Jun 7, 2011 | Blog Tour, uStamp |
I’m super excited to join UStamp with Dawn and Friends as a designer. Get ready to “hop” everybody!
This is going to be a super fun Blog hop featuring the talented designers from UStamp!
June 10 – 13: FREE World Showcase Blog Hop
* The FABULOUS UStamp with Dawn and Friends!! Design Team will have awesome projects for you to enjoy at their blogs on the Worlds Showcase Blog Hop.
* Every project will include a link for a downloadable PDF tutorial.
* Every Designer will have BLOG Candy at their blogs and YOU could be a winner!!
Get ready for some fun – I hope you will join me and the rest of the UStamp designers!
Jun 7, 2011 | Baby Wipe, Cards, Masculine, Retired List, Techniques, UDI Color Challenge |
Hey guys! It’s Color Challenge Tuesday with the UDI girls. We are on week #39 and the inspiration picture was this exotic beach towel – don’t you just love the natural colors. I do! Sometimes I’m not excited about the colors that we have for our challenge but this week I thought it would be easy because I love to use the natural looking colors.
But much to my surprise I sat don’t with these four colors and couldn’t think of what to do with them. I was thinking something natural and floral like the inspiration picture but it just wasn’t’ coming together at all. So I pulled out my Last Chance Stamp set list and thought that I needed to use one of my sets that was on that list – give it a good farewell (I have a lot on that list so I better start now so I can get them all in before the end of June). Then I got a great idea and found the perfect thing to do with these colors. My stamp set of choice Extreme Skateboard – and what are these colors perfect for – camouflage! So here is my extreme skateboard camo card for this week’s color challenge.
The background is a really fun technique that I haven’t done in a while – it does get your fingers inky (at least mine end up that way) – so perhaps it would be worth it to wear some gloves to keep your fingers clean. First take a piece of Glossy White card stock and stamp your main image – the skateboarder – in Jet Black StazOn. Take a baby wipe and fold it up into quarters or so – then add drops of ink – I used the Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, and Always Artichoke – spread them a little apart. Then pick up the baby wipe and dab it on a piece of Glossy White card stock. Let it dry. I used two pieces for this card and all of it was done with just one baby wipe – I didn’t have to add any more ink so you could do multiple cards at a time. Now do watch out because the longer you wait the ink will bleed together on the baby wipe and depending on the colors you use will end up just looking muddy so don’t let it sit for too long before you use it.
To finish the card I distressed the edges of the layers and added some tearing and random staples trying to give it a rough look. I added the wide striped ribbon too – I maybe should have cut it or torn it or something. I 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: Old Olive, Basic Black, Glossy White
- Ink: JetBlack StazOn, Refills in Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke
- Stamp sets: Extreme Skateboard
- Accessories: Cutter Kit, Basic Black Striped ribbon
- Non- SU: staples, baby wipes
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jun 6, 2011 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper |
This is the funnest card ever! Is funnest even a real word? This card is called the never-ending card and really is fun to play with. I have been teaching this one to my clubs the last couple of weeks. The concept was in an article in the Stampin’ Success magazine – which is a monthly magazine for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. I love getting mine each month and reading it and seeing all the ideas and samples but it is even better because there are lots of online extras for us too. What makes this card so much fun is that when you open it you do it over and over again and it rotates all the panels until you are back where you started. So you can just play with it because it is never ending.
Here is the front of my never-ending card –
I used the Play Date Designer Series paper – which is on the Last Chance List (link is at the end of this post) and it is even on sale so you can get a great deal on this paper right now – but hurry before it is gone. From here it opens in the middle and you fold each side outward to get to the second set of panels.
One of the stamp sets that I used is Family Phrases – I tried to add one of the little phrases on each panel so every time the next part of the card is opened there is another message. This stamp set is also on the Last Chance List (link is at the end of this post) – which I am bummed about because I use it a lot – I love the fun font that they used on this one. And it coordinates with the All the Family sets. From this part of the card you fold the two sections with the number paper out away from the center and it opens up more to get to here.
The other stamp set I used was the Forest Friends and it too is on the Last Chance list. This is the cute set with the bunny and the tree and also has a deer and owl. I like it because I like nature sets and this one fits in that theme. Now you take the card and again fold outwards from the center and it takes you to here:
Here is the birthday message and a place to sign the card. Then if you flip the panels again you go back to the front in the first picture.
I added the owls that are punched and dressed with the Play Date papers – they really made the card fun. You can make their eyes look in different directions to add some character to them. And while this looks like it would be really complicated to make it really isn’t. The key is to take your two pieces of card stock (5-1/2 x 4-1/4) and score each one according to the diagram below and then cut them. Then it’s just a matter of gluing them together in the right place and folding on all of your score lines. I assemble the card first and then add all the decorations. Here is the diagram -click on it to see a larger view.
Where the yellow spots are is where you put sticky strip. Keep those two pieces together on the table just like it is shown in the diagram – then take the other two pieces (the ones on the right in the diagram) and basically lay them right on top attaching the corners with the sticky strip. When you flip and fold – only fold on the lines that you scored don’t try to create new folds (they will be in the wrong place) – if it wants to fold somewhere it should it’s because one of the pieces needs to be flipping out of the way.
Everyone has had so much fun making this card! I hope you do too.
Thanks for stopping by today!
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Jun 5, 2011 | Cards, Demonstrator, Summer Mini 2011 |
Today I am sharing the swap cards from my last demonstrator meeting. I have a meeting every other month at my home and any demonstrator in the area is welcome to come. If you would like to join me just let me know and I’ll add you to my PAWS group so you can get the meeting information. Many of the swaps this time use sets from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
Diane Squires
Becky delValle
Fran Kennedy
Laree Stewart
Sue Patterson
Linda Madison
Travice Obas
I have a couple more that I forgot to take pictures of so I will add them later. Everyone at the meeting got to make Travice’s swap as one of our Make&Take projects.
My Friday was really busy so I didn’t have time to post to my blog and then Saturday I was just too tired. Friday I took Tyler to KSU for orientation. We spent all day listening to various people speak and in the afternoon Tyler got his ID, parking pass and registered for classes. So he is an official college student. We did a drive by of his apartment too. Then came home and finished up for Stamp Club. The girls came over Friday night to stamp and my boys had their friends over too. So I sent all the college boys to the basement. Saturday morning I wanted to post on FB (but didn’t) – “do you know where your college student is? They might be at my house I have extras.” Some of them stayed the whole night and every sofa had a boy sleeping on it the next morning – I didn’t really know that so when I let the dogs out in the morning – one of the boys got a big surprise – Aspen found him sleeping on the sofa and gave him a big lick and woke him right up – and since I didn’t know he was there – when I saw his head pop up off the sofa all of a sudden it kind of startled me too.
Have a nice Sunday!
Jun 2, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Retired List, Sale-A-Bration 2011, Summer Mini 2011 |
So far I feel like I’ve had a productive day. Got up and showered, got Ryan up and off to drum line practice, went to the post office, stopped by the bank, picked up dry cleaning, checked my email and the SU website. Now I’m writing my blog post and its still before 10. Maybe that’s a good sign that I’ll get lots done today. I have to get my Stamper’s Club Projects ready. I finally decided on the last project about midnight last night and went to bed. So today I’ll cut everything and have it ready. Tomorrow I’ll be gone all day with Tyler – we are headed to KSU for his orientation and hopefully by the time we leave he’ll be registered for Fall classes, have his ID and parking pass – that would make him officially a college student. They sure do grow up fast!
So enough about that let me show you this super cute little birthday card I made.
It is a little party hat card made from the Petal Cone Big Shot die. You cut your card stock with the Petal Cone die and trim off the two scallops and the little flap on the side. That gives you the triangle shaped hat. I cut a piece of the Celebrations Designer Series paper (it’s on the Last Chance list) to get just one of the triangles – trim off any extra from the petal cone shape. Then I punched the edge of a strip of Real Red card stock with the Scallop Border punch and added it to the base of the hat – trim the sides to match the hat.
To decorate I cut a number ‘5’ (choose whatever number you need) using the Big Shot and the Simple Numbers die. I tied a piece of the White Bakers Twine (in the Summer mini) around it and attached it to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals. At the top of the hat I went with a Pacific Point button (from the Sale-A-Bration button set) – also tied with some White Baker’s Twine.
It is a cute little card. Do you want to make one? Then you should come to my Card Maker’s Club on June 29th. Everyone is welcome to come! We had a great time in May. There were 11 different card designs to choose from in May. For June I will be adding more and taking a couple of them away. You can choose to make the cards that you need out of what I have available. Your class fee of $15 includes 6 cards plus envelopes. I hope to see you there!
Have a great day and try to stay cool – we are supposed to be in the high 90s today.
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