Apr 1, 2014 | Birthday, Cards, Paper Pumpkin |
I have another alternate idea to share for one of the past Paper Pumpkin kits. This one is for the Pedal Praise Monthly Kit – this one was from August 2013. I used it to make a birthday card.
I love the little silver mini brad in the center of each wheel. And the lines are from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set make the perfect “road”. I saw a card similar to this on Pinterest. Colors are Smoky Slate, Real Red and Whisper White. A little touch of embossing using the Alphabet Press Folder – it not only has letters but some numbers as well so when I embossed my little piece I positioned it to pick up some of the numbers since this was a birthday card.
You can see other ideas with past kits by visiting my Paper Pumpkin Idea Pinterest Board.
It’s Tuesday and here are a few updates from Stampin’ Up! for today –
- New Weekly Deals 4/1 – 4/7 – This weeks deals….
- New My Digital Studio Downloads – New stuff this week….
I hope you found something fun in the things I listed above!
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Mar 31, 2014 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Last week at Digi Crop nite I gave the girls a challenge to use the Custom Background feature in their project. Here is my example –
I also gave them a sketch to work off of – a sketch often helps give you a place to start. My page follows the sketch. And I used photos from a day trip we took to Santa Cruz – we weren’t there very long and the pictures are mostly from when we walked down the pier.
Using a custom background and selecting a photo is one of the fun things that you can do with My Digital Studio that doesn’t really work with traditional scrapbooking. In case you haven’t tried it before here are a few tips to get you started.
- Open your My Digital Studio Project and get to a blank page.
- Open the Design Center on the right side and go to Background Papers.
- Click on the CUSTOM option.
- It will open up a screen for you to browse your computer and find the photo you want to use. Add it.
- Now create the rest of your page on top of it.
Give it a try and see what you can create.
Mar 31, 2014 | Big Shot, Occasions Catalog 2014, Sale-A-Bration 2014, Wildlife |
I got another picture of the baby bluebirds yesterday – March 30th –
I for sure see 4 babies – there were 5 eggs originally, so the 5th one could be hidden in the pile or perhaps the egg didn’t hatch. Hopefully a future photo will show the 5th baby. I’ll try to get another photo today and if I do it will be posted on my Facebook page.
Today I have a sweet little project to share combining the Spiral Flower die from the Occasions catalog and the Banner Blast set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. By the way today – Monday, March 31st is the LAST day to place an order or join and take advantage of the Sale-A-Bration specials – free items for each $50 you spend, if you join and extra $25 in your starter kit! You can order or join directly from my website – click here – click SHOP or JOIN.
So here is my little project –
Aren’t these the cutest little flower pops! Once you get the hang of it they are pretty quick to make – cut the spiral flower on the Big Shot and then you roll it up – and it works so much better if you use some craft tweezers to do the twirling.
The Pansy punch is what I used for the leaves. Punch a hole in the center of the pansy and also in the little tab end of the spiral flower – that’s where the stick of the lollipop goes through – if you push those over the base of the wrapper they will stay put.
To finish this cute little treat I added the tag from the Banner Blast set.
- Stamp the Hi image in Primrose Petals – by the way I used Primrose Petals Coordinations card stock for the flower
- Punch it out with the banner punch
- Punch a small hole in the corner
- Then tie it on with the twine from the Sweet Sorbet Accessory pack
Fun treat to give all your friends this spring!
Mar 28, 2014 | family, Wildlife |
I wanted to update you on the baby bluebirds. They hatched!
This picture is from Thursday – March 27th.
Mom was keeping them warm most of the day and dad was flying around peeking in the house. It reminded me of what an expectant father would be doing. Pacing around outside and then looking in – “are they here yet?” I watched for them both to leave so I could sneak in and snap a quick picture.
And look at the change in just one day – their little necks are now lifting those heads and they are opening those big beaks!
Theses two pictures are from today Friday March 28th. The babies will change a lot and I’m to keep taking pictures of them for the next few days until I leave to go on a scrapbook crop for a long weekend. I’ll be posting daily on Facebook but probably won’t post these pictures every day to my blog. So if you aren’t already you may want to LIKE my Facebook Business page – Stamping Together at Monika’s Place. According to Facebook my next milestone is to get 500 likes – are you one of them already? If not hop on over and get yourself on their. I do post stuff to Facebook that doesn’t get posted on my blog.
On another note today is the first day of Ryan’s spring break. Well his really started VERY EARLY this morning! At 4AM! He is going with the high school band to Hawaii! and I dropped him off at the school at 4 AM for a LIMO ride to the airport! How jealous am I!! He gets to go to Hawaii before me and ride in a limo before me. How did that happen?
When we first planned this trip I assumed the whole group was leaving from the school. Boy was I surprised when they told us we had to meet them at the airport at 5 AM on Friday morning – yikes! So when another mom volunteered to set up a limo service to take some of the kids – I was the first one to say “I’m in!. So it turned out 6 of them went in style arriving at the airport in a LIMO – now that is one way to start spring break your senior year of high school. They are now on a plane flying to Hawaii – about another hour or so and they should be landing.
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