Jul 20, 2010 | Great Friend, Stampin' Up! Events, Tags |
I am off to convention today! I’m so excited! I hope my flight goes well.
While I’m gone I’ll be sharing my swaps with you on my blog. I’m going to start with these little M&M Treats.
I have made these little treats before for Easter, St. Patrick’s Day and some summer treats too. I thought I would make these to give to my friends that I see at convention this year.
The tag uses a color combo that I got from the new Color Coach. I really like having it. The colors are Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, and Daffodil Delight.
The Early Espresso looked like the brown M&Ms. I punched those out using the new extra-large scallop circle punch.
Then I punch a layer of Daffodil Delight with the regular scallop circle punch. The middle is Whisper White card stock and I stamped it with the saying from the Great Friend stamp set using Cherry Cobbler ink. Then stamped the butterfly image in Daffodil Delight. I punched it out with the 1-3/8″ Circle punch and then added Cherry Cobbler around the edges with a Stampin’ Write marker. I tied the tag to the top of my treat bags with white crochet thread. Quick and cute!
UPDATE: I have had many people ask about the bags – I ordered them online from clearbags.com – they are called 1×8 + flap crystal clear bags – I purchased 1000 of them in packs of 100 along with a few other items to make the shipping cost reasonable. Ordering just one pack has a very high shipping cost. I split my order with some other demonstrators and we shared the cost of the shipping.
Thanks for checking in!
Jul 19, 2010 | Birthday, family, Stampin' Up! Events |
Ryan’s birthday was last week – he is my baby – well he isn’t really a baby anymore – he turned 14 years old! He has been playing a lot of golf lately so his birthday gifts were pretty much golf themed. According to Greg he is quite the good golfer for his age and gets to play occasionally with Greg and his friends.
With the golf theme in mind I used one of the new single stamps from the Stampin’ Up! catalog. It is called On the Green.
I combined it with some retired products to make his birthday card. Do you remember the Stampin’ Up! wrapping paper that we had one time. I still have some of the dots and stripes and I like to use those for birthdays. So I wrapped Ryan’s present with the paper and then used a piece on the front of his card. I stuck with the colors – Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, and Bashful Blue. Riding Hood Red is one of the old In-Colors that has returned.
I stamped the image twice – once in Riding Hood Red for the base and then a second time in Old Olive and cut a couple of things out to layer on top. I added some of the striped Bashful Blue ribbon which did retire – darn – I liked that striped ribbon.
Here is a picture of Ryan with his cake. And here is the cake story…. I asked Ryan what kind of cake he wanted and his reply was a store bought cake (normally I make the birthday cakes) and he wanted a Chocolate Cake with Chocolate icing. So I believed him. And went to the store and looked at the cakes. It was late and I had to choose from what they already had made – I had the lady search through all the cakes to find me a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting – and no flowers or girly decorations. Apparently that was not easy – there was one. So I bought it and took it home. There were two surprises – one was that he was joking and didn’t want a store bought cake – but it was too late to change now. And second when we cut the cake – it wasn’t even Chocolate! It was a yellow cake with the wrong label on the outside. So Ryan didn’t even eat any – no one else really did either. One small corner is missing and I do plan to take it back to the store and let them know I was disappointed and so was he.
Sunday was a productive day for my convention preparation:
Shoebox swap – 49 cards – DONE
UDI card swap – 19 cards – DONE
UDI 3-D swap – I am making the second one since I want to send the first one to Stampin’ Up! for a contest. I am almost done with the second one – all the pieces are there and it is more than half way put together.
General swap 1 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 2 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 3 – 25 card fronts – I have an idea in mind, I just need to work on it – this may not get done at all.
General swap 4 – 25 card fronts – I realized I started cutting for a swap, used part of it for my STARZ swap this weekend, but I think I want to redesign this because I wasn’t completely happy with it, so I need to work with what I already cut
Friend gifts – planning to make some amount of something to give to friends I see
Roommate gifts – 3 – designed
Thanks for stopping by – I’ll be leaving soon for convention. You can keep visiting my blog while I’m gone. I plan to schedule posts of all of my swaps.
Jul 18, 2010 | Baroque Motifs, Cards, Punch Art, Summer Mini 2010, Wedding |
I’m continuing to share with you from our STARZ meeting last weekend. I asked several of the girls to bring a make&take project for everyone and I have two I’m going to show today. I decided that both of these would be perfect for Wedding Cards. I know for me I had my wedding on my mind during this time of year. Our wedding anniversary is next week on July 22nd. It will be our 21st anniversary! And I will be in Salt Lake City at the Stampin’ Up! convention. I told Greg to make sure he went out and played golf that day.
So on to the cards to show you. The first is a wedding card that Cindy brought and you can find out more about it on her blog – click here. She got the idea from another demonstrator and added her own little touch to it – the flower bouquet. We decided the new rhinestones and pearls that are in the new catalog would work well on this card too for adding bling to the dress.
This card was not very hard to make – it is a regular sized card but scored a bit different. There are two sides that fold in to meet in the center. Then one side is decorated as the groom in his tux and the other is the bride in her dress. When you close the card they are standing next to each other with the brides dress overlapping the front of the card. I’m sure that I will use this idea again when I need a wedding card. We used the Trio Flower punch to make the bouquet and it was one of the punches that retired. But any flower ideas would work. I’m so glad that Cindy shared this with us and that we all got to actually make it.
This next card is another share that Michelle brought for us to make. She taught us how to make these beautiful rose buds using the Two-Step Bird punch. It really is the bird punch – can you believe it!
Michelle does not have a blog yet but you can see another one of her projects this month on the Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator website in the Online Extras for the Monthly art contest – she didn’t win but she got an Honorable Mention. She does some beautiful work with sponging and shading on her projects that really make things look real.
I think this card could also be used as a wedding card and you could even adjust the colors of the card and rose buds to match the wedding colors. This card took some time punching out the various pieces, shading them all with the sponge dauber and then glueing them together. When working with little pieces like these I prefer to use a pair of craft tweezers and a 2-way glue pen.
The ideas from these cards could also be used on a scrapbook page for a wedding – you could create a bouquet of roses if you spent some time with it. Thank you to both of them for sharing their ideas with our group.
Here is my convention prep work update – I have 2 more full days to work on stuff and then I leave on Tuesday!
Shoebox swap – 49 cards – designed, cut, all the kits are assembled and I have 24 assembled with just one more step to finish on most of them – and then I need to make one more – I was supposed to have 25. Then I need to pack the supplies to make the kits and I will be done – so Almost Done.
UDI card swap – 19 cards – designed, cut and needs to be assembled
UDI 3-D swap – I only have to make 1! And I know what it is just need to decide if I want to give away my sample or make a new one.
General swap 1 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 2 – 25 card fronts – All DONE
General swap 3 – 25 card fronts – I have an idea in mind, I just need to work on it – this may not get done at all.
General swap 4 – 25 card fronts – I realized I started cutting for a swap, used part of it for my STARZ swap this weekend, but I think I want to redesign this because I wasn’t completely happy with it, so I need to work with what I already cut
Friend gifts – planning to make some amount of something to give to friends I see
Roommate gifts – 3 – designed
Well I better go get busy – I still have lots to do!
Jul 16, 2010 | Bleaching, Cards, Embossing, Thank You |
Just a quick post today. Thursday was the first day or orientation at Ga Tech – I learned lots of information – I hope Kyle did too. We were together for parts of the day and apart for others. Today is the important stuff – like registering for classes and getting a student id.
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
Wendy and her family have moved to Saudi Arabia – they left on Thursday. I wish them the best in their new adventure and safe travels where ever they may go. We will be in touch regularly as I help her with keeping the STARZ group connected. I’ll be including the STARZ group in my downline meetings so if you live near me I hope you will join us.
I didn’t get anything done on my convention swaps since we were gone all day Thursday and I’ll be gone most of Friday too.
I’m officially a Ga Tech Mom!
Jul 15, 2010 | Designer Series Paper, Punch Art |
This past weekend we had the STARZ group meeting at my house. Everyone brought swaps and we also made several projects. I wanted to share some of those with you. This little swap caught my eye as soon as Danette walked in the door –
Is this not the cutest thing?
This is the new Owl Punch from Stampin’ Up! and Danette created this little bookmark using a jumbo paper clip – I forgot to ask her where she found the blue clips. I don’t have it right in front of me but that must be the new Marina Mist color that she used. There are lots of new Designer Series papers and I still need to learn what they are and what patterns they include so I’m not sure where the striped paper is from just now.
The punch cuts all of those pieces for you – I’m sure this is going to be popular – especially with the Late Night Stampers group since that is their mascot.
My punch finally arrived in my new order this week but I have yet to play with it. I decided that it is going to be quite popular on swaps this year so I decided not to use it for mine. Speaking of which here is my convention preparation update for today:
Shoebox swap – 49 cards – designed, cut, now half need to be assembled and the other half will be kits to be assembled at the swap.
UDI card swap – 19 cards – designed, cut and needs to be assembled
UDI 3-D swap – I only have to make 1! And I know what it is just need to decide if I want to give away my sample or make a new one.
General swap 1 – 25 card fronts – designed, cut and half are assembled
General swap 2 – 25 card fronts – designed, cut, and all are assembled – DONE
General swap 3 – 25 card fronts – I have an idea in mind, I just need to work on it
General swap 4 – 25 card fronts – I realized I started cutting for a swap, used part of it for my STARZ swap this weekend, but I think I want to redesign this because I wasn’t completely happy with it, so I need to work with what I already cut
Friend gifts – planning to make some amount of something to give to friends I see
Roommate gifts – 3 – designed
So that is where things stand and I better keep working to get it all done. There were a few changes – I mostly worked on the UDI card swap today. I plan to take some of the pieces with me tomorrow when Kyle and I head to Georgia Tech for a 2-day orientation. If I have down time I’ll work on my swaps there.
Thanks for checking in – I’ll be back tomorrow.
I have made these little treats before for Easter, St. Patrick’s Day and some summer treats too. I thought I would make these to give to my friends that I see at convention this year.
The tag uses a color combo that I got from the new Color Coach. I really like having it. The colors are Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, and Daffodil Delight.
