Oct 31, 2011 | Baroque Motifs, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Scrapbook Pages |
Happy Halloween! I hope that I have already posted all of my Halloween projects – I need to go back and look through my stuff to see what all I made….. in any case I thought I would share a scrapbook layout with you. Now that Halloween is here, there will be pictures made that need to be scrapped. I’m not really sure that I will have any though – so I may pull off that 2011 and change to something else – two in college and the third in high school – dressing up and trick-or-treating is not high on the list at our house. Or I could take pictures of the kids coming to my house – or get pictures of my niece and nephew – now that is what I really need. So now that I have rambled on lets get to the layout – we made it on Friday at my monthly Scrapbook Class –
The idea for the layout came from a scrapbook magazine – it was a single page that I stretched……
I used the Pick Your Poison Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Mini catalog. And the colors that coordinate ate Basic Black, Peach Parfait, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla. I also used Basic Gray with my layout since a lot of the paper had the black faded out.
Stamp sets used are House of Haunts, Baroque Motifs and Warmest of Wishes (the Hostess set in the Holiday Mini catalog).
I cut strips of DSP in varying lengths and widths – 1/2″, 3/4″ and 1″ wide.
The swirls stamped write over the top of the papers after they were glued down. The house is stamped and cut out and a moon is punched with the 1-3/8″ circle punch and glued behind the house. I also colored in the windows with the Peach Parfait Stampin’ Write Maker to give them some spooky light inside.
The owl from Warmest of wishes was stamp in Pumpkin Pie ink on Very Vanilla card stock and punched out and then stamped on Peach Parfait card stock with Basic Black ink to cut out the trick or treat bag which is put on top of the punched out owl with a stampin’ dimensional. I colored in the eyes and nose with a black marker.
The title is cut with the Big Shot and the Timeless Type Junior alphabet set. And today is the last day that you can get the Big Shot Die-Cut Machine for FREE! Really – you can – when you sign up as a demonstrator today you get the full starter kit plus a free Big Shot (or $100 in product). You can sign up today directly on my website! Don’t miss it!
UPDATED – The Free Big Shot promotion has been extended through Nov. 11th – so you still have time to join with the awesome offer!
Have a fun Halloween!
Oct 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Flight of the Butterfly, Pocket Silhouettes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
I wasn’t finished sharing my little bat ideas that I showed at the Birmingham Regional. I had a bunch. This is the Get Well bag. Inside is a pack of tissues and a tea bag.
The bag is stamped – the bottom with Pocket Silhouettes and Flight of the Butterfly. White Gel pen doodles all around. And a tag from Word Play. I used tempting Turquoise and Old Olive for my colors. And I did add rhinestones on the “i” and on the one butterfly.
Really a quick project. So it is a quick post. Directions for how to make the bag were posted last week – Click Here.
That’s all for today… have a good one.
Oct 18, 2011 | Cards, Flight of the Butterfly, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
I’m taking a quick break from my little paper bag ideas for the UDI Color Challenge today. We are on week #58.
Here is the inspiration picture:
These colors had me stumped for a while. Wisteria Wonder, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry and Very Vanilla. Very girly colors. What should I do with them. It always surprises me how hard it is to use some of these color combinations. It is certainly called a challenge for a reason.
So I flipped through my Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog for some little kick of an idea on what to do with these colors. I finally got near the end of the stamp sets and saw a card with a hand full of butterflies in different colors – it is on page 152. That was an idea –
So here is the result –
The base is Calypso Coral with a piece of the First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper on it (I know that pulled in some black but that’s a neutral – right?). The butterflies are in the four colors – Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry, and Blushing Bride. The images are stamped on Very Vanilla card stock and punched out. then I punched a matching butterfly out of the colored card stock and cut it in half. I layered the wings behind the stamped butterflies. Then I punched a small bitty flower in the colored card stock. I crinkled it up and then put it in the center. I attached them to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then added a pearl to the center of each flower.
Across the bottom of the card is a strip of Calypso Coral card stock and covered it with Very Vanilla Seam Binding. Then I stamped “thank you so very much” directly on the ribbon using the Calypso Coral ink. So what do you think? For not liking these colors very much I do like how the card turned out.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Wisteria Wonder, Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride
- Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride
- Stamp sets: Flight of the Butterfly, Butterfly Prints
- Accessories: Butterfly Punch, First Edition DSP, Basic Pearls, Bitty Flower punch, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Oct 17, 2011 | Big Shot, D is for Dog, Stampin' Up! Events |
And another one of my bags from the Birmingham Regional.
It’s hard to see in the photo but the bag is stamped with crumb cake ink with the bone and paw images from D is for Dog stamp set. I used the Old Olive Polka Dot Scalloped ribbon to go around the bag and the Decorative Label is stamped with the dog image from the same stamp set. I punched a second Decorative Label in Old Olive – cut it in half and layered it behind the white tag.
And inside the bag there are dog bones of course. The one in the this picture has the D is for Dog tag tied around it with White Baker’s Twine. It was punched with the 1″ circle and layered on an Old Olive 1-1/4″ Circle.
I still have a few more bags to show you. I got all of the pictures taken today. But I had a lazy Sunday – I got laundry done and did some more cleaning up from the My Digital Studio Retreat that we had this weekend. We had 12 demonstrators at my house all day Saturday learning about My Digital Studio – it was so much fun! I’ll be sharing more about that later in the week along with pictures of our projects. My friend Cindy Schuster teamed up with me to hold this retreat – it was something we first talked about on our plane ride out to the Stampin’ Up! Convention this summer. And it was a huge success! Thanks to everyone that joined us we hope you had as much fun as we did.
Have a productive week!
Oct 15, 2011 | Big Shot, Stampin' Up! Events, Under the Stars |
Here is another bag from my Birmingham Regional Workshop Wow presentation.
This one is a SMORES bag. And the great thing about this one – you can use the bag to help start the fire that you need to cook the smores! How about that for some recycling – that using it three times.
So the bag is made the same as the others. I used the Under the Stars stamp set – the smores are stamped on the bag and again on Very vanilla card stock and cut out. I used a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker to color the bear and the Graham Crackers (the old Creamy Carmel would have been a good color for this). The chocolate is Chocolate Chip of course. And the Marshmallow has just a hint of Crumb Cake sponged on to make it look toasted.
And what do you suppose is inside – 
what else but a chocolate bar, marshmallow and graham crackers.
What a fun little treat for a campfire.
Enjoy!
Oct 13, 2011 | Big Shot, Cookie Stamps, Season of Friendship, Stampin' Up! Events |
My Workshop Wow at the Stampin’ Up! Birmingham Regional was a demonstration on how to make paper bags using the recycled paper that comes as packing material in our Stampin’ Up! orders. Every box gets filled with paper to keep the items inside safe during shipment. I always hate to throw out the brown paper. Last year I used a bunch to wrap our Christmas presents, we also use it for a fire starter in the fire pit, but not too long ago I realized I could make my own little paper treat bags. And this is how I made them.
Brown paper from the Stampin' Up! boxes
I take the brown paper out of my Stampin’ Up! boxes and I smooth it out flat and then fold it on the perforated lines like an accordion so I can store it. To make four bags tear off one of the perforated sections. Fold it in half matching up the short ends. Then fold it in half again matching up the short ends one more time.
fold in half twice
Now fold in half in the opposite direction and then place the folded stack on your Clear Scallop Square Die so that the fold is inside one edge of the die and doesn’t get cut.
fold in half in the opposite direction
position on the die so that the fold is inside the edge and doesn't get cut
Now run through the Big Shot Die Cutting machine with a cutting pad on the bottom and on the top. When you cut through you will end up with four folded bag pieces.
cut with the Big Shot
To make each bag add glue to either side – leaving the top with the scallops open and the fold is at the bottom of the bag. I also took each edge and ran it through the Crimper a little bit and then back out.
glue sides of bag
Crimp edges of bag
So that makes the little bag and then its time to decorate. I had lots of fun creating all different themed bags. The one I showed at the Birmingham Regional was this one –
For this bag I pulled the edges through a Whisper White Craft ink pad. I stamped snowflakes (from Season of Friendship stamp set) in Whisper White Craft ink. In the top corner I added the phrase from Sweet Season stamp set in Early Espresso. I pulled a piece of Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon around the bottom of the bag – tie a piece of White Baker’s Twine around the ends. I cut snowflakes from the Northern Frost Sizzlet Strip Die. I added the snowflake with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then added a pearl to the center.
And what do you think is inside? Something sweet of course….
A snowflake cookie – made with the new Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. I made a whole batch of cookies – actually two using two different recipes. I wrapped them in plastic wrap and put one in each bag. These were my swaps at the regional too.
Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamp cookies
The cookies on the back portion of the tray are the made using the Sugar Cookie recipe that comes with the Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. The cookies on the front portion are made using a Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie recipe that I found on Stampin’ Connection (a site for demonstrators). For both recipes I had to add more flour than the recipe called for – I’m not sure if that is because I live in the south and it is humid so the dough was too sticky with the regular recipe. Anyway the cookies them selves are very good. If you got a swap from me at regional you had the Cream Cheese cookie recipe.
I’ll be back later this week to show you the rest of the ideas that I came up with for these little bags. I had a whole bunch.
Thanks for stopping by!
I used the Pick Your Poison Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Mini catalog. And the colors that coordinate ate Basic Black, Peach Parfait, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla. I also used Basic Gray with my layout since a lot of the paper had the black faded out.
I cut strips of DSP in varying lengths and widths – 1/2″, 3/4″ and 1″ wide.
