Jan 11, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper |
Happy Monday! I wish I could say that I’m home alone and everyone is back to school and work – but that is not the case. School was cancelled again today – it would help if our temps would get above freezing so all the ice would melt. Very unusual for us to stay below freezing for more than 1 day and it has been I think 5. That is the problem we get a little snow, then we get a little sun and it melts and then it freezes and we end up with roads covered in sheets of ice. All the main roads are pretty driveable but the secondary roads, neighborhoods and school roads apparently have enough ice to close school again today. We are at the south end of the county so while we are probably all good here the northern part of the county isn’t. Tyler and Ryan did get to give Kyle a hard time because he did have to go to school today. Maybe tomorrow everyone will be on a normal schedule.
So enough rambling….my project I want to share today is from my Desktop Calendar class. I had the class on Dec. 30th – but half of the class was sick so I had it again the first week of January. I’m working on adding all the pictures to mine – I hope to finish that tomorrow. So today I’ll just share one month that has a picture and I’ll show you the rest later.
June calendar page
This 2010 calendar uses the Stampin’ Up! Days-To-Remember Calendar on page 159 of the catalog (#104144). There are 2 pages for each month – one to put a 6″ x 6″ scrapbook page on and the other is the monthly grid. All the pages are perforated and if you put them in the correct order (there is a map to follow) at the end of the year you can take them out and put them in a 6″ x 6″ scrapbook for a year in review album. Throughout the year you can have the calendar sit on your desk since it had a built in stand.
My scrapbook pages are designed to hold a 3-1/2″ tall by 5″ wide photo (or two smaller width photos). You could fill your calendar with old pictures or add them as you go along for the current year. I think I’m going to do a combination and just write a caption under each photo with the who, when, where, what information. Right now I found that Wolf Camera/Ritz Camera has 6 cents prints (3-1/2 x 5) on Tues and Wed – for 1 hour pickup. So this is what I do – I find the pictures I want to print and upload to their site and then print them on Tues/Wed. These are the perfect size for this project.
I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Paper Stack from the Occasions Mini Catalog throughout the calendar and took all the colors from those papers. Most of the months have embellishments that were either punched or cut with the Big Shot and a few are stamped. The Calendar grid uses the Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set for all the numbering. I used the Holiday Blitz stamp set on the grid to add images for the holidays and also used other stamp sets when I needed different images – the Family Accessories and Family Accessories Too sets have nice small images for this including a lot of the sports and activities that the kids do.
I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting me today.
Jan 10, 2010 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Wildlife |
If you haven’t noticed I have been trying to participate in various challenges. I figure it keeps me thinking and my creativity flowing – maybe sometimes pushes you to use/do/try something you wouldn’t normally do. A personal challenge is I always try to take what I see and make it with all Stampin’ Up! items. I am on a mailing list from one of the scrapbook magazines and received an email from one the ladies this weekend about a new blog she started and a new challenge – 52 weeks of stress free scrapbooking – now that sounded interesting so I went to check out her blog and she has week 1 scrapbook layout posted. I normally create 2-page layouts but this was a single page and the challenge is to make one a week for 52 weeks – that would certainly fill up a scrapbook for 2010 – so why not – I can do this – yesterday I worked on my week 1 layout – I changed a few things – and used all Stampin’ Up! product, of course.
The background is a 12 x 12 piece of So Saffron. Then I layered a 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 piece of Sahara Sand. I used the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper – two different patterns – the So Saffron dots and the stripes of So Saffron and Old Olive.
The circle is chipboard from On Board Batch of Blooms chipboard. I “painted” it with Old Olive craft ink and a sponge dauber. Then punched holes in it with my Crop-A-Dile. I add Basic Grey Tafetta Ribbon by threading it through the holes and typing a bow at the bottom of the circle. So now I can enter this one in the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week – which was to use ribbon.
I stamped with Basic Grey ink using the new stamp set Garden from the Heart that is in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I colored the images with my Stampin’ Write Markers – So Saffron, Old Olive and Sahara Sand and a White Gel Pen. 
For the hat I added a So Saffron flower button from the Button Latte Designer buttons – in the center I added a silver brad. Under the hat I added just a little bit of Sahara Sand with an Aqua painter to add a shadow.
I also stamped with the splatter image from Itty Bitty backgrounds and Sahara Sand ink around the corners and edges on the layout. The photos are some that I took earlier this year of a flock of Cedar Waxwing’s that came through our yard this spring. I usually see them only once maybe twice as they migrate through our area. They come in a big flock and these pictures show them enjoying the bird bath and fountain in my back yard.
I also stamped the curly label tag image and punched it out. Since I didn’t have a Basic Grey marker and wanted to use the image with out the words I used a masking technique. I covered the words with a piece of tape – then inked the image on my Basic Grey ink pad. Removed the tape and then stamped on my Whisper White card stock. That gave me the label without the words. It was punched with the Curly Label punch and then layered with a die cut using the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die. I added a Basic Grey corduroy button – with some white crochet thread (ok I had one non- Stampin’ up! item).
It is much prettier in person than in these photos. The White Gel pen really pops on the Sahara Sand card stock. I’m done with my week 1 scrapbook page – 51 more weeks to go…..
Thanks for visiting today!
Jan 9, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Love You Much, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
It’s the first Challenge for the Create with Connie & Julie – Occasions Edition class. Our challenge this week is a theme challenge – Valentines Day Cards. During our preview week we are featuring the following products from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog: I (Heart) Hearts stamp set, I (Love) Love Wheel, and the Corduroy buttons. Here is my entry for this weeks challenge:
I used the I (Love) Love Jumbo Wheel – it was wheeled on the background of the card using VersaMark ink and covered with clear embossing powder and heat set with the heat tool. This card features a heart shaped “window” that I made using sticky strip and clear micro beads. You need the love bird image (from Love You Much stamp set) stamped in Black StazOn ink (except the heart color with a Real Red Stampin’ Write marker) and colored with an Aquapainter and Real Red ink on a piece of Whisper White card stock. To get the two shades of color – color the birds once with the aquapainter and Real Red ink – let it dry and then go back over the wings again with more color until you have the desired shade. Then you need the front of the window which is made with Basic Black card stock and the Heart from the Stampin’ Up! Punch Windows Magnetic Movers & Shapers die for the Big Shot. I used the Movers & Shapers Curly Label Die and instead of cutting a full card I placed the Heart in the open area and covered it with the Black card stock. The edges of the black square are distressed with the tool from the cutter kit. Once you have these two pieces then you can create the window.
On the Whisper White card stock use Sticky Strip to cover the image – place the strips right next to each other to cover the entire image that will show through the punch out window. Next place the Basic Black card stock piece on top of the white piece position so the image shows through the cut out as desired. Place this inside a Powder Pal tray and sprinkle Clear Micro Beads on the window – pressing them into the sticky strip until it is completely covered. Shake off any extra beads that didn’t stick.
To finish the outside of the card I added small dots with a White Gel Pen around the heart and in the corners. In the top left corner of the black square I punched out with the Horizontal Slot punch and then tied a piece of the Red Polka Dot Ribbon through it. Attach the square to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To finish the inside of the card cut a piece of Whisper White card stock and punch with the Full Heart punch from the bottom corner. While it looks like I stamped directly on the back of the card I actually stamped on an extra piece of Real Red card stock and glued it behind the window. It was much easier to get it in the right place that way. I added the dots with the Real Red Stampin’ Write marker. The “love you much” is from the new Well Scripted stamp set and the small “LOVE” heart is from the I (Heart) Hearts stamp set both are stamped with Real Red ink.
To see what the rest of the team did with this challenge visit the Create with Connie & Julie site. If you haven’t signed up for the class do it right away so that you’ll continue to have access to more wonderful ideas.
Thanks for stopping by today. And you may have noticed I highlighted all the supplies in red instead of re-writing them as a list – I hope that’s ok.
Jan 8, 2010 | Big Shot, SU Buttons, Thank You |
I wanted to do some more challenges and decided to make a Thank You card. I got the Stampin’ Up! stamp set called For All You Do a couple of months ago. Whenever I saw other people use this stamp set I just loved the results. I don’t think I’ve seen anything with this set that I didn’t like. But now that I have it I haven’t used it much – I’ve been working on all the different holidays for the last few months and haven’t done much with flowers. So I pulled it out last night to use for the challenge I found. I found Pals Paper Arts and they had a sketch challenge (PPA24) and I decided to pair that with a color challenge (#105) from the Stamping 411 blog.
Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- For All You Do stamp set
- Tempting Turquoise card stock, ink and marker
- Brilliant Blue card stock and ink
- Green Galore card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Basic Grey ink
- Vellum paper
- Big Shot
- SU Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
- Color Spritzer Tool
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Playground Designer Buttons
- Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads
- Paper Piercer & Mat pack
I used the Rock-n-Roll technique on the butterfly 
– inked it with Tempting Turquoise ink and then rolled the edges in the Brilliant Blue ink. I used a small amount of Tombow Multi-purpose adhesive on the body of the butterfly to attach a piece of Vellum paper. Then I cut the butterfly out – cutting the card stock and vellum at the same time. The Tombow glue dries clear so it worked well on the butterfly. I pulled the vellum paper up for the wings.
I did realize after I made my card that the Stamping 411 color challenge was supposed to be a kids card but I missed that and just used the colors.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Be sure to visit the Create with Connie & Julie site today – Mary posted a cute project that uses the Movers & Shapers die in a new way – you won’t want to miss this one and she wrote a tutorial for the project. And the winners for the free pass to the class are in the post below this one.
Jan 8, 2010 | Create with Connie & Julie |
Friday is here and it is time to announce the winners of the free passes to Create with Connie & Julie – Occasions Edition. Thank you to everyone that visited the Create blog and all the team member blogs! We loved reading your comments and sharing our projects with you.
There are 7 winners in total.
One from each team members blog and two from the main Create Blog.
Are you ready?
Drum Roll, Please………….
Mary’s Site – Carrie Rhoades
Connie’s Site – Debbie Dutchess
Kerin’s Site – Lori Watson
Monika’s Site – Chris Austin
Julie’s Site – Sandra Hansen
Create Site Winners – Elizabeth Fortuna and Jennifer Weide.
To claim your free subscription you must email the Create Site by using the email us button on the site by Sunday night, January 10th at 6:00pm. If we do not hear from you another winner will be drawn.
If you didn’t win you can still visit the Create site today for another Sneak Peek project and on Saturday is our first Challenge. I sure do hope you’ll still join us for the class we have 8 more weeks of great projects to share!
Thanks for stopping by!
