Mar 20, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Pocket Silhouettes |
I’m glad I’m not in a spelling bee and my word is Silhouettes – I would get it wrong every time – I always have to look it up. Today’s card is a swap I received at the STARZ meeting this month. It was created by my friend Cindy – her blog is here. She is also featuring the swaps and projects from the STARZ meeting right now – I’ll be posting some of the same creations that she already has up.
I was going to use Cindy’s card for my class yesterday but I already had all the projects I needed so I didn’t have room for more. I could make another Birds and Butterflies class because there are so many stamp sets that I didn’t even use that feature birds and butterflies.
She used one of my favorite little stamp sets – Pocket Silhouettes. The set itself doesn’t have birds or butterflies but she added some die-cut butterflies to the card so it would have fit my theme. I would not have put these colors together but they are great! Soft Suede, Regal Rose and So Saffron.
And notice on the bottom it is ruffled lace. Using the Eyelet Border punch she punched a piece of So Saffron card stock and then ran it through the crimper to create ruffles. When you do this make sure you start with a piece that is longer than what you want the finished piece to be. Running it through the crimper causes a “shrink” effect.
I love the card Cindy! Thanks for sharing it.
Mar 19, 2010 | Designer Series Paper, Eastern Blooms, Stamper's Club |
Have you noticed the Thoroughly Modern File Folders in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog? They coordinate with the Thoroughly Modern Designer Series paper. There are 12 folders in the package. But you can use them for more than just file folders. Here is a great project that was shown in the Stampin’ Success magazine (our Demonstrator magazine). I saw a variation of this project at convention and then at our last STARZ meeting Wendy shared this project with her group. I was thrilled because I already had it planned for my Stamper’s Club meeting.
For this project the file folder was scored, cut and folded to create a notepad holder with a pocket, a pen holder and a velcro closure. I thought it would be great for shopping – write you list on the pad stick your coupons in the pocket and head to the grocery store.
For this one the stamp set is Eastern Blooms. The center of the large flower is colored with the Soft Suede marker and then the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint was added to the center.
The folders come in Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede, Rose Red, and Sahara Sand. There are 3 each of 4 different designs.
Here is another one – 
for this one I used the For All You Do stamp set. The flowers are cut and layered and then I added a vintage brad to the center.
I added a pile of the medium flowers in the inside corner. The pens are the kind with the barrel that you can open and then insert a piece of the matching designer series paper.
It was a fun project and I think everyone at the Stamper’s Club meeting liked it. It is great when its something fun and something useful.
Have a great weekend – I’m glad you stopped by.
Mar 9, 2010 | All in the Family, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
More pages from my Desktop Calendar…..
For the month of November I used the turkey stamp from the Holiday mini catalog. I made a slight change to mine after the class because of suggestion from one of the girls at the class. I originally didn’t have the circle behind the turkeys but added them later.
My dog Magnolia has a birthday in November so the little dog image from the All in the Family stamp set worked perfectly for that. I tried to color it with markers to make it kind of look like Magnolia.
November Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Sahara Sand card stock
- Old Olive card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
- Scallop Trim Border punch
- 1-3/4″ Circle punch
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- All in the Family stamp set
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink and marker
- Stampin’ Sponge
Happy Stampin’!
Feb 27, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Stem Sayings, Thank You, Watercoloring |
Boy the week just flies by – its Saturday again and challenge day at Create with Connie & Julie!
Congratulations to last weeks winners of the Easter Card challenge – 1st place was Lisa, 2nd place was Robin and Honorable mention to Cynthia. Thanks to everyone that played along the entries were all great. I hope you will play this week too.
This week our challenge was a COLOR challenge – So Saffron, Certainly Celery and Orchid Opulence. And it was definitely a challenge for me! Why? Because my least favorite color out of all the Stampin’ Up! colors is Orchid Opulence – so I don’t have an ink pad and only a couple of pieces of card stock – luckily I did have my Stampin’ Write Marker! One of the big reasons that the Stampin’ Write Markers are so great – if you buy the whole set like I did then you will have ink in every color so when you need one and don’t have an ink pad – pull out the marker and you are set! It saved me with this color challenge!
The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure – Abundant Hope stamp set, Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Butterfly Accent stamp and Decor Stencils – Paisley Patterns and Folk Flowers. My choice was to use the Beautiful Wings Embosslit – because I love it and because it was the only one of the featured items that I had this week. And here is what I created….
Are you wondering where the background is from, the flowers under the butterflies? It is a piece from the Storybook Designer Series Specialty paper. If you haven’t taken a look at this pack of paper on one side of each is what looks like a coloring sheet. It is textured card stock so it was similar to watercolor paper. I picked a piece of one of the patterns that had flowers on it so the butterflies could be flittering around the flowers. And with no color on the design I could watercolor it with any colors that I wanted. I used my Aquapainter and the classic ink pads. But since I didn’t have the Orchid Opulence ink pad what I did for those was scribble on one of the plastic stamp cases to make a puddle of ink to use for watercoloring. I always loved to color in coloring books when I was little so I had a lot of fun with this and now that I got the pack out I think I need to play some more.
I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit in the Big Shot to cut the Butterflies in So Saffron and Orchid Opulence. I edged the butterflies with a Soft Suede marker to make them stand out a little bit more. I used some white crochet thread around the centers to make the antennas. The butterflies are on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- So Saffron card stock and ink
- Certainly Celery card stock and ink
- Orchid Opulence card stock and Stampin’ Write marker
- Storybook Designer Series Specialty paper
- Soft Suede ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Sahara Sand ink
- Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslit
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
- Stem Sayings stamp set
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (SAB)
- Aqua Painter
- White Crochet Thread (not SU)
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Check out what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet it isn’t too late to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week. 
I counted today and there are at least 27 tutorials out there already. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Julie site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Feb 24, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Good Friend, Scrapbook Pages |
Have Fun, Play Hard, Be Happy!
This is my week 6 page for the 52 weeks challenge. I pulled out some old photos from 1996! This is Kyle (he is now 18) and Tyler (he is now 16) when they were little.
I thought this turned out to be a fun page. I used some retired Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper called Rainbow Sherbet. The colors in the paper are Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Apricot Appeal and Gable Green. I decided to add Brilliant Blue for my lettering, photo frames, and scalloped accents since that was the color of the pool. The colors worked well since the boys swim suits were blue and green too.
The stamp in the background is the sparkle image from the Good Friend stamp set. It matches the sparkle in the designer paper. I cut the scallop circles and the top note using the Big Shot and the letters too. I added little accents with my Brilliant Blue Stampin’ Write maker. I used some randomly placed brads from the Bold Bright Brads scattered around the circles and the top note just for fun.
It turned out to be a fun page with bright colors!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Feb 23, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages, Upsy Daisy, Wildlife |
She is the shelter from the storm…
As you can tell if you have been reading my blog I spend some of my time observing the birds and animals in nature around me. It is actually very fascinating and you can learn a lot. Last year in May my friend and upline Wendy had a group retreat at her home. It turned out to be a rainy weekend. The back of Wendy’s house faces into the woods and the back porch is high off the ground and I was surprised to see on her porch a nest built on the floor next to the grill. I kept my eye on the nest – it had four beautiful blue eggs and belonged to a Robin.
I had never really thought about it but the mama robin sat in that nest during the rain to protect her eggs. She sat on top and spread her wings to create a shelter from the storm. When the rain stopped she flew away to do what she needed to do. I found it to be quite amazing the protection that she offered those eggs.
Because she was close I was able to get some great pictures of her on the nest and of the eggs. I pulled them out and decided to put them on a scrapbook page.
This is my week 5 page for the 52 weeks of scrapbooking challenge. (I also finished week 6 and I’ll show you that tomorrow).
I used Taken with Teal as my background to match the color of the Robin’s eggs. I added strips of designer paper from the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper pack. I used the Big Shot to create some accent pieces – the scalloped circle, and the flower daisies in the corner.
The new xl Two-Step Bird punch added an accent on my circle and the stems on my flowers. The stamp set I used is Upsy Daisy. And then a piece of black satin ribbon at the top.
The Designer Paper, the bird punch and the satin ribbon are all from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. If you haven’t tried out the ribbon you really should – I have used most of what I bought and I’m on my second roll of most of the colors. I hope it is in our next catalog and I wish they would add So Saffron – this week for some reason I have wanted to use So Saffron ribbon more than once.
Sadly, I found out a few weeks later that while the mom did a wonderful job protecting her eggs during the storm she did not make a wise decision on the location of the nest. Because it was on the floor of the deck it was easy for other animals to reach. I hope she tried again in a better location.
I’ll be back tomorrow with my week 6 page.
I was going to use Cindy’s card for my class yesterday but I already had all the projects I needed so I didn’t have room for more. I could make another Birds and Butterflies class because there are so many stamp sets that I didn’t even use that feature birds and butterflies.
