Jan 30, 2013 | Birthday, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013 |
I wanted to share this quick card to brighten a dreary day. Yep it is one of those days – the TV is on and it has pretty much been weather reports all day – strong storms, tornado watches and warnings, rain, flooding, wind – everything all around us. Our tornado sirens have gone off several times. I took the dogs down to the basement for a while – Magnolia decided to stay down there curled up in the blankets. I’ve gotten reports from Ryan at school and Tyler down at KSU. Plus I have a new lake in the backyard and side yard and a little waterfall coming through the back wall. It’s not over yet but hopefully will be soon.
So here is a bright cherry card to show you today – I took it with my cell phone so I hope the quality isn’t too bad.
This was a card choice today in my Card Maker’s class. It’s pretty quick and easy to make and uses some of the Sale-A-Bration items that you can get free right now by placing a qualifying order.
- Card Base is Rose Red
- then a layer of Whisper White
- a panel of Whisper white that was embossed with the Vine Street embossing folder
- stamps from the Madison Avenue stamp set – stem in Lucky Limeade on Whisper White – punch with the 2-1/2″ circle punch
- stamp the flower in Rose Red card stock in Rose Red ink and punch out with the 7/8″ scallop circle
- stamp small flower on Pretty in Pink card stock in Rose Red ink and punch out with flower from Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack
- crumple those, pierce a hole in the center and add a brad through the middle add above the stem with a dimensional
- stamp a greeting in Basic Grey ink on the circle
- Add the circle to the front of the card.
This cute idea came from one of the photos I took at Leadership. I made a few changes but generally it is the same. Cute card don’t you think?
Jan 29, 2013 | Cards, Demonstrator, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Spring Catalog 2013 |
I have several fun cards to share today. These were the Make&Take projects from my last team meeting that I had earlier this month. I love having these meetings every other month – sharing with other demonstrators and creating together is always fun! Since its a demonstrator meeting we do cover business and Stampin’ Up! news but we also have a swap and we do Make&Takes. You have to have stamping because that’s the fun part! We normally have 4 projects – one was the little box of Love Notes I shared last week – that’s the one I created. These other three were shared by other demonstrators that come to my meeting.
Diane’s Make&Take featuring the Patterned Occasions stamp set from Sale-A-Bration.
Lisa’s Make & Take featuring the Chalkboard Technique and the More Amore Designer paper.
Cindy’s Make & Take card featuring lots of Sale-A-Bration products – Madison Avenue stamp set, Sycamore Street Designer paper, Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button pack, Vine Street Embossing folder.
I’d love for you to be part of my team – PAWS – Play A lot With Stamps! You can join now during Sale-A-Bration for $99 and you starter kit will include 25% more than normal – a total of $156.50 worth of Stampin’ Up! products that you get to choose. I have three new team members since Sale-A-Bration started – Welcome to Kimberly, Jennifer and Terri! On February 9th I’ll be having a new demonstrator training session. Join today and plan to come on the 9th!
Learn more about joining Stampin’ Up! by visiting my website – www.monika.stampinup.net – click on JOIN THE FUN.
Jan 28, 2013 | Birthday, Cards, My Digital Studio |
You can use My Digital Studio to create a digital card to post on your friends Facebook pages on their birthday. That was what I did this weekend. I made two cards – a “girl” card and a “boy” card.
Boy birthday card
girl birthday card
And I’ve already used them since Facebook tells you whose birthday it is – assuming you check Facebook each day – when you see the notice then you can click over to their page and post a photo message. I created the cards in My Digital Studio and then exported them to a .jpg file so that I could use it anywhere I want. I may even get a couple of these printed.
Both were actually from templates. The boy one was easy – all I really added was the Happy Birthday stamp underneath. The girl one was a bit harder – I found a quote that I wanted to use – then I searched for stamps of the key words and added those in different colors ( I replaced the quote that was in the template) and then added the rest in text boxes. I did have one tricky word – smiles – the word was actually smile and I needed to add an ‘s’ – well thank goodness we have the new CROP a stamp feature in MDS2 – I was able to find another word in that stamp set with an ‘s’ and crop the rest of the letters away and tack the ‘s’ onto the word smile – I bet you didn’t even notice! Here is a photo so you can see what I mean
And one more thing on the girl card – the template was actually a 11 x 8-1/2″ scrapbook page and I converted it to the card and removed the photo box replacing it with the birthday cake stamps.
Oh the things you can do in MDS2!!! Hey that rhymes!
On Tuesday nights a group of us get together here near my house at the Panera restaurant and work on our MDS projectst together – we usually have a new trick or idea to share too. Come join us.
Jan 25, 2013 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013 |
This is a really fun bright birthday card! And rather easy and fun to make – fun if you like the color spritzer tool – which I do!
I did a lot of spritzing on this card which makes each one unique. This was my GoDiva Sale-A-Bration swap card that I made to showcase some of our fun new Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration products that you can earn free through March 22, 2013. Here is a look at how I made this fun card –
- first I stamped the happy Birthday from Bring on the Cake stamp set on the Whisper White panel
- then emboss the Whisper White panel with the Honeycomb embossing folder and the Big Shot
- then pull out the Color Spritzer Tool and some Stampin’ Write Markers and have fun spritzing – I used the colors to match the designer paper – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango, Summer Starfruit, Pool Party and Sahara Sand
- Cut various strips of the designer paper – Sycamore Street – a Sale-A-Bration freebie choice, snip points into the ends to make flags and staple them to the white panel
- Tie a piece of Island Indigo ribbon – Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Bundle – another Sale-A-Bration freebie choice – around the panel
- add the panel to the Tangerine Tango card base
- finish with a Tangerine Tango button – Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Bundle – a Sale-A-Bration freebie – tied with some Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
A super fun birthday card that you could give to anyone! It’s just bright and cheery.
Stay warm – we are anticipating sleet and freezing rain for today (Friday) – yikes! That may cause issue for my scrapbook class today – I’ll be posting on my FB page if I need to postpone or cancel it.
Jan 24, 2013 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Spring Catalog 2013, Valentine's Day |
It’s a new challenge from Create with Connie & Mary . I used the cute Hearts A Flutter stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Spring catalog. We are back to colors for this weeks challenge – Raspberry Ripple, Pretty in Pink and Lucky Limeade.
I was working on cards and projects using the Hearts a Flutter stamp set for my class last week and decided to get two things done at one time – create a card for my class and for the color challenge! In the end I used the exact same card but in slightly different colors for the class – I’ll show you both but first here is my challenge card.
This card idea is from a swap I received at leadership from Kathy. I thought it was just the cutest card but I changed the colors and a couple of other things – otherwise it is the same. Here are some details on this card and then I’ll show you the other version (actually two).
- card base is Naturals White card stock, folded in half and then cut with the Scallop Square die and the Big Shot Die-cut machine – you line up the fold inside the first row of scallops so it doesn’t get cut.
- Who knew that the Hearts strip Embossing Folder matched up so perfectly with the scallop square – well it does – line up the hearts so there is one in each scallop on the front of the card – then run that through the Big Shot to emboss the front of the card.
- Stamp the hearts – one in each color and then the outlines are all in Lucky Limeade
- Tied some Raspberry Ripple ribbon around the card.
- Stamp the Love You on the scrap from where you die cut the card and punch with the Word Window punch
- Attach to the front of the card and add a couple of little pearls.
- Ta-da!
It was quick and easy and I really love how the embossed hearts line up with the scallop square – just genius! I did play around with the combination of colors – so here is a slightly different version of the same card.
And the one I used in class was just Raspberry Ripple and included Pool Party and outlined in Basic Gray – that was what most of my other projects had so this color combo matched better.
The original swap card that I got was done with a Very Vanilla card base, Primrose Petal ribbon and the hearts were stamped with Primrose Petals and Pool Party.
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. It is COLD here! And now they are saying ice again – yuck! With Ryan just driving himself to school this month – I don’t want any ice at all on the road! We shall see what the weather brings us.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Hearts A Flutter, Itty Bitty Banners
- Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Pretty in Pink
- Card Stock: Naturals White
- Accessories: Big Shot die-cut Machine, Scallop Square Bigz Clear die, Adorning Accents Embossing Folders, Word Window punch, Raspberry Ripple ribbon, Basic Pearls.
