Apr 24, 2014 | Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Occasions Catalog 2014, Stamper's Club |
Do you ever walk through the dollar spot at Target and look at things to see what you can use to create something really great? I took a trip through the dollar spot back before Christmas time and spent $50! That’s 50 items. What sort of gems did I find? Well one was this little holiday themed standing sign.
I added the holes in it for my project. So it was just something to set out for the holidays – pretty plain really. But I had an idea! I asked Greg to if he could drill holes in it and he said no problem – so I brought him a stack and a few minutes later he had all the holes drilled. Any thoughts on what you think I might have created?
It’s a 2014 desktop calendar! I thought if I could get the holes drilled I could add the cards for each month and make a flip calendar! What do you think??
Here is a little bit of info on how I made it –
- as you saw above we drilled two holes in the stand
- I covered the front and back of the stand with a piece of card stock – I used my Punch Board to round the corners and glued the card stock directly to the front and back of the stand – punch the holes before you glue it down
- I created my calendar for each month using My Digital Studio and printed them on Whisper White card stock. I cut each piece to fit the stand. This took a little bit of trial and error to get everything spaced where I wanted.
- I used Fresh Prints Designer Paper Stack to decorate the side of each month. On the left side I also added a piece of card stock punched with the Ribbon Border Punch – it just barely has the little scallops peeking out.
- For each month I used a different print and I alternated the card stock colors each month – I used Coastal Cabana, Real Red and Crumb Cake. After attaching the designer paper I rounded the top corners and punched the holes to allow the pages to be threaded on the rings.
- During my club meeting where we made these I created a “cheat sheet” for them to see which month had which designer paper and what color card stock.
- I threaded all the months on the ring and as the months change you flip the previous month to the back.
- To finish I created a tag in My Digital Studio with the 2014 that I could punch out with the ticket punch. I added that to the ring along with a piece of Real Red ribbon.
- I do open the ring, slide of the ribbon and the tag off so that I can switch to the next month – then put those back on so they stay in the front.
I was totally pleased with how this little project turned out! My stamp club girls made one and I also gave them as gifts for my Leadership roommates. I hope you like it as much as I do and that it gave you an idea for a future calendar project – just take a stroll through that dollar spot and see what you find. Think outside the box and come with something different to do with what you find there.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Apr 23, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Catalog 2014 |
Have you noticed that there are Hostess sets in the back of the Stampin’ Up! Occasions catalog? I recently got one of them – it’s called Nature’s Hello. There are four images – a butterfly, a bird, a flower and a sprig of leaves. I used it for one of the cards in my Welcome Spring class earlier this month –
I used the butterfly stamp and colored it with multiple Stampin’ Write markers – Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana and Pear Pizzazz.
The card idea came from one that I saw on the display boards at convention.
Here is a list of what I used to make the card – I’ve also indicated if it is on the retired list or in the Occasions catalog. Retired list items will be going away as soon as they sell out. And the Occasions catalog will end at the end of May – I’m crossing my fingers that many of the things in there will be added to our new annual catalog.
- Sahara Sand card stock
- Hardwood stamp (Occasions catalog)
- Starburst Framelits (Occasions catalog)
- Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder
- Big Shot & Magnetic Platform
- Texture Boutique (will be in the new catalog)
- Modern Medley Designer Paper (Retired list)
- In Color 2013-2015 Designer Series paper stack
- Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die (Retired list)
- Nature’s Hello stamp set (Occasions catalog – it will be retiring too)
- Backyard Basics Framelits (Retired list)
- Rhinestone Basic Jewels
- Petite Petals Punch (Occasions catalog) – I know you can’t see this one on the card – but what I used it for is to cut the ends in the little flag strips
It turned out really pretty and natural.
Apr 22, 2014 | Wildlife |
Happy Earth Day!
Here are some pictures that I took recently in my yard.
Enjoy your day!
Apr 22, 2014 | Cards, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Virtual Crop |
Have you heard about the My Digital Studio Virtual Crops that my friend Cindy and I are hosting on Facebook? We have done a few now and they have been so much fun! In just a few weeks the participation and members in our group have grown! And we have people joining us from all over the WORLD – how exciting is that! We love this software product from Stampin’ Up! and are eager to share and encourage everyone to use it. Just try it!
Last week we had our April Virtual Crop and Cindy and I each had a challenge for the group. Mine was much easier than hers! I made two samples for mine – here they are –
Mine are both cards and the challenge was to take an element and repeat it on your project and then use the Align Feature to line them all up and space them all evenly.
And here is my creation for Cindy’s challenge –
She gave us a sketch that was a 2 page layout and we needed to create it as a photo book and use the 2 page view, we had to include ribbon elements, and a quote – and the quote was to be made up of different fonts/texts or cropped words. Well I left out the last part – my quote is all one font, but I did have another font on my page. You can’t tell in this shot but since my photo and my quote cross between the two pages they are actually in my layout twice – once on each page. The double page view allowed me to line everything up because I could see both pages as a spread at the same time! And believe it or not I was even able to attach my quote to my circle punch shape that the photo is in and got it lined up correctly – I wasn’t sure it would work but it did! I just took a photo snip of my screen so you could see the two pages all line up together.
We also had our “pick of the crop” for those that tried the challenges and submitted their creations to our photo album. There was one pick for each challenge and they get to display this cute badge on their blog or Facebook page to show that they were the “pick of the crop”.
If you would like to join us next month then you need to join our group on Facebook – MDS Virtual Digi Crop. Leave me a comment here and let me know you plan to join, ask to join the group on FB, and then I’ll approve you.
I hope to see you there when we have our next Virtual Crop – it should be in May sometime – a date will be posted in the group once we schedule it.
I added the holes in it for my project. So it was just something to set out for the holidays – pretty plain really. But I had an idea! I asked Greg to if he could drill holes in it and he said no problem – so I brought him a stack and a few minutes later he had all the holes drilled. Any thoughts on what you think I might have created?
It’s a 2014 desktop calendar! I thought if I could get the holes drilled I could add the cards for each month and make a flip calendar! What do you think??
