The Stamper

Stampin' Up!' Wandering Words

 Stampin' Up!'s wandering words stamp set has three long stamps that include a thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine stamp with wandering words.  I loved the Valentine and Christmas stamps a lot.  For my customer appreciation event that is being held today I made this card as one of the projects.  It was created with Melon Mambo card-stock, a 2 x 6 piece of the Night and Day Specialty paper that can be found in the Holiday mini catalog, I laid this across the bottom and trimmed the edges and the top right corner piece is an edge I trimmed off.  I used Garden Green, Basic Black and Melon Mambo markers to ink the design and finished everything off with a heart punch from Melon Mambo DSP. 

This is a quick and easy card to make and yet it sends the right message. 

Stampin' Up!'s A Brand New Year

 One of the single stamps available in the Holiday Mini catalog is Stampin' Up!'s stamp called A Brand New Year.  I used this single stamp on a card I did at one of my classes last month and again for an card exchange I was involved in.  I liked the design of this stamp with all the words that represent a brand new year.  I used unusual colors together and yet I think they work.  It is Purely Pomegranate and More Mustard and Whisper White. 

The card is folded in half and then cut 2" off the front and added the layers to the inside that show.  It is white card-stock rolled with the Whimsy roller with Purely Pomegranate ink and layered with More Mustard card-stock.  I added a jumbo white grommet and a knot of Purely Pomegranate ribbon.  The stamp accent was stamped with Purely Pomegranated ink on white and more mustard card-stock and I cut the goblet from the more mustard and glued it to the white card-stock.

Stampin' Up! Autumn Splendor

  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.

Stampin' Up! Merry Moments Gift Card holder

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.

Stampin' Up! Snow Buddies and Sweet Treat cups

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.   

Stampin' Up! Flower Fancy card box

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. 

Stampin' Up!'s Nouveau Chic

This designer paper Nouveau Chic by Stampin' Up! was one of the first papers I bought, I love how chic they are but I have not used them a lot because I have not sat down and played with them much.  Over the weekend Monika shared with me this lovely card using these papers I like so much.  She created a vase using the ornament punch that can be found in the Holiday mini catalog and then colored the paper with the new shimmery paints to give it a vase look.  Stamp a sprig of flowers and add a few layers of card stock and papers and you have a wonderful all seasons card.  Thanks to Monika for sharing her ideas and all she does to help me when life gets crazy.

Stampin' Up!'s Berry Christmas card

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.

Stampin' Up! Berry Christmas Trio

What fun I had to day making up these gift ideas.  I was inspired by the card I made a few weeks ago using Soft Suede card-stock, Christmas Cocoa Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Stampin' Up! stamp set Berry Christmas found on page 20 of the Holiday Mini catalog. 

The pencil box was created with a 11x 2 1/2" piece of card-stock.  You score the long sides at 1/2" and the short side at 1/2", 1", 8 1/2", 9".  Cut away the 1/2" square on the corners on the bottom of the holder and fold into a box. 

The Post-it note  holder is the same concept but different folds and dimensions.  I will try and make up a pattern and put it in a blog. 

I can't believe Christmas is only a few weeks away.  My girls keep reminding me.

Stampin' Up! Impressions Folder

The more I work with Stampin' Up!'s imressions folder and the Big Shot the more impressed I become. This past week I had a workshop for my KSU group and they asked for an ornament and I decided to make one a part of the card.  I used the new impressions folder Petals-A-Plenty found on page 21 of the Holiday mini catalog.  This folder can be made to look like Holiday flowers or Daisies depending on the cardstock color you use. 

The Ornament is chipboard cut with the Scallop circle die.  I used a marker to color the edges and then add 2 Scallop circle dies that were impressed with the folder.  It is best to color the edges before attaching the cardstock so if you slip you don't draw a marker line down the front of the ornament. 

The pocket is created by folding a corner of DSP paper down and adding Tombow white glue to the 3 edges and with the ornament in place hold the edges until the glue sticks, remove ornament and let the paper set good.    I added a knot and silver cording to finish the ornament.  Enjoy

Stampin' Up! Circle Circus

 Stampin' Up!'s deal of the week this week has several accessories on sale and the mini Library clips is one of the items you can purchase at a discount.  Since Friday's post showed these adorable little clips on a scrapbook page I thought I would share a card that also has one of these clips attached to it.   I love the little clip and how you can attach your focal point to a card and draw you eye to it.  This card also reminded me a little of fall because of the colors and the worn look to the card itself. 

This is a quick and easy card layout that you can use with other images but if you love this circle set as much as I do you will have a hard time not using it.   The Library clips are regular priced at $12.95 but are on sale this week only for $8.99.  You can order on my Stampin' Up! web site www.wendythestamper.stampinup.net or email or call me and I can add them to a order I am placing this week. 

Stampin' Up!'s Medallion

It is always fun to get a hand stamped card in the mail and as a demonstrator I think I enjoy them more than most because I know what goes into making one and then getting it to the post office.  Getting it to the post office is the hardest part for me. 

This week my friend Wendy Knowles sent me this card and I love it.  It was made using the Medallion background stamp, stamped in the corner of white card stock.  Then add a half pearl to the middle and rough up the edges and you have the card half done. 

I liked how she added two ribbons layered on top of each other and used the new Modern Label punch to finish it off. 

The colors are Soft Suede and Rich Razzleberry. 

It was a great card but knowing my friend was thinking about me makes it even better.

Three circle card layout

I created these cards using this three circle layout and I really like them.  This layout works for many stamp sets and can be adjusted for different size circles. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Halloween card images are stamped with Stampin' Up!'s Batty for You stamp set and punched with 1" and 1 1/4" punches and the Holiday card images are stamped with Stampin' Up!'s Berry Christmas stamp set and is punched with 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" punches.  The strip of Designer Series paper was cut smaller when I used the larger circles. 

Build a Bear Sleeping Bag

At our Starz meeting this month, Monika shared this Build a Bear sleepingbag card she created for her exchange card.  It was created using Stampin' Up!'s Top Note die and the new Build a Bear dies and accessories dies.

She had made them in all different colors and both boy and girl and she let us choose our favorite one, I had a hard time choosing which one I liked best because I liked them all. In the end I waited until others had their choice and decided on a little girl bear.  I guess having 4 girls just makes me lean more towards those colors. 

Pocket Silhouettes Card Box

I wanted to share another one of the project we will be making at my Gift Making Extravaganza event in November. 

This is another card box made using Stampin' Up!'s Pocket Silhouettes stamp set and the new Designer Series Paper called Autum Meadows from the mini catalog.  I love this paper; it is even more beautiful in person than it is in the catalog.  I love that it is double sided and that the side that is fall has a non-fall print on the opposite so this paper does not have to be fall.  It is great colors for masculine themes or just any one. 

The card box has 8 cards and envelopes, 2 each of 4 designs, in it and opens on the side with locking tabs that tuck in.  I like the look of hardware and the vanilla hardware looks great with these colors. 

I have started getting sign ups for this class and I am so excited to spend the weekend with all those who will be attending.

October's Hands On Class

I have been working a lot of November's class but we don't want to forget October. 

For my Hands On Class in October we will be making these great projects.  The pink box is a cupcake holder, I received this as a gift for my birthday from Monika and loved it and can't wait for you to make one as well.  It makes a fun gift to be able to give a friend a single cupcake in a box for any occasion.   The next project is the Mozi box that Shelli showed us at convention with some adjustments to make it easier to make.  The box have some unique folds and it holds 3x3 cards and envelopes.  We will also be making this great holiday card that I have shown you already in this blog. 

Plan to join me Friday, October 9th at 10 AM or 7:30 PM.  The cost is $15.00 for all projects.  

Gift Making Extravaganza Event

Wow, it has been a lot of work but I finally have my projects finalized and the newsletter with all the information is sent.  I started it this morning and here it is late at night and I have finally finish. 

It would have gone much quicker if I could have written it without all the distractions.  You know how it is, the phone rings and it is your parents so you talk a while, then a lunch break, then you find out you don't have enough pictures so you hope the sun will come out but after checking the weather report you know that is not going to happen at all this week so you take dark photos and hope for the best, back to the computer and more distractions, your daughter's doing her homework and thinks you can help her write a paper while you are writing an newsletter, another daughter does not want to do her practicing so she comes down to visit with you instead, another daughter keeps checking her email to see if she made the youth orchestra she tried out for on Sunday, then dinner and off to bed so you think you will have a few minutes to finish the newsletter because your husband is at a meeting and the girls are in bed or gone to meetings but alas more distractions, your husband is driving and has nothing to do but call you and talk and ask how your newsletter is coming which you inform him it would be coming along better if you were not trying to write it and talk on the phone at the same time.  And that is how the first item on my to do list did not get done until 10:PM.  I am guessing all of you have had days like this. 

Join me for this class Friday, November 6th, and Saturday November 7th from AM to PM.  The class fee is $15.00 plus project supply fees. 
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Things that I love...

At convention Stampin' Up! always has some cute projects for us to make and this was one of them. 

I was cleaning my stamping room last week, because we had the carpets cleaned and ran across the hands on packet from convention.  It is amazing what you find when you clean up and put things away. 

This project was very quick and easy to make and can be a fun gift.  It is made using the Things I love stamp set.  It is 3x3 cards and envelopes in a little cello bag with a topper. 

This stamp set says, I love chocolate, new shoes, shopping but most of all you.  I decided they know women pretty good because it is a good bet all women love chocolate, new shoes and shopping.  All of those things light me up. 

Stampin' Up!'s Delightful Decorations

The card exchange I do with my friends always gives me some great ideas and I did this card and patterned it after one Joann did. 

This is the new stamp set Delightful Decorations found on page 7 of the mini catalog.  And Stampin' Up!'s Baroque Motifs stamp set from the main catalog.  I stamped the swirl with Old Olive Classic ink along the top of the card to look like tree branches.  The ornament on the right is stamp directly onto the card stock with Real Red classic ink, the ornament on the left is punched from the new Designer Series Paper Christmas Cocoa Specialty.  This is the flocked piece of paper so it is fuzzy.  The one in the middle was textured with the impressions folder.  There is glitter added to the stamped ornament and they all have silver cording strings.

I think you will love the new flocked papers and the coordinating sheets of DSP that go along with this great paper. 

Gifts of the Earth Stamp set

The new mini catalog always means a card exchange with my Stampin' Up! cruise friends.  We each take a stamp set from the mini catalog and make samples to exchange with each other. 

This catalog, my choice was the Gifts of the Earth stamp set.  My first stamp set I ever brought was an outline image because I love to color and I still tend to choose an outline image when I get a chance. 

This stamp makes me smile, I guess it is the feel good memories of fall and the country life and this layout works for so many different images that it is a good layout.  The DSP paper strip is from the new Designer Series Paper called AAutumn Meadows that is featured in the mini catalog.  I loved this paper when I saw it in the catalog but even more once I had it on my desk.  It does not have to be a fall theme.  It is double sided and they put the fall prints behind great generic prints.  It would be a great masculine print.