Apr 5, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, SU Ribbon, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
This weeks Utah Diva’s Color Challenge was much easier for me than some of the others that we have had. I could have made lots of different things with these colors. Early Espresso, Real Red, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla. 
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 decided to use the Sneak Peek stamp set – Four Frames that you can earn free as a workshop hostess or purchase with a $20 order during the month of April. All four images in the stamp set fit inside the Decorative Label punch so you can make quick cards with it. My project is a whole set of cards with a matching box that holds the cards and the envelopes.
The box is actually two boxes glued together – one that holds the 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ cards and the other holds the envelopes. On the front panel you’ll see one of the four images from the Four Frames stamp set. I added the Vanilla Rosettes to the front. To color them I tried first using my Real Red reinker with some water and soaking the rosettes – this didn’t really work with the Real Red – I think other colors would be ok; but the red just looked like blood to me. So then I tried just coloring them with my Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker and that gave me a better color – they actually look Real Red now. This method leaves a few uncolored spots unless you really take time to get your marker in between all the layers of the flower. I attached them with a small drop of Crystal Effects to the front of the box. The cards are two different designs – one is the same as the front of the box and the other I just used the ribbon differently but the parts are the same. So here are pictures of all the cards:
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Real Red, Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: Four Frames, Teeny Tiny Wishes
- Accessories: Decorative Label punch, Scallop Trim Border punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Early Espresso and Real Red Taffeta ribbon, Vanilla Rosettes, Crystal Effects, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Mar 29, 2011 | Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
Sorry I missed last week’s color challenge. But I’m back for this week. Here is the inspiration piece we had for 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. Our colors this week were More Mustard, Rich Razzleberry, Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake and Blushing Bride. And here is my card creation for this week –
This week I actually used the inspiration piece and the colors to come up with my project. When I saw the pillow in the photo the first thing that popped into my mind was the Cute by the Inch stamp set. I decided to recreate the design of the pillow on a card. When I was done I decided it needed something so I added the Rhinestones to the center of each square. You can’t really tell but I tried coloring them with my Stampin’ Write Markers. The darker colors do have a tinge of the color on them. Then it was still not right so I added the Crumb Cake Seam Binding and thought it was the right touch.
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry, More Mustard, Poppy Parade, Blushing Bride, and Whisper White
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry, More Mustard, Poppy Parade, Blushing Bride
- Stamp sets: Cute by the Inch
- Accessories: 1-1/4″ Square punch, 1-3/8″ Square punch, Rhinestones, Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Mar 15, 2011 | Bingo, Cards, SU Ribbon, UDI Color Challenge |
Tuesday is here again. And its UDI Color Challenge day. For those of us on the design team we actually create our projects the week before and send them to Gretchen so she can get the post ready to go for Tuesday. Some weeks I cut right to the deadline (ok a lot of weeks) and other weeks I’m a little ahead of the game. This week I made it ahead of the deadline and thought I had a pretty creative idea to share too. I’ll see if you agree.
Here is the inspiration photo for 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. So here is my card creation for this week –
I was very happy when I realized we had the Seam Binding ribbon in three of the colors in our challenge this week – Baja Breeze, Always Artichoke, and Very Vanilla. I wanted to use all three but couldn’t decide exactly the best way to do that. I finally decided to try braiding the three colors together. To start tie a knot with the three pieces together and then tape that down to the table to hold it still. Then do a loose braid for the length that you need. For this card I used a trick that one of my demonstrator friends, Joyce, reminded me of this weekend – I had seen it before but had forgotten. See where the knot is right under there is a hole punched through the Very Vanilla card stock. So to start come from the back and bring the ends of the ribbon through. I used tape to hold the ends together while I worked. Bring the ribbon (in this case my braid) around to the front of the card, all the way across, and to the back. For mine I secured the end of my braid at the top edge and bottom edge with tape on the back side – and then un-braided what was on the back so it would lay flat. When the end gets back to the hole on the back bring the other end of the ribbon through the hole. Now both ends are in the front – put one on each side of the braid and then tie the knot around. This keeps everything in place and everything secure. Then I decided to fray the ends – I think that actually took the longest. Trim just the very edge off each side of the ribbon and then pull out all the cross hairs until you are just left with the long pieces. I did that 6 times one for each end of each color of ribbon.
The stamp set is Herb expressions. I used sponging on the edges of the Very Vanilla and the Color Spritzer with the Stampin’ Write Markers. The Rosemary image is colored in with the markers too. I created a matching inside panel but forgot to take the picture of it. I’ll try to add that later. I hope you like it!
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Basic Gray, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Basic Grey, Stampin’ Write Markers in Basic Grey, Baja Breeze, Always Artichoke
- Stamp sets: Herb Expressions
- Accessories: Scallop Edge punch,Crop-A-Dile, Color Spritzer, Seam Binding: Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Stampin’ Sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Monika’s Spring Bingo – here are the next two pieces for you:
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Mar 8, 2011 | Bingo, Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
It’s Tuesday and the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge Day. Honestly I waited until the last minute to make my card this week – and I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do but when it was done – it is so cute! I think I’ll be using this in a class or club at some point. Here is the inspiration photo for 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. Normally I work only with the colors that are in the inspiration piece and not the piece itself but this week was different – I decided to try to create a purse card like the one in the photo. And here is the result –
What do you think? It is quite cute in person. It will fit in the open-ended envelopes that we sell – it is basically a 3×6 finished size but the corners are angled to make it look like a purse. Colors are Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Daffodil Delight, and Tempting Turquoise.
Are you wondering at all about the ribbon handle? Stampin’ Up! used to carry lots of Chocolate Chip ribbon, but then we got Early Espresso and all the Chocolate Chip ribbon went away and we got Early Espresso. I considered using it for this card but it wasn’t one of the colors in the challenge – while in reality you probably wouldn’t notice the difference I wanted to stick to the colors. So instead I used Very Vanilla Taffeta ribbon and colored it with a Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker to make it all Chocolate Chip.
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Daffodil Delight
- Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise
- Stamp sets: Fast & Fabulous
- Accessories: Designer Label punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker, Gold Brads, Very Vanilla Taffeta ribbon, Paper piercer, mini glue dots, velcro dot.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Day 3 – Monika’s Spring Bingo – here is the next piece –
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Mar 1, 2011 | Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, SU Buttons, UDI Color Challenge |
We had storms yesterday afternoon – wind, hail, rain, lightening, tornado sirens going off. My car has been parked outside because my side of the garage is the work area while Greg is finishing the deck. When he got home and the storm was headed our way he said lets get everything out of the garage and get your car in – so we are scrambling to move everything as the storm approaches – I open the doors and it is pouring rain, wind blowing and hail coming down – Greg says to me “run it will only sting for a minute”!
Are you kidding – he wanted me to run out there – shouldn’t he be the one running out there! I wouldn’t go so he finally did without his glasses (he didn’t want to get those wet) – so then he couldn’t see to get my car in the garage because he couldn’t see through the rain without his glasses – it took him 4 tries with me waving my hands to go this way or that. He finally got the car in and I got the garage door shut. We went inside and Tyler says – “The grill is blowing across the deck” – it is on wheels and they weren’t locked so the big grill was rolling around the deck (we haven’t connected the gas line yet with the construction not quite done). My guess is it was probably quite comical if anyone was watching us. The storm finally passed with no actual tornado here.
I’m happy to report the new room is water tight – no leaks anywhere! And the new gutters worked well (I’m so glad they were there). The rain came so fast though the yard flooded and the neighbor had a river coming down his hill. And there was hail everywhere – I didn’t measure it but the news reports dime size to quarter size in our area.
Anyway none of that has anything to do with my card for today. Well sort of it does – after that Greg decided it was a good time to connect some power protector thing to the computer and in doing so he had the internet down and our network is now messed up. The internet is up but I can’t get to the network where my files are. He went to bed and it is not a good idea to wake him up – really never a good idea to do that – he is very grumpy if you do. So my dilemma was how to get my picture to create this post since I’m writing it at night before I go to bed. Luckily I had the email in my sent folder that I sent to Gretchen over the weekend and was able to copy it from there back to my laptop to use for this post. Well that was a long story to get to the Color Challenge for today.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. We are on week #25 and we have lots of colors today. I don’t really like when there are so many colors and I kept thinking flowers and butterflies and wanting there to be a green in this grouping and there isn’t.
So what to do with Rich Razzleberry, Perfect Plum, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, and Basic Grey…. I have been wanting to use the little builder wheels in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog so I decided to try something actually very simple. I also checked and all of those colors happened to be part of our button collection – which is not always the case with these color challenges. And here is my very simple card.
It’s actually a terrible picture of it. But the card base is Basic Grey and I wheeled the builder wheels with VersaMark ink, sprinkled Clear Embossing Powder over it and heat set. It really makes the designs pop out on this card. Then I took a small flower button in each of the colors tied a piece of thread through the center and added them to the card with mini glue dots. Really not much to this card at all.
Oh and one trick with the Builder Wheels – sometimes the wheels are a bit uneven and when you wheel across the table not all of the wheel makes contact with your paper leaving some spots blank. I was having a problem with that on the center wheel. My solution – I took the silicone rubber pad that I use with the Big Shot and the Texture plates and placed it underneath my grid paper and card. Then rolled the ink on and it has enough give that the wheels make contact with the paper everywhere. I hope that makes sense – is it as clear as the mud that is in our yard from yesterdays storm?
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Basic Grey
- Ink: VersaMark
- Stamp sets: Builder Wheels – Butterfly Bliss, Delight in Gladness, Pleasing Polka Dots
- Accessories: Jumbo Stampin’ Around Handle, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat tool, Silicone Rubber, Brights Buttons, Subtles Buttons, Neutrals Buttons, Mini Glue Dots, crochet thread
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
Feb 22, 2011 | 2-Step Stampin', Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
I’m back – I took a few days to go visit my parents and saw my brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephew. We took 4 birthday gifts, had a birthday party, a birthday dinner, walked in the park, rode bikes, played games and legos and had a relaxing weekend. Only Ryan and I went while Greg and Tyler stayed home to work on the deck. I need to take pictures of their progress. Last week I tried to shop for birthday presents for Noah (6) and Ally (4) and just couldn’t find anything that I thought was the right thing. So I went back to the basics – I got them each a hula hoop, a big bouncing ball, bug nets and sand toys. And that seemed to be the perfect gift – all the kids at the party wanted to play the hula hoops and the balls.
So today’s card for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge is a birthday card – and if you can believe it wasn’t even one of the four cards that I used for this weekend. Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. This is our Color Challenge inspiration for week 24:
I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with these colors – So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke. Originally I thought flowers since that is what was in the inspiration picture but nothing came to me. I was working on projects for a class last week and I wanted to use the Create a Cupcake stamp set and the new Build a Cupcake punch. I had a swap card from the Leadership conference last month that I copied the layout from and used these color challenge colors. It turned out to be a really cute card and colors that I would not have used together worked perfectly for this.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
- Ink: Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: Create a Cupcake
- Accessories: Build a Cupcake Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.
The box is actually two boxes glued together – one that holds the 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ cards and the other holds the envelopes. On the front panel you’ll see one of the four images from the Four Frames stamp set. I added the Vanilla Rosettes to the front. To color them I tried first using my Real Red reinker with some water and soaking the rosettes – this didn’t really work with the Real Red – I think other colors would be ok; but the red just looked like blood to me. So then I tried just coloring them with my Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker and that gave me a better color – they actually look Real Red now. This method leaves a few uncolored spots unless you really take time to get your marker in between all the layers of the flower. I attached them with a small drop of Crystal Effects to the front of the box. The cards are two different designs – one is the same as the front of the box and the other I just used the ribbon differently but the parts are the same. So here are pictures of all the cards:
