Club night Jan 23rd

 

 Club was soo much fun! 

We had a great time catching up on everyone's holiday happenings and travel.

Donna was the hostess for this club night.

We made card storage boxes. 

Above are some of the boxes that were made.

Everyone's boxes turned out sooo nice!

Starting the year out organized with boxes to keep our cards stored by catagory.

 

We started by putting Natural Composition Specialty Paper on the box top.

We then embellished it using various ribbons, paper daisies, the new flower trim roses, buttons, Antique brads, Large Pearl basic Jewels and Tea Time Trinkets

(all Stampin Up products unless otherwise stated)

We also made some cards.  A Valentine card which had 2 techniques:

Kissing and Dazzling Diamonds.

The Valentine card uses the "Hearts a Flutter" set from the Spring Mini Catalog the "Delightful Dozen" and "Lovely Little Labels" set from the annual catalog

Paper: Confetti White, whisper white and Patio Party DSP

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Designer Builder brads, dazzling diamonds, Hearts a flutter Framelits dies, Victoria Crochet Trim and Itty Bitty Shapes punch (circle)

 

Everyone made 2 of the card design below.

This card is a very easy and quick design that can be taylored to many themes.

I used the set: Secret Garden also from the Spring Mini Catalog

Other Sets: Delightful Dozen

Paper: Regal Rose, Marina Mist and Whisper White

Ink: Regal Rose, Marina Mist and Old Olive

Accessories:  1/8" Taffeta Ribbon (old Olive)

Update:  I took the above design and modified it to be monochromatic and a different theme using the "By the Tide" set from the Spring Mini Catalog

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