Mar 20, 2013 | Cards, Simply Scored, Spring Catalog 2013, Wildlife |
Sale-A-Bration is coming to and so quickly! I haven’t even shared all the things I have made using these stamp sets. Here is another idea for you using the Bloomin’ Marvelous stamp set.
I know I got this idea from somewhere – but can’t seem to find it now – I checked my Pinterest boards but don’t see it on there. So if you know where I saw this let me know. I know I made some changes but the card idea and I’m pretty sure the stamp set was the same.
I’m not sure you can tell in the first photo – you can probably tell better in this one but the front of the card has 1″ cut off of it and the Designer Paper is glued to the inside of the card and peeks through to the front. The 1″ strip that I cut off was used to stamp the butterflies that are punched out and added to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Here are a few more details for you:
- Card base is Naturals White
- Designer Paper is Tea for Two from the Spring catalog
- Near the fold I did some embossing with the Simply Scored Borders plate
- colors are Calypso Coral, Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi and Early Espresso for the words
- Pearls in the centers of the flowers
And a quick bird update – the Bluebirds are right on schedule – egg #4 came today –
Bluebirds lay 4-5 eggs so we’ll see if she adds one more tomorrow or if she is done. It is supposed to get cold here – we have had nice spring weather and we could get some snow flurries Thursday or Friday – I hope she keeps those eggs warm. I feel like these are really early this year. Let me go see when they were doing this last year. So I wend back and check my blog posts from last spring and on March 18th I was posting about the Chickadees and Bluebirds fighting over the same house. Perhaps the Bluebirds didn’t want that problem this time (they lost out last year) and started earlier to beat them. I guess I’ll have to wait and see where the chickadees go – no nests in the other houses yet.
Have a great day!
Mar 19, 2013 | Big Shot, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Thank You, Wildlife |
Here is one more quick card using the Madison Avenue stamp set and a few other Sale-A-Bration items.
The Sycamore Street Designer Series paper was used along with the coordinating Madison Avenue stamp set and Vine Street Embossing folder.
This is a 4-1/4″ square card.
I used this card as an example during some new demonstrator training sessions. This would be easy to change to use the products you have on hand.
The base used here is Shimmery White card stock – but you can just as easily use Whisper White.
You could use a different embossing folder or not emboss it all.
Switch out the ribbon – the Sycamore Street ribbon would have worked here too.
The Fabulous Phrases stamp set that I used here has a ton of different words to choose from – but if you don’t have that one choose something you do have.
The stamped flowers were embossed with clear embossing powder and the heat tool – but you could stamp with just VersaMark ink or use the same color as the card stock.
Switch out the designer series paper – and then use matching card stock.
There are so many different ways to alter this little card you could have a whole stack and each one be different.
Oh and another picture to share with you – my bluebird is right on schedule – egg #3 arrived today –
Let’s see if she adds another one tomorrow!
Mar 18, 2013 | Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Wildlife |
Stampin’ Up!s biggest promotion of the year – Sale-A-Bration – is nearing the end! Don’t miss out on a chance to get free product – exclusive Sale-A-Bration items or select items from the regular catalog. Yes – did you know you can select from some regular catalog product too – including the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate! Sale-A-Bration ends on March 22nd. And here is a special offer for you – if you’d like the chance to earn free hostess dollars too – then place an order online through my website by March 21st using the Hostess Code XR62ZECB. I’ll draw for the hostess rewards from everyone that orders – that’s 3 people ordering $50 each – then you each get a free Sale-A-Bration item and a chance to win the Hostess benefits.
Here is a card using the Bloomin’ Marvelous stamp set – it’s one of the Sale-A-Bration exclusive sets and has a gorgeous font on the phrases plus flowers and a hummingbird in the set.
It’s a Peek-a-boo style card and I got this idea from Dawn Olchefske.
Thanks Dawn for this beautiful card idea. I pretty much used her card exactly. No need to change something that was so pretty to begin with.
And more bird news – Egg #2 has arrived today –
It’s pretty amazing. This picture isn’t that great – it is with my iPhone and it was starting to rain when I snuck out to take a peek. I checked earlier before the rain but no second egg – so this picture was taken within 3 or so hours of when she laid it. Tomorrow I’ll see if there is another one – it should be one a day until she is done – usually with 4 or 5.
You may also want to follow my on Facebook – Stampin’ Up! has lots of specials and news coming out each week and I can get it out faster on my FB page than here on my blog – plus you may see some projects and other things on there that I’m not posting here. I tried to add a link plus you can go to the right side-bar on my my blog and like my page then be sure to add it to your news feed so you can see as soon as something is updated. This morning a big My Digital Studio announcement – what was MDS2+ is now going to be MDS and will be $19.95 – now there is no reason to keep putting off getting this product. Read more about it on Mydigitalstudio.net (you can get there through my FB page too).
Thanks for stopping by today!
Mar 14, 2013 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Mary, Easter |
Easter is sneaking up really fast! I made invitations last week and mailed them all out to our family to invite them over for lunch on Easter Sunday. It is always a fun day to get the extended family all together in one place. So with Easter on my mind I decided to make something with that theme using this weeks challenge.
This week at Create with Connie & Mary we were issued a sketch challenge!
I wanted to create a little box for my class this Friday so I thought I would use the sketch as the basis for the box design. And here is the end result –
As you can see it pretty much follows the sketch. I decided to use the scallops on the outside and layered squares on the inside – that’s kind of the opposite of what’s on the sketch – so maybe you can say I turned it inside out. And instead of a button I have an egg and a collection of little bunnies on the side.
Here are the details on this box –
- The front and back of the box are the Scallop Square Bigz Die – and on the front I pierced a hole in each scallop.
- Between the two scallop squares I made myself a box – same idea as last weeks project (and I guess I’m still stuck on last weeks color challenge too – I used basically those same colors again). This box is just bigger.
- A layer of Summer Starfruit card stock and a piece of the designer paper from Birds of a Feather.
- The bunnies are from Ears to You – one of the single stamps – I stamped them in Crumb Cake, Summer Starfruit and Raspberry Ripple and cut them out. I added a tiny pearl eye to each one and then one got a dahlia tail!
- Behind the bunnies I punched an oval from Primrose Petals card stock and used the piercing template to pierce around it.
- I tied Whisper White Baker’s Twine around the front layer.
- There is a little Happy Easter tag.
- And a Summer Starfruit ribbon handle.
- Fill with your favorite treat and give to someone special!
Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. I hope you will play along. Every week the top 3 are announced from each challenge – maybe this week it will be you!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Ears to You, Teeny Tiny Wishes
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Summer Starfruit, Raspberry Ripple
- Card Stock: Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, Whisper white
- Accessories: Basic Pearls, Big Shot Die Cut machine, Scallop Square die, Summer Starfruit ribbon, Dahlia’s, Whisper White Baker’s Twine, Itty Bitty Banner Framelits, Wide Oval Punch, Piercing Template, Piercer and Mat, Birds of a Feather Designer Series Paper.
Happy Easter!
Mar 13, 2013 | Paper Pumpkin |
If you would like to just try out Paper Pumpkin for one month you can now order the Try-It kit.
Now available on all order types including online through my store – www.monika.stampinup.net
Look at what’s inside the box!
