Sep 2, 2011 | Thanksgiving, uStamp |
I have a short detour from my mini cards to show you my second project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends I ♥ the Holidays class. I created a Thanksgiving Table Setting using the French Foliage stamp set.
I made a stamped candle, a menu card and holder, place cards, napkin rings and treat boxes. All in fall colors. My KSU girls made the candle at our last class and they all loved it.
My last project the Shadow Box Advent Calendar sure did create a stir – I have received tons of emails and questions about the instructions. For that project and this one the tutorials are part of the Ustamp with Dawn & Friends class – you have to join the class to get the tutorial. You may not think you want to do that but the cost of the class is minimal compared to how many awesome projects that you will get with step-by-step tutorials for everyone – there have already been 46 projects posted for the I ♥ the Holidays class. CLICK HERE to go to the site to join the class. And I am designing for the next class too – it is the Paper Parade – it’s all about the paper in the catalog!
Have a great day and I’ll be back tomorrow to continue with the mini cards….see you then.
Sep 1, 2011 | Christmas, Demonstrator, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
I’m so excited that the Holiday Mini Catalog starts today and everyone can order! Have you seen it yet? It is packed full of great products!
Some of my favorites are the new Simply Scored scoring tool (yipee!), the 1″ x8″ skinny cello bags, the Spice Cake product suite, the Holiday Stocking die for the Big Shot, personalized address stamps for the holidays, the Stitched Stocking stamp set with a matching PUNCH (yeah!), the Peekaboo Frames die for the Big Shot and the 25 & Counting stamp set and more. This may be my favorite mini catalog yet. And if you open up the first page of the mini (US version) you see this:
That’s me in the bottom corner! I was so excited to see this at convention! I didn’t think they would actually pick me when I got an email months earlier and then didn’t hear anything back. I don’t consider myself to be good with words, in fact I think I am a terrible writer, so I thought for a long time about how to answer the questions they asked trying to make it sound good. And when I didn’t hear back I figured they picked someone else. Thanks so much Stampin’ Up! you really (I mean really) made me feel special! I love this company!
So online ordering is up and ready for you to order any time day or night – just go here to my website.
Sep 1, 2011 | Cards, class, Masculine, Mini - Love Notes, Summer Mini 2011 |
I hope you enjoyed the box yesterday. Today I’m going to start sharing some of the Mini cards that we created to go in the box. These are all 3×3 finished cards so you start with a piece of 3″ x 6″ card stock and fold it in half. They fit inside the mini square envelopes.
This first card features the Open Sea stamp set and Nautical Expedition Designer Series paper from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. The base of the card is Not Quite Navy and a strip of the designer paper. Next a piece of Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. The images are stamped on the Crumb Cake square – the globe in Crumb Cake ink and the Anchor is actually Basic Gray ink. Before I attached this piece to the Early Espresso square I added the little Vintage Trinket safety pin. Here is a close up picture of how I did that.
I used the 1/16″ circle punch and punched a hole inside the top of the anchor and another just outside. Then slide the open end of the safety pin through both holes and close it up again. Tie the Early Espresso Baker’s Twine to the safety pin. This design came right out of the Summer Mini Catalog.
That’s it for that one. Now on to the second card for today –
This one features the Button Buddies stamp set along with the Extreme Elements set and the Happiest Birthday Wishes hostess stamp set. The base of the card is Sahara Sand. Stamp the block of dots from Extreme Elements in More Mustard ink. Here is a close up of where I stamped.
There is a strip of Well Worn Designer Series Paper across the card and the greeting was stamped on the bottom. The snail from Button Buddies is stamped on a piece of Whisper White card stock using Early Espresso ink. Punch out with the wide oval punch (I know that is the old name but I just can’t remember what the new name is). Behind that is a punch out of More Mustard card stock using the 1-3/4″ circle punch. On the snail shell I added a More Mustard button tied with a piece of Linen Thread. Cute!
I hope you like these two little mini cards. I have more to come in the next few days so check back again. Thanks!
Aug 31, 2011 | Big Shot, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Mini - Love Notes, Smooch Spritz techniques |
Last week I had my monthly Hands-On class and we made Mini Cards – little 3×3 cards with envelopes. I wanted a box to hold them all in and found the perfect box in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog. It is the new Kraft Gift Box. This one decorated in a very vintage style because I wanted to stick with neutral colors since I had an assortment of various colors and styles of cards that we were making in the class. The box is the perfect size to fit 3×3 mini cards and envelopes but it is also a food safe box so you can fill it with cookies, candies or a muffin or cupcake – yum yum!
This is the side view of the box. I stamped directly on the box using Early Espresso ink. I used two different stamp sets – Best Friends Forever and French Foliage. I also sponged the edges of the box on all corners with Early Espresso ink. Around the base of the box is a strip of Early Espresso Patterns Designer Series paper – you need two strips punched with the Lace Ribbon Border punch. You need a strip that has 12 full flowers – three for each side of the box. So match up the ends of the two strips and glue together – I use a 2-way glue pen. Then punch out 1″ circles in Very Vanilla card stock and glue to the back of the strip behind each flower. It will look like this:
Then glue the strip around the base of the box – I used the Multipurpose Liquid glue in the green bottle to do this. Just put a tiny bit on the back of each circle and then glue three on each side of the box meeting in the back.
Here is a view of the top of the box –
I created a 3d flower for the top of the box. I used the First Edition Specialty Designer Series paper. I cut 3 of each layer – 3″ Circle die, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punch, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle punch, and 1″ Circle punch. Crumple up all the circles and then flatten out a bit and stack them. They are not perfectly lined up on top of each other you want them to be a little off center from one another. Once they are all stacked poke a hole through with the paper piercer and then stick in an Antique Brad. Also poke a hole in the center of the box lid – push the brad through to secure the flower to the top of the box. Take a Stampin’ Sponge and Early Espresso ink and sponge the petals of the flowers.
To finish I stamped “hand crafted” from Tiny Tags on Crumb Cake card stock and punched with the Jewelry Tag punch, sponge the edges, poke a hole and tie to the brad with a piece of Early Espresso Baker’s Twine. Tie a piece of Crumb Cake Seam Binding around the base of the flower.
Now close the lid and take the whole box and put it inside the color catcher. Spritz it all over with the Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz. On all sides and the top. Let dry and you are done! A beautiful gift box to give to someone special.
Over the next few days I’ll be sharing all the 3×3 mini cards that we made along with some instructions for each one. So please come back to see them.
And here are a couple of other pictures I wanted to share with you from the class. Aspen and Magnolia love my stamp classes because they get lots of attention from all of my stampers. And they like to sit with us too. So most everyone is willing to share a chair with the dogs – especially Aspen. Here he is sharing a chair with Jeannette.
The chairs are just the perfect little head rest for the dogs. Usually they sit on the other side of the table because then they can look out the window and see the chipmunks, squirrels, and birds out there.
A couple more things – it’s the LAST DAY for the Summer Mini Catalog on the Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series paper sale. Hurry and order today Wednesday, August 31st by midnight. You can order online through my website store – click here.
Aug 30, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Flight of the Butterfly, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Happy Tuesday and welcome to a new color challenge for the week. It’s the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge and we are on week #51. Here is the inspiration picture for this week –
This week we are starting to see some of our new In-Colors – Lucky Limeade and Island Indigo along with Pacific Point and Always Artichoke. Some pretty glass beads are in this week’s inspiration picture. I was looking at trying to make some paper beads but didn’t have papers in the right colors so I’ll have to do that another time.
Instead I went with a card and wanted to use a stamp set that I haven’t used before.
This is what I came up with. It is a long card 6×3 that fits in the long open-end envelopes. The base is Lucky Limeade, then a layer of Always Artichoke with scallops at one end. The Whisper White panel is stamped with the mushrooms from the stamp set Funky Four. It is hard to tell in the picture but I inked the stamp in Lucky Limeade and then took the Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write Marker and went around the outline of each mushroom. I had in my mind that the mushrooms needed a little butterfly sitting on top so I pulled out the set Flight of the Butterfly and my Beautiful Wings Embosslet. The stamped butterfly is done the same as the mushrooms – inked in Pacific Point and then outlined with the Stampin’ Write marker in Island Indigo before I stamped it on my card stock. The words are Pacific Point. I added two little die cut butterflies and some Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon. Then at the very end I decided to pull out the new Dazzling Details that will be in the new Holiday Mini Catalog and add little touches of it on the dots on the butterfly and mushrooms and also on the tiny die-cut butterfly. Here is a close up picture of that.
Oh yeah one more final thing – the mushrooms looked like they were just floating around and so i used the marker to add some scribbles underneath to ground them. Here on this close up picture you can see the two colors on the mushrooms better. Hope you like 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: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Pacific Point
- Ink: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, Pacific Point, island Indigo, Stampin’ Write Markers – Always Artichoke, Island Indigo
- Stamp sets: Funky Four, Flight of the Butterfly
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, Scallop edge punch, Dazzling Details.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
