What are your thoughts on the kits in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Catalog?
Well my favorite one is the Hello Life Decor Kit! That’s the first one I bought and I am going to have a class on March 22nd for anyone that wants to get together to make theirs. Here are some photos of mine –
I even had some black & white photos of my three boys that I could use! I love how it turned out and I plan to hang it in my new stamping classroom when it is finished – the colors in that room will be Gray, Yellow, White. – Yellow on the walls, white furniture and probably will do gray tiles on the floor. Final decisions haven’t been made yet but that is what I’m thinking right now.
Kyle (my oldest – photo on the left) recently took a business trip to Brazil & Argentina. He is back at his home now in San Francisco. I was able to talk to him last night. Maybe I’m the only one but as a mom I was nervous for his traveling out of the country – it was his first time to leave the US. Ryan (my youngest – photo in the center) is away at college in Indiana. I got to talk to him yesterday too. He will be traveling soon to visit Kyle for his spring break and then stop here at home in Georgia before heading back to finish the semester. Tyler (the middle – photo on the right) is here at home so I get to talk/see him just about every day. He is finishing college and working right now at his first internship job. I was a happy mom last night after talking to all three of them on the same day!
Here is a look at the Pom-pom and heart banner that is on the frame. I figured out the trick with the pom-poms – they take some time but I actually am very happy with the final result. I used a fine tooth comb – to carefully comb out all the strands of yarn.
The panel that says LOVE THIS LIFE can be changed to say what you want. The kit comes with a set of adhesive letters so its’ your choice on what you want to put on there. The kit also has extra’s of most of the pieces in the kit – you can add more to your frame or use the left overs for a scrapbook layout or cards.
Join me on Sunday, March 22nd for a class to create this Home Decor Kit. This is a pre-paid class – RSVP and payment due by March 12th so I can order all the supplies for you. Grab a friend and sign up today! Class Fee is $32.
If you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator or you have already purchased the kit you can join us too – the reduced class fee is $7 (pay at the class) – you will have to bring your kit with you to the class.
Have I told you that Sheltering Tree is my favorite stamp set in the Occasions Catalog? Yes it is. What about you – do you have a favorite set? There are many that I like and many that I bought but if I had to pick just one that would be it. At leadership I participated in several swaps including 2 card swaps and this was the card I made for one of them.
And if you asked me what my new favorite accessory was from the Occasions Catalog it would probably be the Cotton Twine – it is so soft! I just want to touch it and hold it! I used the Soft Sky Twine on this card.
I call it a window card because I cut an Oval window out of the front layer of the card and the tree is stamped on a Whisper White layer that peeks through underneath. I used Early Espresso, Soft Sky and Crumb Cake.
I do have just a little secret to tell about this card – I made about 25 or so of them and about the time I got to the very last one and finished stamping the Crumb Cake ground piece on each one – that was when I realized I mounted my stamp backwards on my block! Oops – no wonder my image wasn’t looking the same as the one in the catalog I was using the back of the stamp! But I decided to leave them like they were since I was finished stamping. But it made me think if I had a reason to have a “shadow” of the image I just stamped behind it – I could just turn over and stamp the back of the stamp in a really light shade of ink over the correct image. What do you think? An idea to try out maybe.
I stepped up this card by adding the piercing around the oval and then the two little butterflies cut from Dazzling Details Glimmer paper. I hope you love this card as much as I do.
If you are interested I have the Stamps In the Mail class featuring this stamp set and a Desktop Calendar Tutorial available and if you have the stamp set and want to order just the tutorial you can do that too – visit my Tutorials page – there is a link at the top of my blog.
I think I’ve told you before that I really love the Tiny Treat Boxes that were introduced in our Holiday catalog and carried over into our Occasions catalog. Here is another little project I created using those little boxes. I created these You’re a Gem boxes for a swap that I did at the Leadership conference.
I filled them with some chocolate truffles – yum!
Each little box was wrapped with a piece of the Gold print paper from the Gold Soiree Designer Series Specialty Paper Pack. Each end of the strip was punched with the Scallop tag topper punch. The ends are tied together with a piece of the Calypso Coral ribbon from the Sale-A-Bration accessory pack.
I added a tag and some fun trim pieces to finish the box – Gold Sequins and Calypso Coral Pom-pom trim. Here is some more about the tag – I used the One Tag Fits All stamp set.
stamp the tag image in Calypso Coral ink on Whisper White card stock punch out with the Note Tag Punch. I didn’t like the white edge that was left so I used a Stampin’ Write Marker to go around the edge of the tag.
stamp the You’re a Gem image in Versamark ink and covered with Gold Embossing powder and heat set.
I stamped the gem again on another piece of white, embossed it and then cut it out. I used the 2-way glue pen to put glue in the center of the gem and then covered it with the Dazzling Diamonds Glitter. I added that on top of the other one with a Stampin’ Dimensional – this give it more dimension.
the tag is tied on with the ribbon and the gold sequins and pomp-pom trim are added in
These turned out to be such pretty little gold treats.
Thanks for stopping by today. I’m at home bracing for what we consider a big snow storm. I know for many people our storm is nothing but when you really don’t get any snow – a little snow if a big deal. One projection should us getting 7 inches this afternoon and tonight. I think the last report I saw had us at 4-5. For right this minute though there is nothing new – not even rain yet. But they say its coming and its big. So we shall see….
I sat down to play with my February 2015 Paper Pumpkin kit last night. It’s called Layers of Gratitude and makes accordion folded cards with boxes to put them in. Here is the video from Stampin’ Up! to show you the original project
I started by creating one of the cards and boxes following the instructions. But as I was working on it I thought it would be quick and easy to convert this project into a quick box of tags. So that was what I made next. I cut the accordion card sections apart to make 8 tags. I stamped each one and added a piece of twine to the corner after punching a hole. Then I decided to add little stars that I cut out of the left over orange felt from the letters in the kit. I used the strip of stars thinlit from the Mini Treat bag Tinlit die set.
I even added a couple of felt stars to the box.
Here is my original card where I followed the instructions.
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I thought I would share another berry basket that I made recently. I made these as roommate gifts for the Leadership Conference at the end of January. Since we were in Orlando Florida I decided to give each of my roommates a “basket of sunshine”.
I made the berry basket with Daffodil Delight card stock. To decorate the side I cut the “hello” framelit out of Pool Party card stock and then added a Modern Label punch that I stamped with Sunshine. Plus a Daffodil Delight button and Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
I filled the basket with a Gussested Cello bag that had lots of yellow things inside. Including Lemon Heads – I thought I had a picture of those but I don’t – I should still have mine and will take a picture of those with the little tags. I made a bunch of those and gave them to my friends as I saw them throughout the conference.
Thanks for stopping by – hope you have sunshine where you are – today we have had on and off snow flurries and it is cold here (at least for us it is cold). The cold and the ice are causing lots of trouble around here. Yesterday my parents and my brother were unable to leave the street where they live because a tree came down on top of power lines blocking the road. At least they still had power – many other people didn’t.
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I even had some black & white photos of my three boys that I could use! I love how it turned out and I plan to hang it in my new stamping classroom when it is finished – the colors in that room will be Gray, Yellow, White. – Yellow on the walls, white furniture and probably will do gray tiles on the floor. Final decisions haven’t been made yet but that is what I’m thinking right now.
Kyle (my oldest – photo on the left) recently took a business trip to Brazil & Argentina. He is back at his home now in San Francisco. I was able to talk to him last night. Maybe I’m the only one but as a mom I was nervous for his traveling out of the country – it was his first time to leave the US. Ryan (my youngest – photo in the center) is away at college in Indiana. I got to talk to him yesterday too. He will be traveling soon to visit Kyle for his spring break and then stop here at home in Georgia before heading back to finish the semester. Tyler (the middle – photo on the right) is here at home so I get to talk/see him just about every day. He is finishing college and working right now at his first internship job. I was a happy mom last night after talking to all three of them on the same day!
Here is a look at the Pom-pom and heart banner that is on the frame. I figured out the trick with the pom-poms – they take some time but I actually am very happy with the final result. I used a fine tooth comb – to carefully comb out all the strands of yarn.
The panel that says LOVE THIS LIFE can be changed to say what you want. The kit comes with a set of adhesive letters so its’ your choice on what you want to put on there. The kit also has extra’s of most of the pieces in the kit – you can add more to your frame or use the left overs for a scrapbook layout or cards.
