Feb 14, 2011 | Birthday, class |
Happy Valentine’s Day to you! I hope you are having a special day. We really celebrated on Saturday night so today is just a normal day. The builders are outside working on the sun-room, deck, and siding. Tomorrow the painters should be here and then we’ll be approaching the end of the project – I hope. I am planning to have my Hands-On class on Friday. I do have some inside painting that has to be done but I’m not going to let them do it on Friday. If you have been to my house you know we had several spots of water damage in our ceiling from various things over the years – shower leak, over flowing toilet, over flowing sink, flooding rain through a leaking window – they have just multiplied and finally we are getting them fixed. Since we had someone hanging sheet rock in the sun-room and painting we just added on fixing the inside ceiling and repainting it too. This has definitely been an evolving project. Enough rambling – on to my birthday class – here are the details – if you live near me you are welcome to come….
Friday, February 18th – Birthday class
10:00 am and 7:00 pm
Come join me for this class featuring birthday themed projects.
We will make a cupcake box, a chocolate treat, and some birthday cards. See some of our projects in the picture above.
The class fee is $15.
Please bring snail adhesive and paper snips.
RSVP by end of day February 16th so I can have materials ready for you.
I hope to see you there!
Feb 13, 2011 | Bingo, My Digital Studio, Valentine's Day |
For Valentine’s Day each year we have a special family dinner and scavenger hunt. We have been doing this for many years – for us it is more about me spoiling all the boys rather than a romantic evening for just Greg and I. Our traditional Valentine Dinner is Lobster, Crab Legs and Steak – we couldn’t afford to go out as a family of 5 and eat a surf & turf dinner so we started cooking it at home. I have the lobsters and crab legs figured out and Greg does the steak. This year we celebrated last night while Kyle was home from college.
Normally as part of our activities I do a scavenger hunt – every year they each have their own set of clues and treats hidden around the house. When they were younger the clues were easy and as they got older the clues got harder. This year I decided to use My Digital Studio and create a Valentine’s Day Bingo game. I made a Bingo card for each of the boys and an extra one that I cut apart with all the pieces. I still hid their treasures but they had to have Bingo first before they could go look.
For the markers I punched hearts from Real Red card stock using the Small Heart punch.
In My Digital Studio I created an 8-1/2″ x 11″ photo album with one page that had four Bingo Cards on it. The Bingo card is one of the digital downloads that was released in the past few months. Then I went through all the stamp sets, embellishments and digital kits and selected different elements that were Valentine related to put in the squares. I resized any that were too big so they would fit in the square and used colors that were pinks, reds, and browns. I even used buttons and brads in some of the squares.
To make it easy I took an image, sized and colored it the way I wanted it and then copied it and positioned it in a different square on each of the Bingo Cards. I used the 4th card as the one I would cut the pieces apart for me to call while we played.
When I was done I just printed it out on my printer and cut the cards apart. This is what the My Digital Studio page looks like that I printed:
I love the Bingo card – both the My Digital Studio one and the actual stamp – it is fun to create Bingo cards to go with any theme that you need them too.
So if you need a quick idea for Valentine’s Day on Monday – these are really quick to make and print out. Have fun!
Feb 12, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasions Mini 2011, Valentine's Day |
I loved the scrapbook layout I showed you yesterday so much that I decided to take the Top Note design and turn it into a Valentine card. It works both ways sometimes you see a part of a scrapbook page that you want to make into a card and other times you see a card and think that would work perfectly on a scrapbook page….
It is basically the same element as I had on the scrapbook page and I put it on a Riding Hood Red card base. I stamped the bottom edge of the card with the little heart flowers and spritzed it a little with the Color Spritzer but you can’t really see it in this picture.
For the inside I added a Very Vanilla card stock and stamped the heart flowers on it with the Cherry Cobbler ink. “Sweet Valentine” is from the Level 2 Hostess set called Something to Celebrate in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog.
We got this set for free at the Leadership Conference – that was a surprise!
You could really make this card without having a specific Valentine stamp set. Use die cut or punched hearts. Find Love or an appropriate greeting in one of our many stamp sets. I hope you get inspired to create something this weekend for Valentine’s Day if you haven’t already done it.
Feb 12, 2011 | Blog Candy |
I’m happy to announce my Blog-a-versary Blog Candy Winner…..and the winning number is….
And that would be…..
Congratulations Babe! Email me with your mailing address so I can send your stamp set to you.
Thank you everyone that left comments. I’m so glad you enjoy visiting my blog. The bird adventures should start soon. I saw a bluebird on Thursday but didn’t get a picture. It was a female and she was actually looking in the mirror of the truck from the sheet rock guy that was working here that day. I could see her through my craftroom window – she would look in his window and then turn and look in the side mirror. I watched her for a while and then went quickly to get the camera but she flew up into the tree before I got back. We are supposed to have a nice weather weekend so hopefully the birds will be out house hunting!
Feb 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Valentine's Day |
I love the scrapbook layout that I made for my January Scrapbook Class!! I love the colors, I love the stamp sets, I love the layout, I love the accents! Now I just need to find some pictures to put on it. Yes sometimes I just create my pages because I like the pages not because I have pictures to put on them.
But this doesn’t need to be a Valentine page. It could be for a wedding or anniversary or in loving memory of someone (I was actually thinking of my friend Lisa when I was making this and that is what she needed). And someone else used it as a Things I Love page and she plans to add all the things that she loves to it.
The layout was an idea I saw in a scrapbook magazine and I stretched it to create a 2-page spread. Often the scrapbook pages in the magazines are single pages and for my scrapbook classes I like to do 2-page layouts so the test is always to see how to take a single page and stretch it to two and also how to convert it to a 100% Stampin’ Up! page.
I used the Love Letters Designer Series paper and took my color combination from it – Riding Hood Red, Basic Black and Very Vanilla. I stamped my hearts from the Heart to Heart stamp set and they weren’t quite as bright as I wanted and I didn’t have any Riding Hood Red ribbon either. So I looked at what I did have and decided to add Cherry Cobbler to the color palette and I LOVE it! I restamped the hearts in Cherry Cobbler and the popped so much more. I had Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding ribbon which worked perfectly and I die-cut and punched all my hearts from Cherry Cobbler card stock.
The other stamp sets that I used were Valentine Defined and Word Play. The Big Shot dies that I used on this layout were the Top Note, Hearts & Brackets, the Simple Alphabet, and the Two Tags die. I also used the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder – can use see where? The easy one to see is the tag from the Two Tags die. But look at the Top Note – what I did for this is glued the pieces of Designer Series paper to a piece of Very Vanilla card stock – then cut out the Top Note – then embossed it with the Vintage Wallpaper folder. It is easier to see in real-life but if you look closely you can see the bottom left (which is just the vanilla card stock) and the top right, the other papers are harder to see in the photo.
All the Vanilla card stock is sponged with Crumb Cake ink which gives it an antique look. I’m so glad they gave us this color ink – it is fast becoming a favorite for me for sponging.
I have to go buy paint for my new sunroom – all the sheet rock went up this week and next week they will paint – I am planning on So Saffron for the color. I showed Greg the colors on my color coach and he wanted to know what paint store the samples were from! I said these are my Stampin’ Up! colors and the paint store will just have to match it. They are working on framing the new deck and then Greg and Tyler are going to finish it – maybe this weekend – we’ll see how fast they work. Then we need to pick out tiles for the floor which Greg’ also plans to do himself. Hopefully by next week it will be basically done except for what Greg is doing himself and all these people will be gone. The rest of the day I’m finishing up Valentine’s for my boys! See you later.
