May 11, 2009 | Petal Pizzaz, Stamper's Club, Stamps |
Friday night was my Stamper’s Club meeting. We made three projects.
One was a beaded pen to go with the Good Friend Box. This is our on going project – every month we add something else to the box that we made the first month.
The second was a new technique – this idea came from Patty Bennett – she called it her Brayered Rose Technique. The card design is pretty much the same as one of Patty’s samples.
I added a matching stamped envelope.
The third project was a card I designed on Friday a few hours before the club meeting. Sometimes creativity pops in just at the last minute – atleast that’s what happens to me alot. Remember the pound puppy carrier I showed a couple of 
days ago? I really liked the combination of the colors – and that was what inspired this card. And I wanted to use the designer hardware eyelet pieces from Stampin’ Up! – I have had them for quite some time and haven’t even tried them. So this card came out of that and turned into a heavy card with all the brads that I added.
My Stamper’s Club members get to come to a class like this every month and it is free. Occasionally we have an extra small supply fee so we can make some WOW projects. If you would like to join the Stamper’s Club please let me know and I can give you all the information. We have a few months left in this group and then we’ll start again. Everyone has the opportunity to be the hostess one month and earn free hostess stamp sets and other products from the catalog. The Stamper’s Club page on my blog is for members of the club.
I should have turned this card in to the Late Night Stampers challenge last week – it was about circles – now that I look at it there are a lot of circles on it. This design would work as a masculine card – just change the flowers to different circle images. That’s the LNS challenge for this week. I may have to make this card again as a Masculine card and use the star brad instead of the flower. Gears are turning in my head…..I seem to always come up with ideas late at night when I should be in bed asleep.
Update on Aspen – he seems to feel better with his meds. I have had him on the leash to walk him in the yard since he did feel good enough that he wanted to run. Several times Magnolia got him up when she barked at something out the front window or out back. It is going to be a long 4 weeks trying to keep him calm…
Goodnight – I’ll talk to you all tomorrow.
May 10, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, class, Pocket Silhouettes |
I hope you are having a wonderful Mother’s Day!
I wanted to share the projects from the Mini Mother’s Day class I had last week. Everyone had a great time and said I needed to add more last minute classes! I just knew I hadn’t had a class with anything Mother’s Day, not that you couldn’t use almost anything we make as a Mother’s Day card and gift, but I wanted to do something specific for Mother’s Day. NOTE: to my mom – don’t read or look any further until I see you or it won’t be a surprise.
I saw the book mark idea last year at convention – that was at the end of July and have wanted to make them for a class ever since then. I ordered the hardware pieces and have just been waiting for the right class to add the book mark too. I finally just decided to do the book mark for Mother’s Day and build a class around it instead. So I announced the class with plans to make the book mark, a Mother’s Day card – I have been seeing the flower pot cards and thought it would be perfect, and then a box of some type to hold the book mark for gift giving. Then the next day I went to the retreat and by the time I came home I had everything figured out. One of the projects that Wendy shared was the cutest little purse made with the Big Shot and several dies. I changed the colors and designer paper and ta-da the box for my bookmark was born. Michelle shared her version of a flower pot card – that was just what I needed for my class. I took her idea, changed the colors and actually made it smaller because I needed it to fit in the medium envelopes – I didn’t have any large envelopes here and wanted a matching envelope for the class. The ideas and the retreat were perfect timing and my class projects were figured out and ready in time for class Wed. night.
So here is what everyone made –
Hardware Book Mark
- Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware
- Baja Breeze Double-stitched ribbon
- Old Olive Grosgrain ribbon
- Very Vanilla card stock
- Designer Label Punch
- Pocket Silhouettes stamp set
- Lovely Letters Alphabet stamp set
- Baja Breeze and Old Olive classic ink and Stampin’ Write Markers
- Crystal Effects
- piece of thick cardboard from the designer paper package
Big Shot Purse
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Top Note Die
- Scallop Circle Die
- Flower Daisies #2 Die
- Circle Scissor and Glass Mat
- Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper
- Chocolate Chip card stock
Wendy's Big Shot Purse - So Saffron, Bella Birds Designer Paper
- Baja Breeze card stock
- Baja Breeze classic ink
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Chocolate Chip Corduroy Brad
- Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon
- Pop-Up Glue Dot
- Sticky Strip
- Paper Piercer
- Magnetic closure
Flower Pot Card
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Baja Breeze card stock
- Kiwi Kiss card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Walk in the Park Designer Series paper
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Flower Daisies #2 Die
- Small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch
- 1″ Circle Punch
- Chocolate Chip Ink
- Baja Breeze Ink
- Kiwi Kiss Satin Ribbon
- Linen Thread
- Dimensionals
- Tombo Multipurpose Glue
- Stampin Sponger
- Scallop Edge Punch
- Blooming with Love stamp set
Enjoy your day!
May 1, 2009 | class, Pocket Silhouettes, Stamps, SU Ribbon |
I have decided to have a MINI CLASS on Wednesday, May 6th at 6:30 pm.
It is going to be a Mini Mother’s Day class – you will make a card, a bookmark and a box to hold the bookmark.
These don’t have to be Mother’s Day if you don’t have a need for that.
Depending on how many people sign up you may be able to make two sets if you need to.
The class fee will be $10 – please bring your scissors and adhesive.
RSVP by Tuesday, May 5th so I know how many people to expect.
Apr 24, 2009 | Blog Tour, family, Sporting, Wildlife |
We have been a soccer family for years – Kyle started playing at 5 years old, then Tyler and then Ryan – for a few 
years all three played on three different teams and Greg was coaching either one or two of their teams. Eventually Tyler and Kyle moved on to other interests. Greg coached up until this last year and now only Ryan is still playing. This last week and next
week are heavy soccer weeks – with lots of rain this season we have missed many games and as we approach the end of the season they are trying to get all of them played. Last weekend Ryan played in 3 games. They had a game tonight and the boys played a great game and won 4-0 against ones of the teams they lost to last weekend. There is another game on Sunday, and then one Tuesday night and Wednesday night too. With all this soccer it reminded me of a 6×6 scrapbook I made for Ryan a few seasons ago. I intend to scrapbook some more of his soccer pictures and also want to make some 12×12 pages too. I’m not sure I ever shared the book with anyone so I thought I would show you a few pages from it tonight.
Supplies:
- Sporting stamp set
- Just Soccer stamp set
- Night of Navy card stock
- Real Red card stock
- Summer Sun card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Basic Black classic ink
- Real Red classic ink and marker
- Summer Sun classic ink
- Night of Navy classic ink and marker
- Round Tab punch
- 1″ Circle punch
- 1-3/8″ Circle punch
- White Gel Pen
- Silver brads
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Stapler/Staples
Have a great weekend! Tomorrow is a tennis match day. I need to make some scrapbook pages with the Just Tennis stamp set too. Maybe one day I’ll catch up on all the scrapbooking I want to do – but probably not.
Quick note on the birds – I finally saw the chickadee babies today – both mom and dad were out of the house and I got a quick peek at a pile of babies. The robin babies are getting bigger – they seem to know when food is on the way and stick up their heads and open their beaks until mom or dad comes by to drop in some food. Today I got to watch while they were fed a worm! The bluebirds are growing too – I can hear them now from the porch – so I know when mom or dad is there feeding them – they make quite a bit of noise when food is coming. I’m going to check my dates tomorrow because as the date approaches for them to fledge I don’t want to open the box anymore so they don’t come out early. Hopefully I’ll be able to see the day that they leave and get some pictures of them as the babies learn to fly.
Blog Tour on April 27th – Tour #4. 
Don’t miss the train!
Apr 21, 2009 | class, Heartfelt Thanks, Stamps, Thank You Kindly |
On Friday I had my monthly class and it was called Get Connected Notes Class – we made two projects one I designed as a box set that you could have sitting on your desk ready to go whenever you needed to connect with friends or family by sending them a note. I used the Bella Rose Designer Series Paper and the coordinating colors and pulled out an old stamp set that I hadn’t used in a while – Heartfelt Thanks. It is a beautiful 2-step stampin’ set. Everyone made the box, four cards with matching envelopes – there were two different styles, a bookmark and a beaded pen. This project would also be a perfect gift for a teacher – I’ve seen many discussions on what to give and not give teachers. It seemed the most popular gift that teachers want is note cards or thank you cards – something consumable. So this idea is perfect! My kids only have about 6 more weeks of school left for this year – it is unbelievable how fast time goes by!
Apr 19, 2009 | Circle Scissor Plus, Colored Brads, Stamps, Techniques, Wow Flowers |
As I was preparing for my class on Thursday I cleaned my craft table and made a pile of card stock scraps to put away in my scrap folders. I noticed three colors that I had lying together and thought what a good color combination. It was Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss and Rose Red. I’m sure that somewhere else that combination has already been found but that was how I happened upon it – so I set the scraps aside because I wanted to make a card using those colors. As I look through the catalog – this color combination or something close to it is already in the catalog – the new Bright Delights rub-ons have Rose Red, Tangerine Tango and Kiwi Kiss; the Flower Fusion has Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red and Old Olive; even the Retro Fresh Style Watch includes these colors – I guess I wasn’t so original after all. Tonight I took a few minutes and put together a quick card. This would make a great one-sheet wonder idea.
Supplies:
- Wow Flowers stamp set
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Kiwi Kiss card stock
- Rose Red card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Classic Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red
- Stampin’ Write Marker: Rose Red
- Punches: Scallop Circle, 1-3/8″ Circle punch, 1-1/4″ Circle punch, 1/8″ handheld punch, 1/16″ handheld punch
- Circle Scissors Plus & Glass Mat
- Flower Designer Brads
- Crystal Effects
- Tombo glue
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Instructions:
- Randomly stamp Whisper White card stock using Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss and Rose Red ink with the flower image.
- Adhere to Rose Red card stock. Adhere to Kiwi Kiss card stock. And adhere to the front of the Pumpkin Pie card base.
- Stamp “Thank You” image on Whisper White card stock using Kiwi Kiss ink and punch out with the 1-1/4″ circle punch. Adhere to a 1-3/8″ Rose Red circle.
- To create the flower brad go ahead and punch a 1/16″ circle in the center of the flower and insert the small
flower brad. Color the flower petals with a Rose Red Stampin’ Write Marker and then cover with Crystal Effects. Let dry. Punch a 1/8″ circle from a piece of Pumpkin Pie card stock. Use a small drop of Tombo glue to adhere to the center of the flower. Carefully add a small “bubble” of Crystal Effects on top. Let dry. - Cut a 2″ circle from Pumpkin Pie card stock using the Circle Scissor Plus and a Glass Mat.
- Punch a Scallop Circle from Kiwi Kiss card stock. Adhere to the Pumpkin Pie circle. Adhere to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- When the Crystal effects has dried add the Rose Red circle to the center of the Kiwi Kiss Scallop Circle using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Stamp a matching envelope.
I love how the little flower brad turned out! I hope you like it too.
