Jun 17, 2009 | Big Shot, Blog Tour, Catalogs, Circle Circus, Decor Elements, Scrapbook Pages, Stamps, SU Buttons |
So sorry that I didn’t get a post out yesterday. It was a busy day and by the time I sat down last night to do it the internet was down. I’m not sure what the problem was but it was back this morning when I checked around 8:30. Yesterday was – tennis camp (Ryan), meet the new band director (Tyler), dentist appointments (all 3 boys), tennis match (Ryan). Ryan did end up winning the tennis match with his doubles partner Sam – it was mostly due to Sam that they won – but Ryan did have the final winning shot though.
Today I’ll show a sneak peek from the new catalog – if you spend time out there looking at blogs you may have already seen this set being used. The set is called Circle Circus and actually coordinates with the Decor Elements called Eclectic Circles that we already have. This is a 6×6 scrapbook page that we made at my downline meeting last week. It is a design from a 12″ x 12″ layout that Stampin’ Up! created and is shown in the new catalog. I just made it smaller. The title is the Stampin’ Up! Billboard alphabet Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die for the Big Shot. The colors I used are Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise. The title is Chocolate Chip. And the button is from the Button Latte Designer Button collection. I think this is going to be a fun set and it works with all the circle punches that we have. You’ll see more of this from me as it will be my featured set for the next Blog Tour – more information is in the right hand side bar.
Have a great rest of the day!
Jun 14, 2009 | Big Shot, Blog Tour, class, In Colors, Retired List, Stamps, SU Ribbon, Wild About You |
Wild About You is another stamp set that is retiring this month and one that I think is so much fun. It works for cards, great for kids stuff and great for scrapbook pages too. Today is the last day for the Late Night Stamper’s challenge to use one retiring stamp set and create three different cards with it. So I just finished doing that with the Wild About You stamp set. We will make atleast one of these card at my Last Chance Stamp-a-Stack class on Friday.
The first card was an idea from Wendy that we made atleast 2 years ago and used the same 3-d layering technique that I did on the watercoloring cards I’ve shown lately. The lion gets stamped three times and you cut out his mane and his face seperately and layer with dimensionals.
The second card is a design from Stampin’ Up! and uses the In Colors – Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Pacific Point. The heart is punched with the Heart to Heart punch. The corduroy button in Pacific Point adds a little pop. The Tangerine Tango edge is done with the scallop border punch. Punch the edge once then slide it over and punch again and it gives it a jagged look like the teeth of the alligator – also a good way to cover up when you mess up aligning the scallop punch – you meant to do that!
The third card was my design – I have collected elephants since I was a little girl and love this little elephant. 
Not sure why but I decided to do a pink and brown card and make it a new baby card. I don’t have any baby girls but the pink and brown seem to be popular for decorating these days when it comes to baby girls. I wanted the card to be a little frilly since it was a girl card so I added the eyelet border punch and the organdy ribbon. I also ran the littl close to cocoa piece through the big shot to give it some swirly texture. The Pink Pirouette DSP and the white layer of card stock are sponged on the edges with the Pink Pirouette ink. The elephant was edged with the Regal Rose marker before I stamped it but it is hard to see in the picture.
I have a new Class Kit to Go ready and will send that information out to my email list later today and post on my blog tomorrow. I hope you are having a good weekend.
Hey did you notice that I am a PRINCESS now? See the crown at the top of my side bar…
The girls that are on the next Blog Tour all have crowns! The tour will be in July for 3 days.
Happy Stampin’!
Jun 11, 2009 | Circle Circus, In Colors, Stamps, SU Ribbon |
The new Stampin’ Up! In Colors are coming…
Beginning July 1st with the new 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog you will see the new In Colors from Stampin’ Up! being used in cards, scrapbooking and all sorts of projects. The Stampin’ Up! demonstrators were able to pre-order the new colors this month and now I can show them to you. Here are the 6 new colors:
- Melon Mambo
- Rich Razzleberry
- Crushed Curry
- Dusty Durango
- Bermuda Bay
- Soft Suede
These new colors will be available in two card stock sizes 8-1/2″ x 11″ and 12″ x 12″ and regular and textured. Stampin’ Up! has added In Color Stampin’ Write Markers! And our new ribbon is Polka Dot 1/2″ Grosgrain Ribbon available in all 6 In Colors.
The stamp set used on my sample cards is a new set called Cirlce Circus. It was one of the ones that I pre-ordered.
Remember to order the 2008-2009 In Colors before they are gone. I have lists of all the retiring accessories, stamp sets and decor elements in the link in my side bar called “LAST CHANCE LIST – JUNE 2009” – look under Helpful Information. This is the last month you will be able to order Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouette.
Stampin’ Up! has had some great colors in the In Color Collections for the past few years and we can cross our fingers and toes that they will decide to add some of them to our permanent color collections one day…..
Have a colorful day today!
Jun 10, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Designer Series Paper, Heartfelt Thanks, Retired List, Stamps, SU Ribbon |
So yesterday I tried to accomplish several different things at one time – I wanted to create a card for the Stamping 411 challenge, I wanted to create a card (actually 3 cards) for the Late Night Stampers challenge and I wanted to start on my card designs for my class later this month using the Last Chance stamp sets that I have and that we will be using in my Stamp-a-Stack class.
The Late Night Stampers challenge was to use one of the retiring stamp sets and create cards for three different 
occasons using the same stamp set. I decided to use Heartfelt Thanks as my main stamp set but ended up using Hugs & Wishes with it – it is also retiring. Two of the three cards use the sketch from the Stamping 411 challenge.
And one of the three cards will be in my Stamp-a-Stack class later this month.
The inspiration for this card came from my friend Michele who is very talented and also a demonstrator. She loves sponging (I do too) and using the white gel pen. This card uses both the Heartfelt Thanks and Hugs & Wishes stamp sets. Colors are Kraft, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. The Circle Scissor Plus and the Big Shot were used in this card too.
The second card was based on the Stamping 411 sketch.
Again using the Heartfelt Thanks and Hugs & Wishes stamp sets. I used the Sweet Always Designer Series Paper and the colors include Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip and Regal Rose. The base of the card is Kraft since I had that left from the other card. The ribbon is wrapped all the way around and I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch a small slit at the fold of the card. 
This creates a hole that you can feed the ribbon through to wrap around the front of the card. I then punch a hole with my paper piercer where I wanted the brad to go and put the ribbon inbetween the two prongs of the Rhinestone brad before putting it through the hole. I pulled the ribbon tight and then flattened out the brad prongs on the back. It actually worked out that on the inside of my card the prongs were hidden by the ribbon.
And then the third card for the Late Night Stampers Challenge also uses the Stamping 411 sketch. This time I used the Sweet Always Designer Series paper as the actual focal point of the card – the piece with the Always bird on it. I used Heartfelt Thanks for part of the greeting and the THANKS comes from the Chit Chat Rub-Ons. 
To create my little accent on the Chocolate Chip strip I took a piece of the Regal Rose wide Grosgrain ribbon and frayed several inches of it. Then took the frayed portion and tied it around one of the little paper clips from the clips assortment.
Three different cards and I like all three. The third card you could basically create the same idea using the Always stamp set – Stamp the bird image in VersaMark ink on some Designer Series Paper and clear emboss it – or stamp it in a the ink that is slightly darker than the paper you are working with. Lots of possibilities. The Sweet Always paper happens to have the bird image on one of the patterns so I used that.
That’s what I have to share with you today. Don’t forget that Heartfelt Thanks, Hugs & Wishes and the Sweet Always Designer Paper are all retiring so order today by visiting my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – and click the SHOP NOW button or contact me by email or phone and I’ll place the order for you.
Have a creative day!
Jun 9, 2009 | family, Retired List, Seeing Spots, Stamps, Uncategorized |
This is a fun stamp set called Seeing Spots that is retiring this year. It has a variety of circle images and “thank you”. It works great with our circle punches. It also has a coordinating Jumbo Stampin’ Around Wheel called Spot On. I most recently used this for the teacher gifts I made the other week – the boy version for Ryan’s male teachers. I used one of the circle images to decorate the scratch paper. Here are some of the projects that I have made with it over the last few years.
If you are interested in purchasing the Seeing Spots stamp set – you can order online at my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – click on the SHOP NOW button or send me an email to place an order for you.
Here is a view of the complete stamp set – Seeing Spots – set of 6 – $16.95:
Don’t miss this fun little set!
Last night I had a great downline meeting – we talked about some business topics and then stamped with the new In-Colors and one of the new stamp sets. I’ll be sharing more about that later this week. As a demonstrator we get to order sneak peek items from the new catalog. I would love to grow my team so if you are interested in learning more about becoming a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator please contact me and I would be glad to answer your questions. You don’t have to live near me to join my team – I will offer you support any way that I can. You can also visit my website to find out more about Stampin’ Up! – there is a link in the side bar on my blog that takes you to my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – where you can view some information videos.
Just a little family update – I guess you can say Kyle’s Senior Year of High School has officially begun – yesterday we went and had his Senior pictures made. Formals, informals, and outdoors photos were taken yesterday. And with that begins all the out pouring of money….we paid for the sitting…I don’t know how much the actual pictures are going to be. Ryan has a busy day – tennis camp, then later this afternoon a tennis match for his u-14 team, and then tonight soccer tryouts for the u-14 select team. So I will be in an out all day and driving all around town.
Have a fun day – I’m hoping to do a little bit of stamping soon – these are on my list – the 411 blog challenge, the late night stampers group challenge, Simply Punches class projects – there are 7 or 8 already and I haven’t even done one of them yet, prep for my Thoughts & Prayers class, finish up the May to Go class and get the June to Go class toghether….hmmm…that’s more than I thought I had on my list…the stamping never ends…thank goodness I love doing it so I really don’t want it to end……
Jun 5, 2009 | Stamps, Under the Stars |
Every month Stampin’ Up! has a featured project of the month that is on the corporate website. I hope to share that project with you each month. I did a similar project last year and previously featured it on my blog. Here is another Smores treat bag idea for you. What a great camping treat for the summer or for cub scout or girl scout camp!
Have fun making treat bags!
S’Mores treat bag |
Stamps
- Under the Stars stamp set
Paper - Real Red card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Creamy Caramel textured card stock
Ink - Basic Black Classic Stampin’ Pad
- Creamy Caramel Classic Stampin’ Pad
- Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad
- So Saffron Classic Stampin’ Pad
Accessories - Large flat cellophane bags
- Linen thread
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Blender pens
- Stamping sponges
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Instructions
- Stamp raccoon image in Basic Black ink, mosquito image in Creamy Caramel ink, and “Grrreat!” in Real Red ink on Whisper White card stock bag topper.
- Adhere strip of Real Red card stock to bag topper.
- Stamp two stars in So Saffron ink on Whisper White card stock. Cut out and adhere to Whisper White card stock using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Use a printer to print the words “Camping” and “treats” on Creamy Caramel textured card stock. Cut out in shape of sign. Color edges of sign in Creamy Caramel ink using stamping sponges. Adhere to bag topper.
- Stamp s’more image in Creamy Caramel ink on Whisper White card stock. Watercolor image in Creamy Caramel ink using blender pen. Cut out and adhere to sign on bag topper.
- Tie linen thread around bag topper.
