Jun 8, 2012 | Scrapbook Pages, Season of Friendship |
I know – I forgot to post this before May ended – the month just went by so fast. I can’t believe it is June already and the new catalog has started. Hopefully you already have the Season of Friendship stamp set since it is now retired.
The tree trunk was stamped on Whisper White card stock and then I stamped leaves all over it until I had a tree as full as I wanted. Then I cut it out to put it on the layout. I Designer Paper is the Big Top Birthday paper from the last catalog. It had the perfect page with the banners and clouds and sunrays on it. To make the Kite I found a coloring book kite that I traced and cut out of the designer paper, then punched the ribbon border punch and lined the sides, add some bakers’ twine for the string and the skinny taffeta ribbon for the tail.
I get many of my scrapbook ideas from magazines or the internet but I find that many are only single page layouts so I am always converting and stretching and adding a second page to mine. This was one of my class pages during the last couple of months.
I hope you like it. It just needs some pictures added to it now.
My 55 goal is slowly coming along – I talked to a couple more people today who plan to place orders soon. As the orders get placed I’ll update the tracker on the side of my blog. I hope to see it growing each day. And then we can all celebrate at a Stampin’ Up! party in the fall. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then check this post. I’m so exited at the possibility of actually earning a Stampin’ Up! incentive trip.
Have a wonderful weekend!
May 28, 2012 | Cards, Retired List, Season of Friendship |
I thought this would be the perfect card to share on Memorial Day since it is very patriotic. I found this idea on Pinterest from another demonstrator – the original creator (at least the watermark on the photo) is Heidi Baks. Here is my version.
Some of the supplies are retiring including the Season of Friendship stamp set. I love that you can use this set for all the seasons so its good all year long. And it works great in scrapbooking – I’ll have a layout later this week that uses it. So here are the supplies (R=retiring product):
Stamp set – Season of Friendship (R), On Your Birthday (R)
Card stock – Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla
Classic ink – Early Espresso, Night of Navy
Designer paper – First Edition, Regals Collection
Ribbon – Cherry Cobbler 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain (R), Linen Thread
Punches – Modern Label, Word Window, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Small Oval
White Gel Pen
If you were wondering why I was missing all week, I wasn’t out of town, but I spent the whole week trying to finish all my entries for the Artisan Design Team Contest at Stampin’ Up! As the deadline approached I was spending all my time on those projects – trying things, not liking them, trying other things, tweeking what I already made, and so on. So I neglected my blog for the week. Finally on Saturday morning I was able to take it all to the UPS store to ship it to Stampin’ Up!. I hope I at least make it to the finalist stage. We had to create 10 projects – 5 cards, 3 scrapbook pages, and 2 3D items – all new projects so you haven’t seen them before – I’ll share them later after the results of the contest are announced.
It was also the last week of school – with early release days for part of the week. I had a scrapbook class on Friday – I’ll share those pages later. So this week I’m going to try to post two projects each day – I have a bunch of them using retired product – this is the end of our catalog so you only have a few more days to order before many things are gone for good.
Have a Happy Memorial Day!
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!
Dec 19, 2010 | Cards, Christmas, Season of Friendship, Stamper's Club |
Are you still in need of Christmas card ideas? Here is a card using a stamp set you may already have in your stash – Season of Friendship. It is an all season stamp set and might not come to mind when you are thinking about making Christmas cards. But look at how beautiful this card turned out to be.
The idea for this card came from a non-Stampin’ Up! blog. But the idea translated perfectly to this Stampin’ Up! stamp set.
I started with a Cherry Cobbler card base, then a layer of Whisper White, then a layer of Crumb Cake. On the Crumb Cake card stock I stamped the tree from Season of Friendship using Early Espresso ink. Then the snowflakes using Whisper White Craft ink. The bird is stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink. I punched a heart using the small heart punch and then used the white gel pen to draw a string.
This sentiment comes from Heard from the Heart stamp set – it was stamped in Early Espresso ink on Whisper White card stock. Underneath is a strip of Cherry Cobbler that was punched with the scallop border punch.
We made this one at the Stamper’s Club meeting last week. Roxanne wanted an idea for this stamp set and this was it.
This year I’m mostly sending out Christmas Cards that I made using My Digital Studio – but I have some like this one that are hand stamped to send out too.
Kyle came home from college on Friday – I picked him up after my Treats & Tags class was over. Everyone is home for Christmas now! My decorating is done. My cards are mostly done – just adding the addresses, stamps and sealing the envelopes. Oh by the way – if you hate licking the envelopes – doesn’t everyone? – use your AquaPainter to moisten the strips! I even have presents wrapped and under the tree. I have a few more Christmas projects to share with you this week.
Oct 20, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, class, family, Holiday Gift Making, Season of Friendship |
I have added two more projects to my Gift Making weekend – if you live near me you should come. To read all the details of what I have planned and see the rest of the project please go HERE. I have extended the Registration Deadline to 10/24.
2011 Desktop Calendar
Monogram card set
Tuesday night we went to the high school to see Tyler in the his first Show Choir performance. He did such a good job. In middle school he did Drama Club for a short time and was in Chorus for one semester. So he is not very experienced in Chorus so I was excited to see the performance. It was great – his group performed the opener – Footloose and then later in the evening they performed a Lion King medley. Greg video taped it and I took some pictures – I haven’t downloaded them yet – I hope they turned out.
I have heard that we have someone close to Bingo….will this be the day…
Let’s play….
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #9 –the flower from Season of Friendship stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade).
Sep 18, 2010 | Bingo, Season of Friendship |
I had a very busy Friday so I’ve decided to post only my Bingo piece for today. I’ll have lots of fun things to share this week so be sure to check back with me.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 3 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1 and 2 winners.
Here is piece #9 –the snowflake from the Season of Friendship stamp set (stamped in Concord Crush).
There seems to be a winner about this time – I wonder if anyone will have Bingo today?
