Candy Conversations

Jan 17, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Valentine's Day | 0 comments

I’m crossing fingers that there is no traffic or very little, that we get to the airport, through security and our flight has no problems.  I was a bit irked with the airline because when I made my reservations I had a flight that left after 11 am so I could leave my house after the morning rush hour traffic.  But they move my flight up by more than an hour and it leaves before 10 am now and that means I have to leave my house before rush hour traffic.  And our rush hour lasts more than an hour around here.  So I’m up before dawn and Diane will be up even earlier since she has to drive to my house and she is even further away.

Here is another card for you – this one uses one of the new A La Carte stamps in the Occasions Mini Catalog – it’s called Candy Conversations.  I created this as a contest entry and also as a general swap card.

I also used the new Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – the strip with the hearts – on this card.  I’m also planning to add this card to my Card Maker’s Club – it will be one of the options for the January class on the 25th right after I get back.  The Cherry Cobbler panel and each of the little hearts are popped-up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.    And I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to align the “Be Mine Valentine”.  I also made a punching template using my grid paper to line up punched circles so they would be spaced evenly across the card front.  To make each subsequent card I laid the template on top of the cherry cobbler layer – traced inside the circles, move the template and then punch around each circle.  You could just punch through the template but what I found is that if I was even a hair off with my punch it would punch my template and be going through 2 pieces of card stock which makes it difficult to punch and left frayed edges.  So tracing inside the circle template and then aligning my punch around the pencil marks worked better for me.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
  • Ink: Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker
  • Stamp sets: Candy Conversations
  • Accessories:  Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, Small Heart punch, 3/4″ Circle punch, Basic Pearls, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine Stampin’ Dimensionals

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

Final Leadership Preparations

Jan 16, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2012, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day, Wedding | 0 comments

I am making final preparations to leave for the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference early tomorrow morning.  And part of that is setting up some blog posts for this week to show you some of the things that I made and will be taking with me to swap.  One of the best things about a Stampin’ Up! event is the swapping.  Meeting new people, getting lots of ideas and seeing old friends are all part of swapping.  There are generally two kinds of swapping going on – organized swaps – where someone plans a particular swap around a theme, type of project, or product and there are a set number of people swapping.  I am signed up for several of these.  And then there is general swapping – where you just swap like projects with whoever is around you and you make as many as you want to swap.  I have some of these too but not as many as I do when I go to convention.  The organized swaps that I am in include a full card swap with the UStamp class girls, a treat wrapper swap – I’m in two groups for this one, and a scrapbook swap.  I haven’t done a scrapbook swap before so I’m anxious to see what kind of layout ideas I get.

Of and something new that they added to our event is a contest – for every stamp set in the Occasions Mini Catalog they will choose a winner from the contest entries – so I was attempting to make a card (or scrapbook page) with every stamp set from the Mini Catalog that I have.  And surprisingly I have a lot – and most of them I earned free one way or another – I think I only bought two stamp sets.  I haven’t finished making everything I wanted for the contest entries but I’m hoping to get a few more done – the more I enter the more chances to win.  And they will put them up on the display boards to share with everyone too.

So now onto something to share with you today…..

This is one of my contest entries and general swaps.  It uses the new Take it to Heart stamp set and the Hearts Collection Framelits Dies.  I really love these Framelit dies – I hope we have more when the next catalog comes out this summer.  I also used the Loving Thoughts stamp set – all the words in that set fit inside the banner that comes with the Take it to Heart set. The banner does have to be cut out by hand – no punch or die for it.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock:  Early Espresso Textured, Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Whisper White
  • Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Blushing Bride Stampin’ Write Marker
  • Stamp sets: Take it to Heart, Loving Thoughts
  • Accessories:  Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Hearts Collection Framelits Dies, Full Heart punch, Small Heart punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Basic Pearls, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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

I’ll be back here tomorrow with another project but I really be traveling to Texas.  It should be a fun and busy week.

Ally sings Aurora

Jan 13, 2012 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages | 0 comments

I have  My Digital Studio page to share with you today –

This is my niece, Ally.  She was singing for us one night over the holidays while we were at the beach.  The song she is singing is called Aurora – some of the words are journaled around the edge of the page.  The song is from another girl – middle school age – that is a family friend of my brother and she created the song as a science project for school and has it on itunes.  My niece loves this song and the little girl.  I was trying to find the song on the internet and came across this – http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/Student-Sings-for-School-Science-Project-20120109-gda-sd – the local news did a story on the girl this week.

I did take some video of my niece singing the song – while it isn’t very good and she is only 4 – it is still really cute -one problem is that I took the video sideways and I can’t figure out how to turn it.  The first video is Ally singing  by herself all happy and silly and the second one has the itunes version playing with Ally singing but then she gets real quiet and hides – well it turns out she gets sad when she hears the song because she wants to see the girl that sings it.

Ok – well that didn’t work – I thought I could attach the videos here for you to see but it isn’t working.  sorry.

I’m working on leadership swaps and some blog posts so that I can start showing you my cards and have stuff to post next week while I am in Texas.  I can’t wait to see all my friends and have some girl time.

 

 

 

 

Dogs need Valentine’s Too

Jan 12, 2012 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2012, Tags | 0 comments

Don’t you think your dogs should have Valentine’s too?  They can give them to their doggie friends and doggie sweethearts!

I found these teeny tiny milk bones and they fit in the 1″ x8″ skinny cello bags – which by the way are still available on the carry-over list.

So I decided to make doggy Valentine’s – look at these –

How cute!  Here is a close up look at the tag –

The base of the tag is a Soft Suede circle – its the 2-1/2″ Circle punch.  I stamped the ‘V’ from the Occasions Alphabet set using JetBlack StazOn ink.

Then on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock I stamped the little dog from Friends Fur-ever stamp set along with the little heart in his mouth.  I water-colored with the Aqua Painter. I used Sahara Sand and Riding Hood Red ink.

The little heart at the top is Riding Hood Red card stock – first I punched the small heart in the card stock, then I put it on my Big Shot cutting pad and cut it again with the smallest heart from the Hearts Collection Framelits dies in the new Stampin’ up! Occasions Mini Catalog.  I tied the tag and heart to the top of my cello bag with a piece of Soft Suede ribbon.

Cute don’t you think?  Are your dogs ready to make Valentines?

Manager’s Reception Fan Invitation

Jan 10, 2012 | Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Up! Events | 0 comments

For those Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators that qualify to attend the managers reception at the Leadership Conference – Stampin’ Up! sends a special invitation in the mail.  This is my first year to qualify and so I received an invitation in the mail a few weeks back.  This is what came in the envelope –

I was curious and had no idea what it might be.  The paper is from the Timeless Portrait Designer Series Paper and there is a piece of Real Red Satin Ribbon around it.  So I slid off the paper wrap and inside was a fan.  I opened the fan and this is what it looked like.

And then this was on the other side –

All the details of the Manager’s Reception.  It will be next week and I’m so excited to go.  I’ll be meeting up with some friends from California – Cindee and Patty.  When I get back from my trip I’ll let you know all about the night.

Have a great day!