Oct 9, 2010 | Bingo, Clearance Rack, Embellishments |
I’m still looking for a Bingo winner for this round – is anyone close??
I don’t think I shared the prize from the last round. 
Here it is!
I took an empty Stampin’ Up! button container and peeled off the labels. If they don’t come off easily use a heat tool to heat the label for a second and try again. Then I punched a circle to fit on the top and stamped on it.
I filled the container with an assortment of the Corduroy Buttons and Brads that Stampin’ Up! used to sell. They are all retired now but you can find some of them in the Clearance Rack – go to my website and click the SHOP NOW button – then look at the Clearance Rack section. Lots of great deals are in there right now but they are selling out fast so don’t delay.
I haven’t decided yet on my prize for the round we are playing right now. So who know what it might be……
Are you ready to play?
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 4 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6 – I only have a couple of spots left. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1, 2, and 3 winners.
Here is piece #12 –the words hand crafted from the Charming stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz).
May 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Summer Mini 2010 |
I completed another layout for the 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking challenge – this one is from week 8 and it also happens to fit a Color Challenge that I found on the Inkspirations blog. The challenge is to use Basic Grey, Sage Shadow, Apricot Appeal and Whisper White – which happen to be the colors in the Stampin’ Up! Nouveau Chic Designers Series Paper. This was the paper that I used on my scrapbook page. Now this was not one of the papers that I liked but I had some and when I pulled out these pictures of my mom and dad the colors seemed to go well and so that is what I used. And I LOVE how the page turned out! Plus I used the new Bitty Buttons from the Summer Mini catalog – they were perfect. The little heart buttons match up with the smallest heart on the Heart to Heart Punch.
I cut strips of the designer paper in different lengths and widths to create the background on this layout. 
The title was cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet Sizzlits Die set. Add I added a cute little accent next to the title – first I put a punch out of the Apricot Appeal card stock behind the bitty heart shaped button – poked the holes through with my paper piercer – then put it on top of a Basic Grey Corduroy Button and thread some gray cross-stitch thread through and tied it in a knot. It turned out so cute.
I added some Basic Grey Taffeta Ribbon to the page and from the bow I hung a heart shaped tag stamped with “love” from the Tiny Tags stamp set.
On the top of the page are three more of the heart shaped bitty buttons – one has Sage Shadow behind it, one has Apricot Appeal behind it, and one had Basic Grey behind it.
I love these little Bitty Buttons. Here and there I added some faux stitching with my black journaler. And there is some real hand-stitching on the left side of the page – a few cross-stitches just because. But I don’t think you can see it in the picture and I forgot to get a close up of it.
It is National Scrapbooking Month so I should be working on scrapbook pages. I have another page that I finished this weekend too so I’ll be sharing that this coming week.
Thanks for stopping by and checking things out today – have a happy day – and be sweet to your sweet heart!
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
Feb 6, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
It’s Saturday and time for another challenge at Create with Connie & Julie! This week our challenge is a COLOR challenge – Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Melon Mambo and Crushed Curry. The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration brochure – Good Neighbors stamp set and the Welcome Neighbor Designer paper pack.
Congratulations to last weeks winners – Robin Gregor was first place and Sandra Hansen was second place and Jeannine Norder earn an Honorable Mention. Thanks for playing along last week!
This was a hard challenge for me – putting these colors together is not in my comfort zone. So I went through a few different versions before settling on this one.
I used the Welcome Neighbor Designer paper pack for the flower – I’m not sure how well you can see it in the photo but there is a layer of Pumpkin Pie, then Crushed Curry and then Melon Mambo. All three sizes of the flowers have all three colors in the layer. Then I added a Pumpkin Pie Corduroy Brad in the center. The flowers are the Flower, Daisies #2 Bigz die for the Big Shot.
Then the designer paper pack is also the striped paper strip and the little butterfly. I also used the Good Neighbor stamp set on this card – can you see it? I used one of the trees stamped in Old Olive ink as the leaves under the flower.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Old Olive card stock and ink
- Crushed Curry card stock
- Welcome Neighbor Designer Paper pack (SAB)
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (SAB)
- Whimsical Words stamp set (SAB)
- Basic Black ink
- Good Neighbors stamp set (SAB)
- Pumpkin Pie Corduroy Brad
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Flowers, Daisies #2 Die
- Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
And here is a look at the rest of the Create team:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet now is the time to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week. 
There is a new project posted every day and there will be a minimum of two fabulous tutorials each and every week. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Julie site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Jan 10, 2010 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Wildlife |
If you haven’t noticed I have been trying to participate in various challenges. I figure it keeps me thinking and my creativity flowing – maybe sometimes pushes you to use/do/try something you wouldn’t normally do. A personal challenge is I always try to take what I see and make it with all Stampin’ Up! items. I am on a mailing list from one of the scrapbook magazines and received an email from one the ladies this weekend about a new blog she started and a new challenge – 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking – now that sounded interesting so I went to check out her blog and she has week 1 scrapbook layout posted. I normally create 2-page layouts but this was a single page and the challenge is to make one a week for 52 weeks – that would certainly fill up a scrapbook for 2010 – so why not – I can do this – yesterday I worked on my week 1 layout – I changed a few things – and used all Stampin’ Up! product, of course.
The background is a 12 x 12 piece of So Saffron. Then I layered a 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 piece of Sahara Sand. I used the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper – two different patterns – the So Saffron dots and the stripes of So Saffron and Old Olive.
The circle is chipboard from On Board Batch of Blooms chipboard. I “painted” it with Old Olive craft ink and a sponge dauber. Then punched holes in it with my Crop-A-Dile. I add Basic Grey Tafetta Ribbon by threading it through the holes and typing a bow at the bottom of the circle. So now I can enter this one in the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week – which was to use ribbon.
I stamped with Basic Grey ink using the new stamp set Garden from the Heart that is in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I colored the images with my Stampin’ Write Markers – So Saffron, Old Olive and Sahara Sand and a White Gel Pen. 
For the hat I added a So Saffron flower button from the Button Latte Designer buttons – in the center I added a silver brad. Under the hat I added just a little bit of Sahara Sand with an Aqua painter to add a shadow.
I also stamped with the splatter image from Itty Bitty backgrounds and Sahara Sand ink around the corners and edges on the layout. The photos are some that I took earlier this year of a flock of Cedar Waxwing’s that came through our yard this spring. I usually see them only once maybe twice as they migrate through our area. They come in a big flock and these pictures show them enjoying the bird bath and fountain in my back yard.
I also stamped the curly label tag image and punched it out. Since I didn’t have a Basic Grey marker and wanted to use the image with out the words I used a masking technique. I covered the words with a piece of tape – then inked the image on my Basic Grey ink pad. Removed the tape and then stamped on my Whisper White card stock. That gave me the label without the words. It was punched with the Curly Label punch and then layered with a die cut using the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die. I added a Basic Grey corduroy button – with some white crochet thread (ok I had one non- Stampin’ up! item).
It is much prettier in person than in these photos. The White Gel pen really pops on the Sahara Sand card stock. I’m done with my week 1 scrapbook page – 51 more weeks to go…..
Thanks for visiting today!
Jan 3, 2010 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
I just made this quick Valentine card for a sketch challenge on a new blog I found called Card Positioning Systems. Sometimes when you are creating you need a little jump start and a sketch can often help. Here is the sketch for the challenge:
It is a very simple sketch so that makes for a quick card. I decided to do a Valentine card since that is what I had on my craft table. In fact – I only used items I already had out on my table. So it made the card even faster since everything was ready to use. Note to self: Goal for 2010 – try to do a better job of cleaning up after you are done with a project so your room doesn’t turn into such a mess.
Ok – on to my creation –
What do you think – quick and sweet isn’t it? And I used four new products from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel; Well Scripted Stamp set; Chocolate Chip 5/8″ Satin Ribbon; and Pretty in Pink Corduroy Buttons.
I am trying to take some of my photos outside on my back porch. The sun was already setting and it is windy today so I had to hold the card and snap a quick photo and grab it before it blew away – it took me about 4 tries to get a picture of it. I wanted to try the natural outside light and see how my pictures turn out. What do you think?
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Here it is!
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 4 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6 – I only have a couple of spots left. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1, 2, and 3 winners.
