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Sketch Frenzy Friday…. 5-28-2010

May 28th, 2010 Posted in SKETCHES, Tutorials | 7 comments »

This is the second week of our new Sketch Frenzy Friday. This week’s sketch was created by Tammy Baldwin. Be sure to stop by all the blogs listed below to see each one’s take on this sketch. .. Here’s the sketch first:

Here’s my card for this sketch

Ingredients: Basic Grey Cs, Presto patterns overlay (MDS), Friends 24-7, Vanilla Hodgepodge, Define your Life SS, Vanilla grossgrain ribbon

I used MDS to create the card. It’s easy to create a card using My Digital Studio …you can move everything around and not have to re-stamp the cardstock.

This gives you a venue to create a design you want without using your materials. Then you can actually go create your card with all the cardstocks , inks , and ribbons.

Here are the rest of the blogs to hop through and see all their creations. If you’d like to play along, enter your blog with the link at the bottom. You’ll have til Sunday night to enter your sample.

Angela Walters – http://lifewithawienerdog.blogspot.com/

Brenda Taylor – http://www.memoriesbybrenda.com/

Connie Smith – http://www.highdesertstamper.com/

Kathryne Knowles – http://craftykatcreations.blogspot.com/

Kelli Waters – http://kellistamps4u.blogspot.com/

Kim Innis – http://kimskreativeinkings.blogspot.com/

Melinda Couden – http://melindasstampingcorner.blogspot.com/

Nancy Legate – http://www.stampnnuggets.com/

Pam Browne – http://stampinforthesoul.blogspot.com/

Ros Davidson – http://rosdavidson.typepad.com/

Tammy Baldwin – http://creativeapplescrampers.blogspot.com/

Tina Taves – http://tinataves.blogspot.com/

$99 Mini Starter Kit Promotion

May 28, 2010

Want to get your products at a discount and extra freebies from SU? Sing up during June and be a “hobby” demo or build a business!

From June 1-30, customers and hostesses can become demonstrators for just $99 when they purchase a special $99 Mini Starter Kit. This limited-time kit contains over $180 of Stampin’ Up! products and business supplies. None of the products in the Mini Starter Kit are retiring this year; plus, new recruits will get a box of 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogs in July!

Look for kit details on June 1, and end the Stampin’ Up! year strong!

Tags: Creative stamping classes, Handmade cards, Paper crafting

Pre-order your new Stampin UP! catalog!

May 24th, 2010 Posted in Daily Post, WORK AT HOME | Comments Off

I am taking pre-orders for the new 2010-2011 Stampin’ UP! catalog, to be released 1 July. All pre-orders must be ordered and paid for before 15 June 2010 to take advantage of this special offer.

Get the new catalog and brand new Daffodil Delight ink pad, picked up locally : $10

Get the catalog and new Daffodil delight ink pad shipped to your door: $16

Get JUST the catalog, picked up locally: $6.00

Get JUST the catalog shipped directly to you: $12.00

Place your order here:

All catalogs and stamp pads will be shipped after the catalog release on 1 July 2010. If you order a catalog, or catalog and ink pad to be picked up locally, I will notify you when they arrive, as they usually arrive before 1 July.

New 2010-2011 catalog

Tags: Creative stamping classes, http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/conniesmith/, Scrapbooks

Book for gift tags….

May 23rd, 2010 Posted in 3-D Items, Big Shot Ideas, Tutorials | Comments Off

I saw an old post by Amy Celona on a tag book she made after receiving one from a friend. I decided to reproduce a similar book using some of our retiring colors. Recipe follows. I have been working on a different way to do the flap, since it’s a bit difficult to score all the “flaps”..when you get a bunch of layers. How do you like it??

Front with flap closed

cover untied

tags in pockets

I made this book to use the 3×5 flat cello bags. I did insert a blank pc of cardstock so the tags show, but it really doesn’t need it.
I made it so you could easily repeat this for a class, using designer papers for the bases of all the tags and the front cover. You can use a 6×12 sheet for each person, the different colors of cardstocks and some scraps. The flowers were punched using the Bigshot Blossom Party die. The birds and leaves are from the new large bird punch. The body of the booklet is a 3 1/2 x 10 1/2 inch piece of Ruby Red cardstock, scored at 5 & 5 1/2. The ‘pockets’ inside are 3×5 flat cello bags (#103104). I ran the scallops through the lattice embossing folder to give them more texture with the gold spray on them.

Accessories, inks, papers: Ruby red, garden green, choc chip DSP, yoyo yellow, very vanilla, large bird punch, round fire rhinestones
Oval punch, 1 1/4″ circle punch, bigshot Scallop Circle #2, crop a dile, kraft tafeta ribbon, gold foil smooch spray, sponges, scallop circle punch, scallop border punch (available 1 July 2010)

Watercolor Trio stamp set.