Dec 14, 2009 | Big Shot, In Colors, Occasion Mini 2010 |
I finally played with my new Stampin’ Up! stuff yesterday! And here is the first card that I made and my first time ever to use a clear-mounted stamp. I have only used would mounted so far – but the feel of the clear block is so nice – the grooves on the sides – on all four sides – instead of just two like the would blocks. I think I’m going to like them.
I love how this turned out! I used the sketch from the Stamping 411 blog for this week. 
The sketch card is tall and mine is turned to be a wide card but the basic layout remains the same.
I choose the colors Soft Suede and Crushed Curry – why – basically because I had a scrap of Crushed Curry lying on my craft table when I wanted to try out my new Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die. This new Die will be available in the Occasions Mini Catalog which starts on January 5th. After I cut the butterflies I remembered that the Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper has a pretty piece in it that was mostly Crushed Curry – so I pulled that out. One of my favorite cards that I made this year was a convention project that we made at our STARZ group meeting and it used that same Designer Series paper and the Soft Suede – so I decided to stick to that color scheme for this card.
I sponged all the little butterflies with Crushed Curry ink to give them dimension. And added a piece of cross-stitch thread around the body of the large butterfly – although looking at it in this picture Linen Thread would have given the same look and a very similar color. So pretend it’s linen thread….
I pulled out my new clear mount stamp set called Well Scripted – this will also be available on January 5th in the new Occasions Mini Catalog. It is one of my favorite sets from the mini – beautiful script for all the basic occasions. I mounted it on a clear block, inked it with Crushed Curry ink and stamped it on Whisper White card stock. I punched it out with the Wide Oval Punch and sponged the edges with Crushed Curry ink.
I also punched out a 1-3/4″ Circle out of Crushed Curry card stock to put behind the greeting. It was sponged with Crushed Curry ink also.
To assemble the card – fold the Soft Sued in half to form the card base. Add the Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series paper strip at the bottom. I added a piece of Crushed Curry Polka Dot ribbon – tied in a knot. The greeting was put over the ribbon with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I added the butterflies – the largest one with a Stampin’ Dimensional, the smaller ones with some Tombo Multipurpose Adhesive.
Finally I decided to get out my Spritzer tool and my In-Color Markers – I spritzed with the Soft Suede on the upper portion of the card and with the Crushed Curry on the lower portion, the greeting and the large butterfly.
I hope you like my card – I have lots more fun stuff to play with so check back again. Have a wonderful Stampin’ Up! Day!
Dec 14, 2009 | Big Shot, Christmas, class, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
Holiday Tags & More Class
When: Friday, December 18th
Time: 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
Join me for my monthly Hands-on Stamping Class.
This month we are making two sets of Holiday gift tags, a fancy favor box and a cute ornament using the sweet treat cups.
These are fun projects that I know you will love!
Please bring adhesive (like snail) and some scissors.
The class fee is $15. If you place an order of $50 or more you will get $10 off the class fee.
Please RSVP by 12/16.
I hope you can join me for this fun class! You’ll be ready to finish up your holiday wrapping!
Email me at [email protected] if you would like to attend.
Dec 13, 2009 | Christmas, family, Stamper's Club |
I made these little snowflake tins last week to give to the girls in my Stamp Club when we had our meeting Friday night.
I used small squares tins that have the window in the lid. The base of the tin was wrapped in a strip of the Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog. The lid is wrapped with Very Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon. I used the Tombo Multipurpose adhesive – the liquid glue in the green bottle to attach both the paper and the ribbon to the tin. I added the little ribbon knot with a mini glue dot.
I used the Snowflake punch and punched three snowflakes – one in Very Vanilla, one in Chocolate Chip and one in Taken with Teal. I punched a hole in the center of each with the paper piercer and also in the center of the window. I used a silver brad through the center of all three snowflakes and then put that through the lid.
On the inside I used my Clear Scallop Square Bigz Die to cut pieces of wax paper to line the inside of the tin and then added my little holiday pretzel treats. When I made the treats I used red and green M&Ms because I originally planned to decorate the tin in red and green. But then switched to the browns and teals so I should have gotten a different color of M&Ms for my treats. Oh, well, this time they just won’t match.
The pretzel treats are really good – the right combination of sweet and salty and very easy to make. I use the square shaped waffle pretzels – lay them all out on a tray in a single layer. Turn the oven on to a low temp 160 or 170. Now put a Hershey’s Kiss on top of each pretzel (unwrapped from the foil). They used to sell unwrapped kisses during the holidays but I wasn’t able to find them anywhere this year. So I had to unwrap all the kisses – that takes the longest.
Set the tray in the oven for about 6 minutes. Take it out and press an M&M into the top of the Kiss. If you can’t press it down then stick the tray back in the oven for another minute or so until the kiss is soft but still has it’s shape. When you take them out then work quickly to press an M&M into the top of each kiss. Then I take the whole tray and set it in the fridge for them to cool and set up again. My kids love them and you can make them for any holiday by changing the color of the M&Ms on top.
For the late night stampers group – we have a challenge to post a project every day for 12 days – the 12 days of Christmas Challenge. We have to send the ideas to the group so this is my Day 3 project. For Day 1 it was the movie ticket holder I posted last week and for Day 2 the scallop square fabric bags that I posted earlier.
Thanks for stopping by. I started playing with some of my new stuff today and will hopefully have some creations to share next week.
Oh – one more thing – this is family related. I just found out last night from Kyle (my oldest son) that he has an interview today (that is where he is now) with MIT. It is part of the application process. He tells me this at 7 pm because I need to find him a blazer, dress pants and dress shoes to wear to the interview. A little more notice please would have been nice…so I remember the very helpful man that found a jacket for Tyler to wear to the Homecoming Dance and since I was short on time I checked to see how late that store was open. Luckily on Saturday night they were open until 9 and we headed down there. We got there just before 8 – luckily Kyle was able to wear a jacket off the rack with no alterations needed, and the seamstress was still there to hem/cuff his pants – they did that while we waited. They had shoes in his size too. I wasn’t planning on that expense right before Christmas but I did want him to look nice and now he’ll be set for awhile for anything else he may need to dress up for. I hope he does well!
Dec 12, 2009 | Christmas, Decor Elements |
I received my order earlier this week with the Vintage Ornaments Decor Elements. I ordered 2 sets – Chocolate Chip and Real Red. Originally I was going to put them in my front bay window so you cold see them from outside, but then I decided if I did that then I couldn’t see them and they are really pretty and I wanted to see them every day. So I decided instead to put them on the big picture window in my kitchen. It didn’t take long to put them up. And here is the result:
During the day I can still see through to the back yard and at night when it is dark outside I can still see the ornaments on the glass. I’m very pleased with how they turned out and the were easy to put on the glass. I washed my window first with window cleaner and dried it. Then cut apart the pieces from the big sheet and decided where i wanted to position everything. The very first ornament I placed with a full length of the string so for that one I first put up the string – it is the long skinny Chocolate ornament – and then put on the ornament. I did use a small level to help me get everything straight but I still don’t think it is perfect. For the rest of them I first put on the ornament and made sure they were all higher than the first one I did – except the smallest of the Chocolate ones (he went up last). I added all the string pieces by trimming them to the length I needed. Then I used a full string plus an extra piece cut from one of the others to make the longest string for the small Chocolate ornament. You can’t even tell that it was two pieces.
When using the Decor Elements use the applicator tool to burnish the Grid side of the paper first. You want to transfer the vinyl image to the sticky paper – so it is the grid paper that you pull away. If it doesn’t transfer completely when you pull it away just lay it back down and burnish some more – or try removing it from a different side. Once you remove the Grid paper don’t let the vinyl curl up on itself – or you’ll have a big problem. Then carefully position where you want it and burnish it so that it transfers from the sticky paper to your window or wall.
Have fun with your Holiday Decorating!
Dec 11, 2009 | Create with Connie & Julie, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
I wanted to share this funny photo of my dog – Magnolia – from a couple of days ago. Right now during the Holidays our UPS delivers our packages using a Golf Cart – I’m going to try to get his picture but I haven’t yet. Earlier this week we had another downpour day of heavy rains. Unfortunately heavy rain and packages on a golf cart don’t work so well together. UPS did leave the box on my door step wrapped in a plastic bag – but it must not have been that way the whole time it was on the cart because the box was still wet when I took it out of the bag and set it in my foyer. I went to throw away the plastic bag and returned to the foyer to find this…….
Magnolia was doing her best to lick all the water off of my Stampin’ Up! box! It was funny – I tried to get a picture from the other side but she stopped once I walked around her – I wonder if it tasted good?
Speaking of boxes – I got two boxes today – my pre-order items from the new Occasions Mini Catalog and Sale-A-Bration Brochure are here! I’m so excited to see it all and start playing with it. Over the next few weeks I’ll be working on projects for the Create with Connie & Julie class that starts in January. Click below to get more details on the class, sign up, meet the team and see some preview projects. I’m a Guest Designer and very excited about it! I hope you’ll join us.
