Ribbon Shares

Jul 10, 2012 | In Colors, SU Ribbon | 1 comment

I did two ribbon shares in June and thought I would share how cute the packages turned out.  This is the In-Color Ribbon with a sample of the matching Dahlia’s.  I cut a piece of cardboard – from the back of the designer paper packs.  Stamped each end, wrapped the ribbon, added the dahlia’s and then put the whole thing in a clear envelope.

And here is the other one – the new 1/4″ stitched ribbon.  I punched card stock in the same color as the ribbon with the Round Tab punch.  I put all 10 colors in a tall cello bag.  I cut Basic Gray card stock with the Apothecary Framelit – folded it in half over the top of the bag and stapled it.  I punched a Daffodil Delight Blossom Punch, snipped the petals, added a piece of Designer Paper punched with the Boho Blossom Punch and put them together with a silver brad and added it to the top.

Thanks for stopping by today!

With You is My Favorite Place to Be

Jul 9, 2012 | Cards | 0 comments

With you is my favorite place to be.  Isn’t that just a nice thing to say?  Stamping with my friends is one of my favorite places to be.  And here is a sweet little card that you can give to someone to tell them the same thing.

This card is 4-1/4″ square – so it fits in the medium envelope with just some extra space on the side.  Sometimes I like making a square card instead of it always being a rectangle.  And the other nice thing about this one is I can cut my Designer paper into 4×4 inch pieces and not waste one single bit.  I also did paper piecing on the wagon – if you really wanted to be frugal you could take that part out of the center of the square where everything is covered up.  I didn’t actually do that – but you could.  This paper is the new Patio Party Designer paper – I think that’s what its called – let me go check – yep – that’s what its called.  I like this pattern with all the little butterflies and it fits nicely with this stamp image from For the Birds.  I used Stampin’ Write Markers to color the image – except for the wagon that has the paper on it.  And I used a piece of Whisper White 1/4″ stitched grosgrain ribbon – I like this new ribbon lots better than the old one – it is much softer and easier to work with.

Oh – I got an email from Stampin’ Up! a little while ago – it said Congratualtions on earning the Getaway trip!  Yeah!  And included this little badge that I can put on my blog and in my emails and such.  Now I’m waiting on an email to tell me what to do to register so we can actually go.  I hope it comes soon – I’m anxious to get all the details and make it a for sure thing.

In the meantime I’m working on getting ready for convention.  I did take a few hours of “me” time today though.  I walked this morning, then came home and filled my bird feeders and picked blueberries in the back yard.  Later I dropped Ryan and band camp and then when and got a pedicure and manicure – so I’ll have pretty toes and fingers for convention.  I stopped to get lunch too – but got it to go and ate it at home.  Now back to working on swaps.  I’ve finished 50 punch art swaps, 12 full card swaps for my team, almost done with 30 general swaps.  I have a wow project designed for our team retreat and I’m waiting on some orders to get here so I can finish getting those ready.  I have plans to make some little gifty things for some of my friends I’ll see at Convention.  And if there is time more general swaps to make.  So back to the craft room – talk to you later!

Summer Fun Scrapook layout

Jul 8, 2012 | Big Shot, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages | 0 comments

Look at this fun summer scrapbook layout!  It’s bright and has lots of fun elements.  We made this at my June Scrapbook class.  The colors are Tempting Turquoise, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo and Whisper White.   The Designer Paper that I used is the Summer Smooches Designer Series paper.  The sun is made by cutting a circle on the Big Shot and then punching with the Pennant punch and attaching them all the way around the circle.  To create the waves I used a few different things – the bottom layer of paper was cut with the small scallop Adorning Accents Edgelit, the middle white layer was punched with the 1″ circle punch and then sponged with Island Indigo ink, the top layer is cut with the Large Scallop Edgelit die.  I also looked for a stamp to use for the splash of the waves and finally ended up using the Everything Eleanor stamp set.  Who would have thought of using that set for a summer beach page!

Then I used an idea from a scrapbook magazine to add the quilling to make the waves more dimensional.  I cut thin strips with my Tabletop Paper Cutter.  And then curled them around a skewer to create the curled waves.  I used my multipurpose liquid glue to attach them to the layout.    To finish the page I wanted to add the fish jumping in the waves.  I searched my stamps for fish – nothing in my current collection has a fish in it.  So now what.  My Digital Studio to the rescue!  I searched the Stampin’ Up! Digital Downloads and found one called Summer Splash.  I quickly purchased it online, downloaded it and installed it and open My Digital Studio.  I added the fish stamp and changed the colors to match my page – I printed out 6 fish on Whisper White card stock on my home printer – cut them out and added them to my page with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Ta-da!  They are just perfect.

Now to add some fun summer pictures.  But I’m going to have to find a new place to get them printed – the Wolf Camera near my house is going out of business  – darn.    I guess it’s time to try out some new places to see who I like.

I’m headed back to the craft room to work on convention swaps.  I’ll be leaving in one week – this time next week I should be sitting on the plane getting ready to take off!

Frog Talk Z-Card

Jul 7, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, In Colors | 1 comment

Last month in my Hands-On class I featured the 5 new Stampin’ Up! In-colors.  This was one of the cards that we made – it features the new Gumball Green with one of our new stamp sets – Animal Talk.  The frog was perfect for the Gumball Green and this z-fold card idea seemed to suit the jumping frog too.  My friend Cindy brought a swap card with a z-fold to my last demonstrator meeting so I adapted that idea for this card.  Make a regular card, score it like normal, then score the front of the card again and fold it back.  Then add the focal point image to the folded front.

Something else new on this card is the large scallop edge that I cut using one of our new Edgelits and the Big Shot and then I used our new Piercing Template (and the mat and piercer) to pierce along the large scallops.

I had the whole card finished and then got a little smudge of green ink on it – ugh!  Now what – I found the solution!  Get out my Color Spritzer and the Gumball Green Stampin’ Write marker and spritz on the card.  That was perfect and actually suited this card well anyway.  I also decorated the envelope.  But when I stamped it I got just the top edge of some of the letters – another ugh moment!  So I put on my thinking cap again and realized I could use my marker and make more lines to create “grass” for the hopping frog.  Another perfect solution!

Some of the finishing touches is the Linen Thread tied around the card front.  And the little frog is actually stamped a second time on a scrap of white, cut out and then popped up with a bit of Stampin’ Dimensional on the original one.  The dimension looks good in real life – it’s hard to tell that its there in the photo.

So that just goes to show you that once you get your creative mind going you can fix your own mistakes and turn up with a cute card. I hope you like it!

Have a good weekend!