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Shelli Gardner, owner of Stampin' Up!, will be on the Today show this Friday, December 4th. Shelli was invited to appear on the TODAY Show in recognition of Stampin' Up!'s charitable giving over the past few years.
I am excited to see and hear what Shelli will be sharing and wanted to let you know so you too can tune in and hear for yourself.
I loved getting together with my downline and sharing ideas. I thought I would share with you this week some of the exchange cards from my meeting this month. The first one I wanted to share is this elf card Michelle brought to the meeting, One of things I loved about this card was the tree she created using the Big Shot snowflake die. And of course I love the ornaments and how easy they are to punch out Stampin' Up!'s Delightful Decorations stamp set that matches this punch.
The next card I wanted to share is another punch card created by Cindy. This santa was made using the different Stampin' Up! punches and is a really adorable card. Can you see all the different punches used on this card?
The next card was stamped by LaRee. I love these colors for Christmas. I liked the two ribbons she used on the card, I never think to use two different ribbons on one card but it works here and the lace punch adds that final accent.
I am so lucky to work around such talented and wonderful ladies. Thanks to them for all they do to help our meetings and group be successful.
Happy Thanksgivng week. This past month at the in home workshops I have done we have made this card using the torn paper technique and Stampin' Up!'s Autumn Splendor stamp set as well as Stampin' Up!'s Tres Chic background stamp. I adapted this card from a card exchange I received. I love this technique is always brings a wow factor into your cards and yet it is easy to create.
You tear a piece of light weight paper, I use copy paper and I put two-way glue on the back and let it dry to create a post-it-note piece. Cover the part of your card that you want t remain clean. Now randomly stamp on the rest of your card using images from your stamp set, I used two leaf stamps from Stampin' Up! Autumn Splendor stamp set, stamped with Really Rust ink. I then sponged along the torn piece of paper and the edge of the card using Really Rust ink. I then inked Stampin' Up! Tres Chic background stamp with Soft Suede ink and stamped it over the other image. When you pull away the torn paper it leaves a torn paper effect on your card. I stamped another leaf with Soft Suede and cut it out and crinkled it and added it to the front of my card with dimensionals. Also note I did the envelope to match.
The card stock was Really Rust and Sahara Sand. Ink colors; Really Rust & Soft Suede.
Stampin' Up! will be offering specials for this week of Thanksgiving so make sure you check into my Stampin' Up! web site often. You will be able to order these items on-line.
The holidays are here and we are thinking about the gifts we still need to get for those we love. Gift cards are a great gift and what makes a gift card special is the packaging. This gift card holder was sent to me by my up-line Sandy. It was created with Stampin' Up!'s Merry Moments designer series paper. I love how these papers coordinate together. She added a bright red belly band to finish off the look.
The opening for the gift card is punched with Stampin' Up!'s word window punch. This gift card holder is created with a half of sheet of card-stock and is scored in thirds.
It is always fun to get hand-stamped items in the mail. Thanks to Sandy for thinking of me.
If you don't know what to get a loved one, think about giving the art of rubber stamping and scrap-booking. I have gift certificate available and there is a wonderful gift giving guide that Stampin' Up! has created to help as well. For every $50.00 ordered from that guide until the end of December you will receive a free $16.95 or less Decor Elements or vinyl images. Contact me for more details.
What a fun weekend I had, I received a box in the mail from my up-line Sandy and she had sent me some fun stamping projects. It was perfect timing because it came right before my Starz meeting and I was able to share all these fun ideas with my group. She sent me this die cut box that was created using the Big Shot Scallop die and the snowflakes die layered onto a square box and she added a handle.
She also had included in the box these little gift tags that would be a great on any package. She punched this out of whisper white card-stock on a fold so the ornamentis a mini card so you can write on the inside. This ornament punch and Stampin' Up! Delightful Decoration stamp set are some of my favorite things from the Holiday mini catalog. The items in this catalog are available until January 4th and after that it is anyone guess if they will be included in the next Stampin' Up! catalog that comes out in July. If you love this item as much as I do make sure you order it before it goes away. You can order on line at my Stampin' web site or email or call me to order.
I have the most talented women in my Starz group and we always have such a fun time sharing ideas with each other. At our meeting a couple of months ago Monika shared with us how to create a sweet treat card that you can open to fill. We all loved it and yet found that it only worked if the design was close to the edge of your card. Michelle took the idea home and worked at it until she figured out a way to create a card so the sweet treat cup could be in the middle of the card and yet still fillable from the inside of the card, and she brought the idea back to our meeting the share with all of us.
The trick is to not use the adhesive on the back of the sweet treat cup. She cut a couple inches of the card front and cut another piece of card-stock the same size as the front of the card. She punched a 1 3/4" circle punch hole in the same place on both pieces. Decorate the extra piece as the front of the card. She then glued the cup to the back opening of the extra piece and layered this onto the front of the card creating a pocket. Now slip in the pull out card with the accent image on it and you have a sweet treat card with the opening in the center of your card.
The scrapbook pages from my last wow scrap class is now available at Monika's and mine blog site Wow Scrapbook kits.
I really love creating scrap-booking pages and over the years I know several of my friends and customers who don't live close have wanted the ideas. So I joined up with my down-line Monika and she helps me provide these ideas for you. I create the pages and she does all the electronic stuff that I never get done, done and that is what you will find at our blog site above.
There are pages ideas for all different Holidays, you can purchase them as a complete monthly packet or page by page.
Check them out today.
At my STARZ meeting this past weekend, LaRee brought me this wonderful ornament in a gift box. Each year for Christmas LaRee has made me a Stampin' Up! ornament for my tree and I love them each year.
This year she made me three and packaged them in this die cut box. She used Stampin' Up! Christmas Cocoa Specialty Designer Series Paper to create these ornaments.
The first one is created by punching out several ornament punches from the flocked papers and gluing them together to create a 3-d form. She added a bow accent.
The second one is created like the pumpkins we did several years ago. You feed strips of paper onto one of the hat pins from the Pretties Kit forming a ball shape and then add smaller strips for the 2nd ball shape. She finished the ornament off with pearls and beads from the pretties kit.
The third ornament is created with the scallop die and then create a medallion using a couple scallop circles and attaching that to the die cut outs.
I love this little gift. My Christmas tree is filled with handmade ornaments. When Ted and I first got married we did not have extra money for tree ornaments. I spent many hours stitching ornaments and Ted and I created all handmade ornaments from scraps of fabric that first Christmas and a tradition was born. We have added at least one handmade ornament design to our tree each year.
This past weekend I had a Heritage Album class during the day and then cleaned up and set up for my STARZ down line meeting. I was pretty tired but getting together with my girls always lifts my spirits. We shared some great ideas, talked about business tips and made some fun projects. This card box holder was one of the projects. I was taught how to make this at Sandy's California meeting when I was out there and had to come home and create my version with the Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede color combination. I really like these colors together and Stampin' Up!'s designer series paper Throughly Modern has the perfect paper to accent these color with.
The box holds a stack of cards and envelopes even though we only made one of each as a sample. To color the Flower Fancy image I stamped the outline in Soft Suede and then used the marker technique to color the 2nd step or bold image. I used Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, and Garden Green. Remember to huff on the stamp right before you stamp so you get a clean image. I added a dotted ribbon bow with a glue dot.
I created a card for my gift class using the same corner technique. I rounded 3 of the 4 corners of the background piece. leaving one corner square. On the stamped image piece I rounded 3 corners and then used the ticket punch for the 4th. This just add a little detail to the card.
Here are the other two seasonal plates Monika shared with me at my gift making class this past weekend. They are adhered to the front of the plates so you can layer with ribbon and extra paper layers. I loved the button accent of this one. And check out the different placement of the top note die. Each one looks different but the same.
Monika is very talented and I appreciate her friendship and her willingness to share especially this week as I am trying to catch up from last weekend and get ahead for upcoming classes. Thanks Monika.
This past weekend Monika shared this plate idea she did at one of her events. I thought it was wonderful so I thought I would share it with all of you. I have the most talented ladies in my STARZ group and they are always sharing ideas with me and each other and I love that. We have a meeting coming up this Saturday where I know there will be sharing and caring for each other. These plates are attached to the front of the plates so you can add the layers and ribbon. Monika used velcro.
Here are plates fall and winter and I will post the other two tomorrow.
She used Stampin' Up! Season of Friendship stamp set and the top note die. Each season the layout is just a little different using the same items. Enjoy
This weekend at my Gift Making Extravaganza weekend Monika shared with me this great gift idea. She made a set of Christmas coasters using Stampin' Up! Dasher stamp set. These are stamped with Craft inks and then sprinkled with clear embossing powder and either baked in the oven or heated with a heat tool. She boxed them in a handmade box with the large 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon (I love how soft this ribbon is) and added a Big Shot tag that was stamped the same as the coaster set. Add a few felt feet to the back on the tile and you have a coaster that is perfect for holding drinks during this holiday season.
This weekend I went away for a weekend of scrapbooking with a couple of friends and I would love to show you all the pages I completed but the truth was I did not complete any pages. I made a darling mini album I hope to show you once I develop pictures to go inside but no two-page spreads were completed.
I guess you could say I relaxed this weekend. I organized pictures and typed in journaling for a Europe Album I want to make for my daughter and I from our trip last year and then sat and looked at my title page and reorangzied it and looked at it some more and finally just kicked back and did nothing. What a concept, I think I need more moments of doing nothing in my life, it seems like I am doing something 24-7 even it that is just being a mom. A few weeks ago I finished this page that expressed how it feels sometimes just being a mom 24-7.
I created a Christmas Card using My Digital Studio and sent it off to Stampin' Up!'s printer to see how it would turn out and I must say I was really impressed when I got it back.
I decided to try the 5 x 7 card size and I used one of Stampin' Up! templates to make it really easy. I changed things around a bit and added a greeting to the front and a picture of my daughter and it took me no time at all.
I did decide to design a custom inside and I love how that turned out as well. If I had been thinking I would have added our families signature line to the inside.
For those of you who want to create a special Christmas card but don't seem to get around to stamping on this is a great option.
My Digital Studio comes with hundreds of accents and some great custom templates for only $79.95. Note: if you hold a workshop before November 30 and your workshop total is over $400.00 you can choose my Digital Studio software for free!
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It is finally here, my Gift Making Extravaganza weekend is this week and I am busy getting the 227 kits prepared. It is always a little overwhelming when I get started but as I get going on them it is exciting to think about all the great gifts you will be giving to your loved ones this year.
I could never do all of this preparing on my own and Ted has been busy in garage as well as helping to cut papers, I have him in charge of all the snacks for this weekend as well. I also have some great friends who stop by and help me cut and sort as well as loan me supplies when I need a extra punch or two. I really appreciate all the support and I know this will be a successful, fun weekend.
Can't wait to have you here working hard on your projects. Remember to bring your own adhesive and a cutter/scorer if you don't want to have to share. Class is from 10am-10pm Friday and Saturday. See you soon.
This card was a design I taught this past week. It was a fun card to create and simple to make. Fold 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of card-stock in half, then cut off 2" of the front of the card.
Cut a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of white card-stock and stamp it with Stampin' Up!'s Berry Christmas stamp set. I just inked the end of the holly piece and the berries on this piece of card-stock.
Stamp on a 2 3/4 x 2 1/4" piece of Whisper White card-stock with; Old Olive for holly piece, Real Red for berry piece, Crushed Curry for bird piece and Real Red for Make Merry piece. Layer that with 3" x 2 1/2" piece of Real Red card-stock. Using a 3/4' circle punch, punch a 1/2 circle from card-stock piece before gluing it to the left side of your card.
Now take a jumbo grommet and push it through your card right where you cut punched the 1/2" circle and open prong with bone folder. Add a ribbon knot with glue dot to finish the look.
This card is one you can make a bunch for Christmas. It is not too hard and can be stamped quickly.
