Oct 1, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Christmas, Embellishments, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, SU Ribbon |
I just loved this card idea when I saw it shared by Lee Conrey a couple of weeks ago. So super simple but elegant. Here is a link to her original card – click here.
I made a color change for my card and used a Soft Suede card base and a Crumb Cake piece for the embossing. This is the new Northern Flurry embossing folder in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday mini catalog. Isn’t it gorgeous?
After I embossed it I used the Frost White Shimmer Paint and a Sponge Dauber to lightly add the frost shimmer to the embossed snowflake.
I punched a hole with my Crop-a-Dile – I used the smaller hole. The ribbon is Early Espresso 3/8″ Taffeta ribbon – which is lighter than the actual Early Espresso color so it worked great on this card. The greeting is from Sincere Salutations – which is one of my older stamp sets – I had this one long ago before I was a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. The final touch on this card are the Rhinestones in the center of each snowflake. These are new in the Stampin’ Up! catalog and a lot of people are missing them because they aren’t easy to see in the catalog. They are on page 188 under the section Jewels. It lists both the Basic Rhinestones which is what I used here and the Basic Pearls (love those too). These come on a sheet and are self-adhesive. I use my paper piercer to carefully lift one off the sheet and place it on my project. Each sheet has 3 sizes of Rhinestones or Pearls plus three strips or chains – where there are a bunch of the small ones already in a perfect row for you. But if you don’t need them in a row you can seperate them and use them individually.
For this card I used all three sizes of the Rhinestones because I had three sizes of the snowflakes. There is one in the center of each.
Let’s play Bingo…..
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 4 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, 2, and 3 winners.
Here is piece #4 –the pumpkins from Loads of Love Accessories stamp set (stamped in Peach Parfait).
Aug 10, 2010 | Big Shot, In Colors, SU Ribbon, Summer Mini 2010 |
Look at how cute these turned out –
These are all the In-Color Ribbons for the July Ribbon share. I like to do something fun with the cut ribbon for the ribbon share. And this was what I decided on for the 1/2″ Stitched-Poly Ribbon. 
I used my Two Tags Die for the Big Shot and cut matching tags for each color ribbon. These happen to be the five new In-Colors for this year – Blushing Bride, Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade, Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz.
I actually glued two tags together so that there is a scallop on each end. The lower one is stamped with the Punched Posies Level 2 Hostess stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. The top is printed on my computer and punched with the Scallop Circle punch. I added some doodles with the matching Stampin’ Write Markers.
I have decided that the person that came up with the names for the new Stampin’ Up! colors must have been hungry – Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Concord Crush, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler – it just sounds like they had food on their mind! Perhaps sitting on the balcony overlooking the water (Marina Mist), talking to a friend about a wedding (Blushing Bride) and the flowers (Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight)…..do you ever wonder how they decide on the names?
I have a new ribbon share for August – the 1/8″ Taffeta Ribbon – 13 colors.
Have a colorful day! Thanks for stopping by today.
Aug 7, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon |
Did you see the stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog on page 55 called Got Treats? Can you image all the little treats you can create with it – birthday, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines, St. Patrick’s Day, Treats for any time? I hadn’t even considered buying the Milk Carton die-cut for the Big Shot until I saw this little stamp set. Now I can image all sorts of possibilities with it even using different stamp sets. I ordered the Mini Milk Carton die and the Got Treats stamp set and decided to play this week. I created a little project for my Stamper’s Club meeting last night.
The little carrier idea is in the catalog but I also saw it earlier this year on another blog and on Stampin’ Connection. There are several different versions out there. You basically make a little box to hold two mini milk cartons and then glue two together with a handle in between. I decided to use the Play Date Designer Series paper for my color inspiration and for decorating the little carrier. This one has a birthday theme but you could use this for so many different celebrations besides a birthday. Or make one for your desk to hold little office supplies – I want to try that next – I think there was something similar on display at convention.
Here you can see my four mini milk cartons. On my Got Treats stamp set I mounted the words separate from the images so that I could mix & match and use them together or apart. So on one cupcake I have “Got Birthday?” and on the other I have “Got Treats?” and then one is on the top and the other on the bottom.
I did have to play around with my Big Shot and the die to get my sandwich just right so the cut lines cut and the score lines scored. Because there are slight variations between Big Shot’s yours may not be the same as mine. For mine I used this – Standard Cutting Pad, piece of colored card stock, Mini Milk Carton die, card stock to be cut (one layer), Standard Premium Crease Pad. Only cut one at a time so you get all the score lines and cut lines for each one that you cut.
Have a sweet weekend!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Real Red, Old Olive, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
- Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise Stampin’ Write markers
- Stamps: Got Treats Stamp set
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Mini Milk Carton die
- Scallop Square Punch, Large Oval Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Jewelry Tag Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack
- Linen Thread, 1/4″ Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, 5/8″ Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon
- Play Date Designer Series paper
- Brights Designer Buttons, Subtle Designer Buttons, Silver Brads, Mini Library Clips
- Paper piercer, Mat Pack, Stampin’ Dimesionals, Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jul 24, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, In Colors, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Ribbon |
Saturday is the last day of convention and while the official Stampin’ Up! events will end in the afternoon. My roommates and I are going to a Shoebox swap Saturday night. I think there are supposed to be 48 of us total. The shoebox swap works like this – everyone designs a card and brings all the supplies to make the card for everyone. For this particular swap we bring half of them completely made and half of them in pieces in a baggie. Everyone will get divided and make half of the 48 cards on Saturday night. We rotate from table to table until we are done with them all.
Here is my design:
I used the new Butterfly Prints stamp set. I love how this card turned out. I used Basic Grey, Pear Pizazz, and Whisper White as my colors. I did have to get a bit creative so that I could get enough cards out of the paper I had. It didn’t occur to me that I would run out of ribbon either. So some of the swap cards that I made up have different ribbon.
This is the new In-Color Poly-Twill ribbon and it is going to be so nice to use. It is really soft and look at what you can do – fray it! I love the look 
of the frayed ends on my knot.
First tie the ribbon around the card and tie the knot. Then I carefully trimmed off the white edges up to the knot. Then pull apart the green strands and remove the white ones that are left. Fun!
For those cards that I ran out of the poly-twill ribbon I used Satin ribbon in Basic Grey or Certainly Celery which matched well to the Designer Series Paper.
The patterns papers now come in paper stacks and this is one of the new In-Colors so you get a stack of Designer Paper that includes all 6 colors and the two double-sided patterns.
I added distressing on all the layers. And the tag is cut from the Matchbox die using the Big Shot.
I really like the softness of this card and I hope everyone at the shoebox swap does too!
Jul 21, 2010 | Cards, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Ribbon, Thank You |
I bought the Nature’s Nest stamp set last year in my first order from the catalog. I had planned on using for convention swaps last year. Well that never happened and it sat in my craft room for almost a year – how awful was that. I finally used it and made a beautiful card for some of my convention swaps this year. I’m really happy with the result.
I’m not sure the picture on my blog show just how pretty it is. I actually used the same layout that I had used in some cards I created early this year for the Royal Blog Tour.
The colors this time are Crumb Cake, Marina Mist and Soft Suede. The dragonfly image is stamped in Basic Black StazOn ink. I colored the dragonfly body with the Marina Mist marker and then wings with a Bashful Blue marker. Then I added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the wings.
If you know me, you know I rarely use glitter. But these wings really needed the extra sparkle. It is pretty in real life. I tried to get a close up pictures but I still don’t think it shows the sparkle and shine.
I also used the color spritzer tool to add spritz on the front of the card – I sure do miss that splatter from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds set – we need that one stamp back in the catalog.
To finish the card I added the new 1/8″ Marina Mist Ribbon tied with Linen Thread and a little jewelery tag. I hope you like it.
Jul 8, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club, SU Ribbon |
I found these cute ideas with the Two Tags die for the Big Shot on Glenda Calkins blog.
This first idea uses the large tag on the die – the one with the score line that folds to create a box. You need two of this tag to make the box. I designed this one for my Stampers Club meeting this month and incorporated some new products from the Stampin’ Up! catalog.
The card stock is the new Cherry Cobbler card stock – you cut two tags, the piece to create the box and a strip for the handle. The base of the box is wrapped with a piece of the Newsprint Designer Series paper. I decided to add a little bit of color to the paper which is Very Vanilla and Basic Black – I did that by wheeling the Very Vintage Jumbo wheel over it with Cherry Cobbler ink.
The tag on the front is from the new stamp set Perfect Punches. A fun new set where all 6 images fit one of our punches. The “Thanks” fits inside the Scallop Oval punch and then I layered it on a Wide Oval punched from Basic Black.
The handle is attached with some Basic Black brads which are now part of the Neutrals Brad set. Then I tied a piece of the new 1/8″ Basic Black ribbon.
These boxes turned out really cute. You can use them as party favors and put a cello bag inside that you fill with something fun – or even add a couple of little bottles of lotion or something like that. I was really pleased with the color combo of Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black and Very Vanilla – this would be pretty at the holidays maybe even nice for wedding colors at the holidays. Someone asked me about suggesting colors for an evening wedding at Christmas – I think this would fit the bill and you could use these little boxes for something too.
Thanks for visiting today – I’ve been working on designing swaps for convention. I have a group swap that I signed up for and I got that one finalized today and all the pieces cut. And I designed another one for general swapping and cut the card stock for those too. I’ll try to get one more designed tonight and tomorrow I’ll be prepping for my Ice Cream Party class on Friday.
I made a color change for my card and used a Soft Suede card base and a Crumb Cake piece for the embossing. This is the new Northern Flurry embossing folder in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday mini catalog. Isn’t it gorgeous?
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 4 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, 2, and 3 winners.
