club card and tags

I was hoping to show you some of the ornaments my sister and I made during our Thanksgiving time together, but I can't find my adapter for my camera. We cleaned up to have Thanksgiving dinner here at our house for my husband's family, so I have to find where my husband put it. As soon as I find it I'll post some. There were some really cool ones made and I can't wait to share, especially the punch ones and the sparkly ones, so check back soon. In the meantime, these are the last couple of objects we did at club. I thought you might want to see them if you weren't involved or remember an idea if you were, especially since this is the time of the year we all get ready for Christmas. So did anyone go shopping this weekend? I did some today too. Don't forget the extravaganza sale if you are interested. Some items are supposedly already sold out. It's good only through Dec. 1st while supplies last. See my post from a couple of days ago if you need updated on what it is. Also the rub-on sale ends Nov. 30th too. When you spend $20 you get 20% off rub-ons. My SU website is open if you need to make an order, just click here.

This first card was fairly simple to make. The saying and ornaments are stamped using the silver encore ink. It takes longer to dry (like pigment), so we heat gunned it to make sure it was dry. Then the ornament tops were punched out of the silver paper which gave it a glimmery look which you can't really see here.
So here is what I used for this card.
paper: old olive, real red, silver, ww
ink: silver encore
stamps: snow swirled and Best Yet (hostess level 1)
accessories: silver cording, 1 3/4" circle punch, designer label punch, cropodile, dimensionals, heat gun.

Since we made the book and the card there was a little bit of a gap time finishing the little book, so while people waited we made these little tags. They were super easy. Just stamped the images, punched the corners and holes and thread the ribbon through.
For these I used the following:
inks: Old olive, bashful blue and night of navy
paper: old olive, night of navy and ww
stamps: To you and yours
accessories: tag corner punch, cropodile, olive and bashful grosgrain ribbon.
Well I hope you have another great day. I have to go get some stuff ready for tomorrow. Some friends are coming for a BYOS get together, which is a "Bring your own stuff" time. Where everyone brings there projects and takes time to work on them together. We enjoy getting together with friends, so it should be fun.

Here is the little booklet that I talked about earlier that we did at our last club meeting. I was taught this idea at convention from SU. I did add images on the inside using several fallish stamp sets (Lovely as a Tree, etc).
I thought it would be cool to add stuff in it that makes you happy (about life, or a person, etc) or things you are thankful for and maybe fill out at Thanksgiving or something. Just something to remind you how blessed you are to have what you have or love someone you do (what a blessing for someone to get something like this telling them why they are important to someone else.) Even a child would love to hear what you like about them or spouse even. When was the last time you shared what your spouse does that makes you happy? It can also be a mini scrapbook, basically it's fairly versatile. Just a few thoughts anyways.
This book can be made two ways. One you can take love notes and fold them together add an envelope in front and one in back and then punch together or you can just take paper and make a booklet. Either way works well. If you use little envelopes you can tuck in the flap and use it as an extra pocket to stick more notes or pictures in.
Here is what I did to make this little booklet. First I scored the left sides about 1/4" so it will open cleanly. I stamped my images and spritzed the cover. I did the coloring using a removal technique, which I'll explain in a moment. I versa marked the inside pages. I then stacked them all up and then I cropodiled my edges and threaded ribbon through and tied in a knot. Lastly I put a drop of crystal effects on some of the flowers and added an orange bead. Pretty easy.
Oh, I almost forgot. How did I use tangerine tango and chocolate chip together to stamp the image? I stamped the image with tangerine tango and then used my blender pen to remove ink on the branches and then used my chocolate chip marker to fill in the lines of color I removed. So that's a way to cheat so to speak since SU doesn't have In-color markers. Hope this helps.


here are the parts I used to make my book.
papers: very vanilla and tangerine tango
ink: Versa mark, Tangerine tango; chocolate chip and really rust markers
stamps: Warm words, Eastern blooms, Lovely as a tree
accessories: old olive grosgrain, cropodile, bone folder, cutter, spritzer, blender pens, crystal effects, orange bead duo.

Turkey day

I had to share this little turkey. I thought he was really cute. He is made out of punches. This is one SU showed us how to make and he is really cute on this little notecard. I hope he makes you smile today.
The body is 1 3/8" circle punch, a 3/4" circle for his head, two 1/4" circles for buttons, double circle for eyes, 3/4" square (trimmed down for hat), boho flowers for feet and a part of petal for beak. The wings are scallop punches folded. First you fold down 5 of the little humps, then turn it over and fold in half with the flat part at the top (this half line will be a guide). Then open it up with the humps still folded over and then with the humps in the back fold down top corner to center line (kind of like you do for a paper airplane). Do this for both sides. Then it's done and you place behind your turkey. I then adhered the turkey with dimensionals to give it a little dimension.
The colors I used were pumpkin pie, black, riding hood red, kiwi kiss, chocolate chip, more mustard, ww. Thanks for looking and have a great Turkey day!

Happy Thanksgiving

This is an idea I got from another SU Demo (sorry I don't remember the name). This card is one I made for my club members. I thought it was nice but simple to mass produce. We made several items this past meeting. I wanted them to know how thankful I am for them and we also made a book that I'll show soon, that they could use to write items that they were thankful for. I know our family is blessed to have friends and family members that we love. Don't forget to take time this holiday to say thanks to someone you love and tell them how much you love them.
Have a great Thanksgiving day.

Here is what I used to make this card:
paper: kraft, tangerine tango, ski slope dsp
ink: close to cocoa
stamps: Holiday & wishes
accessories: wide oval punch, daubers, olive narrow grosgrain, chocolate chip wide grosgrain, glue dots and dimensionals

Holiday Extravaganza

Update: Click on the flyer on the left to see it bigger.

From December 26th thru Dec 1 SU is holding a Holiday Extravaganza promotion. Starting Wednesday, if you go to my SU website you can order some specials at reduced price. They haven't told us what yet, but it's my understanding that it's bundled items that are discounted, rumor has up to 50% off. Now we know how rumors are and SU is being really hush hush about what's to come, so there is no guarantee there, but there is a lot of chatter and speculation about it all. They have also shared it's while supplies last, so if you really like something get it, because there is no guarantee it will be there a few days later. So if you need some stuff for Christmas, go to my site and see if there is anything you'd like for Christmas. Let me know if you have any questions. I'll do my best to answer them. Have a great day.

Holy Triptych Christmas ornament

The Christmas bug has already been hitting me. I've done several cards, a few scrapbook pages, a treasure book for holiday memories. I enjoy making fun things for the holidays. How about you? One thing we use to do as kids is make crafts for the holiday, especially ornaments. Besides having fun with the Christmas kits, I've also been experimenting with other techniques as well. This one is done with acetate and Black Staz-on. I colored this in with a blue and yellow sharpie and my white Staz-on. I then added dazzling diamond glitter to the white wing. I added in some iridescent filler to the inside to give it more of a surreal feel to it, but it was really quick and easy. Here is what I used to make this ornament.
Stamps: Holy Triptych
ink: Black & white Staz-on, Sharpie markers (non SU)
paper: acetate
accessories: coluzzle, dazzling diamond glitter, silver cording, cropodile, aqua painter

I hope you get the bug to to have fun and enjoy some holiday craft making too. Have a great day and remember to tell those you love how much you appreciate and love them.

Scrapbook with Season to Share

These are a couple 6 x 6 pages made with the Season to Share accents and elements. These were quick and easy which I'm liking now. Especially with the holidays coming up, the quicker the better.

Both of these pages were made with Riding Hood red and Kiwi Kiss and some of the cardstock stickers from the Season to Share. When you put them together the green flows continuously across both pages.


Sorry, I haven't updated much lately. With my all the events for my sons birthday and just normal stuff, plus some extra getting ready for holiday stuff (like rehearsals, cleaning, planning, etc) it's been more difficult. No excuse really, but it at least lets you know what's going on. I'm assuming some of you all are experiencing some of the same stuff and know what I mean. Just remember to take time out to spend with God, your family and make some time for you too. It never fails this time of year - we never take time to relax and enjoy what's around us. Take a moment today and do that - and then breathe and then smile. Because after all, when you reflect on it, we are all truly blessed. :)

Season to Share part 3

Okay, I hope you all aren't getting sick of the season to share. I just had fun playing with this. I also have scrapbook pages, but I'll share those tomorrow. Then I'll share what I did at club and a box I'd like to show you how to do, but I have to get more pictures taken first. I'm sorry I haven't posted much. It's not even the holidays and I've gotten so busy. My son just turned 5 and he's had like 4 different celebrations already and one more to go (kid party, school, my family, my husband's family, etc). He's one excited, sugared up kid. Not to mention keeping up with all the kids activities, homework and I got to enjoy club this week with some great ladies. I also have a bags, tags and gift card class I'm getting ready for on Saturday so it's been a busy week. Of course many of you deal with the same thing, so you know what I mean. So here are some more fun projects for you to peruse. I hope you enjoy them.
This first card was easy. I wanted it to look like a package, but was also trying to make it flat in case I wanted to mail it, so I just cut strips of paper and used the mono adhesive to glue them together and topped it off with a punched circle and added a tag sticker from the Season to share elements. Really quick and easy. I used Riding hood red and kiwi kiss paper.

I was playing around with package looking cards and this one uses the old olive wide grosgrain ribbon. I just looped a bow in the center and held it together with a small piece of ribbon and glue dots. I then added the two small tags and got a cute present card. Again I used the Riding hood red paper.




This last item is 2 separate tags. I just placed them on red paper so they would show up on my white table. All I did with these is placed the sticker on paper, matted them and then used my ticket corner punch and my tag punch and trimmed the corners. Then used my cropodile and hole punched it and added ribbon. It was done in nothing flat. You ought to try some. They are found in the accessories section of the catalog - called Season to Share. For these tags I used the following: Riding hood red, kiwi kiss, & whisper white paper; the tag and ticket corner punches, cropodile, whisper white ribbon and old olive ribbon. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day

Season to Share part 2

I'm having fun playing with this element kit. Here are a couple more cards I made using the Season to Share element kit.
For the green card I used the following.
Paper: old olive, riding hood red, white
ink: old olive
stamps: winter post
accessories: season to share





For the red card (kind of like Santa's belly). I used the following:
paper: riding hood red, black
accessories: Season to share and 1/2" circle punch.

These are super easy to make and quick too. You ought to try some. I'll post more soon, so be back soon to look. Let me know what you think.

accents and elements part 1 - season to share

One of the new things I have been playing with is from the accents and elements section of the catalog. This set is called Season to Share. It comes with 12 self adhesive sheets, 3 each of 4 designs. You can layer them together to create cards, scrapbook pages tags, and other crafty items. Here are the first 3 I'm posting. I'll post more later, so come back soon to see.
Also one thing about being a demonstrator is that they provide you with ideas. These three ideas were either exact replicas or slightly altered versions that SU shared with us. They were quick and easy. All the words and most of the colored areas are the stickers although some of the circles are not, but were punched with punches, so these can be combined with other products you have on hand too. Really super easy. You ought to try some. It's a little hard to see but the kraft circle has little circles the same color on the inside and the large green circle has paper piercings all the way around.
This first card I used the following:
paper: riding hood red, old olive, kraft, white
ink: black
stamps: Holidays and wishes
Accessories: season to share, 1 3/4, 1 3/8, 1 1/3", 1/2", & 1" circle punches, paper piercer and mat, dimensionals


This second card uses the following:
paper: riding hood red, kraft, white
accessories: season to share elements, on board something seasonal, hemp twine, corner rounder




This last card uses the following items:
Paper: old olive, riding hood red
accessories: season to share, white tafeta ribbon, dimensionals

personal update

Hey everyone,
Sorry I haven't posted much lately. Life has been busy it seems and I've been letting it get to me. I've also been trying to keep up with all my classes and club this month as well as trying to spend time with friends and family, both of which are very important to me. I've been trying to do some soul seeking too and need some time to let things sink in some. Of course, I haven't had too much time to do that, but I'm trying and could use some prayer along those lines.

Anyways, there has been exciting thing going on though. We just tonight finished the last of our gift class items. We ended up splitting the items into two different days to make it easier to get stuff done. Tonight we worked on the perpetual calendar which makes a great Christmas gift. Here is a peak at a couple of the pages we did. These are May and July. Aren't they cute? This calendar was fun for me, because it uses so many different stamps and colors. I like variety for sure. I've also worked on some other items and as soon as I can find where my husband laid the camera, I'll take some pics for you. I hope you all are doing great. If you have any questions, let me know.

For May I used Inspired by Nature and Garden Whimsy (two of my favorite sets) and for July I used the Spotlight on Christmas set (the star). I like using sets out of context so this was fun I thought. Have a great day.

Rub-on promotion

From now till November 30th whenever you spend $20 on Stampin' Up! products you qualify for 20% off all rub-ons. "For only $8.76 per package (regularly $10.95), you can get any of Stampin' Up!'s fun and unique Rub-Ons that can be used on cards, scrapbook pages, crafting projects, and more!" I just used some on some ornaments and a scrapbook page. What can you do with yours?

country living holiday collection stampin kit

From now till December 31st (or while supplies last), Stampin' Up! is offering a special kit (Country living holiday collection stampin kit) that was showcased in the Holiday edition of Country living. You can go here to see more details or you can order from me at my SU site here. The kit is 49.95 and consists of chipboard, pre-cut dsp to fit the chipboard, ink, pretties, cording, glitter, adhesive, etc. Pretty much everything you would need to make some cool Christmas decorations and packaging elements. Let me know if you would like to hear more about this cool offer.

holiday recipe album

This is a fun idea I put together to show at my gift class.
This is an idea to keep your holiday recipes together in one place. You can copy your ideas into it and then use the in between sheets to record memories, pictures, etc. Kind of like a recipe scrapbook.
It was pretty easy to put together. This is made using our small onboard chipboard. I then added some cardstock and DSP, a few accessories and layers and then it's done. It can even stand up if you need it too. It's a fun project, you ought to try it.
Here is what I used for my cover. I used the Ski slope DSP, Riding Hood Red paper, whisper white paper. I used the Big Shot and cut out the large snowflake and the letters (using Gogo boots alpha). I then added a couple of felt flurries and punched holes for my rings and was done.
This is the sheet where my recipe goes. I used the strip of DSP to hold the recipe like a pocket. That way I can add more then one card if need to or add a picture or notes or even a hand written recipe. There are a lot of options this way. This page also uses From the kitchen of stamp set and baja blue and versa mark ink.




This is a sample of the divider page (each section has a divider page). You can't see it real well in this picture but there are snow flakes stamped in versa mark on each of my cardstock pages. I thought you could write memories on this or tell your favorites, etc. On each divider page I stamped the item (i.e. desserts, meats & main dishes, etc), colored it in with my aqua painter, and punched it out with 1 1/4" circle punch. Then I added a colored 1 3/8" circle and a scallop under that and then adhered it to my page on the side leaving the room to share info on the main page.
I also used several colors throughout the book, but my main colors are Baja Blue, Riding hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate chip. The snowflake comes from the Snow Swirled stamp set.

I won't have time right away, but I can't wait to work on this. I'll hopefully have more time as the holidays get closer and can write down some thoughts about stuff and maybe some updated pictures. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this and it inspires you to create something fun too.

barrettes

I was trying to debate different gift ideas and things that could be quick and easy. So besides the Shrinky Dink material I was also playing with a few other jewelry finds that I got at the same time and I was wondering how I could decorate these barrettes for my daughter and make them somewhat fun and durable. Here is what I came up with this time. I covered them with punched and die cut paper and then coated the whole thing with Crystal effects. It's still a little flexible, but will hold up a lot better then just plain paper.
These first ones are made with the Juntos paper - have I said that I really like this for fall colors. I also used my Big Shot and Leaves die. This is just a fun fall one for her to wear to school

This second one I thought would be fun for election day or 4th of July or any other fun time in between.
It's made with the star punch and Real Red, Brilliant Blue and Whisper white paper. Very quick and easy.







Here is also a picture of the back so you can see what that looks like. I put Crystal effects there too to help protect it and glue it on.

bracelet

This is some more shrinky dink fun. It's made with the Spotlight on Christmas stamp set and white Shrinky Dinks. It's then cut out using the five petal punch and hole punched with the 1/8" punch and then put on a ring and attached to the bracelet.
Really easy and fun.