Look at this fun new product now available through Stampin’ Up! You purchase the labels, download the app, record your message on one of the labels, stick on a card, scrapbook page or other project and give to someone special. They follow the instructions – download the app and scan the tag to hear your message.
How cool is that – send a message to those you love who are far away. Here is a video so you can see it action.
These are available to order now – visit my online store – www.monika.stampinup.net – and click SHOP NOW. But wait don’t finish your order yet – I have more things to share so check out my next few posts before you finalize your order – in fact you may want to wait just a couple of days – something BIG is coming soon!
Be sure to come back for more updates – I’ll have several posts today but wanted to start first with this creative one – then I’ll let you in on all the sales, new items, and announcements from Stampin’ Up! – don’t miss the rest of my posts today.
This week I hosted my neighborhood Pokeeno group for our monthly game night. I decided to do a tailgate theme and wanted to do some decorating to suit the theme. After searching around for ideas this is what I came up with. My table setup –
Yes I found another way to use my packing paper from my Stampin’ Up! orders. I covered my folding tables – I had two 6 foot tables end to end. I taped the paper down – it was exactly the width of my tables. Then I got out some white paint and put strips across the paper for the yard lines. I used my retired stamp set – Headline Numbers and Headline Alphabet – to stamp the yard numbers and the end zone. I used a sponge to apply the paint to my stamp and when I was down I washed all the paint off and cleaned them really well. Didn’t it turn out so well? And the yard lines worked out perfectly – you know the paper has sections – I painted a yard line every 1-1/2 sections and it was perfect!
Here are my snack bags –
I used small paper bags – I cut about 2″ off the top then folded the tops down a few times so the bags would stay open. I used My Digital Studio to print banners with various football themed phrases, printed them on my home computer, cut them out and stapled them to each bag. The bags were filled with pretzels, peanuts, popcorn, chips and I even got Cracker Jacks! Football snacks!
And I made cupcakes and had to decorate those too –
Again I used My Digital Studio – put circle punches on the page, filled them with color and added stamps in White to each one. I printed on my home computer and then punched out with a circle punch. Glue two circle together with a small skewer in between. Quick decorations and a fun evening with friends.
It’s football season – have yourself a little party without spending a lot of money on decorations.
This week’s Thursday challenge at Create with Connie & Mary is a 2 week double challenge! First it’s a sketch challenge and second we have been challenged to create a shaped card using one of Stampin’ Up!’s Big Shot dies or framelits.
So with that in mind – what was I going to make? That took me a while to figure out. I finally found some inspiration on Pinterest and here is my card for the 2 week double challenge –
It’s not a very big card – we have a 3-1/2″ circle die and a 3″ circle die and that’s what I used. I think I need to make an envelope for it but I haven’t done that yet. The card base is Basic Black and I started by cutting a regular sized card and scored it in half. Then I put that on the 3-1/2″ circle die so that on the side with the fold it was inside the cutting blade – that keeps the front and back connected. Cut Whisper White with the 3″ circle die – cut two so one can go on the inside. The one on the front is then run through with the dots embossing folder. I actually sponged a little bit across the dots and around the edge of the front circle.
The Itty Bitty Banner fit perfectly on this card since it was pretty small. I cut an extra banner in black and layered it behind to create a shadow. I tied two golf tees together with the Basic Black ribbon and then put them on the card front with mini glue dots.
I hope you can see the sketch in this card – the two tees are the two strips going down the left side of the card. The bitty banner is the greeting. The bow around the tees is the “flower” on the card.
So who is going to get this card – I was planning to give it to Greg for his birthday which is quickly approaching but we were just invited over to celebrate his golfing-buddies birthday on Friday – so it just might go to him instead. I guess that means I better make another one.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Crumb Cake
Card Stock: Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, 3-1/2″ circle die, 3″ circle die, Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Bitty Banner Framelits, Basic Black 1/8″ Taffeta ribbon, Stampin’ Sponge, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals
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. This is a two week challenge – so we’ll see you again after Thanksgiving – I hope you have a nice one with your family and friends! Be safe if you are traveling.
Did you check out Connie & Mary’s new online mini class? It’s called Card “Create”-ions – we just used one of Mary’s cards from the preview in my downline meeting – everyone loved it! Here are some of the details about the class for you – just a couple more days of new card ideas.
JOIN US for a BRAND NEW venture with creative card ideas using holiday and winter stamp sets from the Main and Holiday Mini catalogs!
* Over 45 EXCLUSIVE cards with 15 stamp sets featured!
* 3 week mini edition
* October 28 thru November 17
* Printable supply lists & measurements
* 24/7 access
* Perfect for classes or personal cards!
* Designers Elizabeth Price, Debbie Henderson and Deb Currier are joining us!
Well I see now that I never did get my post done yesterday – oops. I started working on it and evidently got distracted. And apparently it was a common trend for me yesterday. I even forgot to finish my challenge card for this weeks Create with Connie & Mary challenge – but I got it done – stayed up late and it turned out cute – but my camera battery was dead so instead I used my cell phone to take the photo – it’s not the best but its pretty good. But you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see that so be sure to check back then.
So what I planned to post yesterday was an ornament project that I made with my Stamp Club a while back – I think it was our October meeting.
This one is similar to one in the Holiday catalog on page 3. I just changed the center a bit using the Brass button. Then I also made another one in my Hands On class later in the month – it looks like this –
This one is my favorite. It’s similar to the one on the front cover of the Holiday Catalog but I used different colors and changed the center. I love this Tulle! I think I need to get lots more before the Holiday catalog ends. These are not hard to make just time consuming because you have to stamp so many pieces, then cut each one with the framelit – having multiple sets of the framelits would speed things up, and then gluing them all together. This Espresso ornament will be available as a project in my Holiday Gift Making class and the other one will too but I’m going to create it to match the other one – so it will also be Espresso. The email for that will go out today. The projects are made and I did all the supply lists and pricing, took the photos, just editing and creating the flyer and then I’ll get the email out and take registrations.
Fall is most definitely here! We have tons of leaves in many colors covering the ground and some still hanging on to the trees. Last month one of the scrapbook layouts we did in my scrapbook class was a fall layout.
I used the Orchard Harvest Designer Series paper and the Early Espresso Coredinations card stock for the squares along the top and bottom of the layout. The journaling goes under the title on the left side. I added some cross stitches in some of the squares – used the piercing template to create the holes in a grid and then stitch with Linen Thread. The acorns are colored with markers, stamped on Very Vanilla, and then punched out.
I have a couple of kits available for sale too. All the cut pieces, punched pieces, and die cuts plus ribbon. The kit does not include stamps, ink, adhesive or stamped images. Kit price is $10 for local pickup or add shipping if it needs to be shipped to you.
I hope you are enjoying the fall – we had our first fire in our new fire pit the other weekend. Here is a picture before it got dark.
Tyler did a good job getting the fire started and keeping it going while we enjoyed our evening. Talk to you later.
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