Yesterday I had my Stampin’ Up! Getaway Celebration Party. What a fun afternoon it was! I wanted to have a celebration party for everyone as a Thank You for helping me earn my first incentive trip. Today I thought I would show you the decorations and things for the party.
First I made a bunch of paper flowers – using the idea from page 70 of the Stampin’ Up! Annual catalog. My color palette came from the colors in the Patio Party Designer Series paper. I arranged the flowers in mason jars that were filled with beans and then tied some of the matching ribbon around the mouth of the jar.
I baked little mini cupcakes and made cream cheese frosting – yum! I used My Digital Studio and the template from the Patio Party Collection DVD. I printed out the little flag banners for my cupcake picks – I just replaced the “Happy Birthday” with “Thank You”. I printed it at home on Whisper White card stock – I cut them and scored in half then glued to the top of a tooth pick.
I also cut strips of the Patio Party Designer Series paper and then punched out butterflies from the card stock left from the flowers. I wrapped the water bottles and glued the butterflies to the front. They were really cute.
I also made cookies using the Sweet Pressed Cookie stamps from convention. I made lots of Thank You cookies which everyone used to make a project and then I had all the others out on a plate. I used the Sugared Shortbread cookie recipe that comes with the cookies stamps. By the way most everyone that I have showed these too is surprised out how big these are. In the catalog they seem smaller. They are 2-3/4″ diameter – so it makes a large cookie not a small one.
I also made an Almond Chicken Cheese Ball which is a favorite for everyone. The recipe makes two large cheese balls and we finished the first one and made it half way through the second one. I’d say everyone loved it. And many people asked for the recipe. I had actually posted it on my blog a long time ago – here is the post.
Here is a picture of all my food –
I had some little parfaits – yogurt, brownie bites and raspberries. And finally I made corn dip – here is the recipe for that:
CORN DIP
2 cans (15 oz) Fiesta Corn, drained
1 can (4 oz) Chopped Green chilis (I don’t always use the whole can)
10 oz. pkg shredded cheddar cheese
8 oz. sour cream
1/2 cup mayo
1 Tbs Cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (or less)
1 1/2 Tbs Chilli powder
Mix & chill overnight.
Serve with Tostito or Frito scoops.
Yum. Yum.
I know I had a fun afternoon and I’m glad so many people were able to make it. I’ll share the projects we made on another day.
One of my favorite things in the new Holiday catalog is the Googly Ghouls stamp set and the Googlies! Self-adhesive googly eyes – how awesome is that! Oh how I wish we had these years ago when we were putting eyes on school projects and scout projects. Why did it take so long for someone to do this? And you may have missed it in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog but you can buy just a sheet of the eyes without having to buy the Ghoulish Googlies Designer Kit – yep – the sell as a sheet of 50. And now on to a card I made – this was my swap card at my PAWS meeting last time.
I stamped the Mummy and did just a hint of water coloring with Crumb Cake ink – which you can’t really see in this photo, but you can tell in real life. Punched him out. Punched out a scallop circle from Tangerine Tango and then punched is again to get the pointy edge instead of the scallop edge. And don’t for get to add the googly eye on the mummy.
The Old Olive piece is embossed with the Chevron Embossing folder and I cut a strip of Tangerine Tango with the Big Shot and the Tasteful Trim die. I snipped off the corner of the card so the Boooo could peek out from the inside – I added googly eyes to it too. And I used the new striped black/gray ribbon on this card also.
What do you do when you have to run out of town and still have a project that you need to create? Since you can’t grab the craft room and stamp in the car – you grab your laptop and create with My Digital Studio in the car! With my Create with Connie & Mary sketch and My Digital Studio 2 I was able to create this scrapbook page in the car.
Here is the CCMC215 sketch so you can see what I started with –
I just added the shapes from the sketch using photo boxes and a punch. I wanted to keep the rounded corners. And with My Digital Studio 2 it is super easy to added them to your photo boxes – there is a new feature to round corners and you pick which corner you want rounded.
Another new feature is being able to re-color embellishments – so the antique brad in the center of my flower was recolored to be Wisteria Wonder. It’s very subtle but its there. This picture is in front of the Stampin’ Up! corporate office in Riverton, Utah. We were able to take a bus out there on Wed of convention week. It was such a fun trip. I know I still owe a video from last weeks challenge card – I’m hoping to get to that next week – being gone for two days has thrown me way behind.
All the supplies are listed below – using another new MDS2 feature – the supply list. Have you tried creating with My Digital Studio? Did you know there is a free 30 day trial? I’d love to see what you can do with it. Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
My Digital Studio 2
Background Designer Series Paper\_Designer Kits\Convention 2012 – designer series paper\Convention 2012 – 8
I created this page using My Digital Studio2 for our beloved Uncle Lamar – Greg’s uncle. Just a quick post today.
Supply list (a new option in MDS2) – I started with a template Thoughtful Overlays 11×8-1/2. And then changed it. I used the color match feature to match the blue in his shirt. This picture of Uncle Lamar is from 2010 at the family reunion at his farm.
Background
Color = CRUMB CAKE
Stamps
Bliss\Bliss – flourish, Color = CRUMB CAKE
, Color = 51,70,87
, Color = EARLY ESPRESSO
, Color = SOFT SUEDE
Night and Day\Night and Day – remember, Color = 51,70,87
Ok – It’s here. I made a video. My first one. So let me know what you think and leave me a comment. I’m still learning how to do all this. Ryan helped me with some of the editing. I’m sure I’ll get better. Any way this was a neat technique that we learned at convention in the I am Creative class. It was one of the bonus classes. We had the pleasure of spending the evening with Shannon West and 5 of the Stampin’ Up! Concept Artists. Each shared different techniques, tips and tricks that they use. Here is my completed card.
In the video I’m going to show you how to create the chevron background. It’s super easy and a new way to use your embossing folders. Let’s see if I can attach this video now.
So what do you think? If you get my blog updates in an email you may need to actually go to my blog to see the video.
To finish the card I used the Big Shot Die-Cutting machine and the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die to cut the two butterflies – Summer Starfruit and Basic Gray. The larger butterfly is stamped with the large image from the Lacy & Lovely stamp set. The Gray one is plain but you could add the chevrons to it too – I thought about that after I was done and didn’t go back to change it. Then stamped the image on Very Vanilla and punch out with the Elegant Butterfly punch. Layer the three butterflies together and staple in the center. Attach to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals over the designer paper strip.
Here is the supply list –
All supplies from Stampin’ Up!
#122885w, #122887c Lacy & Lovely stamp set
#126981 Basic Gray Classic Ink
#126991 Summer Starfruit Classic Ink
#102283 VersaMark Ink
#126839 Summer Starfruit card stock (5-1/2” x 8-1/2”, 4-1/4” x 2-3/4”)
#121044 Basic Gray card stock (4” x 5-1/4”, 2-3/4” x 2-1/8”)
#101650 Very Vanilla card stock (2-3/4” x 2-1/8”)
#126906 Howlstooth & Scaringbone Designer Series paper (1” x 5-1/4”)
#127749 Chevron Embossing Folder
#102395 Brayer
#113439 Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine
#114507 Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die
#127526 Elegant Butterfly punch
#104430 Stampin’ Dimensionals
#104332 Snail Adhesive
a stapler
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