Jun 1, 2011 | Retired List |
Do you know what today is? It is June 1st. Why does that matter? Well in the world of Stampin’ Up! it is a big day – it’s one of those days where you stay up extra late or get up extra early. Why would we do that? Because as we prepare for a new catalog to start July 1st with lots of new goodies Stampin’ Up! has to get rid of lots of old goodies to make room for them. So we have our LAST CHANCE LISTS.
It’s your last chance to get the items on these lists and there are three categories – first the all important STAMPS – these you will be able to order all the way through June 30th. Second the exciting ACCESSORIES – these are while supplies last and include punches, Big Shot dies, Designer paper, ribbons, and more. And finally the DECOR ELEMENTS – these are also while supplies last. So if you have something on your have to have list and it falls into the category of Accessories or Decor Elements you may want to hurry and place the order online through my store – that will have the most accurate information on what is still available.
GO HERE to see them all and to go to my online store.
Some items are discounted up to 40% off – it varies based on inventory what is discounted and how much.
Let me know what you’d like to order.
May 31, 2011 | Inspired by Nature, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon, UDI Color Challenge |
Happy Tuesday!
Here is this weeks color combo – Certainly Celery, Soft Suede, Peach Parfait and Pretty in Pink. Here is the inspiration picture:
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.
I originally started to work on something baby themed like the inspiration photo but it just wasn’t working out. Then I remember that I had cut and scored some boxes in Certainly Celery for a class (a long time ago) and didn’t use them because I cut them all the wrong size. I saved them thinking I could use them for a future project. I never did make another project so I decided since Certainly Celery was one of the colors in this weeks challenge I should pull out one of those cut boxes and work with it. That was exactly what I did – but I realized this picture doesn’t even look like a box it just looks like a card front – but it really is a tall skinny box.
I do like these colors together – they are very soft – I guess that’s why they were in a baby’s room. So the box is 6″ tall and 4″ wide and 1″ deep. The opening is at the top and you could fit pictures inside or some of the Stampin’ Up! embellishments – the Baker’s Twine fits nicely inside. The front panel is the Soft Suede and I stamped the stem from For All You Do and the grass from Inspired by Nature in Soft Suede ink across the bottom. Then I stamped the flowers and butterfly on Very Vanilla card stock in the remaining colors and cut them all out. The Certainly Celery flower used the Kissing Technique – I kissed the flower with the dots that were inked in Soft Suede. I added some Subtle brads and a button to the center of the larger flowers. And I pierced a butterfly trail. I tied some Certainly Celery Taffeta ribbon around the bottom and added a “4 you” tag from Tiny Tags.
That’s this weeks project – I supposed I could have made some cards to fit inside that match the front – but I didn’t so just imagine it instead…… Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Soft Suede, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Soft Suede, Peach Parfait, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery
- Stamp sets: For All You Do, Inspired by Nature, Tiny Tags
- Accessories: Linen Thread, Subtles brads, Subtles buttons, Certainly Celery Taffeta Ribbon, Jewelry Tag punch, Paper Piercer, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
May 29, 2011 | Cards, family, Graduation, Punch Art |
We had high school graduation this weekend. Tyler graduated – here he is
That’s #2 for us and we have one more to go. I can’t believe I have two boys that have graduated high school and will both be gone in August living at college. My how time flies! Weren’t they just little babies not too long ago? Tyler will be going to Kennesaw State University in the fall and we go this week for orientation. I’m excited for him to start this new part of his life.
I made graduation cards this week and this is what I finally decided on –
I found this idea on Stampin’ Connection (a demonstrator only web site) from another demonstrator named Katherine Pritchard. I used the owl punch to create my owl – her owl was made from a variety of other punches and was bigger. The hardest part of this card was creating the tassel to go on the cap at the top. Not sure what my problem was but it took me forever to get something that resembled a tassel. The cap is a 3/4″ square (I used the retired SU punch, but you could also cut by hand). The diploma is the 1-1/4″ square punched from the First Edition Designer Series paper and then rolled and tied with the Whisper White Baker’s Twine (that’s what the tassel is too). I made several of these in various colors – trying to match the school colors for each of the graduates. We had a lot in our family this year – there was Tyler, then my niece will also graduate high school in June, my nephew graduated college, a cousin that is graduating from vet school, and my little nephew graduated from kindergarten.
Have a nice Memorial Day and I’ll be back tomorrow with the UDI color challenge.
May 27, 2011 | Cards, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You |
Well today is the last official day of school here were we live. It wasn’t much of a day though. Ryan was the only one that had to go – the seniors were finished last week so Tyler only had graduation practice this week. Ryan’s last day was one final – Band – which wasn’t a final since their spring concert counts as their final and we already had that. Tomorrow morning is Graduation for Tyler – I’m headed out in a little bit to pick up balloons to hang on the mailbox. He doesn’t want a party and Kyle didn’t want one last year either. So we will go out to a fancy dinner just the 5 of us one day next week.
With that being said I thought I would share this card today as I thought it made a cute Thank You card for a teacher. It was one of the cards offered in my Card Makers Club this week – which by the way was a lot of fun!
I stuck to some of the more basic school colors – a red (Real Red), a yellow (Daffodil Delight), and a green (Old Olive). And combined it with the cute little Summer Mini Hostess set called Swirls & Curls Verses. It has 5 different versus in it – “thanks so much”, “thinking of you”, “happy birthday”, “hello”, and “congratulations”. I think you could just as easily use this for a graduation card since owl’s are often associated with being smart. Remember the tootsie pop commercial on TV ages ago? Just out of curiosity I thought I’d see what the internet had to say about how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop – well through various studies the results showed anywhere from 70 to 3,481 – hmmm…..
Oh well – I hope you have a fun day on the last day of school!
May 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Pocket Silhouettes, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2011, Thank You |
More with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch…
Traditionally I don’t use a lot of the purples in my stamping projects – I don’t really know why. In fact when I was little I loved purple – my bedroom had wallpaper with a floral print in purple and brown and I had a canopy bed and it was all decked out in purple. I must have liked purple at some point in time. But a while back when I did an inventory of my ink and card stock the ones that were missing – were all shades of purple. But I have rediscovered Perfect Plum so you may start seeing more projects with some purple.
This card came from a card I saw on Heather Summers blog. Her’s was a big square card and I think she got the idea from someone else. These were the colors that she used and they really were pretty together – Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery, and Baja Breeze. I wanted a card that would fit in the open-ended envelopes and ended up with this creation.
I used Pocket Silhouettes to create the greenery. The “thanks so much” is the new hostess set in the Summer Mini Catalog called Swirls & Curls Verses. Then I punched out flowers with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch and layered the pieces and added some details.
flower 1 is Perfect Plum base, Certainly Celery for the middle and Baja Breeze for the top with a Certainly Celery brad in the center.
flower 2 is Certainly Celery base that has been cut in between the petals, the center is the Bitty Punch circle that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder
flower 3 is a Baja Breeze base that was embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder, the top is Perfect Plum and then a Bitty Button threaded with White Bakers Twine for the center.
Have a nice day – we are expecting rain and storms this afternoon/evening – ugh – hopefully no tornados.
