Feb 14, 2011 | Birthday, class |
Happy Valentine’s Day to you! I hope you are having a special day. We really celebrated on Saturday night so today is just a normal day. The builders are outside working on the sun-room, deck, and siding. Tomorrow the painters should be here and then we’ll be approaching the end of the project – I hope. I am planning to have my Hands-On class on Friday. I do have some inside painting that has to be done but I’m not going to let them do it on Friday. If you have been to my house you know we had several spots of water damage in our ceiling from various things over the years – shower leak, over flowing toilet, over flowing sink, flooding rain through a leaking window – they have just multiplied and finally we are getting them fixed. Since we had someone hanging sheet rock in the sun-room and painting we just added on fixing the inside ceiling and repainting it too. This has definitely been an evolving project. Enough rambling – on to my birthday class – here are the details – if you live near me you are welcome to come….
Friday, February 18th – Birthday class
10:00 am and 7:00 pm
Come join me for this class featuring birthday themed projects.
We will make a cupcake box, a chocolate treat, and some birthday cards. See some of our projects in the picture above.
The class fee is $15.
Please bring snail adhesive and paper snips.
RSVP by end of day February 16th so I can have materials ready for you.
I hope to see you there!
Jan 2, 2011 | class, Occasions Mini 2011, Sale-A-Bration 2011, Stampin' Up! Events |
2011 is here! Are you ready for a fun and exciting new year? I know I am! I hope that you will join me for some stamping fun this year. Here is a look at what I have planned for January 2011….
- Tuesday, January 4th – OCCASIONS MINI CATALOG 2011 starts
- Friday, January 7th – Stamper’s Club – Hostess is Sabrina.
- Jan. 12 – 16th – I’ll be away at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference
- Tuesday, January 18th – Stamping at the Ronald McDonald House
- Friday, January 21st – Hands On Class – Valentine, Hearts and Love
- Saturday, January 22nd – PAWS Downline/Demonstrator Meeting
- Tuesday, January 25th – SALE-A-BRATION 2011 starts – earn FREE Stampin’ Up! products
- Tuesday, January 25th – KSU Card Club – Hostess is Kathy
- Thursday, January 27th – Towne lake Card Club – Hostess is Leslie
- Friday, January 28th – Scrapbook Class
- Sunday, January 30th – My Digital Studio Class
If you would like more information on attending any of my classes please let me know.
Nov 14, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Christmas, class, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010 |
November 2010 Class Reminder
Holiday Stamp-A-Stack class
We will make four different Christmas Cards and you will be making 4 of each with envelopes.
I also have a slight change to the date – the evening class will be THURSDAY NIGHT at 6 not Friday. I will still have a Friday morning class at 10. Because we are making a large number of cards the class fee is higher.
This will hopefully help you get a stack of cards that you can have ready to send out to friends and family.
6:00 pm on Thursday Nov. 18th
And
10:00 am on Friday Nov. 19th
Come join me for this class and get a jump start on your Christmas cards.
The class fee is $25.
Please bring snail adhesive and paper snips.
RSVP by November 16th so I can have materials ready for you.
Last night I had a downline/demonstrator meeting at my house – it was so much fun and the swaps were awesome, the make&takes wonderful and I was so thankful for everyone that helped me and everyone that came. I’ll be sharing more about the make&takes and swaps next week. I spent the day getting ready for the meeting and it was late when we were done so my post today is late – but here is the next Bingo piece…………
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
And now for today’s piece – Here is piece #12 –the gift box from Family Accessories stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz). 
Anybody have Bingo? Make sure you send me an email when you get your 5 in a row. 
Oct 29, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Christmas, class, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010 |
One of the great things about the Stampin’ Up! Regionals is the WOW demonstrations by our fellow demonstrators. For every regional Stampin’ Up! selects demos to come and present a WOW idea on stage. We saw six different WOW demonstrations at the Baltimore Regional. This idea was presented by Deb Paise. She made her card and then put the whole thing in an embossing folder and ran it through the Big Shot. She made one card that looked just like a knitted sweater when it was done. Deb showed us several examples that day.
My sister-in-law and I played with the idea when we got back to her house that weekend and here is one of the cards that we created.
The front panel is Old Olive with strips of Jolly Holiday Designer Series paper. Then that whole panel is put inside the Square Lattice Embossing Folder and sent through the Big Shot.
The Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding is wrapped around the panel and tied in a knot. The panel was attached to the front of a Cherry Cobbler card base. The ornament from the Tags til Christmas stamp set from the Holiday Mini Catalog – stamped on Very Vanilla card stock and punched out with the ornament punch. Some Linen Thread was tied around the top of the ornament and it is put on the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I liked the results of how the embossing folder really embeds the designer paper into the card stock making it look like it is all one piece. Try it for yourself – I think you’ll like it. We made this card at the KSU card club class earlier this month.
I also decorated the envelope and the inside of the card.
If I have a dark colored card base like this Cherry Cobbler I usually add a neutral panel to the inside for the message. This one is Very Vanilla.
My November Hands On class is going to be a Holiday Stamp-a-Stack class. We will be making 16 cards with matching envelopes – 4 cards each of 4 different designs. My class dates are slightly different from normal. My evening class will be on Thursday, November 18th at 6:00 pm. My morning class will be on Friday, November 19th at 10:00 am. Details are on my website.
Bingo cards will be emailed out for Group 6 some time today and I’ll start calling pieces on Saturday.
Thanks for visiting me today!
Oct 24, 2010 | Bingo, class, Embossing, Halloween, SU Ribbon |
This is a fun project that I created for my Halloween class (it was last month). It is a BOO wall hanging. The letters are wood cut outs that came from a craft store. You could do the same thing with chipboard – if you use the dies from the Big Shot – it would be smaller though.
Each of the letters was covered with Craft Ink using a Sponge Dauber in the base color – Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black and Old Olive. Then I stamped with Craft Ink on each letter using the Wicked Cool stamp set. Surprisingly the ink did not dry like I thought. I started by making just one letter and when it wasn’t dry the next day I decided I needed to try something else. My solution – cover the whole letter with Clear Embossing Powder and heat with the Heat Tool. Problem solved and now they had a glaze look to them.
Then I decorated each letter with some punched pieces and ribbon. The ‘B’ uses the Decorative Label Punch, the Bat Punch, the Wide Oval Punch, and the Black Lace Raven ribbon. The witch boots are stamped and cut out and then I added the Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink to them.
For the first ‘O’ had the Basic Black Wide Grosgrain Striped Ribbon – torn in half so that it frays. Then for the tag I used the Bat Punch, the Jewelry Tag punch and the Small Oval punch. All are tied together with Linen Thread and tied to the bow. 
Also on the Black ‘O’ I stamped the candelabra’s from the Wicked Cool stamp set and then used the Moonlight Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink on each of the candle flames. It looks good in person – it gives them a spooky glow.
For the last ‘O’ I used the Decorative Label Punch, the Modern Label punch, the 1″ Circle punch (or it may be the 3/4″ inch – I’m looking at the picture and don’t want to walk upstairs to look at the real thing). The hat is stamped and cut out. 
There are actually two of the decorative label punches – one goes around the back of the letter and then the two are held together with the brads.
My goal was to attach everything to the letters so they couldn’t fall off. The tag on the ‘B’ is tied on with the lace ribbon, and the first ‘O’ is of course the ribbon tied around. So for this one I used the punched pieces with the brads.
At the very top I added a bunch of ribbon tied in a knot around the hanger. It turned out to be a fun Halloween decoration – I have mine hanging in my kitchen.
So how about Bingo – I’m looking for a new winner – is today going to be the day????
Let’s play for today ….
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #13 –the 
cupcake from Cute by the Inch stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
