Mar 4, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Stamper's Club, Tags |
Way back in January at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference I bought some Stampin’ Up! In Color Bookmarks. I wanted something to give to my downline and my hostess club members. I got them home and they sat in my craft room. I want to present them in some fun way but couldn’t come up with anything – so they continued to sit in my craft room.
In February I needed to make some more tags for my customer orders. I usually make something out of things lying on my table or whatever my pop into my head. I decided I wanted to play with my Fancy Flower punch. I had my In Color Patterns Paper pack out from the candy wrapper project I showed the other day. So I decided to punch out some flowers. I remembered seeing flowers that other demonstrators were making where they just crumpled up the paper and stacked it up to make a flower. So that is what I did – for each one I punched 5 Fancy Flowers from different In Color Prints. I crumpled them up (when your mad at some one like your 14 year old that is a good project to work on).
I opened them back up and stacked them together and looked around for what I was going to use in the center. I was going to just use little brads but remembered I had a package of the In Color Glitter Brads – they were perfect for these flowers.
These are all Poppy Parade which I decided to use for my customer orders. I went back and added the tiny tag to the center it says “thanks so much”. I punched a hole in the back and tied some crochet thread through to tie them onto my order bags. I decided these were so cute I wanted to make some more in the different In Colors. Then I got the brilliant idea that I needed to combine these flowers with my In Color bookmarks and it all came together.
I cut tags using the Two Tags die and my Big Shot machine. I used the crop-a-dile to punch two holes in the tag and then cut in between to create a slit that the book mark slides through. I’m not sure you can tell but the bookmark is magnetic and is folded in half – so the back half is on the back of the tag. Then I added the matching flower above it with a dimensional. Here is what the whole lot of them look like –
They are super cute and the great thing is once the book mark is removed you can still use the whole tag or pull of the flower and just use the flower for something else. Now to get them out to everyone……tonight is Stamper’s Club so they will get theirs then.
Thanks for stopping by today – I’ll be going to pick up Kyle in a little while once he gets done with his last class at GT – and he’ll be home for the weekend.
And I almost forgot about American Idol – how did you do on your picks for the top 10? I got them all right and I didn’t even vote. Now we’ll see how they do going forward. They added 3 more but they weren’t any of my favorites.
Mar 3, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011 |
Every few days I take a couple of minutes to check out some of the creations that demonstrators have added on Stampin’ Connection – a demonstrator only online community. There are thousands of ideas out there for us to look through. I found the cutest cupcake card created by Andrea Thompson. I considered changing up the colors but I really found her color choices to be so pretty that I ultimately decided to keep the colors basically the same. I loved the little pearl accents but I didn’t use quite as many as Andrea’s original card.
The texture on a couple of pieces is a fun addition. The Build a Cupcake punch make this card much faster than you would think. The only piece you have to hand cut is the little flower – the rest of the pieces are punched. The colors are Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink, Pear Pizazz and Whisper White. I did use Melon Mambo for the heart, cherry and flower.
Something fun and exciting is that Stampin’ Up! is giving all of it’s demonstrators a birthday present this year – we get 15% off one item during our birthday month and guess what mine is just a couple of days away! I’m trying to decide what to use it on – should I get a bag for my Big Shot or the other set of Alphabet dies? Plus I have a Stampin’ Up! Gift Card that I got for my Great Rewards points – so I don’t even have to spend my own money on it! Whoo hoo – I love being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator!
Does anyone have thoughts on American Idol? I watched the boys sing Tuesday night and some I don’t like at all, some I really like and then there is the in between group. I think they are picking 5 – so this is who I choose as my top 5 – James, Jacob, Casey, Paul and Scotty. What do you think? Did you pick?
The girls sang Wednesday night and I don’t think I like them as much as the boys – it may be a boys year. My 5 for the girls are Karen, Haley, Thia, Pia (that just sounds funny with both of them), and Lauren Alaina (she’s from Georgia so I have to root for her – but she was one of the better singers too). So tonight I can see how well I picked.
Have a sweet day!!
Mar 2, 2011 | Birthday, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Occasions Mini 2011 |
At the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference in January I participated in a candy wrapper swap and got some really great ideas that I’m incorporating into my classes and club meetings. This idea was from my friend Connie Babbert (from Create with Connie & Mary).
These are made from a 6×6 piece of Designer Series Paper. I decided for my Birthday class we would make these using the In Color Patterns Paper Pack that you can get as a Level 1 Hostess set. I let everyone choose the color that they wanted. There is just one score line to create the top fold.
We used a strip of Whisper White card stock that was punched with the Scallop Border punch and glued on the inside front panel. You can’t see them to well in the picture but we used a coordinating Stampin’ Write Marker to add dots to the scallops – everyone thought it was pierced and the paper was showing through the holes but it is just the marker.
Punch two hole in the top through the front and back layers using the Crop-A-Dile and tie a piece of ribbon through. The tag uses the Eat Chocolate stamp set punched with the Wide Oval punch and layered on the Decorative Label punch in the matching In Color. On the corner we added a Bitty Button – punch the button shape using the Punch Pack punch that matches the button shape. What I do is use a bit of snail and attach the button to the punched card stock. Then with a Paper piercer I pierce the button holes. Then I use a dental flosser to pull a piece of crochet thread through the holes and tie it in a knot. Punch a hole to add the tag to the ribbon.
Slide a skinny candy inside – something like a SKOR or Dove bar – you can use two mini glue dots to secure it on the inside so it doesn’t slide right back out. These were quick and easy especially if you use the 6×6 paper stacks so you don’t even have to cut the paper.
Thanks Connie for this great project!
Mar 1, 2011 | Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, SU Buttons, UDI Color Challenge |
We had storms yesterday afternoon – wind, hail, rain, lightening, tornado sirens going off. My car has been parked outside because my side of the garage is the work area while Greg is finishing the deck. When he got home and the storm was headed our way he said lets get everything out of the garage and get your car in – so we are scrambling to move everything as the storm approaches – I open the doors and it is pouring rain, wind blowing and hail coming down – Greg says to me “run it will only sting for a minute”!
Are you kidding – he wanted me to run out there – shouldn’t he be the one running out there! I wouldn’t go so he finally did without his glasses (he didn’t want to get those wet) – so then he couldn’t see to get my car in the garage because he couldn’t see through the rain without his glasses – it took him 4 tries with me waving my hands to go this way or that. He finally got the car in and I got the garage door shut. We went inside and Tyler says – “The grill is blowing across the deck” – it is on wheels and they weren’t locked so the big grill was rolling around the deck (we haven’t connected the gas line yet with the construction not quite done). My guess is it was probably quite comical if anyone was watching us. The storm finally passed with no actual tornado here.
I’m happy to report the new room is water tight – no leaks anywhere! And the new gutters worked well (I’m so glad they were there). The rain came so fast though the yard flooded and the neighbor had a river coming down his hill. And there was hail everywhere – I didn’t measure it but the news reports dime size to quarter size in our area.
Anyway none of that has anything to do with my card for today. Well sort of it does – after that Greg decided it was a good time to connect some power protector thing to the computer and in doing so he had the internet down and our network is now messed up. The internet is up but I can’t get to the network where my files are. He went to bed and it is not a good idea to wake him up – really never a good idea to do that – he is very grumpy if you do. So my dilemma was how to get my picture to create this post since I’m writing it at night before I go to bed. Luckily I had the email in my sent folder that I sent to Gretchen over the weekend and was able to copy it from there back to my laptop to use for this post. Well that was a long story to get to the Color Challenge for today.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. We are on week #25 and we have lots of colors today. I don’t really like when there are so many colors and I kept thinking flowers and butterflies and wanting there to be a green in this grouping and there isn’t.
So what to do with Rich Razzleberry, Perfect Plum, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, and Basic Grey…. I have been wanting to use the little builder wheels in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog so I decided to try something actually very simple. I also checked and all of those colors happened to be part of our button collection – which is not always the case with these color challenges. And here is my very simple card.
It’s actually a terrible picture of it. But the card base is Basic Grey and I wheeled the builder wheels with VersaMark ink, sprinkled Clear Embossing Powder over it and heat set. It really makes the designs pop out on this card. Then I took a small flower button in each of the colors tied a piece of thread through the center and added them to the card with mini glue dots. Really not much to this card at all.
Oh and one trick with the Builder Wheels – sometimes the wheels are a bit uneven and when you wheel across the table not all of the wheel makes contact with your paper leaving some spots blank. I was having a problem with that on the center wheel. My solution – I took the silicone rubber pad that I use with the Big Shot and the Texture plates and placed it underneath my grid paper and card. Then rolled the ink on and it has enough give that the wheels make contact with the paper everywhere. I hope that makes sense – is it as clear as the mud that is in our yard from yesterdays storm?
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Basic Grey
- Ink: VersaMark
- Stamp sets: Builder Wheels – Butterfly Bliss, Delight in Gladness, Pleasing Polka Dots
- Accessories: Jumbo Stampin’ Around Handle, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat tool, Silicone Rubber, Brights Buttons, Subtles Buttons, Neutrals Buttons, Mini Glue Dots, crochet thread
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.
Feb 28, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
This is Ally – my niece – she just turned 4 years old and she is One of a Kind!
We saw her last weekend to celebrate her birthday. I gave her the big purple ball – lucky for me purple is one of her favorite colors! Mom and Dad gave her a purple Leapster. This picture was taken at my mom’s house – we thought it was too funny that she sat at the kitchen table with that big ball in her lap and her Leapster on top just quietly playing. The added purple eye patch I thought made the picture just perfect. According to my brother her bought her all these colorful patches for her eye (they are trying to correct some issues with her eyes) and the only colors that she will wear are pink and purple. If anyone needs blue, green or yellow patches I think I can find some for you!
This is my next page for Project 52 – to create a My Digital Studio page every week. I actually skipped posting one last week because I was working on some project books instead of individual pages.
I’m happy with how this turned out even though it took me some time to decide what direction to go in – other than knowing I wanted to use purple for this page – the Lovely Lilac is what matched – we still have that color in My Digital Studio even though it retired from the actual Stampin’ Up! product line. That’s one fun thing about MDS is that nothing ever retires – once you have it you have it forever.
My colors on this page are Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla with the Lovely Lilac – the butterfly is Elegant Eggplant – the flower centers are So Saffron brads and the stem is Old Olive. One trick I figured out that I wanted to share was how I got the Pearls to line up in the circle. I started by adding a stamp – the dotted circle from Enjoy Every Moment – position it where you want it. Then I added the largest sized pearls – you can actually add 10 at a time to your page – when you add an embellishment you can select the qty you want to add so that many get added at the same time instead of you doing them individually. I moved each pearl (yes that took some time) to cover the dots of the circle. I covered all the ones that I wanted and then once I had everything lined up I deleted the dotted circle stamp from the page. Leaving only the circle of Pearls. I hope you like it!
I opened them back up and stacked them together and looked around for what I was going to use in the center. I was going to just use little brads but remembered I had a package of the In Color Glitter Brads – they were perfect for these flowers.
These are all Poppy Parade which I decided to use for my customer orders. I went back and added the tiny tag to the center it says “thanks so much”. I punched a hole in the back and tied some crochet thread through to tie them onto my order bags. I decided these were so cute I wanted to make some more in the different In Colors. Then I got the brilliant idea that I needed to combine these flowers with my In Color bookmarks and it all came together.
I cut tags using the Two Tags die and my Big Shot machine. I used the crop-a-dile to punch two holes in the tag and then cut in between to create a slit that the book mark slides through. I’m not sure you can tell but the bookmark is magnetic and is folded in half – so the back half is on the back of the tag. Then I added the matching flower above it with a dimensional. Here is what the whole lot of them look like –
They are super cute and the great thing is once the book mark is removed you can still use the whole tag or pull of the flower and just use the flower for something else. Now to get them out to everyone……tonight is Stamper’s Club so they will get theirs then.
