May 3, 2010 | Big Shot, Blog Candy, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2010 |
This week on Create with Connie and Mary we are having a “Tropical Party”! Every day during this week the team has created a project using the items that coordinate with the tropical set, die and paper! Mary found the footnote flip flops at a local store and just KNEW they would be PERFECT for a special project! And since we just HAD to do something with them…we are sharing them with YOU!
Leave a comment on the blogs below on the given day and be entered into the drawings to win one! Each of us have two to give away. Would you like some ADDITIONAL CHANCES TO WIN? Well…I’m guessing YES! SUBSCRIBE to Create with Connie and Mary during THIS WEEK and be entered into ANOTHER drawing to win one of TWO that we are giving to just our NEW subscribers this week. Already a subscriber and want another chance to win? Participate in the sketch challenge that we posted this past Saturday and two lucky challenge participants will have the opportunity to WIN! Here’s the schedule…
Monday – Mary Brown – Stampercamper’s Corner
Tuesday – Connie Babbert – Inkspired Treasures
Wednesday – Kerin Slyvester – Stamps, Paper, Glitter!
Thursday – Monika Davis – Stamping Together at Monika’s Place
New Subscribers – May 3-7
Challenge participants – May 1-7
So…what are you waiting for? Visit the blogs on the days above and leave a comment. Go to the Create with Connie and Mary site and JOIN this week and be entered to win. THEN…for all subscribers, participate in this week’s challenge for still ANOTHER chance to win! Easy as can be! We hope we can send one of these cute flip flops to YOU!
Winners will be announced for everything on Saturday, May 8th. To find out if you are a WINNER…you need to check the Create with Connie and Mary site no later than Friday, May 14th and send us your mailing address. Good Luck!
May 2, 2010 | Blog Candy, Create with Connie & Mary |
First…These are the winners for the Create with Connie & Mary Subscription – NOT my BLOG TOUR winner. The tour is not over yet – it runs through Monday night.
We would like to start out by thanking everyone who visited our personal blogs and the Create site and took time to leave comments about our projects! It is always sooooo nice to know that you are getting inspired by what we ‘create’! Each of us used random.org to pick the winners on our blogs and here on the Create site.
IMPORTANT: You have ONE WEEK to claim your free subscription (we must hear from you NO LATER THAN Friday, May 7th at 11:55 pm EST). You must contact us (you can use the ’email us’ button on the blog) and give us your email address so that we can give you the user name and password so you can access the blog. Don’t worry, once you receive your user name and password you will have access to all the projects even if you don’t contact us until the beginning of the week.
Okay…enough of all that…and now FOR THE WINNERS….
From Mary Brown (Stampercamper’s Corner) … Judy DiScipio
From Connie Babbert (Inkspired Treasures) … Sandi Dailey
From Monika Davis (Stamping Together at Monika’s place) … Sherri Power
From Kerin Sylvester (Stamp, Paper, Glitter!) … Liz Miller
And the two from Create with Connie and Mary … Martha Ludeking AND Carol Haffner
Remember to redeem your FREE subscription to Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition, you MUST contact us by Friday, May 7th at 11:55 pm EST). Congratulations to all the lucky winners!
May 1, 2010 | Cards, Colored Brads, Create with Connie & Mary, Summer Mini 2010, Watercoloring |
Good Morning and Happy May! It is Saturday and time for the first Challenge at Create with Connie & Mary!
I hope you enjoyed the preview week projects – I know I did. To see the winners of the FREE passes please visit the Create with Connie & Mary site. Congratulations to all the winners – I’m so glad you are joining us!
This week our challenge is a sketch challenge. The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog – Elements of Style stamp set, Presto Patterns Designer Series Paper, Mostly Vintage Stencil and the Rough Type Alphabet stamp set. My choice was to use the Elements of Style stamp set. I actually made two different cards for this challenge using the same stamp set and same colors. One follows the shapes of the sketch and the other is a different interpretation without the rectangular shapes – it is what I call a loose interpretation – I’ll show you both versions – and you can see if you see the sketch in the second one.
For the first card I started with a Garden Green card base. I added a Sahara Sand rectangle down the right side – stamped with Garden Green and sponged the edges with Sahara Sand. There is a Ruby Red scalloped trim on the right edge. The focal point is actually a 3×3 square – so you could use that portion of this card as a 3×3 card if you needed it. The roses are stamped in Black StazOn ink and water colored. The Hummingbird is inked with Stampin’ Write Markers and then cut out and popped up.
The greeting is inside a piece of the Hodge Podge Very Vanilla hardware. I colored my hardware Ruby Red so it would match my card and stand out more than the vanilla color.
This is how I colored my hardware – first I covered the hardware with Ruby Red Craft Ink. Then I covered the ink with Clear Embossing Powder. Use a heat tool and heat the embossing powder just until it melts. I hold my hardware with a pair of craft tweezers – it will get hot and the heat tool is hot and you don’t want to burn your fingers. Don’t overheat because the vanilla finish underneath can burn if it gets to hot and it turns rusty colored.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Elements of Style stamp set
- card stock: Garden Green, Ruby Red, Sahara Sand, Whisper White
- ink: Garden Green Classic and Stampin’ Write marker, Ruby Red Classic and Craft and Stampin’ Write marker, Black StazOn, Sahara Sand Classic and Stampin’ Write Marker, Black Journaler
- Vanilla Hodge Podge Hardware
- Clear Embossing Powder
- Heat Tool
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Aqua Painter
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
And here is my other card – 
most of the supplies are the same as the first card with the following differences. The roses are stamped on Watercolor paper twice – one full piece is layered on the front of my card and the second set I cut out the larger flowers and mounted them with Stampin’ Dimensionals on top of the matching flowers for a 3-d effect. The roses represent the vertical rectangle in the sketch. I stamped the hummingbird and cut it out – it represents the horizontal rectangle in the sketch. The hardware is the same. Can you see the sketch in this card?Check out what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge:
Connie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Mary site yet it isn’t too late to do it! We feature new Summer Mini products every week. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Mary site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Apr 29, 2010 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Cards, Embossing |
I am so excited to welcome you to the ROYAL BLOG TOUR!
I hope you are excited to be here!
I will go back to my regular posting schedule after the tour – this post will be at the top of my blog until the tour is over. I will have a Create with Connie & Mary Challenge Post on Saturday – so scroll down below this one if you want to see that one. Create with Connie & Mary winners and new blog candy are posted below this one so scroll down if you want to see those.
On the tour you will visit Princesses from all over showing you different styles of stamping and different stamp sets.
Have fun on the tour!
My featured Stampin’ Up! stamp set is the Herb Expressions (#113224) set! This set offers images from four different herbs – Thyme, Basil, Rosemary and Lavender along with four sayings that coordinate with each one. I have Thyme and Rosemary growing in my yard – lots! I have created three projects to show you during the tour I hope that you enjoy them.
Project 1 – Set of Cards in a Box
This is a set of 4 cards in a clear box. The colors I used are Kraft (the new Crumb Cake), Soft Suede, Certainly Celery and Lavender lace.
Each card uses one of the four herb images and on the inside I added the coordinating quote.
I used the Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon along with the Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon on each card and the box. A Certainly Celery Button and some Linen Thread finish the front.
Check back on my blog next week to see each card in detail and a full supply list. I can’t show you everything today because I want you to have time to complete the tour. You can sign up for email updates by clicking on the link to the right and then you won’t miss it.
Project 2 – Herb Seed Journal
My second project is an Herb Seed Journal. This is based on the design of a matchbook. I originally created a small version of this project (I’ll be sharing that in the future) for something else and decided to adapt the idea to this. 
The inside consists of pockets made from the Glassine Bags in the Occasions Mini Catalog. Inside each pocket I have a card that includes places to keep track of your seeds and a packet of seeds. I created the journal card using My Digital Studio.
I included 4 pockets – one for each of the images in the stamp set. You can keep the seed packet and the journal card in the pocket so that the following year you’ll know what you bought, what you did, what worked and what you need to change so you will have lots of herbs.
I will have more information on this project later next week and more pictures for you to see – so be sure to come back. I need to move on to my next project now.
Project 3 – Flower Pot
When I first decided to use the Herb Expressions stamp set for this tour I had this idea in my head to stamp on a flower pot. I went through several pots and several different ways to get the effect that I wanted. I also made a plant marker which needed to be waterproof so it couldn’t be made out of paper. I was very happy with my end result. If you want the details on how I made these please come back to my blog next week and I’ll posting the instructions.
Inside the pot is a bag of potting soil tied with ribbon and a tag and a packet of seeds. I think this little flower pot would be a great little teacher gift – tell the teacher thanks for all the “thyme” they spent with your child this year. I did something similar years ago when my boys were younger.
I hope you liked all these ideas. Come see me again and leave me a comment – you have the chance to win blog candy!
I’ll be giving away Blog Candy after the tour is over. You must live in the US to win the blog candy – but you can leave me a comment even if you don’t. Here are the details on how to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and if you are demonstrator or customer and which project is your favorite.
2. Sign up to receive email updates from my blog – there is a link in my side bar on the right-hand side of my blog .
Blog Candy prize:
Picture This stamp set (wood mount), Botanical Blooms stamp set (wood mount), and the consumable supplies to create the card box project and the herb seed journal project featured in this post.
The winner will be announced on my blog after the tour and I’ll also send the winner an email.
And don’t forget to visit the main Royal Blog Tour Blog – if you didn’t start there it is the start of all the Royal Tours and has the details on the Royal Blog Tour Blog Candy. Along each tour there are clues for a chance to win a BIG SHOT die cut machine or other prizes! That’s very exciting so be sure to read the rules on how to enter. Good Luck!
Your Royal Carriage awaits you please click on the Glass Slippers to continue your journey!
Thanks for stopping by!
Apr 29, 2010 | Blog Candy, Blog Tour, Create with Connie & Mary |
Here is another tile coaster that I made last week. I was preparing for the Royal Blog Tour and playing around with the Herb Expressions stamp set at the same time I was working on the designs for my tile coaster class.
With the four images in the stamp set these would make a nice set of coasters. The corners are stamped with the Elements of Style stamp set. It is the vine image from that set.
The images are stamped with the Old Olive craft ink and then I added a little bit of Lovely Lilac with a marker to the flowers before I added the clear embossing powder over all the stamped images.
If you ‘d like the instructions and box template see my earlier post – HERE. Be sure to come back between Friday and Sunday to join the Royal Blog Tour and see the other projects I made using the Herb Expressions stamp set. Each demonstrator on the tour features a different stamp set – there are 6 legs to the tour – take one or all six – its up to you!
Would you like to WIN a subscription to Create with Connie and Mary? Each of our team members will be giving away subscriptions on their blogs this week. To enter to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on our team member’s blog on the day that we are featuring them. Today, Thursday, you can leave a comment over on Create with Connie and Mary in order to get a chance to win one of six FREE subscriptions! Don’t leave it here…you must leave it on today’s post over there!
And for Friday you need to visit Kerin’s blog to leave a comment for a chance to win one of the free subscriptions!
All the winners will be announced on Saturday, May 1st! If you are a winner and have already subscribed, we will refund the price of your subscription!
Thanks for stopping by today.
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – don’t miss out!
I’m also a princess on the Royal Blog Tour: April 30 – May 3rd – visit my blog to take the Royal Tour.
