Archive for August, 2009:
Christmas Punch Favor
Good morning! It is the start of a new week! Yesterday was our demo Convention Round Up meeting and we had tons of fun sharing the things we learned at Convention. But…I was exhausted last night! A full week of preparing display items, packing it up and then putting it out for display can really wear a gal out! But…we had a wonderful time and it is always good to visit with my fellow stamping demos and gather all that creative energy. As Shelli says, stamping IS about building relationships! I’m so thankful for my stamping friends!
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Here is a little favor that I made to swap at Convention this year! This was fun to make and just takes a few supplies, so it makes a great little party favor to place at someone’s dinner plate or as a small gift. Isn’t that snowman the cutest? It is from the Hostess Only Level 2 set, Christmas Punch. I just cut him out away from the rest of the tag.
Holder Dimensions: 2 x 11, score at 1 1/2, 1 3/4, 6 3/4, 7. The top flap comes down and it is closed with the ribbon.
Tip: For a window, punch the circle hole with the 1 1/4" punch in the holder closer to the 7" scoreline. Then make your wreath by punching the 1" circle and the Scallop Circle punch from coordinating cardstock. The slightly larger hole makes fitting the wreath around the circle in the holder much easier, especially if the holder circle is slightly off center.
Inside, I placed a small strip of Sticky Strip to secure my Bogdons Peppermint Sticks (find these at Costco or World Market). I only used 2 sticks to hold down the cost for Convention swaps, but you could easily fit 4. They peek thru the punch window so well!
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Sets: Christmas Punch, Teeny Tiny Wishes
C/S: Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Real Red
Inks: Bashful Blue, Basic Black (Going Gray, Only Orange, Real Red markers)
Other: 1 1/4, 1 and Scallop Circle punches, Red Gingham ribbon, Sticky Strip
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Sneak Peek! Twick or Tweet
It’s Saturday and time for the Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge…are you up for it? Please join in by uploading your card to your Blog or SCS Gallery and placing a direct link to Mr. Linky at the Stamping 411 site! I love seeing your submissions. Yes, I do check each one every week, although I don’t always have time to comment.
OK…I couldn’t resist…yes, another Halloween set. This one is in the NEW Holiday mini coming out on September 1st. Don’t worry if you haven’t received your copy yet, Stampin’ Up! was a little delayed getting them out. You should have it next week. But you will LOVE this mini! Oh my gosh…I want everything!
So…this skeleton is one of 4 images WITH greetings in the Twick or Tweet stamp set. I cut mine apart so the greetings were separate, so I actually have 8 stamps! It is SO cute! I get a chuckle out of this image with greeting, "It’s Halloween…enjoy every bite." I stamped him in Basic Black on Whisper White cardstock, distressed the edges with my Cutter Kit Distressing Tool and sponged with Black ink, plus I took a "bite" out of one corner with my Scallop Circle punch. I layered it on Old Olive cardstock and did the same distressing and bite, too! I used my AquaPainter and Old Olive marker to color a shadow around his entire bony body and colored the dog with Close to Cocoa marker and AquaPainter, too.
That entire element was layered on Pumpkin Pie cardstock (distressed and sponged with black, too) and I added a strip of Cast-A-Spell Designer Paper at the bottom, tearing across the top for a ragged look. I wrapped the 1/4 Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon around it and added the Modern Label punched from Elegant Eggplant cardstock and stamped the greeting in Basic Black on Whisper White, then punched it with my Word Window punch. Finally, I added a couple Old Olive Mini Brads in the upper corner and mounted it on a base of Pumpkin Pie.
I’m pretty happy with how he turned out! Make sure to check out the rest of the operators over at Stamping 411! Have a great weekend!
Bloggers Challenge 114 – Sketch
Yeah! Today’s Bloggers’ Challenge is a sketch card! I love sketches, as you know! This is a pretty easy one, once I had my stamp set figured out!
I love this time of year, I get to pull out my Halloween sets…and yes, I have a LOT of Halloween sets. Except, Just Jawing isn’t really a Halloween set…more of a teen stamp set, but I love the skull. (And Tonya, yes…if you are reading this, I have changed my mind about this set!) I received it free during the promotion last year and finally got it cut and mounted a couple months ago. I’ve found it useful for doing cards for my teenage niece and nephew!
Anyway…here is the card I did using this sketch!
I started by stamping the skull with White Craft ink on a piece of Cast-A-Spell Designer Paper (can you see the bats and such in the background?) and embossed with White Embossing Powder. I then used some Tombow Multipurpose glue and colored in the heart eyes with glue and sprinkled on some Celery Fine Cosmo Glitter. Fun! I roughed up the edges with my Cutter Kit Distressing Tool and layered it on an Old Olive piece of cardstock and distressed those edges, too. That element was layered onto Pumpkin Pie cardstock, also distressed and inked with Basic Black and a sponge dauber. I wrapped some of the delicious 1 1/4 Striped Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon (this stuff ties SO nicely!). I made up some Faux Diamond Dust glitter paper (rub Versamark over your cardstock, add Iridescent Ice EP and heat set) with Old Olive cardstock and punched three of the small hearts from the Heart to Heart punch and adhered them to the Pumpkin Pie cardstock with Mini Glue Dots. Finally, I stamped Happy Halloween from Teeny Tiny Wishes in black ink under the hearts. (If you don’t have that Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set yet…what are you waiting for? I use it on almost EVERY card now! It has 28 different greetings that are the perfect size for small wishes!)
I hope you have a great weekend! Other than my Demo Convention Round Up meeting on Sunday, I think I’m in for a quiet one…yeah!
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Punch Art – Birds
My Punch Classes did this card last month. I saw the idea for the birds over on SCS, but changed up the card. I wanted to feature how the Scallop Square Bigz Die could be used to make the base of the card. Isn’t this a cute new baby card?
I started by folding a 4 3/4 x 11 piece of Apricot Appeal cardstock in half, then I placed it on the Scallop Square Bigz die just below one edge of the scallops so that side wouldn’t cut thru. Voila…scallop card! I wheeled the background of the Whisper White cardstock with Whimsy Jumbo Wheel in Apricot Appeal and layered it on Bashful Blue cardstock. Then I used the Wide Oval and punched out a Bashful Blue and Pretty in Pink oval from each color. I trimmed off just a slice of the oval, then used it for my wing. I added a beak from Apricot Appeal which is a 1/2 circle punch cut in half and adhered under the Wide Oval. I drew some stick bird legs and the eye with a Chocolate Chip marker. I stamped Hello Baby from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Chocolate Chip on Apricot Appeal and punched it with the Modern Label Punch. I placed it along the side and trimmed off the excess. Finally, I used my White Gel Pen and drew some circles in each of the scallops going around the card.
Fun card…pretty quick and easy to duplicate for those last minute baby cards you need!
Bunch of running to do today, meeting my upline for lunch (yeah!) and need to finish working on the Demo Round Up meeting for the Columbus area demos that is Sunday! Need to prep my Make & Take, plus get some display things put together. Can’t wait!
SNSS Blog Hop – Light of the World
Today is the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps Blog Hop! Hope you’ll take a few minutes and check out the Blogs featuring Scripture Verses! One of the things I really like about SNSS is the variety of Scripture verses that are included in most of the stamp sets. This one from John 8:12 is especially useful to sending off to shut-ins. It is in the stamp set, Light of the World.
I started this card by cutting an Oval with my Oval Bigz Die in the Big Shot in the center of a Whisper White piece of cardstock. I laid it over another Whisper White piece and used my sponge dauber with Baja Breeze ink to created the reverse Oval mask. With the mask still on, I stamped the lighthouse with stamped-off Baja Breeze ink, so it is very faint in the background. Then I stamped the Scripture verse in Basic Black ink so it really popped out. The Whisper White was layered on Baja Breeze and then Chocolate Chip cardstock.
The base card is Baja Breeze cardstock and I layered a piece of Parisian Breeze striped designer paper on top of Kraft cardstock. Then cut some 1 1/4 circles from the Brown Paisley print in Parisian Breeze to layer under it. Finally, I punched the Scallop Circle from Kraft cardstock, and the 5 petal flower punch from the Paisley print, and added a Kraft Corduroy Button tied with Linen Thread in the center.
I like how it turned out! Check out the next person on the Blog Tour, Nancy Brown, at Inspired By Stamps to see what Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps Scripture verse she used on her card!
Punch Art – Tulip
Wow…two posts in one day from me!
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This week there is a Punch Art Challenge going on over at Late Night Stampers and this is my submission as part of the Design Team. Everyone knows that I LOVE Punch Art…I’ve been doing classes of Punch Art for years…long before it got popular!
This is one that my Punch Class did several months ago. This card was also displayed on the boards at Convention! Woohoo! I had a total of 8 cards displayed on the boards, so I was pretty happy!
I started with a base of Certainly Celery Cardstock and layered on Pixie Pink cardstock that I ran thru the Texturz Polka Dot die. I placed a band of Certainly Celery 5/8 Grosgrain Ribbon around it. The Whisper White and Sahara Sand were run thru the Big Shot with the Oval Bigz Die. I pierced holes in each of the scallops. I used Tres Chic in Sahara Sand for the background. The leaves and stem were handcut from Certainly Celery and sponged with Garden Green. The Tulip was punched from two sizes of Ovals and sponged with Pixie Pink ink. For You from All Holidays Stamp Set was stamped in Pixie Pink and punched with the small oval, then layered on the large oval punch.
Hope you enjoy this card! BUSY week for me…so I’m going to be brief!
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Matchbox Birdhouse tutorial
Thanks for all the nice comments on my Matchbox XL Die Birdhouse from the Tour de Freaks Blog Hop last week! I’m so glad you liked it!
Here is another one that I made a few months ago. It does use To The Nines Specialty Designer Paper…heavier weight paper is PERFECT for using with the Matchbox XL die! Can you see the little momma bird holding a worm for the little chick in the nest? The inside bird and branch are images from Cheep Talk stamp set, the outside bird and leaves are the Birds & Blooms and Little Leaves Sizzlet dies.
I made up a little picture tutorial, so you can see how I just added one extra piece to the basic Matchbox XL die to form the roof of the birdhouse. Here is the outside sleeve. I just punched the shapes before I put it together. This one I used two 1" circles. The one above I used 1 1/4 circle and added a Scallop Circle Ring around it.
This is the template I used for the roof. You can see I wrote the measurements on it. (From top to bottom is 4", base is 1 7/8" wide, roof folds are 3/4" and point to point roof is 4") Score on the dotted lines and cut the small slit on the left roof line.
Next you can see where I folded in on the score lines and overlapped the cut piece on top of the other roof line (the tab should go UNDER to be hidden and secured…I am just showing how to overlap the pieces here.) Before you secure, you can add a knotted piece of ribbon loop.
This is the view from the front once the roof tab is adhered.
This shows how I adhered the roof to the back of the bottom box portion of the Matchbox XL die.
This next picture shows the finished back and how the Matchbox sleeve fits over the Matchbox bottom with the roof tucked inside.
I hope that gives you a visual of how the pieces of the Matchbox XL die with roof are attached! Feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Enjoy the new week! It is back to school for a lot of kids.
Fall Scrapbook page
I’m very late getting my Late Night Stampers Design Team assignment done this week! We are to complete a Fall Scrapbook page. Well…for one, I have no current Fall pictures! So, here is a picture I took of the Sunset Red Maples in our backyard a few years ago. They were beautiful! I must remember to take pictures this fall!
There is not a bit of stamping on this project, unless you count the inking around the edges of the diecut leaves! I started with a base of More Mustard cardstock and layered a strip of Autumn Traditions Designer Paper along the left side. I used the Eyelet Border punch on a piece of Ruby Red and placed it under the Designer Paper. I cut a 3 1/4" circle with my Circle Scissors from Sahara Sand. I also cut leaves from the Leaves #2 die with my Big Shot from the Autumn Traditions Designer Paper. The red leaf is done using Ruby Red cardstock. Finally, I used the Go Go Boots Alphabet die with Always Artichoke cardstock to cut out the FALL letters. Since this is a 6×6 size scrapbook page, I will add a tab with journaling under the picture.
Enjoy! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!
Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge
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This is going to be REAL quick since I’m falling asleep in my chair! I spent the day packing and moving my son to his new apartment. I’m exhausted! I think I went up and down steps at least 50 times!
I loved this week’s Stamping 411 Sketch challenge! Here I used Autumn Harvest…it is going to be fall soon and the leaves will be turning and the pumpkins will be sprouting up on everyone’s doorsteps! This is a favorite standby set for me to use in the fall.
I started with a base of Always Artichoke. I stamped the pumpkins with Basic Brown on Very Vanilla and used my Stampin’ Up! markers and AquaPainter to color them. I layered this piece on Pumpkin Pie. I stamped the leaf image on Pumpkin Pie and Ruby Red and cut them out, placing them under the pumpkins. I put some Autumn Traditions striped Designer Paper on the Soft Suede layer, and tied some Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon around it. Finally, I stamped Thanks from the set Thank You Kindly in Basic Brown in the lower left corner.
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