Monthly Archives: September 2008

Supahstah

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Mom needed a swap card for her upline meeting. I came up with an idea in my head, but when I tried it, it was horrible! But I didn’t want to give up. She came up with her own design for the swap, so I was free to use any supply/technique on this card.

My original design was just the wheel and a punched star. The punch in my mind was much much bigger than what is actually the SU punch.  So I got out my stash of chipboard sheets and I cut a bigger star. Then I covered it with Gesso for a base and Yoyo Yellow craft ink. I had to add ribbon to give the star an anchor and help separate it from the wheel image.

The center of the punched star is filled with a yellow button, yellow beads, and some clear microbeads to fill the leftover space.

Supplies:
Stamps: Classic Stars wheel (SU); Starlight (Verve);
Ink: Pacific Blue, Yoyo Yellow craft, Only Orange craft (SU);
Paper: White (PTI); Only Orange, Yoyo Yellow (SU);
Other: Pacific Striped grosgrain (SU), star and keytag punches (SU); button, chipboard (unknown); beads (SU);

Camp Cards

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Since I am moving at the end of the year, I wanted to make sure my work projects for Mom were done early. These cards will be the projects for the October Stamp Camp. The cards are (1) Fall Friend, (2) Thank You (complement card to the bookmark), (3) Bookmark, (4) Christmas, and (5) Halloween. We don’t normally do 3D items during regular stamp camps, but with Christmas coming up, we wanted to show an easy gift idea. The bookmark was done at SU Convention this year.

Supplies (All Stampin’Up!):
[Friend]
Stamps: Fall Flair, All Holidays;
Ink: Really Rust craft, More Mustard craft, Not Quite Navy craft & classic;
Paper: Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Very Vanilla;
Other: wide Twill, silver Brads;

[Thank You]
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Sanded;
Ink: Old Olive, Pacific Point, White craft;
Paper: Old Olive, Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Old Olive Prints DSP;
Other: dimensionals;

[Bookmark]
Stamps: Eastern Blooms;
Ink: Olive craft, Tangerine Tango;
Paper: Old Olive Prints DSP, Whisper White;
Other: Pacific Point ribbon, Filigree Designer brads;

[Christmas]
Stamps: Deer Friend, Glad Tidings (dormant list), Polka Dot;
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Real Red, Green Galore;
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Green Galore, Gable Green, Whisper White;
Other: Bold Bright buttons, dimensionals, circle punches, Coluzzle;

[Halloween]
Stamps: House of Haunts, Dots are Hot (moon), Haunting wheel;
Ink: Basic Black, More Mustard;
Paper: More Mustard, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla;

Carefree Challenge

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A few weeks ago I clicked on a link in Stacy’s signature (she’s a fellow coordinator in the SCS DSS group). The link was for Scentsy – a wickless scented candle company. I browsed a bit and found this really cool warmer and thought it would make a great inspiration piece.

Of course I had ideas immediately, but now, so late at night my mojo isn’t working. But I want to get this post written and scheduled for tomorrow (um, that would be today I guess) because my friends asked me too – and I never can say no, lol! I will be at school all day Friday, but hopefully when I get home I can upload my own interpretation.

Have fun ladies – I can’t wait to see what you do. Make sure you post a link to your creation here 🙂

Snazzy Zippers

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My kiddos started school on Tuesday. They came home and told me that they saw TONS of other kids with their very same backpacks! Each of my kids even has another student in their class with the same (even same color) backpack and lunchbox. I decided I needed to help. So I pulled out my stamps, Xyron laminator, and wire and created zipper pulls. Now there should be no more confusion!

The zipper pulls for the backpack are the same for the lunchbox – but one side has an image and the other side their initials.

Supplies:
[Fish Pull]
Stamps: Kissy Fish, Giggle Alphabet (CTMH), Simple Alpha (PTI);
Ink: Pacific Point, Green Galore (SU);
Paper: Basic Black (SU), White (PTI);
Other: wire (SU), laminator (Xyron), circle cutter (CM);

[Floral Pull]
Stamps: Island Blossoms (SU), Giggle Alphabet (CTMH), Simple Alpha (PTI);
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Orchid Opulence (SU);
Paper: Basic Black (SU), White (PTI);
Other: wire (SU), laminator (Xyron), circle cutter (CM);

Owls in a Tree

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This card started with last week’s SCS Ways to Use it challenge. I stamped and colored the owls, but never got a chance to make a card with it. Then today Julee posted another mojo sketch and I was inspired!

Supplies:
Stamps: Owl Always Love You (GinaK), Beautiful Blooms (PTI-greeting), Island Blossoms (SU-leaves);
Ink: Noir (Palette), Close to Cocoa (SU);
Paper: Choco Chip, Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Old Olive, Saffron Prints (SU), White (PTI);
Other: Colored Pencils, choco twill (SU);

Silhouette Spots

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The final card for the September stamp camp uses Pocket Silhouettes – a new set that is also on special! Since our theme is “Get Ready for the Holidays” I wanted to go with a thank you card in fall colors. I tried a couple other things first (see below), but this is what I settled on. I really like it – a quick card, but still has dimension. After working on the other samples, getting to this place wasn’t hard – the left over circles from the other attempts were scattered on my desk and it was easy to envision this card.

After I made the final stamp camp card, I wanted to finish the cards I had started. I gave them up for different reasons, but I am very happy I went back and finished them!

My first attempt was to use the chipboard frame piece as a template to create the window, behind which the silhouettes can be seen. I tried many different things, but everything that I could think of to “finish” the card required non-SU stuff. I gave up. When I came back to it, I pulled out a tiny Prima flower in red and added a black brad, which made me think of this scrap of ribbon I had. Now, I know if I tried harder, I probably could have accomplished this card using SU supplies, so giving up was more of a lack of mojo!

This spotlight card was another attempt. I really liked where it was going, but it was getting too complicated. We try not to do too many layers, especially when the layers are only 1/16″ bigger, lol. It seems that even when all you have to do is tape the layers together, it takes too long. I love the color palette on this one (that sorta carried over to the final card, but with the brown taking such a smaller part in this card, it feels lighter). The green layer on this is the new Kiwi Kiss. Since SU doesn’t make brads for their InColors (I don’t know WHY?!!), I had to improvise. I found these Making Memory brads weren’t too off so I went with them.

Supplies (All Stampin’Up!):
[Spots card]
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Baroque wheel;
Ink: Chocolate chip, Pumpkin Pie, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive;
Paper: Chocolate chip, Pumpkin Pie, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Vanilla craft;
Other: circle punches

[Window card]
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Linen, Think Happy Thoughts;
Ink: Basic Black, Versamark
Paper: Basic Black, Real Red, Saraha Sand, Whisper White;
Other: circle punch, nonSU ribbon, prima flower, black brad

[Spotlight card]
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Friend by Definition;
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss;
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla;
Other: circle punch, pumpkin striped grosgrain, brads, word window punch;

Eastern Hugs

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This is another stamp camp card for September. The theme of the September camp is “Get Ready for the Holidays”. Our goal is to have all the cards fit the theme, and if we get creative enough – they do 😉 For instance, this card is a thoughtful card, and thoughtfulness is sorta like thanking, which goes with the idea of Thanksgiving, right? Yeah, its a stretch, but we gotta use the stamps we have on hand and neither of us has a “thanksgiving” set that isn’t retired!

Supplies (All Stampin’Up!):
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Curvy Verses;
Ink: Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel;
Other: crimper, dimensionals;