May 3, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
Hello Tuesday! The Utah Diva’s Color Challenge is here again. This week we have a pretty color combination – Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Marina Mist and Basic Black. I also added Whisper White as my neutral. Here it the inspiration piece that we have this week:
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.
This week I have a beautiful card for you – at least I thought it turned out that way.
How do you like it? It really turned out pretty. I started with a card base in Perfect Plum and it is stamped with the Sanded Background stamp in Perfect Plum. I actually tried several different things – including adding an embossed layer and a textured layer and none of them were working for me – when I finally settled on just stamping it was perfect. I pulled out the Big Shot – not sure what I did when we didn’t have it in our product line – this is the Scallop Oval Frame die. I cut one in Basic Black and one in Whisper White. The white center oval was stamped with the large flower image from the Just Believe stamp set in Old Olive. Then I sponged the bottom with Old Olive. Next I sponged Marina Mist around the rest of the oval to make it look like the sky.
I cut the white scallop frame into two pieces and attached each piece to the back of the black scallop frame so it just peeks out and creates a small frame. Add some doodles with the white gel pen around the frame. I tied a piece of Marina Mist Taffeta ribbon around the frame and placed the frame on the card from with Stampin’ Dimensionals so it was raised. Then I put the stamped oval inside and glued it flat to the front of the card – I did this so it had the illusion of being inside an actual frame like a picture on the wall would be.
To finish I added some butterflies cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit cut from Perfect Plum card stock. And the little pearls. I really love using the basic pearls – and the easiest way to pick them up and place them is to use the tip of the paper piercer. It works like a charm. I hope you like this card today!
Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Perfect Plum, Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Old Olive, Marina Mist
- Stamp sets: Just Believe, Sanded
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Scallop Oval Frame die, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Marina Mist Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Pearls, Paper Piercer, White Gel Pen, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
May 2, 2011 | Big Shot, Demonstrator, Occasions Mini 2011, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon |
Today’s project is a fun little pouch that could have lots of different little things put inside. For mine I chose to use it for Iced Tea packets and based my color choice on the tea package. The idea for this pouch came from a project I saw on Stampin’ Connection created by Nelia Harper.
Here is the pouch with everything inside – the colors are Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight and Early Espresso. I used a medium cello bag and wrapped it with Cherry Cobbler card stock that was run through the Big Shot and the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. If you fold up the card stock before putting it in the embossing folder the whole thing will fit inside. I did have to open my multipurpose platform to use none of the tabs since the card stock was doubled.
Inside the pouch is my jumbo packet of Iced Tea and then I added a tag to slide in there with it. You can print the instructions from the box on the back of the tag or write a little note. The tag uses the Word Play stamp set which is on sale for 30% off this month – what a great deal! It has a lot of fun phrases in it that make it great for scrapbooking. I also used the Tart & Tangy stamp set – I liked the idea of the lemon to go with the tea.
The flower on the outside of the pouch is the Fun Flowers die that was introduced in the Occasions Mini catalog. While the mini catalog has ended this die is still available. The edges of the flower are sponged and you can either crumple the flowers or curl them with a bone folder to give them shape. I added a jumbo button to the center tied with some Linen Thread in the center.
It really ended up being a fun project. I hope you like it. The Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog started today. There is a link on the side bar of my blog and you can see the products on my website. Also two specials – the National Scrapbooking Month Special – 30% off selected stamp sets, 30% selected My Digital Studio Professional Print products, 30% off selected My Digital Studio download bundles – you can see all of them on my website online store. There is also a special My Digital Studio Starter Kit option this month – so if you have an interest in joining my team as a demonstrator and want to know more about the My Digital Studio Starter Kit option call me and I’ll tell you all about it. My next team meeting is on May 14th and I’d love for you to join me.
Apr 30, 2011 | Designer Series Paper, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages |
My upline, Wendy, always create beautiful scrapbook pages. I always loved going to her monthly scrapbook class. But last summer she moved away and I have missed attending her classes. A couple of months ago she created a beautiful layout using the Nature Walk stamp set and Botanical Gazette Designer Series paper. I asked her if I could use it for my scrapbook class. I had my class yesterday and we made this layout with a few modifications.
The Very Vanilla background is wheeled with the Very Vintage Jumbo Stampin’ Around Wheel and Versa Mark ink and then used a cotton ball and Stampin’ Pastels to rub the color over the ink. Now I couldn’t decide which way I wanted to do my background – so if you look closely the left page is wheeled on the diagonal and the right page is wheeled straight across. Which one do you like better? I still haven’t decided but when I do I’ll have to redo one of the pages to match.
The Botanical Gazette Designer Series papers were cut into 2″ squares – I used 4 of each double sided print. I changed the right page to have the squares in the opposite corners of what Wendy did on hers.
I stamped the Nature Walk stamp set and Wendy used it and also the Sale-A-Bration set Bliss. I was trying not to use it since Sale-A-Bration has ended but I did put the word “Bliss” in the hardware label on the right page – I couldn’t find anything else that I liked to put there. You could just add a date in there that corresponds to the pictures you put on. I haven’t decided yet which pictures to put on here so I didn’t add a title yet either.
Today is the last day to order from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog. The Botanical Gazette Designer paper and the Nature Walk stamp set are both in there. It’s possible we will see the stamp set in the next Idea Book & Catalog coming out in July (I’m crossing my fingers!) but typically they don’t carry over any of the designer papers. Occasionally Stampin’ Up! will keep the prints and release them again in different colors. We can only hope – but these colors seem so perfect I don’t know what other colors you would use. On the other hand you can get these as Digital Downloads for My Digital Studio and just print them on your printer at home when you need them. But unless you have a 12×12 printer you won’t be able to print the full sheet.
Have a great day and weekend!
Apr 29, 2011 | Cards, Summer Mini 2011 |
Have you seen the new Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog? In the very back is a stamp set called Strength & Hope. It is my favorite from this new mini and I have another sneak peek for you.
If you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator you may think this looks familiar. If you look in the last Stampin’ Success magazine there was a 3D project where they decorated a jar (or bottle) using the Strength & Hope stamp set. I thought the design was very pretty and decided to do the same design in a card. And this is how it turned out.
My mom sent me an email from a friend of hers that wants people to send cards to a lady that is fighting breast cancer. This stamp set is the perfect thing for this. I just have to decide which card to send her – this one or one of the others that I made.
Base is Early Espresso. Then a strip of Whisper White stamped with the word block and then the flourish image. It is layered on a piece of Pear Pizzazz that was punched on both sides with the Scallop Trim Border punch. I added little dots with the White Gel Pen. I stamped the ‘H hope’ and punched it out with a circle punch and added a little flower punched using the Itty Bitty punch with a pearl in the center. It is Blushing Bride card stock by the way. The butterfly is stamped in Baja Breeze, cut out, and a little pearl is added.
A couple more bits of news – the Stampin’ Scrub is back! For the past few months the Stampin’ Scrub has been unavailable and now it is back and ready to order. So if you have been waiting to order one you can do it now.
And May is National Scrapbook Month and Stampin’ Up! is having a promotion that is starting 2 days early – that would be TODAY! So you can order from the Occasions Mini, take advantage of the April special and the May special all at the same time – if you hurry – that’s Friday and Saturday. So what is the May Special – 30% off selected stamp sets, 30% off selected My Digital Studio Digital Download bundlges, 30% off selected My Digital Studio Professional Print products, and a special My Digital Studio starter kit.
Click on the picture below to see a larger picture of the list of stamp sets on sale. The My Digital Studio downloads are available through my online store and you can select your My Digital Studio Professional Print products through your My Digital Studio software.
Have a great rest of the day!
Apr 27, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011 |
Old Olive has always been one of my most used and favorite Stampin’ Up! colors. And when I saw a card created by Mary Fish I knew I wanted to make one like it. The Clearly For You stamp set is in the Occasions Mini Catalog and it was the set that we got at our Leadership Conference back in January. This is another stamp set that I hope ends up in our next catalog – it is great for project with the Simply Adorned Charms or the Beveled Windowpanes. So here you go – a card devoted to Old Olive!
The card base is Old Olive, then there is another layer of Old Olive that all the squares are attached to. The squares are punched 1-1/4″ squares from White Naturals card stock. Each square was stamped with images from the Clearly For You stamp set and sponged with Old Olive. Attach all the squares to the Old Olive layer – which was also sponged – and then use the Color Spritzer Tool and the Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker to spritz the whole thing. The flower accent is Old Olive card stock cut with the Big Shot and the Fun Flowers Bigz XL die. The flowers are sponged, crumpled, and spritzed. In the center of the flower I added the smallest size of the Beveled Window Pane. I thread through some ribbon and tied the bottom with Linen Thread. Pick your favorite color and make a monochromatic card to show it off.
I’ll have updates on the birds coming up later today and tomorrow.
