Jan 25, 2011 | Occasions Mini 2011, Tags, UDI Color Challenge |
I can’t believe it has already been 20 weeks of the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. It seems like we just started a couple of weeks ago but it has actually been much longer than that. Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. This is the inspiration that Gretchen gave us this week –
Another spring set of colors – and I’m ready for spring to be here. Actually I can’t wait because of two things – the birds will be back building nests and raising babies in my yard and we are building a sunroom/all-season room where we used to have a screened porch/deck and it will be so nice to sit out there when it is finished.
So back to my project today – I made tags again – I needed some for my latest batch of customer orders so I decided to use the Color Challenge for my inspiration. I decided to use the stamp set that we received at Leadership – Clearly for You. This weeks colors are Always Artichoke, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink and Kraft (or Crumb Cake). Here is what I came up with:
One of the things that we learned at the Leadership conference was that you could use the aqua-painter to “paint” on the Shimmer Mist paint. I loved how it look and the aqua-painter gives you control of where you are putting it. So I did that here on my little butterfly – on the tips of his wings and on the body. I tried to take a close up picture so you could see the shimmer – this was the Champagne Mist color.
The rest of the tag is punches – Always Artichoke 2-1/2″ circle, Regal Rose 2-3/8 Scallop Circle, Whisper White 1-3/4″ circle. The berry image was colored with Stampin’ Write Markers.
I hope you like these little tags. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Always Artichoke, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, Stampin’ Write Markers: Regal Rose, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke
- Stamp sets: Clearly for You
- Accessories: Stampin’ Dimensionals, aqua-painter, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, 2-1/2″ circle punch, 2-3/8″ scallop circle punch, 1-3/4″ circle punch, Stampin’ Sponge, crochet thread
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jan 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Fabric, Occasions Mini 2011, Simply Adorned Jewelry, Stampin' Up! Events |
At every Stampin’ Up! Event there are Make ‘n takes – we have to have our stamping time. This year at Leadership the Make ‘n Takes were the best ever! Our Make ‘n Take session was on Friday night at the end of the Leadership Conference – I hope no one left early because they missed some WOW projects. I wanted to share them all with you. The stamp set they gave us was Clearly for You so the projects we made use that as the main stamp set. The tables were sprinkled with punched pluses to match our +ONE theme (I wonder if that will be a future punch?) and our stamp set and supplies were packaged up in a little box this time.
Box of M&T supplies and a bag of yummy carmels
table supplies and punched pluses decorating our tables
DVD notebook - Botanical Gazette DSP, Trinket Keys
For You card
Simply Adorned Charm Bird Insert - Botanical Gazette DSP
Simply Adorned Charm Amour Insert - First Edition DSP, Red Glimmer paper, Trinket Keys
Simply Adorned Charm Monogram Insert and Chain - First Edition DSP, Springtime Vintage DSP, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Vanilla Pearl Bauble, Trinket Crowns, Trinket Keys
Brooch - First Edition DSP, Seam Binding, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Beveled Windowpane, Fun Flowers Bigz Die, Trinket Keys
We received the large Simply Adorned Charm and the long chain along with all the trinkets as part of our Make&Takes – everyone was so excited! Now I wonder what the convention projects will be like??
Jan 23, 2011 | Stampin' Up! Events |
At the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference they gave us the cutest bag – well it is really a purse this time.
The print on the fabric is the same as our Vintage Wallpaper Textured Embossing Folder. And the ribbon accent on the front is our 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon. On the inside (I didn’t get a picture of that) is the a Stampin’ Up! label – and it is a red rubber stamp that is sewn in. At my downline meeting last night someone else had their VB bag and they look exactly alike. So I don’t know who made the bags we got but they look just like the VB bag.
At Memento Mall we were able to purchase some coordinating accessories. And it is hard to resist – don’t we all love matching stuff?
There was a wallet – and it is much bigger than the wallet I have been carrying so I’ll have to figure out what to put in it. Between all the little pockets in it and all the little pockets in my bag I’m sure I’ll lose lots of things inside them……
And then the coolest thing was the little item in the box. Do you know what that is?
I had seen them before but never really looked into having one. It is a purse holder. You hang it on the edge of a table and it has a hook that holds your purse so you don’t have to set it on the floor. And this one matches our bag and has a Stampin’ Up! logo on it.
Here it is in action hanging on the edge of my kitchen table. And since I have so many nice little pockets in my bag it will have a nice little home and always be with me.
That is my little glimpse of leadership for you today. I still have more to come – although you may have already seen a lot of it since other demos are posting their pictures too. And other things that I still have to share is our trip to the Ronald McDonald house this week, my downline meeting last night (what a great time we had), and class projects from last week’s Valentine class. Lots to share….
We started construction on our sunroom/all-season room this week. Well not we – they did. Normally Greg does most of our renovating and construction projects around the house. But they take a long time and this time we are having someone else do the work and they are moving at at feverish pace compared to what Greg does. Wed/Thurs framing crew, Fri brought the electrician and today the roofers are here, Monday windows will be installed….it’s been busy and noisy around here the last few days.
Talk to you later…..
Jan 21, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Today (well actually yesterday) I was asked if I wanted to be a Guest Blogger on MyDigitalStudio.net! I was so excited I couldn’t even finish the conversation that I was having with Greg on the phone. I had to read the email several times to make sure it was really for me and it was. So today I have a blog post on MyDigitalStudio.net. If you have Stampin’ Up!s My Digital Studio and you haven’t yet joined this online community you need to put that on the top of your list. You will learn so much from everyone else – you can ask questions, see samples, watch videos, and more. So go do it today – it is a free community for My Digital Studio users.
My blog post was about my Leadership Roommates page that I posted a few days ago and something called Project 52. It is a challenge on MyDigitalStudio.net to create one page a week and then have a completed 2011 book at the end of the year. I had previously set a goal for myself (before I found the challenge) to create at least one page/project a week in MDS so this challenge seemed to fit right in to what I was already doing. I left a comment on the blog about it and then they asked me to write a post for today. Thank you Stampin’ Up! for the opportunity!
These are my “Project 52” pages that I have made so far this year. I have previously posted them to my blog so if you want more details look at the original post for each page.
Project 52 - week 1
Project 52 - week 2
Project 52 - week 3
I know that I started to do a similar thing last year and that was to scrapbook a page each week the traditional way. I made at least 52 pages or more last year I just didn’t get pictures on all of them and didn’t post them all to my blog. The blogger that was doing that challenge last year never finished because she went back to school full time and was working a job and has a big family and her blog and the challenge were put on the back burner. This year I plan to do better and really get pages made with pictures on them in MDS.
On January 30th I will be having my first My Digital Studio class at my house. If you would like to attend bring your laptop loaded with MDS and have some pictures on it too. We will be starting with the basics and I will be showing you how I made the Leadership Roommates page as part of the class. Please contact me to rsvp or if you have questions.
Not to fear I’m still doing traditional scrapbooking and my monthly class for that is on January 28th – we will make two 2-page 12×12 layouts at the class and it will be offered both in the morning and in the evening.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you’ll visit my post on MyDigitalStudio.net and leave me a nice comment there or leave one here. Thanks so much!
Jan 20, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
I put together a quick scrapbook page using My Digital Studio for our snowstorm from last week. I think of this as the beginning of my adventure to the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference in Nashville. Normally I am excited about some snow since we don’t get it very often, but with my trip planned I wasn’t really that excited about the snow this time. I REALLY wanted to go to Nashville! The storm came in quickly on Sunday night and dropped 6 inches of snow at our house. Then it changed over to freezing rain and put a layer of ice on top. On Monday everything around here was closed (even the Atlanta airport) and no one was moving. I spent Monday shoveling snow off the driveway because all our neighbors that have moved here from up north were doing that – so I borrowed a shovel and did the same – I figured they must know something that I don’t and I wanted to have every shot at getting out on Wednesday to go to Nashville.
This page layout was one that I got from the awesome Heather Summers. I basically copied her page exactly as she had it. She is the My Digital Studio queen and makes the best scrapbook pages. The left side of the page is a collage of 2×2″ photos. This is much easier to do in MDS than it is in real life – you can turn, crop, zoom, cut and “glue” all at the same time! I was lucky enough to see Heather at the Leadership conference – here we are together on the first morning.
Heather has such great inspiration not only her My Digital Studio projects but all of her work.
I hope you get inspired too. I will be holding a My Digital Studio class at my house on Sunday, January 30th. This first class will be the basics to getting started with My Digital Studio. If you live near me and would like to come please let me know.
One of the things that we learned at the Leadership conference was that you could use the aqua-painter to “paint” on the Shimmer Mist paint. I loved how it look and the aqua-painter gives you control of where you are putting it. So I did that here on my little butterfly – on the tips of his wings and on the body. I tried to take a close up picture so you could see the shimmer – this was the Champagne Mist color.
