Feb 17, 2010 | Cards, class, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Watercoloring |
So last week while I was lying in bed drifting off to sleep one night I cam up with an idea for a new class. A Quick Cards class. I had been working on my challenge card for the Create with Connie & Julie class and I was using the Happy Moments stamp set. It was hard to create only one card when there were four great images in the stamp set – so I actually made four cards and then started thinking that I could turn this into a Quick Cards class. It would be all cards, quick, simple – something for beginners or those that haven’t done much stamping or when you are short on time.
And here is my first class…
Quick Cards class - March 2nd
Quick Cards Class – Happy Moments
When: Tuesday, March 2nd
Time: 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
You are invited to join me for my new Quick Cards class. This month we will be using the Happy Moments Sale-A-Bration stamp set and doing basic Watercoloring on these quick and easy cards.
You will be making 4 cards with matching envelopes.
Please bring adhesive (like snail) and some scissors (like our paper snips).
The class fee is $10.
Please RSVP by end of day on 2/27.
I hope you can join me and come have some fun!
Feb 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper, family |
Yesterday I went to visit my parents and my brother and his family. We were trying to get together to celebrate 4 birthdays. My sister-in-law, Tammy’s was in late January, my nephew’s was last week, my mom’s is tomorrow and my niece’s is next week. Tyler and Ryan are out of school this week for winter break so they came with me and we took Haley. Kyle had to go to school and Greg went to work. As it turned out my brother was going out of town for business so I only got to say hi for a minute and I briefly saw Tammy because she was sick.
So for the 4 birthday’s I decided to make them each a cupcake box to go along with their gifts. I got my niece and nephew Build-a-Bear gift cards so their boxes were decorated with the Stampin’ Up! Build-a-Bear die cuts.
Ally’s has the girl bears and a pink lid. Noah has the boy bears and a blue lid.
I changed the boxes slightly from how I made them last year. The other design seemed to be hard to get the cupcake out because you had to reach down into the box. So I made these like an exploding box – so when you lift up the lid the sides fall down and you are left with the cupcake in the center sitting in the little stand. For these Build-A-Bear boxes the bottom of the bears are attached to the outside of the box with Stampin’ Dimensionals. That left room for the lid to tuck behind their heads and arms.
For Tammy I made one using the Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper. The colors actually matched the sweater and top I bought her – they were Cameo Coral and Summer Sun.
Cupcake box when it is open
I decided to wrap the cupcake in baggies and tie them with ribbon. It was good that I did that since 3 year olds don’t really understand the concept of keeping the box upright. Yummy, Yummy cupcakes!
All Supplies were Stampin’ Up! – the Build-A-Bear boxes used the Pawsitiviely Prints Designer Series Paper and the colors come from it – Pretty in Pink, Brocade Blue, Old Olive, So Saffron. The base of the boxes are Sahara Sand. The bears are Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa and they are cut the with Big Shot and the dies along with the clothes.
Tammy’s box is Real Red and Summer Sun and I used the Whimsical Words stamp set for the tag. Punch with the Wide Oval and then layered with two Tempting Turquoise Wide ovals.
I had one more for my mom – it was actually one I made last year and hadn’t given away – it used the Tall Tales DSP with the colors Old Olive, So Saffron and Chocolate Chip. 
It has the owl on the tag and birds on the sides.
It wasn’t a big celebration but we had it.
Late in the afternoon we had a real life version of Police Chases right in front of my parents house and we watched from the porch. There house is almost at the end of a dead end street – it ends at a camp ground that is gated shut right now for the winter and then there is the lake. Apparently the police were chasing a couple that made a bad decision when they picked this road to come down – when they got to the gate they got out of the car and ran into the park on foot. A police car was chasing them and somehow at the same instant he came in this big truck was trying to turn out of the road before the house and to do that they had to swing wide across both lanes blocking the police car – who pulled into the ditch jumped out of the car and ran down the street after these people. Apparently the girl wasn’t fast as he quickly caught her, cuffed her and brought her back up to his car. After yelling a lot at the tucker he told them to “get out of here”. Then more police came and eventually a K-9 unit came and they went on a search for the missing guy. They finally found him, cuffed him and took him away. By the time it was done I think we had 7 or 8 police/sheriff cars, an ambulance, an emergency truck from the fire station and a tow truck all lineup on the small road in front of my parents house. It made for an exciting afternoon – and I’m just glad they caught who ever it was. We were calling all the neighbors to tell them to lock their doors and stay inside – many of the people walk in the park including my parents – luckily we were there so they didn’t go for their afternoon walk. Now I wonder what those people did wrong…
Anyway…..enough rambling from me. Have a nice day!
Feb 14, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You |
Like I said yesterday I really like this Happy Moments stamp set (Sale-A-Bration set) – so you will probably be seeing it several times in the next couple of weeks. I needed a Thank You card and happen to have one of the water colored images left from my cards I worked on for my Quick Cards class so I decided to use it for my card. And then I decided I wanted to do double duty and find a challenge where I could use a circle image. I searched around and found the Mojo Monday sketch challenge and when I was done I realized it also fit the Late Night Stampers challenge – which was a technique challenge to use some type of embossing technique.
Here is the sketch and here is my card. 
I used the same colors as yesterdays card – Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. The flowers are stamped on Watercolor paper and colored with classic ink and an Aqua painter.
Two layers are dry embossed using the Big Shot on the new Perfect Polka Doats embossing folder. The patterned paper is from the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack.
I added Bashful Blue satin Ribbon and the Curly Label punch layered with the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die for the Big Shot.
On the inside is a Whisper White layer stamped with the flowers and then I stamped on the envelope to match too.
I’ll take it to the post office on Monday to send to Zoe – thanks for sharing your skinny clear bags with me!
Thanks for stopping by!
Feb 13, 2010 | Birthday, Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Watercoloring |
Last week’s challenge winners were Lisa Martz and Robin Gregor with Cynthia Stevenson having an honorable mention! Thanks to everyone that played along. I hope you will join us this week!
It is time for another challenge at
Create with Connie & Julie! This week our challenge is a SKETCH challenge. The featured items this week are from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure – Happy Moments, Tote-ally Tess, and Tiny Tags stamp sets. I decided to use the Happy Moments stamp set – it has turned out to me one of my favorite’s from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. Once I started to use it I realized this is one of those sets that covers almost any occasion – change the colors and combine various sentiments with the images and you can use it for almost anything.
Here is the sketch that we had to work with.
I picked the colors because I had some ribbon that was sitting together in my craft room – Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery – I like how they looked together so I decided to use that for my color scheme. Based on the sketch I decided to get out the Sweet Pea Designer Paper Pack and I chose papers that had those colors and cut them into 1/4″ strips to layer on my card.
As I was creating the card I didn’t like the sentiment coming off the top of the image so I decided to flip the sketch upside down.
The image is stamped on Watercolor paper and I used my Classic ink and an Aqua Painter to do the watercoloring. I added some linen thread at the top.
I also wanted to decorate the inside of the card. So I used the same image and added a “hanger” for the bird cage by tracing around a punched circle. I really like how it turned out. I actually made a full set of cards using all the images in the happy Moments stamp set. I will show that later – it will be one of my new Quick Cards classes – I’m just trying to choose the date and then I’ll let everyone know.
Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:
- Chocolate card stock and ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Bashful Blue card stock and ink
- Certainly Celery ink
- Old Olive ink
- Sahara Sand ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Watercolor paper
- Sweet Pea Designer Paper pack
- Whimsical Words stamp set (SAB)
- Happy Moments stamp set (SAB)
- 1-3/4″ Circle Punch
- 1″ Circle Punch
- Aqua Painter
- Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon
- Linen Thread
- Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
And here is a look at the rest of the Create team:
Connie
Julie
Mary
Kerin
If you haven’t checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet now is the time to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week. 
There is a new project posted every day and there will be a minimum of two fabulous tutorials each and every week. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit the Create with Connie and Julie site.
Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Stampin’!
Feb 12, 2010 | Cards, Embossing, In Colors, Occasion Mini 2010, Stamper's Club |
I LOVE this card! Love, love this technique and just don’t use it enough. It is so easy but is such a WOW when you see it – almost like magic….
It is the Emboss Resist technique. This card is almost an exact copy of a card on the Stampin’ Connection site (for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators) posted by Shannon West. I made really only two changes – the sentiment on the card since I didn’t have the one that she used and I put my card on a Soft Suede card base, her card was the white card as the base. Personally I don’t like to use the white or vanilla as my card base since it isn’t quite the same thickness as all the colored card stock. But that is just a personal thing for me – other people use those for the base of the cards all the time.
The little strip on the card is a piece of Soft Suede card stock created with the Faux Suede technique (convenient that the card stock was named the same as the technique). You can’t really see it in this photo but it has a soft texture to it.
The Vintage Vogue Stamp set works so nicely for this technique. The largest flower is the part that is embossed with clear embossing powder. Then it is sponged with the Soft Suede ink and that is what makes the flower pop out on the card.
Just a simple, elegant card that would work for many occasions. This was one of the cards we made at Stamp Club.
Guess what? We have SNOW coming down. I know….many people have had tons of snow and the snow we get would be nothing but we don’t get snow very often and it is actually snowing right now – I can look out my craft room window and watch it. The grass/trees/porch/roof and cars are starting to get covered. The streets I think are just wet because the temps are still above freezing right now. I’m waiting on school to get out so I can get the boys and have them home. Hopefully in about an hour we will all be home. Anyway it isn’t a big deal for most people but when you rarely get snow it makes it a big deal to us! I need to get some pictures of our Georgia snow.
Have a great weekend! Stop in tomorrow for my challenge card for the Create with Connie & Julie class.
Happy Stampin’ in the snow!
