This is the last project we will be creating at our July club meeting. The first two are the sunflower card and the quick & cute card I posted earlier.
I felt like playing with my Big Shot, so I got out my Fancy Favor box die and just started creating. This is what I came up with:
I have been in the mood to play with my sweet treat cups too. This basket will be given to my mother-in-law for her birthday in July. Part of her gift is a Scooter's gift card and it will hide perfectly underneath the Red Riding Hood strips of confetti.
Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted
Stamps: teeny tiny wishes
Paper: so saffron, red riding hood, marina mist
Ink: real red
Accessories: gold brads (to attach handle to sides), fancy favor die, big shot, sweet treat cups, vintage wallpaper textured impressions, crimper, M & M candies (hy-vee grocery), DIMENSIONALS
Every month at club, I want to create one quick & cute card for club members. We don't always have a lot of time, when we find out we need a card. I combined the need for a quick & cute card with wanting to play along with Lori's sketch this week at Paper Craft Planet. If you play along with the sketch challenge this week, don't forget to tag your card sk061910.
I ran across a card in the Stampin' Success, which is a monthly publication we receive as demonstrators. The card demonstrates using dry embossing with punches or dies, and some of the new colors. Love it! It is perfect for this sketch. I changed one thing from the card in Stampin' Success. Instead of paper piercing along the bottom of the sentiment, I added a scallop border.
For the dry embossed circles, I used my 1 1/2" circle and 1 1/4" circles punches. I punched them out on a medium window sheet and used it as my template like the way I did the bird on this card. It might even work better on the thick window sheets.
Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted
Stamps: thank you kindly, i {heart} hearts
Paper: marina mist, daffodil delight, certainly celery, riding hood red
Oh, I love happy mail! I received this card last week from my upline, Kim Bennett. It is so nice to walk to the mailbox and find a handmade card inside instead of bills or junk mail. Thanks, Kim!
She made this for me, because I have two new downlines. YAY! Hi, Debbie and Denise!
Isn't this soooo pretty! Love it! I think I am going to have to CASE this one.
Pals Paper Arts is another blog I love to visit every day. I like to see their challenges and hope to play along, but don't always get to. When I saw this week summer theme challenge, I knew I had to create something. I have had a card is my head (not literally...hee hee), since the occasions mini came out in January.
There was a new stamp set to use with the sweet treat cups called Something Sweet. I I loved it and had to have it! I already owned Sweet Centers and knew these two sets would work well together. I haven't played with Something Sweet until today. Great news! Both of these sets are in the new catalog available July 1st. Here is the card that has been just a thought until today:
Yes, those are sunflower seeds in the treat cup. I put a door inside the card, so the seeds could be removed without tearing the card apart. I almost forget! Isn't the designer paper pretty! It is the new Greenhouse Gala. The yellow I used is the new Daffodil Delight. Oh, the new catty is awesome!
Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted
Stamps: Sweet centers, something sweet
Paper: old olive, certainly celery, daffodil delight, pumpkin pie, whisper white
Ink: daffodil delight, pumpkin pie
Accessories: sweet treat cups, green button (stash), square lattice textured impressions, dimensionals, big shot, sunflower seeds
Punches: scallop trim border, 1 3/4" circle, photo corners
Techniques: sweet treat cups
Reminder.......
Only a few weeks left to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator for just $99.00. Great deal! You won't be sorry. I'm not!
I am so glad I got the time to play along with the Color Throwdown Challenge this week. The colors to use are Not Quite Navy, Certainly Celery and Cameo Coral. I looked in my paper stash and had all of them, so I started creating. I even got to use some NEW products that will be available in the new catalog on July 1st. Yippee! The new products I used on this card are Perfect Punches stamp set, Greenhouse Gala designer series paper, and Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions. The pearls I used for this one are not SU!; however, we will be carrying pearls in three sizes starting July. Awesome!
Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted
Stamps: Perfect punches, medallion
Paper: whisper white, not quite navy, certainly celery, cameo coral, greenhouse gala dsp
Ink: night of navy, certainly celery, sorbet (other)
Accessories: vintage wallpaper textured impressions, pearls (other), flower folds big shot die
Punches: scallop border punch, curly label, 1 1/4" circle
Techniques: color throwdown challenge
Just a reminder....only a few more days to order from the Last Chance list.
YAY! I have finished the last two sketches for the June Scrappy Sunday challenges hosted by Jen. I combined sketches c & d, so I could create another two-page layout. This time I used the photos from Tate's 9th birthday. No, I am not caught up to this year's pictures. Over a year ago, I decided to stop scrapping chronologically, and have been so glad I did. I just take of look at my pics and scrap whatever I feel like at the time. I got burned out on always thinking I was sooo far behind. In addition, sometimes I didn't feel like scrapping what was next.
Here are the sketches c & d that I recreated in My Digital Studio:
Here is my layout for Tate:
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Look at the picture of Tate and Tanner hugging on the first page. They are such great buddies. I love the challenge of creating a sketch using My Digital Studio with the supplies SU! offers. Again, I made a couple minor changes to tie my pages together.
There are some new digital download for My Digital Studio. Oh, I can't wait to use these. Don't forget...you can use these downloads on other programs that supports .jpg, .png files and layers.
July Fourth Stamp Brush Set, #121072 - $3.95
King of the Grill Stamp Brush Set, #123174 - $3.95
Well, I did it! I made this video before Tanner woke up. He was just coming down the stairs in the last 30 seconds. Whew! Talk about lucky! I had to do some editing to get it around 10 minutes. ENJOY!
We had a great weekend! In fact, it was a wonderful week. Tanner had his first two tennis lessons last week, and they didn't get rained out. Whew! We had a lot of rain (on and off), so I was a little worried one would be canceled.
I have been scrapping over the last week with My Digital Studio, because I create between pool time, cleaning and errands. I just leave the program open and do as much as I can, save it and return to scrap some more. Now, that we have our awning up I plan to scrap pool side too.
I decided to play along this month with Scrappy Sunday at Paper Craft Planet. Jen is a fabulous hostess for these challenges. Check it out! What I wanted to do was take the four one-page layouts and create two (2) two-page layouts. I used My Digital Studio to recreate the sketches. Oh, so much fun! Since I combined sketches a & b and sketches c & d, I added a little to each two-page layout to tie them together. Here are the first two sketches:
Here is my layout:
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Oh, how I have fallen in love with digital scrapbooking, especially since I bought My Digital Studio. One of my friends asked me why I love it so much, because she traditionally scraps. I can go on and on about it, but here are the top reasons:
1. I used to print my pictures at home. Then add them to my layout. Now, I can create my layout around my pictures and have the entire layout printed.
2. When I have a layout for both Tate and Tanner, I just print two or take an additional few minutes to change the pictures, journaling and colors.
3. Clean up is easy...just hit SAVE and turn off your computer.
4. When I travel, I can just take my laptop and everything is there.
5. A 12 x 12 layout only costs me $2.95 per page. That is awesome! I just wait to have a few created and print them all at once. They are delivered directly to my door by my wonderful UPS man.
Can you think of some good ones I didn't list?
Here is a video with Mark Jessen about My Digital Studio:
If you have any questions, please let me know.
I was wondering if you would like me to show you how to create layouts on My Digital Studio. I have a program that will show you what I do, so you could scrap with me. Interested? Please leave me a comment and let me know or send me an email.
BTW, my plans for tomorrow is to tape my clown video, edit it and put it on my blog. Wish me luck!
