Jun 24, 2014 | Clearance Rack, My Digital Studio, Tags, Wedding |
I have been away for a short while spending time with family but I’m back now. Last Wednesday Kyle flew home so he could come with us to a family wedding. Thursday we left and drove to the mountains up in the very north east corner of Georgia. Greg’s first cousins’ daughter was getting married on Saturday and the weekend was full of family time. Thursday night a Bar-b-que at the lake house, Friday night a party at a marina on the lake, and then Saturday was the wedding and reception at one of the country clubs overlooking the lakes. The views everywhere were just beautiful! We spent lots of time with cousins, aunts, uncles, more cousins, second cousins, grandparents, etc. Plus we met the grooms family – with what seemed like an equal amount of cousins… And then Sunday driving back home we stopped and spent the afternoon with my family – my parents, brother, niece and nephew. Monday I took Kyle back to the airport to fly back to San Francisco. I think he had a worthwhile trip seeing almost every relative in one quick trip home!
There was a little Stampin’ Up! included in the weekend. First off I went up to the lake house and spent a day with Jan a few weeks ago – we made Hospitality/welcome bags that would be in all the guest rooms when they arrived for the weekend.
We cut tags from Very Vanilla card stock using the Chalk Talk framelits and stamped “welcome” from a retired stamp set on each tag using Early Espresso ink. Then tied Gold Baker’s Twine on each tag. We cut the Early Espresso scalloped tulle (on the clearance rack) to tie on the handle – then the welcome tag was tied on to it.
On the front of each bag I created a name and date piece in My Digital Studio and then printed it on Very Vanilla card stock. Each piece was cut to size and the top was cut with one of the edgelits and the Big Shot. Those were all glued to a piece of Old Olive card stock and then glued to the front of each bag.
I also made a sign to sit by the guest book – I used My Digital Studio and printed it on Very Vanilla card stock. I used the Fast Fuse adhesive and attached it to a think piece of card board so that it would stand up on the plate stand. I tied a piece of the Early Espresso Tulle to the stand.
And here are a few other photos I thought I would share –
the bride and groom
the next generation – the kids from Greg and his first cousins that were at the wedding lined up in age order
Kyle, Tyler, me, Greg and Ryan
my 3 boys and my niece and nephew
sisters
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Jun 18, 2014 | Cards, In Colors |
I’ve been introducing the new Stampin’ Up! 2014-2016 In-Colors to my clubs and classes this month and wanted to share another project with you. One of the benefits of being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator is we get a magazine just for us! Inside it there are lots of creative ideas so you don’t have to come up with your own ideas if you don’t want to. In our last issue there was an article about the new In-Colors and some various project ideas. For this project I used one of their ideas.
The whole set of note cards was put inside a cello bag and tied with a piece of ribbon and a tag – this makes a nice little gift for a hostess or friend.
For each note card they stamped a coordinating envelope. The stamp set that we used was the Work Of Art set. I have found it to be a very versatile set. Here are all the individual cards….
Blackberry Bliss
Hello Honey
Lost Lagoon
Mossy Meadow
Tangelo Twist
It’s a great time to join Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator. The starter kit this month is $50! Once you become a demo then you’ll also get the magazine and you’ll have access online to all the back issues too. You won’t be lacking for creative ideas! I’d love to have you be part of my team. Learn more on my website or send me an email with any questions – Join the Fun!
Jun 17, 2014 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards |
Here is a fun summer birthday card made with some brand new Stampin’ up! products.
Red, White and Blue are fun summer colors and the new Sea Street stamp set is really cute – a fun smiling octopus. I created this card for a swap group that I’m part of. A group of us each create a card and then we swap with each other and get a whole bunch of ideas from the group. Here are some details about this card –
- Real Red card base stamped with the starfish image randomly across the bottom
- Night of Navy die cut with the Starburst Framelits and the Big Shot then embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder – I think it looks like bubbles
- A strip of Designer Paper from the new Maritime paper pack.
- tied some Whisper White Bakers twine around the card front
- 2-1/2″ Circle punch – a whisper white piece and stamp with the Octopus and the school of fish – add to the front with Stampin’ Dimesnionals
- stamp “Happy Birthday” from the new Something to Say stamp set – punch out with the Word Window punch
Here are all the Stampin’ Up! products I used – click on them to go the my online store.
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Jun 13, 2014 | Cards, Masculine, Paper Pumpkin |
Hey Man – did you get your May 2014 Paper Pumpkin kit? It’s called Hey Man! This kit was a card kit all ready to create cards for Father’s Day and masculine looking birthday. I put mine together late one night when I was in my craft room – I wanted to make something but didn’t want to come up with any ideas. So I pulled out my Paper Pumpkin kit and started by making the card following the instructions and then I went out on my own and started doing things a little different. I ended up with 7 cards total – the 6 that were in the kit plus I added some extra card stock to make one more with the extra pieces I had left. Since I did some altering I was left with a few odds and ends and those were what I used on my extra card.
That’s a group picture and now let me show you each one individually. Here is the one I started with – following the directions:
and then here is the 3×3 card that I also made following the directions. Well almost – on the little tag I used one of the candy dots instead of the little stamp.
Oh and by the way can you see that I stamped on the envelopes too. That arrow stamp isn’t from this Paper Pumpkin kit but it’s from an earlier one. With all the arrows in this kit I thought that one was appropriate to coordinate.
I decided I wanted to make a horizontal card so I came up with this
And then I used the extra piece of the blue/green plus the cut off banner piece from the first 3×3 card to make the other 3×3 card –
And then here are two other of the regular cards –
And then with the pieces I had left over I decided to make one more card. I pulled out some Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi card stock and created this:
So what do you think?
I’ve been enjoying these kits each month. I have a couple that I didn’t put together (well actually I think just 1). I have been using a lot of the cards recently for Graduation – remember the Wahoo kit – those were great and also the one with the wood words that said Congrats – I think that one was called Glittered Greetings. Greg even used one of the Thanks cards to give to someone at work. He thought the wood words were pretty cool.
Gotta go – talk to you later…..
We cut tags from Very Vanilla card stock using the Chalk Talk framelits and stamped “welcome” from a retired stamp set on each tag using Early Espresso ink. Then tied Gold Baker’s Twine on each tag. We cut the Early Espresso scalloped tulle (on the clearance rack) to tie on the handle – then the welcome tag was tied on to it.
