My Daughter’s Birthday Invitations

(Originally posted on November 10, 2008)

So, my baby girl (yes, she’s our middle child at the moment but she’ll always be our baby girl!) is turning 4 next month.  I can’t even believe it.  Of course she’s crazy excited for her party and has been busy making her own invitations for weeks now (not that any of them make their way out of the craft room or are remotely understandable!).  So yesterday I made her ‘real’ invitations.  Her favorite color is blue and she always asks for the green plate at lunch so I used those two colors as my starting point.  I loved the brightness of the Glossy White and using the blender pen on the Glossy White CS on my cupcake card earlier this week and I wanted to do something signifying ‘4′ (see the 4 balloons?), and I also like to try to use up some retired SU! items I have lying around.  With all that in mind, here’s what I ended up with.  (And apparently she likes them because all of her grandparents visited yesterday at some point and she showed her invites to all of them unprompted!)  I wish I could say the layout was all my idea but it wasn’t.  Something has to give, right? LOL So I CASEd the layout from ’sepia’ on SCS. 

Supply List

Stamp Set:
Crazy for Cupcakes
Lots of Thoughts (retired)
Inks: 
Old Olive Classic, Jet Black Stazon
Markers: Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Old Olive
Ink Refill: Cool Caribbean (retired)
Card Stock: 
Certainly Celery (8.5" x 5.5")
Always Artichoke (4" x 5.25")
Cool Caribbean (retired) (3.75" x 5")
Old Olive (4" x 3.25")
Glossy White (3.75" x 3")
A retired DSP which I think might be Petal Patch, but I’m not 100% sure (1.5" x 4")
Embellishments:
Always Artichoke brads (retired)
Punches:
1-3/8" circle, scallop circle, crop-a-dile
Accessories: 
blender pen, dimensionals 

Scallop Ornament Video Tutorial

(Originally posted November 2, 2008)

Okay, slowly but surely another video has made its way to my blog.  I wish uploading it was as quick as actually making the video!   LOL   Oh well.  I hope you enjoy it!

To see it more clearly click here and click ‘high quality’ in the bottom right corner.

6 x 6 scrapbook page or card – your choice

I had a workshop this past weekend and knew that most of them attending would be scrapbookers, but I wasn’t sure if ALL of the guests would be scrapbookers.  So, while at Convention this past summer one of the fabulous presenting demonstrators (sorry, I can’t remember who!) had said that she gives her guests a choice between making a 6 x 6 page or a 6 x 3 card using the same materials.  I KNOW!  GENIUS, RIGHT?!?!  Well, that’s what I thought back in August and I finally got a chance to try it out in my own workshop.  It was great.  Two out of the seven guests made the card option and that was enough for me to say it was a successful experiment and that I’ll definitely be offering that again in future workshops.  So, I know you care more about seeing the projects than reading my babble on the ‘why I did it’ (lol) so here you go:

They both use the following suppies (of course ALL supplies are Stampin’ Up!):
 

Hope you like!  Club members, go over to your page to see the 6 x 6 page turned into a 12 x 12 page!

Combining Old & New

I have this card up on my display board in my Stampin’ Suite and several of my wonderful customers have asked me for the information on this card.  This card is one I made for a swap at my team meeting so I don’t have a write up on it but I’ll do my best to describe it!

The Old:
Stamp Set: Garden Whimsy
Card Stock: Basic Black, Whisper White, NOTE CARD is the base (item # 107311 – It’s a 5" x 3.5" note card)
Ink Pad: Basic Black
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/8" circle punch, 1-1/4" circle punch, slit punch to create scallop although now I’d use the new Scallop Edge Punch!, dimensionals

The New:
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red, Bella Rose DSP
Ink Pad: Riding Hood Red

I stamped the ladybug in black and punch out with the 1-1/4" circle punch.  Then I stamped the ladybug in Riding Hood Red on scrap white and cut out just the wings and adhered them on.   The Pink Pirouette layer is 1-1/4" x 4-3/4".  The DSP is 1-3/4" x 4-3/4".  The Basic Black layer is 3-3/8" x 4-7/8".  The scallop circle layer is popped up on a dimensional.  And probably the rest you can figure out!  HAPPY STAMPING!  Hope you like it.

Sept. Scrapbook Club Sneak Peek

Scrapbook Club meeting got postponed one week but I thought I’d share one page of four that they’ll be doing next week.  It uses the Wow Flowers stamp set and the colors are Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Regal Rose, and a bit of Old Olive.  The designer paper is a retired one and club members will have the choice to choose a NEW pattern they’d like for their pages.

And since I have an unbelievably cranky one year old right now I guess I’ll attach the picture and move on.

Enjoy!