Aug 14, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Hi all! It’s late on Saturday night as I write this post and Tyler is packing up his room getting ready to move to his dorm tomorrow as he starts the next phase of his life. I can’t believe he is headed off to college already. Time has passed so quickly.
While he was packing I decided to create a My Digital Studio scrapbook page. These were some pictures that I took this summer when we were at the beach. It is so different now that most of the kids are driving and headed off to college. The adults were able to do what they wanted and the kids for the most part entertained themselves. This particular night they all decided to play a game together – all 7 of the kids – my three (Kyle, Tyler and Ryan), my two nieces (Natalia and Emily) , my nephew (Nicholas), and one of the cousins (Emma). They pulled out the cards and decided to play Spoons – but instead of using spoons they were using the pool tags that came with the condo. So maybe we should call it Tags.
Let’s see if I can list some of the digital elements that I used –
-Downtown Grunge Digital kit – the background paper, the white frames, and the tape
-Stamp Brush Sets – Extreme Elements, First Edition, one of the alphabet sets (I forgot which one), My Friend, and an overlay
The rest is text and photo boxes.
Have a great weekend!
Aug 13, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
So here are the rest of the 3×3 Mini Cards (or Love Notes as I sometimes call them) from my convention swap. I hope you like seeing all the different ideas. If you are interested in coming to my Mini -Card class Friday, August 19th visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to.
If you see your card here and I don’t have your name on it please let me know. Some of them the names got separated and others just didn’t have names on them at all.
Top Row: Heather Wilbur, Lyn Shepherd, no name
Middle Row: Cindy Ewertz, Denise Donald, Lonni Hatch
Bottom Row: Stephanie Ferrara, Debra LaFountaine, Nicole Watt
Top Row: Lorelei Stone, Cami Eastwood, Debbie Moczek
Middle Row: Allison Okamitsu, Kathya Hidalgo, Marci Snyder
Bottom Row: no name, no name, Carol Densmore
Top Row: no name, Gilda Fellows, no name
Middle Row: Debbie Ham, Yvette Kreb, Julie Brewer
Bottom Row: Denise Kasanda
And the last group
Top Row: Diana Bock, Nancy Bates, Debra Brown
Middle Row: Karen Albin, Pamela Rollings, Ann Quattrin
Bottom Row: Michelle Ryder, Karen Lawrence
Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!
Aug 12, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Time to share more 3×3 Mini Cards with you. These are all cards from a Stampin’ Up! convention swap that I took part in. I swapped 105 mini cards. Speaking of Mini Cards my next Hands-On Class which if Friday, August 19th will be a Mini Cards class. If you’d like to attend visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to. For the class I will be choosing some ideas from the swaps that I received and creating a few new ones. I hope you will join me for this fun mini card class.
Now on to some more of the swaps from convention – I’ll have a picture of each grouping and then below I’ll list the creator of the card if I have it. Some of the cards either didn’t have a name with them or they became separated from the card. So if one of these is yours and I don’t have your name please let me know.
This group is all Christmas/winter –
Top Row: no name, Martha, Cindi Layendecker
Middle Row: Lynn Johnston, no name, Jennifer Campbell
Bottom Row: Tami Morkan, Maria Kosturik, no name
Top Row: Kim Smith, Kerrie, Snyder, Lisa Horton
Middle Row: Becky Kittaka, Carol Valentine, Miriam Permut
Bottom Row: Barbara Dykhouse, Teresa Guerdana, Jen Blank (this one looks just like one of mine I posted earlier this year but mine is a larger size)
Top Row: Connie Bjork, Laura Haffke, Cindy Castleman
Middle Row: Carol Siers, Freda Laureano, no name
Bottom Row: Becky Barnett, Charlotte Coombes, Lisa Rodriguez
I’ll have the rest for tomorrow. Have a great day!
Aug 11, 2011 | Cards, Inspired by Nature, Stampin' Up! Convention, Tutorial, uStamp |
Sorry about that – I created the tutorial and then sent it to be converted and it took so long! Not sure why, maybe because I have a lot of pictures. Anyway I have the tutorial for making the Masked Frame card that I posted yesterday.
This idea was something that I saw on a crafting blog while searching the internet earlier this summer. I wanted a unique and different idea for my card that I was creating for the UStamp swap at Convention. This was something that I haven’t seen on any of the Stampin’ Up! blogs so I wanted to try my hand at it. I did have several attempts and trying different combinations of stamp sets and colors before I finally landed on this one. So here is the tutorial click here.
Have fun trying this out!
Aug 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Embossing, Inspired by Nature, Masking, uStamp |
Hi everyone! Only a few more days before we move Tyler down to his dorm to start college. We shopped yesterday and the girl at the check out gave us a funny look and said “is he going to college or why are you buying all this stuff?” And yes we are getting ready for college – there were many other things that I thought he needed and his answer was “I’ll let you know later if/when I need that.” Fortunately he isn’t going to be that far from home and I do a monthly card class down on the campus so I will be around.
Well that probably isn’t why you are here on my blog so let’s get on to a stamping project. This card is one that I made for the UStamp Swap at convention. Oh by the way the next UStamp class starts this Friday and I designed TWO projects for the class. If you haven’t signed up for this online class you should – there are over 40 projects from demonstrators all over the world with complete tutorials. CLICK HERE for more information.
Anyway back to my card for today. A bunch of us got together from the last Ustamp Blog Hop and did a swap at convention. Here is my card:
This card has a lot of steps and masking going on and I am writing a tutorial with the instructions for it. I will add it to this post later today.
Colors are Basic Black, Old Olive, Whisper White and Crumb Cake.
Stamp Sets -Nature’s Nest and Inspired by Nature.
This was also my card swap for my PAWS team meeting in July. I’ll be back later today.
UPDATE: I was having some trouble getting my tutorial converted to a PDF so that I can post it for you – I’ll get it fixed in the morning. Thanks.
Let’s see if I can list some of the digital elements that I used –
