Sapphire Stampers club 2-9-18 Hostess: Terry A.

Hello,
I am finally getting some posts on the blog.  Yay!
Here are the cards/projects that we made at the Feb club night.

This first card was using packing tape and dazzling diamonds to get a glimmer paper look for the pink hearts. The stamp set is the hostess set called tranquil tulips. The colors for the flowers are berry burst and rich raspberry.  The leaves are old olive.  The cardstock is pink pirouette.

 This project idea was from my up line.  It uses half of a acetate card box with DSP.  So cute!

 This final card uses the whisper white narrow note cards and envelopes 145583. You get 20 of each for $8.00.  They are  2 3/4 x 4 3/4. We used the DSP from the tutti fruiti stack and the Label me pretty stamp set.

Coming soon...
Picture of January assignment. 

At the January club everyone had a chance to play with the Brusho colors.  They each made a watercolor using emboss resist for the flower.  

The assignment was to take the watercolor and turn it into a card. Here is what they came up with. 

All of them are different and each is beautiful!!  Good Job Ladies!

Club dates for Sapphire Stampers

Sorry ladies, I forgot to post this sooner.
Here are the dates and who is the hostess for that date:

Nov 28th hostess: Kathy P.
Jan. 18th 17th hostess:  JudyMae
Feb  8th  9th  hostess:  Terry A.
Mar  8th  9th  hostess:  Shari K.
April 12th hostess: Linda B.

See you on Thurs. Jan 18th 17th at 4:30 for our first club day this year!

Below is a picture of the Thank You cards I sent out for our gifts we received at Christmas.

I used the washi tape from Myths & Magic suite and the petal pair embossing folder, both from the new Occasions catalog.

The color didn't turn out very well.  Still trying to get my camera figured out.
The color is supposed to be tranquil tide, below looks more like Almost Artichoke.
Anyway, you get the idea.

Edited addition:  this is a better pic of the true color below

Clubs forming for the year

Hello, I am getting ready to form Stamp clubs for the year.

You may be asking, What is a Stamp Club??
A stamp club is a great way to learn techniques, how to use different
products and you don't have to worry about making a mess or cleaning up your house because I hold all the clubs at my house.  Plus you get together with new and old friends.  Want to make your
own Christmas cards?  Make little gift items?  Sign up for club and learn how.




How it works:
A minimum of 4 people and max of 6 per club.

Each person in the club is committed to participating in each meeting
which is based on the amount of people in the club.  Usually it is
once a month.
     *For example:  if there are 4 people in the club, there will be 4
club meetings and each person is committed to purchasing a minimum of
$37.50 per meeting.
   

*If there are 5 people in the club, there will be 5 club meetings
and each person is committed to purchasing a minimum of $30.00 per
meeting.
     *And if there are 6 people in the club, there will be 6 meetings
and each person is committed to purchasing a minimum of $25.00 per
meeting.

Each person will have an opportunity to receive hostess benefits st one
of the meetings.
     *That means you get to choose free stuff from the catalog and
benefit from promotions going on at the time of the meeting. (And
Stampin' Up has a lot of promotions!)
I will go over everything at the first meeting so don't worry.

Sapphire Stampers club night May 24 Tues-Host Shari K.

Last Club of the season.  Sadness.  We have learned a bunch of techniques and made a lot of fun projects this year.  I'm already thinking of what we will be making when we start club up again in the fall.

Tonight we made the card below with a wild color combo.  Yes I went wild.  It kind of matches my blog page.  Hmmm coincidence? 

 

The colors are Melon Mambo and Calypso Coral.

This next card was not hard,  but it was definitely involved.

Lot's of big shot action.

The DSP can be used on either side. The DSP is English Garden.  Love that paper!

The card stock is Hello Honey.  One of the In-Colors that is going away.

The set is also going away with the occasions catalog "Have a Cuppa"

I did not get enough time with this set.  I am sad to see it and the framelits going.

 The steam is made with dazzling diamonds glimmer paper

Did I mention I love trinkets?

The trinkets that go with "Have a Cuppa" are really cute.

Finally the last project was a 3D box to hold Godiva Pearl chocolates

We also say farewell to Mossy Meadow and Blackberry bliss

which we affectionately nicknamed "the Daemon Ink"

 

I found some cute card/photo holders at Michael's.  I got an initial for each club member and I am giving them a card with a sneak peak at a couple of the new products from the new 2016-17 catalog.  

I love the new ruched ribbon.

The colors are called Peekaboo Peach and Flirty Flamingo. 

I used 2 new sets:  Perfectly Wrapped and Confetti Celebration

The DSP is a paper stack- Playful Palette

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 4) Jan 15th (Judy L. is hostess)

Bitterroot Stampers club just got done.  I had sooo much fun tonight! 
Judy L. was the hostess this evening and she made some delicious green chili with chicken.  It was so good!  I was lucky enough to get the left overs!  But there wasn't a lot left over as it was so tasty.   She also made Mexican wedding cookies too!  Marti was the lucky one to take them home. 
Marti also brought our adult beverage for the night.  We all had "dirty girls"  Made with root beer and Orphan Girl liquor.  Orphan Girl liquor is a bourbon cream liquor that is made in Butte, MT.  They tasted like root beer floats.  Thanks Marti, they were awesome.

Everyone made 6 cards and went home with 7 tonight. 
The Bitterroot Stampers are going to do a card swap for their club night in March.  They wanted to have a couple months to design and make them.
Here is how this card swap will work:
Each person will make 6 cards (all the same).  The challenge will be to use the same card layout.
Here is an example of the layout:

I borrowed this layout pic from the Sunday stampers BlogSpot.
The shape on top of the banners can be any shape that you would like.
You can use any color scheme that you like.

In March, when the BS club meets we will give each person in the club one of our cards.  Since there will be 6 people everyone will go home with 6 different cards (one of each persons design).

The BS club would like to challenge the Sapphire Stampers club to a card swap too.  I don't know if they realize that everyone would have to make 12 cards.  It would be a lot of fun, and everyone would go home with 12 different cards!  Something to think about... Maybe we could do that for Customer appreciation day in May!!

I can't wait for next Tues Jan 20th when the Sapphire Stampers have their club.

New stamp club this year. Club 2 Nov 4 (Hostess- Shari K.)

I have 2 stamp clubs this season.

Our first meeting for the new club was Nov 4, 2014

We started with a review of how the club will work and then picked calendar dates for the rest of the year.  We also drew names to see when everyone would be hostess.  It was decided that all the clubs would start at 1630.

Here are the Club dates:

November 17th- Hostess, Judy Haraseth
January 20th- Hostess, Judy Heintz
February 17th- Hostess, Sydney K.
March 26th- Hostess, Kathy P.
April ?- Hostess, Linda B.

We will be meeting twice this month since I had to postpone their first meeting because I had bronchitis.
We will also skip December since everyone is so busy.
They are still deciding if they want to have the hostess bring a light meal or a treat.

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 4) Oct 27th (Shirley M. is hostess)

It's the start of another season, Season 4, for the Bitterroot Stampers (BS Club).

Since this was the first get together for the season we selected dates and hostesses.

We also decided that we would meet at 4:30 each night.

 Shirley M. was selected for this meeting.

Here is the schedule for the next meetings.

November 13th- Hostess, Jackie C.

Skip December

January 15th- Hostess, Judy L.

February 25th- Hostess, Donna S.

March 25th- Hostess, Marti B.

April 22nd- Guest Hostess, Darlene V.

Everyone brought some really good finger foods to snack on. 

These ladies set the bar pretty high for treats!

Below, Tomato Brochette, Pumpkin Bars, Egg Salad and Pimento Cheese Sandwiches, Little tarts, 

and the most adorable spider deviled eggs!

All were delicious

 

Here are a few pictures of the cards we made.

We covered several techniques in this meeting.

 The card below uses watercolor paper and spritzing the stamped images after stamping for a watercolor effect.

We also incorporated some washi (wasabi for some) tape.

The colors used on this card are Blackberry Bliss, Crumb Cake and Crushed Curry.

We also used a piece of thread from the burlap ribbon for the bow on the gold button.

We love the crinkle effect it has.

 The card below was a really fun technique.

It is a variation of the emboss resist technique.

We first stamped a piece of Kraft paper with the hardwood stamp using versa mark so that we could heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Then we took a cherry cobbler ink pad and saturated the entire piece 

(we wore gloves for this step, very messy)

After inking we wiped off the excess ink with a tissue.

The last step was to iron it between copy paper to remove the embossing.  We did this step twice.

The result was this distressed wood grain effect.  LOVE IT!!

We also took the thread from the burlap ribbon to use in the button and give the burlap ribbon a fringe.  The leaves were cut using the leaf die and the big shot.

Colors: Hello Honey, Cajun Craze and Mossy Meadow

 The card below used the baby wipe technique.

I made an ink pad using a baby wipe and re-inkers.

The colors that I used were: Blackberry Bliss, Tangerine Tango, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow.

The paper for the card is Soft Suede.  

The ribbon is Blackberry Bliss and the wooden leaf accessory uses another burlap thread to tie.

A few more things to mention, Donna's Sister Darlene came to this meeting as a guest.

We sure did enjoy her being there.  Wish she lived closer to enjoy all of our stamping fun!

But to coax her back, we made her the guest hostess in April.

And hopefully Marti's sister, Peggy will be able to come in April as well.

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 3) Jan. 15 (Jackie C. is hostess)

 

Jackie C. is the hostess for this meeting.

She made a wonderful crock pot of taco soup.  It was sooo good!

The new occasions catalog and a sneek peek at the Sale-a-bration projects.

Below are the projects that we did.

 

Birthday card

Stamps: Banner Blast, Delightful dozen

Ink: Baked brown sugar, coastal cabana, pistachio

Paper: coastal cabana, whisper white

 

 

Hello You card

Stamps:  Regarding Dahlias

Ink: smokey slate

Paper:  watercolor wonder cards, daffodil yellow, ww. Sweet Sorbet DSP

Accessories: neutrals buttons, crisp cantaloupe twine, tag punch, corner rounder

 

3 x 3 Heart Card

 The heart is embossed with gold.

Stamps: Language of love

Ink: versamark

Paper: raspberry ripple, strawberry slush

Access: strawberry slush ribbon, pearls, gold embossing

 

This box is such a good deal.

For 6.95 you get 8 of these boxes with the plastic slide.

I finally got some and we made these boxes.

Thanks for the inspiration Patty! 

Stamps:  Oh Hello, label love

Paper: midnight mist, ww, summer starfruit

Ink: Raspberry Ripple

Accessories: summer starfruit ribbon, raspberry ripple ribbon, linen thread,

 

 

We made these pop top cans.

We filled them with treats.  The can was just big enough to fit a gift card too.

Stamps: Label Love

Ink: Basic Gray

Paper: Silver foil paper, Coastal Cabana, Real red, Retro Fresh DSP, Brights Polka dot DSP

Accessories: Big shot, Heart Embosslit, silver ribbon, doily, tag punch

 

 

Next Meeting is Feb 4th at 1600.  Judy L is the hostess.

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 3) Nov. 13 (Kathy P. is hostess)

 

 

I am finally getting some posts on here.  Starting to catch up (hopefully) with all the happenings from the holidays. 

 

This is season 3 for the stamp club and our first meeting was on Wed. Nov. 13th.

I made soup for everyone and we had a few Almond Joy's (drink).

 

We also pulled out our calendars to set up the rest of our get togethers and drew names to determine who would be the hostess.

It was also decided that the Hostess would bring a healthy treat/snack.

I am adding the date info here for reference.

1600 will be the time for all dates

 

Nov 13th- Kathy P.

Dec-Skip

Jan 15th.- Jackie C.

Feb.4th- Judy L.

Mar 12th- Marti B.

April 9th- Shirley M.

May 7th- Donna S.

 

Below are the projects that we made Nov. 13th.

 This Christmas card used the Thinlits to cut out the Merry using the gold foil paper.

The Santa is from the Santa's List set and colored with cherry cobbler, baked brown sugar and pink pirouette ink using blender pens. 

 

 The window box below was decorated with 1 inch stitched edge ribbon.

The silver glimmer paper was cut out using the festive flurry framelits dies.

The box was stamped using silver metallic ink and the festive flurry stamp set.

 

We also decorated some candles, but I didn't get pictures of them. I need to  make sure I get pictures of the projects as we are doing them.

 

I had another project to do, but we ran out of time.  It also used the Santa's List set.

The Post Card stamp and a greeting from Christmas Messages set.

The paper is very vanilla with early espresso and cherry cobbler ink.

The card uses early espresso and cherry cobbler paper also.

 

 There were too many things that I wanted to show them.  So many things, too little time.

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.