No Peeking

Sep 20, 2012 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Mary, Holiday catalog 2012 | 5 comments

  It’s Thursday once again – where does the time go? This weeks challenge Create with Connie & Mary is a sketch challenge.

I struggled with this one.  I started in one direction, then switched to something else and then finally ended up with this little Christmas card using the No Peeking stamp set.

I had the little animals already made from a different project I was working on and they were sitting on my table just smiling at me.  I was also working on ideas for my Paper Piercing class that I have tomorrow.  So I ended up combining all of these things together.  This will be one of the cards we will make in my Friday class.  The layout was based on the sketch and the cute little animals were just sitting their waiting for me to do something else with them.  I think we are all happy now.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Stamps:  No Peeking, Delightful Dozen
  • Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Island Indigo and Markers
  • Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
  • Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Piercing Mat, Paper Piercer, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Island Indigo Bakers Twine, Dimensionals

Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected.  Each challenge is open for a week.  And then a new challenge will be issued.  I hope you’ll play along with us!

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Monika Davis

Perfectly Preserved

Sep 19, 2012 | Designer Series Paper, Holiday catalog 2012 | 0 comments

This super cute project was the Make & Take project that Lisa Swantek shared at my PAWS meeting.  It uses the Perfectly Preserved Bundle from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog – which includes the Perfectly Preserved stamp set and the Cannery Set Framelits.  From the main catalog the Bitty Banners Framelits are used to cut the little tag.

There are two jars one on either side of a little box that holds three covered nuggets – That’s the Orchard Harvest Designer Paper on the nuggets and on the lid.  Use the oval punch to get the window in the center of the jar.  Tie the Linen Thread around the tops to hold it all together.

A really cute little treat.  Thank you Lisa for sharing this with us.

The Story of the Tufted Titmouse

Sep 18, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Wildlife | 2 comments

I posted this My Digital Studio scrapbook page on MyDigitalStudio.net today.  It is an older page that I made quite some time ago.  I’m posting it again because Stampin’ Up! now has a weekly contest and this weeks challenge was to create a project that used 10 or more photos – and guess what this one fits the challenge!  So I’m asking you to do me a favor – go visit the site and LIKE my page – http://mydigitalstudio.net/photo/tufted-titmouse – and if you want leave me a comment too.

This is the story of the Tufted Titmouse that raised their family in my backyard.  I thought it would be neat to do this page as a calendar and insert the pictures that I took on the days that I took them so it would show the progress from choosing a bird house, building a nest, laying the eggs, feeding and raising the babies and then when the finally fledged.  I wish I had been there on that last day to take a picture but its hard to be there right on the exact day.

So vote for me and if I win I get a free My Digital Studio digital download next week.  Every Tuesday Stampin’ Up! has new downloads available.  And the My Digital Studio 2 is awesome – I love all the new features.  If you live locally to me – Cindy and I are having My Digital Studio Digi Crop nights on Tuesdays starting next week on Sept. 25th.  Visit my Facebook business page for the event details – you can rsvp there and while you are at LIKE my page – I just hit 100 likes today!

Thanks!!

 

Halloween Make & Takes

Sep 17, 2012 | Big Shot, Demonstrator, Halloween, Holiday catalog 2012, My Digital Studio | 0 comments

Every other month I have a demonstrator meeting at my house – my PAWS team meeting.  It is a ton of fun to get together with these wonderful ladies each time.  At the meeting we usually start with sharing some business topics and other Stampin’ Up! news and then we have snacks, Make&Takes and we do a swap.  I came to realize that after the meeting I don’t always get a chance to take pictures of everything.  So this last month I decided to take pictures at the meeting and I think that will be better – and now that I’m writing this – I think next month I’ll even try to get pictures of the M&Ts with the person that created it.   Hopefully this will make it easier to share the wonderful creations that everyone brings.

So I already shared my Make&Take from the meeting – that was the Core’dinations card and technique book.  And today I’ll share with you Leishman’s Halloween Make&Take.

PAWS meeting – Leishman Williams Make & Take project

She really had two projects for us.  One was the little cello bag filled with candy corn.  The bottom of the bag is stamped with StazOn ink.  The top is tied with the new black/gray satin ribbon and we added a little punched tag to the front.  Leishman used My Digital Studio 2 to create the different images from the Spooky Bingo Bits stamp brush set.  In MDS2 it is easy to recolor portions of the stamp images – she had a variety of images for us to choose from.  I guess I should have taken a picture of that too.

Then we made a little box using the Scallop Circle die – we trimmed them and glued them to the sides of a box – and embossed with the Spider Web folder.  Then use the Simply Scored and a strip of Designer Paper – these were printed on a home printer through MDS.  It’s the Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP – either use the real designer paper or use the digital paper and print it at home.  Create a medallion – use some hot glue on the new silicone craft sheet – it really holds the medallians well.  Stamped image is from the Mixed Melody hostess stamp set and Tiny Tags for the Boo.

Two fun Halloween ideas – I hope you like them.  Thank  you Leishman for sharing these with us.

 

Core’dinations Techniques

Sep 14, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Core'dinations Card stock, Holiday catalog 2012 | 2 comments

It’s Friday!  And here were we live it’s the last day of school before we have Fall Break.  Yep they get a whole week of school next week.  When you start school on Aug 1st you are ready for a break by mid September.

Today I wanted to share with you a card I made using the Core’dinations card stock that is in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog.  At my PAWS downline meeting last weekend I showed everyone a bunch of different ways to use this card stock.  Each person made a Core’dinations Technique book and this card that uses several of the techniques we went over.

I used the Cherry Cobbler Core’dinations card stock as the card base.  On the front I scored lines and then sanded them (that’s one technique).  Then I added a layer of the Early Espresso Core’dinations card stock that was cut with the Top Note die and sanded the edges (that’s another technique).  I tied some Cotton Ribbon around it with Linen Thread – it is stamped with the Loving Thoughts stamp set.  The final addition is a rose made out of the Cherry Cobbler Core’dinations card stock by tearing it into circle and layering them (that’s a third technique).

Here is a look at the technique book/sampler –  I just fanned all the pages out for you to see.

Here is a quick list of the techniques –

12 techniques

  1.  Sanding – just sand the card stock
  2. Tearing – tear toward you
  3. Embossing – use embossing folder
  4. Debossing – upside down folder and sand around the debossed image
  5. Distressing – distressing tool on the edge
  6. Scoring – score from the back and then sand
  7. Outlining – secure chipboard to surface, lay over and sand
  8. Label – use non-electric label maker, insert strip type letters, sand (or write in reverse on the back with a pencil or stylus and sand the front)
  9. Antiquing – crumple into a ball, flatten, sand
  10. Corrugating – run through crimper tool, sand
  11. As is – textured side
  12. Punching – use border punches

So on my card above I used #1, #2, and #6.   So go play with it and have some fun.

Have a good weekend!