Jan 22, 2014 | Occasions Catalog 2014, Valentine's Day |
I have a quick little treat holder for you today. This one is decorated for Valentine’s day but it’s a perfect idea for any holiday.
I happened to have Whisper White strips left over from the Owl Calendar Project I made before Leadership. And they worked perfect for this project. The Scalloped Tag Topper Punch uses a strip that is 2″ wide. These were 2″ wide and 8-1/2″ long. Punch both ends with the punch and then score at 4″ and 4-1/2″ (the center is 4-1/4″).
This is what it looks like once its punched and scored.
This is what I used to decorate the front
Fun treats! I hope you like them. We made these in my last Hands-on class.
Jan 21, 2014 | Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Occasions Catalog 2014, Tell Me Tuesday, Weekly Deals |
It may be Wednesday by the time you see this but it is still Tuesday here where I am. Kyle and I traveled to San Francisco today. Came in on a full 5 hour flight. Got out to the rental car place, got the car and drove to the city to find our hotel. We only went around in circles a few times before we got to the entrance and then had to wait to turn cause a fedex truck was blocking it. Anyway we are in the hotel room and heading to bed soon – even though its still relatively early here. We will have a busy couple of days apartment hunting.
So here is this weeks Tell Me Tuesday.
Here is what we have going on this week. – SHOP HERE.
- New Weekly Deals 1/21 – 1/27 –
- New My Digital Studio Downloads –
- New Paper Pumpkin subscribers who sign up – between January 11 and February 10, 2014, will receive a FREE set of 2012-2014 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers -a $14.95 value-with their Welcome Kit. JOIN TODAY – just CLICK HERE . I saw the February and March kits and they were some of the best ones yet.
- FROM ME ONLY – I’m having Ribbon & Paper Shares for the Occasions Catalog – CLICK HERE for more details on the Ribbon Share and HERE for more details on the Paper Share.
I hope you found something fun in the things I listed above!
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Jan 21, 2014 | Valentine's Day |
Have you seen the Stampin’ Up! Monster Hugs Valentines? They are so cute!
You can get pink ones for girls and the blue ones for boys! They are quick to put together –
- sign the back
- add the candy – there is already adhesive there for you to stick it on
- cross the arms – the slits are there for you to latch them in place
- add a heart – it’s self-adhesive
- add a wiggle eye – they are self-adhesive too!
- give them out!
The backs sides are so cute too – little hearts on their bums….
And they are a good price too $5.95. Each package has enough to make 18 monsters – you just need to choose if you want BOYS or GIRLS or get a pack of each. And decide on the candy – I used heart shaped lollipops for mine. Stampin’ Up! has been showing them with chocolate nuggets. And I’m sure there are other candies that you could use too.
Oh here is a little tip I just realized – duh – wish I had figured this out earlier. A lot of the candy – like these lollipops have expiration dates that are a couple of years out. These were actually some I bought last year! But they haven’t expired. So that made me think – I could be buying candy on sale the day after each holiday! Just check the expiration dates on it and see if it will last for the year – store in a good spot and your good to go and saved a bunch of money. Just a thought.
I’m off to go apartment hunting in San Francisco with Kyle. It’s a long way from Georgia but it is an amazing and exciting opportunity for him to work for Facebook. Wish us luck on our quick trip that we find something.
Jan 20, 2014 | Occasions Catalog 2014, Valentine's Day |
Are you getting ready for Valentine’s Day yet? I’ve started creating a few ideas since it’s creeping up really fast. Stampin’ Up! has a few special items right now just for Valentine’s day. One is this pack of Sweetheart Treat Bags. Cute little red bags with printed hearts on them – plus they include the Baker’s Twine and the little pre-cut striped banners both in Pool Party. Each pack comes with 12 bags, 12 tags and 12 pieces of twine – all that for $4.95. You just need to add the treat for the inside – I used boxes of Sweethearts candy.
I also added a few stamped images from the Language of Love stamp set.
- I stamped the large heart in Real Red and punched it out with the Full Heart Punch.
- Then I stamped the row of small hearts in Pool Party and punched each of those out with the Small Heart Punch.
- I punched a small hole in the tag, the large heart and one small heart. Those were strung on the Baker’s Twine which I tied in a bow.
- The other small heart were paired up and attached to the end of the Baker’s Twine with mini glue dots.
Fun and easy to make up a bunch of these for Valentine’s Day. I’ll have another quick idea for you tomorrow.
Jan 19, 2014 | My Digital Studio, Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat, Stampin' Up! Events |
Put the Spotlight on MDS (My Digital Studio) was the name of the Share Fair Class that I taught at leadership. When Stampin’ Up! called a few months ago to ask if I would be a presenter – I was completely surprised, nervous, scared, and excited. I wasn’t sure I could do it but didn’t want to say no either. Then I kept reminding myself that over the years I had been taking little steps doing presentations in front of people and this was the next step. I would do it!
Ideas ran through my head about what to share – and of course I knew exactly what to share. Over the last year or 2 the MDS offerings that I have had were the MDS Intro Class, the MDS Digi Crop Nites and then the addition of the Creative Retreat that included an MDS project in the Make&Takes. My friend and fellow demonstrator Cindy works with me on these events – and that was one of the things I told everyone is to find a friend and do these events together. It works perfect for us. I wish Cindy had been there with me to do the presentations but she wasn’t able to attend Leadership this year. We are planning our next Intro Class for February – the exact date I’ll post as soon as it is final. The Digi Crops we are having twice a month right now – those dates are on my website and FB page. And the next Creative Retreat is going to be in May – save the date May 15 (evening start) – May 18. More details will be coming later.
Wednesday after I arrived in Houston I went to the convention center for a rehearsal. Got over there just in time and realized I didn’t have any of my notes! They were all in the hotel room. I guess that is how it was meant to be – I went through the rehearsal without them. I think I missed a few things but overall I covered everything. Then I put together my display board.
Thursday was the day of the presentation and I found my class sign outside the room. And then waited on my time to start – I was in the second session of classes. I didn’t have much focus during the first set so I pretty much missed them all. Everyone should be doing Webinars over the next month or so and I’m hoping to catch all of those. I do still have that to do – mine will be in late February. So if you missed the class you can catch the webinar.
I got a little more nervous when I found out I was following Holly Linford – the MDS guru at Stampin’ Up! – and then found out my helper was not there. My replacement helper turned out to be Brian Billing – the Demonstrator Training Manager! I got miked up and he introduced me and I did my first presentation. I went for the full 20 minutes. I didn’t stop to answer questions and it was a good thing I didn’t. In my 3rd presentation someone asked a question and I tried to answer – I totally lost track of where I was! Yikes. So if you were in my class and you had a question I wasn’t trying to be rude and ignore you but I was afraid of what would happen if I stopped and while I thought I could handle it by the third time – I was wrong. You can ask me now or I’m pretty sure during the webinar that you can write in with questions too.
Maybe you couldn’t tell but I was nervous and so HOT! I told Brian after the first one I needed a fan. I got water. I could have taken off my vest but was afraid the back of my shirt was wet! Seriously not good. This is what I looked like after I was done.
Thumbs up – red faced and smiling! But I did it!
At the end of leadership on Saturday I went back to take down my display board and they let us keep our name signs.
The only problem for me was that I brought 2 small suitcases this time and neither one was long enough for the sign to fit in! So luckily my friend and roommate Linda had a big suitcase and she was able to bring it home for me. Thanks Linda! She was also the one taking most of the pictures for me. Thanks Linda!
Thanks for listening to me today – I intended to say that at the end of my presentation but I think I forgot! But thank you if you came to listen to my presentations – I hope you found something to be helpful.
This is what it looks like once its punched and scored.
