Nov 27, 2012 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Yes the wind was an issue and blowing through Ally’s hair. I had the chance to see my niece and nephew the other day when Noah played in a soccer tournament not to far away. While Noah played soccer, Ally went to the climbing tree at the end of the field. I went to take pictures of her and got these cute ones of her trying to keep her hair out of her face. Little girl smiles and giggles – what fun!
I created this for the challenge on mydigitalstudio.net – it was a scrapmap challenge. Go to the site and Like my page and leave comments. The winner of the challenge gets a free download. And I always love free downloads. Speaking of which everyone can get a free download today – look at this cute thing –
you can visit my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – go to the online store by clicking SHOP NOW – and find it in today’s digital downloads. It’s free. There are several other new ones today including more tags that match this one. And some reindeer games – really – not kidding…. go see.
Have a great day!
Nov 26, 2012 | Christmas, class, Holiday Gift Making |
This Saturday will be my Holiday Gift Making class. Details were emailed to everyone on my email list. Here is a look at some of the projects choices –
Ornament Note Card Set
No Peeking Treats
12 Days of Christmas Mini Scrapbook
In Color Note Card Set
Holiday Frameable
Family Printer’s Tray
If you live near me and want to attend please let me know right away. I have limited numbers left of these projects.
Have a great day!
Monika Davis
Nov 22, 2012 | Big Shot, Halloween, Thanksgiving |
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Enjoy your day with family and friends. The turkey is in the oven, the pie is made, ham is in the fridge, casseroles are ready to go in the oven and the table is set. Now to wait on the kids to wake up and watch the parade on tv. I’m hoping we can get some good family photos today that we’ll be able to use on a Christmas card.
This is a cute little pumpkin tea light project. I found the idea on Pinterest – it was created by Connie Stewart. In the center is a little battery operated tea light. So it glows when you turn it on. I left one of the vellum strips un attached and then you pull it open to get to the tea light. We made this as a stamp club project.
I built mine a little different from Connie – I glued all the pieces to the top piece instead of the bottoms because I really wanted the top pieces to all be even. I added an extra flower to the top to there is a double layer of leaves on the top.
Colors are Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Early Espresso and then Vellum card stock, Very Vanilla and the Champagne Glimmer paper.
The strips are embossed and sponged. I believe they are 3/4″ wide for each strip and 4-1/4″ long.
I wanted to show it lit so I took a picture in the dark so you could see the candle in there. It looks really nice in person – not so good in this dark photo.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
The Online Extravaganza is still going on so if you want to do some Stampin’ Up! shopping online visit my website and online store –
www.monika.stampinup.net
And if you are planning to attend my gift making class on December 1st make sure to email me with your project selections.
Nov 20, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Christmas |
Have you seen the sale list this week? There are some great deals on there. Including the stamp set called Happy Hour – it is on sale for 25% off during the Online Extravaganza. And I have it on my order. But until I get it here so I can create with it I do have one card idea to show you. I participated in a WOW Christmas Card swap just recently and one of the creations used that set. The card was made by Carol Snow.
I love the little rhinestones in the glass for the ice!! Isn’t that the greatest idea?
This is one of those sets that you can use for many occasions all year long and I didn’t even realize it had the candy cane as part of the set but it does. Here is a picture of all the images.
It is a fun party set so add it to your list while it is on sale!
Nov 19, 2012 | Christmas, Demonstrator, Embossing, Fabric, Holiday catalog 2012, Punch Art |
At my last PAWS team meeting we had a treat wrapper swap and I wanted to share all the cute ideas with you. Hopefully I remembered correctly who made all of these (I don’t have them with me to check). I’m in VA at my sister-in-laws house – we did some crafting yesterday and have plans to do more – I’ll share those ideas later.
Anne’s swap – reindeer treat cups – color the large pearl with a red sharpie for the red nose
Fran’s swap – a little purse made from the framelits – she showed us how to make these for one of our M&T projects
Joyce’s swap – Two Tags die Mr. & Mrs. snowman
Laree’s swap – hot cocoa pocket
Leishman’s Swap – Pillow Pocket pouch
Lisa’s swap – Hot cocoa pouch
Monika’s Swap – rolo snowmen with fabric hats and scarves
My snowman idea came from Cindee Wilkinson – I thought the ones she posted were so cute I wanted to make something similar. The eyes are pearls and I colored mine by mashing them into my versamark ink pad so they got covered with ink then pouring black embossing powder over them – then I carefully heat set – and then I had black pearls. I did use our new Heat Tool which has a high and a low setting – I imagine if it was too hot you could melt or burn these pearls – so do it carefully. I’m going to try some of our other colored embossing powders too.
I wanted a punched nose and was trying to figure out which punch to use – finally I realized the Mitten Punch was perfect – use the thumb for the nose – here is what it looks like when I punched it –
Then I used a Pumpkin Pie marker to add some lines like a real carrot would have. Sponge the edges a bit too to add some dimension to it. It was the perfect little carrot nose.
Our meetings are so much fun – I enjoying getting together with everyone – my downline, my adopted downline and all my sidelines. Come join my team and join the fun! Join today and take advantage of the Online Extravaganza specials and the ONE DAY only Doorbusters – you could really build a deal of starter kit – plus you still get the free st of Ink Pads too! Join today by visiting my website and then you can take advantage of all the added demonstrator discounts for the rest of the week. If you have questions send me an email – I’ll be checking throughout the day!
And here is a picture of most of the group that was at the meeting – Joyce is missing and I’m missing (I was behind the camera).
Happy Shopping! My website is www.monika.stampinup.net – join their and shop their.
