You are invited to join me for a Stampin’ Up! Opportunity night!
I’m holding a Stampin’ Up! Opportunity event at my house on June 13, 2010, and you are invited!
There will be plenty of food, stamping and fun.
This will be an excellent chance to learn more about the Stampin’ Up! Opportunity!
I hope to see you there!
Please RSVP by June 11th to Monika Davis at [email protected].
Event is at 6:00 pm on June 13, 2010.
I am here. Only one more day of school for Ryan and Tyler – well not even a whole day just part of a day. And Kyle has been done. He had graduation practice this morning and tomorrow night is graduation. I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by. I’ll need to do some more scrapbooking for him to finish his books. But for now I’ll be sharing some other things.
I had a fun scrapbook class on Wednesday and this is one of the 2-page layouts that we made.
I used the stamp sets Flower for All Seasons and Inspired by Nature – don’t you just love the grass you can use it for so many things. The original layout is from an earlier month of Wow Scrapbook Kits. It was originally made as a birthday page in pinks and blues. The Wow Scrapbook layouts are easy to adapt to other themes using different colors and stamp sets. Right now we have tutorials for sale and some completed pages. This is a joint venture between Wendy and I. Wendy is currently planning to move so we are doing some spring cleaning and selling completed Wow Scrapbook pages. Visit our blog – wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com – to see what we have out there right now. And come back later as more gets added.
Have a wonderful day – I need to decide what pictures I want to add to this layout. I love the little frog and the butterflies. The colors are Ruby Red, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. The images were watercolored with an Aquapainter – I have a couple of close up pictures to show you.
I hope you like it – I thought it turned out to be a happy page and could be used for many different things.
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
Here is one more card I wanted to show you from my Masculine Card class last week.
This is my Grey Texture card. It uses a couple of the retiring colors – Going Gray and Sage Shadow.
The card stock base is Sage Shadow which unfortunately is now sold out. If you have other retiring colors that you might want card stock for please don’t delay in ordering – colors are starting to sell out.
And now back to my card. The next layer is Basic Grey and then on top of that is a layer of Going Grey that has been embossed with the new Square Lattice Embossing Folder that is in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog. If you are wondering how to get the dark ink in the embossing there is a trick that several demonstrators have been sharing. My sister-in-law saw this at a class and said everyone thought it was the coolest thing. I had seen it but not tried it until this card and it was for sure the perfect addition to this card. The trick is to use a brayer to ink one side of the embossing folder – I used Basic Grey ink on mine. Then put the paper in and run it through the Big Shot. This embosses the paper and pushes the ink into all the debossed sections. Very cool – indeed!
The Designer Series Paper used here is the Nouveau Chic paper. I added the Corduroy Button because I think of it as a masculine accent. I debated on what to do with the button – adding thread seemed to make it more feminine so I decide to add a silver brad to it. The perfect little touch – don’t you think.
I hope you like it. Have a great day!
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
I have more inserts to show you from my Simply Adorned class. I tried to do one set per month for my class and the ones I showed in my earlier post – click here to see it – were Jan. (snowman), May (butterfly), Aug (monogram) and then the clear one. So here are a few more –
Here is February – like that wasn’t obvious. I used the Sending Love Specialty paper. Some punched hearts, a bit of ribbon and a Rhinestone brad removed from the brad setting so I could use just the rhinestone.
And here is March – I wasn’t sure what to do with that but I found the little Shamrock in the Holiday Blitz stamp set. This would actually be a great set to do a whole bunch of inserts for all the holidays. The other image is from the Charming stamp set. Then some circles, faux stitching and linen thread. Nothing terribly exciting but it will work for that little bit of green that you need for St. Patricks Day.
And here was the one for April. The Picnic Parade set from the last Stampin’ Up! mini catalog had perfect little images to tuse for these charms. The are all water colored with classic ink.
I made an extra long jewelry tag to hold the Happy Easter – if you have never done this – here is how – I’ll try to explain. Cut a strip of card stock the same width as the little jewelry tag punch. Then from the bottom of the punch insert the strip so that it punches only the end with the little tab on it – the other end stays out of the punch to keep it longer.
So that was a few more. That is now about half of what we made in the class. So there will be more later.
My next Simply Adorned class is on June 6th.
Thanks for checking in today!
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
I loved this card when I saw it featured on Lorraine’s blog – it was created by Debbie Colbacchini who I believe is one of Lorraine’s downline. I thought it would be a perfect card for Greg because he loves pears. I made a few modifications to it and used it as one of the cards in my masculine card class – but it could really be used for anything. So here is what mine looks like –
Things I did differently from Debbie’s – I added the Polka Dot Embossing folder to a portion of my Old Olive piece – I left about 1″ hanging out the side and this is where I stamped the greeting. My Chocolate Chip panel is a bit smaller that the original. And I used the large 1-3/4″ circle punch instead of a scallop circle on mine. The yellow color in this one is Crushed Curry – I really do wish we would have kept that one going into next year. But I guess More Mustard is similar just not as bright.
The pear has Crystal Effects on it to give it a juicy look. 
Here is a close up photo so you can see it. What I did was stamp the pear image first, punch it out and then add the Crystal Effects and let it dry – I like to give it at least and hour to dry without touching it so it will be shiny and not get finger prints in it. It is so tempting to touch – I had to shoo away my boys a couple of times as they were about to stick their finger on it!
Greg likes pears so much some years we just give him a box for his birthday or Christmas. One year we got the fancy Harry & David(I think it is) kind and saved the box – now we just go to Costco and get pears to put in the fancy box.
Here is the list of Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Thanks for stopping by – I’m going to have a backyard update soon – new pictures and a new visitor came this weekend. It is hot out there today – I just spent almost 4 hours on the track at the high school prepping and serving 1000 hotdogs! We had some dads doing the cooking and then we stuffed them into buns, stacked them trays and wrapped them in foil. Oh my goodness I have never seen so many hotdogs – I thought the 8th grade tail-gate party I did last fall was a lot of hot dogs but this was way more!
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
Milton, Georgia
Hi! I am a Stampin’ Up! independent demonstrator in Milton, Georgia. I love being creative and want to share it with you! On my blog I will share creative ideas using Stampin’ Up! products and you’ll also hear about my family and my dogs.
I look forward to helping you get your creative juices flowing!
Lets get crafty,
Monika Davis
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