Mar 29, 2011 | Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
Sorry I missed last week’s color challenge. But I’m back for this week. Here is the inspiration piece we had for 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. Our colors this week were More Mustard, Rich Razzleberry, Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake and Blushing Bride. And here is my card creation for this week –
This week I actually used the inspiration piece and the colors to come up with my project. When I saw the pillow in the photo the first thing that popped into my mind was the Cute by the Inch stamp set. I decided to recreate the design of the pillow on a card. When I was done I decided it needed something so I added the Rhinestones to the center of each square. You can’t really tell but I tried coloring them with my Stampin’ Write Markers. The darker colors do have a tinge of the color on them. Then it was still not right so I added the Crumb Cake Seam Binding and thought it was the right touch.
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry, More Mustard, Poppy Parade, Blushing Bride, and Whisper White
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry, More Mustard, Poppy Parade, Blushing Bride
- Stamp sets: Cute by the Inch
- Accessories: 1-1/4″ Square punch, 1-3/8″ Square punch, Rhinestones, Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Mar 28, 2011 | Bingo, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
This My Digital Studio scrapbook page was super quick to create because it was a Designer Template that came with the Love Letters Designer Series paper Digital Download. All I had to do was add the picture in the photo box and my journaling in the text box. And I was done – it took me longer to find the picture than anything else. This is an old picture from November 2002. For my journaling I wrote –
One of our trips to Washington D.C.
A fun fall afternoon in the city.
The five of us together.
Under the trees.
November 2002
Kyle was home this last week – it was his spring break from college. I took him back on Saturday. I’m so glad he isn’t too far away. Tyler won’t be either he will be going to KSU in the fall. We need to look and see what else we have to do for him.
I have another Bingo Winner – Heather (and JoAnn) have Bingo -Congratulations!
The prize is the Botanical Blooms stamp set – a retired Sale-A-Bration set from 2009.
That’s three down and two to go. Will the next one be you? Here is the next piece.
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I’ll be back tomorrow with the UDI color challenge – see you then.
Mar 26, 2011 | Bingo, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, Sale-A-Bration 2011, SU Buttons |
I saw the cutest card on Heather Summers blog and knew I had to make something like it. I decided to use it as one of my projects for the Towne Lake Card club that met Thursday night.
The card base is Daffodil Delight and then a layer of Old Olive card stock. At the bottom edge is a strip of Daffodil Delight that was punched with the Ribbon border punch. I decided to use the Ice Cream Parlor buttons which are Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, and Pacific Point. The Designer paper is from two packs – the Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight are from the Sew Suite Designer Series paper. The Pacific Point is from the Blueberry Crisp Designer Series paper. The stamp set for the flower stems is the Sweet Summer Sale-A-Bration set – the stems are stamped in Old Olive and then watercolor the leaves with an Aqua-painter and Old Olive ink.
This is a bright cheery fun card. We added a greeting on the inside from the So Happy for You stamp set. We are in the last week of Sale-A-Bration and after it ends these fun stamp sets and products will be gone. So hurry and place a $50 product order so you can get one free. Choose from So Happy for You stamp set, Punch Bunch stamp set, Ice Cream Parlor Designer Series Paper & Quick Accents pack, Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon & Button pack, So Much to Sale-A-Brate Digital Content CD, Sweet Summer stamp set, Notes Chalkboard Decor Elements, Bliss stamp set or one of many stamp sets from the Idea Book & Catalog. So many fun choices!
You can also join Stampin’ Up! by becoming a demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration and get 15% off your Starter Kit. Plus, get a bonus bundle filled with over $50 in free products. It’s a great offer! Contact me today if you want to learn more.
There’s another Spring Bingo Winner! The second winner is Yvonne. Congratulations!
Yvonne wins the So Cute stamp set from the Idea Book & Catalog.
That’s two winners found and three more to go – will the next one be you? Check your cards every day. Here is the next piece.
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Have a fun weekend! Tonight is the prom for the boys high school and Tyler is going with one of his friend Afton. I took Kyle back to GA Tech earlier today and then picked up the flowers for the prom. Unfortunately it is a rainy day in Georgia and any prom pictures we take of them will have to be indoors.
Mar 25, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Summer Mini 2011 |
It won’t be long before a new Stampin’ Up! mini catalog is out. Demonstrators had the opportunity to get a sneak peek of a new stamp set from the upcoming Summer Mini catalog. The set is called Strength & Hope and is a special stamp set. Why?
Stampin’ Up! is donating $2 from the purchase of each Strength & Hope stamp set to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. You’ll be able to purchase this set beginning May 1st, 2011. In the meantime here is a sneak peek of a card that I made for my swap at my PAWS downline meeting earlier this month.
The colors I used are Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Baja Breeze. The scallop circle is Natural White with lots of sponging and spritzing. It’s a beautiful stamp set.
We are still playing Spring Bingo – I’ve had one winner and I’m planning to play until we have 5 total winners. So here is the next piece –
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Good Luck!
Mar 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, Tutorial |
Look at this cute mini scrapbook using the Sew Suite product line from the Stampin’ Up! Mini catalog. This was a project that the fabulous Bonnie Thurber showed on stage at the Leadership Conference. I sent Bonnie a message asking if she could give me the dimensions and she did! So I was able to recreate it and used it as a Make&Take project at my downline meeting this month. So here are the details for this little project. There are 4 pages that are glued to an accordion folded spine that creates the top where the chipboard letters are glued on to. The spine and all the pages are Early Espresso card stock. To create the spine you need a piece that is 8″ x 5-1/2″ then score it at every 1″ to create the accordion – so that is 1″, 2″, 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, and 7″. Fold that into an accordion. I’ll come back to how to finish the spine at the end. Now I’ll show you each page from the bottom up –
So here is the back page – cut the Early Espresso to be 6″ tall by 5-1/2″ wide. Cut a piece of the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 5-3/4″ tall by 5-1/4″ wide and glue it to the back page. Take the back page and glue it to the back flap of the accordion fold. Here is the next page
For this page cut the Early Espresso to be 5″ tall and 3-3/4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 4-3/4″ tall and 3-1/2″ wide. Attach this page to the next step on the accordion towards the left side. On this page there is a flower – it is the Flower Fusion Sizzlet cut from Tangerine Tango. The center is one of the buttons from the Button Embosslit cut from Daffodil Delight. I’ll tell you how I did the words in a minute. Ok next page –
This one cut the Early Espresso to be 4-1/4″ tall by 3-1/2″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series Paper to be 4″ tall by 3-1/4″ wide. Attach this page on the next step of the accordion toward the right side. For this page wrap a piece of Linen Thread around it and tie on one of the Sew Suite Big Designer Buttons. Then add some of the buttons cut with the embosslit from Tangerine Tango card stock. And the next one –
This page cut the Early Espresso to 2-1/2″ tall by 4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer paper to 2-1/4″ tall by 3-3/4″ wide. Attach to the next step of the accordion centered over the other pages. Now to finish up the front of the accordion –
Cut a piece of Sew Suite Designer paper to be 5-1/2″ wide and 2-1/4″ tall – then score at 1″ from each side – leaving 1/4″ in between – this piece will wrap around the spine – glue it to the back of the spine and then to the front. Cut a 5-1/2″ piece of Tangerine Tango card stock and punch it with the border punch Dotted Scallop Ribbon. Glue this under the front flap of the scrap book. I used a piece of On Board Chipboard and cut the letters using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters die set. Cover the letters with Early Espresso Craft ink using a sponge dauber. Well I should have told you this part first – I would recommend cutting out the letters putting the ink on them and set them aside to dry while you do everything else. You can use the green bottle glue or crystal effects to glue those to the front flap.
Now the words – Bonnie used the stamp set Fabulous Phrases for her example (and she used precut chipboard letters from one of the packs in the catalog). I don’t have that stamp set so I thought – hey I can use it in My Digital Studio and print them out – well the stamp set isn’t yet available in MDS either – so instead I chose a font that I thought was similar and just add text boxes in MDS. To make sure I had the size close I added a Word Window punch in MDS to see that my words would fit. I printed out a sheet of words on Whisper White card stock. We punched them out with the Word Window punch and layered them on a Modern label punched out of Tempting Turquoise.
Now I just need to add pictures and it will be done. How cute is that?
Is today’s Bingo piece going to be the one that makes you the winner? Here it is……
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Have a great day today!
