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March 28, 2015
March 24, 2015
Build a Bouquet
Wowza, not quite sure how life got so busy, but it did!
At class last month, Gwen ordered a Build a Bouquet kit to make for her mom. Gwen is new to stamping, but was excited about taking on this project. She came to my house one Tuesday night and in about two hours - and MANY replays of the SU! Build a Bouquet video, we completed two flowers - whew!
Gwen went home, created the remainder of the flowers in the style we did together, did all of the stamping for the other flowers and returned the following Tuesday for us to make one of each of the last three flowers.
This is what Gwen brought to class on Saturday for show and tell!!
At class last month, Gwen ordered a Build a Bouquet kit to make for her mom. Gwen is new to stamping, but was excited about taking on this project. She came to my house one Tuesday night and in about two hours - and MANY replays of the SU! Build a Bouquet video, we completed two flowers - whew!
Gwen went home, created the remainder of the flowers in the style we did together, did all of the stamping for the other flowers and returned the following Tuesday for us to make one of each of the last three flowers.
This is what Gwen brought to class on Saturday for show and tell!!
Didn't she do an amazing job? Pam thought so too, because she ordered one to make! I had read comments about how time consuming this project is which scared me, but it really was fun to make. The first night we made the poppies and didn't have enough time to really allow them to dry - we were both left with red, inky fingers, but that was okay!
If you're looking for a fun project, this just might be the one for you. Check out the video for SU!'s Build a Bouquet.
Thanks for stopping!
Sue
March 16, 2015
Mini Treat Bag
I had fun playing with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlit die. I added these treat bags to my customer orders from my last class. They could be addicting!!
The free SAB paper is a breath of spring and the accessories pack made these a snap to embellish. What a great way to show off your DSP!!
Thanks for stopping!
Sue
March 11, 2015
Welcome to the March Pals Blog Hop where we are celebrating spring. This month we are featuring spring related projects for Mother’s Day, Easter or any other occasion that celebrates winter coming to an end.
Winner!: Before I jump in to the blog hop information I want to give a quick shout out to Meredith L who won by 150th post blog candy. Thanks for your comment Meredith. I sent an email to you with details on your next step.
You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn #17 on the Pals Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all of the amazing creations.
This week it actually feels like spring here in Wisconsin - woo hoo! I broke out the spring flowers and soft colors for a special sympathy card. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you've read bits here and there about my lifelong friend Nan. Last week Nan's mom died and I wanted to make a special card for the wonderful family that has treated me like one of their own since I've been a kid.
The colors I chose for this card were Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla. Boho Blossoms and Petite Petal punches helped to create my flower garden. The base of the card is 10 x 7 and scored at 5. With the help of the Labels and Oval Thinlits, creating a window was a snap. Stamp sets used were Bloom with Hope, Petite Petals, Papillion Potpourri and Teeny Tiny Wishes.
Leave a comment below; I love to read your comments.
The next stop is Candy Ford at Stamp Candy on the Pals Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you next month. Thanks so much for stopping!
Sue
- Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
- Angela Curry at Kindred Stampers
- Sherrie Gross at Stampin' Sunshine
- Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
- Jackie Diediker at Stampin' Jackie
- Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
- Amy Whelan at Amy's Inklings
- Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts By Patti
- Denise Hoepfner at The Mountain Magpie
- Beth Beard at My little craft blog
- Natalie Bradley at Soiree by Natalie Bradley
- Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
- Debbie Crowley at expressively deb...
- Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
- Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven's Retreat
- Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
- Sue Becker at RnR Stamping You are here!
- Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
- Karen Hallam at Karen's Blog
- Susan Lankford at Stamp and Create With Susan
- Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
- Kerry Willard Bray at Peonies and Paper Chains
- Kim Jolley at Stampin' Artfully
- Martie Pollard at The Crafty Bandit
- Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
- Benjaman Turner at He Stamps
- Lynn Kolcun at Stamping with Avery's Owlery
- Liz Gautreaux at Kind Deeds Stampin
- Amy Hoptay at Inking of You!
- September Gray at septembergray.com
- Katie Ferguson at Cottage Paper
- Becky Volpp at inkblossomwithbecky.com
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
March 7, 2015
150th Post and Blog Candy!
Thanks for stopping today to help me celebrate my 150th blog post! Woo Hoo!!
Before I share my blog candy, I want to show you a fun fold I saw on Dawn Griffith's site. I wanted to have something fun for this special post. I totally CASEd one card and went off on my own with the second.
The Sweet Taffy DSP just hollers "HAPPY!" to me. It's a perfect choice for a bright, cheery birthday greeting.
The Labels Thinlets are the real star of this show and are perfectly topped off with the FREE SAB Big Day stamp set. I used my 1" square punch to flag the ends of my sentiment.
TIP: Don't have a square punch? Or if you do, are there times when you struggle with crooked points? (I ask that because I've been there!) On the backside of your sentiment use a ruler to find the center of your card stock and make a small dot. Use your paper snips to cut from the corner to the dot - ta dahhh! You have your end flagged!
Even more fun than the outside of this card is the inside. I just love this fold; it's so much fun!
TIP: When I use a fun fold, I tend to keep the rest of my card fairly simple so as not to overpower the fold itself.
The whole Big Day stamp set was put to use in this card and in Dawn fashion, I broke out the Dazzling Diamonds to accent the cake frosting, cake stand and some of the lettering.
So after shamelessly CASEing one card, this is what I created on round 2. For this card I used Very Vanilla and a beautiful print from Typeset. I love this card even more than the first one! I used a vintage stamp set for the sentiment
TIP: To create the black layer of the label, I traced the Thinlit and the fussy cut the layer. You just have to remember to make 'points' on the sides because the outline of the Thinlit is rounded
I played around with a variety of colors with the Lotus Bloss stamp, another FREE SAB item, and ended up using Memento Black for the first, detail step, Basic Gray for the second step and Smokey Slate for step three. I LOVE how it turned out, don't you?
I hope you enjoyed my projects for today. As a thank you to those who follow my blog, I have some blog candy today.
I will choose a random winner using the names of anyone who leaves a comment at the end of my post.
One lucky person will win Chalk Lines! This is a great stamp set to use for texture, borders or just a bit of interest.
Before I share my blog candy, I want to show you a fun fold I saw on Dawn Griffith's site. I wanted to have something fun for this special post. I totally CASEd one card and went off on my own with the second.
The Labels Thinlets are the real star of this show and are perfectly topped off with the FREE SAB Big Day stamp set. I used my 1" square punch to flag the ends of my sentiment.
TIP: Don't have a square punch? Or if you do, are there times when you struggle with crooked points? (I ask that because I've been there!) On the backside of your sentiment use a ruler to find the center of your card stock and make a small dot. Use your paper snips to cut from the corner to the dot - ta dahhh! You have your end flagged!
Even more fun than the outside of this card is the inside. I just love this fold; it's so much fun!
TIP: When I use a fun fold, I tend to keep the rest of my card fairly simple so as not to overpower the fold itself.
The whole Big Day stamp set was put to use in this card and in Dawn fashion, I broke out the Dazzling Diamonds to accent the cake frosting, cake stand and some of the lettering.
So after shamelessly CASEing one card, this is what I created on round 2. For this card I used Very Vanilla and a beautiful print from Typeset. I love this card even more than the first one! I used a vintage stamp set for the sentiment
TIP: To create the black layer of the label, I traced the Thinlit and the fussy cut the layer. You just have to remember to make 'points' on the sides because the outline of the Thinlit is rounded
I played around with a variety of colors with the Lotus Bloss stamp, another FREE SAB item, and ended up using Memento Black for the first, detail step, Basic Gray for the second step and Smokey Slate for step three. I LOVE how it turned out, don't you?
I hope you enjoyed my projects for today. As a thank you to those who follow my blog, I have some blog candy today.
I will choose a random winner using the names of anyone who leaves a comment at the end of my post.
One lucky person will win Chalk Lines! This is a great stamp set to use for texture, borders or just a bit of interest.
I look forward to reading your comments and thank you for stopping. If you're not currently receiving my posts in your email box, just enter your email address in the field in the right column and you'll never have to worry about missing one of my posts.
Hope you have some RnR Time this weekend...happy stamping!
Sue
March 5, 2015
Another PPA Challenge!
Another quick post before the big 150! Be sure to stop in on Saturday for a blog candy opportunity!
We're back to a color challenge this week and it looks like this challenge was created with an upcoming holiday in mind!
Here is my challenge card for this week:
The best thing about challenges is to see what everyone does with them. Click here to view some of the other creations for PPA242!
Thanks so much for stopping. I look forward to your popping in to my 150th post celebration!
Until then, take gentle care,
Sue
We're back to a color challenge this week and it looks like this challenge was created with an upcoming holiday in mind!
Here is my challenge card for this week:
The best thing about challenges is to see what everyone does with them. Click here to view some of the other creations for PPA242!
Thanks so much for stopping. I look forward to your popping in to my 150th post celebration!
Until then, take gentle care,
Sue
March 3, 2015
Another PPA Challenge
Quick post today to show you another option for this week's PPA Challenge. A reminder of the sketch:
Here's another card I came up with using the same sketch:
The Basic Black base of the card measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I ran another piece of Basic Black through the Big Shot with the Zig Zag embossing folder and trimmed it to 5 1/4 x 4 and layered it on to the base. Using 2 pieces of Real Red cropped with my Sweetheart punch and run through my polka dot embossing folder, I measured a piece of Real Red and layered it with one of the fabulous black and white prints from Stacked with Love DSP. The sentiment is from a great stand-by - Teeny Tiny Wishes.
I used a vintage stampe for the inside to finish off my project. This was a quickie and lots of fun to create.
I'm heading off to bed. The weather folks are predicting snow starting at 3 am, so it's out of my warm bed to shovel for me!
Be sure to stop back for my 150th blog post candy!
Have fun creating!
Sue
March 2, 2015
PPA Challenge
Whew! It's been a full weekend. I was really spoiled being off of work. I now have weekend for cleaning, laundry, errands, visiting, volunteering and, oh, can't forget stamping!
Some of my time this weekend was used stamping for my church dinner auction. A friend of mine is in charge of the raffles and asked if I'd help snazz them up a bit - how could I resist a request like that?
In addition to that project, I did get TWO cards made from this week's PPA challenge,
TIP: This is one of the cards I came up with. You need to remember that your card doesn't have to exactly match the sketch, but can be inspired by the sketch.
Some of my time this weekend was used stamping for my church dinner auction. A friend of mine is in charge of the raffles and asked if I'd help snazz them up a bit - how could I resist a request like that?
In addition to that project, I did get TWO cards made from this week's PPA challenge,
I know I've said this before, but I have become more comfortable with challenges the more often I do them. If you've not tried them, I would highly recommend it!
My card features Pink Pirouette and Pool Party. I stamped my sentiment on the first image and blurred the words - back to the inking board! For round 2 I lightly sponged the background with Pool Party, Pink Pirouette and Daffodil Delight. Instead of mounting the image on top of the Pool Party card stock, I used the oval framelits to cut both the image and a matching opening in the Pool Party and attached the image inside of the opening. I used my markers to color the image. To give some texture to my card base I used another image from the Bloom With Hope set with Pink Pirouette ink. I stamped the image once, then again without reinking and repeated the process until I had the bacground filled in. It gives a subtle but very pretty background.
I took photos of all of the cards I completed today and found a big fingerprint on the images when I went to edit them - hmmmm, wonder where that came from? So I'm off to retake photos and call it a night.
Be sure to stop back tomorrow to see another version of the PPA sketch.
150th blog post: My 150th blog post will be coming up this week. Be sure to stop in daily so as not to miss a blog candy opportunity.
Don't miss out! Have my posts delivered right to your mailbox. Just enter your name in the field in the column to the right.
If you like what you see and read here, I'd love to serve as your Stampin' Up! demonstrator. Please let me know how I can help you!
Thanks for stopping and until next time, take gentle care!
Sue
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