2012 Christmas Card Workshop

Hello!  I got busy last night and did some creating.

Below are the four cards that will be available for you to make at the Christmas Card workshop.

You will need to let me know which ones you would like to make and how many of them.

I will make up a packet just for you to create the cards you choose.

I will have a couple of workshops the last week in Nov.  I will be emailing the doodle to sign up.

 Below is the "Mittens Card"

 Below is the "Blue Ornament" card

 Below is the "Cup of Christmas" card

Below is the "Green Tree" card 

Stamp Club 2nd season #1

Stamping season has begun and our first club meeting was Nov 4th. 

We had mimosas and caught up on what everyone had been up to over the summer.

We drew names to see who would be the hostess for this month.  Jackie is the November hostess.

We decided that we would skip December and have our next club in January.

We made some really neat looking candles.  My order had not arrived as expected so the Christmas sets that I wanted to use were not available.  But I think the ones that we did use worked out really well.

Below is all of the candles that everyone made.

 Donna Made this one

Marti made this one. 

I didn't get a picture of the card we made, but I will post it soon.

Update:  Here is the card that we made.



Another Thank You card

I made this card (over 20) for my friend in Utah.  Her Father died a couple weeks ago and instead of sending flowers, I decided I would send Thank You cards instead.

All supplies Stampin' Up

Stamp Set: From the Heart, Very Vintage (retired)

Paper: Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake

Ink:  Early Espresso, Crumb Cake

Access:  Dazzling Details- Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Dotted Scallop Border Punch

Thank You Card

I am so far behind on my blogs.  I decided to post a quick picture of a card I made tonight.  I actually made 20 of them.

I used rich razzleberry as the small border, cherry cobbler for the heart and crumb cake paper for the body of the card. 

The ink is early espresso and I used some dazzling details (cherry cobbler) on the tiny heart. 

The big heart was made with the punch. 

The stamp sets I used were: "Elements of Style" and "From my Heart" (new 2012-13 catalog). 

Sorry that the pictures are not very good quality, I quickly used my phone.

The dazzling details gives the tiny heart a little bling (see below)

Update: This is the card that I made for my Niece for her wedding Thank You's.

Bitterroot Stampers- Meeting #6 June 6th

Kaye O. was the hostess for this meeting.  Kaye's hostess party is going to be our first order with the new 2012-13 catalog.  There are new things in the catalog that we all can't wait to try and use.

This meeting is our last until next fall.  We have decided that we don't want to meet during the summer because we all have way too many other things that we want to do.

I wanted to give everyone something for our last meeting so I made these frames below.

I used the new in-color raspberry ripple for the background color. 

I think this is one of my favorite new colors.

The poem below I found in one of  my saved samples/idea box.

I thought it was a good reminder.

I printed it out on very vanilla from the computer and then took crumb cake to the edges. 

The stamp set is a retired set called XXXXX

I stamped it on the watercolor paper using black StazOn ink.

Then I used watercolor wonders and reinkers to color the flowers.

I think they were supposed to be hydrangeas, but I wanted them to be lilacs.

I will have to show the ladies how the watercolor wonders work next fall when we start meeting again.

I think they will really enjoy using them. 

I decided that since we weren't going to meet for awhile that it would be a good idea to make a few cards so that they would have some on hand.

So I designed 3 cards.  One birthday card, one Thank You and one general use card.

I cut enough supplies so that everyone would be able to have about 3 of each.

One of the techniques that I showed them was how to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig.

The Thank You card below used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the thank you very much stamp.

Bitterroot Stampers- Meeting #5 May 21st

Today was Donna's day to be the hostess. 

Donna made a wonderful chicken casserole, Mexican style with a green salad.

For dessert she made a lemon cream style cake.

 All of it was delicious!

It was also Shirley's Birthday.  So we celebrated of course!

Here are the projects that we made:

Below is a small notebook that we covered with Marina Mist paper that was embossed using one of the backgrounds 1 texturz plates.

We also made these cute book marks.

We used the bigshot to cut fabric flowers and sewed them together with a button on top.

The ribbon was sewn after it was looped around a hairband. 

The hairband works like an elastic to stretch when needed.

The flower was hot glued to the ribbon. 

Rose red seam binding ribbon was tied in a bow to cover where the ribbon attaches around the hairband. 

We also made a birthday card using pennant parade (below)

I used a new In-Color from the 2012-13 catalog on this card-Gumball Green

The other colors are: Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Perfect Plum.

I saw this idea on a blog page and thought it had a nice clean, crisp look to it.

The background texture was made with the bigshot and the polkadot embossing folder. 

At this meeting I showed the ladies how to use markers to color different areas of a stamp

and the importance of huffing. lol 

Bitterroot Stampers- Meeting #4 May 2nd

Shirley M was the hostess today and she made delicious enchiladas with corn bread, a green salad and Kahlua cake for dessert.  It was a Cinco de Mayo theme.  I made strawberry Daiquiris and Piña Coladas not even knowing that Shirley was going to have a Mexican theme.

Here are the projects from our 4th get together:

We made coasters and a card using the embossing technique.

Everyone came up with some really neat ideas for their coasters.

Joni's coasters below:

Jackie's coasters below

Shirley's coasters below

We also made a card that used embossing for the flowers.

I got this idea from a fellow Demonstrator friend.  Thanks Patty

I will post a picture of the card later.

Updated later:  Finally the card

For this card we used: Very Vanilla, Choc Chip and Baja Breeze cardstock

Set:  Betsy's blossoms

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Clear embossing powder

Bitterroot Stampers-Meeting #3- April 25th

For our club meeting April 25th

We had a surprise party for Marti B.

She had no idea that we were going to celebrate her Birthday which was a couple days earlier.

It was a lot of fun surprising her.

Lygia brought the Keye Lime pie and the mimosas.

It was delicious!

Happy Birthday Marty

Jackie was the hostess for this meeting.  She made a tortilla soup that was very tastey.

Below, Jackie sporting her new granny glasses!

She is stylin'

Definately a Happy Group!

Projects that we made:

Below is a flowerpot card.  It can be used as a gift card holder.

The flowers are attached to a seperate card that slides out of the pot (see below)

The card part below can be used to attach a gift card or

to write a little note.

The blossom punch coordinates with the print blossom set. 

This card uses the summer smooches paper and the coordinating stamp set that goes with the suite.

These items will be available in the new catalog starting in June.

Bitterroot Stampers Club Mtg #2- April 11th

April 11th was our second club night.  It was Marty's night to be the hostess.  Marty made a wonderful chef salad.  It was a buffett of all kinds of things that you could choose to put on your salad.  Very tastey.  She also made an orange butter cake.  It was delicious.

Here is the project that we made.

It was a tin which we decorated and then put cards inside.

We used the Mocha Morning DP to decorate the tin on the inside and outside 

On the inside we put 3 note cards with envelopes 

We made these notecards and decorated the envelopes to match. 

I taught the ladies how to make shaving cream paper tonight and we used some to make the cards that were inside the tin. The shaving cream paper below uses soft suede and chocolate chip ink.

Bitterroot Stampers- Mtg #1 March 28th

 Wednesday March 28th was our first club night.  Joni was the hostess this night.

We made these boxes including the rose on top. 

I used the designer paper from the Sale a Brations catalog and Poppy Parade paper. 

The ribbon is the crumb cake seam binding.

We also used the lattice punch with very vanilla paper.

I think they turned out really cute. 

These cookies went inside the boxes. 

I made them using the Stampin Up Cookie Press.

Next we also made these cute Easter treats.

They are made with crumb cake and so safron for the chick.

Really quick and easy. 

 I also went over a couple other things:

Making paper look like leather and

the new Summer Smooches Suite coming in April.

I think everyone had a great time and I can't wait for our next get together.