Nov 1, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Punch Art, UDI Color Challenge |
So how was your Halloween? I think we had the fewest kids ever – one small group came by like 6:30 and then maybe 20 minutes later a couple of kids, then some small groups every 10 -15 minutes – i was giving out hand fulls trying to get rid of the candy. I’m not sure where everyone was – although I do think we have a lot of families around us that are like us – their kids are now in college and high school and they don’t have any more trick-or-treaters – so maybe that is it our neighborhood is older and we don’t have very many young families around us.
But enough of that – there is a new UDI Color Challenge in town – and I had some fun with this one!
Here is the inspiration picture:
And I really like how well these colors work together – I’m not sure that I would have used them together but I am very happy with how my card turned out. The idea from my card came from one that I saw on Pinterest – it was a non-SU card but mine of course is made with all Stampin’ Up! products.
It is basically a bunch of punched pieces aligned in a grid on the front of the card. I layered different pieces and added some embellishments like brads and buttons. What do you think? I love it! See below for all the supplies that I used – I think it is pretty self explanatory – each set of punched pieces is on the card with a Stampin’ Dimensional. The only hard to figure out thing might be the “thread” in the buttons on the top row – well it isn’t thread at all it is a thin piece of card stock. You can cut very thin slivers with the Tabletop Paper Cutter – that is what I use for just about all my cutting – I love it.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip
- Stamp sets: Tiny Tags, Sweetly Said
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Subtles Designer Series Patterns Stack, White Baker’s Twine, Jewelry Tag punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch, Heart to Heart punch, Itty Bitty shapes – flower, Neutral Designer Buttons, Brights Brads, Bitty Buttons, Brights Designer Buttons, Basic Pearls, Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads, 5/16″ Jumbo Neutrals brads, Scallop Edge Border punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack , Stampin’ Sponge, mini glue dots.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Oct 31, 2011 | Baroque Motifs, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Scrapbook Pages |
Happy Halloween! I hope that I have already posted all of my Halloween projects – I need to go back and look through my stuff to see what all I made….. in any case I thought I would share a scrapbook layout with you. Now that Halloween is here, there will be pictures made that need to be scrapped. I’m not really sure that I will have any though – so I may pull off that 2011 and change to something else – two in college and the third in high school – dressing up and trick-or-treating is not high on the list at our house. Or I could take pictures of the kids coming to my house – or get pictures of my niece and nephew – now that is what I really need. So now that I have rambled on lets get to the layout – we made it on Friday at my monthly Scrapbook Class –
The idea for the layout came from a scrapbook magazine – it was a single page that I stretched……
I used the Pick Your Poison Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Mini catalog. And the colors that coordinate ate Basic Black, Peach Parfait, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla. I also used Basic Gray with my layout since a lot of the paper had the black faded out.
Stamp sets used are House of Haunts, Baroque Motifs and Warmest of Wishes (the Hostess set in the Holiday Mini catalog).
I cut strips of DSP in varying lengths and widths – 1/2″, 3/4″ and 1″ wide.
The swirls stamped write over the top of the papers after they were glued down. The house is stamped and cut out and a moon is punched with the 1-3/8″ circle punch and glued behind the house. I also colored in the windows with the Peach Parfait Stampin’ Write Maker to give them some spooky light inside.
The owl from Warmest of wishes was stamp in Pumpkin Pie ink on Very Vanilla card stock and punched out and then stamped on Peach Parfait card stock with Basic Black ink to cut out the trick or treat bag which is put on top of the punched out owl with a stampin’ dimensional. I colored in the eyes and nose with a black marker.
The title is cut with the Big Shot and the Timeless Type Junior alphabet set. And today is the last day that you can get the Big Shot Die-Cut Machine for FREE! Really – you can – when you sign up as a demonstrator today you get the full starter kit plus a free Big Shot (or $100 in product). You can sign up today directly on my website! Don’t miss it!
UPDATED – The Free Big Shot promotion has been extended through Nov. 11th – so you still have time to join with the awesome offer!
Have a fun Halloween!
Oct 28, 2011 | Cards, Christmas, Demonstrator, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, My Digital Studio |
Earlier this month we had a retreat for demos at my house and we learned all about My Digital Studio. It was so much fun! My friend, Cindy and I came up with the idea last summer as we flew out to Salt Lake City for the Stampin’ Up! Convention. We started talking on the flight over and then had even more ideas after attending the classes that they offered at convention. We worked on our plans and on our projects and scheduled the retreat for mid October.
There were 12 of us here for an entire day learning and playing with My Digital Studio.
all of us
A picture of the whole gang eating out in my sunroom. We set up tables out there so we wouldn’t have to clear the computers off our work spaces. We set up two classrooms – the kitchen table had the beginner group that I taught and the dining room table had the intermediate group that Cindy taught.
Beginner Classroom
Intermediate Classroom
We planned our day with class time in the morning, lunch and dinner breaks, three hybrid projects, and free create time at the end of the day. For each hybrid project the time was split between actually completing the project – adding the hybrid elements – we had the MDS part pre-printed – and going over how we created it in MDS. We covered topics such as printing through the Stampin’ Up! print service, using Designer Templates, printing at home, and more.
One project was a Welcome Banner. This one was modeled after one that we saw at one of the classes at Convention. I changed it to use the Spice Cake Designer Paper in MDS. This one I printed on my home computer and then we added the elements such as die cut letters, punched flowers, ribbon, pearls, linen thread, hemp twine and the mini clothes pins for hanging.
The second project was a card. This is the card sample in the Holiday Mini catalog. It is made using a postcard template so we showed how to take that template (it is a digital download) and create a card with it. And then add the hybrid elements. Cindy created this project for the class. These were printed through the SU print service.
The third project was the calendar. Cindy recreated the calendar that was made in the MDS +FUN class at convention in the portrait option. And she made it a 2012 calendar. For the class we added little hybrid pieces to each month. These were printed through the SU print service and they are so nice.
Everybody received a Make ‘n Take bag that included a personalized name tag. I got this idea from another demo – Heather. I created the tags as a MDS Swatchbook project and had them printed through the SU print service. The swatch books are really nice – see the hole in the corner – that is where the rivet is and then the book has a plastic cover on the front and back. I just took it all apart to create the tags which we tied to the bags with Very Vanilla Seam Binding. Inside the bag were all the pieces for the projects we made (we pre-punched everything!) and all the handouts with instructions for our class topics, printing, and the projects.
We had good food – Chicken Salad for lunch and Chili and baked potatoes for dinner. We had some desserts – look at these little brownie bites – 
We punched out the detailed flower from the Triple Flower punch – laid it on each brownie and sprinkled them with powdered sugar. They matched the cover of our calendar!!
I think everyone learned a lot in that one day – even Cindy and I learned from each other as we prepared and held the retreat. We enjoyed ourselves so much we started planning the next one before the night even ended. If you live near us – I hope you will be able to join us for the next one!
Have a great day!
Oct 26, 2011 | Big Shot |
Last week was Senior night at the High School Football game. The seniors are honored during half-time – band, football, and cheer. The band also does a little something for them before the game – giving them a goodie bag and flowers for the students and their parents. The last two years I have been on the Senior Committee – last year because I had a senior and this year I represent the “sophomore” group – our committee has a parent from each grade level and they wanted me back because they loved the senior gifts we did last year. The main gift will be presented in May at the banquet so I’ll tell you more about that in May next year. For now I wanted to show you the goodie bags that I made.
The band half-time show this year is called Tribal Elements – it is a show with a Native American theme – the props include a large totem pole and teepees. So I wanted the goodie bags to go along with their show theme.
I used brown lunch sacks and wheeled them wit the music wheel in black ink covering about half the bag. Then I cut Confetti Cream card stock with the Perfect Pennants die. I used the large pennant to create a teepee. Before attaching it to the bag I spritzed it with the Log Cabin Smooch Spritz. I added a smaller pennant in Chocolate for the door. There is also a small pennant on the tag that reads “class of 2012”. I stamped the words “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams” from the Word Play stamp set on the bag. One of the other moms found dream catchers that were perfect and we tied those to the bags with Hemp twine.
I thought they really turned out nice and the committee was very pleased. I hope the students liked them too – I wasn’t able to be there when they were presented.
Card Maker’s Club is today so I’m busy with that. I hope you have a nice day.
Oct 25, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Halloween |
So this week’s UDI Color Challenge just screamed Halloween and Candy Corn to me!
Here is the inspiration picture:
Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White is all candy corn! And the I had to add black. So I am thinking about what to make and that everyone is thinking candy corn or at least Halloween. So do I want to make something else – thinking, thinking, and I just can’t get the candy corn out of my head. So I went ahead with my idea and here is what I ended up with:
Yep it is a giant candy corn on a piece of Basic Black card stock for the card base. I started by cutting a piece of Daffodil Delight Patterns Designer Series Paper with the Big Shot and the Perfect Pennants die. And also a piece of Pumpkin Pie Patterns Designer Series paper and a piece of Whisper White card stock.
For the Pumpkin Pie piece I cut off 1″ from the bottom and 1-1/2″ from the top. For the White piece I kept the 1-1/2″ at the top. I glued the Pumpkin and white pieces onto the Daffodil Delight piece so they matched up in the right spot. Now I used my Corner Rounder Punch to round the corners of my candy corn.
I tied a piece of Whisper White Taffeta ribbon around the center of the candy corn – I really wanted to use Pumpkin Pie but that ribbon retired with the last catalog. I added a little BOO tag from the Tiny Tags stamp set to the ribbon. And then attached the Candy Corn to the front of the card.
Because the inside needed a panel for writing I decided to dress it up a little too. I added strips of the Designer Paper and the Happy Halloween greeting from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
- Stamp sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Tiny tags
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Perfect Pennants Die, Brights Designer Series Patterns Stack, White Taffeta ribbon, White Baker’s Twine, Jewelry Tag punch, Corner Rounder punch, 1/16″ punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
