May Newsletter & Class Reminder

May 12, 2011 | class, Masculine, My Digital Studio, Newsletter, Summer Mini 2011 | 0 comments

I have a bad feeling that my May Newsletter and Class Reminder emails are not getting to my email list.  Why – I do not know.  But several people this week have commented to me if I was having a class and I said yes – I sent out the newsletter the first of the month and a reminder the first of this week – my hands-on class is TOMORROW.   Hopefully many of my email listers are also blog subscribers or Facebook friends and will see this post.  I am going to put my May newsletter here in this blog post – we’ll see how that works – I’m not sure all my pictures will stay in tact and I’ll probably have to figure out how to add those back in the right place and I know the fonts and probably colors won’t stay – oh well.  And by the way my hands-on class is supposed to be tomorrow – but perhaps I need to reschedule – we are making masculine projects and here is a look at some of what we are doing –

I need to know TODAY if you want to attend at either 10:00 am or 7:00 pm so I can cut your class materials.  I’ll look at my calendar for next week and may hold another session due to this problem with my emails going out.  I may have to look into another method for sending out newsletters.  Anyway here is my May newsletter –

May 2011

Last month I showed you the eggs in the nests in my yard – now we have babies!

Chickadee babies on 4-23

Tufted Titmouse babies 4-23

The chickadees actually fledged (left the nest) in the last day or so – they are pictured on the left.  The tufted titmouse babies are almost ready to fledge too – but the picture above is earlier in April – I think they are so funny when they have those big beaks open waiting for food. They didn’t stay open long once they realized I wasn’t mom or dad.

This month I am planning to start a new club – the Card Maker’s Club – our focus will be all about cards.  The club will meet on the last Wednesday of the month from 7-9:30pm.  So this month we will meet on May 25th.  Bring a list of cards that you need for the month of June – birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, thinking of you – whatever you might need.  Each club meeting will be $15 and you will make 6 cards with envelopes.  If time permits you can make additional cards for $2 each – so you make as many as you need in the time of the class.  And you can choose which cards you want to make and how many – there will be at least 10 different card choices.  And card designs will be available for more than one month – so you can come back to make more or make some that you didn’t get to the last time.  This should give you flexibility to create what you need each month.

Please bring adhesive – if you’d like me to order Stampin’ Up! Snail Adhesive, Snail refill, or Tombow Multipurpose glue to have on hand for you please let me know before the class.

BYOB – I will provide a small snack.  I think it will be fun and I hope you will join me. Everyone is invited – earn free cards by bringing a friend that I don’t know.

Read on below for my full schedule for May and what’s new at Stampin’ Up!

Your Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator,

Monika Davis

Check out my class schedule and the details of my Ribbon Share for May.  I hope to see you soon.

NEW FEATURE – RSVP directly from the events on my website calendar.

Below is my class/event schedule for May:

  • Sunday, May 1st – Alexan Card Club
  • Friday, May 6th – Stamper’s Club – Hostess is Jeanette 7 pm
  • Friday, May 13th – Hands On Class – 10am & 7pm – Masculine Projects
  • Saturday, May 14th – PAWS Downline Meeting – 6pm
  • Tuesday, May 16th – Stamping at the Ronald McDonald House
  • Thursday,  May 19th – KSU Card Club – Hostess is Pam
  • Friday, May 20th – Scrapbook Class 10 am & 7 pm
  • Sunday, May 22nd – My Digital Studio Class 2 pm
  • Wednesday, May 25th – **NEW** Card Makers Club – 7pm

More News for You

I had a lot going on in April and didn’t get this ribbon share done so it is still open for the month of May – the share will be the 1-1/4” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (page 191 in the big catalog). You will receive 2 yards of each of the following colors – Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Rich Razzleberry, Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Early Espresso, and Basic Black.  The cost of the ribbon share will be $26.00.   Please email me and pay by May 13th if you would like to participate in the May Ribbon Share.  Here is a project with the Early Espresso

 News from Stampin’ Up!

The SUMMER MINI CATALOG is here!!  The mini catalog started on May 1st.  There are some fun new products in this little mini catalog.  New Triple Punches!  I’ll be showing these in my classes and clubs this month to teach you how to use these  fun punches that punch three different designs.  Masculine stamps and papers, summer themed products, Baker’s Twine and colored embossing powder.

One of the new stamp sets in the Summer Mini is called Strength & Hope.  There is also a Strength & Hope Digital Kit for My Digital Studio.  Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 from these purchases to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  This set is one of my favorites in this mini catalog.  I hope you’ll make a difference with me and purchase this beautiful stamp set and/or Digital kit to support BCRF.

And finally it is National Scrapbooking Month and Stampin’ Up! has a special – including select stamp sets at 30% off, My Digital Studio download bundles at 30% off, select My Digital Studio Professional print products at 30% off.  I’ve already sent off some print projects this week – I can’t wait to get them back.  And the My Digital Studio+ Starter Kit is also 30% off – so you can join Stampin’ Up! for $125.50 (over a $320 value) and the Stampin’ Memories Add-On is only $35 (over a $60 value).

Click on each of the images on the right side of my blog to link to my website and see the details – or go directly to my website.

My Digital Studio Updates

If you have purchased My Digital Studio make sure that you register and select to receive email updates from Stampin’ Up!  Stampin’ Up! will be sending out a monthly email to all registered users with a list of all the download releases for the month.

A new FREE Update for April is available so make sure you run it.  CLICK HERE to go see projects I have created with MDS.   You can order the Digital Downloads through my online store – CLICK HERE.  I have started My Digital Studio classes – there will be one each month.  Ask me for more details.    Make sure to join MyDigitalStudio.net where you can find all things about My Digital Studio.

If you would like to see more projects that I have been creating – visit my blog at http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/

Below are some projects featuring Strength & Hope stamp set and the new Hello Blossoms stamp set in the Summer Mini catalog.

                     

  Happy Stamping!

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I have a surprise for you today!

May 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2011, Thumping | 2 comments

This week Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition is full of surprises and I am SOOOO excited to announce that I’m Surprise #3.

I am the SURPRISE GUEST DESIGNER for Week 3.  If you are a subscriber to Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition  I will be sharing with you a FABULOUS 3D project and tutorial using one of that week’s featured sets.  But WHICH set is a SURPRISE, too!

Now remember…the only way to see my SURPRISE GUEST DESIGNER project is to be a subscriber to Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition and sign up now while you can save $5 off the subscription price.  The early bird special of $24.95 ends Saturday, May 14th at 11:55 pm.  Don’t delay!

I was so excited to get the email from Connie & Mary and can’t wait to create something to share with subscribers.  For now here is a fabulous card using the Strength & Hope stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog.

This is a fun window card.  The circle in the front of the card is punched out and everything inside is actually on the inside of the card.  The fun butterfly accent was created using the thumping technique.  Here are some other views of the card.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  So Saffron Textured, Peach Parfait, Early Espresso, Whisper White
  • Ink: So Saffron, Early Espresso, Peach Parfait, also Stampin’ Write Markers in the same colors
  • Stamp sets: Strength & Hope
  • Accessories:  2-1/2″ Circle Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, 3″ Circle Die, Scallop Circle #2 Die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Basic Pearls, Pumpkin Pie Taffeta ribbon, Color Spritzer, Stampin’ Sponge

Tuesday Color Challenge #35

May 10, 2011 | Cards, Summer Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge | 0 comments

It’s time for a new color challenge – are you ready?

This weekly color challenge helps me keep track of what day of the week it is.  I know it’s Monday when I have to write my post for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge so it can post early Tuesday morning.  This week we have a bright summery color combination – Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Concord Crush and Whisper White.  Here is the inspiration piece that we have this week from Gretchen:

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.

This week I went simple – very simple – based on a design I saw in a magazine –

This card is basically Stamps, Ink and Paper – so it comes together very quickly.  The base is Daffodil Delight.  Then the Whisper White panel is just corner rounded and stamped with two images from the new Love & Care Hostess stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog.  I used Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight and Concord Crush to stamp the flowers, some are stamped multiple times between reinking which gives the variations in shading.  I added one of the sayings in the Word Play stamp set – this one is on sale this month!  At 30% off this is a set you need to make sure to buy this month.  By chance the one little flower ended up in the middle of the big G so I added a tiny Rhinestone to the center of it.

Here is a quick peek of the inside – where I stamped flowers in the corner…..

Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
  • Ink: Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Concord Crush
  • Stamp sets: Love & Care, Word Play
  • Accessories:  Corner Rounder Punch, Basic Rhinestones, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch

May 9, 2011 | Cards, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You | 0 comments

Hey everyone – I decided to take the weekend off from blogging – I spent Saturday with my mom (also saw my dad, my niece & nephew, my brother and my sister-in-law).  Sunday I was home and all my boys were here – they cooked dinner last night and mostly cleaned up.  Just a nice relaxing sort of day.

Have you seen the new Triple Layer Punches in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog? I bought the Blossom Bouquet punch and it is so much fun – it is called a Triple Layer punch because it punches out three coordinating images from one punch – actually I think this one you could consider it to punch 4 – two of the layers actually punch out two pieces – the inside of the flower and the outside rim are actually separate.  So here is a card I made for some of my classes this month based on a card in the Stampin’ Success magazine (the magazine that us demonstrators get).

I added an inside panel that is stamped with the Bold Blossom stamp set that coordinates nicely with the Blossom Bouquet punch.  You can make lots of different flower combinations with this one punch.  Let’s see if I can point out the different pieces – the first image you can punch is the large flower – in this card I have it as the background of each of the three flowers – one is Peach Parfait, one is Early Espresso, and one is Crumb Cake.  The second image you can punch is a smaller flower with a flower ring around it – in this card there is a Crumb Cake ring on the Early Espresso flower.  And it doesn’t look like I used the smaller flower on this card – but wait a minute and you’ll see it on my next version of this card.  The third image is a small flower with the tear drops punched out and the ring again – on this card there is one in Daffodil Delight and one in Old Olive – the tear drop flower that is.  The small circle punch is from the Bitty Punch set.

The great thing about crafting is that there really aren’t any mistakes – if something doesn’t happen the way you planned it is just a chance for you to get more creative – to come up with a different idea – no one else will know that you started out with a different plan other than yourself.  And sometimes the new creation is something you like better than what you originally set out to do.  So I took this card to a class on May 1st and ran into not one but two chances to get more creative – first I forgot the 3/4″ circle punch that I used to punch out the little flower stamped image – but who wants to cut that flower out – not me (well on some occasions I would but not this time) and forget trying to cut out a circle – its not going to happen.  So what was the solution – to use the small flower image that is punched from the Blossom Bouquet punch.  Problem number 2 – while demonstrating the punch – on the third image you have to make sure you push down until you hear the third click – if you don’t you get a partially punched tear drop flower – but after looking at it – I decided it would make a pretty flower just the way it was so i used it on a card too.  So here is my second version of this card:

On this one I used the small flower twice – once underneath the Old Olive and once on the Early Espresso with a stamped flower in the center of it.  And here is a close up of the partially punched flower –

See how the little tear drops didn’t punch out on one end.  So what I did was put a dimensional under the center so it would pop up and allow the cut end of the tear drop to hang down.  I actually like how it looks.

These punches are fun but you do need to understand how they work so that you can use them correctly and get the results that you want.  First the punch should be used sitting flat on the table – not held upside down in your hand like we usually do with the old punches.  Then you need to slide the selector to the image that you want and notice that there are stoppers for the 1st and 2nd punch so that it doesn’t go down all the way.  It helps to listen for the clicks and practice a bit.  In order to close the punch and lock it you need to have the selector in the third position – if you don’t it won’t lock shut because it will catch on one of the stoppers.  It comes with instructions but it helps to see someone else using it.  I’ve already started demonstrating in my classes and workshops  – call me today if you would like to schedule your own.

Strength & Hope

Apr 29, 2011 | Cards, Summer Mini 2011 | 0 comments

Have you seen the new Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog?  In the very back is a stamp set called Strength & Hope.  It is my favorite from this new mini and I have another sneak peek for you.

If you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator you may think this looks familiar.  If you look in the last Stampin’ Success magazine there was a 3D project where they decorated a jar (or bottle) using the Strength & Hope stamp set.  I thought the design was very pretty and decided to do the same design in a card.  And this is how it turned out.

My mom sent me an email from a friend of hers that wants people to send cards to a lady that is fighting breast cancer.  This stamp set is the perfect thing for this.  I just have to decide which card to send her – this one or one of the others that I made.

Base is Early Espresso.  Then a strip of Whisper White stamped with the word block and then the flourish image.  It is layered on a piece of Pear Pizzazz that was punched on both sides with the Scallop Trim Border punch.  I added little dots with the White Gel Pen.  I stamped the ‘H hope’ and punched it out with a circle punch and added a little flower punched using the Itty Bitty punch with a pearl in the center.  It is Blushing Bride card stock by the way.  The butterfly is stamped in Baja Breeze, cut out, and a little pearl is added.

A couple more bits of news – the Stampin’ Scrub is back!  For the past few months the Stampin’ Scrub has been unavailable and now it is back and ready to order.  So if you have been waiting to order one you can do it now.

And May is National Scrapbook Month and Stampin’ Up! is having a promotion that is starting 2 days early – that would be TODAY!  So you can order from the Occasions Mini, take advantage of the April special and the May special all at the same time – if you hurry – that’s Friday and Saturday.  So what is the May Special – 30% off selected stamp sets, 30% off selected My Digital Studio Digital Download bundlges, 30% off selected My Digital Studio Professional Print products, and a special My Digital Studio starter kit.

Click on the picture below to see a larger picture of the list of stamp sets on sale.  The My Digital Studio downloads are available through my online store and you can select your My Digital Studio Professional Print products through your My Digital Studio software.

Have a great rest of the day!

Utah Divas Color Challenge – #33

Apr 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Summer Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge | 1 comment

It’s time for this week’s Utah Diva’s Color Challenge.   Are you ready to play along with us this week?  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.  Here is our inspiration:

I have another 3-D project this week.  This time it is a box that I cut using the Big Shot.  I love my Big Shot and how quick you can make fun and cute projects.  Oh and it’s a sneak peek for you too!

Look at this cute little stamp!  It will be in the new Summer Mini Catalog that starts on May 1st.  It is one of the new a-la-carte stamps that Stampin’ Up! has been coming out with for about the last year or so.  The box is the Box #2 XL Bigz Die and for this project I have the top closed – sometimes I like to keep the lid open.  The box is cut from Always Artichoke Textured card stock.  The rest of the colors for this weeks color challenge are Poppy Parade, Real Red, Regal Rose and the Whisper White.  I used Stampin’ Write markers to color the stamp – the flowers are Poppy Parade, Real Red and Regal Rose, with Always Artichoke stems, leaves and the scallop border at the bottom which is part of the stamp.   I stamped on Whisper White and added a little scallop punched Real Red piece and some Real Red Taffeta ribbon.  I wanted to say “hello friend” so I also used my marker to color just the ‘friend’ portion of the ‘friends’ stamp from  Tiny Tags stamp set.  Punch that with the Jewelry Tag punch and then I ran the Always Artichoke marker around the edge of the tag.  I added it to my stamped piece with a little Real Red brad.    It’s a fun little box to tuck a little treat for a special friend – don’t you think?

Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  Always Artichoke Textured, Whisper White, Real Red
  • Ink: Stampin’ Write Markers – Real Red, Poppy Parade, Regal Rose, Always Artichoke
  • Stamp sets: Hello Blossoms (Summer Mini), Tiny Tags
  • Accessories:  Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Box #2 XL Bigz die, XL Crease Pad, Scallop Border punch, Jewelry Tag punch, Real Red Taffeta Ribbon, Bold Brights Brads, Paper Piercer, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.