Mar 5, 2010 | Birthday, Build-a-Bear, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Watercoloring |
Monika’s March Madness Mystery Hostess Birthday Celebration!
Well that was a mouthful! Now what does it mean….
Today, March 5th is my birthday and I have decided to celebrate with all of you – its madness.
All Stampin’ Up! orders that are emailed to me from Friday, March 5th through Sunday, March 7th will be entered into a Mystery Hostess Drawing –
So if the combined orders total $150 or more then I will draw a Mystery Hostess (or 2) to receive the hostess benefits.
AND
I will pay the shipping (10%) on everyone’s orders
AND
You can qualify for Sale-A-Bration rewards if you order over $50 in product!
Email me your order and/or your questions to [email protected]
Happy Birthday to you!
The birthday card above is one that I made for Tyler to give to his girlfriend – her birthday is tomorrow. Tyler said it was going to be hard with my birthday and hers right together. He was invited to go with her family today. But decided to stay with us for my birthday tonight and spend the day with her tomorrow. Although I think it was maybe the fact that we are having steaks tonight that swayed him. Tyler made a rum cake for me yesterday it should be good tonight!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for the Happy Bearthday Card:
- Brocade Blue card stock and ink
- Pretty in Pink card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Pawsitively Prints Designer Series paper
- Beary Best Friends stamp set
- Beary Best Wishes stamp set
- Jet Black StazOn ink
- Creamy Carmel and Close to Cocoa Ink
- Stamp-a-ma-jig
- Aqua-Painter
Thanks for stopping by today!
Mar 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages |
More pages from my Desktop Calendar – Here is October – without a picture on it – not sure what to use on it yet – halloween dress up is really not happening at our house any more so I’ll have to find something else for the month of October.
The pumpkins are made with punches – can you tell which ones? The wide pumpkins are the Wide Oval, then the 1-3/8″ circle, then the Small Oval. The skinny pumpkins are just the circle and the small oval. I sponged the edges of all the punched pieces so you can see the “sections” of the pumpkin. The stem is the Modern label Punch and the leaves are the Little Leaves Sizzlit for the Big Shot.
October Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Old Olive card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
- Scallop Trim Border punch
- Wide Oval punch
- 1-3/8″ Circle punch
- Small oval punch
- Modern label punch
- Big Shot Die Cut Machine
- Little Leaves Sizzlit
- Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
- Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
- Chocolate Chip ink and marker
- Stampin’ Sponge
Happy Stampin’!
Mar 3, 2010 | Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Thank You, Wildlife |
This card was created by Wendy Randall for some swaps. I got one at our group meeting in January but I don’t think I ever shared this card here on my blog.
Now that most of our snow is gone from yesterday it is time to focus on Spring – come on Spring – I am ready!!
I love the little bird cage stamp in the Happy Moments stamp set – this is one you can get for Free during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration.
Wendy created a pole for the bird cage to hang on and the bird is singing “thank you, thank you, thank you”. The pole is two pieces – the curved piece comes from one of the die cut alphabets and then she cut a straight piece the same width. The little piece of ribbon hides the spot where they are joined.
The faux wood background is something Wendy uses a lot – to create this look pull your ink pad across your card stock – this is called the direct-to-paper technique. Then using a Stampin’ Write marker add little nail heads here and there to create the illusion of wood planks.
A cute card!
Here is a quick peek at what the Bluebirds were doing this morning – 
I found Mr. Bluebird inside House #2. I checked later on to see if they had started a nest in there, but not yet. Maybe he was just taking a closer look. This was the house they used last year so maybe it is the one they are leaning towards. Hopefully they will decide soon and start to build. Last year it was around the middle of March.
I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Mar 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Bleaching, Scrapbook Pages |
It is another Snow Day here in Georgia – yep another one – this has been the winter for snow all over the US – I think everyone has had more than normal. The schools closed early – Tyler and Ryan are already home. Kyle is on his way – I hope he gets here safely with no road troubles. The streets in our neighborhood were already getting slushy a couple of hours ago. And the snow hasn’t stopped since about 8 this morning – it was mixed with rain in the beginning but not right now.
So in honor of another Snow Day I’ll share my SNOW DAY scrapbook layout with you!
We made this layout at my Scrapbook class last week. The snow flake is from the Season of Friendship stamp set and stamped in Very Vanilla Craft ink randomly on the background. The background is Chocolate Chip. 
I used Bashful Blue Patterns Designer Series paper for the wide strip and for the scalloped strip on each page.
The Jumbo Snowflake punched was used to punch snowflakes for each page – 1 in Chocolate Chip, 1 in Very Vanilla, and one in Close to Cocoa. The title is cut on the Big Shot with the Simple Letters Alphabet Dies – these are Chocolate Chip and are also stamped with the snowflakes. The are attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop them up off the page. I added a piece of Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon on the ‘O’ and the ‘D’.
The fun part was the snowmen – I cut a piece of Close to Cocoa card stock with the Top Note Die and the Big Shot. On each I stamped the Snowmen from Holiday Lineup in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder.
Then to make the snowmen “white” I used an aquapainter filled with Bleach! The bleach removes the color from the card stock and turns it into a vanilla color so they look like snow men. It was fun – you may need to go over them more than once to get the color that you want and make sure to use fresh bleach.
I plan to add pictures of the dogs – Aspen and Magnolia – playing in the snow when we had our last Snow Day – it was the light fluffy dry kind of snow. What we have today is wet snow. I hope you like the page – I really liked how it turned out.
Have a fun SNOW DAY!
Mar 1, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Demonstrator, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Ribbon Flower, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon |
On Sunday afternoon I had a group meeting with the Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators in my PAWS group. Not everyone was able to come but the ones that did had a great time. I would love to have more people join Stampin’ Up! and be part of my group and this is a great time to do it. During Sale-A-Bration (thru the end of March) there is a special on the Starter Kit – 15% off plus you get an extra FREE stamp set. I joined during Sale-A-Bration the year that I signed up so I could get the extra stamp set – I was able to pick the most expensive one in the catalog at that time – I don’t think the kit was discounted that year though.
Anyway at our meetings we talk a little business, share ideas with each other – Lisa brought a bunch of cute decorate milk cartons using the new Big Shot die from the Occasions Mini catalog. And of course we do some stamping. One of the cards we made was what I guess you would consider a fancy fold card – it is called a Tri-Shutter card. I designed this one using several products from the Occasions Mini catalog and the Sale-A-Bration brochure. This was a fun card and not nearly as hard as it looks. I’m thinking about using this as a Stamper’s Club project for our March meeting – not this exact design but this style of card.
Here is the card when it is folded closed. It has lots of different panels and you could decorate each one with various things.
For the whole card the base is Old Olive card stock, each layer is Taken with Teal card stock and on each panel I used various pieces from the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pack.
On the front panel I added a ribbon flower. This was easy to make using our Double-Stitched Grosgrain ribbon. You cut a length of ribbon (short piece creates a smaller flower), then pull the white stitching on one side to gather the ribbon in the center – I pulled from both ends until it was tight and then tied the white thread into a knot and trimmed the excess. I just overlapped the two ends – since the flower is gathered you can’t really see where the cut ends are unless you look for them. I used a Jumbo Glue dot to attach the flower to the front of the card. Then used another Jumbo Glue dot to add one of the little circle from the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt Flowers. A stitched felt leaf was added under the flower.
I also cut some butterflies using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit for the Big Shot – these are in Pumpkin Pie. The tiniest one is glued to the ribbon flower. Two of the others are glued on the panel next to the flower.
When you pull the card open you can see some more of the panels. The far right one matches the front minus the ribbon flower. For the bottom panel I added a piece of Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon.
One view shows all the “front” facing panels.
And the other view also shows you the “back” facing panels including the large one in the center. Here I added a bird punched with the new XL Two-Step Bird Punch. And then stamped with the Whimsical Words stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure – I used “you’re to Kind” for my card. This would also be fun for Mother’s Day, a birthday or Thank you. You could do more decorating on each panel and stamp some more too. My top panels that look really plain in these photos actually have the paper with the clouds on them so it is supposed to be the sky part of my card.
I also used the Scallop Trim Border punch from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. I didn’t realize just how many products I used from that were SAB and from the Mini – 2 Sale-A-Bration items and 5 from the Occasions Mini.
Have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by – if you have time leave me a comment – I love reading them!
