Asian Artistry reflection

More sponging and the reflection technique.

Greetings Earthling

This was a really fun card to create. It's for my husband's Godson Andrew for his 7th birthday.  It's a lot of sponging and masking.  I used the Greetings Earthling stampset, the wide oval punch, the ornament punch for the legs of the space ship and the window sheets for the hatch on the space ship ( you can't really see it in this picture because it's clear, but you can see it in real life).

Deck of Cards Class

Deck of Cards Class
May 14th 6p-9p
May 16th 1p-4p

Class fee of $12 includes all the supplies to make all four cards show plus the adorable gift box to put them in.

New Summer Mini

Here's a peek at a card done with some of the new tropical themed items in the Summer mini.  This is not my card design.  I got this from our shared demonstrator site.  But it nicely shows off some of the new stamp sets and paper.

Sunny Day's Class

Mother's Day Cards

Color Renovation

I am very excited.  Stampin' Up! is making a big change to their color families effective starting July 1st.  They listened to demonstrator and customer requests and looked at current trends and decided to retire some colors that weren't as popular and bring back some colors that people loved.  I'm very excited for this change and will be hosting a "retirement" party toward the end of June.  Stay tuned for the details.

Here's the NEW and RETURNING Colors.   And the RETIRING Colors

Sunflower and Fence

Bunny Reflection

Medallion Card with matching gift box

It's Day Three!  Enjoy my final projects for this blog tour!

Cardstock:  Basic black, whisper white, rose red

ink:  versamark, basic black

Stampsets:  Medallion, Picture This (hostess set)

accessories:  rose red 1/4' grosgrain ribbon, flower brad, basic black 1/4' grosgrain ribbon, Bigz scallop envelop die, black embossing powder, heat tool

The card is a pretty basic one.  Using the versamark and black EP create the image on the whisper white card stock

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Scallop Envelop Box

It's day two of the Spring Blog Tour.  Welcome back.  Today I want to show you a cute little basket made out of the Bigz scallop envelop die.  (This is not an original idea - Just can't remember who I saw it from first).  It would be perfect as a hostess gift filled with candy or a small stamp and stampin spot. This is a very simple design, but you could add lots of embellishments to make it shine.

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Cardstock:  Bermuda Bay, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Bigz scallop envelop die, boho blossoms punch, scallop circle punch and pink epoxy brads from the occassions mini.

Directions:  Die cut 4 envelopes.  Cut one of the small side tabs off of each envelop.  Using sticky strip - adhere the side tabs to each other all the way around until you have a box.  Tuck up the bottom and use sticky strip.  You will have a very small opening in the center.  You could cut a small square and put into the bottom or just leave it as is.  I used the scallop circle and boho blossoms punches to create the flower in the center and then added the pink epoxy brad.  I have also seen these with handles to make a basket.  Very cute and easy.

This is a fun punch art bunny and basket for Easter.  It's using a variety of punches:  1 3/4' circle, 1 3/8' circle, 1/2' circle.  For his ears I used the scallop oval and the large oval.  His nose is the pink courderoy button from the occasions mini.  The basket is using the tags punch for the body and the scallop oval and large oval for the handle.  I did run the paper through the big shot using the texture plates to get the basket weave effect.  The eggs are the 1/2' circle punch.

Grass is just hand cut and I sponged bashful blue for the sky before adhering the bunny and basket.  Hoppy Easter everyone!

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Spring Blog Tour Monday March 22

Welcome to the blog tour

Monday through Wednesday of this week we will be sending you along the tour to visit some fabulous demonstrators and their posts.  Have fun and enjoy day one!

This is a card I made for a workshop.  Very quick and easy, but very classy at the same time.  I love the combination of purple and green.

Supplies:

Cardstock - Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Whisper White, Old Olive

Ink - Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery

Stampsets - Medallion, Whimsical Words

Accessories - Dimensionals, Extra-Large two step bird punch, Elegant Eggplant 1/4" grosgrain ribbon

Here's another card using the exact same colors.  

Cardstock:  Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Whisper White

Accessories:  Scallop Envelope die, Elegant Eggplant 1/4' grosgrain ribbon, polka dot embossing folder, beautiful wings embosslit

Ink:  Old Olive, Perfect plum (sponged on the envelope)

Upcoming April Events:

Covenant Kids Fundraiser - Raising money to benefit Nicu, Pediatrics, Trauma and much more for the kids that go through the Covenant Healthcare System

Class fee $20 ($10 goes to the Kids Fund)

Three Dates to choose from

April 10th 1p-5p - Bickel Geyer Room Covenant Cooper Campus

April 16th 5p-9p Covenant

April 18th 1p-4p Harvest Coffee House Main Street Frankenmuth

We will be making 4 greetings cards and a bookmark

Little Leaves

The picture doesn't do justice to the colors.  The lighting is a little off.  But here is the supply list:

Cardstock - Rose Red, Sage Shadow

Ink - Rose Red, Chocolate Chip

Stamp sets:  With All my heart and Simple Friendship

Die Cut - Little Leaves

Free-hand cut around the butterfly and pop up with dimensionals.  Cut two Little Leaves and over-lap slightly.  A very quick and easy card to do.

Sweet Pea Paper

I used so saffron for the base and this great retro looking circle paper from the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper pack.  I also used the stitched felt flowers and the scallop edge trim punch.  Very quick and easy card to do.

Tote-ally Tess

LOVE LOVE LOVE this new set.  I really hope Stampin' Up decides to keep her in the new July 2010 catalog and bring out new accessories.

Here are a couple of projects that I did with her.

 

The first is the Big Shot fancy Favor box and I paper pieced using the sweet pea designer series paper and made her blonde.  I added some tissue paper and a stamp and it made a really cute hostess gift for a workshop.  The second is the square scallop die that I offset one scallop down to create a straight folded edge for a card.  I just colored this one with marker.  The paper piecing on the first was a lot more fun though.

Valentines Treat Class

 

This was a Valentines Treat class with 10 9-year old girls and we had such a fun time.  The girls were giggling and really enjoyed it.  I used the small cello bags and pre-cut the toppers.  The girls could then decorate them anyway they wanted.  We used a variety of stamps, a small heart punch and just plain markers. They are already talking about doing it again next year!

Valentines Card

This was a fun little weaving technique using a lot of left over scraps from my Valentines Treat Class.  I had all these thin strips and didn't want to just throw them away.  This is what I came up with.

Window sheet birthday card

Here is a basic birthday card - But I used the window sheets and rand it through the big shot with the elegant bouquet embossing folder.  Then to make the embossing pop out a little more - I used the sanding blocks and sanded the window sheet.  It gives it a slightly white appearance and a really cool look on a card.

Punch Art Album

I'm starting to work on my punch art album.  I used the 9 1/2 x 11 chipboard album and the new sweet pea designer paper to cover it.  The first two pages are a tree with a bird and a frog on a log with a lily pad and cattails.

The inside pages of the album are 8 1/2 x 8 1/2.  I'm looking forward to having a class on how to do punch art and filling up a lot more pages.

Clear Vintage Vogue Gift Box

I can't take credit for this.  I found it on the new Stampin' Connection for demonstrators.  I believe her name is Diane and she created some fabulous boxes using the Tote-ally Tess set.  I don't have that set yet so I used the Vintage Vogue.
I would love to here your comments.  The picture isn't great.  I'll try to take another and post it.

Star is Born

Here is a traditional baby card using non-traditional colors.  Instead of the soft yellow and baby blue - I used the crushed curry and bermuda bay from in the in-colors.  This is pretty simple to do.  I used the bermuda bay ink and the pacifier stamp from the holiday blitz stamp set and created a background.  The designer series paper is Thoroughly Modern.  And the stars are from the large star punch.  I used the new clear mount stamp for the "A Star is Born".  Add bermuda bay ribbon before adhering the layer to the cardstock and you're done.

Pretty in Pink (And black and white)

I must be in a pink kick lately.  I've included that color in almost everything.  Here's yet another card using the new set Vintage Vogue from the Occasions mini.  It's so versatile and this card was super simple to make.  I put my baby down for a nap and cranked this out in about 10 minutes.
Card stock base is melon mambo.  Mat designer series paper in two different patterns onto basic black.  Use the photo corner punch in both melon mambo and whisper white.  The sentiment is stamped in versamark and then embossed in white.  Stamp the Friends stamp in melon mambo on whisper white.

Vintage Vogue - Friend

Here's another card using the new Vintage Vogue set and the scallop trim border punch.  Card base is melon mambo (2009/2010 in-color).  I used the largest flower from the stampset with pretty in pink ink.  Carefully cut completely around the image.  Then using a sponge and melon mambo ink - add dimension to the edges of the petals.  Use the crop-a-dile to punch a hole in the center and add the circle fire brad.  Use stampin dimensionals to add height and dimension.  Using the Little Leaves and the sizzix big shot machine punch out the stem and leaves in old olive card stock.  I used whisper white and punch along the left edge using the newest scallop trim border punch and then inked around the edges using melon mambo.  The "F' and the "friends in the corner came together in one stamp.  I stamped using melon mambo then cut around the "F" and then trimmed the "friends" so I had two images.  I adhered with the snail adhesive.  To finish I used the pretty in pink striped ribbon.

3-D Ladybug gift bag

This started with a $0.50 plain white gift bag that I wanted to dress up.  I also wanted to use up some of my Christmas designer paper and some of it was generic enough that it could be used for every day.  This is from the Merry Moments designer paper.  I just cut two strips of the DSP to size and then I took plain black cardstock and used the scallop edge punch to create the detail.  The ladybug is 4 punch from the scallop circle punch.  I folded them in half and glued half of one to half of the other until I had a ladybug body that looks 3-D.  I punch the head from a 1/2 inch circle punch and then used a black marker to draw the "flight" and the antennae.  Tie a coordinating Real Red ribbon and you're done.  Very simple.

Metal Flowers

I used a combination of silver and gold embossing powder to make these flowers from the Vintage Vogue (occasions mini) set look like metal.  They are a lot more "artsy" then I usually do.  But I'm pretty happy with the results.  The card base is sahara sand.  I then used the versamark pad on  a roughly 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch square black cardstock.  Cover completely with embossing powder and heat to set.  Do the same with a slightly smaller square cardstock.  I used silver on one and gold on the other.  Then carefully tear along all four edges to reveal some of the black card stock underneath.  The flowers are from the vintage vogue set - I used black card stock - stamped with versamark and used a little bit of silver - dumped in back and then did the rest of the image in gold.  I did this two times and cut them out.  Punch a hole in the center and add the designer circle brad all the way through both square layers and the flower.  This will help the glue to stick and stay together.  Add two rows of 1/4 inch black grosgrain ribbon to the bottom.  I used a little scrap of natural hemp twine on the bottom black ribbon to add a little extra.  Using the Modern label punch add your sentiment and then ink the edges with either black or brown.  I used the soft suede from the in-colors.

The picture came out really dark.  But if you look at the picture below you can get some better detail.

 

Here's the close up of the flowers so you can see how much they look like metal.  I also used a designer circle brad in the center to really show off the metal look.

Surprise Box

Fill this fantastic box with candy or small jewelry or other surprises.  This is a little more complex - but I would love to teach a class on how to make these.  If you're reading this and would like to learn how to make them, let me know and we will pick a date.

The one on the left is closed with a bow made from coordinating designer series paper and the other is how it would look open.

Vintage Vogue

These are with a fantastic new stampset found in the occasions mini catalog (effective Jan 5 - March 31).  It's called Vintage Vogue and these are my first attempts at cards.  I'll post more as soon as they are complete.

My 2009 Christmas Cards

My Christmas card design for 2009.  It's very simple to mass produce.  It has a lot of Gold Embossing on it to make it shine.  I used a retired stamp for the leaves but really like how it turned out.

Stationary tote and matching note cards

Here's a great Christmas gift.  I'm giving this one to my mom.  Her name is Janene so I monogrammed with a "J"  This is the perfect size tote to hold 12 matching cards and envelopes.  The colors don't show up as well as I would like but I used Rich Razzleberry and Crushed curry from the in-colors.   The handles are from the Top Note die cuts with the center cut out to form the handles.

Gift Card Box with matching card

 

This  is a matching top note die gift card box with the matching card.  This one took a while and is a little more advanced.   I used the aquapainters to color in the flowers from the Asian Artistry hostess set.  I didn't have all the stamp pad colors so I took a sheet of heavy plastic colored on it with markers and then picked up the color with my aqua painters.  The dragonfly on the box is first colored with markers then I used versamark over the entire image, covered it with clear embossing powered and then heat set it with the heat tool.