Almost Artisan – Field Flowers Button card

Jul 6, 2012 | Almost Artisan, Cards, SU Buttons, sympathy | 0 comments

I’m back today with another card from my Stampin’ Up! Artisan Design Team entry.  I saw this idea somewhere in my browsing – where the corner of the card front was folded up.  I thought this would be a perfect idea for our stamp set Petite Pairs – it has sentiments that are split into pairs.

These are very trendy colors right now – Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White.  I wanted it to be simple.  The base of the card is Basic Gray with a Whisper White layer on the front and on the inside.  I scored the front corner with my Simply Scored tool and folded it up and adhered it with glue.  Then I added the button with the Baker’s Twine in it.  The front has the Field Flowers stamp set and then the first part of the sentiment.  Then on the inside peeking out of the folded corner is the second part of the sentiment.  Here is a picture of the inside –

I think it is a winner – clean and simple with a little twist to it.  There isn’t anything I would change.  We will be making this tonight at stamp club.  I’ll be leaving for Salt Lake City in only 9 days – I’m going first to see my upline Wendy for a couple of days of stamping fun and then to convention for the rest of the week.  I can’t wait – it is going to be so fun.  I’m working on swaps and stuff for that.

I’m also working on the ribbon shares – the In-color ribbon is packaged and the 1/4″ ribbon is all cut and I’m working on packaging it.

Have a great day!

Create with Connie & Mary 209

Jul 5, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary | 8 comments

Guess what?  I have some exciting news to share today.  A month or so ago I submitted some cards to be considered for the Thursday Challenge Design Team at Create with Connie & Mary.  They had a design team call and I was selected – yeah!  So every Thursday I’ll be participating in the Thursday challenge and I hope you will too.  Just visit their site to add your creation with the linky tool.  You’ll be able to see the design team creations and then creations that other crafters just like you are creating using the challenge criteria.  I hope you’ll play along.

This weeks challenge is a sketch –

And my creation for you using this weeks sketch –

I really like this stamp set – For the Birds.  The little mailbox is perfect for paper piecing.  I cut pieces from the Comfort Cafe designer series paper to cover the mail box.  Isn’t it cute?

I’d love to see what you create with this sketch.  Make something and then visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your entry.  Each challenge is open for a week.  And then a new challenge will be issued.

Here are a few more details about my card.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla
  • Ink: JetBlack StazOn, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze,  and Soft Suede Stampin’ Write Markers, Crumb Cake ink
  • Stamp sets: For the Birds, En Francias
  • Accessories:  Big Shot Die-cut Machine, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder, Comfort Cafe Designer Series paper, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Linen Thread, Stampin’ Sponge

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Happy 4th of July – Boom Boom Scrapbook layout

Jul 4, 2012 | Scrapbook Pages | 1 comment

Have a Happy 4th of July!  I have a scrapbook layout to share today.  We made this layout in my scrapbook class last week.  I’m actually going to put pictures from Memorial Day on it.  We went to Stone Mountain and watched the Laser Show and Fireworks there and I have pictures from that.  But this layout works for lots of summer events from Memorial Day to Labor Day.  So take you pick on what you want to use the ideas for.

I started with a layout idea from a scrapbook magazine.  I started with a Crumb Cake background and then used Real Red, Marina Mist and Whisper White to decorate the page.  There are pieces of Designers Series paper cut into little flags and then laid out to form a banner.  I cut them different lengths and then added some different little elements to the tops.  I used paper clips tied with bits of ribbon, some buttons tied with Whisper White Baker’s Twine and brads with little punched circles – the mini silver brads and some of the Marina Mist brads.

The bottom was wheeled with the So Many Stars Builder Wheel in Read Red.  On the right side page I added some fireworks – I searched the internet and found a template that I liked and used the new Paper Piercing Tool and Piercing mat to add the design to my page.  I put added rhinestones to make it sparkle.  Here is a close-up.

The title is cut with the Big Shot and I wheeled the letters with the So Many Stars Builder wheel too.  I think it turned out to be a fun layout and I’m excited to get my pictures on it.  Right now they are on my phone – I hope they are good enough to print.

Enjoy the 4th.  I’m going to go see my parents and spend the day with them.

My Digital Studio – Planner

Jul 3, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages | 2 comments

Happy Tuesday!

I have been working on several My Digital Studio projects lately and I wanted to tell you about one of them today.  I have had this idea for a really long time and finally started working on it about 2 weeks ago.  I wanted to make myself a personalized planner – a calendar that I can carry around to my workshops, classes and events and use to keep track of all my Stampin’ Up! Business related things that I need to do.

I made a list of the different things that I keep track of each month (like points towards earning the incentive trip) – some are things that I am doing and others are things my team is doing.  I wanted a calendar – and the calendar function in My Digital Studio is so great for making exactly the calendar that I need.  Probably the hardest thing was deciding on a “theme” – a color palette, designer papers, embellishments – that sort of thing.  Naturally the best place to start would be a kit – since it has all those elements in one package.  Then the new catalog came out June 1st and in the hostess section there is a new My Digital Studio Disc – it’s called Keep in Touch – and I decided it would be perfect for this project.

Since the Stampin’ Up! year starts in July my planner is a July 2012 through June 2013 planner – that’s the great thing about My Digital Studio is I can create my project exactly the way I want it – I don’t have to have a calendar that is Jan-Dec – I can start and end with any month I want.  So here is my July calendar page –

I included the 12 months – this is the right side page and the left page has different spaces for me to write notes – calls to make, things to follow up on, etc.  The back page is an Annual Summary page.  The front page include our Stampin’ Up! Statement of the Heart.  Then I added a front cover and back cover.  I sent it out to the Stampin’ Up! printer and hope to have it back in about a week.  I printed it as a soft cover photo book so that I can carry it around and write in it.  I’ll post again when I have the real thing so you can see what it looks like printed.

Stampin’ Up! has new downloads today – You can see all the available Digital Downloads on my website.  There is a new photobook template, a digital version of the retired Take Three stamp set from a couple of years ago, the new Polka Dot Parade Designer Series Paper, and digital Washi Tape.

Have a great day and get creative!

Almost Artisan – Brothers Scrapbook page

Jul 2, 2012 | Almost Artisan, family, Scrapbook Pages | 0 comments

I have a few final thank you’s to get out  from orders that I had in the last couple of days of June – thank you to Sabrina and Molly.  I keep checking back at my reports to make sure it is still there.  And now I’m wondering what happens and what to expect on the trip.  I guess I will learn that soon.  The Getaway trip is at the end of September to a resort on Hilton Head Island.

Today’s share is another project that I entered in the Artisan Design Team contest.  This is my second scrapbook page – this one is an 8×8 page and features a picture of my boys that I took at Easter this year.  They were being silly together and it really makes me happy when they are together and having fun and laughing with each other.

The edges of the page are actually stamped with the French Foliage stamp set in various colors and also swiped with the ink pad.   I added the three little pool party hearts – one for each of my three boys – there are also three little butterflies that represents each of them flying off in their own directions.  As they get older they are finding themselves and where they fit in the world.  I did the main journaling on the computer but used my own handwriting for the date and the little quote – maybe that was a bad idea – I don’t have good hand writing and it isn’t very straight and even.   I really like this page and the picture of the boys.  I need to make another one so I can frame and hang it in my craft room.  That is the downside of this contest is making projects your love and giving them to Stampin’ Up! and not getting them back.

Have a good day today!  It’s a little cooler here than it was this breaking – we had two record breaking days at 106 degrees – the highest ever.  Today its only 99.  Stay cool.