Mar 28, 2012 | Big Shot, Easter, Occasions Mini 2012, Punch Art, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Wildlife |
Well it’s getting close to Easter and I better start sharing Easter projects before it is too late. This super cute Easter Bunny idea came from my friend and upline Wendy Randall. I thought it was just perfect for my Easter class so we made this a couple of weeks ago and during the class I started thinking how cute he would be on a scrapbook page so at last weeks scrapbook class we did just that. Today I’ll share the box and tomorrow I’ll show you the scrapbook page.
Isn’t this the cutest bunny ever?
Don’t you love the big floppy ears? Those are from the Dresdan Die in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. This is a Big Shot/Punch Art project. For the ears I cut two sets of the Dresdan die petals and for the ears I used the smaller ones. I used one of the large ones to punch out the cheeks for the bunny face. And tomorrow you’ll see what I did with the other one. The bunny face is the Scalloped Oval Frame die – just use the inside oval and save the scallop frame for something else.
The cheeks are the 1″ circle punch and the eyes are Basic Black punched from the 1/2″ circle punch. His nose is Pretty in Pink small heart punch turned upside down. The whiskers and mouth are drawn on with the Black Journaler and there are some white gel pen highlights on his eyes. The inside of the ears are sponged with Pretty in Pink and the outsides of the face and cheeks are also sponged.
The box is Pretty in Pink (scored with the Simply Scored – love it!) and a piece of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper from the Sale-A-Bration brochure is added to the box front and back. A handle is attached with the coordinating brads. A piece of the Calypso Coral ribbon was tied around one of the ears.
The little flower embellishment is fun to make – I used a strip of the designer paper 6″ long by about 1-1/4 or 1-1/2″ wide – punched first with the Eyelet Border punch. Then I used my bone folder to curl and break up the fibers of the paper so it would be easy to work with. Then starting at on end pleat the paper and fold it into a circle to create the flower. Just smoosh it into the shape you want it. The center has a punch flower from the Boho Blossom punch to cover up the ends of the pleats. I used the crop-a-dile to punch a hole through the center of all of it and added the brad to hold it all together. If you need to add some snail or other adhesive to make the ends stay together you can but you don’t necessarily need that. Add to the bunny ear with a stampin dimensional and then add a tag that says “Happy Easter”.
Fill the box with some treats and you have a super cute Easter treat for someone sweet.
And a quick update on the birds – it looks like the chickadees ended up with 5 eggs this year.
Now we wait while they incubate which is about 11-12 days. So maybe by the end of next week the babies will start hatching.
As for the bluebirds and other houses – no luck in any of them. Just the starter nest in one which I guess didn’t suit the bluebirds after all. I’ll keep watching – maybe some later bloomers will move in soon or we’ll get the second brood for those that have more than one set of eggs in the spring. Everyone is still coming to the yard to feed. But I do need to refill the feeders.
It’s also time to hang the hummingbird feeder again (actually I should have already done it). I’ll get to that in the next day or so.
It’s a beautiful spring day in Georgia – I hope it is where you are too.
Mar 27, 2012 | Demonstrator, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2012 |
Earlier this month I had a full Saturday filled with fun and learning and my Stampin’ Up! demonstrator friends. This first part of the day we learned about My Digital Studio and created some “Beyond the Page” projects. And that evening was our meeting where we shared ideas, learned business tips and created some fun projects. I already shared the swaps from that meeting in an earlier post but I wanted to share with you our My Digital Studio projects we made earlier in the day. Cindy Schuster and I worked together to create these projects and we love how they turned out. With the new Summer Smooches Suite of products being available as an early sneak peek in April we decided to use that as our theme for the projects – so we have bright and colorful creations.
First here is our group at our My Digital Studio Retreat –
Monika, Lisa B., Lisa S., Barbara, Sue, Leishman, Diane, Laree, Fran, Cindy
Cindy and I made bags for everyone with their project supplies and hand outs – Cindy created personalized tags using My Digital Studio and the Summer Smooches Digital Kit that will be available in April.
For each project we spent time doing the creating in My Digital Studio and going over tips and tricks on how we created the project. And then we actually made the projects – we pre-printed the My Digital Studio parts ahead of the retreat. One of our projects is this cute little bag that is made with an Iron-On Transfer – everyone can use these to carry their supplies to our meetings in the future. The centers of the flowers are the Brights Designer Buttons that you can get free during Sale-A-Bration – which ends March 31st. Cindy sewed the bags for us – like I’ve said before I have determined that I am not a seamstress. Cindy on the other hand is!
Our next project is a piece of Wall Art created in the subway art style and then embellished with stamps, fabric, card stock, ribbon and a crystal bauble. I started with the Love What You Do digital stamp image and made changes and additions to end up with the Statement of the Heart. It’s a piece of art that each demonstrator can place in her creative area or give as a gift to a new recruit or use as a display item at workshops.
The third project we created was a swatchbook project with the TOP 10 reasons to love My Digital Studio – it is a little business tool that everyone can use to show their customers what you can do with My Digital Studio – we listed 10 reasons we love it, details of bot the full CD version and the Downloadable Express version and included pictures of various projects on the back of each page. We started with the Twitterpated Swatchbook template and then made modifications to get our end result.
Top 10 - #1
I had to add a caption to that one since the right hand side is all white it blended in with the background on my blog and looked weird. Anyway here is reason #1 – we had 10 total. It’s a fun little book and hopefully everyone will find it useful, easy to carry around and cute enough to share with everyone.
Enjoy you day!
Mar 26, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
One more My Digital Studio Scrapbook page. This was another layout from Heather’s class. Pretty simple back ground with an overlay and then some punches and photo boxes.
Let’s see if I can list the specifics:
Background: Baja Breeze
Overlay: Hip & Handsome Overlay 11 – Very Vanilla 30% opacity
Punches: Square punch, Flag punch, Half Circle punch, Timeless Type Alphabet
Colors: Marina Mist, Baja Breeze, and color matched to the car
Basic Gray Bakers Twine, silver brads
Text Boxes – fonts used: Arnprior, CK Brownie, Ravie and Blue Highway
That should be most of the elements – some have dropped shadows.
Have a great day!
Mar 25, 2012 | Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2012 |
Do you need quick and easy cards? Have you tried the Simply Sent card kits?
The Everyday Elegance Simply Sent Card Kit is really easy and you can get it free during Sale-A-Bration.
Elegant cards in an instant—thank-you cards or any-occasion cards. We’ve done all the work for you. Precut and color-coordinated—all you have to do is customize and send them off! Coordinating Everyday Wishes Set and ink sold separately.
Get this kit FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration, January 24-March 31, 2012!
Kit creates 8 total cards (4 each of 2 designs) and coordinates with Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler, and Whisper White.
Kit Contents:
■ 8 printed, embossed, die-cut cards (5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″)
■ 16 self-adhesive tags (8 each of 2 designs)
■ 8 White envelopes (5-3/4″ x 4-3/8″)
You can step up these easy cards by adding some extra embellishments – for this one I added Whisper White Baker’s Twine and popped up the adhesive tag on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The sentiment that I used is from the A Word For You stamp set.
Have a great day!
Mar 22, 2012 | Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, SU Ribbon |
There was lots of fun ribbon in the Occasions Mini catalog. My favorites are the seam binding and baker’s twine. Plus the Sale-A-Bration had some fun ribbon too. For everyone that participated in my ribbon share for the Occasions Mini catalog I made them the cute little craft box and filled it with all their ribbon (and the SAB brads too).
I covered each of the four sides of the box with some of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper and then wrapped some of the Calypso Coral ribbon around it. I added a little jewelry tag too.
I hope everyone likes their ribbon share. I’m hoping to have another ribbon share in April – I’ll make plans and send it out with my April newsletter.
On another note remember Monday all the things I rambled on about. Well the fridge/freezer seems to be working just fine now – the repairman thinks someone left the freezer door open which caused the snowstorm inside and then I guess the freezer was trying to eliminate all the frost so it was getting warm – I don’t know but I cleaned out the inside, cleared out all the frost and now it seems to be working. Then my itchy spot that I thought was a mosiqito bite – well it wasn’t exactly that and by Wednesday I had spots on my arm and all over my stomach and they were spreading and red and itchy! So i went yesterday to the dermatologist and now I have meds and cream – they said it was a delayed allergic reaction to a bug bite that I probably got last week during the one hour that I did some yard work ( I also got a blister that day) – so doctor’s orders – don’t do yard work in March – he really did say that but Greg doesn’t believe me.
Ok – moving on about my day – getting ready for scrapbook class tomorrow.
Isn’t this the cutest bunny ever?
Now we wait while they incubate which is about 11-12 days. So maybe by the end of next week the babies will start hatching.
