Dec 21, 2010 | Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, Sale-A-Bration 2011, UDI Color Challenge, Valentine's Day |
It’s Tuesday and time for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge – this is #15. Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. This is the inspiration that Gretchen gave us this week –
These are not my idea of Christmas colors but I think you could do a Christmas project with them – but I didn’t – I went with a different Holiday. This was another idea from my issue of Paper Crafts magazine. With that in my hand, my sneak peek items from the upcoming mini catalog and Sale-a-Bration brochure in my craft room and the new Filled with Love promotion in my mind – I ended up with a card that has a Heart theme to it – perfect for Valentine’s Day!
There are several sneak peeks in this card – a new stamp set called Valentine Defined that will be in the Occasions Mini Catalog starting on January 4th. A new Designer Series Paper – Ice Cream Parlor – that is one of the Sale-A-Bration product choices beginning on January 25th. And another Designer Series Paper – Love Patterns pack – this one you can get now as part of the new Filled with Love Promotion.
The Filled with Love Promotion runs from December 17, 2010 – January 24, 2011. Valentine’s Day is the second biggest holiday for sending cards, and during the Filled with Love promotion, you can get an exclusive package of Designer Series Paper perfect for creating cards for family, friends, classmates, and more! And you get a FREE package of Bitty Buttons–a $4.95 value–when you purchase an exclusive Filled with Love Bundle. Contact me for more details or click on the picture below to go to my website.
Now for some more information about my card. The grid paper on the card is not one of the Designer Papers – I actually created it using a piece of Very Vanilla card stock, my Stampin’ Write Markers, a ruler and my Stampin’ Up! Grid Paper. I cut my card stock to size and lined it up on a piece of my grid paper. I used the ruler for my straight edge and varied the colors of the lines using the colors from the color challenge – Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo.
Once my colored grid paper was created I added a strip of Melon Mambo card stock to the back that was punched with the Scallop Border Punch. I punched hearts out using all of our Stampin’ Up! Heart punches and various Designer Series Paper. These were all folded in half and then attached to my card front – only in the center. I used a marker to add a faux zig-zag stitch to the center of each heart. The punches make for quick decorating.
At the bottom is the Love You stamp – with the heart punched out and layered on top.
I hope you like this little sneak peek. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Pear Pizzazz, Melon Mambo, Very Vanilla, Old Olive
- Ink: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Stampin’ Write Markers: Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink
- Stamp sets: Valentine Defined (Occasions 2011)
- Accessories: Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack (Filled with Love promotion), Ice Cream Parlor Designer Paper & Quick Accents Pack (SAB 2011), In Color Designer Series paper stack, Scallop Edge Border punch, Heart to Heart punch, Small Heart punch, Full Heart Punch. Grid Paper, ruler
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Dec 14, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Today is another Utah Diva’s Color Challenge – We are on week #14 click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
I just received a new issue of Paper Crafts magazine. And one of the articles in there was that “gray” was the new black. They used gray, white and yellow for several examples in the article. So I decided to use one of those ideas for this color challenge. Another thing that I just got was my pre-order items for the upcoming Sale-A-Bration promotion (starting late January) and the upcoming Occasions Mini catalog (starting January 4th). It’s like an early Christmas present getting to open that box and see all the new products that are inside. It was hard to decide what to get and what to wait on. I tried hard to be good. I’ll probably go back and get some more though – just too much fun stuff to choose from it’s hard to stop!
Are you ready to see my creation using the colors for today’s color challenge – Old Olive, Basic Black, So Saffron and Very Vanilla – AND a sneak peek for a new Sale-A-Bration stamp set?
The stamp set that I used on this card will be in the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration promotion – it is called Punch Bunch and you’ll be able to earn it FREE beginning on January 25, 2011. My picture doesn’t quite show the So Saffron card base very well. It was snowing this weekend when I took this picture so the light was reflecting funny. This card made me think of spring – I’m already looking forward to spring and it isn’t even officially winter yet!
This card is a finished 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ square card – the base is So Saffron, then a layer of Very Vanilla and then a layer of Basic Black that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder and the Big Shot.
The stamped image was stamped twice – once in Old Olive and punched out with the Scallop Circle punch and then once in So Saffron – this one I cut out the flowers to add on top of the first one. A little brad is in the center of the flower. I just love our stamp sets that coordinate with our punches – I seem to gravitate to those first when I see them in our catalogs.
I hope you like this little sneak peek. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Basic Black
- Ink: Old Olive, So Saffron
- Stamp sets: Punch Bunch (SAB 2011)
- Accessories: Old Olive Satin ribbon, Subtles Brads, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle Exra-Large Punch, 1/16″ handheld punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
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Dec 7, 2010 | Bingo, Christmas, stamped candle, UDI Color Challenge |
I missed last weeks color challenge but I’m here again this week. We are on week #13 click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
Just the right colors for working on Christmas projects. I had a workshop on Sunday afternoon and my hostess, Molly, wanted to learn how to make stamped candles. So that was what I did and used these colors on one of my candles. Here is the sample for the Color Inspiration and I’ll show you another example at the end of the instructions. Yes – I’m going to give you instructions on how to make these cute candles.
This example uses the colors for this weeks challenge – More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Real Red. This stamp set is called Holiday Lineup from the big Idea Book & Catalog. I really like all the characters – these are the elves, then there are the snowmen and the reindeer. All of them have the funniest facial expressions – I just wonder what they are all thinking about.
Are you wondering how to make a candle like this all by yourself. Well you need a few things – first you need tissue paper – the white kind that you put in your gift boxes – you probably have some of that around right now with Christmas coming up soon. You also need some wax paper – from the kitchen. You want your stamp set, Stampin’ Write markers and I used Jet Black StazOn ink but you could do this with regular classic black ink. And you need the heat tool. You can add the embellishments to dress it up if you want to.
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earned how to make these candles a long time ago and it is always so magical to me. First stamp your image on a piece of tissue paper – I stamped mine with Jet Black StazOn. Then color with the Stampin’ Write markers. Make sure you have grid paper or scratch paper underneath because the darker markers will bleed through because the tissue is so thin. Once I’m done coloring I tear the tissue close to the image all the way around. You may ask why don’t I cut around – when you tear you leave a soft feathered edge, when you cut you leave a defined edge which in my opinion shows through when you apply it to the candle – the feathered edge disappears.
Place tissue paper on candle
Once you are done tearing all the way around then position the tissue paper where you want it on the candle. I used a short pillar candle with enough room to add ribbon underneath. I also used this same stamp set on little votive candles and the images just fit between the bottom and the top edge of the candle – they are really cute too.
Wrap with wax paper and hold like a handle
Now you are going to wrap a piece of wax paper around the candle covering the tissue paper. Pull it tight and on the back of the candle hold the two ends together. This creates a handle for you to hold the candle while you heat it.
Now you need your Heat Tool – start at one end of the image on the tissue paper and start heating. You will see the tissue paper disappear into the candle. In this photo on the left you can see where I have heated it – the first two elves are melted in. Where the third elf is and over towards the right I haven’t heated it yet so you can still see the tissue paper.
Heat with Heat Tool
Continue heating until all the tissue disappears. This does not take long and do not stay on one section of the candle too long because you will melt the candle wax. It’s like magic when all the tissue paper disappears but the image is still there.
All done heating
Remove the wax paper
Once your done with the heating you peel off the wax paper revealing your stamped image on your candle.
To decorate the candle I wrapped a piece of grosgrain ribbon around the bottom – fold the edge underneath itself. Use a paper piercer to put a hole through the layers of the ribbon and into the candle. Then use a Rhinestone brad and poke it through the ribbon and into the candle where the hole is.
To finish I used the Big Shot and the Scallop Circle #2 die to cut a piece of card stock to set the candle on. It’s not necessary but I thought it added a nice touch.
Here is the one with the snowmen that I made for my Sunday workshop. For this one I added a tag to the top so you could give it as a gift to someone.
Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for the Elf candle:
- Card stock: Garden Green
- Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Stampin’ Write Markers
- Stamp sets: Holiday Lineup
- Accessories: Real Red Grosgrain ribbon, Fire Circle Rhinestone Brads, Paper piercer, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Scallop Circles #2 die, Heat Tool, tissue paper, wax paper
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Let’s continue with Bingo….
Here we go with Monika’s Blog Bingo. This is Round 7! The group is full and all the cards were emailed out Monday 11/29. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners and the players for this round.
And now for the next piece – Here is piece #7–the furniture from Loads of Love Accessories stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
If you have Bingo – 5 in a row be sure to email me.
Nov 23, 2010 | Baroque Motifs, Bingo, My Digital Studio, UDI Color Challenge, Upsy Daisy |
We are movin’ right along with the color challenge’s each week – we are already on week #11 of the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
For this week I decided to play with these colors in My Digital Studio. Stampin’ Up! has recently release several new project options for My Digital Studio so I decided to create something using the new calendar size that was added. Here is some more information about the recent update: The My Digital Studio version 1.0.5 update is now available. With this latest update, you will receive functionality upgrades as well as access to seven new professional print output products–including a trifold card, a journal, a 5.5″ x 6.5″ calendar with easel, and four postcards.
My birthday is in the month of March and these look like March colors to me so I created that month’s page for this weeks color challenge. Here is the result:
I started with the template in My Digital Studio – the designer template for a calendar already has the name of the month and all the numbers lined up in the right place for you. I did go in and change the color and opacity for all the numbers and the title – they are Chocolate Chip at 100%. I added a Background paper which is Very Vanilla Textured card stock. I used three digital stamp brush sets to decorate the page – Upsy Daisy, Baroque Motifs, For All You Do.
The butterflies are all the same image but I changed the sizes, colors and turned them in different directions. The flowers from Upsy Daisy set are flipped and the opacity is reduced and I added drop shadows on them. I highlighted St. Patricks day in Pear Pizzazz and my birthday in Rose Red. I also went back and added some Rose Red Grosgrain Ribbon and a Bow – since our inspiration picture had that on the dress I thought I would dress up my calendar page the same way!
From now until November 30th you can purchase My Digital Studio at 50% off during the Online Extravaganza – plus some of the digital downloads are also on sale. Just visit my online store on my website. Or you can sign up as a new demonstrator with the Digital+ Starter Kit for half-price. If you want to know more about either of these let me know.
Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- My Digital Studio software
- Additional Digital Downloads: Textured card stock
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Some of my Bingo Players must be napping – or away on vacation with their families for the holidays – so for those of you still playing – we’ll keep going on the search for the winner of this never ending round of Bingo!
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
And now for today’s piece – Here is piece #20 –the mug from Itty Bitty Bits stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
Anybody have Bingo? Make sure you send me an email when you get your 5 in a row.
Nov 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, UDI Color Challenge |
Today is Tuesday and it is time for another Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
These colors were easy for me to work with – in fact I had already a made a project on Saturday that used three of these four colors for my swap at the demonstrator meeting I had at my house Saturday. I had the best time Saturday night – there were 17 demonstrators at my house (well one isn’t official yet but will be signing up with the new promotion that started on Monday – see more about it by clicking the special on my right hand side bar – an Amazing Offer from Stampin’ Up!). Since I basically had something already created with these colors I just made a slight modification to add the missing color for the challenge. And wah-lah (is that how you would spell that?)…..
For the meeting we had a Cookie Swap – and the cookies had to be packaged in a Stampin’ Up! style container – bag, box, or whatever creative idea everyone could come up with. And let me tell you the ideas that everyone brought were awesome and the cookies look good – I’ve tried a couple already – Yum! Yum! I’ll be sharing all the ideas with you so check back.
But to start with here was my idea (well slightly modified). It is the new little paper sacks from the Holiday Mini – I ran the bags through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. It you don’t want the impression to be too deep (as in you don’t want it to tear your bag) then open the Multi-Purpose Platform so there are no tabs – just the platform – it still leaves the embossed impression but not quite as deep. Then I used a sponge dauber and the Frost White Shimmer Paint to add some shimmer to the snowflakes.
At the bottom of the bag I added a piece of the Candy Cane Christmas Specialty Designer Series paper. I used the Baja Breeze print with the snow flakes. Then I stamped the snowman tag from Tags til Christmas stamp set – I used Soft Suede ink on Very Vanilla card stock. It is punched out with the 1-3/4″ Circle punch and sponged on the edges with Soft Suede ink. I used the Baja Breeze Stampin’ Write marker to color in his scarf and hat. For the UDI Color Challenge I added the large Scallop Circle punched out of Not Quite Navy card stock to the back of the snowman circle. I didn’t have that on my original bags for the Cookie swap.
At the top of the bag I punched two holes with my Crop-A-Dile and tied some Very Vanilla Seam Binding through it to hold the bag shut. I added a tag from the Tags til Christmas stamp set. I inked the whole thing with Baja Breeze ink and then used Stampin’ Write Markers in Soft Suede and Not Quite Navy to color in some of the words. It is stamped on Very Vanilla card stock – punched out with the Scallop Square punch and the edges are lightly sponged. Add a hole in the corner with the 1/16″ circle punch and some crochet thread to tie the tag to the bag.
Here are my original bags for the Cookie Swap – just slightly different. These bags are similar to the one I made for the Royal Blog Tour – I just used a different stamp set for these.
Oh – do you want to know what I had in my bags for the cookie exchange?
They are called Homemade Heath Bars – here is the recipe:
Line a cookie sheet with foil. Cover bottom with saltine crackers. Melt 2 sticks real butter and 1 cup brown sugar. Boil for 5 minutes. Pour over crackers. Bake at 400 degrees for 5 minutes. Cover top with milk chocolate morsels (about 12 oz). When softened, spread with knife and allow to cool and harden; break into pieces. A Note: soak butter/sugar pot immediately (or suffer the consequences!)
Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. These are perfect winter colors or spa colors!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy
- Ink: Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Not Quite Navy
- Stamp sets: Tags til Christmas
- Accessories: Mini Lunch Sacks, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Crop-A-Dile, 1/16″ Circle punch, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punch, 1-3/4″ circle punch, Scallop Square punch, Stampin’ Sponge, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Northern Flurry Embossing Folder, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Frost White Shimmer Paint
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
And now for today’s piece – Here is piece #13 –the cupcake block from Cute by the Inch stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip). 
Anybody have Bingo? Make sure you send me an email when you get your 5 in a row.
Nov 9, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Rock 'n Roll, Techniques, UDI Color Challenge |
Did you come by for the Royal Blog Tour? There were six different tours with lots of castles on each tour. Lots of different stamp sets and stamping styles. I hope you had a chance to browse and that you saw something you liked. I finally got through all the tours and saw lots of new ideas. Thanks to everyone that came by my blog and left me a nice comment! They were so nice to read. Normally I try to reply individually to them all but this time I have a busy week so I don’t intend to do that. I will be posting more details about each project and will try to answer any questions in those posts.
But today is Tuesday and it is time for another Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
This week was tough for me. I pulled out the colors and looked at them for a long time trying to figure out how to get them to work together. With two different greens (Always Artichoke and Old Olive) and two different reds (Poppy Parade and Riding Hood Red) – I just didn’t think I could get it to work. I finally came up with the idea that different shades of red and green along with yellow reminded me of apples! Apples come in those colors so I needed an idea using apples.
I looked through my stamp sets to see what had apples – and guess what there is a Hostess Set called Apple Blossoms – perfect – I’ll go with that one.
My thought was to use the Rock ‘n Roll technique on the apples with different combination’s of the colors for the color challenge. Apples have different colors so this should be the perfect technique and a good way to incorporate all the colors.
Then what to do with all my Rock ‘n Rolled apples…..
I decided to use the idea from the catalog and make note cards – mine are post card style. And then I tied the whole stack together with Poppy Parade ribbon – like you might tie a stack of books together. And I added an apple tag with some Linen thread.
To do the Rock ‘n Roll technique you ink your stamp in one color of ink (typically the lighter color) and then roll the edges in another color of ink pad. Since I wanted all my leaves to be green – I did take off the ink on the stem and leaf when it wasn’t green and colored it back in with my Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker before I stamped.
So try some of these combinations:
Old Olive rolled in Always Artichoke
So Saffron rolled in Poppy Parade
So Saffron rolled in Riding Hood Red
So Saffron rolled in Always Artichoke
Poppy Parade rolled in Always Artichoke
So Saffron rolled in Old Olive
Always Artichoke rolled in Old Olive
Old Olive rolled in Poppy parade
Poppy Parade rolled in Riding Hood Red
Riding Hood Red rolled in Poppy Parade
There are more combinations that you could try. For each post card I layered the Whisper White card stock using the same two colors that I Rock ‘n Rolled in. I hope you like this idea….
Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with it was a struggle for me!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Poppy Parade, Riding Hood Red, So Saffron, Whisper White
- Ink: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Poppy Parade, Riding Hood Red, So Saffron
- Stamp sets: Apple Blossoms
- Accessories: Poppy Parade Ribbon, 1-3/4″ circle punch, 1-3/8″ circle punch, Linen Thread, 1/16″ circle punch
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Are you ready to get back to Blog Bingo? Thanks for being patient during the Royal Blog Tour. Since it has been a few days I wanted to go back and recap the pieces that were already called and then I’ll show you the new piece for today.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
Pieces for Round 6 called so far:
#1 – the crown from Tiny Tags stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade)
#2 – the flower from Because I Care stamp set (stamped in Concord Crush)
#3 – the Heart from Cute by the Inch stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade).
#4 -the snowflake from Season of Friendship stamp set (stamped in Concord Crush)
#5 – the teddy bear from Family Accessories stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip)
#6 – the tiny cupcake from Itty Bitty Bits stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade).
And now for today’s piece – Here is piece #7 –the word CREATE from the Charming stamp set (stamped in Peach Parfait).
If you have Bingo – 5 in a row – make sure to email me.
