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Another favourite Hostess Set! Oh, So Lovely has been well used at my house becuase it's the only "tall" flower in the book! And I enjoy the look of the distressed stamp (the Creamy Caramel texture behind the flower), both with this set and mixed in with other sets, too. This particular stamp set will be deleted as of March 31st.
This is an invaluable template because this box uses only one measurement and no template! You only need one sheet of A4 card to make this size, but of course, it can be made smaller and bigger, shorter and taller to suit your needs.
I teach a fun class I call "No Template Bags and Boxes". Book yours today and receive your FREE Oh, So Lovely Stamp set!
Stamp sets: En Francais Background stamp, Oh, So Lovely, Occasional Greetings
Colours: Almost Amethyst, Creamy Caramel, Certainly Celery, Basic Black, various markers for colouring image
Other: Hodge Podge Clip for closure, ribbon, Dazzling Diamons glitter
This set has been a favourite with my hostesses - just about five weeks left and it will be deleted!
I don't use a lot of blue in my work naturally; so this one was a little stretch for me. The yellow card is Barely Banana, but the yellow ink is Summer Sun. Barely Banana and Summer Sun are the same yellow, just a shade and a tint of each other.
Using lights and darks of the same colour is an effective way to get some visual depth without creating extra contrast or "busy-ness" to a project. To further that idea, I used vellum for one of my layers because it didn't add any colour.
The clips in the Hodge Podge kits are another easy way to add just a bit of ribbon. It adds a lot of texture and colour without costing much, either, because you only use a few centimetres of ribbon.
I had a full-on weekend, three full days of non-stop going and going. But I enjoyed it! I really did - it's the wonderful ladies out there, the hugs, and the enthusiasm that makes this job so fun and rewarding. It's YOU who keep me going!
So my Monday post is Tuesday this week because I was with some of my favourite people on my normal blogging day.
This is a box I made up for a magazine layout, inspired by two different projects made by my downline, Tracee Jones (Waihi) and Pauline McArdle (Napier). I just love these colours together!
The flowers have been done using the Rock and Roll technique to acheive the hint of pink along the edges of the Barely Banana flowers. I am happy to show you this one upon request.
Bodacious Bouquet has been a favourite of mine, and I am sad to see that it will be deleted as of March 31st. This set is also on the Bushfire Appeal list (half of the cost of the set will be donated to the Bush Fire fund), so it's a great time to order this one while you still can!
Stamp Set: Bodacious Bouqet
Colours: Mellow Moss, Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose
Other: 5/8 vanilla grosgrain ribbon, rose red brads
This is my submission for my own challenge in February. I loved it! Okay, I had to shuffle the pictures a little because I could not fit them exactly to the design, but that's okay. A little creative license is encouraged!
I have used here the Crew Kids Girl Simply Scrappin Kit and still have enough left over to make at least ten more pages. I'm really impressed how economical scrapbooking kits can be!
The tricky bit on this one is the mitred corners. I wanted those stripes to be all facing "in", so had to figure out how to neatly do the corners. I think it worked out quite well! I used the scallop edge punch to create the added interest inside the frame and just popped on a tiny flower to cover where the scallops didn't perfectly meet. I was not about to start over at that stage . . . .
The layout inspriation then just calls for two areas of embellishments, which I made up largely of scraps, the sticker strips from the kit, and just some odds and ends I had in my drawer. I love how the glittered heart looks! I used a chipboard heart and then covered it with Stampin' Up!'s chunky glitter in pink.
The Title and the big pink heart are both stamps from the A Happy Heart set, one that I use lots and hope it stays around past March! I would love to use this one for much more than Valentine's. Email me to order your own set!
I have also used rub-ons on this page. I took some close-ups so you could see the detail. I prefer to add lots of detail to my pages, while keeping it relatively subtle so as to not take away from the photos and faces. Let me know what you think!
Submit your work to the monthly challenge! I love to see what others make - cards and off the page welcome too!
These are some quick and easy projects set to me by my soul-sister, Melinda. She belongs to a monthly stamp class club where she lives (in Idaho) and also has always made cards each and every month for all birthdays, anniversaries, blessings, baptisms, eagle scout courts, graduations . . you name it.
I love to see what my customers are creating - please send me pictures of your projects! Speaking of inspiration from Monday's post, I often get inspiration from others' work!
This is a super quick and easy project shown to me by my dear friend and fellow demonstrator, Anabel Welch.
I wanted to give a young girl a gift for watching after my children and untangling the huge WAD of necklaces, earrings, and bracelets I had. She enjoys baking, so I whipped up a wrapper for this cookbook for her using one sheet of the Dashing Designer Series Paper combined with the A Happy Heart Stamp set.
And this stamp set is fantastic - I'll use this one well past Valentine's Day. In fact, I am using it on a page for later in the week . . .
These are colours I would have never put together on my own, but took the inspiration from the front of the book. I like the combination! It's my opinion that you can find inspiration nearly anywhere. My favourite place to look is at the fabric store or at people's clothing. Where are your favourite place to find your inspiration? Leave your ideas in the comments, please; I'll be interested to hear what inspires you!
Your purchases can help the victims of the trafic Bush Fire in Australia.
To help those victims of the bushfires that have ravaged Victoria, join with us in supporting the Bushfire Appeal.
Here are the details:
From 12 February through 31 March 2009, Stampin' Up! will donate 50 percent of the retail value of all sales from a select group of 10 stamp sets to the Australia Red Cross Victorian Bushfires 2009 Appeal.
Here is a list of the Bushfire Appeal sets:
Stamp Set
Item Number
Page Number in Catalogue
Retail Price
Priceless
112312
105
48.95 AUD/57.95 NZD
Seeing Spots
108909
89
29.95 AUD /35.95 NZD
Baroque Motifs
112380
98
39.95 AUD /46.95 NZD
Live Your Dream
114261
3 (Summer Mini Catalogue)
55.95 AUD /66/95 NZD
Looks Like Spring*
108864
76
58.95 AUD /68.95 NZD
The Snowflake Spot*
108934
27
39.95 AUD /46.95 NZD
Bodacious Boquet*
108756
80
58.95 AUD /68.95 NZD
Polka Dots & Paisley*
110247
46
35.95 AUD /42.95 NZD
G'day Mate*
111973
115
35.95 AUD /42.95 NZD
Be Happy*
108744
51
39.95 AUD /46.95 NZD
*These sets will appear on the upcoming list of retiring products, so they will only be available for the Bushfire Appeal--while supplies last.
Please consider joining Stampin' Up's efforts to ease the pain and burdens of the victims of this tragedy. And I am thankful to be representing a company with such good heart.
To order your BushFire Appeal set, please contact me today.
Peekaboo cards are a fun twist on the traditional card and hold a sweet inside! This is a take on the lovely card AnneMarie designed a few weeks ago.
Once you know where to score, this one goes together very quickly. The centre window is made using the circle scallop punch, and then the remaining image is used to layer on the front.
The focal image is done using In the Stars stamp set and the two sizes of star punches. I added just a bit of glitter, even though I was going for masculine! I did run this by my husband, and he gave his approval.
Submitted by my friend, Lissa, she's made a framed art of her family using the All in the Family stamp set. And what a cool Christmas card something like this would make!
And the scrapbook pages . . .
Submit your work to be featured as a guest artist spot!
Are you like me? Do you sometimes pick up those chipboard pieces and wonder what to do with them?
I fiddled with these last week and came up with a result with which I am very pleased. (Eldest daughter Madeleine "helped" me by telling me when it looked bad). I used this technique on the title of my Sun Fun scrapbook page. And, of course, chipboard is an easy accessory for those tricky masculine projects.
See below for the tutorial of what I did; this is just the basics - the possibilites are endless! See here for the tutorial on how I did the flowers for this page.
I'd love to see how you use your chipboard! Besides embossing, some other ideas are:
I love these photos! I am lucky my father is an ameteur photographer, so I have loads and loads of awesome photos! These beautiful shots are of my second daughter at a beach in Washington state taken by my father. She's was such a happy kid! Still is!
I actually had these colours pulled out before the colour challenge was put up this week, although I have swapped the Taken with Teal for it's daughter, Tempting Turquoise. I struggled with this one for three days . . .I believe this is a scrapbooking thing: it doesn't work, doesn't work, and then the next day you wake up and it just fits.
I *really* wanted to use this wheel, Something Fishy, and the coordiating stamp set, Life's a Breeze. I just adore them & they had not yet seen ink!
I wanted to go with the clear buttons on this one, to sort of repeat the "bubble" theme from the wheel images. So I've got clear buttons in the centre of all the flowers, on the hidden journaling tag, and on photo #2 over punched circles of Designer Series Paper from the Petals and Paisleys collection.
The title just turned out so neat! I fiddled and fiddled with what I would do, and really love the final result. Movie Monday will show what I did here and how.
All supplies Stampin' Up! except the embroidery thread through the clear buttons
Colours used: Tempting Turquoise, Taken with Teal, Whisper White, So Saffron, Old Olive, Certainly Celery
Stamp sets used: Life's a Breeze, Something Fishy wheel
Other: Clear buttons, Petals and Paisleys Designer Series Paper, Mat Pack, Apricot grosgrain ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, Pretties Kit (flowers), reinkers, various circle punches
Order the stamp sets and wheel, the Designer Series Paper, the clear buttons, and one ink pad and receive a FREE Sale-A-Bration set! Click here to see the Sale-A-Bration brochure and Here to place your order!
Likely the most difficult cards to design . . masculine! And a Valentine to boot!
Inspired by the beautiful elements from Nicki Tidbold's swap, I set out to design a card for the men in our lives.
I have used a double card design here for added interest. The concept is simple - make a smaller, coordinating card and adhere to the front of your main card, which gives you lots of room for writing love notes (or for an invitation!). I told my ladies that were here for class that if you didn't have much to say, then just do some conveniently extra stamping inside the cards!
This card uses a neat trick with the crimper. First, run your card through one way, turn it 90 degrees, and run it through again. Repeat until you have the texture you would like.
The buckles or hinges here is the Designer Label punch turned sideways. Love it!
The hearts used here are great for Masculine Valentine because they are not toooo girly. They are from the set Polka Dot Punches and you can only get this set for FREE during Sale-A-Bration (running through the end of the month) with any qualifying order or workshop. I love the punched tin look of these stamps. And the fact that they coordinate with the punches makes them extra easy to use!
Yes, you still have time to get this set before Valentine's Day! Email me to get yours sent out today!
I took this idea from Angie Juda, a demo from the United States. I can see where she's from, but from her accent, I'd guess Texas? You can see her project here. And this is my adaptation on it:
This is a super easy project, made easy by the slit punch. This is such a useful punch for creating little closures!
The images are from both Big On Spring and from Love Owl-ways, both sets from the Summer Mini Catalogue. The scallop is done with the new scallop edge punch.
I love the Love Owl-ways set for Valentines because it includes words suitable for friends. I suggest we all make a valentine and remember our girlfriends! My girls and I are going to make up Valentine treats and take them to some of the the single ladies at church.
Of course you can change the dimensions and the treat inside to suit you! please email me for the dimensions on this to fit the Whittaker's chocolates.
Colours Used: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Purely Pomegranate, Basic Black, Whisper White
Spinner cards are so quick and easy! This was one of the several fabulous projects we did at our Extravaganza in Auckland on Saturday.
The photograph does not do this one justice because it's a project you need to pick up and play with! The flower image spins rapidly from side to side, adding a fun, WOW element to your card.
The stamp set used here is the Polka Dot Punches set, one of the four FREE sets you can earn during Sale-A-Bration. I love how easily this is punched out with the five petal flower punch! The cute sentiment is from the Yummy set, another Freebie during February!
The slot is made using the Word Window Punch. Yes, you can make the punch images bigger! Now that might get the wheels turning . . .
There are more Extravaganza's scheduled in February; please check my calendar for one near you!
Colours used: Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa, Purely Pomegranate, Whisper White
