Nov 2, 2009 | Flight of the Butterfly, Just Tennis, Recipe, Stamper's Club |
I tried to post this earlier today – and my internet went out and was down most of the day – I was hoping my post got saved but it didn’t so I’m starting over.
I thought I would try a change of pace and post something that wasn’t related to the holidays. Tennis season just ended for us – unless your team is in the playoffs and no one in our family fits that category this time. Ryan’s junior tennis team has had the same husband and wife coach them for many years – they were doing it long before Ryan joined the team. They are the nicest couple and so good with the kids – always encouraging to them and positive. They are great with the parents too – keeping us well informed. I appreciate that and know it is a lot of hard work. So to thank them we bought a gift card and I made them a thank you card – so I wanted to share that with you today. It is a quick simple card that could be made with any of the Just “sport” stamp sets or even other stamp sets with circles or flowers.
Here are the Stampin’ Up! supplies I used:
- Garden Green card stock and ink
- Basic Black card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Summer Sun ink
- Just Tennis stamp set
- Flight of the Butterfly stamp set (for the sentiment)
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- 3/4″ circle punch
- slit punch (on the front under the black to hold the gift card on the inside)
- Whisper White Medium envelope
And I just found my notes from Cari’s Congo Cookie recipe that I was supposed to share with my stamp club members.
Here it is:
CONGO COOKIES
- 3-eggs
- 1-1/2 stick butter
- 2-3/4 cups flour
- 1 box lt brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 12oz. bag of chocolate chips
Melt butter and mix with brown sugar. let cool. add beaten eggs. add allother ingredients. Bake in a greased 13 x 9 pan at 350 for 30-35 minutes.
Enjoy!
Oct 27, 2009 | Big Shot, Just Soccer, Just Tennis, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Sporting |
Well I had planned to post this yesterday but the rest of the day got away from me. Sorry about that…
I actually made these scrapbook pages last month – in September for my scrapbook class. The two-page 12×12 layout was easy to adapt to any sport. I made the Soccer layout for my class sample and then created the Tennis layout during the class. At the class the ladies did a variety including baseball/softball layouts and football/cheer layout. If you didn’t want sports at all you could have used Circle Circus or other circles or flowers. The layout itself was an old one from a magazine that has been in my stack of layouts to work with. I also created the same layout using My Digital Studio – I was able to play around with the photos in the layout before printing them. My Digital Studio has the Sporting stamp set with all the words but not the individual Just sports sets. But you could do a hybrid version and print the My Digital Studio version and then add the stamped sports images. One cool thing about the My Digital Studio that didn’t really work with the traditional scrapbook page was putting the words directly on top of the picture. In my traditional layout I cut my picture shorter and put the GO TEAM underneath it. The tennis layout doesn’t have pictures on it yet – I’ll be adding those as soon as I get them printed.
Soccer - left page
Soccer - right page
Supplies used include:
– Sporting stamp set
– Just Soccer stamp set
– My Way Punch
– Circle Punches – several sizes
– Spiral Punch
– Big Shot & GoGo Boots Alphabet die
– Night of Navy, Real Red, Summer Sun card stock and ink
The one thing I couldn’t do in My Digital Studio was the Spiral Punch – I’ll have to look at that more and see if I can find that – if may have been there and I missed it. So you see that here in my traditional layout.
The Tennis version uses the same supplies except the Just Tennis stamp set for all the accent pieces – here it is without pictures on it.
Tennis - left page
Tennis - right page
For the Tennis layout I may add some White Gel Pen lines by the tennis balls at the bottom of the page – I wanted them to look like they were bouncing and right now they look kind of out of place so I think I’ll add that when I put my pictures on.
So then the My Digital Studio version is done with the Soccer pictures – I’ll show you the Left page – it just has white circles where the soccer balls should have been. I didn’t actually print the My Digital Studio version as a 12 x 12 but I was able to export it to a jpg file so I could share it here and I printed it just on paper to take to my craft room as my sample. So the My Digital Studio software can be used for a design tool – where you can play around with elements and photos without cutting card stock or printing photos until you know what size and where you want everything.
Soccer - My Digital Studio
I didn’t finish adding all the stamped words in there but wanted to have an idea for comparison. The font is different since the Big Shot dies aren’t actually in My Digital Studio – you can add text by using the fonts that you have loaded on your computer and you can change them to any of the Stampin’ Up! colors.
So what do you think? How do they compare?
I have this month’s scrapbook pages ready to share later this week so come back again.
It’s a rainy day (again) and a good day to stay inside and stamp (no one really wants to clean house so go stamp instead).
Jul 16, 2009 | Big Shot, Just Tennis |
The day before Ryan’s birthday was one of the tennis pro’s birthday. So I made her a card using the Just Tennis stamp set. 
Supplies (for the outside of the card):
- Night of Navy card stock and ink
- Garden Green card stock and ink
- Summer Sun ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Just Tennis stamp set
- Birthday Wish stamp set (same one I used on Ryan’s card)
- 3/4″ circle punch
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Big Shot die-cut machine
- Stampin’ Up Perfect Details Texture Plate
It is actually a pop-up card on the inside. Additional supplies used on the inside are the 1-3/4″ circle punch, Vellum Card stock, and Mini glue dots. To create the pop-up you need to punch a 1-3/4″ circle from the vellum card stock. Then use your paper snips to cut around the circle to create a swirl. Then I attached the tail end to the bottom of the card – making sure the circle itself is lying in the center. It then got covered with the other piece of card stock. I put a mini glue dot on the center of the circle (on top) then shut the card so it sticks to the top. Then you open it and add your images to the swirl. I actually sandwhiched two tennis balls together on each side of the spiral so you see a tennis ball from either side.
It turned out to be a fun card and I will be making some more. Ryan’s tennis team is going to play in the State Tournament at the end of July. I hope they do well. But in any case I need to make a Thank You card for the team captain.
Have a great rest of your day!
