Aug 25, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Masking, Stampin' Up! Convention, Summer Mini 2010 |
I wanted to share this swap card that I received at convention – it was one of my favorite and used a stamp set I never really paid attention to. The stamp set is called Pedaling Past in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
This swap card was created by a demonstrator named Tamera Gadd. The card is Early Espresso textured card stock on the base and then a layer that has been embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder and the Big Shot Die-cut machine. In between the two is a strip of Daffodil Delight punched with the Scallop Trim border punch and then there are the little rhinestone gems on each little scallop. A piece of the Early Espresso 1/8″ ribbon. A masking technique was used to add the flowers to the back of the bicycle. The flowers are from the Loads of Love stamp set. The flowers are colored with markers. A very nice card in person. Thanks Tamera for swapping with me!
If you want to order this or any other of the great sets from the Summer Mini catalog – you need to hurry. The last day to order is August 31st. Visit my online store or email me to place your order today.
And now it is time for Monika’s BLOG BINGO!
We are currently playing the Round 1 group. As soon as I have a winner for Round 1 I will email out the cards for Group 2 and we will start playing. Then Group 3 will follow. Hurry if you want to be in Group 3. See this POST for more details.
Leave a comment and let us know if anyone is close to Bingo yet!
Here is piece #7 – the crown from Family Accessories Too stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade). 
Thanks for “pedaling past” and stopping by my blog today – I hope you enjoyed your visit!
Aug 22, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Stampin' Up! Convention, Thank You, Watercoloring |
This was my favorite card from the Make & Take class at the Stampin’ Up! Convention. For one it is one of my favorite new stamp sets called Just Believe. And it used a water coloring technique that makes it look like your a real artist! The stamp does all the work because it is such a nice image. Using Stampin’ Write Markers you color your image. Using a fine mist spritzer (like our Stampin’ Mist cleaner spritzer) – spritz the stamp with water and then stamp onto Watercolor Paper. I hold it on the paper for just a few seconds before lifting it. The water makes it look like a real watercolor painting.
We made this card in my hands-on class on Friday. It looks harder than it is and turns out just beautiful every time.
I also wanted to update you on a few Stampin’ Up! Products. First there are some new Digital Downloads available for your My Digital Studio Software. To order these visit my online store on my Stampin’ Up! website – CLICK HERE.
The latest group of digital downloads for My Digital Studio are now available!
| Item | Description | Price |
| 122157 | Striped Grosgrain Ribbon Color Pack | $3.95 |
| 123367 | Flower Brads Brights Pack | $1.95 |
| 123374 | Flower Brads Subtles Pack | $1.95 |
| 123381 | Flower Brads Regals Pack | $1.95 |
| 123388 | Flower Brads Neutrals Pack | $1.95 |
| 121438 | Play Date Designer Series Paper | $4.95 |
| 123432 | Play Date Quick Accents Kit | $5.95 |
| 123433 | Play Date Embellishments | $3.95 |
| 121439 | Forest Friends stamp brush set | $1.95 |
| 121440 | Letters stamp brush set | $9.95 |
| 123431 | Funky Four stamp brush set | $3.95 |
Then I have a couple of catalog product updates.
The Play Date Rub-Ons (Item #118760) on page 184 in the catalog are now available to order.
The Punch Caddy on page 200 in the catalog are not going to be available at all. I know I had them on my wish list and I was disappointed to here this announcement. Due to serious production and quality issues with the product Stampin’ Up! has decided not to offer this product at all. I’d much rather know that now that find out it is a bad product after selling it to someone.
Now it is time for Monika’s Blog Bingo! Does anyone have all the called pieces so far?
I am continuing with Round 1 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. Round 2 is full and I’m taking names for Round 3 right now which is close to being full too. See this POST for more details.
Here is piece #4 – the Owl image from the Cute by the Inch stamp set – hostess set- (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
I hope you are having a nice weekend!
Aug 18, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Masking, Open House, Stampin' Up! Convention, Techniques |
This little 3×3 card was one of the Make & Takes from our convention class. It uses a reverse masking technique. In our kit was a piece of card stock that had been cut with the Circles #2 die for the Big Shot. Using the negative piece (not the circles) we placed this over our card stock to create a mask on the outside edges of the card. Then using a Stampin’ Sponge add color to the inside of the circle. We also stamped the leaf image before removing the mask. Make sure your mask doesn’t move while you are doing the sponging and stamping – I have a little shadow on mine because I slipped just a bit.
The words were added after the mask was removed – I needed to scoot mine over just a bit so it wasn’t on top of my leaves. It’s not perfect but it’s still a cute card.
I used this card as one of the projects at my Open House for everyone to make. My oops was that I thought I had envelopes for the 3x3s but I was wrong – sorry about that.
BINGO UPDATE:
I have filled all the player slots for Round 1 and have started a list of players for Round 2 which is also filling quickly. I will be emailing Bingo Cards for the Round 1 players today, Wednesday. And I’ll start calling Bingo pieces on Thursday and I’ll have a piece each day until someone gets Bingo. I think it is fun to see where everyone is from! Here are the round 1 players:
- Carolyn from NC
- Lisa from MT
- Andrea from CA
- D from WA
- Jeanette from GA
- Gery from LA
- Bonnie from GA
- Jana’ from NV
- Marisol from NJ
- Cinthia from MI
- Chris from IL
- Sherry from CA
- Nancy from FL
- Anne from CA
- Donna from WI
Good luck and let’s have fun!
Aug 4, 2010 | Baby Wipe, Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Rock 'n Roll, Summer Mini 2010 |
One of my favorite stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog is the Sweet Scoops stamp set. I didn’t think it would be that great but it is one of those sets that you can use for a lot of fun techniques! Last week I had the girls from the Towne Lake Card Club over for their monthly get together and I decided to use this fun stamp set for one of our projects. I redesigned a card that I had made earlier and used for my Ice Cream Party class. This card was based on Neapolitan Ice Cream my original was Mint Chocolate Chip.
This fun card uses two techniques – Baby Wipe and Rock ‘n Roll.
The colors for the ice cream are Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink. To create the ice cream fold up a baby wipe and use the Stampin’ Up! Reinkers for the colors to put small drops on the baby wipe. You are basically creating your own multi-colored ink pad. In a few spaces where the colors don’t meet you will have white (that’s the vanilla). Use this pad to ink up your ice cream stamp.
For the cone I used Crumb Cake ink – ink up the stamp with this lighter color first. And I used Chocolate Chip ink – take the already inked stamp and roll just the edge in the darker ink. For mine I did the left side and the top and a touch on the bottom edge. This gives the cones a little shadow making it look more 3-dimensional.
To dress up the card I added a scallop edge with white gel pen dots. And also a panel of Crumb Cake that was run through the Big Shot machine with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. I love this folder and think it resembles the texture of an ice cream cone. Another strip of Chocolate Chip was added on the bottom with some white gel pen dots.
I stamped “Have a sweet celebration!” on the bottom in Chocolate Chip ink. A quick birthday card for someone special.
I ‘m going to try adding a full list of supplies at the bottom of my post – but I can’t promise I’ll do that every time.
I did want to add a note about the white gel pen. I store my gel pens on their sides (which is also how you should store your Stampin’ Write Markers). I originally stored them tip down and discovered that they would stop working before the ink ran out. Since I changed to storing them on their sides I have not had any problems and use the pen until there isn’t any more ink in it. My thought is that if you store them tip down the ink sits at the edge of the tip and if you aren’t using it daily the ink dries in the tip and clogs it, on it’s side the ink doesn’t fill the tip while it is being stored. This is just my thought – I have no proof that is makes a difference other than my experience.
So have a Sweet Day!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
- Ink: Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake Classic Ink pads, Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink Classic ink Refills
- Stamps: Sweet Scoops Stamp set
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder
- Scallop Edge Border Punch
- White Gel Pen
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this card click here.
Jul 16, 2010 | Bleaching, Cards, Embossing, Thank You |
Just a quick post today. Thursday was the first day or orientation at Ga Tech – I learned lots of information – I hope Kyle did too. We were together for parts of the day and apart for others. Today is the important stuff – like registering for classes and getting a student id.
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
Wendy and her family have moved to Saudi Arabia – they left on Thursday. I wish them the best in their new adventure and safe travels where ever they may go. We will be in touch regularly as I help her with keeping the STARZ group connected. I’ll be including the STARZ group in my downline meetings so if you live near me I hope you will join us.
I didn’t get anything done on my convention swaps since we were gone all day Thursday and I’ll be gone most of Friday too.
I’m officially a Ga Tech Mom!
Jun 19, 2010 | Cards, Graduation, Summer Mini 2010, Watercoloring |
Around here most of the graduations have passed so I’m a little behind but I made these to send out earlier this week. This idea is from Heather Summers Simply Stamping 2 class. She created an invitation but I used these as my graduation cards – one has a hidden gift card and the other has some hidden money.
I used the Go Graduate stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. I used the aquapainter and Watercolor Crayons to color the graduates and the caps that were stamped with Black StazOn ink. This one is Basic Black, Night of Navy and Whisper White.
The belly band has the stars from the Classic Stars Jumbo Wheel. Then I layered a variety of punched pieces to create the emblem on the front. Our message was written under the gift card. This one is for a family friend that graduated high school this year.
I also made this blue one for my nephew who graduated from pre-k 4.
The Happy Graduation is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. The colors I used were Brilliant Blue, Basic Black and Whisper White.
I hope they both like their graduation cards.
Thanks for stopping by today.
I wanted to share this swap card that I received at convention – it was one of my favorite and used a stamp set I never really paid attention to. The stamp set is called Pedaling Past in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
We are currently playing the Round 1 group. As soon as I have a winner for Round 1 I will email out the cards for Group 2 and we will start playing. Then Group 3 will follow. Hurry if you want to be in Group 3. See this POST for more details.
