Apr 8, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Thank You |
Hi everyone! Did you miss me? Sorry I have been MIA. I have been working on my Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award entries – nothing like waiting until the last minute. I think I get more creative with a deadline bearing down on top of me. Since Easter I have been frantically trying to finalize my last few projects, get them photographed (since I didn’t make duplicates), write the supply lists and carefully packaged to send the Stampin’ Up! So as of this morning they are on the way – postmarked by April the 10th according to the rules. Now it is time to wait – by the end of May they should have decided on and contacted the winners. I can’t show you any of the projects so you will have to wait until later – sorry. And then I shopped and packed for our little Spring Break trip. Right now I’m sitting in the mountains of North Georgia! It should be a nice few days for a little get away.
Now are you ready for a project. I created this card for last months Birds & Butterflies class. The card is an additional design to a set of cards I created for the Create with Connie & Julie class that I guest designed for earlier this year. So if you particpated in that you can add this card to my Vintage Card Kit project.
This is a long card – the ones that fit in the small open end envelopes. The card base is So Saffron 6″ x 6″ folded in half with a Chocolate Chip piece of trim that was punched with the Scallop Trim border punch. The punch was part of the Sale-A-Bration rewards and isn’t available right now but it will be back in the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog coming out in July. The Very Vintage Jumbo wheel was used on the base of the card and I also used the Color Spritzer to add some spritz to the card – you can do this just to the base or at the end so everything gets some spritz.
The Old Olive Strip was sent through the Big Shot Die -Cut machine with the Perfect Details texturz plate – I think this gives the look of lattice. I stamped the vine on it too and sponged it with Old Olive. The flowers and bird are punched from the Rich Razzleberry Patterns Designer Series Paper. The flowers are just circles that have been scrunched up. I added a yellow Rhinestone brad to the center of each. I thought these looked like Morning Glories.
I hope you like it. To create a matching envelope – use the wheel across one end and then stamp the vine.
Thanks for stopping by today! And the bluebird had 4 eggs on Wed afternoon.
Apr 6, 2010 | Cards, Stamper's Club, Watercoloring |
This is one of the cards that we made at the Stamper’s Club Meeting on Friday night. The stamp set is called 5th Ave. Floral and is one of four sets that Stampin’ Up! has on sale this month.
The flower is stamped three times on watercolor paper and then watercolored with an Aquapainter and Classic ink. Then different sections of the flower are cut out and layered with dimensionals to give it a very 3-D look. The base includes the whole flower, the second layer includes the center and four petals (the ones at 12,3,6, and 9 if you think of it as a clock face), the third layer is just the one petal in the front (at 6).
The idea behind this card and the bow were from Heather Summers a demonstrator in Canada that has various online classes – this was part of her current Simply Stamping class. The bow she calls a cheater bow because you really just fold the ribbon and then tie the button around it to create the look of a bow.
So here is a little more information about this months Stampin’ Up! special – Two-Step into Spring Promotion.
First there is a Hostess promotion – host a $350 workshop and earn a free stamp set called Awash with Flowers – a brand new set coming out in the next catalog.
Second there is a Customer promotion – you can purchase the Awash with Flowers stamp set.
Third there are four stamp sets in the catalog that are on sale for 20% off –
- Greenhouse Garden pg. 94 – sale price $20.76
- Fifth Avenue Floral pg. 98 – sale price $19.96
- Flower Fancy pg. 101 – sale price $29.56
- Trendy Trees pg. 112 – sale price $14.36
You can visit my online store on my Stampin’ Up! website to see the images – Click Here.
The bluebird laid egg number 3 yesterday. 
Thanks for stopping by!
Apr 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Easter, Occasion Mini 2010 |
I hope you are having a wonderful Easter Sunday! The weather is supposed to be just perfect today. Which is wonderful for me since I have 36 family and friends here today and I need to seat some of them outside on my screened porch and on the deck. So I always hope for nice weather on Easter. And we need to have our Easter Egg hunt outside too.
I wanted to share a couple of quick pictures of my Easter items – I’ll have more to share later but here are a couple of things –
This is my basket with all the flatware in it. I rolled the flat wear inside each napkin and then wrapped it with a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock that was cut with the Big Shot and the Two Tags die – this is the tag with the scallop at one end. I used the little flowers from the Eggcellent Eggs Kit that was in the mini and through the center is a brad – I used the Soft Subtles brads.
On the front of the basket is the other tag from the Tow Tags die and the Chocolate Bunny stamp and more flowers. Some Satin Ribbon at the top and then it is tied with linen thread.
And then I made the little 1×8 bags – filled with M&Ms and tied at the top with the Chocolate Bunny that is attached to a Scallop Circle punch out which has the Happy Easter stamped on it. I added a piece of ribbon at the top which is tied with thread at the top around the top of the bag. I made a bunch of these little treats.
I hope you enjoy your day!
Apr 3, 2010 | Uncategorized |
This card was one of the projects we made at last months Starz meeting. It uses the baby wipe technique on the big tree image and on the border image. You are basically creating an ink pad using a baby wipe. Fold it over into 4ths and set on something like the inside of a plastic lid or stamp set container. Then you add drops of reinker around the baby wipe creating a multi-color inkpad. You will want to experiment with colors – usually three colors work the best and you don’t want them to run together and make “mud” – some combination’s don’t work well together. The colors used for this card were Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Certainly Celery and Crushed Curry.
The park bench and the HELLO are stamped in Chocolate Chip. The card was designed by my upline, Wendy. The stamp set is called Pendant Park.
I’ll talk to you later….
Apr 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, My Digital Studio, Occasion Mini 2010, Upsy Daisy |
So sorry about not posting yesterday – just trying to get a lot done. So today I’ll share two cards. These are birthday cards that I received earlier this month.
This first card is from my sister-in-law, Stephanie. This is a hybrid card – she created the focal element using My Digital Studio and printed it on Whisper White card stock and then added it as a layer on the front of her card. Here is a list of Stampin’ Up! supplies that she used:
- Old Olive card stock
- Regal Rose card stock
- Basic Grey card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Sweet Always Designer Series paper (retired)
- Upsy Daisy stamp set (in My Digital Studio)
- Canvas stamp set (retired) – it is on the Old Olive background
- Garden Whimsy (in My Digital Studio)
- Fundamental Phrases (in My Digital Studio)
- Small Oval Punch
- Large Oval Punch
- 1/16″ punch
- Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon
What do you think of that? A quick way to create a card using My Digital Studio and it still looks like it is completely hand stamped card. The great thing about My Digital Studio is you can adjust the size and make images smaller. And you can flip and turn the images – if you have the Garden Whimsy stamp set the butterfly stamp is actually facing the other way – so on this card it was flipped in My Digital Studio so it would face the flowers. This would be a quick for making cards – create the focal image and print it out multiple times, cut and add to the front of your card.
And here is another card from the Utah Divas International Group – I don’t know specifically who made it because there wasn’t a name on the back of it.
The card uses just two colors – Melon Mambo and Whisper White. Here are the Stampin’ Up! products that were used:
- Melon Mambo card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Wedding Sweet stamp set
- Well Scripted stamp set
- Melon Mambo ink
- Melon Mambo Polka Dot ribbon
- Scallop Trim Border Punch
- Perfect Polka Dots Impression Folder
- Big Shot Die Cut machine
It is so much fun to see these hand stamped cards coming in the mail!
I’m off to finish up for my Stamp Club Meeting tonight, this afternoon we will be at an awards ceremony at KSU for Kyle. And Saturday I’ll be finishing up everything for Easter – my shopping is done and the house is clean (need to keep it that way though). Sunday I’ll have 36 people here for Easter lunch. Busy, busy for the next few days and then it will be spring break.
Thanks for stopping by.
This is a long card – the ones that fit in the small open end envelopes. The card base is So Saffron 6″ x 6″ folded in half with a Chocolate Chip piece of trim that was punched with the Scallop Trim border punch. The punch was part of the Sale-A-Bration rewards and isn’t available right now but it will be back in the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog coming out in July. The Very Vintage Jumbo wheel was used on the base of the card and I also used the Color Spritzer to add some spritz to the card – you can do this just to the base or at the end so everything gets some spritz. 
