Mar 16, 2009 | family, Punch Art |
Hi Everyone!
Today wasn’t quite the day I was planning on. Kyle was sick this morning and didn’t go to school. I took him to the doctor and he has some viral infection that has given him all these painful sores in his mouth. And Greg ended up at home all day – not because he was sick but because he had to go in for a conversion at work last night and didn’t get home until 3 am. So he slept in and then worked from home. He also decided today was the day he would switch out my computer. So this afternoon and evening he has been trying to get it all set back up for me with all the software and my email and stuff. And I realized only a little while ago that I wasn’t getting all my Stampin’ Up! emails – so now I got that fixed and I think I’m all back up and running. So far this computer is faster that the old one. I did realize my photo catalog is missing so none of my pictures were in my photoshop organizer when I went to look for them tonight. I’ll have to fix that tomorrow. And I’ll work on more tomorrow to make sure I’m not missing anything else. Right now my old computer is still connected too; so if I need something from it I just switch my screen over to that one. It’s kind of wierd – two computers running on one monitor. Right now I have 2 keyboards and 2 mice on my desk so I can work with the one I need.
Anyhow the picture above is one that I took at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. I thought this would be the perfect project to share with you today since tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. I’m sorry that I don’t know who created him but she was at the Leadership conference in Orlando and was nice enough to let me get a quick picture. He is made out of punches – tag punch, word window, scallop circle, 1-3/8″ circle, looks like the 1/2″ and 1/4″ circle too. The belt is either the square punches or they might just be cut. There is a candy bar on the inside. A cute treat to share with your kids tomorrow if you have the time!
This reminds me of the year when Tyler was in 2nd grade and at school the sneaky leprechaun’s would come into the classrooms while the kids were out. This particular year I think happen to also be some other activity going on in the school so all of the kids desks were pushed together on one side of the room. While the kids were out of the room to lunch or somewhere I snuck in and moved all the desks so that I could stick a Leprechaun treat inside and then pushed them all back in place before the kids got back. Later in the day when they all moved their desks back to where they should be they were so surprised to find treats inside – they were convinced that little leprechauns snuck in and hid them because only someone small could have gotten to the desks since they were pushed together. They were so funny! Anyway – that is always what I think of on St. Patrick’s Day. Now Tyler is in 10th grade so that was quite some time ago.
I hope you have a great St. Patty’s Day – wear green and find some GOLD at the end of your rainbow!
Speaking of rainbows – here is a card from Leadership – this was one of the demonstrations from the Stam
pin’ Up! employees showing us new product from the catalog – this one uses the Sticky Cuts Sweet and the new fine glitter.
Have a Happy Day!
Monika
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www.monika.stampinup.net
Mar 15, 2009 | SU Ribbon |
March 2009 Ribbon Share
Everyone loved the Ribbon Share from February and now it is time for the March Ribbon Share.
Read on for the details.
March 2009 Ribbon Share
1” Double Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon and 1-1/4” Grosgrain Ribbon
All images Stampin’ Up! © 2009
Ribbon: 1” Double-Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon
Colors: Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red
Ribbon: 1-1/4” Grosgrain Ribbon
Colors: Pink Pirouette
How much will you get of each: apprx. 2 yards of each color
Cost of this share: $11 (if you pick it up at my house)
$13 (if you want it mailed to you)
Deadline and payment due: March 27th
Please pay by check (you can mail it to me) or cash.
Ribbon Share ready for Pick Up: April 10th (if it is earlier I will let you know)
Please send me an email if you would like to participate.
[email protected]
Thanks!
Monika
Mar 15, 2009 | Retired Stamps for Sale |
In case you haven’t noticed I have been adding some new stuff to my blog. I have added several new pages – the main pages are listed on tabs at the top of the blog, but if you look at the right-hand side bar you will find the Main Pages and any sub-pages that I created. Here are some of the new ones:
Retired Stamp Sets For Sale (which will be updated as I add things and sell things) – take a look here and see if I have anything you are looking for. I have more to add – I just haven’t gotten it all typed in.
Helpful Information
– DMC Floss Colors
– Designer Paper Colors
I also added a new page under About called Awards & Recognition. I know there isn’t much on it but everyone has to start somewhere so I may as well start keeping a list.
I will be adding more in the future. And if you have any suggestions please let me know.
Happy Stamping,
Monika
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www.monika.stampinup.net
Mar 13, 2009 | Card Games, class, Game Night, Stamps |
This is my prize bucket I made. I had this oval shaped tin for another project that I never completed. I used the So Saffron ribbon from the Sale-A-Bration Ribbon Bundle and wrapped it around the tin. I stamped BIG WINNER, GAME NIGHT and the card symbols and punch them all out with the word window – this is the same little detail that was hanging on the card box. I added just a touch of adhesive to the end so these would stay spread out. I tied them to the ribbon with a piece of the silver cord.
And here is the last project – it was another card using the Card Games stamp set that matches the Game Ni
ght set. I saw the idea to use the round tab punch as a card holder on someone else’s blog but now I can’t find it anymore. I found that I liked this set stamped in VersaMark ink and embossed with black embossing powder. This card could be used for a variety of things – use the King on the front – it says “King for a Day” and it could be a Father’s Day card or just a manly birthday card. The Queen says “Queen of Everything” and the Jack says ” You Make me Laugh”. You could also leave off those words by not inking that portion of the stamp. We used the new Jumbo Brads that come in the neutral colors – Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Silver. These come in two sizes and this is the smaller size.
At the class we spent time practicing the knot tying on the ribbon. We decided the trick is getting your fingers to hold the ribbon in the right place. It is hard to tell someone how to do it – so I tried showing it and explaining it at the same time. I would try to take pictures to show you but I need both hands to hold the ribbon and I’d have to get someone else to take the pictures – no one is here to do that right now – maybe on another day I can get that done.
Ryan didn’t get to present his creation at school yesterday – he should be doing that today. So I’ll write about that later.
Have a fun weekend!
Monika
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www.monika.stampinup.net
Mar 12, 2009 | class, Game Night, Stamps |
Game Night was alot of fun even though there were only a few people. I think I might have another game night in a few months. In between projects we played Pokeeno and the winner got a prize from my prize bucket. I actually made a prize bucket that matched all the prizes I showed yesterday. I found a metal tin that I had bought for something else and never used. I’ll share a picture of that and the fourth project that we made tomorrow. Today I wanted to show a closer picture of the Game Night projects that were part of my class submission to the Stampin’ Up! contest that won in January. I don’t think I shared the close up pictures of each project earlier. We made all three of these projects last night. If you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator the instructions for all three are on the demonstrator website for you to download – look in the Demonstrator Ideas section.
First is the invitation. I call it a flip-flap card — I don’t really know what else to call it. I saw this flap idea at leadership on a card that my upline, Wendy shared with me. The Saffron flap is attached to the back and flips out to the side and reveals the part that says “you are invited to game night”. The card then flips open from the top to reveal the party information on the inside. This could just be a regular card for a birthday or something else. I have had some people ask where the poker chips come from – those were just punched from the Jackpot Designer Series Paper – and so where the little card symbols – diamond, heart, spade and club – although you could use the stamp that has those on there too. All the other pieces are stamped and cut out – they are all in the 
Game Night stamp set.
Then there was the easiest project – the coasters. Just cut 4×4 squares of the Jackpot Designer Series Paper. I use the Anywhere Glue Stick and cover the coaster – position the paper and trim the corners. We covered both sides of the coasters and then used the Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in the corner and tied some Red Hemp Twine through to hold them all together.
And my favorite was the little card box which is actually where the whole idea started. My sister-in-law showed me a box at Christmas time that held cards and envelopes. And somehow – I can’t even remember how – I ended up creating this little card box – it holds a full size deck of cards, a small notepad and a small pencil.
I was so happy with how the box turned out that I had to add some more projects to it and create a class. You could use the box for other things but I sized it perfectly for the purpose of holding the cards since I was using the Jackpot Designer Series Paper.
The Word Window punch works great with this set – I used it to punch out BIG WINNER and GAME TIME and the little stamp with the card symbols.
So it was fun evening. And afterwards I had to help Ryan try to get his project finished. Ryan was up well past midnight and then early this morning trying to get it done. I will show you his newest creation in another post – probably tomorrow – so I can hear how his presentation went at school today.
Have a great rest of the day!
Happy Stamping,
Monika
www.monika.stampinup.com
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