May 16, 2018 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Blends |
It’s Try it Tuesday on Wednesday. It seems as soon as I get some things figured out and working other things stop working. Sigh. When I was trying to edit my photos my editor wasn’t working correctly. I have no idea what was wrong. Our power went out Monday evening for about 30 minutes and then once it came back our internet and wifi were messed up. It took a while to get all that going again. I think we basically had to shut everything off and then get everything to reboot. We keep getting more and more things that rely on internet/wifi. Then when I went to reboot the computer it decided it was time to run a bunch of updates. Anyway things weren’t working and I had to walk away. Sometimes its best to walk away and come back later.
So on to today’s project. Have you tried using the new Stampin’ Blends to color on Designer Series Paper? I love it! I love to use the black and white prints and add pops of color – it totally changes the look of the paper. For today’s card I used the Pick a Pattern Designer Series Paper – the black with white spots.
I used the Stampin’ Blends in Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral and Bermuda Bay. Both the dark and light marker for each of the colors and just randomly coloring in the white spots. I was able to maximize my paper by using 4×4″ pieces on my cards. The images I stamped are from the Pick a Pattern stamp set. This stamp set turned out to be one of my favorites from this catalog. I used the different images and the coordinating paper a lot more often than I thought. It’s just really fun! The flowers are also colored with the Stampin’ Blends and the one extra flower was fussy cut and added to the front.
Supply List:
- Pick a Pattern stamp set (retiring)
- Pick a Pattern Designer Series paper (retiring)
- Whisper White Thick card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Stampin’ Blends: Daffodil Delight Combo, Bermuda Bay Combo, Calypso Coral Combo
- Daffodil Delight Double-Stitched Ribbon
- 1-3/4″ Circle Punch
- Paper Snips
- Dimensionals
You could do any color combination that you wanted with the Blends and Black and White Paper. Have you tried coloring on your paper yet?
Don’t forget to order retiring products before they are gone! Use my May Hostess Code – EJB9FJAP when you check out in my Online Store and receive a little surprise for orders over $25.
I hope you are having a great week. Ryan just got home from school on Tuesday night and he will be here for a few days before heading off to his next adventure. He has a summer internship at Facebook in San Francisco. I’m so excited for him!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I hope you are enjoying the new look.
May 14, 2018 | Cards, class |
I started a new class a couple of months ago called Cocktails & Card Making. It’s held at the Tavern at Towne Lake – which is in the front of my neighborhood. It’s a place for friends to gather for a drink and some food and while you are there you can join me for some creative time. I’d love to have you come to my class.
Each month we will be making hand-made cards. There is no experience necessary and all supplies are provided. Grab a friend for a girls night out and join us. This month we are making some fun colorful celebrate & birthday cards. These will be perfect for the summer months to use for birthdays or end of school celebrations or anything else that might pop up.
Here is a peek at the past two classes. The girls worked on 5 different cards each month in March and April.
Plan to join me this week on Wednesday, May 16th at the Tavern at Towne Lake. We will start stamping at 7 pm. Come early to get food and cocktails from the Tavern.
May 11, 2018 | Graduation, SU Ribbon |
It’s Graduation weekend at Purdue University. And my youngest son, Ryan, will be graduating with his Bachelor’s degree on Friday night. We are traveling to Indiana to be there. The last one is done with college. It seems like yesterday he was just starting school. He has big plans for the summer – working for Facebook – and then back to school for one more year to finish a Master’s degree. Saturday there will be a little graduation party for Ryan and his girlfriend Emily at her parents house. I offered to make some table decorations. We are driving up so I thought I could carry these with us in the car. I’m hoping they travel well.
I have the wine boxes from Sam’s to take them in – you know the ones with the sections so the bottles to clang together. I’ve been saving and collecting all different kinds of wine bottles the last couple of months. I had friends save some for me too. Then I washed and removed all the labels and foil. I bought gold spray paint to paint them – I spent last week doing all that. I was hoping to use the Stampin’ Up! number framelits dies but they were a bit too small for this project. Instead I printed out large numbers on some paper and then cut them out. Next I traced them on the back of some Gold Glimmer Paper and then cut them out by hand. I did two sets – and I picked a really basic font so they weren’t bad to hand cut.
I tried just some long wooden skewers but they were too short so I found some balloon sticks at that were longer. They were white so I also spray painted those gold. I used the mini glue dots to attach my glitter numbers to the top of each stick. To finish each number I used a combination of sequins and ribbon to tie to the base of each number. I had to go to my retired stash because I didn’t have enough ribbon to do all 8 bottles.
I hope the kids and the party guests like these decorations. These would also work for New Year’s celebration or an anniversary celebration. Just adjust the numbers as needed for your event.
Supply List
- Gold Glimmer Paper (retiring)
- Gold Mini Sequin Trim
- Black Mini Sequin Trim
- Basic Black Shimmer Ribbon
- Mini Glue Dots
I also used some gold cord and some gold ribbon that were previously retired. We do have a gold cord coming in the new catalog that starts in June. And a new Gold Glimmer paper coming too – they made some changes to it so the current ones are retiring.
I can’t wait to see my boy graduate! He was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant award a couple of weeks ago. And he was on the Dean’s list again. I’m a proud mama for sure.
Thanks for visiting today.
May 10, 2018 | 2018 Occasions Catalog, Big Shot, Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat |
Did you get a chance to have fun with the Sweet Soiree Embellishment kit? It’s part of the Sweet Soiree Suite of products in the Occasions Catalog and it’s on the Last-Chance list. The little embellishments are perfectly coordinated to go with the Cake Soiree Stamp set, the coordinating Sweet Cake Framelits dies and the Sweet Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper.
My Spring 2018 Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat was themed with this whole bundle of products. Everyone that attended received their own embellishment kit and one of our Make&Take projects was all about this little kit.
I created a set of six cards for everyone to make with the supplies they received at the retreat. All six featured parts of the Sweet Soiree Embellishment Kit. The kit include die cuts with silver embellishments, vellum die cuts, washi tape, velvet ribbon and more. Here is a closer look at all six of the cards. Click on each image to see it close up.
The Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat is held twice a year – Spring and Fall. It is a fun weekend event in the North Georgia Mountains. It’s one of my favorite events to host each year. We enjoy time together, everyone works on their own individual projects and on the provided make&take projects. We have games and prizes and fun all weekend long.
Supply List
- Sweet Soiree Cardstock Pack (retiring)
- Sweet Soiree Embellishment Kit (retiring)
- Sweet Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper (retiring)
- Scattered Sequins Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
- Cake Soiree Bundle (stamp set and dies) (bundle is retiring)
- Silver Baker’s Twine
- Berry Burst Metallic-Edge Ribbon
- Whisper White card stock
- Silver Foil
- Petal Pair Textured Impressions Embossing Folders
- Classic Ink – Marina Mist (retiring), Berry Burst, Old Olive
- Stitched Shapes Framelits
- Powder Pink card stock
- Doilies (retiring)
- Silver Thread
- Classic Label Punch
- Big Shot Die-cutting machine
Many of the items in this Suite are retiring. Be sure to get them before they are gone. Order today in my online store –
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