Jul 29, 2009 | Blog Tour, Circle Circus, Circle Scissor Plus, Shaker Card, Spinner Card, Stamps |
As promised here is my tutorial for the Kaleidoscope card. The pictures weren’t sticking in the positions that I wanted so I have added captions on them in case they get in a wacky order when they display on your computer. You can click on the pictures to see a larger version. At the end is a pdf file which you should be able to download and it might be easier to follow than the actual post on the computer.
This is my Kaleidoscope card made with the Circle Circus stamp set featured in the July 2009 Royal Blog Tour
Basic Supply List:
- Card stock – Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue, Whisper White
- Window Sheets – Medium
- Ribbon – Old Olive wide Grosgrain
- Punches: 1-3/4” Circle, Word Window
- Classic Ink – Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue, Basic Black
- VersaMark Ink
- Black Embossing Powder
- Stampin’ Write Markers – Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue
- Bead Duos – Blue, Orange
- Bone Folder
- Paper Cutter with Scoring Blade
- Jumbo Brad
- Circle Circus stamp set including the extra rubber after mounting your stamps
- Family Phrases stamp set
- Circle Scissor Plus and Glass Mat
- Adhesive – Snail, Crystal Effects and Stampin’ Dimensionals
Card Instructions
Steps to complete the shaker box:
- Stamp the image in VersaMark ink on Whisper White card stock, cover with black embossing powder and heat set with the heat tool. Color image with Stampin’ Write Markers.
- Use the left over rubber from the die-cut stamp set. And cut away the outline of one that fits over your image. Trim away the corners. I use my Craft & Rubber scissors.
- Remove the backing from the rubber and adhere over your image. Then peel up the rubber leaving only the gray foam attached to your stamped image.
- Add some of the large beads from the Bead Duos to the center of the foam, covering about 1/3 of the image. I used Orange and Blue Bead Duos.
- Cover the foam with a piece of clear Window Sheet. Trim everything as needed.
- To cover the front I cut a circle out of Pumpkin Pie using the Circle Scissor Plus – cut it at 2-3/4”. Punch a hole in the center with the 1-3/4” circle punch.
- Cut a circle out of Ballet Blue using the Circle Scissor Plus – cut it at 2-1/2”. Punch a hole in the center with the 1-3/4” circle punch. I stamped on this piece with Ballet Blue ink using the dotted circle image.
- Layer the Ballet Blue circle on top of the Pumpkin Pie circle and then attach that to the top of the shaker box over the window sheet covering up the gray foam.
Shaker Box - Step 1
Shaker Box - Step 3
Shaker Box - Step 2
Shaker Box - Step 6- 8
Shaker Box - Step 4
Shaker Card - Step 5
Steps to complete the spinner:
- Create the base of the card. Mine is Old Olive card stock cut at 4-1/4” x 11” and scored at 5-1/2”. Fold this in half.
- Add the front layers to the card. I have a Pumpkin Pie layer that is 5” x 3-3/4” and a Ballet Blue layer that is 4-3/4” x 3-1/2”. The Ballet Blue layer is stamped with the dotted circle image in Pumpkin Pie ink.
- To the back of the shaker box add a 5/8” Jumbo Brad. I used a small dab of Crystal Effects so that it would not come off.
Spinner - Step 3
- Position the shaker box on the front of the card so that it is near the edge where you can add the punch out to create the notch for spinning it. Punch a hole for the brad. And then punch your notch through the layers.
- Cut a 3” circle using the Circle Scissor Plus. I used Pumpkin Pie card stock. Punch a hole in the center. Place this on the inside of the card. Feed the brad on the back of the shaker box through the front of the card and through this circle on the inside of the card. Flatten out the brad on the inside and then use a piece of plain tape to hold the brad in place on the circle. If you don’t do this then the card stock will turn around the brad rather than turning the brad which turns the shaker box. I hope that makes sense.
Spinner - Step 4
Spinner - Step 5
Spinner - Step 5
(Excuse the mess in the Step 5 picture, if you don’t pull your tape up multiple time your card stock won’t look like this – 🙂
Steps to complete the card:
- In order to make the inside look nice and cover the workings of the spinner I cut another piece of Old Olive card stock – 5-1/2” x 4-1/4” and punched a notch in it to match. Adhere this to the inside front of the card making sure your adhesive doesn’t interfere with the circle.
- Also punch a notch out of the back of the card. And I stamped a greeting on the inside.
- On the front of the card I tied a piece of Old Olive wide grosgrain ribbon around the left side of the card. Stamped ‘happy birthday’ on Whisper White card stock and punched it out with the Word Window punched. I pulled the edges across my Pumpkin Pie ink pad and attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the front of the card.
Complete Card - Step 1
Click Here to download a pdf file.
Have fun!
Jul 29, 2009 | Blog Tour, Circle Circus, Stamps |
Hi Everyone!
Wow what a ride! Did you have a wonderful time exploring all the blogs on the Royal Blog Tour? I know I did. I have a whole list of new blogs to visit and ideas to try. I had a record number of visitors and my total visits is now over 20,000! How exciting is that!
I’d like to thank everyone that came to visit me and for all the wonderful comments. It was so nice to read them all. I will be drawing for the Blog Candy Winners later and post that tomorrow. If you asked me questions I will be working on replies to those also. Thanks again!
I am working on my post of the Kaleidoscope card tutorial and it will be up later today – it is a long post with lots of pictures so it is taking a bit longer. For right now I want to show you the card that I created (and then took down because the colors were so wrong) that matched the scrapbook page. I took a new picture and now it looks like Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip. Chocolate Chip is the base of the card which is a little hard to see in the picture. The Tempting Turquoise layer is on top and scallop punched on one side. I love these colors together!
The girls coming to my scrapbook class tonight will be making the scrapbook pages that I showed as part of the tour. I am finishing up the prep-work for that class. And still working on my convention swaps. I’ll be back later with the tutorial for you. Have a great day!
Jul 25, 2009 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Circle Circus, Stamps |
I am so excited to welcome you to the ROYAL BLOG TOUR!
I hope you are excited to be here.
I will go back to my regular posting schedule after the tour – this post will be here until the tour is over.
Sit back and relax as you take the tour and see wonderful samples using stamp sets and accessories from the Stampin’ Up! 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog.
On the tour you will visit Princesses from all over showing you different styles of stamping.
Have fun on the tour!
My featured stamp set is the new CIRCLE CIRCUS stamp set! This set offers circles with all sorts of lively, fresh designs to choose from. Stampin’ Up! had another circle based stamp set that I just loved but it retired a few catalogs ago and I have missed it. When I saw the Circle Circus set I knew this would fill that void. Circles are everywhere and so fun to use. And Stampin’ Up! has plenty of circle punches and the new Circle Scissor Plus that work perfectly with this set.
My first project is a card that I made with a kaleidoscope in mind.
You know the little toys we had as kids that you turned and they made pretty colorful designs.
It is a spinner card and when you rotate the wheel the beads spin inside the window.
The colors I used are Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Ballet Blue along with white and black. These are the large beads from the Bead Duos and I happened to have blue and orange ones so I was pretty much pointed in that color direction. The main stamp set here is of course the Circle Circus stamp set. Other sets that I used to make this into a birthday card are the Family Phrases stamp set and on the inside I used the Birthday Wish stamp.
Visit my blog next week to see a tutorial on how to make the window with the beads and the spinner for the card. EDITED TO ADD: Instructions were posted on 7/29/2009.
My second project is another card that is a totally different style of card. This one has a more elegant look to it and while I used it as a Thank You card I think it could even be a wedding/anniversary type card too.
This is what I call a Tile card because it is supposed to look like tiles. The colors I used are the new Soft Suede, More Mustard and Very Vanilla. I added the Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon which I love. One side has the polka dots but the other is plain so it is like getting two ribbons for the price of one. The main stamp set is Circle Circus but I used only one image from the set. The greeting is the Elegant Thank You stamp.
I will have instructions on creating this card posted after I return from the Stampin’ Up! convention which is Aug. 5 – 8.
My third project is my favorite and I have had such a hard time keeping it under wraps. I was ready to share as soon as I finished it!
It is a 2-page 12×12 scrapbook layout with the title “Hangin’ Out Together”. 
While on the last card I used only one image from the Circle Circus stamp set this time I think I used them all! And lots of circle punches too.
The colors are so fun – Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie. I like layouts with lots of pictures and you could even take the large Old Olive mats and add collages of smaller pictures. You can use one of the Pumpkin Pie mats as a journaling block too.
The various circles are layered some with and some without Stampin’ Dimensionals. Some have brads in the centers too – Silver, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise and even a Filgree flower brad.
We will be making this fun layout in my scrapbook class on July 29th.
I have the perfect pictures of this page of my son, Tyler, and my niece, Emily, together on the beach one night just hangin’ out. I have to get the pictures printed and will post these pages again with pictures later.
And one more card…. I loved the scrapbook page so much I wanted to use the same idea to create a birthday card. The colors in this picture are off – it is the same color combination that is on the scrapbook page, not sure what happened to my picture this time. I have decided to remove the picture of the card so I can retake it – it looked worse this morning than I though it did yesterday – totally the wrong colors. I’ll repost after the tour so come back and visit again or sign up to receive email updates and you will know when I make updates. Thanks so much.
I hope that you like my samples and that you will bookmark my blog or sign up for email updates (see my side bar) and visit me again.
I’ll be giving away some Blog Candy after the tour is over. Here are the details:
I will have two Blog Candy prizes – one for blog tour visitors that are Stampin’ Up! customers (and live in the US) and one for Stampin’ Up! demonstrators.
For both prizes you need to do two things:
1. leave a comment on this blog post with your name and if you are demonstrator or customer and which project is your favorite.
2. send me an email to [email protected] with the same information including your contact information so I can get your prize to you.
Blog Candy prize for Customers:
A Designer Paper Sampler – it will include one 6″x6″ piece of each double-sided print in the 12 new Designer Papers introduced in this catalog (not including the In-Color patterns).
Blog Candy prize for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators:
One of my Class To Go Kit Tutorials – instructions only in a pdf file – you can choose one from a prior month (some products may be retired but you can always substitute current product and stamp sets) or choose my August tutorial which will be released after the tour.
And don’t forget to visit the main Royal Blog Tour Blog (that should have been where you started – the crown at the top of this post will take you there) for a chance to win a BIG SHOT die cut machine! That’ very exciting so be sure to read the rules on how to enter.
Good luck! Thanks for stopping by!
Jul 25, 2009 | Chipboard, class, Designer Series Paper, Embellishments, Embossing, SU Ribbon, Upsy Daisy |
I made the cutest little desk frame out of two 4×4 coasters the other day. This is one of the projects we made/are making in my class this month. 
The paper is from the Pink Flamingo paper and I used the Summer Sun print with the flowers. Each piece is cut to 4×4 and I used an Anywhere Glue stick to adhere the paper to the coasters. I trimmed the edges with my paper snips. The reason I don’t use my corner rounder punch is because it is not the same corner as the coasters so it is easier to just use paper snips. Then I like to sand the edges with a sanding block. We embossed on the designer paper using the Upsy Daisy stamp set – stamp in VersaMark ink and use white embossing powder. Then heat set the embossing powder. I did one before applying the paper to the coaster and I did another one after applying the paper to the coaster. I felt like the heat tool caused the coaster to warp a little but after lying flat over night it wasn’t noticeable any more so it might not really make a difference. I put the two coaster together and marked and punched the holes using my Crop-A-Dile. Then tied the Bermuda Bay ribbon through to hold the two coaster together. I stamped “always on my mind, forever in my heart” from the Stem Sayings stamp set using the Bermuda Bay ink above my flowers. The Bermuda Bay card stock is corner rounded with the corner punch and stuck on the right side with Stampin’ Dimensionals. My pictures is actually just held on by the little clip from the Clips Assortment. I tied a piece of the Bermuda Bay Polka Dot Ribbon on the clip.
The picture is Greg and I at the beach earlier this month. You might remember me telling you about the infection Greg had in his lymph nodes/neck area. If you look carefully at the picture you can see that on the left side of the picture his neck is swollen and the other side his neck is normal. In this picture he was already getting better (it was worse the week before) and now it is almost completely gone. I think he has one more follow up with the doctor in a couple of weeks.
Don’t forget to join me for the ROYAL BLOG TOUR that starts at midnight!
Have a great day!
Jul 22, 2009 | All in the Family, Chipboard, family, Scrapbook Pages, Stamps |
Yes – we are still happy together after 20 years. Today is our 20th wedding anniversary – can you believe it? I just really don’t feel like I have been married for 20 years – that sounds like such a long time but like they say time flies when you are having fun – and I must be having fun!
This is the card I made Greg for our anniversary.
I used the All in the Family set and the Family Phrases set – stamped on Whisper White with Black ink and colored in with Stampin’ Write Markers.
The ’20’ is chipboard from the On Board Lots of Letters set. I colored them with a sponge dauber and Old Olive craft ink.
“Anniversary” comes from the Fundamental Phrases stamp set and is punched with the Modern Label punch.
The Designer Series Paper is retired it was the Maine Blueberry paper from last year that I really liked. That gave me the colors that I used – Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue and Old Olive.
Something that I didn’t think about was that 20 years ago we didn’t have digital cameras. I can’t think of when that started really but my digital pictures start in 2002 and we were 
probably a few years behind the trend anyway. I wanted to share a picture of what I looked like on my wedding day 20 years ago. I found a scrapbook page that I made using some of my pictures that were taken at the wedding reception (the non-professional ones). This was an old Simply Scrappin’ Kit that Stampin’ Up! had several years ago.
My dress was what I call a Southern Belle dress with lots of ruffles on it – probably not what anyone would want to wear today. I made my hat – got the plain white hat and added trim and pearls and stuff to it. I even made the hoop that I needed for my dress (I didn’t bustle it but carried it instead). Our reception was in one of the historic homes in Roswell, GA.
So it’s 20 years later and we are still happily married. We went away over the weekend on an anniversary trip – no kids. I found a secluded mountain cabin in North Carolina – it was a really nice place to stay. They had everything you could want or need in that cabin. The only thing I didn’t like was the drive up the mountain to get there – gravel road, very steep and curvy! It was like being on a roller coaster – and I don’t like roller coasters. You had to go fast to get up but if you hadn’t already been up you didn’t know where the turns were. So when we first arrived it took us three tries to get up in our SUV. Now I wish we had the 4-wheel drive. Once we were up I wasn’t sure I wanted to leave until we went home. But Greg said it would be fine and we would get back up so we did end up going out during the day on Friday and Saturday. Aside from the ride up and down the mountain to actually get to the cabin everything else was perfect – an awesome view of the mountains and the sunset.
Saturday we found a little road that took us to the Appalachian Trail (if you aren’t from somewhere east that is the trail that you can hike from Georgia to Maine). We have been on short day hikes here and there. This time we took a 1-1/2 mile hike in (and up) to the top of the mountain where there was an observation tour . We climbed the tower (up 2 flights of stairs to get to the top) and had a 360 degree view of the mountains! It was quite amazing! Our picture is below with the mountains in the background. The view was like that all the way around the tower.
Have a great day!
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!
