Jul 16, 2010 | Bleaching, Cards, Embossing, Thank You |
Just a quick post today. Thursday was the first day or orientation at Ga Tech – I learned lots of information – I hope Kyle did too. We were together for parts of the day and apart for others. Today is the important stuff – like registering for classes and getting a student id.
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
Wendy and her family have moved to Saudi Arabia – they left on Thursday. I wish them the best in their new adventure and safe travels where ever they may go. We will be in touch regularly as I help her with keeping the STARZ group connected. I’ll be including the STARZ group in my downline meetings so if you live near me I hope you will join us.
I didn’t get anything done on my convention swaps since we were gone all day Thursday and I’ll be gone most of Friday too.
I’m officially a Ga Tech Mom!
Jul 12, 2010 | Chipboard, Stamper's Club |
I saw the cutest purse at my friend Wendy’s house earlier this year. She said it was a project that they made at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference that was held in January for qualifying Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. I did qualify to attend but the trip didn’t fit into my schedule this year. I do plan to attend in 2011 in Nashville, TN and would love to have some travel buddies from my downline or sidelines so make sure you set your goals toward this. I attended in 2009 in Orlando, FL and it was wonderful – much smaller than convention and Stampin’ Up! treats us so well with catered lunches and lots of surprises.
So on to this project – I took a picture of Wendy’s but didn’t actually get any instructions of measurements so mine may not be exactly the same as the one they created. We made this as a Stamper’s Club project a couple of months ago. Unfortunately several of the products that I used have not retired from the catalog but you can still create this using current products. Just use new Designer Series Paper and cut your chipboard to the size that you want your purse to be.
The front decorations are the stamp set called For All You Do – the flowers and butterfly are hand cut – I always like the look of that and I know some people don’t like detailed cutting so you could stamp directly on the front of the purse. I like the dimension that is added by cutting them out and popping them up on dimensionals.
Everyone added a monogram to the front – I actually cut it out of a white coaster so that it would also have dimension to it. I think the original ones from leadership are just white card stock.
Thanks for visiting today!
Jun 5, 2010 | Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Decor Elements, Smooch Spritz techniques, Stamper's Club, Summer Mini 2010 |
Hey everyone it’s Saturday and no I don’t have another challenge card for Create with Connie & Mary. The summer session of posting new projects and challenges has ended. But if you are looking for some GREAT ideas on how to use your summer mini stuff, you can still subscribe for $24.95 and have access to ALL the GREAT ideas that were shared.
And guess what Connie & Mary are continuing to do weekly challenges that are open to everyone! They will be posting on Thursdays – and the first one was this week. I hope you’ll visit the Create with Connie & Mary blog and try to play along. I will when I can fit it in.
So on to my card for today. Last night was my Stamper’s Club meeting – we normally make three projects – 2 cards and a 3D. This was one of the cards we made – it looks so much harder than it is. The card was designed by my friend and upline Wendy and uses several products from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog.
It has a masculine look to but also looks elegant and vintage at the same time. So i think you could use for a variety of things – Father’s Day, Anniversary, etc.
The card base is Basic Black – which is a little hard to see in the photo because it kind of disappears into the background.
Then you need two Whisper White pieces – one for the front and one for the inside so you have a place to write. So here is a fun technique that you can do with the Smooch Spritz . Use a plastic project folder like you use for a school report – spritz inside the folder – Silver Foil – you could also add the gold if you want. Close up the folder and smoosh the spritz around a bit. Open it up and lay the two pieces of white card stock back to back inside the folder. Close it again and smoosh the spritz on to the card stock. Take the card stock out and you have the marbleized looking pieces. Each person will get a different looking piece.
Then add the Decor Elements stencil to the front – the stencil is called Mostly Vintage and it is in the Summer Mini. Use a Stamping Sponge and Jet Black StazOn ink and add the stencil to the front of the card. Remember to pounce the sponge and don’t rub or you will bend the little pieces of the stencil.
To finish add one of the little vintage tags that are in the Summer Mini. I hope you like it.
May 27, 2010 | Flower for All Seasons, Inspired by Nature, Scrapbook Pages |
I am here. Only one more day of school for Ryan and Tyler – well not even a whole day just part of a day. And Kyle has been done. He had graduation practice this morning and tomorrow night is graduation. I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by. I’ll need to do some more scrapbooking for him to finish his books. But for now I’ll be sharing some other things.
I had a fun scrapbook class on Wednesday and this is one of the 2-page layouts that we made.
I used the stamp sets Flower for All Seasons and Inspired by Nature – don’t you just love the grass you can use it for so many things. The original layout is from an earlier month of Wow Scrapbook Kits. It was originally made as a birthday page in pinks and blues. The Wow Scrapbook layouts are easy to adapt to other themes using different colors and stamp sets. Right now we have tutorials for sale and some completed pages. This is a joint venture between Wendy and I. Wendy is currently planning to move so we are doing some spring cleaning and selling completed Wow Scrapbook pages. Visit our blog – wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com – to see what we have out there right now. And come back later as more gets added.
Have a wonderful day – I need to decide what pictures I want to add to this layout. I love the little frog and the butterflies. The colors are Ruby Red, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. The images were watercolored with an Aquapainter – I have a couple of close up pictures to show you.
I hope you like it – I thought it turned out to be a happy page and could be used for many different things.
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
May 20, 2010 | Scrapbook Pages |
Wendy is doing some spring cleaning and went through all of the WOW Scrapbook layouts that she has created. We pulled all the completed assembled pages that have been on the WOW Scrapbook Kits blog over the last year. I am adding them to the site for purchase – these are completed hand-stamped 2-page 12″ x 12″ layouts. Just add your pictures and journaling. CLICK HERE to go the WOW Scrapbook Kits blog.
Below is one page of each layout posted so far – but check back because there are more coming – and these are limited quantities so don’t wait if you see something you want.
Baseball 
I Love You 
Egg Hunt 
Beach Combers 
If your are looking for scrapbooking tutorials we have a whole years worth of layouts to choose from so come take a look at our WowScrapbookKits blog.
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
