May 27, 2011 | Cards, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You |
Well today is the last official day of school here were we live. It wasn’t much of a day though. Ryan was the only one that had to go – the seniors were finished last week so Tyler only had graduation practice this week. Ryan’s last day was one final – Band – which wasn’t a final since their spring concert counts as their final and we already had that. Tomorrow morning is Graduation for Tyler – I’m headed out in a little bit to pick up balloons to hang on the mailbox. He doesn’t want a party and Kyle didn’t want one last year either. So we will go out to a fancy dinner just the 5 of us one day next week.
With that being said I thought I would share this card today as I thought it made a cute Thank You card for a teacher. It was one of the cards offered in my Card Makers Club this week – which by the way was a lot of fun!
I stuck to some of the more basic school colors – a red (Real Red), a yellow (Daffodil Delight), and a green (Old Olive). And combined it with the cute little Summer Mini Hostess set called Swirls & Curls Verses. It has 5 different versus in it – “thanks so much”, “thinking of you”, “happy birthday”, “hello”, and “congratulations”. I think you could just as easily use this for a graduation card since owl’s are often associated with being smart. Remember the tootsie pop commercial on TV ages ago? Just out of curiosity I thought I’d see what the internet had to say about how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop – well through various studies the results showed anywhere from 70 to 3,481 – hmmm…..
Oh well – I hope you have a fun day on the last day of school!
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 23, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Masculine, Summer Mini 2011 |
You Mean the World to Me. Yes you really do!
That’s the phrase that I used on this masculine card.
The idea for this card came from a magazine. I combined the new The Open Sea stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog with the Word Play stamp set that is on sale this month for 30% off. They worked well together.
The card base is Early Espresso and it is stamped with the globe and manifest images from The Open Sea stamp set. Then I added Not Quite Navy and and embossed/torn layer of Crumb Cake.
On top of that is a Whisper White piece stamped with “You Mean the World to me” and sponged to give it an old look. I wrapped around a piece of the new Baker’s Twine (this one is the Early Espresso) and tied a button through it.
To pop out the “world” – I stamped it on scratch paper in Not Quite Navy and punched it out with the circle punch and popped it up with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
My envelope was stamped to match. And on the inside is a panel of Whisper White and the corner of it was also stamped to match.
A very nice masculine card. I hope you like it!
May 20, 2011 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Masculine, Summer Mini 2011 |
This desk organizer featuring the Nautical Expedition Designer Series paper and The Open Sea stamp set was one of the projects we made at my hands-on class last week.
The organizer is made using square coasters. I covered the outsides and insides of the coasters with the Designer Series Paper. Then use a Crop-A-Dile to punch holes – I hold two coasters together where the sides will match and then punch the holes through at the same time so they line up. I usually mark each corner A, B, C, D so I know which two match up when I’m trying to put it all together.
To put it together I used Jute – which is thicker than hemp that Stampin’ Up! sells but you could also use that for this project. I liked the look of the Jute and had some in my stash so that was what I went with.
Here is a view of what the inside looks like.
For the front decoration I actually cut another coaster with my Big Shot and the Circles #2 die – I used the largest circle on the die which happens to be the same size as our largest circle punch. On a piece of card stock I stamped the various images from The Open Sea stamp set – in sort of a collage. I punched it out and sponged the edges and glued it to my coaster circle – I suppose I could have stamped directly on the coaster since it was plain white but I didn’t. I added the star punched from Crumb Cake card stock, stamped with the manifest image, and put in a Cherry Cobbler brad. I tied a couple of pieces of the Jute into a square knot and added it to the front.
This could sit on a dresser and be a drop off spot for a cell phone, car keys, wallet. Or on the end table and hold all the tv remotes. Or on a desk and hold pencils, scissors and stuff. I have one in my craft room – its got my pens, pencils, my different scissors, my bone folder, paper piercer, and more. Decorate with flowers and such if you want it to be feminine or like this one to make it masculine.
May 17, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Summer Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Here it is Tuesday and time for a Color Challenge. Are you ready for this one?
This week we have a another bright summery color combination – Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Garden Green, More Mustard and Very Vanilla. Here is the inspiration picture that we got.
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.
I needed a card swap for my demonstrator meeting Saturday night so I decided to use the colors for this challenge for that and get two things done at once. I already had planned on using the new On the Grow stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. I didn’t buy this set at first but I did think it was cute. But then I saw other demos using it and you know we are such bad influences on each other – it became a “have to have” set and I put it on my next order.
To create the focal point I did a little trick that you can do with the Clear Stamps – I mounted both the scooter and the words on one clear block and stamped them at the same time. Here is what it looks like –
I really need to mount them on a larger block but this one worked and was within arms reach when I was making this card. To create the card I stamped the images in VersaMark ink and then embossed with Black Embossing Powder. Next I water colored the image using my Aqua painter and classic inks – except for the black tires I used a Water Color Wonder Crayon for it.
The card base is Garden Green stamped with the grass from Inspired by Nature. I added the little More Mustard Butterflies cut with the Big Shot and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit. Behind the focal image I tied some Very Vanilla ribbon – I used Seam Binding on some of the cards and then ran out and switched to the Taffeta ribbon – both looked good.
In this picture I have the added flower from the new Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch with a pearl in the center. I didn’t actually have this on my meeting swaps only because I ran out of time. I was still cutting and gluing on butterflies as everyone was walking in the door.
So there you have it – my color challenge card for the week. Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Garden Green, Basic Black, More Mustard, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard, Garden Green, VersaMark
- Stamp sets: On the Grow, Inspired by Nature
- Accessories: Black Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Aqua Painter, Neutrals Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Very Vanilla ribbon, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, Basic Pearls, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
May 16, 2011 | Cards, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2011 |
Oh my gosh – it has been three days and no blog posts from me! Sorry about that. I’ll have projects for you all week so come back every day. Saturday night I had my demonstrator meeting and it was so much fun! I love getting together with all of these ladies – we had a good time and Cindy Schuster did an awesome presentation for us on My Digital Studio Hybrid projects and then we made two scrapbook pages that I’ll share later this week. I showed everyone about the new Triple Punches in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog and I’m going to show you the card that I designed for everyone to make. I combined two different ideas from Stampin’ Up! – I really liked the look of the scrapbook page in the Summer Mini catalog – page 6. And then an Easel card that was in our Stampin’ Success magazine. And here it is:
I liked the fact that it is an easel card so that you can set it out for everyone to see the different punched pieces that you get from the two new punches. This picture shows the card standing up – the front panel with the Hello Blossoms is on the inside of the card and attached with dimensionals. The front of the card is scored and has a second panel – the one you can see here with all the punch flowers attached to it. When you fold the front at the score the panel pops up and you tuck it behind the inside piece to make it stand up. Did that make any sense at all? Here is a side view –
The two punches are the Doily Triple Layer Punch and the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch. The colors I used are Old Olive, Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Rose Red, and Blushing Bride. There are lots of different combinations that you can create with all these punched pieces. I hope you like it!
Come back tomorrow for this weeks UDI Color Challenge.
I stuck to some of the more basic school colors – a red (Real Red), a yellow (Daffodil Delight), and a green (Old Olive). And combined it with the cute little Summer Mini Hostess set called Swirls & Curls Verses. It has 5 different versus in it – “thanks so much”, “thinking of you”, “happy birthday”, “hello”, and “congratulations”. I think you could just as easily use this for a graduation card since owl’s are often associated with being smart. Remember the tootsie pop commercial on TV ages ago? Just out of curiosity I thought I’d see what the internet had to say about how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop – well through various studies the results showed anywhere from 70 to 3,481 – hmmm…..
