Baby Wipes and Reinkers

Apr 3, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

This card was one of the projects we made at last months Starz meeting.  It uses the baby wipe technique on the big tree image and on the border image.  You are basically creating an ink pad using a baby wipe.  Fold it over into 4ths and set on something like the inside of a plastic lid or stamp set container.   Then you add drops of reinker around the baby wipe creating a multi-color inkpad.  You will want to experiment with colors – usually three colors work the best and you don’t want them to run together and make “mud” – some combination’s don’t work well together.    The colors used for this card were Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Certainly Celery and Crushed Curry.

The park bench and the HELLO are stamped in Chocolate Chip.  The card was designed by my upline, Wendy.  The stamp set is called Pendant Park.

I’ll talk to you later….

From Our Hearts

Nov 3, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

I found this organization earlier this year – I’m not exactly sure where I came across them but mostly likely on one of the stamping yahoo groups that I am part of.  I had lots of card fronts from swaps and I just hate to throw them away and I didn’t have time to turn them into cards so I had kept them in a box.  Once I found this organization I knew that I now had found a place for them to go.  Over the summer I started cleaning out my craft closet and craft room and collecting all the card fronts into one box – I had so many I had to find a bigger box.  Once the box was full I sent it to the From Out Hearts organization. That was a couple of months ago now and I had forgotten that they would post it on their blog when the box was received.  So I thought I better go see if I could find it … I did and here is the Post on my package on the From Our Hearts blog.

This is the ABOUT description on their blog:  From Our Hearts is a not-for-profit 501c3 that was started by stampers wanting to help service men and women stay in touch with their loved ones back home in the States by providing them with quality handcrafted greeting cards. Today, our international effort has sent thousands of cards to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, all donated by the huge stamping community world wide.

You can help in various ways – by donating on the blog to pay for supplies such as envelopes, postage, or packing tape.  You can donate completed cards with or without envelopes, you can donate card fronts that they will turn into full cards.    Or just donate money.

I’ll be gathering more cards to send to the group – if you live near me and have any that you want to include in my shipment be sure to bring them the next time you come to my house.  Holiday cards have already been sent overseas so now they are looking for Valentine’s Day, and the general stuff – birthday, sympathy, new baby, get well, miss you, etc…

Thanks so much!

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Valentine Sweet Treats

Sep 25, 2009 | Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, Uncategorized | 1 comment

sweet-treat-valentinesIt took me a few tries to figure out how to get this Valentine heart to work for me.  This is the Sweet Centers stamp set in the new Holiday Mini Catalog.  The picture from Stampin’ Up! has these cute little valentines made using the Sweet Treat cups.  I wanted to make them so I stamped my hearts, cut them out and put my candy in the container and put it all together.  It was very quick – but the plastic from the sweet treat cups hung over the edges and the bottom and top of my heart.  I tried to trim it with my Craft & Rubber scissors but it really just made a mess – the plastic is a good thickness and then it has adhesive on it so my edges were not what I wanted them to be.  So I had to experiment some with this one until it pleased me.

I know it is early to think of Valentine’s Day but I wanted to use all the different stamps in this set to showcase its versatility.

So the best way that I found to create this is as follows:

  1. Start with a piece of card stock (I used Whisper White) and stamp the heart image.
  2. Fill the Sweet treat Cup and remove the adhesive and adhere to the center of the heart image.
  3. Now trim out the heart being sure you leave a wide enough edge that the plastic from the cup stays covered.
  4. Stamp another heart image on another piece of card stock.
  5. Punch out the center with the 1-3/4″ circle punch.
  6. Adhere this over the top of the Sweet Centers Cup lining it up with the back heart and then trim to match the heart.
  7. I punched a hole in the top and added a tag.  When I tried to tie it all the way around my thread kept slipping off.  This way it uses less thread and you just tie it in the corner.

The cup showing on the edges wouldn’t be an issue if you just had this on a card front and covered it with a full piece of card stock that wasn’t trimmed right along the edges of the heart.  You could just stamp the heart on a square piece of card stock and not trim it at all – I’m sure that would be cute too and faster to make since you won’t have all the cutting to do.

If you haven’t bought these little Sweet Treat cups they are fun to use and not too big.  If you want to mail them we have padded envelopes just for that purpose.  I’m waiting on my envelopes to come and I’ll mail one and let you know how much it costs.

Have a sweet day!

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Convention Shoebox Swap – Pocket Card

Aug 5, 2009 | Animal Stories, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Ribbon, Uncategorized | 0 comments

On Tuesday night my roommates(Sue, Michele, Diane) and I participated in a Shoebox swap with a group of Demonstrators at one of the local hotels.  This is my first real Shoebox swap at convention and I’m excited to participate.  Basically this is how it works – there are in this case 42 people plus the hostess.  Everyone designs a full card and you cuts supplies for 42+1 for the hostess.  Half of them we make into finished cards and the other half stay as pieces.  When we get there we turn in our finished cards and take our shoebox to a spot at a table.  Inside the shoebox are the pieces for the other cards (individually bagged) plus all the supplies needed to make the card and a completed card.  Then we get divided into two groups.  Each group makes half of the 42 cards by rotating around the tables to all of the shoeboxes.  Then when we leave we pick up the other half of the cards that are already made for us.  The hostess sorts all the finished cards while we are making the non-finished ones.

Animal-Stories-Pocket-CardHere is my card for the Shoebox Swap – I hope everyone likes it – it is a Pocket card – I love pocket cards for invitations but birth announcements and even as a gift card holder it would work too.  This one just says “let’s celebrate” so it could be made into an invitation or just a birthday card.

The stamp set is Animal Stories and I used the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper.  The colors are Old Olive, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip and Brilliant Blue.

The picture shows two cards – one with the insert pulled out of the pocket and one with it tucked inside.

I hope everyone liked it.

This should be posting on Wed – and it is check-in day and our first glimpse at Memento Mall!

Happy Stampin’!

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August WOW Scrapbook Kit

Aug 3, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

The new August WOW Scrapbook kit has been posted over on the blog that Wendy and I put together – wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com .  Visit it to learn more about ordering the August kit.

Here is a sneak peek of these beautiful pages….

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Thanks for stopping by today.  I am headed to convention on Tuesday morning so I have scheduled some posts for the days that I will be gone.  I will be sharing my swaps that I took to convention so be sure to check back.  If you see a new post each day then you will know I set it up right and if I disappear for the week then you’ll know it didn’t work out so well.  The post that went out on Sunday should have gone out on Saturday but apparently I didn’t do it right…. but I’m learning.

I don’t think I will have any computer access while I’m there so if you send me an email I will reply when I return.

Have a wonderful week – I’ll be with thousands of other Stampin’ Up! demonstrators stamping our little hearts out in Salt Lake City!  And if you want to come to convention with me next year be sure to check out the Recruiting Special going on now through the end of August.  You can join my team for only $85 with the purchase of a mini starter kit!  Or you can purchase the regular starter kit and get some additional supplies featuring the new In-Colors.  I would love to grow my team so I can promote to Manager Level this year.  I have meetings every other month at my home – the next one is right after convention – and if you don’t live near by I’ll send you all the information we talked about over email and answer any questions that you have.  Visit my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – and see the tab on Start Your Own Business.  My recruit password is monikaktrma.

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