Here's another card from my Stamp Club this month. My upline, Phyllis, designed this card. She always does a fantastic job!! She's so creative and has lots more time than I do. She always tells me that I shouldn't have had so many kids - ha ha! Well, what can I do, I love them, but sometimes they just need attention, so I don't get as much time to create as I would like. In the five years that I've been a demonstrator, I can't tell you how many times Phyllis has saved me by planning the projects and encouraging me to copy. Really, I guess that's what this beautiful thing called stamping is all about and I believe wholeheartedly in the "CASE" method - Copy And Share Everything! Phyllis is an awesome upline and I'm so blessed to have her! Ok, she'll "pay" me later for saying all that good stuff... ha ha!!
This is such an elegant card that you can use for whatever fall occasion you may have. I've been doing a lot of "thinking of you" cards to have on hand. I love sending cards to my Sunday School girls just to let them know that they're on my mind. Ok, back to the card... I'm getting a little distracted this morning... need more coffee!!
Using your favorite color ink pads and a sponge, gently rub color onto Glossy White cardstock in a circular motion. Start with your lightest color. Here, we used More Mustard, Ruby Red and Old Olive. Alternate colors until you've covered up the white. Use a soft tissue to rub off any extra ink.
Stamp your sentiment using Stazon ink. Turn your Glossy cardstock over and holding firmly rub the back of the cardstock to remove any excess ink.
Stamp your leaf images using our Encore Gold ink pad and emboss using Gold embossing powder. The gold embossing powder is great because you can really tell when your image is embossed. The details go from a dull color to a very shiny gold.
Mount the Glossy cardstock onto Old Olive and tie the Old Olive 5/8" Grosgrain around these two layers.
Mount this onto your Ruby Red card using Dimensionals.
It's that easy! I hope you enjoy this beautiful creation! And Thank You Phyllis for sharing with me AGAIN!!
Here's another one of our projects from this month's Dive 'n2 Stampin' workshop. This treat bag is copied from page 10 of the Holiday Mini Catalog. I changed the stamp set from the one in the catalog because, if you can believe it, I don't have the Twick or Tweet set yet. It's crazy I know, but I'm trying so very hard to practice self-control! Oh boy, it's hard!! I'll make these little treat bags for Keegan's class for Halloween.
This is the Scallop Bag Big Shot die from Stampin' Up! The scallop circle is punched out of the Night & Day Specialty Paper on page 11 of the Holiday Mini. I love the little owl. It looks like he's just sitting there wondering what you're looking at. So cute!! He's stamped in Basic Black ink on a different page of the Designer Series Specialty. I love that the words fit on the Word Window punch too. The circles are glued on the scallop flap and the flap is glued down. The Bag with Scallops actually has two sides that are punched out when you run it through the Big Shot. We didn't use these for this project so you can just pull your candy out through the side. Gotta love easy-access candy!! Try this treat bag for any occasion!
Start with a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock 3-3/4" x 6-3/4"; score on the 3-3/4" side 3/4" on each side. Score on the 6-3/4" side at 2-1/4" and 3".
Stamp the grass from the Pumpkin Patch stamp set along the bottom front edge of the box in Pumpkin Pie ink. Stamp words on top of box using Chocolate Chip ink. Assemble box.
Stamp the pumpkin onto a 1-1/2" x 1-3/4" piece of Whisper White cardstock in Pumpkin Pie ink. Stamp the face and stem in Chocolate Chip ink. Stamp the grass and curly vine in Old Olive ink. Adhere to box using Dimensionals.
I printed the "Christians are like pumpkins" poem with my printer onto Whisper White cardstock. I cut the poems to 1-7/8" x 2-7/8" and mounted it to a 2" x 3" piece of Old Olive cardstock. I slipped the poem into my box behind my treats (those will not last long!!!).
"Christians are like pumpkins. God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then he cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, unforgiveness, etc., and then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see. Shine for Jesus!
Here's another card from this month's Dive 'n2 Stampin' Workshop. This card uses the Very Thankful stamp set, which is this year's Ronald McDonald House Charity Stamp Set. I buy the RMHC stamp sets every year. They are adorable, of course, but Stampin' Up! also donates $2 to the Ronald McDonald House Charities for every set sold. That means not only can I stamp with the cutest new stamp set, but I'm helping the Ronald McDonald House at the same time. This year's set has a very elegant peacock, a flowery circle border, a turtle that I just want to pick up and hug and this sweet little boy! Do you just love his hair???
This was another very simple card. I used the new In Color Textured Soft Suede cardstock (3" x 12", folded in half) as the base of my card. My layers are Whisper White, Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay cardstock. I stamped the little boy in Basic Black ink on my square of Whisper White cardstock. I colored him in using our brand new In Color Markers - Love them!!!!! I even colored the little boy's hair with the Crushed Curry Marker. I mounted my layers and attached them to my card using Dimensionals. Next I punched the 1" circle on the front of the card and stamped "from all of us" inside the circle on the Whisper White cardstock. For this step, I used my temporary adhesive to stick my Whisper White cardstock on the inside of my card, just in case I messed up my words... I needed to have that backside to use, just in case! Once I stamped my words, I mounted that layer using my Tombow glue. Finally, I used a small paintbrush and our new Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint to put a little shine on the heart. I was very pleased at how quickly our Shimmer Paints dry. So, there you have it, a quick and easy "Thank You" card that you needed ten minutes ago... Oh wait, that's how I do things - ha ha!! Hope you enjoyed this card.
Come and replenish your card supply. We will create 10 cards for a variety of occasions. Envelopes are provided.
The fee for this class is $20.00 and is payable no later than Monday, September 21, 2009.
Hi there! Boy has this been a whirlwind week! Kids in school and tons of homework... not for them, but for me! What's that all about?? Seems to me we could use some paper conservation here. Lucky for me that I was actually ahead of schedule for once. I really do try to look ahead and plan accordingly. And it's amazing that I can do that in certain things, but usually not here at home and not often with stamping. But this time I used my Labor Day to, well, "labor" - more like a labor of love. Instead of doing any one of the many household tasks that need to be done, I spent all day stamping!!! It was such a great day!!! I emptied lots of past project boxes and now I have bunches of cards sitting here ready to be used (of course, the trick is to actually use them). I also worked on the swap that I needed for my upline meeting last night. It was so refreshing to come home from work yesterday and know that I was all ready to go, especially with the mounds of homework that my three children brought me.
Stamp the frilly flower onto a 4-1/4" x 3-3/4" piece of Whisper White cardstock using Basic Black ink. Using a Sponge Dauber, dab the Platinum Shimmer Paint very lightly onto flowers. Be sure to dab onto your scratch paper first so that your dauber isn't heavily coated with paint.
Using the Big Shot, the Movers & Shapers Die and the Modern Label Punch Window, punch out the Modern Label using a scrap of Basic Black cardstock.
Stamp the "Congratulations" in Basic Black ink onto a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock. Punch out using the Modern Label Punch. Mount onto the Basic Black Modern Label.
Mount flower onto 5-1/4" x 4" piece of Brushed Silver cardstock.
Tie Whisper White Organza Ribbon around the Brushed Silver cardstock. Mount onto Basic Black card.
Mount Modern Label onto card using Dimensionals.