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Dream A Little

Like most stampers, I love flower sets.  In fact, I have TONS of flower sets, but keep buying new ones.  This one was a preorder for the Level 3 Hostess Only set, Dream A Little.  I love the two-step flowers in it, although I only did one step on these. This is one of the Leadership swap cards I made for my SSUS group.

I stamped the large flower with Tangerine Tango, Pixie Pink and So Saffron on Glossy White paper, then cut them out (great TV time busy work!)  I also stamped the small flower 3 times with Tangerine Tango on Glossy White, punched them with the 1/2 circle and placed a gold mini brad in the center.  The layout is a sketch from somewhere…sorry, I don’t remember where I found it.  I used the new Raspberry Fizz Designer Paper and Rose Red grosgrain ribbon.  The base card is Regal Rose layered with So Saffron and a strip of Tangerine Tango.  Love the bright colors on this one.  The background swirl is from Priceless.

Finally, today is a relaxing day for me.  The bitter cold and snow will keep me inside, too.  Hopefully, I’ll have time to work on my Control Freaks Sale-A-Bration swap.  I also need to do a major clearing out in my Studio.

Last week for the retiring stamp sets and accessories!  Don’t miss out…email me today!

I’m back!

Yes!  I’m back from Leadership.  I came home Sunday afternoon and really needed yesterday to catch up on laundry and the house, so I tried to stay off the computer.

Regarding Leadership, all I can say is WOW!  I love the smaller size and intimacy of Leadership and I heard so many great ideas.  Of course, the new catalog is awesome!  I already have a full page list of things I want!  I’m hoping that the tracking is correct and my catalogs will be here tomorrow (or Wednesday at latest!)  I’ll be sure to email all those that preordered as soon as they appearl

I wish I could show you some of the awesome things we saw in the catalog…but we aren’t allowed to show display boards, etc, until the catalog goes live…so…you’ll need to wait another week.  However, I can show you one of the swap cards I made.

A couple of my fellow Control Freaks and I got together for dinner (hi Julie, Liz and Annette!) and did a mini swap.  We made 4 cards for each of the others.  I loved doing this last year and those swaps were some of my favorites…this year is the same!

So, here is card #1…be watching over the next few days for the rest, plus the cute little box I put them in.  I’ll be doing the box tutorial later this week.  I ordered Game Night right away because of the dice.  Then when I received it, I was kind of stumped on what I wanted to do with it.  I was using this set for my Control Freaks swap, so here is one of the cards I made while working on that swap.  I decided to use it for my SSUS group swap at Leadership and for my Swappers 4 group instead of the Control Freaks.

I started with a base of Basic Black, then layered So Saffron.  I cut a 4×4 piece of the Jackpot Designer Paper.  I love the poker chips, but they didn’t include a poker chip stamp.  So, I used the bottom of the Basket & Blooms die and made my own poker chip out of black!  On that I layered the 1 3/4 Real Red circle punch and then the game piece stamped in red on Glossy White cardstock and punched with the 1 3/8" circle punch.  I added Real Red 5/8 grosgrain ribbon to separate the DSP from the cardstock, and stamped Big Winner in Basic Black on the bottom right, adding a couple gold mini brads under it. 

What do you think?  Leave me a comment…would love to hear from you!  Got to run get ready for class tonight!  Yikes!  I know what I’m doing, but haven’t started cutting paper yet.

Dreams du Jour

This is another of the Fab 4 swap cards I made for friends, Mary, Julie and Liz.  I love the soft look on this one!  I used the Pink Pirouette base, with the Pink Pirouette floral print from Bella Rose, then softened it with a layer of cardstock vellum over top, secured with pink mini brads.  The bottom of the vellum and designer paper were both scalloped with the new Scallop punch.

The focal point, I used a 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 square and punched the Scallop punch (centered) on each side.  That gave me a little scallop frame for the postage Love stamp.  I tied some taffeta ribbon around one corner and added a cut-out butterfly to the other.  I watercolored the Love stamp with my Blender Pen and the ink pads Kiwi Kiss and Pink Pirouette.  Again, I LOVED how this card turned out!

Hey demos…check out the September Stampin’ Success!  My winning Schoolhouse Rocks submission is photographed in there!  Woohoo!!!

I have a class tonight, some assignments due AND a Stamp Camp this weekend!  Crazy busy this week!   However, I did get my bank breaking order placed yesterday with EXPEDITED shipping!  Hope to get it by Thursday so I can play!  Woohoo!!!

Wow Flowers

I’ve been busy today working on my Control Freaks swap.  I must have been dreaming about it last night, cause I woke up with an idea.  Well…unfortunately…the time it took to complete each one was WAY longer than the time I have to spend doing them.  But…it did turn out cute!  I will show it to you within the next couple days.  Today’s card is a sample  that I made up for an organized swap at Convention, but decided not to use it, even though I did like it!
  It is similar to the one I finally decided to do (see a couple posts back).

I used the new set, Wow Flowers, and the new Bella Rose paper.  New colors are Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette and Kiwi Kiss.  I used Riding Hood Red and the Twill background on the strip across the center.  The Kiwi Kiss Wow flowers were punched with the 1 1/4 circle and then I applied a 1/4" circle from my Kiwi Kiss Faux Diamond Dust paper in each of the centers, plus the center of the Thank You flower.

Today my bulk order of catalogs arrived and I’ve been busy getting them sorted.  A couple of the gals ran right over to get them (hi Cynthia and Angie!)  I have a big shipment that needs to be mailed out to Canton (only a couple more days, girls!)  I’m sure everyone is enjoying going thru them and checking out all the eye candy!

Have a great night!

Dreams du Jour Calendar

This was the 3D item I did for an organized  swap at Convention…I needed to make 18 of them.  It is an clear acrylic picture frame with a magnet on the back.  I purchased them at Michael’s for 99 cents each.  I used my Crop A Dile to punch two holes at the top (actually the bottom of the frame) so I could run ribbon thru it to hang it if they wanted. 

The insert is a base of Pink Pirouette cardstock and Bella Rose check paper.  I did the scallop punch on a strip of Riding Hood Red for under the checked paper.  Dreams stamp from Dreams Du Jour was stamped with Chocolate Chip on Whisper White, then I used my blender pen to pick up the colors of Kiwi Kiss and Pink Pirouette for coloring.  A mini Ruby Red brad is in the center of the largest flower.  I just placed a strip of Kiwi Kiss paper behind the Dreams stamp for some added color.  I dyed the White Grosgrain Ribbon with Kiwi Kiss ink, slid it thru the holes and tied them in the back.  I added a medium calendar I purchased from www.skybluepink.com.  Makes a nice gift!  I like to do these for small gifts at the holidays! 

I think I caught up on my sleep a little bit…evidentally we had a bad storm last night…I didn’t even hear it.  lol! 

Dreams du Jour

Oh my…my head is STILL fuzzy from Convention!  It is just filled with all kinds of ideas, memories and jet lag!  The energy is just amazing.  I know I’m exhausted…I’m sure everyone else is also.

I had such an awesome time meeting up with online friends, my downline and sidelines and people from Stampin’ Up! corporate!  They are so friendly and generous with their time and ideas!  I did introduce myself to THE Kristina Werner!  How exciting to meet such an awesome designer in person and even get a big HUG! 

I also received a ton of awesome gifts and swaps…so many I can keep you coming back for MONTHS with the clever ideas!

This was one of my swaps for an awesome group called Fab 4…Mary Brown, Julie Dinn, Liz Shultz and myself.  We were all display makers for the last Leadership and have become friends!  We organized a personal swap between the four of us and we did 3 cards and one 3D item.  This was one of the cards I designed for that swap. 

The butterfly and greeting stamps are from a new set called Dreams du Jour.  And I used a great color combination of the new In Colors, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip.  I used some Bella Rose designer paper…note the two little Pretty in Pink mini brads in the upper left corner.  I punched 1/4" circles from Chocolate Chip to go under them for accents!  The White Taffeta ribbon I dyed Kiwi Kiss, although the color looks wonky in this picture, it is entirely covered in person…the greeting also looks faded in the picture, but not in real life.  Weird.

OK…now I’m really off to take my nap.  I can hardly keep my eyes open!  lol! 

Sneak Peak: Wow Flowers

Wow Flowers is such a CUTE little set!  It will be available for purchase in the new catalog.  On this card, you can see two of the stamps in the set.  The mod flower (stamped in the new Pacific Point ink) and the Thank You.  It also features some new Designer Paper called Bella Rose.  Demonstrators were able to purchase up to 3 packs of this on preorder and I’ve already used almost 2 full packs on my swaps and gifts!  It just is beautiful!  The polka dot paper is the new color Kiwi Kiss…a lighter/brighter shade of Old Olive that coordinates perfectly!

I inked the Twill background stamp with Pacific Point and stamped on Whisper White…that is layered onto the Whisper White background cardstock.  I dyed White Taffeta Ribbon with the Kiwi Kiss reinker.  Each of the flower centers is very sparkly with Faux Diamond Dust cardstock.

To me, this is a FUN card…with a very modern edge!  It is the second card that the gals in my SSUS swap group are getting!

Sneak Peak: Deer Friends

Yes!  I’m still at Convention, but have this scheduled to post while I’m gone.

This is a Level 2 Hostess Set, Deer Friends, that will be available in the new catalog!  There are 8 different holiday images…a couple of them could be used other than at Christmas time which makes it very versatile.

On this card I tried to resemble Santa’s suit, of course.  I used the NEW scallop punch to make the scallops along the fur trim.  I inked the Twill Background stamp with Bravo Burgundy and stamped on the NEW Riding Hood Red cardstock.  The black belt is pierced for stitching along the top and bottom edge.  The Scallop Circle is punched from Brushed Gold cardstock.  I stamped the Santa with Riding Hood Red and colored his face with Blush Blossom.  He is punched with the 1-1/4 circle punch and layered on 1-3/8 black circle punch.

This is one of the swap cards for my special group of SSUS friends!  I think they will like it!