Jan 15, 2010 | Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Valentine's Day |
I made another version of my Build-A-Bear card from yesterday – this one is my “boy” version – it uses the little boy bear.
My Build-a-Bear, Bella is modeling again. The supplies are the same as yesterdays card. I tried to use more Real Red and Chocolate Chip instead of the Pretty in Pink.
The shirt and shoes are paper-pieced. I stamped the bear image using black stazon ink onto the patterned paper and then cut out the pieces that I wanted to use. In this case the shirt and then the shoes.
I used my aquapainter to color my bear – using the classic ink.
He is holding a hand full of hearts to give to someone he loves!
I have another post coming right behind this one showing a scrapbook page I made last night with My Digital Studio.
Thanks for checking in today.
Jan 14, 2010 | Build-a-Bear, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Valentine's Day |
Finally I sat down to work on a challenge card – I had intended to do it earlier in the week but the week is getting away from me. I haven’t used my Build-A-Bear set recently so I decided to pull that out and make a card that fit two different challenges again. First is the sketch challenge from the Card Positioning Blog and second the Late Night Stampers group challenge – which was to create a Valentine (I forgot about the masculine twist – so I’ll try to make a boy card to match it a little bit later).
The sketch looks like this 
And here is my card – Bella my bear is showcasing it for you! 
Stampin’ Up! Supplies used:
- Real Red card stock and ink and marker
- Chocolate Chip card stock and ink
- Very Vanilla card stock
- Close to Cocoa ink
- Creamy Carmel ink
- Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper
- Beary Best Friends stamp set
- Beary Nice Wishes stamp set
- I {Heart} Hearts stamp set
- Full Heart Punch
- Heart to Heart punch
- Aqua painter
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
This also fits the Challenge on the Create with Connie & Julie class for this week. If you are part of the class remember to leave a link to your Valentine creation on the Challenge post so you can have a chance to win a prize this week. If you aren’t part of the class yet its not too late to join – Click Here for more details. We have lots of great projects to share with you.
And I have some exciting news to share!!!
I got an email this morning from Stampin’ Up! – and this is what it said:
Good morning—and Congratulations!
I work in Shelli Gardner’s office at Stampin’ Up! and she has asked me to notify you that she has selected you as a SoShelli Creative Challenge winner, for the Neighbor Gift Challenge.
How exciting is that?!? The project I entered were the tile coasters I made before the holidays – click here to see them. If you want to go to Shelli’s blog (she’s the owner of Stampin’ Up! in case you didn’t know) and see all the challenge entries click here. Here contest is open to anyone you don’t have to be a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator so check out her latest challenge and enter your creation.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Jan 13, 2010 | Big Shot, Rub-Ons |
I get together with a group of friends every month to play a game called Pokeeno. While the members of the group have change slightly over the years there are about 4 or 5 of us that have been part of this group for over 13 years! We originally played Bunko but change several years ago to Pokeeno because we didn’t have to have a certain number of people to play. So anyway – tonight is Pokeeno night. And my friend Molly is the hostess. Her theme is Real Simple and she asked that our gift that we bring (those are the prizes for each game) be wrapped in recycled items of some sort and to keep it simple.
So my project to share with you today is my super simple wrapping idea.
I used the paper packaging that Stampin’ Up! uses for our boxes when they ship our orders. I wrapped that around my gift and tied it with a piece of Pacific Point Ribbon that I had left from last year. I used that color because my gift inside is blue and it sort of matched. I like to match.
Then to dress it up I decided to make a simple tag.
Here are the rest of the Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
- Stampin’ Up! Two Tags Die
- Pacific Point card stock (retired)
- Whisper White card stock
- Pacific Point ink (retired)
- Sweet Season stamp set
- Scallop Circle Punch
- Circle Ice Rhinestone Brad
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set
- Rub-ons – this was from a retired set.
I hung it on my ribbon with some white crochet thread. It took only a few minutes to make.
My Real Simple wrapping idea!
Thanks for stopping by today – it is still Wednesday but if you are on email updates you won’t get this until Thursday – sorry I posted it so late.
Jan 13, 2010 | Occasion Mini 2010, SU Ribbon |
I hope you are staying warm!! I know I’m trying to – I’m certainly ready for it to get above freezing again.
The Occasions Mini Catalog has started and we have a new ribbon selection – 5/8” Satin Ribbon so I’m going to do a ribbon share.
Here are all the details:
Ribbon: 5/8” Satin Ribbon
Colors: Basic Black, Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Basic Gray (there are 9 colors and 8 are pictured above)
How much will you get of each: apprx. 3 yards of each color
Cost of this share: $19 (if you pick it up at my house)
$21 (if you want it mailed to you)
Deadline and payment due: January 22nd
Please pay by check (you can mail it to me) or cash.
Ribbon Share ready for Pick Up: February 5th
I plan to package them up in one of the new Glassine Bags so you will get a sample of that too.
You can email me or leave a comment if you would like to participate.
Jan 12, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Circus, Scrapbook Pages |
I wasn’t sure what to write as a title. I don’t actually have a new project to show today. The last couple of hours I have been poking around on the new demonstrator tool that Stampin’ Up! gave us today. Our very own network to share ideas, ask questions, discuss things. There are a variety of “communities” already out there and many different discussion groups but this one is the one that is put together by Stampin’ Up! and it is very exciting. I think it will be another great resource for all of the demonstrators.
Other things I did today – got all the kids to school – yeah – finally everyone is back to their schedule – although Tyler just called and his day is done and Ryan will be home soon. So my day is ending and what did I do – I went to Jazzercise this morning – yeah for me – I really need to get back on a schedule with that. I finished uploading pictures and sent them to print at the wolf camera – now I need to go pick them up. They are for my calendar that I showed yesterday, my Christmas Advent scrapbook page and a year in review scrapbook album that I am working on. I worked on pulling down wall paper in the half bath – the forever long project of taking down that wallpaper – I think I’m half way done now. I just can’t stand on the ladder forever so I can only work so long.
So I’m back to Hmmmm……. what should I share today. Oh, I know – I have a scrapbook layout that I shared quite some time ago but it didn’t have pictures on it. I have added the pictures now so I’ll share it again. Besides that I think I have more visitors now (at least my daily numbers are up) so probably some people didn’t see it the first time anyway.
The title is “Hangin’ Out Together”. This is Tyler and his cousin Emily when they were hanging out this past summer.
The stamp set is the Circle Circus set and I stamped and punched lots of circles for this layout. Added brads here and there.
I really like how the title turned out. I used the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies. Every letter that had a closed space in the center I added a backing behind it to give the title some character. I like how it turned out and really like this color combination – Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie.
I hope you like it. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
My Build-a-Bear, Bella is modeling again. The supplies are the same as yesterdays card. I tried to use more Real Red and Chocolate Chip instead of the Pretty in Pink.
