Aug 29, 2009 | Catalogs |
At convention they told us that the most popular stamp set from the new catalog is the Medallion background stamp. It is a single stamp for $17.95 and is part of Shelli’s signature collection. 
This blue card is my version of the card that Natalie Travis designed for our shoebox swap. The reason I say it is my version is that I kind-of-sort-of didn’t exactly follow the directions – not once but twice – so I did use both sides on my card stock. Not that it was that big a deal – she had her medallion on the top left corner of the card and the words on the bottom right and mine is the opposite. I was just thinking backwards that day…..
This Dusty Durango card is another swap card I received but there is no name on the back so I don’t know who made it. And now that all of my swaps are together in one basket I’m not even sure where I got it from – it could be from the Shoebox Swap or the STARZ meeting Swap or just from general swapping. I thought it was very pretty in the earth tone colors.
Have a great weekend.
Aug 28, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, class, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, Summer Fun Cookout, Wanted |
Stampin’ Up! created a Summer Cookout Kit to sell the past few months. It is still available until the end of August and it is now on sale for $14.95 (40% off) and the refill (all the consumable supplies) is $9.95. At convention we were able to get a free refill with a certain purchase amount at Memento Mall. So I had my refill and a couple of my roommates gave me there’s too. Why – because Tyler’s birthday is this weekend and I wanted to plan a summer cookout theme party for him. But then he decided he did not want to have a birthday party after all – so now what to do with all the supplies. Since my scrapbook class was this week I decided instead I would try to turn this Summer Cookout Kit into a scrapbook layout – so my challenge was created – use the pieces from the kit to create a two page 12×12 layout…
The kit included the die-cut pieces for the invitation – including the skewer, food wrappers that were like tissue paper, coasters, tent cards, die cut tags, and linen thread.
So I got busy planning – colors in the kit are Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Ruby Red and Night of Navy. There was one problem that I ran into – all the die cut pieces for the invitation had pre-printed words and holes in them that I didn’t necessarily want in my layout. Solution – tuck the words/holes under something or put something over them. The only thing I didn’t use was the envelope – although I considered creating a hidden journaling pocket – the envelope could have been covered in the tissue paper, and there was one die-cut piece I didn’t use – I think it is supposed to be a piece of meat – it just looked strange to me. I even added all the little circles that were left from the holes – kind of a confetti sprinkled on the page. It turned out to be kind of a busy page (which is not normally what I end up with) and I don’t have my pictures on it yet. So here it is:
I added card stock – Bashful Blue, Ruby Red, Night of Navy and So Saffron. I added buttons in the same colors. The skewers are tied on with the linen thread at the bottom of each page – I used my paper piercer to poke holes through the page and then tied the linen thread through it. The Bashful Blue and So Saffron coasters were punched with the small star punch – those were glue around as needed to cover holes and add accents. The background is stamped with the Wanted stamp set.
To create the title I glued a piece of the tissue paper to a piece of card stock – so the red tissue paper went on Ruby Red card stock and the blue on Night of Navy card stock. Then the letters were cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots alphabet dies.
When I add pictures later I plan to cut two of them with my Circle Scissor Plus to go on the coasters that are my circle mats. The tent cards were cut in half and these are picture mats – depending on the size of the picture I may leave the checked edge showing or cover it. I thought I did a pretty good job of using my kit.
So now everyone that has a kit – plan a party, take pictures and scrapbook using your kit left overs. We have something planned for the weekend (I’ll tell you about it next week) that I plan to take pictures of for this layout.
Have a happy scrappin’ day – it is raining here which is always a good day to stay inside and work on your scrapbooks….
Aug 27, 2009 | Big Shot, class, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons |
Last night was my scrapbook class for this month and we had a great time. It turned out the be the perfect night for being inside with friends – why? Because a storm came through – thunder, lightening, and rain – so what else is there to do….
I had a full house in my little craft room this time – if my class grows bigger I’ll have to expand to two rooms. Everyone said they loved the pages we made. The first layout was based on a scrapbook page that was featured in our monthly Stampin’ Success magazine. This is the magazine that all Stampin’ Up! demonstrators receive each month. It has information on new products, promotions, techniques, ideas, business topics and recognitions for demonstrators through out the company. So this time there was an article about punch art and they showed an 8×8 scrapbook page. I really liked it and I also like punch art so I decided to expand the page into a 2-page 12×12 layout for my class. Here is the result:
This morning when I woke up I had an idea of something I forgot to put on this page. So if you came last night and wonder where the little worm came from – I added him this morning. If you want to add one I’ll punch you some circles – that’s all he is – a bunch of circles – I think I used the little 1/2″ punch – and give it to you next time I see you.
This morning I added my pictures to it. I still need to add journaling which I plan to do at the bottom in the grass. These are pictures that I took in July when Greg and I went on our anniversary trip. We were in North Carolina and we hiked part of the Appalachian Trial and these are some of the pictures I took along the way. See the red mushroom on the left page that looks like someone took little bites out it. Well I saw it on the hike up the mountain but didn’t take a picture of it. After we got to the top – the picture of me is when I’m resting at the top – I decided that I did want a picture because I didn’t see anything else like it on the rest of the trail. So going down I searched for that mushroom all the way back so I could take a picture – I found it! I know I’m weird like that.
Anyway back to the page – the mushrooms and flowers were shown in the Stampin’ Success magazine. I made my lady bug differently, then added the turtle (idea from Heather Summers Simply Punches class), the worm and the die-cut butterflies. The title is also die-cut with the Big Shot. The background is direct to paper technique where you drag the end of the ink pad across – it gives the look of wood planks and then we added “nails” with the marker. This page used lots of punches and not really any stamping. We just used the ink to sponge the mushrooms, flowers, grass, and butterflies. The buttons in the center of the flowers are Playground Buttons. The main colors used on this layout are Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Creamy Carmel, More Mustard, Real Red, and Whisper White.
It turns out the Late Night Stampers challenge this week is punches – so I’m going to go enter this layout into the challenge. I’ll show you our other layout tomorrow – let’s just say I set a personal challenge and I think it was accomplished – come back tomorrow to find out what that was…
Have a great day!
Aug 25, 2009 | Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages, SU Ribbon |
Here is a scrapbook page that my niece, Emily, created. How creative is she? I think I need to recruit her as a demonstrator as soon as she is old enough….
This is an 8×8 page that she just put an assortment of Designer Series Paper strips, ribbon, buttons and staples on.
She added the doodles with a fine tip marker around the edges – all hand-drawn.
Let’s see if I can point out all the Stampin’ Up! supplies that she used:
- Going Gray card stock for the base
- Designer Series Paper from Summer Days Simply Scrappin’ Kit
- Designer Series Paper from Walk in the Park pack
- Rose Red 1/4″ Grosgrain ribbon
- Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot ribbon
- Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon
- Baja Breeze Striped Ribon
She added various buttons that are not Stampin’ Up! And used staples too.
Great job Emily!
Have a great day today!
Aug 24, 2009 | Scrapbook Pages |
We have made some changes to the WOW Scrapbook Kits blog and kit offering. Hopefully the changes will make it easier to find the information you need about each monthly kit and layout and how to order. We are also adding some new ordering options and will be posting to the blog more frequently with tips related to scrapbooking, stamping and Stampin’ Up! products. These tips will start tomorrow on 8/25.
- Stampin’ Basics – will have tips and information related to stamping
- Scrappin’ Tips – will have tips and information related to scrapbooking
- Tool Time – will feature a Stampin’ Up! tool
Hopefully you will find the information useful and come back to visit our blog each week. Go take a look at wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com to read all about the changes and what we currently have available. A new September Wow Scrapbook Kit will be available after Sept. 1st.
Happy Scrappin’!
