Jun 1, 2009 | Catalogs, Decor Elements, Designer Series Paper, Retired List, Stamps, SU Ribbon |
going, going . . .
A new Stampin’ Up! Catalog is right around the corner, which means it’s time to say farewell to dozens of stamp sets and accessories in the Spring Summer 2009 Idea Book & Catalog and Decor’ Elements. Don’t miss this opportunity to get the last chance products! Check the list to see if any of your favorites are there – then buy them now, before they are going, going … gone.
Stamp sets and Decor Elements will be available until June 30, 2009.
Click here to see the Last Chance list of Stamp Sets.
Click here to see the Last Chance list of Decor Elements. Decor Elements are 25% OFF.
Accessories (including Stampin’ Around wheels) will be available while supplies last (and some are already gone!). Some accessories are discounted – see the list on my Last Chance page – click here. Stampin’ Up! will update each day – and I plan to update this page at the end of each day also. SOLD OUT ITEMS – will be crossed out like this
The current In-Colors will be retiring and along with that everything that has an In-Color in it. Those 6 colors are Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette and Tangerine Tango. All Hostess sets will also retire – you can earn a Level 1 set with $150 order (workshop), Level 2 at $300 and Level 3 at $500.
There is a Summer Fun Hostess Bonus Promotion:
- Hostesses who hold a $250-$399.99 workshop will receive an additional $20 in hostess free merchandise dollars.
- Hostesses who hold a $400 or more workshop will receive an additional $40 in hostess free merchandise dollars.
If you have any questions please ask me!
May 29, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
I did get teacher gifts made yesterday/last night. I made 6 for Ryan’s teachers for this school year. Since Ryan has several male teachers this year I needed something that would work for both men and women. While looking at blogs I found a project that I thought would make a great teacher gift. I also remembered another friend of mine making a similar project. I finally found through several links a template for what I wanted to make – a Scratch Pad Holder. The template is from Connie Stewart. I made a boy version and a girl version and while playing around I also came up with this cool thing to do with the Jumbo Grommets.
Girl version supply list:
- Old Olive card stock
- Maine Blueberry Designer Series Paper (retired)
- Not Quite Navy card stock
- Bashful Blue card stock
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Daisy #2 die
- Jumbo Grommets – silver
- Old Olive wide grosgrain ribbon
- sticky strip
- RSVP pen
- Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Bashful Blue classic inks
- Sweet Little Sentiments stamp set
- Darling Dot stamp set
- Bone Folder
- copy/printer paper
Notes on this project – the Maine Blueberry paper is the same patterns as our current Washington Apple paper – I just really like the colors in the other one and had enough to make the three scratch pad holders. I cut four of the medium sized daisy flower – 2 in Not Quite Navy, 1 in Old Olive and 1 in Bashful Blue. They are layered like this – Not Quite 
Navy, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Not Qutie Navy. Then insert a Jumbo Silver Grommet through the hole in the center and push back the prongs with a bone folder – it is a tight fit with 4 layers. The two ends of the ribbon are pulled up through the center of the grommet and tied in a knot in the front – see I can do knots just fine. The printer paper is cut in half both ways to get 4 pieces per sheet – 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″. On about half of the stack I stamped “a note for you” and then the flower from Darling Dots. That was the longest part of the whole project. The matching patterned paper is just rolled and stuck inside the barrel of the RSVP pen. I cut my piece to be 3-1/4″ x 1″ – I used the bone folder to soften up the paper and help it curl.
Boy version supply list: 
- Kraft card stock
- Manchester Designer Series Paper
- Twill Tape (medium width)
- Jumbo Grommets – Vanilla
- Clear Embossing Powder
- Heat Tool
- Powder Pal
- craft tweezers
- Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write marker
- Always Artichoke Classic ink
- RSVP pen
- copy/printer paper
- Sweet Little Sentiments stamp set
- Seeing Spots stamp set
- Old Olive Craft ink
Notes on this project: Pen and printer paper are done like the girls project. I decided to use the twill tape for this one because I didn’t have any other ribbon that I liked with the Manchester Designer Series paper. But then the Jumbo Vanilla Grommet didn’t stand out much against it because they were nearly the same color. So I decided I wanted to try to color my Grommet. I tried coloring the grommet with the Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write marker and dipping it in clear embossing powder and heat set it – due to the nature of the metal grommet most of the ink pooled up and “disappeared” so it didn’t add much color. I tried another layer and again it didn’t add much color. I decided to try 
using craft ink – but I didn’t have the Always Artichoke in craft ink so I had to use Old Olive. I dipped the whole front of the grommet in the ink until it was completely covered (this time the ink didn’t puddle up much) and then dipped in clear embossing powder and heat set it. It gave it a really crackled kind of look to it and was enough to make the grommet stand out from the twill tape. By the way I pushed back the prongs on the grommet first except for one I only pushed part way and used that for my craft tweezers as a holder. When you heat the metal it will get hot so you need to use the craft tweezers for holding – it also makes it easier to dip in the ink and the embossing powder.
On my second one I tried to skip the step with the Always Artichoke marker and use only the Old Olive craft ink – while this would have been great wit the Always Artichoke craft ink (if I had it) my second attempt gave me a very Old Olive colored grommet which was not the exact color I wanted for this project. I have a picture of each – can you tell the difference? For the third one I went back to adding color with the marker first and got more the result I had the first time which was a more artichoke color.
I took them all to school when I went to get Ryan after his exams were done. We handed them out to all the teachers and we are all home – school is done – another year complete – a our summer has begun!
Have a great weekend!
May 28, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
The May Ribbon Share is ready and here is the cute little container I made to hold everyone’s ribbon.
I’ve seen this little holder idea in many places. It uses the Big Shot Box #2 die cut – you need two boxes. Don’t fold down the lids instead glue them together back to back. I cut off the little tabs from either side of the box – other people have glued them down inside – but I didn’t want to waste the adhesive since it wasn’t a necessary piece of the project. The lids then become a handle – I punched a large oval – first in one then glued them together with sticky strip and then through the other. Tie ribbon through the handle. (That is the part that took me the longest – I’m great with the knots but trying to tie a bow is just not easy for me – I think I took 4 or 5 tries at each one before it looked decent – and some I still didn’t really like). It ends up looking like a small drink holder. I wrapped the two boxes with a 1-1/2″ piece of Designer Series Paper. Added a little accent using the Oval All stamp set and scallop oval punch. All the ribbon is tucked in to the two sides of the holder – tied with hemp and a tag identifying the ribbon.
I’m hoping to get some teacher gifts made this afternoon – considering it is the last day of school tomorrow – I’m kind of down to the wire on that one – I found an easy project (I hope) and I’ll share that with you tomorrow assuming I get them done.
Have a great day and Happy Stampin’!
May 25, 2009 | Occasions Mini 2009, SU Ribbon |
About a month ago I joined the Late Night Stampers Yahoo Group and every week they have a card challenge. This past week was challenge #20 which was a color challenge – you had to create a card using these colors – Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Ruby Red. These are colors from the Earth Elements and some that I really like to use so I wanted to make sure I made a card for the challenge. It just took me until 10 o’clock Sunday night until I started – and the entries are due by midnight. I do feel that I am literally a Late Night Stamper – my creative juices flow at night and even while I sleep I really do come up with ideas – no joke. The picture of this card isn’t the best since I took about 11 last night and it was of course dark and no sunshine to help me with lighting. It is really pretty and 3-D in person.
Supplies:
- Kraft card stock
- Ruby Red card stock and classic ink
- Chocolate Chip card stock and classic ink
- Old Olive card stock and classic ink
- Black Stazon ink
- Watercolor paper
- Wagon Full of Fun stamp set
- Stampin’ Sponges
- Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon
- Paper Piercer and Mat pack
- Water Color Wonder Crayons – Earth Elements
- Aqua Painter
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
Instructions:
- Cut Kraft card stock to 11″ x 4-1/4″ and score at 5-1/2″. Sponge the front edges with Chocolate Chip ink.
- Cut Ruby Red card stock to 5-1/4″ x 4″. Sponge the edges with Ruby Red ink.
- Cut Chocolate Chip card stock to 2″ x 2″. Sponge the edges with Chocolate Chip ink.
- Cut Old Olive card stock to 1-3/4″ x 1-3/4″. Sponge the edges with Old Olive ink.
- Adhere Old Olive piece to Chocolate Chip piece. Adhere Chocolate Chip piece to the Ruby Red piece allowing space for the greeting underneath and the ribbon to the left.
- Use the Paper Piercer and mat pack to pierce a box around the Chocolate Chip square.
- Adhere the Ruby Red piece to the front of the Kraft card.
- Tie the Chocolate Chip Ribbon around the front of the card on the left side and tie in a knot. Trim ends.
- Stamp greeting in Chocolate Chip ink on the bottom of the card front.
- Stamp the flower pot image on Watercolor Paper twice with Black StazOn Ink. Watercolor both images using the Aqua Painter and Water Color Wonder Crayons and Classic Ink. I first used the WWC to add a light layer of each color then went over with the Classic ink to darken areas.
- Cut out both images. On one I cut out the flower head by itself and the front portion of the pot by itself.
- Adhere the full image to the Old Olive square with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add the cut portions on top of the full image using Stampin’ Dimensionals. This gives it a real 3-D look – because the flower stem and back of the pot end up in the back ground. It doesn’t show that well in the photograph but looks real good in person.
I think I’ll make some more cards to match using the other images in the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set.
I hope you like it. Have a happy Memorial Day!
May 24, 2009 | Card Games, Designer Series Paper, Game Night, Stamps, SU Ribbon |
Today I have been working on invitations for a game night that some friends and I have coming up in about 2 weeks. We are 12 ladies that get together once a month to play a game called Pokeno. We have alot of fun – some of us have been part of this group for more than 12 years – when we started we played Bunko but switched many years ago to Pokeno because it didn’t matter how many people played. About once a year we like to include our husbands so we have a Couples Night. Well the time is here for our Couples Pokeno party and I wanted to make invitations using the Card Games and Game Night stamp sets. Pokeno is played with a deck of cards and a card like a bingo card. I think this would make a great invitation for a birthday party – teens, boys, adults, or just a get together with friends.
The invitation is a pocket card – I love using this style of card for an invitation. 
The photos aren’t the best. I like to take them when the sun is shining – well it happens to be pouring down rain!
So this is how I made it:
- Cut So Saffron card stock 11″ x 4-1/4″. Then score at 5-1/2″ and at 1-1/4″. Fold in half and then fold the small flap toward the front of the card. I used a corner rounder on the top corners of the back of the card.
- Cut Real Red card stock to 4″ x 4″. Cut a piece of Jackpot Designer Series paper to 3-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ (I used the black piece with the poker chips) and adhere to the center of the Real Red. Adhere these to the front of the card underneath the flap. Cut a piece of Jackpot Designer Series paper to 1″ x 4″ (I used the red diamond design) and adhere this to the front of the flap. Use a stapler to staple the flap on each side to the back of the card. The staples will get covered.
On the back of the card I also added a piece of Jackpot Designer Series paper which was cut 4″ x 5-1/4″ and the top two corners were corner rounded. Adhere this to the back. This wasn’t necessary but I thought it made it look like an actual card.- Now tie a piece of ribbon around the flap and cover all the staples and tie in a knot on the front of the card. Trim the ends of the ribbon. I used the So Saffron ribbon that we had during the Sale-A-Bration promotion. There is also a 1/2″ striped So Saffron ribbon that you could use or the Real Red 1/2″ striped or 5/8″ grosgrain.
- To create the decoration on the front I stamped the card images on Very Vanilla card stock with VersaMark ink and covered with Black Embossing Powder and then heat set it with the heat tool. Then I colored in some sections with the So Saffron and Real Red Stampin’ Write markers. I trimmed around each card with my paper snips. Punch out a Round Tab punch from Basic Black card stock. Fold in half and tuck the corners of the card inside. I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch a small hole, then insert a Red Eyelet and set with the Crop-A-Dile. I added it to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- To create
the insert for the pocket I set up a Word document to print my information on 1/4 sheet of card stock – and then printed it on a sheet 4 times – I turned my card stock each time so it would print in a different corner. I’m sure there are other ways to do this more efficiently but this is how I did it. Then I cut the full sheet into quarters – 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″. Then I took each printed quarter and trimmed 1/2″ off the top – so it was 5″ tall. And 3/8″ off of each side – so it is 3-1/2″ wide and my text stayed centered in the middle. I corner rounded the top corners. - To finish the insert I stamped the bottom edge with the 4 card symbols all the way across. Then stamp two images on each side at the top. I cut a 2 inch piece of ribbon folded it in half and used a bit of snail to hold it in place on the back while I added a Red eyelet. Then put the insert into the card.
- Stamp a matching envelope. I could have used the wheel on the envelope – but honestly I forgot I had it and already had the stamping done by that time.
I hope you like the invitation and I hope the ladies in my Pokeno group like them too. I’ll get them all delivered tomorrow.
Have a great rest of the Holiday Weekend!
May 17, 2009 | class, Stamps, SU Ribbon, Wow Flowers |
May 2009 Class to Go
Wow Flowers Class to Go
All images Stampin’ Up!© 2009
The May Class to Go Kit is now available to be ordered. You will need to have some supplies at home to complete the kit as shown. There are two options for this Class to Go Kit – one will include the stamp set and the other will be without the stamp set. So if you already have this stamp set (or prefer to use another set you already own) then you can purchase the second option that includes only the consumable supplies. Or purchase both and have materials to make two sets – one for you and one to give as a gift. I am also adding an option for Demonstrators to purchase only the instructions. Below are all the details for the May Class to Go Kit – featuring the Wow Flowers stamp set and Flower Power Card Elements from the Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book. This class features a cute card holder that holds 12 textured cards and matching envelopes.
May 2009 Class to Go Kit
Wow Flowers Kit 1 (with the stamp set) is $40
OR
Wow Flowers Kit 2 (only the project materials no stamp set) is $25
OR
Demonstrator Option (instructions only) is $8
Payment due by May 30th. Kits will be ready by June 14th or sooner.
Kit 1 includes:
Wow Flowers stamp set ($12.95+S&H+Tax) on page 167 in the Spring Summer 2009 catalog
Flower Power Card Elements ($15.95+S&H+Tax) on page 167 in the Spring Summer 2009 catalog
Step-by-step Instructions to make cards and card holder
Materials to make twelve cards with envelopes and the card holder
Materials included with this kit:
Card Elements Kit
Additional card stock to create the card holder
Ribbon
Flower Brad & Jumbo Grommet
White Medium Envelopes
Kit 2 includes:
everything from Kit 1 except the Wow Flowers stamp set.
Additional items that you will need to complete the Wow Flowers kit as shown are:
Rose Red Classic ink pad, Old Olive Classic ink pad,Perfect Plum Classic ink pad, More Mustard Classic ink pad,
Sticky Strip, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots,
1/2″ circle punch, Corner Rounder punch, Scallop Edge punch.
A bone folder and a stamp-a-ma-jig would be helpful.
If you need any of these additional items they can be added to the cost of your class.
The kits will be ready by June 14th for you to pick up at my home if you are local. I can mail them to you for $5.00 if you are not.
If you order additional items there may be an extra charge to mail those items to you.
Please send me an email if you would like to purchase the May Class to Go Kit. Payment must be made to me by cash or check by May 30th. I’m not set up yet to accept Paypal payments but will be in the future.
I think I covered it all. I have been wanting to do something with this stamp set and the card elements for a few months now and when I saw the June Stampin’ Success it all came together. My inspiration piece was the treat holder on the front cover. I hope you like it. The cards include a combination of birthday, thank you and blank cards.
Happy Stampin’!
