Jul 23, 2010 | Cards, My Digital Studio, Punch Art, Stampin' Up! Events |
I joined a new demonstrator group earlier this year – a group that shares ideas and business tips. They have a dinner and swap at convention so I signed up to attend along with my 3 room mates. The card swap for had some specific rules or guidelines that I found quite challenging. I decided that the reason I waited so long to make all of my swaps for convention was because I was struggling with what to do with this one. So here are the specifics that I had to work with:
– Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Whisper White
– Theme: Whimsical or Funny
– Royal in nature with bling
Somehow for me the whimsical/funny didn’t go with royal bling – but I thought through it and played around with various ideas until I finally came up with something and everyone I have showed my end result to has loved it! I’m so excited that they liked it and I hope the ladies I’m swapping with like it too!
Here are all the pieces of my card. It was a lot of pieces and next time I need to do a swap with not so many pieces and steps. Can you see what it is – little heads and little bodies…..
Here they are all finished – do you see the dog bones, the dog, the newspaper rolled up in his mouth?
It is my punch art dog and I forgot to take a picture of my inspiration – it is a piece of metal art that hangs on the wall by the garage door. This piece happens to have the head and legs that move so my card is supposed to resemble that – so I call it my bobble-head card.
The dog is made out of punches and the legs are dangling – they are attached with brads so they move. The head moves because I attached it to a jumbo brad that is then inserted through a hole on the embossed Cherry Cobbler layer and it rotates around.
My “bling” on my card include 3 brads on the left side and some chunky glitter – I don’t know how easily you can see it in the picture so here is a close up of his head. The nose is covered in black chunky glitter and his tongue is covered in red chunky glitter.
The newspaper in his mouth is a piece from the new News Print Designer Series paper. The tail is a thin strip of Basic Black card stock curled around a skewer to make it curl up. I shaded all the punched pieces with Black StazOn ink – for me the regular basic black looks to much like purple when I use it for sponging. I added spots cut/punched from pieces of black card stock or with a black marker.
He really is a funny little dog with a bobble-head. I’m also going to demo this card at the Udderly Awesome gathering at convention. I hope I don’t get to nervous showing it in front of people. I did pre-assemble most of the dog parts ahead of time. I’ll come back after convention and add more on the punched pieces for the dog.
And I forgot to get a picture of the inside. By the way the “Heard the News” was made using My Digital Studio and printed on card stock and punched out. I’ll show you later how to create the bone shape.
Have a “dog-gone” great day!
Jul 22, 2010 | Stampin' Up! Convention, Stampin' Up! Events |
Hi – I’m back with a quick Stampin’ Up! convention update. Wednesday was check-in day. We got our convention bags but I don’t have a picture of it – I’ll have to do that today. We took a tour at the Stampin’ Up! Corporate Offices and warehouse.
We shopped at Memento Mall – I even got to go in early for the VIP treatment for getting a recruit in early July – Thanks Sherri! They always have cute stuff that we just “have to have”. New shopping bags, a laptop bag, pens, rulers, shirts, charms, and more.
Here is Becky with some of her new shopping bags. Becky is our new roommate this year and she is from Ohio. I’m also rooming with Michele and Diane again this year and they are from Iowa.
Wednesday night we had a Groovy Flower Power Party with lots of games, face painting, demonstrations, prizes and more. Diane won one of the prizes. Michele and I tried out for the game show – the Stampin’ Up! version of Minute to Win It. I got my stack of cups done under a minute – the pictures are on Michele’s camera which I’ll get later.
We got a photo op with Shelli Garner and her husband Sterling in all our groovy attire.
I saw a lot of friends and met new ones too. We had a blast! Sign up as a demonstrator this year on my team and you can come with me next year.
Our Favorite Quote of the night “Make Cards not War.”
PEACE OUT!
Jul 22, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper |
Here is another Stampin’ Up! Convention Swap for you today.
This one features the new Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper. I cut strips from different patterns and attached them to a Chocolate Chip card base.
I tied the Real Red Satin ribbon around the card. Thanks to my friend Lisa who traded some ribbon with me so I could finish my swaps!
I had to take a close up picture of the flower because it didn’t show up well in the photo. I used the flower image from the Friends Never Fade stamp set. I used the Stampin’ Write Markers to color the image – Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and Real Red. Then I used my paper piercer to pierce a hole on either side of the flower stem and threaded a piece of linen thread through and tied it in a little bow. I love to add linen thread to my projects. I sponged some Chocolate Chip ink around the edges.
At the bottom I added the greeting inside the small oval. It is actually a simple card but takes some time to hand color the stamp each time.
I love the pop of red on this card. I hope my convention swaps are big hits at convention.
Have a great day!
Jul 21, 2010 | Stampin' Up! Convention |
I arrived in Salt Lake City yesterday for the Stampin’ Up! Convention.
Here is a view from our hotel room of the Convention Center.
We did not go in the convention center yesterday but walked around Salt Lake City to Temple Square and then the Gateway Mall. We ate dinner and came back to our hotel.
This picture is my roommates and I inside Temple Square by one of the fountains. Michele, me, Diane, and Becky.
Look you can see my skinned knee from when I fell last week at the GA Tech orientation – right in the middle of campus in front of all the students and parents.
This morning we will head to the convention center and check-in, get our bags, visit Memento Mall, tour the Stampin’ Up! corporate office and then Diane and I have a couple of classes this afternoon. I’ll try to be back later in the week with more updates.
Jul 21, 2010 | Cards, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Ribbon, Thank You |
I bought the Nature’s Nest stamp set last year in my first order from the catalog. I had planned on using for convention swaps last year. Well that never happened and it sat in my craft room for almost a year – how awful was that. I finally used it and made a beautiful card for some of my convention swaps this year. I’m really happy with the result.
I’m not sure the picture on my blog show just how pretty it is. I actually used the same layout that I had used in some cards I created early this year for the Royal Blog Tour.
The colors this time are Crumb Cake, Marina Mist and Soft Suede. The dragonfly image is stamped in Basic Black StazOn ink. I colored the dragonfly body with the Marina Mist marker and then wings with a Bashful Blue marker. Then I added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the wings.
If you know me, you know I rarely use glitter. But these wings really needed the extra sparkle. It is pretty in real life. I tried to get a close up pictures but I still don’t think it shows the sparkle and shine.
I also used the color spritzer tool to add spritz on the front of the card – I sure do miss that splatter from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds set – we need that one stamp back in the catalog.
To finish the card I added the new 1/8″ Marina Mist Ribbon tied with Linen Thread and a little jewelery tag. I hope you like it.
Here are all the pieces of my card. It was a lot of pieces and next time I need to do a swap with not so many pieces and steps. Can you see what it is – little heads and little bodies…..
Here they are all finished – do you see the dog bones, the dog, the newspaper rolled up in his mouth?
The dog is made out of punches and the legs are dangling – they are attached with brads so they move. The head moves because I attached it to a jumbo brad that is then inserted through a hole on the embossed Cherry Cobbler layer and it rotates around.
My “bling” on my card include 3 brads on the left side and some chunky glitter – I don’t know how easily you can see it in the picture so here is a close up of his head. The nose is covered in black chunky glitter and his tongue is covered in red chunky glitter.
The newspaper in his mouth is a piece from the new News Print Designer Series paper. The tail is a thin strip of Basic Black card stock curled around a skewer to make it curl up. I shaded all the punched pieces with Black StazOn ink – for me the regular basic black looks to much like purple when I use it for sponging. I added spots cut/punched from pieces of black card stock or with a black marker.
