Jan 21, 2012 | Big Shot, Birthday, Occasions Mini 2012, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day |
One of the organized swaps that I participated in at Leadership was the Treat Wrapper swap. I did this one last year too and really enjoyed all the different ideas. For this one I signed up for 2 different groups and then two of my room mates were also each in two different groups – so between the three of us we should have a ton of new ideas. I plan to take pictures of all of their ideas before I leave to come back home. So here is one of my treats – this is actually a double one – since the amount of candy in mine was rather small I thought I should include 2 similar ideas to have an equivalent amount of candy to what everyone else was doing. You might remember the holiday treats I did a couple of months ago using the Gift Givers stamp set – it was a project for one of the Ustamp classes. I used that idea and created a Birthday and a Valentine’s idea.
The little 1″ x 8″ skinny cello bags are still available – that is what I used for these treats – they are filled with candy – skittles and conversation hearts and then folded in half and tucked inside the folded tag from the two-tags die.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for the Birthday Treat:
- Card stock: Early Espresso, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
- Ink: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Peach Parfait, Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizzazz, Pretty in Pink
- Stamp sets: Candy Conversations
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Two Tags die, Petal Cone die, Adorning Accents Embossing Folder, Small Heart Punch, Pretty in Pink 1/2″ Scallop Dots Ribbon, Sweet Shop Jelly Bean Brads, 1×8 Cello bag, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for the Valentine Treat:
- Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White
- Ink: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Early Espresso, Stampin’ Write markers – Melon Mambo, Early Espresso
- Stamp sets: Sweet Cake, Create a Cupcake
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Two Tags die, Stripes Embossing Folder, Cupcake Builder Punch, Modern Label Punch, Lucky Limeade Baker’s Twine, Old Olive 1/2″ Scallop Dots Ribbon, , 1×8 Cello bag, Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
It’s my last night in Texas, I’m not sure what we are doing tonight – we’ll probably go out for dinner, share all of our swaps and pack our bags so we’ll be ready to leave in the morning.
Jan 17, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Valentine's Day |
I’m crossing fingers that there is no traffic or very little, that we get to the airport, through security and our flight has no problems. I was a bit irked with the airline because when I made my reservations I had a flight that left after 11 am so I could leave my house after the morning rush hour traffic. But they move my flight up by more than an hour and it leaves before 10 am now and that means I have to leave my house before rush hour traffic. And our rush hour lasts more than an hour around here. So I’m up before dawn and Diane will be up even earlier since she has to drive to my house and she is even further away.
Here is another card for you – this one uses one of the new A La Carte stamps in the Occasions Mini Catalog – it’s called Candy Conversations. I created this as a contest entry and also as a general swap card.
I also used the new Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – the strip with the hearts – on this card. I’m also planning to add this card to my Card Maker’s Club – it will be one of the options for the January class on the 25th right after I get back. The Cherry Cobbler panel and each of the little hearts are popped-up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. And I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to align the “Be Mine Valentine”. I also made a punching template using my grid paper to line up punched circles so they would be spaced evenly across the card front. To make each subsequent card I laid the template on top of the cherry cobbler layer – traced inside the circles, move the template and then punch around each circle. You could just punch through the template but what I found is that if I was even a hair off with my punch it would punch my template and be going through 2 pieces of card stock which makes it difficult to punch and left frayed edges. So tracing inside the circle template and then aligning my punch around the pencil marks worked better for me.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
- Ink: Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker
- Stamp sets: Candy Conversations
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, Small Heart punch, 3/4″ Circle punch, Basic Pearls, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jan 16, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day, Wedding |
I am making final preparations to leave for the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference early tomorrow morning. And part of that is setting up some blog posts for this week to show you some of the things that I made and will be taking with me to swap. One of the best things about a Stampin’ Up! event is the swapping. Meeting new people, getting lots of ideas and seeing old friends are all part of swapping. There are generally two kinds of swapping going on – organized swaps – where someone plans a particular swap around a theme, type of project, or product and there are a set number of people swapping. I am signed up for several of these. And then there is general swapping – where you just swap like projects with whoever is around you and you make as many as you want to swap. I have some of these too but not as many as I do when I go to convention. The organized swaps that I am in include a full card swap with the UStamp class girls, a treat wrapper swap – I’m in two groups for this one, and a scrapbook swap. I haven’t done a scrapbook swap before so I’m anxious to see what kind of layout ideas I get.
Of and something new that they added to our event is a contest – for every stamp set in the Occasions Mini Catalog they will choose a winner from the contest entries – so I was attempting to make a card (or scrapbook page) with every stamp set from the Mini Catalog that I have. And surprisingly I have a lot – and most of them I earned free one way or another – I think I only bought two stamp sets. I haven’t finished making everything I wanted for the contest entries but I’m hoping to get a few more done – the more I enter the more chances to win. And they will put them up on the display boards to share with everyone too.
So now onto something to share with you today…..
This is one of my contest entries and general swaps. It uses the new Take it to Heart stamp set and the Hearts Collection Framelits Dies. I really love these Framelit dies – I hope we have more when the next catalog comes out this summer. I also used the Loving Thoughts stamp set – all the words in that set fit inside the banner that comes with the Take it to Heart set. The banner does have to be cut out by hand – no punch or die for it.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Early Espresso Textured, Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Whisper White
- Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Blushing Bride Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: Take it to Heart, Loving Thoughts
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Hearts Collection Framelits Dies, Full Heart punch, Small Heart punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Basic Pearls, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I’ll be back here tomorrow with another project but I really be traveling to Texas. It should be a fun and busy week.
Jan 3, 2012 | Cards, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Shaker Card, Valentine's Day |
Quick, Quick don’t miss out on this stamp set – Gift Givers. It is in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday mini catalog and today is the last day to order from it. This turned out to be my favorite stamp set from the mini catalog. And here is one more card for you – a Valentine’s Day card…..
This card idea was from the Birmingham Regional that I got to attend in the fall. And it is a fun Shaker Card! this one has hearts in the shaker –
These are the tiny hearts from the two step owl punch. To create the shaker frame I used the foam circles in the Holiday Mini – good news they are on the carry-over list and will still be available! I know they are circles and my shape was a heart but I just snipped, bent and pieced circles into a heart shape. Here is the inside –
Yes it is time to think about Valentine’s Day now that New Years has passed. So this was the first idea and I’ll have more for you – some great new products in the Occasions Mini Catalog that are perfect for Valentine’s Day – that starts tomorrow.
I better tell you what else from the Holiday Mini will still be available –
Glimmer Paper in Red and Silver
Holiday Stocking Die
Peek-a-boo Frames Die
Stocking Accents Die
1×8 cello bags (yeah!)
Spice Cake Designer Fabric
1″ Square Punch
Dazzling Details
Love Blossoms Wheel
Shaker Frames
Pewter Embossing Powder
Snowburst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
And a few things are in the next mini catalog so you’ll still be able to get those too –
Simply Scored tool, markers and stylus
Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps – Holidays
Kraft Gift Box
The stocking builder punch is NOT coming back so if you want it, and didn’t get it, you better do it tonight.
That’s it for now!
Dec 11, 2011 | Cards, Christmas, Valentine's Day |
You can make this cute card if you come to my Card Maker’s Club class next week. I loved this little set when I first saw it in the Stampin’ Up! catalog. It is called Merry Winter and has these cute little marshmallow snowmen – at least that’s what I think of when I see them.
This could be a Christmas card, a winter card or even for Valentine’s day.
I hope you’ll come join me on Wednesday 12/21. The Card Maker’s Club is lots of fun and lets you choose the cards that you need/want to make. So come have some fun with me.
See you soon.
Nov 7, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Punch Art, Thanksgiving, uStamp, Valentine's Day |
I designed this fun project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 online class.
This is a Holiday Treat Making Kit. I used the Gift Givers stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog for this project. It is one of my favorites! The picture shows the box and then a sample of each of the six Holiday treats that you would make. My idea for this project was to have a ready to go kit full of everything you would need to put together treats for each holiday – except the candy. So once you have your kit created you just sit back and wait for the holidays to arrive – go buy your candy – fill the bag – assemble and give out the treats.
My box is designed to hold enough for 10 of each of the 6 holidays – so there are sections for the large fold over tags, the skinny cello bags, and then the tags, ribbon and brads for each of the holidays. I think it is fun and now I can be ready to mail off treats to my kids, and my nieces and nephews.
There is a complete tutorial for this project in the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 class. Click on image below if you would like to join the class. You will go to the main site for the UStamp classes. This one is all about punches and there are over 45 projects with full tutorials – new projects are being posted every day.
I hope to see you there. This is the first of my two projects and let metell you the other one is super duper cute!!!
Have a great day!
