Isn't this singing angel pretty? I hope you will plan to join us at the Stampin' Christmas party so you can make one of your own! They're just the right size to hang on the Christmas tree! I have a couple projects planned for the Stampin' Christmas Party, we're going to eat yummy Christmas cookies and more. I hope you will plan to join us! Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 6:30-8:00 P.M. Place: My house, Stewartstown, PA (please note that I do have stairs in my house) Cost: FREE! What to bring: Cookies to share and your favorite adhesive Note: I will have some items out for sale so Continue reading
Elegant Bouquet & Pennant Banner
Here's the finished product! It really looks much nicer in real life. The lighting in the room for the bridal shower isn't very good for pictures I'm afraid. The banner was made using lots of Big Shot tools. We used the Pennant Die, the Beautiful Butterfly Die, the Serif Essentials Alphabet Dies and the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder. You can find more information about the design of the individual pennants on yesterday's stamping blog post. Continue reading
Bridal Shower Decotrations with Elegant Bouquet Folder
A friend and I were working on bridal shower decorations this afternoon. Unfortunately I don't have any finished product pictures to show you but I will tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a couple sneak peek pictures for you. This project was made using the Pennant Die and the new Elegant Bouquet embossing folder. This is my first time getting to play with the embossing folder and I love it! I actually used a Q-tip and Whisper White craft into to daub ink onto the raised embossing making for a really neat look. I look forward to showing you the final product tomorrow when it's finished. Continue reading
Ladybug Box Using the Top Note Die
Here's another fairly quick and easy project we made at the Boxes & Bags class. Isn't this little ladybug cute?! I first got the idea for this at an event I earned with one of my upline back in December. Until now I haven't had just the right class to have everyone make her. The little girl is made using the Stampin' Up! exclusive top note die, various sizes of circle punches, and the Heart to Heart Punch tools. I'm not sure if I ever would have thought to use the Heart to Heart punch to create the spots but I think it's just adorable! For the class we made the little lady in Basic Continue reading
Stampin' Up! Baskets and Blooms
Here is one of the cute little bags we made Friday night. This was made using the Baskets and Blooms die which is exclusive to Stampin' Up! and the Flower, Daisies #2 Sizzex die which Stampin' Up! carries. Instead of connecting the basket pieces at the perforations, we simply cut off the perforations and then I created a little box from a 6"x7" piece of Kraft colored cardstock. The box is very simple, just score in 2" from each side, make a couple snips and adhere it together with Sticky Strip. The basket pieces were then adhere onto the sides. For the flower I simply cut two of each size Continue reading
Stampin' Up! Lattice Ornament
I used the new Stampin' Up! Lattice die on the card I showed you yesterday. I'm really liking it! I thought I'd show you what it looks like all be itself. Here it is cut out of Orchid Opulence cardstock. Cute isn't it? Well yesterday when I was using this lattice for the first time I came up with this fun design. Perhaps others have figured this out before me, but I haven't seen it anywhere. I think this would look lovely hanging from a Christmas tree or mantle over the fireplace or even dangling from the outside of a present. The colors used here are Old Olive and Rich Continue reading
When reality strikes a crafter
I am the director of Vacation Bible School for our church (Grace Bible Churchin New Freedom, PA) this year. To be quite honest with you, although it wears me out a bit, I enjoy it! Maybe it's that I like to be in charge or maybe it's because I like to have my hand in every part, I'm not sure. The reality of it all though, is that VBS supplies can be expensive and I'm always trying to save a buck. We are doing the Rome theme through Group Publishing. I wanted to have some posters they are selling, however, I don't need that many and I didn't want to pay for all of them. My first thoughts Continue reading
Big Shot Special From Me!
I'm very excited to announce this special exclusively through me! I am trying to reach a certain milestone in sales by the end of the month so I'm offering this to help all of us out! Check out all of the details below and you just might find you can't resist! I'm going to list out the details in bullet form to try to make it the easiest to understand. If you have any questions though, just ask away! I'll be more than happy to answer. When: Wednesday, June 17 - Saturday, June 27, 2009 You purchase: the Big Shot starter kit for $195.95 (or $259.95 if you want the kit with the carry Continue reading
Playing with Baskets and Blooms
I took some time to play with the Stampin' Up! Baskets and Blooms Bigz XL Die today. I've seen people making a new sort of basket with the die and figured I could do it too! Here's it is! I made the basket out of Chocolate Chip cardstock and then used some scraps of Designer Series Paper (DSP) to create the flowers on front. I used the 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette grosgrain ribbon to tie the top of the basket together. As you can see, I tucked some Hershey Kisses inside the basket and I think I might just give this to my hostess tomorrow night as little thank you for all her hard work. Continue reading
New Baby "Quilted" Scrapbook Page
The handmade quilt card I made yesterday inspired me to make this scrapbook page for my third son. Boy, this took a lot of work! See all those little squares of designer paper? They are individual square of paper that had to be adhered down and then I drew stitching marks around each square and also around each of the larger "quilt" pieces. Thankfully I had the 1 1/4" square punch, curly label punch and Big Shot to help me with the cutting for this project! The Bashful Blue cardstock is the negative image from cutting out the Top Note Die on the Big Shot and it is all dry embossed with Continue reading
Bella Bleu Designer Series Paper
Before you say it, no, I didn't misspell the title! This designer paper has become one my new favorites. You may recognize the name because I used it in one of my Ocean City scrapbook layouts about a week ago. I don't think the small little pictures of the paper in the catalog (page 161) do the paper justice. It's beautiful and elegant but yet it can be manly at the same time if needed. This is one of the cards we made at an event in Baldwin, MD today. We used the Bella Bleu DSP along with Not Quite Navy, Kraft and So Saffron to create the card. The Butterfly was made using the Big Shot Continue reading
My new box of goodies
The Stampin' Up! narrow grosgrain ribbon came in today. Whew! that's a lot of cutting I need to do for the ribbon share! Anyone want to come help?! We have 19 colors of the narrow grosgrain ribbon and those who participated in the share will receive 5 feet of each color. Please be understanding when I say it's going to take me a few days to get this all cut and ready for you! I'll let you know when I have it ready for pickup or to mail. One of the items I was most looking forward to in my box today was the Stampin' Up! Beautiful Butterflies die for the Big Shot. I had a project lined up Continue reading