May 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Pocket Silhouettes, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You |
More with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch…
Traditionally I don’t use a lot of the purples in my stamping projects – I don’t really know why. In fact when I was little I loved purple – my bedroom had wallpaper with a floral print in purple and brown and I had a canopy bed and it was all decked out in purple. I must have liked purple at some point in time. But a while back when I did an inventory of my ink and card stock the ones that were missing – were all shades of purple. But I have rediscovered Perfect Plum so you may start seeing more projects with some purple.
This card came from a card I saw on Heather Summers blog. Her’s was a big square card and I think she got the idea from someone else. These were the colors that she used and they really were pretty together – Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery, and Baja Breeze. I wanted a card that would fit in the open-ended envelopes and ended up with this creation.
I used Pocket Silhouettes to create the greenery. The “thanks so much” is the new hostess set in the Summer Mini Catalog called Swirls & Curls Verses. Then I punched out flowers with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch and layered the pieces and added some details.
flower 1 is Perfect Plum base, Certainly Celery for the middle and Baja Breeze for the top with a Certainly Celery brad in the center.
flower 2 is Certainly Celery base that has been cut in between the petals, the center is the Bitty Punch circle that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder
flower 3 is a Baja Breeze base that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder, the top is Perfect Plum and then a Bitty Button threaded with White Bakers Twine for the center.
Have a nice day – we are expecting rain and storms this afternoon/evening – ugh – hopefully no tornados.
May 5, 2011 | Big Shot, D is for Dog |
D is for Dog is the name of this stamp set that I used on this little treat box. There is also a C is for Cat set that you could do the same project with – just fill with cat treats instead. The box is the BIGZ XL die Box #2 for the Big Shot – I cut if from Always Artichoke card stock. On the front I used Very Vanilla card stock and stamped the dog image in Chocolate Chip and sponged the edges. On one end I added a piece of Chocolate Card stock that was punched with the Scallop Border punch – I trimmed it down to be just 4 full scallops that tucked out at the end. Tie a piece of Early Espresso Taffeta Ribbon around the piece and attach to the front of the box. Stamp the D is for Dog on a piece of vanilla and punch out with the 1-1/4″ Circle punch, sponge the edges, mat it on an Always Artichoke piece punched with the 1-3/8″ Circle punch. Add to the front of the box with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
inside the box I added a small cello bag filled with dog treats and tied it with another piece of ribbon. Inside the lid is the quote from the set – it says “a dog wags its tail with its heart. – Martin Buxbaum” – I think my dogs wag more than just their tails – the wag their whole back ends sometimes!
Give some love to the dogs today!
Apr 22, 2011 | Occasions Mini 2011, Pocket Silhouettes, Tags |
Here’s what you get when you cross Nature Walk and Pocket Silhouettes stamp sets:
Lots of pretty spring tags for my customer orders!
This could be called a SIP project – Stamps, Ink and Paper is all you need to make this into a pretty card. I added the hemp twine so I could use them as tags. They turned out so pretty. These are 3×3 pieces of Natural White card stock. On the bottom I stamped the image from Pocket Silhouettes in Old Olive multiple times across the bottom – stamp more than once before reinking and it gives you the variations in shading. I also used a Stampin’ Sponge to sponge Old Olive ink all around the bottom edge. Around the top I sponged with Marina Mist ink to make it look like the sky, leaving spots white to look like clouds. Then I added the bee from Nature Walk – he is colored in with a So Saffron Stampin’ Write marker. The “thanks so much” is also in the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set.
They were quick to make and I think very pretty – I really like how the sponging turned out and I think I need to do this on a full sized card. When I do I’ll post it too. Have a great spring day!
Apr 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Fifth Avenue Floral, SU Ribbon, UDI Color Challenge, Watercoloring |
Tuesday is here again – it just seems to come around so quickly – where does the week go?
This week’s Utah Diva’s Color Challenge was pretty easy for me – it just so happened that I was already working on something that pretty much used these same colors. Daffodil Delight, Basic Black and Whisper White – all I had to do was add the Basic Gray.
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.
So what was I working on with these colors – my March Ribbon share boxes. I happen to have in my big stash of stuff a bunch of little take out boxes that were Daffodil Delight. I bought these a couple of years ago at a store in the $1 bin. And never did use them. I was trying to think of a good way to present my ribbon share this month – I like to do something creative – it goes with the territory….. and I thought about these little boxes. So that is what I used.
Inside each box is all the ribbon for the ribbon share. Then when I saw the color challenge for this week I thought I just need to add the Basic Gray to this project and it will be perfect. Here is my updated project for the Color Challenge today.
I stamped the flower from Fifth Avenue Floral on a piece of Watercolor paper and used my Aquapainter and the Daffodil Delight ink to watercolor the flower. Then I cut it out. 
It is layered with a dimensional on top of a scallop circle punched out of Basic Black card stock. Then underneath that is a larger scallop circle out of Basic Gray. This one is actually the scallop end of the tag on the Two Tags die cut using the Big Shot. What you do is cut the tag out, then put the tag back on the die in the opposite direction matching the cut scallop end up with the scallop on the die to cut the other side. This cuts out the other half which then layers perfectly with our original Scallop Circle punch. Finally I added pearls to the center of the flower and then put it on the front of the box.
On the top of the box is an oval punch that says “for you”. And I tied the top of the box with Taffeta Ribbon – in Basic Black, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White.
So you have two different versions of the take out boxes. The one with the ribbon share uses the Four Frames stamp set for the label on the front.
Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Watercolor paper, Basic Black, Basic Gray
- Ink: Daffodil Delight, Jet Black Staz On
- Stamp sets: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes
- Accessories: 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, Oval punches – 1-3/4 x 7/8 and 1-3/8 x 5/8, (Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Two Tags die, Aquapainter, Basic Pearls, Taffeta Ribbon – Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Whisper White, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Apr 12, 2011 | Big Shot, Fifth Avenue Floral, Tags, UDI Color Challenge |
Happy Tuesday Morning everyone!
Are you ready for this weeks Utah Diva’s Color Challenge? I actually had mine done early this week (and believe it or not I already have the next one done too – he he!) . Here is the inspiration picture for Color Challenge #31 –
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.
Basic Black, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White – what I thought of was using the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set and doing a One Sheet Wonder. The idea has been around for years and about once a year or so I remember the concept and use it for something. Well that time has arrived. If you have never heard of the One Sheet Wonder concept it is basically where you take one piece of paper – in this case it will be one piece of stamped card stock – cut it into multiple pieces to make multiple cards or projects. I used one sheet of 8-1/2″ x 11″ Whisper White card stock and stamped the three flower images from Fifth Avenue Floral – one in Night of Navy, one in Bashful Blue and one in Daffodil Delight. These were stamped randomly all over my one piece of card stock.
I do have to tell you that I spent a long time looking for this stamp set in my craft room once I decided that I wanted to use it for this project. I searched through all my stamp sets three times and was just about to send out an email to my downline thinking perhaps I had let someone borrow it and it never made it back to me. Well I found it – guess where it was – on my craft table – why because I had just used it on another project the day before – I think I’m losing my mind…..
So back to the project. I took this one piece of card stock and to make it easy – cut it in half, then in half, then in half, then in half – ending up with 16 pieces that were 2-3/4″ x 2-1/8″ big. And do you wonder what I did with all those little pieces? Well here you go…..
They became Thank You tags for my club orders that I am packing up this week. I took each piece cut from the one sheet wonder and matted it with a piece of Night of Navy card stock. Then I made some with Daffodil Delight and others with Bashful Blue backgrounds, borders and butterflies. I added the black on the “thank you” that is stamped on the wing, on the black crochet thread wrapped around the butterflies and for my hangers. I hope you like them!
Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Whisper White
- Ink: Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Basic Black
- Stamp sets: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes
- Accessories: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, 1/16″ circle handheld punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Mar 13, 2011 | Bingo, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Thoughts & Prayers |
I’m not sure that Ryan even remembers this anymore (he probably does – I’ll have to ask). These were pictures from 2003. We found this baby squirrel in the backyard and it was following Ryan around everywhere. It must have fallen out of a nest because he was all alone.
We decided to give it some food (birdseed) and a little cap filled with water. We put it on a paper plate – this was one of those small paper plates not the normal size – the are maybe 4 or 5 inches diameter – so he was still pretty small.
I really wasn’t sure what to do with him. We had out dogs in the house so I couldn’t bring him in there and we need to leave for something so I didn’t have time to take him anywhere. I finally decided just to leave him in the back yard – I didn’t think he would be able to get out of the fence and the dogs were inside so I thought he would be safe for the hour that we would be gone.
When we came back and searched for him he was still in the backyard but somehow had injured himself – he was now dragging his back legs. Not good. We got him into a shoebox and drove him up to the wild animal vet. Ryan was still pretty young so he didn’t really know that something was wrong. The vet said the squirrel had broken his back and wasn’t going to survive. It was so sad and I didn’t really have the heart to tell Ryan. So instead I just told him the vet was going to find a proper home for him and we left him there. It was several years later when Ryan was older before I told him what really happened to the baby squirrel. I still don’t know how he hurt himself unless he was climbing the trees while we were gone or a cat came into the yard and tried to get him.
The pictures were still very cute so I decided to drop them on this scrapbook layout – it was a sketch I found on a scrapbook blog somewhere. I created the rectangles – three photo boxes and three punched rectangles. I got them all to the exact same size by using the edit object and setting the height and width. Then I aligned them with one another using the align options in My Digital Studio – you align the top, the bottom, the centers, or left edge or right edge. On the left side is a rectangle punch filled with the Crumb Cake (Kraft) Textured card stock and then the scallop border punch (two of them overlapping). I added some chocolate chip stitching. The stamped images are from the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set. I played around with the drop shadow on the flowers and the title – changing the opacity and color until I got the effect that I wanted. Once I had everything on the page – I decided to add a text box at the bottom for my journaling – but when I was done the journaling was way to close to the bottom of the page so I wanted to move everything up to make the whole thing include the text be centered at the page. I didn’t want to move all the elements individually because I finally had it all lined up. So I figured out that I could go to the ARRANGE drop-down menu and have it SELECT ALL. Then with everything selected you can select GROUP – so it groups it all together. Then go to the Align Objects button and select to center vertically on the page and the horizontally on the page. This will move the whole group at once. Then you can ungroup and unselect. I hope that made sense!
Spring Bingo players here come your next two pieces – are you ready?
images copyright Stampin' Up!
images copyright Stampin' Up!
Is anyone close to a Bingo yet? Let me know when you get 5 in a row.
So remember yesterday I told you to change the clocks. So Greg changed the clock in our bedroom. What we didn’t know is that the clock actually changes itself – it has a setting that you turn on or off and it was on. So this morning we were TWO hours ahead – instead of just one. It is fixed back now but it’s good to know if we forget the clock will do it for us.
More with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch…
