Jan 19, 2011 | Stampin' Up! Events |
One of the fun things about Stampin’ Up! events is Memento Mall – our very own place to shop full of Stampin’ Up! Logo merchandise. They always surprise us with fun stuff and have all the displays set up with paper crafted decorations of course. This year I remembered to take pictures of the displays while I was inside shopping. I wanted to share some with you (and no I didn’t put them on an MDS scrapbook page – these are just the pictures).
Memento Mall Entrance
Wallets, Purse Holder, Stampin' Up! Banners and Designer Scarves
Paper Flower on the MDS Sampler table
Shopping Bags, T-shirt, Baja Breeze Sweater, and men's shirt
More paper flowers
Display with Concord Crush frame and samples
Display with Pear Pizzazz frame and samples
One display had frames decorated in each of the five In-Colors and each frame was covered with chicken wire and then had cards in the same color on display. This was the In-Color Book Mark table. It’s hard not to buy it all. Shopping is always so much fun!
Jan 19, 2011 | My Digital Studio |
The latest digital downloads for My Digital Studio from Stampin’ Up!
| Item | Description | Image | Price | Content |
| 124030 | Tempting Turquoise Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 | Four Tempting Turquoise
Designer Series Paper Patterns |
| 124031 | Old Olive Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 | Four Old Olive Designer Series Paper Patterns |
| 124033 | Pretty in Pink Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 | Four Pretty in Pink Designer Series Paper Patterns |
| 124022 | Sweet Stitches Designer Buttons |  | $2.95 | Three button styles in Tangerine Tango, Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, and Daffodil Delight. Total of 12 buttons. |
| 124028 | Pattern Pieces Stamp Brush |  | $1.95 | One oversized fabric pattern. Coordinates with the “Oh Sew Suite” product line. |
| 124018 | Blossom Petals Punch |  | $0.95 | Four-piece stamp brush set and one 5″ x 7″ greeting card designer template. |
| 124019 | Build a Blossom Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Twelve-piece stamp brush set. Coordinates with the digital Blossom Petals Punch. |
| 124027 | Eat Chocolate Stamp Brush Set |  | $3.95 | Four-piece stamp brush set. |
| 125161 | Top 10 Photo Book Template |  | $14.95 | This 24-page designer template (11″ x 8-1/2″) was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125162 | 2011 Pennant Desktop Calendar |  | $14.95 | This 25-page calendar template (5-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ calendar with easel) was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125623 | Baja Breeze Flower Bouquet Birth Announcement |  | $1.95 | Double-sided baby boy announcement postcard designer template. Colors are Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, and Basic Gray. |
| 125163 | Regal Rose Flower Bouquet Birth Announcement |  | $1.95 | Double-sided baby girl announcement postcard designer template. Colors are Regal Rose, Kiwi Kiss, and So Saffron. This template was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125164 | Play Date Invitation Designer Template |  | $1.95 | Birthday greeting card invitation template. Front and inside of card are pre-designed. Template includes nine embellishment pieces and was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125165 | Snowflake Flurry Holiday Trifold Card Designer Template |  | $1.95 | This 4″ x 9-1/4″ trifold card designer template was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 124542 | Chat Room Rock Star Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Ten-piece stamp brush set. |
| 124543 | Chat Room Friend Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Ten-piece stamp brush set. |
| 124486 | Chat Room Baby Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Ten-piece stamp brush set. |
Jan 18, 2011 | Cards, Rock 'n Roll, UDI Color Challenge |
I was so tired when I returned from the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference that I did not get to work on my Utah Diva’s Color Challenge card until late last night. That was the first time I had made it back to my craft room. Most of yesterday I was on the computer and cleaning up around the house (I still have plenty more of that to do today). Finally my boys are back in school. It is January 18 and until today they had only had 4 days of school this month and one of those counted towards last semester because they missed a day of exams right before the Christmas break. The last note we saw said they have to only make up 2 of the days that they have missed so far – there were 4 “extra” days built into the schedule.
We are on #19 of the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. This is the inspiration that Gretchen gave us this week –
I did get to see Gretchen at the Leadership conference – only for a few minutes Friday night during our make&takes. I can’t wait for you to see those – I’m trying to get pictures of all that kind of stuff today. I always love to see in real life the people that I know from Stampin’ Up! through blogs, yahoo groups and from reading about them in the Stampin’ Up! magazine and website. It’s like talking to celebrities!
Gretchen is definitely giving us challenges with these colors each week. And here was another set that I thought – what am I going to do with that? And since I was really late I needed to come up with something really quick. Garden Green, Peach Parfait, Real Red and Basic Black – vivid colors and our inspiration piece involved food so my thoughts turned to a little old stamp set that I haven’t used in a while – Tart & Tangy. Remember that one? It is a set that I really liked to use in the summer time. So I pulled it out and tried to put the challenge colors with it – the Strawberry, Apple and Cherries could all use the Garden Green and Real Red, Black could be my accent so for this card the citrus fruit was going to be a Peach Parfait colored orange slice (I have also used it as a lemon or lime). I wasn’t sure I was going to like this card but in the end I do like it.
The card base is the Garden Green – which seems to be the common color between most of the fruit and what I used on my “HELLO”. Then I added a layer of Basic Black – I thought about embossing it with one of the folders but then it occurred to me that I could also use my Crimper and give it a corrugated look like a card board box – perhaps that is what the fruit came in…. If you want to add some texture and you don’t have a Big Shot and Texture Impressions folders try using a crimper instead. I tied some Real Red Grosgrain ribbon around the card.
The best part is the fruit.
And making it look juicy using Crystal Effects. The strawberry and the apple were colored with Stampin’ Write markers and stamped on Whisper White card stock. I used the Black marker to add the seeds. The orange slice is inked with the Peach Parfait ink and then Rock ‘n Rolled in Real Red – that is why the edges have some red in them. The other little trick I did was for the Hello tag – it is a short Word Window. You do this by punching out the Word Window and then stick it back in the side of the punch, line it up and punch again to create a short piece.
Cut the pieces out and then carefully cover with Crystal Effects – and let it dry. If you touch it before it is dry you will put a finger print in your shiny fruit and you don’t want that. I attached all the fruit with Stampin’ Dimensionals and also the hello – I actually added the Crystal Effects to the Hello after I put it on the card – and I used a straight pin to pull it all the way out to the ends. You do have to punch first – the Crystal Effects is just enough that you’ll have trouble getting the card stock in the punch later if you do it after wards. I hope you learned a few little fun tips with this card.
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: Garden Green, Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Peach Parfait, Real Red, Garden Green, Stampin’ Write Markers: Real Red, Garden Green, Basic Black
- Stamp sets: Tart & Tangy, Fundamental Phrases
- Accessories: Real Red wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Crimper, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Word Window punch, Crystal Effects
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jan 17, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events |
I am back from the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference in Nashville, TN. I was bound and determined to get there even through ice and snow! I am so glad that I made it and it was the best time ever! We were busy from the time we got up until the time we went to bed each and every day. I stayed an extra day for a smaller stamping event a another demonstrators house that lives near Nashville so Saturday was almost just as busy as Thursday and Friday. I got home Sunday afternoon about 5 or so, unpacked the car and dumped it all inside the house. Aspen and Magnolia were super excited to see me! I got my normal lecture from Aspen – “how could you leave me?”, “why were you gone so long?”, “don’t go back out that door”. He literally won’t let me get back out the door without coming with me – he is very determined that I won’t go out again without him. A little while later I sat on the coach – I was able to watch my recording of Grey’s Anatomy and then fell asleep. It did seem that the weather last week not only messed up the roads, the school schedule, the mail service, garbage service and UPS deliveries but apparently messed up the TV schedules – I set the DVR to record some shows while I was away and when I tried to watch some today – it was the wrong show – even though the TV listing had the right show – weird – I guess I have to try to find them on the internet.
I’ll have more stories to tell and pictures to share and all the rest of the excitement from leadership. Today I made an MDS page about Leadership Roommates. This year I shared a room with Diane, Becky and Wendy. We realized late on Friday night that we didn’t have any pictures of the four of us. Actually it was probably already Saturday morning by this time – we were up until about 3 AM. I got my camera out and remembered it had a timer so that I could set up the camera and then run over to be in the shot. Luckily it had a 10 second timer and the option to have it shoot 3 shots back to back. So that was what we did and boy were we laughing. Here is the result:
The layout for this page came from a My Digital Studio book that we were able to get at Memento Mall – I took an idea from one of the pages in there and merged it with one of the photo templates that the program has. Stampin’ Up! is releasing a Leadership Conference exclusive digital kit for MDS that is designed to go with the Leadership theme, colors and logo. I plan to us it for most of my pictures but I did want to start sharing some with you while I wait on that to become available.
Have a wonderful day!
Jan 15, 2011 | Big Shot, Occasions Mini 2011, Stampin' Up! Events, Valentine's Day |
So sorry for not posting. I thought I would have time to get back to the computer during Leadership but they kept us busy from the minute we got up until we got back to our rooms and fell down in our beds. Leadership officially ended last night about 11 o’clock. But we are up again this morning with another full day planned of stamping, friendship and fun in Nashville – although with a smaller group. I wanted to get this quick post out and I’ll tell you more about all the exciting things from leadership when I get back home tomorrow and over the next week.
This is a project I made for two different swaps – a candy wrapper swap and a Valentine WOW swap. You may recognize it from last year when I originally created this idea. I’ll share some more specific details later – I need to go now!
Hugs & Kisses Holder – Valentine swap
