Mar 26, 2013 | Big Shot, Easter |
Look at these sweet little flower treats (or bonnets they kind of look like that too).
We made these for my Spring Hands-on class this month. They are decorated for Easter, but another idea is to make them up for the Red Hat ladies. I bet they would love them too. They are really easy to make – just grab your Big Shot.
- Cut the two largest flowers from the Flower Folds Bigz XL die. Then run each through the Big Shot again with the embossing folder. Glue those two flowers together.
- Fill a Sweet Treat cup with some candy, pull of the liner and attach to the center of the flowers.
- To cover the edge of the treat cup punch first with the 1-3/4″ circle punch and then punch around the circle with the 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle creating a scallop circle ring that fits around the treat cup – put some adhesive on the back and slide it over the treat cup.
- Tie some ribbon around the edge of the treat cup – I used the Primrose Petals stitched ribbon.
- I added a little tag with the word window punch – the Happy Easter is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and the little bunny is from the Itty Bitties stamp set. Tie the tag on with some Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
That’s it – make up a bunch and set them out for Easter treats.
Mar 22, 2013 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Scrapbook Pages |
Yikes – its the last day of Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up! There are only a few more hours left to place and order and get free product! So Hurry – my online store is open – www.monika.stampinup.net –
I’ve got a fun Scrapbook layout to share with you using lots of free Sale-A-Bration product – the Sycamore Street Bundle – which include the Madison Avenue stamp set, Sycamore Street Designer Paper and Ribbon and Button bundle – these were all free for $400+ workshop hostesses. Plus the Vine street embossing folder.
This layout was one that we made in my February Scrapbook class. It’s a layout that’s all ready for some fun photos!
I’ve been behind with sharing scrapbook layouts so I’ll try to catch up on that this week. This morning I had a fun class as we made two new layouts.
I didn’t have a chance to share yesterday but I have another update on the bluebirds – yesterday came Egg #5 –
I have had a lot of people ask how am I getting these pictures and where is the nest. The nest is inside a bird house in my backyard. The front of the house opens so I wait until the birds leave and then I open it to look inside. I have been using my iphone to take these pictures – I just stick it inside and click. Then I close up the house and mom and dad come back.
Now though she will be incubating the eggs and won’t be leaving the nest much. Today I noticed both the male and female in the yard most of the day – they sat on my porch and on the feeders a lot today (the feeders were empty so I filled them this afternoon). The incubation is 12-14 days – so now we start counting – today is day 1. So we should have babies hatching around April 2-4. Once they hatch I’ll get more time to peek in again as mom and dad will spend most of the day getting food for those babies. I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for coming by today!
Mar 22, 2013 | Stamp, Scrap, & Create Retreat |
Are you ready to get away from it all? Leave behind the family, the laundry, the cooking, the cleaning and come join us for a fun Stamp, Scrap & Create Escape Retreat.
Join us at Monika’s House April 19th – 21st. The fun starts on Friday and lasts until Sunday. We have 4 Make & Take projects planned as part of the retreat – everyone will receive a Goody Bag with supplies and extras. There are 3 optional projects that you can add. And bring whatever create projects you would like to work on. You will have table space set up for the whole weekend – so bring your scrapbooking, card making, knitting, laptop for My Digital Studio, bring your sewing machine if you want to sew – the choice is yours.
We plan to feed you and pamper you with little surprises throughout the weekend! Games & Prizes too!
I have some space in my house if you want to spend the night here instead of going home. Earliest to register gets first choice on where they sleep – I have a couple of Queen beds upstairs, a queen and single sleeper sofa in the basement, some sofa space, and some air beds for the floor. Or stay as late as you want in the evening – go sleep at home and come back in the morning!
We will send out a schedule and list of what you need to bring in early April. A non-refundable deposit of $25 is due with your registration form by March 29th – this holds your spot. We will be ordering supplies after the deposits are received. The remainder of the money is due by April 12th.
There are also some Optional Projects – payment for those is due on March 29th so we can order supplies.
Spots are LIMITED – we are only opening this event up to 15 people! So reserve your spot today! RSVPS and deposits due March 31st.
CLICK HERE to get the registration form and all the details.
If you are local to me I hope that you will join us for this fun weekend.
Cindy and I (Monika) hope to see you there!
Mar 21, 2013 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Spring Catalog 2013, Thank You |
I’m wrapping up my stay with Create with Connie & Mary – I have just a couple more projects to share for the weekly challenge team. It has been fun and I’ve enjoyed seeing the creations every week. Thanks for letting me be part of the fun.
This week at Create with Connie & Mary we were issued a color challenge! Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, and Not Quite Navy – they make me think of summer and water – so naturally I thought of the Oh, Whale! stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Spring catalog.
Now that I had my colors and knew I wanted to use the Oh, Whale stamp set I had to decide what to do with it. I have wanted for the last few months to make the little envelopes that are shown in the Sale-A-Bration brochure. I had many people ask how are those made. Well it’s really hard – you use the Big Shot and the Scallop Envelope Die and fold in the top, then the bottom, then one side and it’s done. Really – that easy! Not hard at all. The little envelope is just folded up so the decorative flap becomes one of the sides that is tucked in.
Here are the are some more details –
- Cut Daffodil Delight card stock with the scallop envelope die and the Big Shot. I went ahead and folded it all together the way I wanted to make the pocket. Then ran it through with the Cloudy Day embossing folder. Then I went back and added a little bit of Tomobow glue to hold it all shut – I guess I could have added that before embossing – but I didn’t do it that way.
- I stamped the whale in Not Quite Navy on Whisper White card stock and cut it out with the Happy Whale Clearlits die – isn’t it the cutest thing? I added a tiny silver mini brad for his eye.
- Tie a piece of the Marina Mist Striped Organdy Ribbon around the pocket then add the whale on with some dimensionals.
- I cut a piece of Marina Mist card stock to slide inside the pouch. I added a whale clip to the end of it. And on the card I added a little banner.
- The words are from the Oh, Whale stamp set and then cut with the Itty Bitty Banner framelits.
- Write a sweet little note and give it to someone special!
Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. I hope you will play along. Every week the top 3 are announced from each challenge – maybe this week it will be you!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Whisper White
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut machine, Itty Bitty Banner Framelits, Cloudy Day Embossing Folder, Scallop Envelope die, Happy Whale Clearlits Die, Mini Brads, Marina Mist Striped Organdy Ribbon, Elements Cute Clips
Enjoy this week’s projects and I’ll be back one more time for next’s week challenge. If I have an update on the Bluebird I’ll post that later.
Mar 20, 2013 | Cards, Simply Scored, Spring Catalog 2013, Wildlife |
Sale-A-Bration is coming to and so quickly! I haven’t even shared all the things I have made using these stamp sets. Here is another idea for you using the Bloomin’ Marvelous stamp set.
I know I got this idea from somewhere – but can’t seem to find it now – I checked my Pinterest boards but don’t see it on there. So if you know where I saw this let me know. I know I made some changes but the card idea and I’m pretty sure the stamp set was the same.
I’m not sure you can tell in the first photo – you can probably tell better in this one but the front of the card has 1″ cut off of it and the Designer Paper is glued to the inside of the card and peeks through to the front. The 1″ strip that I cut off was used to stamp the butterflies that are punched out and added to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Here are a few more details for you:
- Card base is Naturals White
- Designer Paper is Tea for Two from the Spring catalog
- Near the fold I did some embossing with the Simply Scored Borders plate
- colors are Calypso Coral, Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi and Early Espresso for the words
- Pearls in the centers of the flowers
And a quick bird update – the Bluebirds are right on schedule – egg #4 came today –
Bluebirds lay 4-5 eggs so we’ll see if she adds one more tomorrow or if she is done. It is supposed to get cold here – we have had nice spring weather and we could get some snow flurries Thursday or Friday – I hope she keeps those eggs warm. I feel like these are really early this year. Let me go see when they were doing this last year. So I wend back and check my blog posts from last spring and on March 18th I was posting about the Chickadees and Bluebirds fighting over the same house. Perhaps the Bluebirds didn’t want that problem this time (they lost out last year) and started earlier to beat them. I guess I’ll have to wait and see where the chickadees go – no nests in the other houses yet.
Have a great day!
