Andrew Name Frame

While I’m away enjoying a fabulous 20th Anniversary Celebration at Stampin’ Up!’s Convention I thought I’d share a few miscellaneous projects with you.   Hope you don’t mind!   This Name Frame was made for a friend’s son.  (I actually made it last November/December and still have yet to give it to them!  Ridiculous, huh?!?!)  Anyway, it uses some retired designer series papers, the Everyday Flexible Phrases (current) and LetterPress (retired) stamp sets, some wide chocolate grosgrain ribbon, some 1/4" blue grosgrain ribbon (retired), a couple pieces of hodgepode, a brad, and my Xyron to make the letters into stickers.  I tend to struggle with ‘boy’ things and it’s very, very difficult for me to keep ribbon off of anything, but I think this works, what do you think?

A note about the frame: this frame was one that had a matte cut for 3 photos.   I simply took the matte out, cut my background designer series paper the same size as the matte and started decorating!  (You could cut it larger to fill up the frame, just don’t decorate those edges that will be hidden by the frame edges.)

Sticky Cut Heart Card

Here’s my middle child (future SU! demo for sure!) holding one of the Apricot Appeal card club cards.  She and her sister think it’s beautiful and I hope all my club members do too! 

Sneak Peek – Bella Rose DSP

Well, I know the retired list and accessories can be a bit of a downer but remember there is always a plethora of new, exciting, gorgeous Stampin’ Up! products coming to replace the retired ones!!!  And this sample showcases some of the ‘NEW’ to be available on August 11.  This chipboard calendar was one of the four projects made at my Demo Only Stamp camp this month.  Members of my team got to play with the new paper and new colors! 

This is the Bella Rose designer series paper (DSP).  It features (drum roll please) not one, but two new In Colors for ’08-’09 – Riding Hood Red and Kiwi Kiss.  It also has (as you can see in the polka dot strip) my favorite color (just ask my girls) Chocolate Chip.

What exactly are you looking at?  It’s a chipboard coaster covered in the Bella Rose dsp (I used Mod Podge to adhere the dsp) and a binder clip as the base stand.  The medallion is from the Baroque Motifs stamp set (LOVE it) and I know it’s hard to tell from the picture (I promise, I’ll be getting a new camera and have better images in the future!) but I inked up the medallion in Riding Hood Red, wiped off the ink from the dots with a tissue, and then used my Chocolate Chip marker to apply ink to the dots, gave the stamp a good huff, and stamped it on Whisper White, cut it out, added a vintage brad, and adhered with a dimensional.

The ribbon is the Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon (yummy).

The chipboard coasters and calendars were purchased here.  Wouldn’t this make a great teacher or co-worker gift?  I think these would jazz up anyone’s desk!

Let them ‘Eat Cake’

This is one design of the five we made at our Oldies but Goodies stamp a stack.  Not only is this super versatile birthday set retiring but the card features many retiring accessories as well (sniff, sniff).  These include Wild Wasabi CS as the card base, East Coast Prep designer series paper, and the Wild Wasabi striped grosgrain ribbon.

By the way, the Oldies but Goodies class was a blast!  We (well, some of us) enjoyed RootBeer floats and my homemade chocolate chip cookies.  Everyone made 10 cards, 2 each of 5 designs.

What I love about this card is creating the scalloped look without having an oval scallop punch!  The look is easy to create.  I used the coluzzle to achieve the oval layers and the 3/4" circle punch to create the scallop.  In this card we simply punched out twelve 3/4" circles and glued them behind the oval layer, one at a time, always checking from the front to make sure the ‘scallop appearance’ is even.  Then I mimicked the scallop with one single circle and the ‘eat cake’ sentiment on it, popped up on a dimensional.  Fun!  Anyone, from age 1 – 100 would love receiving this handmade card!