Jan 5, 2010 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Valentine's Day |
It’s here! The second edition of Create with Connie & Julie, where we will be featuring products from the amazing Occasions Mini Catalog and Sale-A-Bration brochure and I am honored to be a guest designer for this edition.
To see the Preview Week Projects or to find out how you can WIN a FREE subscription to
Create with Connie & Julie go visit the site today!
Here are some sneak peeks at projects posted this week – Visit Create with Connie & Julie to see more about them.
Mary's Preview Project
Connie's Preview Project
Julie's Preview Project
Cute stuff! Also visit Kerin’s blog today she has another project and it is her day to give away a free pass on her blog.
I worked last night on cleaning my craft room and started to write a post on “How to Clean a Craft Room” for fun – but then decided who would want to read that. I’ll have to take some pictures when it is clean – I did take one when it was messy (you know creativity at its best). Maybe I’ll post that later.
Thanks for stopping by!
Jan 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You, Thank You Kindly |
So today I took a break from Valentines – well actually I did a Valentine project this morning but I’ll be posting that one on Wednesday – make sure to come back. But this afternoon I worked on a non-Valentine’s project. I also tried another sketch challenge – called Mojo Monday. I see this mentioned all the time in our yahoo groups where we share our projects but I haven’t tried it before. So this is my first Mojo Monday sketch attempt….here is the sketch
and here is my card….
instead of the brads I used a greeting in that spot.
I used four new Stampin’ Up! products: the Garden from the Heart stamp set, Satin Ribbon, and the Scallop Trim Border Punch, and the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack. All of these are available to order beginning tomorrow – January 5th.
Here is a complete list of Stampin’ Up! products that I used for this card:
- Garden from the Heart stamp set (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Thank You Kindly stamp set
- Taken with Teal card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Chocolate Chip ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Watercolor Wonder Crayons: Earth Elements, Rich Regals
- Aqua painter
- Big Shot die cut machine
- Scallop Circle #2 die
- Circle Scissor Plus and Glass mat
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Chocolate Chip satin ribbon (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Linen Thread
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
I’m going to like this new gardening set. And I do have it in the new Clear-Mount version which worked so nicely on the new Stampin’ Up! Clear blocks. I cut the white circle first and then stamped the image – it was easy to position on the circle with the Clear-Mount option. Happy Stampin’!
Thanks for stopping by!
Join me for Create with Connie & Julie – sign up today! This week we are giving away Free passes to the class – each team member has a different day that they are giving away a free pass so make sure to visit each day to see who is giving away a pass. Just a hint – you really should stop by my blog on Wednesday…..
Jan 3, 2010 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon, Valentine's Day |
I just made this quick Valentine card for a sketch challenge on a new blog I found called Card Positioning Systems. Sometimes when you are creating you need a little jump start and a sketch can often help. Here is the sketch for the challenge:
It is a very simple sketch so that makes for a quick card. I decided to do a Valentine card since that is what I had on my craft table. In fact – I only used items I already had out on my table. So it made the card even faster since everything was ready to use. Note to self: Goal for 2010 – try to do a better job of cleaning up after you are done with a project so your room doesn’t turn into such a mess.
Ok – on to my creation –
What do you think – quick and sweet isn’t it? And I used four new products from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel; Well Scripted Stamp set; Chocolate Chip 5/8″ Satin Ribbon; and Pretty in Pink Corduroy Buttons.
I am trying to take some of my photos outside on my back porch. The sun was already setting and it is windy today so I had to hold the card and snap a quick photo and grab it before it blew away – it took me about 4 tries to get a picture of it. I wanted to try the natural outside light and see how my pictures turn out. What do you think?
Thanks for stopping by!
Join me for Create with Connie & Julie – early bird pricing through January 3rd – so sign up today! This week we are giving away Free passes to the class – each team member has a different day that they are giving away a free pass so make sure to visit each day to see who is giving away a pass. Just a hint – you really should stop by my blog on Wednesday…..
Jan 2, 2010 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Thank You |
Here is a sneak peek at some new products from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack and the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt pieces.
Didn’t this turn out so cute?
Here is my list of Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack
- Sweet Pea Stitched Felt
- Taken with Teal card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock, ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Whisper White card stock
- Family Phrases stamp set
- Tombow multi-purpose adhesive (to glue on the felt)
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
You will be able to order from the Occasions Mini Collection beginning January 5th!
Join me for Create with Connie & Julie – early bird pricing through January 3rd – so sign up soon!
Jan 1, 2010 | Scrapbook Pages, Stamps |
Gosh – it’s a new year – it is really 2010! I told my husband this morning that this is the year our oldest son will graduate high school and really start college (he is already attending the local college for his senior year classes). It will be the year our middle son gets his driver’s license. It will be the year our youngest son starts high school. I guess we are getting older or family is quickly growing up. This should be an exciting year for us!
It was almost a year ago was when I started this blog – it will be my one year blog-iversary (is that a word) – later this month. Llooking back on this last year of my blog – I thought I would pick some of my favorite projects from each month of this last year. I’m so thrilled with how many people view my blog and wish I knew who you all were… and I know everyone hasn’t followed me from the beginning…thanks for visiting it makes me happy to read the comments that everyone leaves. Thanks so much and Happy New Year!
January 2009
February 2009
March 2009
Mr. Turtle
April 2009
May 2009
June 2009
July 2009
and one more (I couldn’t decide between the two)
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
Have a happy and healthy new year!
Join me for Create with Connie & Julie – early bird pricing through January 3rd – so sign up soon!
