Aug 11, 2009 | Blog Tour, Circle Circus, Circle Scissor Plus, Contest Winner, Stamps |
What a way to start the day….. I was up early getting the boys out the door to school and checked my email. I had an email that said this:
Congratulations! Shelli has chosen you as one of the winners for her SoShelli.com Happy Birthday Creative Challenge! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us!
I had to read it more than once and then see who sent it because I couldn’t believe it. WOW! I was excited! What an honor to have Shelli personally choose one of my projects – I just can’t believe it! 
Click HERE to visit Shelli’s blog for the announcement.
Click HERE to go to my original Royal Blog Tour post where this card was featured.
Click HERE to go to the tutorial on how to make this card.
Thanks for all the support and encouragement I get from everyone!
Several people have asked which stamp set I selected as my free set – I decided to get For All You Do – I saw so many beautiful projects made with the set while I was at convention that I fell in love with it.
Now that I am back from convention I am working on my August Class Kit to Go so it should be ready soon.
I had two orders come yesterday with my ribbon for the ribbon share and DSP for the paper share so I’ll be getting that ready too.
Have a wonderful rest of the day!
Aug 10, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Up! Events |
I am home from convention. We learned SO MUCH and saw SO MANY new ideas it is going to take weeks to digest all that information.
I am so tired and I came home with a cold too. So my head is groggy today and after the boys got on the bus I actually climbed back in bed and went back to sleep. I really can’t remember the last time I did that. Once I am up I always try to stay up. I spent the past couple of hours working on some volunteer stuff for the high school marching band. I still have to unpack.
The convention was the best – just like it is every year. It was so much fun seeing the new ideas, talking to old friends and meeting new friends, stamping projects at our make-n-takes, swaps and group meeting and then in our room each night. We had some awesome meals and tried a few new restaurants as well as eating at some old standbys. We have committed to trying out some more new ones next year. Over the next weeks I’ll be sharing swaps and projects from convention – I have so many it will take that long to share it all with you.
Today I’m going to share the project I created for our Roommate swap. There were 4 of us in our room and we started this last year and decided to continue again this year – we each brought one project to share with everyone in the room so Friday night was our Roommate swap.
I had two projects – a Scratch pad holder with a matching pen and the chapstick butterfly. The butterfly idea was shared by another demo, Julia Betten
court, from the UdderlyAwesome group. The butterfly is the largest one on the Beautiful Butterflies Die for the Big Shot. It shows on the die as only half the butterfly and you need to fold your paper and place it on the die to cut. The chapstick is wrapped with a coordinating piece of Designer Series paper – I used sticky strip to adhere it. Fold the butterfly in half and punch a hole with the 1/8″ handheld punch a little bit in from the fold. Thread the ribbon through and tie around the chapstick in the front. Isn’t it cute?
The scratch pad holder is the same project I did for teacher gifts at the end of May so I already posted that earlier. The inside papers are stamped with the new hostess set called Of the Earth – it is a level 1 set. The ink is Summer Sun. The Designer Series Paper is the Pink Flamingo paper. The daisy die was cut twice with Summer Sun card stock and there is a white jumbo grommet set in the center of the flower. These little scratch pads are quick and easy to make.
I’ll share more about convention later. I have lots of pictures to download so that I can show you some of the highlights.
Happy Stampin’!
Aug 9, 2009 | Blog Tour, Circle Circus, In Colors, SU Ribbon |
This card is the one I featured on the Royal Blog Tour and also used as my project for the STARZ meeting at convention. We held our meeting on Wed. night and there were 5 of us that presented projects for everyone to make. The Tile Card was mine and here are the details on making this card:
Supplies:
- Stamp Sets: Circle Circus, Elegant Thank You
- Inks: Soft Suede
- Paper: Soft Suede, More Mustard, Very Vanilla
- Other: Paper Cutter with cutting & scoring blade, Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig.
Instructions:
- On 3” x3” piece of Very Vanilla card stock score every 1” in both directions creating a tic-tac-toe board. Fold on the score line and drag across the Soft Suede ink pad to create the lines. Also drag the outer edges of the square to add Soft Suede ink.
- Use a stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the image from the Circle Circus stamp set using Soft Suede ink inside each of the squares. Also stamp one on scrap piece of Very Vanilla and cut out the inside portion to attach with a Stampin’ Dimensional over the center image.
- Adhere the Very Vanilla piece to the More Mustard piece. Use Stampin’ Dimensionals to add to the front of the Soft Suede card base. Position towards the top to allow room for the greeting.
- Stamp “Thank You” in Soft Suede ink on the bottom of the card.
- Tie Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon around the left edge of the card at the fold and tie in a knot.
Today is Sunday and I am on the plane back from convention.
Hope you have a happy weekend!
Aug 8, 2009 | Christmas Punch, Designer Series Paper, Embellishments, SU Buttons |
I did make a Christmas Card as one of my convention swaps. This card uses the new Christmas Punch Level 2 Hostess set. 
You might recall I made a little box of Tags a while back when I first got this set – click here for that post. Well this card is modeled after that box. I think I may go back and add the snowflakes to the tag box because I love how they turned out on the Kraft card stock.
The strip is Old Olive card stock and then the Chocolate Chip Patterns Designer paper. The stamp is stamped in Old Olive ink and fits the Wide Oval punch. I punched a 1-3/4″ Old Olive circle to put behind it. I added the little brown flower button from the Button Latte set – it has linen thread tied through the center. This is actually a very quick Christmas card to make.
It is in the high 90s most of the week in Salt Lake City. That is where I am for the Stampin’ Up! Convention. I’ll be home Sunday night with tons of new ideas to share!
Think Cool Thoughts!
Aug 7, 2009 | Big Shot, Chipboard, Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Up! Events |
My Room mates at convention this year are the same as last year:
- Sue is in my downline and lives in Georgia, we are traveling together to and from convention
- Michele is from Iowa. I met her at my first convention when we decided to room together never having met each other.
- Diane is also from Iowa. I met her last year when the four of us decided to room together.
We exchange room mate gifts each year and I always want to think of something unique. It’s not always easy – and I was running out of time….So this year I kind of have a combo room mate gift – something new and something old that they have probably all seen before. But in any case I’m sure they will be pleased.
Since this post is going up while I’m at convention I will have already given the girls their gifts and don’t need to hide them. Both of these projects I have previously posted – one is a bag tag – I made myself and OWL tag – click here for the original post – so that I could be identified as part of the Late Night Stampers group. My tag also won the Late Night Stamper’s Owl contest – I’m not sure I ever posted about that – if you are part of the demo only group my tag is on the main yahoo page for the group. If you see me around convention I hope you will say hi. Michele is also a member of the LNS group so I decided to make her an Owl tag also. Ours have the “LNS” on the front and our names on the back. And then ultimately decided to also make a tag for Diane and Sue – their tags use the chipboard birds. My original tag uses the retired Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series papers so I had to find a different paper to use for the new tags so it would all be current product – I decided on the Tall Tales Designer Series Paper and thought the tags turned out cute! I hope you like them.
The base of the tag is cut from the Long Board chipboard pieces using the Big Shot and the Top Note Die. I also cut the designer paper for the front and the back using the Top Note die. The paper is attached with the Anywhere Glue Stick. The names are die cut using the Billboard Alphabet strip. I colored the chipboard pieces using Sponge Daubers and Craft ink.
Diane's Bag Tag
Michele's Bag Tag
back of tag
The second little gift I am giving the girls is the little game night box that I gave to my leadership conference roommates. I know they have all seen the project already because it was the one that won the stamping challenge in January. So you can see it here at this post.
Sue's Bag Tag
If I’m lucky this year’s convention bag will match my tags. But probably not. Every year we get a bag with all of our stuff inside. So with thousands of demonstrators carrying the same bag – you have to put a tag on it so you can make sure you keep up with your own. I’m excited for us to put these on our bags!
I glued all the pieces on with Crystal Effects so they should not come off.
I’ll let you know how they hold up.
Happy Stampin’!
