Feb 16, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012 |
We made this card in one of my classes this month. The idea is from a card that was on display at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. I though the idea was really neat – and at first glance you probably can’t tell that the large blossom flower is actually the negative portion of the punched image. It is a bit of an illusion.
The card base is Calypso Coral and then there is a piece of the Berry Blossoms Designer Series Paper attached. The white layer was run through the Stripes Embossing Folder (you can get it free during Sale-A-Bration) and then the Blossom Punch (Occasions Mini catalog) is punched in the side to create the opening of the flower. Put this over the designer paper with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add the center circle with a matching brad to finish the large flower. We used the In-Color Printed brads and everyone got to choose between – Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, and Wisteria Wonder brads. The Boho Blossoms punch was used to add the smaller flowers and they have the silver mini brads as their centers.
The strip across the front is stamped with words from the Loving Thoughts stamp set (Occasions Mini Catalog). I gave this card to my downline Lisa for her birthday last week. And most of the girls at my class called it a “Vera” card.
Enjoy the day!
Feb 15, 2012 | family, Uncategorized |
Ryan likes to get creative with his school projects and he has made two different projects these last two weeks. I took pictures of the one from last week but didn’t get any pictures of the one he turned in today. I wanted to share the first project with you today – I don’t think he has his grade yet – but if it were me I would give him an A.
His project was for a book (Dante’s Inferno) and his project was about the 9 circles of h*ll. Ryan likes to go big with his projects and this one ended up as tall as my kitchen counters when it was done. We talked about ways to show the 9 circles and ultimately he decided to use the idea of the tree in my Advent Shadow Box project but turned upside down with the smallest circle at the bottom and the largest circle at the top. He built a wood base, spray painted it, created an icicle stencil and spray painted that on the base, added a dowel rod to the center which he drilled holes through so he could add supports for each circle. Each circle was cut from foam core board and then covered with card stock. On the various levels he added the information for the project and on some of them he added 3-d elements.
Ryan's completed project
side view of Ryan's project
view of the top project with the castle and mountains
this level has a tornado made out of pipe cleaners - the terrible winds of a violent storm
this level has boulders made out of foam balls
Ryan used various Stampin’ Up! products to complete this project – lots of card stock and multipurpose glue, paper cutter, a craft knife, dimensionals and markers and the white gel pen.
The other project he turned in today looked like a giant Pokemon card – it was supposed to be a scientist trading card. he again used foam core board and covered it with card stock that had various information on it. If it comes back home I’ll try to get a picture. We pulled out the color coach to help find the colors of card stock to match a real Pokemon card. He went through two snail refills last night and more multipurpose glue. I better order more of both. I planned to order another craft knife but it turns out we retired that item from the catalog.
Today’s project is probably not something you’ll ever make but do know that we have lots of products that are useful in school projects – usually it’s the Big Shot and the alphabet dies for titles – but he didn’t use those this time.
Have a great day!
Feb 14, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day |
Happy Valentine’s Day to you! I hope you have a sweet day.
Each year we do Valentine’s a little different – when the kids were really young we started our family Valentine traditions – we cooked a fancy special dinner at home (I can feed the 5 of us a Lobster and Steak dinner at home for less than the 2 of us can go out). And to make it fun for the boys I had a Valentine Scavenger hunt for them. Each year is different and they have to solve riddles or decipher secret codes and search for hidden treats through out the house. Now they are older and with Kyle and Tyler in college I wasn’t sure the tradition would continue – but we managed to get us all together one more year – but we did it on Saturday night so Kyle and Tyler could be here too. We had our yummy lobsters and steak that Tyler prepared this year. Ryan made chocolate covered strawberries and I made some cute mini parfait desserts – they seem to be all the rage right now and I found some mini glasses at the store. I’ll find the picture of the desserts – it must be on my phone – since I didn’t find it on my camera.
Found it – 
I thought these little mini desserts were really good. First I baked some little brownie bites I found at the grocery store – they were Valentine Brownies with little pink and red chocolate chips. Then I layered my little glasses with first a brownie bite, then some vanilla yogurt, some fresh raspberries, and then another layer of each. They were easy to make.
Enough about that – now on to this cute card. I love this card when I saw it at Leadership. I saw it hanging on the displays and took a picture, then saw it again on the contest winners display and took another picture. And then was excited to see that I actually had it as a swap! The designer of this card was Catherine Sanders. Don’t you just love this card? I do. And we made it in my Friday class and I plan to give one to Greg today too. There are a few new products from the Occasions Mini Catalog on this card – the P.S. I Love You stamp set was used. The Adorning Accents Embossing Folders – the little hearts across the middle of the white panel. And the Fashionable Hearts Embosslit.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Feb 13, 2012 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day |
Oh my – I have been away from my blog for way too long! I didn’t mean too, but by the time I got ready to work on my blog it was time to go to bed so I would plan to do it the next day and then it happened again. So bad me. I meant to post about Valentine projects the last few days. And since that didn’t happen this post will just include multiple projects for Valentine’s day. Many of these are swaps and some I have used in my classes over the last week or two.
Ok here we go – these first few pictures were all ideas from swaps that I received at Leadership – most are from a Treat Wrapper swap that I participated in – it is always lots of fun to see all the fun ways people package up little treats. A couple of these are pictures of my actual swap that I received and others I have made a few minor changes to and used them in one of my classes. If I know the creator I will also try to add that information but some of them didn’t have names (or I lost them in transit at some point).
Cupid Box by Frances Wagner - this is the swap I received - it has an oatmeal cream pie or something similar inside.
Cute little envelope with a wrapped peppermint patty inside - this is one of the swaps I received and I did not find the name of the person that created it.
triangle treat - Designer Paper wrapped around a piece of Toblerone (my favorite) then wrapped in cellophane with ribbon tied ends - and a tag added to the front - this was the swap I received - I'm not sure who made it.
Dragonfly Treat - We made these in my Love is in the Air class on Friday - this idea comes from Connie Babbert and was her swap at leadershp. I didn't make any changes and she has instructions on her blog. Really Cute!
Strawberry Basket - original swap from Brenda McBride - this is a slightly altered version that we made at my Friday class - i changed the colors to Real Red and Lucky Limeade, and used the Sale-A-Bration Lucky Limeade ribbon for the strawberries. Those are dum-dum's by the way. The shreds in the box are made from the recycled paper in our orders. I also changed the ribbon and brads that I used on the box - its' made from two of the scalloped envelopes.
I received this little goody bag from my friend Shannon West. Inside were candy kisses, hugs and gummy lips!
One more project. This one wasn’t from Leadership but I found it on a blog – it was created by Lisa Young. She had instructions on her blog and i pretty much did exactly what she did.
Big Chocolate Covered Strawberry - from Lisa Young
top of the strawberry
side view
I hope you enjoyed these sweet projects!
Feb 8, 2012 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2012, Valentine's Day |
This is a quick little Valentine Goody Bag. Inside is a Maze Game and they are really easy to make.
The plain Maze Games are for sale in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog – 4 to a pack for $2.50. You turn it over and remove the white back panel (be sure you don’t lose the little balls inside). Stamp the image from the Totally a-maze-ing set on Whisper White card stock and punch out with the 2-1/2″ Circle punch. Then slip that piece into the back of the game. Since this was a Valentine Goody Bag I used the heart image for the game but there is also a traditional maze image to match the game.
I put the game in a cello bag with some candy and the hearts that I didn’t use on the topper. I cute the hearts with the new Fashionable hearts Embosslits Die. I also cut the largest label from the Framelits set. The black heart is the Scalloped Heart Embosslit (that probably isn’t the right name – my big catalog isn’t right here). The topper is attached with a silver mini brad and also has the Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding tied around it.
These really were quick to make. This idea was from Shelli – she showed these on stage at Leadership and it was one of the projects for the Valentine class she was having with her daughter.
We made this card in one of my classes this month. The idea is from a card that was on display at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. I though the idea was really neat – and at first glance you probably can’t tell that the large blossom flower is actually the negative portion of the punched image. It is a bit of an illusion.
