Box.
This is supposed to be the WOW project that made them say “Oh – this needs to be a finalist”. Well as you know that didn’t happen. But it is still a wow project and I hope you like it. There are lot of things going on in this project.
The background/inside of the shadow box was designed with My Digital Studio and printed through the professional print service multiple times (some are regular and others were heavy weight. The duplicate sheets were cut to create the crib and shelf. The crib I carefully cut out in between the slats for the front and the sides and then glued it together to make a 3dimensional crib.
I also created some owls in My Digital Studio and printed them on iron-on transfer sheets then ironed them on a small baby washcloth – there is one on all 4 corners.
The boxes are wrapped in Designer Series paper and then I added the letters and randomly added white Baker’s Twine and pearls to some of them. The punched owls are set on the shelf. And then I made a mobile that hangs from the ceiling using the spinner hands, baker’s twine and the little hearts.
In the corner is a little bear made with the fabric and the circles and brads for the eyes. With ribbon around the neck. I actually hand sewed it all. This is probably my least favorite part of this project. The eyes have pearls on them.
Inside the drawers I tucked a few things – for two of them I made little boxes to hold “1st tooth” and “lock of hair”. And then I had baby mittens and a baby wash cloth inside a couple. If I were really using it then they would all get filled up.
Around the outside I wrapped with a piece of the wide striped ribbon.
There is a lot to see. I am hoping it is on display for everyone to see at convention. Today is check-in day. We just had a great two days stamping and having fun with friends at the Starz Retreat. I’ll tell you more about that later. Oh and we went to the Copper Mine today – that was really neat.
It’s time to go check-in and get our convention bags. We have a busy day – see you later.
Nov 6, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Since we are celebrating Digital Scrapbooking day I decided to create a couple of quick digital scrapbook pages this morning. The best way to make quick pages is to use one of the Designer Templates. So that was what I did and they were both done in just a few minutes – it took longer to find the photos than anything else.
This template came with the Sun Garden Designer Paper Digital Download. It is a 12×12 scrapbook page. I added photos that we took this summer at the Stampin’ Up! Convention. Michele, Dawn, Cindy and I were roommates and on the last night we had some fun with our camera – using the auto shoot function. We all piled into one bed and found different places to set the camera trying to get pictures of the four of us. We had fun making silly faces and laughing. I can’t wait for the next Stampin’ Up! event which is the Leadership Conference in January. Michele will be my room mate again and this time Becky and Diane will be with us.
I made very few changes to the template – I added my pictures, and the text at the bottom. I moved a few of the elements just to get them off the pictures a little bit more but that was pretty much it.
And this other page is also a template – it is the Sunset Serenade Digital Kit – another 12×12 scrapbook page. I added the stamp “So Grateful” which is from the So Typefelt stamp brush set that you can get free this weekend at the Mydigitalstudio.net site. I also moved the text box that was in that spot up on top of my large photo and added the word Family. A few of the elements were moved to get them off the pictures and that was pretty much it. I left the rest of the template alone. I think the pictures work well with the colors in this template page.
These pictures are from this summer when we went to the beach with Greg’s family. That’s Greg’s mom in the white dress. And then the photo with Greg, his mom, sister and brother. Then the large family photo includes the spouses and kids. All of us dressed to match on the beach. And we are all grateful to have some time together. We will all be together again at Thanksgiving. We have plans to be with my family during Christmas – I can’t wait to get pictures of all of us too.
A few minutes, no mess to clean up and my two scrapbook pages are done. And now I can do some cleaning up , laundry and get dinner ready. Both Kyle and Tyler are home this weekend and I’ve got BBQ chicken in the crock pot. I plan to try a new recipe for some garlic cheese biscuits and later tonight we’ll have a fire outside before the boys go back to college. Have a nice rest of your weekend. I keep thinking it is only Saturday but I guess it really is Sunday.
Oct 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Flight of the Butterfly, Pocket Silhouettes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
I wasn’t finished sharing my little bat ideas that I showed at the Birmingham Regional. I had a bunch. This is the Get Well bag. Inside is a pack of tissues and a tea bag.
The bag is stamped – the bottom with Pocket Silhouettes and Flight of the Butterfly. White Gel pen doodles all around. And a tag from Word Play. I used tempting Turquoise and Old Olive for my colors. And I did add rhinestones on the “i” and on the one butterfly.
Really a quick project. So it is a quick post. Directions for how to make the bag were posted last week – Click Here.
That’s all for today… have a good one.
Sep 8, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Charming, Faux Mother of Pearl, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Here are the last of the Mini Cards from last month’s Hands-on class. This first one is a Tri-Fold card. It was one that I received as a swap at convention from Lisa Horton and I left it just like she created it because it was perfect. I did add the matching envelope for my class.
The card is really made of two 3×3 cards glued together to create a tri fold card. The base is Very Vanilla – with the front of it stamped with the En Fancies stamp and the medallion from Charming.
The other side of the card is Marina Mist – take the folded card and lay it on the Scallop Square Duo die on the large scallop square so that the fold does not get cut. This creates the other side of the card – you glue the back to the inside of the Very Vanilla base.
On the inside of the Marina Mist scallop square add a piece of Very Vanilla with the little stamp in the corner – it comes from the Charming stamp set.
To make the front of the Marina Mist scallop square use Stampin’ Write Markers – Marina Mist and Pear Pizzazz to ink the flower stamp from the Charming set. Huff to re-moisten and stamp on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock.
Tie a piece of Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding around the Very Vanilla card stock. Layer on a piece of Pear Pizzazz and then add to the front of the card. To close fold in the Very Vanilla piece from the left and then the Marina Mist from the right. There you have a Tri-Fold card.
And the last card we made during the class was the Faux Mother of Pearl card that I created for my swap at convention.
I have already posted the instructions for this one earlier – you can find them by clicking HERE.
So that wraps up the Mini cards from my class – I hope you liked them. Come back Friday for something new!
Aug 13, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
So here are the rest of the 3×3 Mini Cards (or Love Notes as I sometimes call them) from my convention swap. I hope you like seeing all the different ideas. If you are interested in coming to my Mini -Card class Friday, August 19th visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to.
If you see your card here and I don’t have your name on it please let me know. Some of them the names got separated and others just didn’t have names on them at all.
Top Row: Heather Wilbur, Lyn Shepherd, no name
Middle Row: Cindy Ewertz, Denise Donald, Lonni Hatch
Bottom Row: Stephanie Ferrara, Debra LaFountaine, Nicole Watt
Top Row: Lorelei Stone, Cami Eastwood, Debbie Moczek
Middle Row: Allison Okamitsu, Kathya Hidalgo, Marci Snyder
Bottom Row: no name, no name, Carol Densmore
Top Row: no name, Gilda Fellows, no name
Middle Row: Debbie Ham, Yvette Kreb, Julie Brewer
Bottom Row: Denise Kasanda
And the last group
Top Row: Diana Bock, Nancy Bates, Debra Brown
Middle Row: Karen Albin, Pamela Rollings, Ann Quattrin
Bottom Row: Michelle Ryder, Karen Lawrence
Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!
Aug 12, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Time to share more 3×3 Mini Cards with you. These are all cards from a Stampin’ Up! convention swap that I took part in. I swapped 105 mini cards. Speaking of Mini Cards my next Hands-On Class which if Friday, August 19th will be a Mini Cards class. If you’d like to attend visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to. For the class I will be choosing some ideas from the swaps that I received and creating a few new ones. I hope you will join me for this fun mini card class.
Now on to some more of the swaps from convention – I’ll have a picture of each grouping and then below I’ll list the creator of the card if I have it. Some of the cards either didn’t have a name with them or they became separated from the card. So if one of these is yours and I don’t have your name please let me know.
This group is all Christmas/winter –
Top Row: no name, Martha, Cindi Layendecker
Middle Row: Lynn Johnston, no name, Jennifer Campbell
Bottom Row: Tami Morkan, Maria Kosturik, no name
Top Row: Kim Smith, Kerrie, Snyder, Lisa Horton
Middle Row: Becky Kittaka, Carol Valentine, Miriam Permut
Bottom Row: Barbara Dykhouse, Teresa Guerdana, Jen Blank (this one looks just like one of mine I posted earlier this year but mine is a larger size)
Top Row: Connie Bjork, Laura Haffke, Cindy Castleman
Middle Row: Carol Siers, Freda Laureano, no name
Bottom Row: Becky Barnett, Charlotte Coombes, Lisa Rodriguez
I’ll have the rest for tomorrow. Have a great day!
