January Club

This is will be our last club before the new catalog comes out next week. I am excited for the new catalog, because it always brings new and exciting things!

Since Valentines Day is just a month away, I thought we should do a few Valentines Day-ish things. Our first project is this cute little Valentines bag. It is made using the Big Shot Top Note Die and a small paper bag (for the inside of the bag). The handle is punched out using the large oval punch and the embellishment is made using the 1 1/4", 1 3/8" and Scallop circle punches. The heart stamp and the DSP is from the level 3 hostess set Holiday Happening Bundle in the current catalog. The ribbon is the 1 1/4" Grosgrain in Pink Pirouette. I made the bag's filling by cutting real thin strips of Real Red card stock and then crumpling them in my hands.

The second project is this 3"x3" Valentine. It uses A Happy Heart stamp set from the Holiday Mini catalog (which goes away January 18, so if you like it order it now!) The color scheme for this card is Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. We used the Stampin' Write markers to ink the stamp to get the flower to be different color than the stem. The DSP is from the Bella Rose paper pack and the ribbon is the Riding Hood Red Taffeta.
This second picture shows the paper piercing around the edge of the Pink Pirouette DSP and that the flower is made from small little hearts.





Our third project is this no stamping required card! It is made using the Big Shot and a few dies! I was having a hard time coming up with Valentines day cards to make (mainly because I don't have many heart-y, love-y stamps) and I was thinking X's and O's are Valentines Day things and I could cut them out using my Serif Essentials dies and my Big Shot, so I did! And then I thought a cute little white bird may look good, so I cut him out using the Birds And Blooms Sizzlits die and and then glued it all together! It is kind of a different card for me, but I think I like the way it turned out, very simple and quick!


Our fourth and final card for club this month is this Sock Monkey "thanks a bunch" card. The colors in this card are Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron and Ruby Red (for his mouth and butt). I stamped the Sock Monkey in Basic Black and then colored him in using the markers. I then stamped the banana on a scrap piece of Whisper White card stock using Basic Black ink, colored the banana peel using the So Saffron marker and then cut the banana out and glued it to the monkeys hand. I had to add some ribbon (of course it had to to Chocolate Chip) to finish off the card!

Thanks for looking!

Simple Cattails

I saw this idea on Splitcoast and I thought it was such a great idea. This is an easy and fast card to make that can be for any occasion.

The colors in this card are Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke and Very Vanilla. The cattails are made by punching out Chocolate Chip card stock with the Horizontal Slot puch and then gluing them onto the blades of grass from the Inspired by Nature stamp set.


I used the new Chocolate Chip felt ribbon from the Holiday Mini along with a little snippet of Always Artichoke ribbon to finish off the card.

Snowflake Shimmer's

These are the Snowflake Shimmer Decor Decals from Stampin's Up's Holiday Mini Catalog! I wasn't going to get them, but them I decided why not! I am happy that I did order them, because I really like them. They are removable and reusable! It is hard taking a picture of them, but I think you will get the idea.

I put 6-8 snowflakes each on our bigger windows in the two opposite corners. So 3 to 4 snowflakes in the upper left corner of the window and 3 to 4 snowflakes in the lower right corner of the window. I did this so you could still see out the window with out seeing huge snowflakes all over! I think they look good, and not too over powering.

November Club Cards

Here are the cards that we made this month for my club.

The first card features the Cracked Glass Technique. You do this by "smooshing" Versa Mark ink all over your stamped image and then sprinkling Glassy Glaze Enamel over that and then embossing it. You do this three times, so you have three layers of Glassy Glaze Enamel on to your stamped image. You then put your paper you just embossed into the freezer for about 5 mins. When you take it out you just crack the "glass" by bending the image in a few different directions. Here is a close up of the crack glass.

The card stock that I used to make this card were Really Rust, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. I used Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow and More Mustard classic ink to stamp the images and Glassy Glaze Enamel and Versa Mark to make the "glass". Other accessories I used were 5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Chip ribbon, Linen Thread, the Scallop Edge punch, the 1 3/8", 1 1/4" and the 1/16" circle punches. To make the background image I used multiple stamp sets, they include Itty Bitty Backgrounds (little dots), Priceless (little flower), and Season of Friendship (the leaves) and the sentiment is from the Hostess set called Best Yet.

((You may recognize this next card from an earlier post on my blog, this is the card I submitted for the soshelli.com creative challenge, but I liked it so much I wanted to share it with my club!))

This was the Thanksgiving card that we made. The main image (the Pumpkin) is punch art. It is made by punching out five Wide Ovals sponging around them and gluing them together in a pumpkin shape.

The card stock I used for this card is Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie (how appropriate! :) ) and So Saffron. The pumpkins stem is made with a little piece of 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon folded in half. The Vines are made from the 3/4" and the 1/2" circle punch punched out and then cut into a spiral shape. The "hay" is the So Saffron paper cut into thin strips and then crumpled up.

There wasn't much stamping on this card, but the stamp sets I used were Celebrate Everything (Celebrate) and Fundamental Phrases (thanks). I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the two words.

The last card that we made was a simple Christmas card. It seems like Christmas is so far away, but it will be here before we know it!

The paper used for this card is Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White and Holiday Treasures DSP. The ribbon is the 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain. The cute little reindeer is from the A Holly, Jolly Christmas stamp set.

I stamped the reindeer in Chocolate Chip Craft ink and then clear embossed it. Then I colored in the nose and put a drop of Crystal effects on his nose! I think you can tell which reindeer he is!

Thanks for looking!

October Club Cards

These are the projects that we did for club this month. They all are a little fall-ish!


The first one is a Bag-Box. These cute bag-boxes are simple to make and would be great to use for any occasion (mine is a Halloween themed one for this time of year!). The supplies that I used are:

Ghostly Greeting DSP
Batty for You stamp set
Basic Black card stock
Whisper White card stock
Basic Black ribbon
Scallop Circle punch
Scallop edge punch
1 3/8" circle punch
Tab punch
Crop-a-Dile
Stapler
Double sided tape

I am going to post a Tutorial on how to make these cute little bags soon!

The next project is this fall card. I used the Season of Friendship stamp set from the Holiday Mini. I think this stamp set has a lot of potential, because it comes with the leaves you see here, a snow flake, a flower and a bird for you to decorate the tree with. You could make so many cute seasonal or non seasonal cards with this set!

For my card I used Mellow Moss, Really Rust and Whisper White card stocks. The leaves are stamped in Mellow Moss, Really Rust and More Mustard. The sentiment at the bottom reads "The season of friendship lasts forever"and it is stamped in Chocolate chip. The ribbon is the Chocolate Chip double stitched grosgrain.



The last project we did is this card using the Eastern Blooms stamp set. The branch image is stamped in Chocolate Chip craft ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I put small dots of Crystal Effects in the middle of all the flowers and then poured the Orange Micro beads (these beads are TINY!!) all over the image, so the beads would stick to the middle of the flowers. Here is a close up of the flowers with the beads.





The card stock I used was Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and Tangerine Tango. The DSP is from the Haiku paper. The "ribbon" is the 3/8" Twill Tape. The greeting is from the stamp set Thank You Kindly and is also stamped with the Chocolate Chip craft ink and then embossed with the clear embossing powder.

Thanks for looking!

Create-a-Calendar '09

Here is a sneak peak of something that will be in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It's the "Create-a-Calendar '09"! The calendar kit comes with everything you need to create a 2009 Calendar, including 12 reprinted calendar pages with coordinating designer series paper (DSP) on the back, a die-cut pocket to store your calendar in, ribbon and a sheet of exclusive, self adhesive, die cuts to decorate your calendar with.

There are a lot of other things you can get from SU to give your calendar kit a little more zing! For example, any of the chip-board clip-boards (use them to mount the current month on so it is displayable) , more ribbon, extra DSP, your favorite stamp set to decorate the months....and so much more!

What a quick and simple gift idea for a friend or yourself!

Sneak Peak!

As a demonstrator, I am able to order new products about one month earlier than when they are available for everyone to order, so of course I do! The Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog is the one I can order from now and there are some cute things in there. I received my order, and here is a picture of the things that I ordered....
I am not going to tell you what they are, but I figured a picture would tease you enough until you can order from the Holiday Mini Catalog starting October 1st. Can you tell what anything is?!?

(If I make anything using any of my new things, I will up-load it.....stay posted!! :) )