Mar 29, 2010 | Birthday, In Colors, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
Today’s card is one that I received for my birthday earlier this month from my friend Yvonne. She used the Stampin’ Up! Totally Tess stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog. Totally Tess is a fun new set with Tess and a bunch of stamping accessories – a bag, an apron, a stamp, a card, scissors, a marker, and a stampin’ wheel and the phrases “I (heart) STAMPS” and “The best things in life a made, not bought.” For this card Yvonne used the Family Accessories to create a birthday card – look how perfectly they fit.
I love the ruffled circle that Yvonne made using the Scallop Trim Border Punch from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. And if you haven’t already received this punch for FREE you better hurry you only have a couple more days. Sale-A-Bration ends on March 31st. Spend $50 on Stampin’ Up! products and earn this punch or other items for free. You can email me or call me with an order or place an order online – visit my website HERE and shop at my online store.
A little bit more about the card – Yvonne used last years In-Colors – Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point. And the Designer Series Paper is a retired pack. But you could make the same card using Old Olive and Bermuda Bay and choose a coordinating Designer Series paper.
Thanks Yvonne for my FUN birthday card!
I checked the bluebird house this morning – no eggs yet. But they are hanging around and tapping on all my windows which is driving the dogs crazy. Thanks for stopping by today!
Mar 14, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
I almost forgot to tell you who won the last Create with Connie & Julie Challenge – 1st place was Lori, 2nd place was Becky and honorable mention went to Lisa – thanks to everyone that played along. I hope you enjoyed all the projects and tutorials – I know I did.
I had a great Stamper’s Club meeting Friday night. It was so much fun with several new members joining us. Everyone made three projects – 1 3d and 2 cards. One card was what I considered the quick and easy card. It was with the Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-Bration stamp set called Vintage Labels. I designed the card so that everyone could use the frame that they wanted along with the words that they wanted – I didn’t see what everyone picked but I know they all turned out great. This would make a great masculine card (even with the pink in the striped paper).
I used one of the beautiful striped patterns in the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack. The paper has Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip in the pattern so I used those colors on the card.
On the base I originally had it plain but then decided to dress it up just a bit – I wheeled across it with the Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel to add a faint background. And then I went back and added paper piercing on the corners. It really made the card pop when I did that.
I hope you like it. Hopefully you remembered to change your clocks for Daylight Savings time – spring FORWARD – we knew about it but none of us actually changed the clocks – oops.
Tomorrow I’ll share some bird pictures again – I’m still waiting on them to work more on the nest building – I think with all the rain and then it is kind of cold again maybe they are holding off on actually building – I’ll check again tomorrow to see if they made any progress on the nest – they didn’t do anything for the 2 days that it rained.
See ya!
Mar 6, 2010 | Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
We are finally at the end of the Create with Connie & Julie – at least the end of new project posts – the site and all the projects will be there for some time. This week our challenge was to create a Mother’s Day card. And the featured products this week were Garden from the Heart and Messages for Mom stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog.
Congratulations to last weeks winners of the color challenge – 1st place was Sandra, 2nd place was Lori and Honorable mention to Jessica. Thanks to everyone that played along the entries were all great. I hope you will play during this last week too.
This weeks challenge was so much easier for me – I love the Garden from the Heart stamps set – right up my alley. And guess what I even used some more purple colors! I used Perfect Plum and Pale Plum on this card. I don’t use them often but they were perfect for what I wanted to do here.
I actually made the card and was happy with it but I kept looking at it like I forgot something. I finally figured it out – so I came back and added one more thing. The sprtizing with the Color Spritzer Tool – I used a Soft Suede Stampin’ Write Marker and just added some spritzing on the card. For me that was it – exactly what it needed, something really minor but it was what it needed.
The flowers are stamped with Jet Black StazOn ink on Whisper White card stock. I colored them with Stampin’ Write markers – Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum, and Pale Plum. I also sponged the edges of the white piece with Mellow Moss. A piece of Perfect Plum punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch is layered behind and a piece of Linen Thread is tied around the top.
I LOVE using Linen Thread – I even had a dream (or nightmare) that it was being retired and I had to order a whole bunch so I would never run out…..LOL. The flowers on the bottom are part of the hat image and I carefully cut them out – that was the hardest part! I’m not sure I would do that more than once.
I decorated the inside of the card too – stamped the hat in the corner. The ribbon is also stamped on Perfect Plum card stock and cut out and glued back on the hat. I like to use the 2-Way Glue Pen when working with small cut pieces or punched pieces. The hat is actually colored in with a VersaMarker – it darkens the card stock just a bit. I did spritz on the inside too but didn’t retake the picture.
I hope you like it. I want to find some other stamps to use with the same layout – it is very simple.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Kraft card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Perfect Plum card stock and Stampin’ Write marker
- Pale Plum Stampin’ Write marker
- Mellow Moss Stampin’ Write marker
- Soft Suede Stampin’ Write marker
- VersaMarker
- Jet Black StazOn ink
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (SAB)
- Corner Rounder Punch
- Garden from the Heart stamp set
- Well Scripted stamp set
- Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set
- Color Spritzer Tool
- Linen Thread
Check out what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Mar 3, 2010 | Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Thank You, Wildlife |
This card was created by Wendy Randall for some swaps. I got one at our group meeting in January but I don’t think I ever shared this card here on my blog.
Now that most of our snow is gone from yesterday it is time to focus on Spring – come on Spring – I am ready!!
I love the little bird cage stamp in the Happy Moments stamp set – this is one you can get for Free during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration.
Wendy created a pole for the bird cage to hang on and the bird is singing “thank you, thank you, thank you”. The pole is two pieces – the curved piece comes from one of the die cut alphabets and then she cut a straight piece the same width. The little piece of ribbon hides the spot where they are joined.
The faux wood background is something Wendy uses a lot – to create this look pull your ink pad across your card stock – this is called the direct-to-paper technique. Then using a Stampin’ Write marker add little nail heads here and there to create the illusion of wood planks.
A cute card!
Here is a quick peek at what the Bluebirds were doing this morning – 
I found Mr. Bluebird inside House #2. I checked later on to see if they had started a nest in there, but not yet. Maybe he was just taking a closer look. This was the house they used last year so maybe it is the one they are leaning towards. Hopefully they will decide soon and start to build. Last year it was around the middle of March.
I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Mar 1, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Demonstrator, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Ribbon Flower, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon |
On Sunday afternoon I had a group meeting with the Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators in my PAWS group. Not everyone was able to come but the ones that did had a great time. I would love to have more people join Stampin’ Up! and be part of my group and this is a great time to do it. During Sale-A-Bration (thru the end of March) there is a special on the Starter Kit – 15% off plus you get an extra FREE stamp set. I joined during Sale-A-Bration the year that I signed up so I could get the extra stamp set – I was able to pick the most expensive one in the catalog at that time – I don’t think the kit was discounted that year though.
Anyway at our meetings we talk a little business, share ideas with each other – Lisa brought a bunch of cute decorate milk cartons using the new Big Shot die from the Occasions Mini catalog. And of course we do some stamping. One of the cards we made was what I guess you would consider a fancy fold card – it is called a Tri-Shutter card. I designed this one using several products from the Occasions Mini catalog and the Sale-A-Bration brochure. This was a fun card and not nearly as hard as it looks. I’m thinking about using this as a Stamper’s Club project for our March meeting – not this exact design but this style of card.
Here is the card when it is folded closed. It has lots of different panels and you could decorate each one with various things.
For the whole card the base is Old Olive card stock, each layer is Taken with Teal card stock and on each panel I used various pieces from the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pack.
On the front panel I added a ribbon flower. This was easy to make using our Double-Stitched Grosgrain ribbon. You cut a length of ribbon (short piece creates a smaller flower), then pull the white stitching on one side to gather the ribbon in the center – I pulled from both ends until it was tight and then tied the white thread into a knot and trimmed the excess. I just overlapped the two ends – since the flower is gathered you can’t really see where the cut ends are unless you look for them. I used a Jumbo Glue dot to attach the flower to the front of the card. Then used another Jumbo Glue dot to add one of the little circle from the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt Flowers. A stitched felt leaf was added under the flower.
I also cut some butterflies using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit for the Big Shot – these are in Pumpkin Pie. The tiniest one is glued to the ribbon flower. Two of the others are glued on the panel next to the flower.
When you pull the card open you can see some more of the panels. The far right one matches the front minus the ribbon flower. For the bottom panel I added a piece of Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon.
One view shows all the “front” facing panels.
And the other view also shows you the “back” facing panels including the large one in the center. Here I added a bird punched with the new XL Two-Step Bird Punch. And then stamped with the Whimsical Words stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure – I used “you’re to Kind” for my card. This would also be fun for Mother’s Day, a birthday or Thank you. You could do more decorating on each panel and stamp some more too. My top panels that look really plain in these photos actually have the paper with the clouds on them so it is supposed to be the sky part of my card.
I also used the Scallop Trim Border punch from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. I didn’t realize just how many products I used from that were SAB and from the Mini – 2 Sale-A-Bration items and 5 from the Occasions Mini.
Have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by – if you have time leave me a comment – I love reading them!
Today’s card is one that I received for my birthday earlier this month from my friend Yvonne. She used the Stampin’ Up! Totally Tess stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog. Totally Tess is a fun new set with Tess and a bunch of stamping accessories – a bag, an apron, a stamp, a card, scissors, a marker, and a stampin’ wheel and the phrases “I (heart) STAMPS” and “The best things in life a made, not bought.” For this card Yvonne used the Family Accessories to create a birthday card – look how perfectly they fit.
