Jun 21, 2010 | Best Wishes & More, Cards, Retired List, SU Buttons |
This month my hands-on stamping featured items on the Stampin’ Up! Last Chance list. These stamp sets will no longer be available after the end of June. The retiring colors and accessories are available while supplies last through the end of June. If you see something you love make sure to get it before it is gone. Your best bet is to order online through my Stampin’ Up! store – the store will update you with what is available.
This card features the stamp set Best Wishes & More. I stamped the flowers and the leaves on a piece of Whisper White card stock and cut them out and layered them on the white square. The colors I used for this card are Ballet Blue (this one is retiring), Rose Red and Always Artichoke. I also used a piece of Rose Red Designer Series Paper from the Thoroughly Modern Designer Series paper pack (this one is retiring). And there is some Always Artichoke ribbon (this is retiring) on the side as an accent.
The flower centers have Fresh Favorites buttons that are also on the last chance list. A matching envelope coordinates with the card so you’ll be ready to put it in the mail to someone deserving.
Thanks for stopping in today!
Jun 14, 2010 | Cards, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon |
I have my new catalog and some of my sneak peek order and I finally played today. I wanted two cards for my Opportunity Night event. For the first one I decided to use the Stamping 411 sketch as the layout for my card. I used the new set Friends Never Fade along with the coordinating Designer Series paper Greenhouse Gala.
The card base is Pumpkin Pie and stamped with one of the flower images in the set. The Greenhouse Gala Designer Series paper is the lowest layer and I used the Scallop Trim Border (remember that one from Sale-A-Bration- it will be back in the new catalog!) to punch the top edge. There are some pretty papers in this pack – this piece has the colors Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzaz and Pumpkin Pie in the design.
I added a strip of Pear Pizzaz across the card and then a shorter strip of Chocolate Chip which has a piece of the new 1/8″ Tafetta ribbon in Daffodil Delight wrapped around it. The Friends image was stamped in Pumpkin Pie on Whisper White card stock and cut out then layered on a piece of Chocolate Chip. I added a Chocolate Chip designer button that has a piece of the Daffodil ribbon pulled through and tied in a knot. The ribbon is skinny enough to get it through the button holes!
I used the measurements from the Stamping 411 site for this sketch. Everyone that came to my Opportunity Night got to make one. Thanks for stopping by!
May 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Summer Mini 2010 |
I completed another layout for the 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking challenge – this one is from week 8 and it also happens to fit a Color Challenge that I found on the Inkspirations blog. The challenge is to use Basic Grey, Sage Shadow, Apricot Appeal and Whisper White – which happen to be the colors in the Stampin’ Up! Nouveau Chic Designers Series Paper. This was the paper that I used on my scrapbook page. Now this was not one of the papers that I liked but I had some and when I pulled out these pictures of my mom and dad the colors seemed to go well and so that is what I used. And I LOVE how the page turned out! Plus I used the new Bitty Buttons from the Summer Mini catalog – they were perfect. The little heart buttons match up with the smallest heart on the Heart to Heart Punch.
I cut strips of the designer paper in different lengths and widths to create the background on this layout. 
The title was cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet Sizzlits Die set. Add I added a cute little accent next to the title – first I put a punch out of the Apricot Appeal card stock behind the bitty heart shaped button – poked the holes through with my paper piercer – then put it on top of a Basic Grey Corduroy Button and thread some gray cross-stitch thread through and tied it in a knot. It turned out so cute.
I added some Basic Grey Taffeta Ribbon to the page and from the bow I hung a heart shaped tag stamped with “love” from the Tiny Tags stamp set.
On the top of the page are three more of the heart shaped bitty buttons – one has Sage Shadow behind it, one has Apricot Appeal behind it, and one had Basic Grey behind it.
I love these little Bitty Buttons. Here and there I added some faux stitching with my black journaler. And there is some real hand-stitching on the left side of the page – a few cross-stitches just because. But I don’t think you can see it in the picture and I forgot to get a close up of it.
It is National Scrapbooking Month so I should be working on scrapbook pages. I have another page that I finished this weekend too so I’ll be sharing that this coming week.
Thanks for stopping by and checking things out today – have a happy day – and be sweet to your sweet heart!
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
Mar 17, 2010 | Big Shot, family, SU Buttons |
I hope your St. Patrick’s Day has been good and green! I started to put on a blue shirt this morning and then remembered I better wear green. Ryan had a band performance today during school so they had to wear their band attire and it is not green. So we used a piece of green ribbon and tied it around his wrist.
Here is a quick project that we made at the STARZ group meeting the other weekend.
It is a pin that you could attach to your shirt or bag. This one was made out of a variety of green fabric prints. These were cut using the Big Shot die cut machine and the Circles #2 Originals die. Then you just layer various circles, add a piece of green touelle, and a clear button to the center and sew it with some green thread. On the back add a pin back and there you have a quick little project. Or put it on a headband or pony tail holder or add it to a key chain.
For a different holiday use different fabrics. The Big Shot can cut several layers of fabric at the same time – depending on the thickness you can cut as many as 8 layers at the same time.
And look what we have flying outside the house – 
the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets flag. Kyle finally heard from them – it was a long wait at least for me – and he was accepted. Yeah! We are very proud of him!
Now we have to figure out what all he has to do next.
Today was also the day we picked up graduation announcements – I did order the formal printed announcements from the school. I plan to make invitations for a little celebration – he won’t want very much but we’ll doing something anyway. We are already half way through March – so May will be here before we know it.
Smiles!
Feb 7, 2010 | Big Shot, Embellishments, Occasion Mini 2010, Stamper's Club, SU Buttons |
Heart Treat cups aren’t just for Valentine’s day. I decided yesterday to use them for something non-valentine’s and I combined it with the butterfly challenge for Late Night Stampers. And let me tell you – I really love how it turned out and it gave me another idea – which I have to try out this week (more on that later if it comes together).
Here it is and the treat cup is filled with buttons (retired ones) but you could put other things in there – a Simply Adorned bracelet, other small embellishments, money, candy or whatever fits.
And this is another way to create the trap door. This project uses a little love note envelope to create a pocket. The big butterfly is on a slider that you pull up and then the back opens up so you can remove what you have inside the treat cup.
How fun is that? It was really quick to put together. I used for a Stamp Club Project this month.
The little butterfly embosslits is so fun to use and I love adding them to everything. The little ones fit perfectly on this project. I hope you like it.
I’ll have some great projects to share this coming week – so I hope you’ll be back.
Happy Stampin’!
Jan 10, 2010 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Wildlife |
If you haven’t noticed I have been trying to participate in various challenges. I figure it keeps me thinking and my creativity flowing – maybe sometimes pushes you to use/do/try something you wouldn’t normally do. A personal challenge is I always try to take what I see and make it with all Stampin’ Up! items. I am on a mailing list from one of the scrapbook magazines and received an email from one the ladies this weekend about a new blog she started and a new challenge – 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking – now that sounded interesting so I went to check out her blog and she has week 1 scrapbook layout posted. I normally create 2-page layouts but this was a single page and the challenge is to make one a week for 52 weeks – that would certainly fill up a scrapbook for 2010 – so why not – I can do this – yesterday I worked on my week 1 layout – I changed a few things – and used all Stampin’ Up! product, of course.
The background is a 12 x 12 piece of So Saffron. Then I layered a 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 piece of Sahara Sand. I used the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper – two different patterns – the So Saffron dots and the stripes of So Saffron and Old Olive.
The circle is chipboard from On Board Batch of Blooms chipboard. I “painted” it with Old Olive craft ink and a sponge dauber. Then punched holes in it with my Crop-A-Dile. I add Basic Grey Tafetta Ribbon by threading it through the holes and typing a bow at the bottom of the circle. So now I can enter this one in the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week – which was to use ribbon.
I stamped with Basic Grey ink using the new stamp set Garden from the Heart that is in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I colored the images with my Stampin’ Write Markers – So Saffron, Old Olive and Sahara Sand and a White Gel Pen. 
For the hat I added a So Saffron flower button from the Button Latte Designer buttons – in the center I added a silver brad. Under the hat I added just a little bit of Sahara Sand with an Aqua painter to add a shadow.
I also stamped with the splatter image from Itty Bitty backgrounds and Sahara Sand ink around the corners and edges on the layout. The photos are some that I took earlier this year of a flock of Cedar Waxwing’s that came through our yard this spring. I usually see them only once maybe twice as they migrate through our area. They come in a big flock and these pictures show them enjoying the bird bath and fountain in my back yard.
I also stamped the curly label tag image and punched it out. Since I didn’t have a Basic Grey marker and wanted to use the image with out the words I used a masking technique. I covered the words with a piece of tape – then inked the image on my Basic Grey ink pad. Removed the tape and then stamped on my Whisper White card stock. That gave me the label without the words. It was punched with the Curly Label punch and then layered with a die cut using the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die. I added a Basic Grey corduroy button – with some white crochet thread (ok I had one non- Stampin’ up! item).
It is much prettier in person than in these photos. The White Gel pen really pops on the Sahara Sand card stock. I’m done with my week 1 scrapbook page – 51 more weeks to go…..
Thanks for visiting today!
This month my hands-on stamping featured items on the Stampin’ Up! Last Chance list. These stamp sets will no longer be available after the end of June. The retiring colors and accessories are available while supplies last through the end of June. If you see something you love make sure to get it before it is gone. Your best bet is to order online through my Stampin’ Up! store – the store will update you with what is available.
