Aug 9, 2010 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Convention, Stampin' Up! Events |
I am continuing to work on my Convention album in My Digital Studio. Apparently I did not do a good job this year of taking pictures. Part of the reason a couple of days was because my battery for the camera died so I couldn’t. And then the other days I guess I just wasn’t thinking clearly about some of those important moments.
This year I earn two special things – one was VIP status on check-in day to get early admission into the Memento Mall. Did I take any pictures of that? No. Not of the sign, not of the inside of Memento mall displays (although I did remember on the last day but it just wasn’t the same then). The VIP status was for getting a recruit at the beginning of July – Thanks Sherri!
The second thing was earning a special Breakfast on Friday morning with Shelli and the Corporate Team and about 200 other demonstrators. That was for being part of the Recruit Crew training program and getting a new recruit during the training – Thanks Stephanie! Did I take any pictures of me at the breakfast, or my table of new friends – Nope. The only pictures I have were of Shelli when she was talking to us. On top of that we got to enter the main stage area from a special entrance early. I should have been taking pictures then too. I’m not sure where my brain was – several special opportunities that may never happen again and no pictures for my scrapbook.
I did get some pictures from the Stampin’ Up! website and Facebook page and my roommates from the Opening Session on Thursday morning. So I created a scrapbook page in My Digital Studio for that and I’m sharing that today.
This year Stampin’ Up! actually closed the home office and had all the employees at the Opening General Session. In the big picture you can see all the employees line up on each side of the entrance in white shirts – two rows on each side to cheer as we came inside. I did not take that picture it was one from Stampin’ Up!
To start each convention when get to hear the new theme song and watch it being performed. I don’t remember who the performers were but I really like the song this year. Very hip and current. And then there were some young dancers on the stage too. Very exciting and fun and we were all standing and cheering the whole time.
For some details about what I did in My Digital Studio – I created the page using one of the photo layouts. You can pull in a photo layout but then it is still fully customizable and you can change anything that you want. I moved one of the photo blocks and then deleted one and replaced with a punch and a text box. My background is from the Happy Birthday Designer Kit – I think it was paper 2. I noticed as I made this page the elements actually coordinated with some of the decorations and things they used at convention on the stage and in the lights and images that they flashed on the walls. I added some embellishments that also came from the Happy Birthday Designer Kit. And some brads too.
One fun thing about My Digital Studio is adding text right on top of your pictures. The text block is actually clear so you can put the text write over the photo and still see the photo. On the page where I have the journaling I used a punch to add a piece of designer paper behind my words so that they would be easier to read. The background was too busy for the text. My photos and my punched piece are all matted with a thin white mat.
I hope to be finished with the whole album later this week. Have a great week!
Aug 7, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Designer Series Paper, Stamper's Club, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon |
Did you see the stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog on page 55 called Got Treats? Can you image all the little treats you can create with it – birthday, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines, St. Patrick’s Day, Treats for any time? I hadn’t even considered buying the Milk Carton die-cut for the Big Shot until I saw this little stamp set. Now I can image all sorts of possibilities with it even using different stamp sets. I ordered the Mini Milk Carton die and the Got Treats stamp set and decided to play this week. I created a little project for my Stamper’s Club meeting last night.
The little carrier idea is in the catalog but I also saw it earlier this year on another blog and on Stampin’ Connection. There are several different versions out there. You basically make a little box to hold two mini milk cartons and then glue two together with a handle in between. I decided to use the Play Date Designer Series paper for my color inspiration and for decorating the little carrier. This one has a birthday theme but you could use this for so many different celebrations besides a birthday. Or make one for your desk to hold little office supplies – I want to try that next – I think there was something similar on display at convention.
Here you can see my four mini milk cartons. On my Got Treats stamp set I mounted the words separate from the images so that I could mix & match and use them together or apart. So on one cupcake I have “Got Birthday?” and on the other I have “Got Treats?” and then one is on the top and the other on the bottom.
I did have to play around with my Big Shot and the die to get my sandwich just right so the cut lines cut and the score lines scored. Because there are slight variations between Big Shot’s yours may not be the same as mine. For mine I used this – Standard Cutting Pad, piece of colored card stock, Mini Milk Carton die, card stock to be cut (one layer), Standard Premium Crease Pad. Only cut one at a time so you get all the score lines and cut lines for each one that you cut.
Have a sweet weekend!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Real Red, Old Olive, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
- Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise Stampin’ Write markers
- Stamps: Got Treats Stamp set
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Mini Milk Carton die
- Scallop Square Punch, Large Oval Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Jewelry Tag Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack
- Linen Thread, 1/4″ Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, 5/8″ Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon
- Play Date Designer Series paper
- Brights Designer Buttons, Subtle Designer Buttons, Silver Brads, Mini Library Clips
- Paper piercer, Mat Pack, Stampin’ Dimesionals, Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Aug 6, 2010 | Baroque Motifs, Big Shot, Cards, Great Friend |
I wore a shirt the other day that had dragonflies on it – Ryan asked if it was a Stampin’ Up! shirt. I said “no”. Then Greg said “well it sure does look like it would be a Stampin’ up! shirt”. But it is not. Since they seemed to think it looked so much like a Stampin’ Up! shirt I decided to try to recreate the design in a card. I saw a card challenge on Lynn Pratt’s blog that I had wanted to try and with the shirt in my mind decided to combine the sketch idea with the color/theme of my shirt.
Here is the shirt that I had on. I pulled out my Color Coach to determine what colors I wanted to use for my card. The dragonflies seemed to be Tempting Turquoise and Sahara Sand, while the back ground was two tones of green. I decided to use Garden Green and Wild Wasabi.
I used the sketch from the challenge I found which was a card base with a folded Top Note die-cut as the flap on the card. When you lift this piece the message is underneath.
I decided to stamp the dragonflies on vellum paper using StazOn Black ink and then color them with my Stampin’ Write markers and cut them out. I slightly curled the wings and tails and used a mini glue dot to attach them to my card. The dragonfly image is from the Nature’s Nest stamp set.
The swirl is from Baroque Motifs, and the “for you” and the words on the inside (which I didn’t take a picture of) are from the Great Friend stamp set.
I added some random splattering using my Color Spritzer Tool and the Garden Green marker – I miss my Itty Bitty Backgrounds splatter which would have worked well on this card too. The shirt had little brad like things scattered throughout the design so I decided to add that too. I used a few brads from the vintage set.
What do you think? I’m not sure, but it does resemble the design and colors of the shirt and fits the sketch.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Aug 5, 2010 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Convention |
I have been working on a My Digital Studio project the past couple of days. I decided to take the pictures I have from the Stampin’ Up! Convention and create an album in My Digital Studio that I can show as a slide show with the Share What You Love theme song playing in the background. I have about 6 pages done and love it so far. I thought I would share one of the pages with you. This is one of my favorite ones so far – these are pictures I took of all the flowers and gardens at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Every year we want to go there but never have time. So this year we decided not to plan anything for the day we arrived – which was Tuesday – and use that time to walk around and visit Temple Square.
I just love all the pretty flowers. The photo in the center of the bottom row is of a family of quail (I think that is what they are). Michele, Diane and Becky stopped to talk to someone and as I turned around I notice this large group of birds waddling across the sidewalk from one section of the gardens to another. Well you know me I had to go check it out. I got over there with my camera just in time. About half of them were already through the bushes and I only got a picture of the last few before they disappeared.
This page was very easy to create in My Digital Studio. I am working with a 12 x 12 album and I started with a blank page. I added a background paper which is the Designer Series Paper in Pear Pizazz Wallpaper print. Then I added a photo layout on top. In the Resource Palette it is the 5th button over and when you hover over it it says – “Click to Access Photo layouts”. Click on that and it brings up a selection of different layouts to choose from. I picked the one I wanted and it adds it to my page. Then I Click over on the little camera (the 1st button) to access my pictures. Browse to the folder on your computer with the pictures you want to use. Then I just click and drag the photos into each box. I normally go back and select each one to adjust the crop to show the portion of the full photograph that I want to see on my page. Last I added a text box with my title. My Digital Studio uses fonts that are loaded on your computer. This happens to be one that I downloaded for free and is not a standard font.
I hope to post the entire slide show to my blog when it is finished. So hopefully I can figure out how to do that.
Have a great day – I spent most of it shopping with Kyle to get him ready for college. We had a long list of little things to buy – an alarm clock was at the top and I made him get a little hand held vacuum for keeping his dorm room clean too.
Thanks for stopping by!
Aug 4, 2010 | Baby Wipe, Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Rock 'n Roll, Summer Mini 2010 |
One of my favorite stamp sets in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog is the Sweet Scoops stamp set. I didn’t think it would be that great but it is one of those sets that you can use for a lot of fun techniques! Last week I had the girls from the Towne Lake Card Club over for their monthly get together and I decided to use this fun stamp set for one of our projects. I redesigned a card that I had made earlier and used for my Ice Cream Party class. This card was based on Neapolitan Ice Cream my original was Mint Chocolate Chip.
This fun card uses two techniques – Baby Wipe and Rock ‘n Roll.
The colors for the ice cream are Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink. To create the ice cream fold up a baby wipe and use the Stampin’ Up! Reinkers for the colors to put small drops on the baby wipe. You are basically creating your own multi-colored ink pad. In a few spaces where the colors don’t meet you will have white (that’s the vanilla). Use this pad to ink up your ice cream stamp.
For the cone I used Crumb Cake ink – ink up the stamp with this lighter color first. And I used Chocolate Chip ink – take the already inked stamp and roll just the edge in the darker ink. For mine I did the left side and the top and a touch on the bottom edge. This gives the cones a little shadow making it look more 3-dimensional.
To dress up the card I added a scallop edge with white gel pen dots. And also a panel of Crumb Cake that was run through the Big Shot machine with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. I love this folder and think it resembles the texture of an ice cream cone. Another strip of Chocolate Chip was added on the bottom with some white gel pen dots.
I stamped “Have a sweet celebration!” on the bottom in Chocolate Chip ink. A quick birthday card for someone special.
I ‘m going to try adding a full list of supplies at the bottom of my post – but I can’t promise I’ll do that every time.
I did want to add a note about the white gel pen. I store my gel pens on their sides (which is also how you should store your Stampin’ Write Markers). I originally stored them tip down and discovered that they would stop working before the ink ran out. Since I changed to storing them on their sides I have not had any problems and use the pen until there isn’t any more ink in it. My thought is that if you store them tip down the ink sits at the edge of the tip and if you aren’t using it daily the ink dries in the tip and clogs it, on it’s side the ink doesn’t fill the tip while it is being stored. This is just my thought – I have no proof that is makes a difference other than my experience.
So have a Sweet Day!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
- Ink: Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake Classic Ink pads, Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink Classic ink Refills
- Stamps: Sweet Scoops Stamp set
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Square Lattice Embossing Folder
- Scallop Edge Border Punch
- White Gel Pen
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this card click here.
This year Stampin’ Up! actually closed the home office and had all the employees at the Opening General Session. In the big picture you can see all the employees line up on each side of the entrance in white shirts – two rows on each side to cheer as we came inside. I did not take that picture it was one from Stampin’ Up!
