RAWR - Happy Birthday!

This week I got a chance to play along with the MFT Wednesday stamp club...and since it's the first Wednesday of the month it's a sketch, this month from Frances! Imagine that, 2 great sketches from Frances in one week!! :-)

I wanted to make a cute birthday card for the young son of a very good friend of mine, so I pulled out my as yet uninked Little Loveasaurus and got busy. I colored him with my copics, then used the colorless blender to create a little extra texture. For my designer paper I used my All About Boys mat stack from DCWV

I cut out the small cloud with my die-namics cloud die and stamped the RAWR on it...then stamped Happy Birthday on a strip of paper and trimmed the ends to make a banner. A nice simple card, but oh so fun to make!

Stamp Club Fun

So, now that I'm back in the States I can once again start working on my Stampin' Up! business. When I moved, I handed my stamping club off to my friend and downline Michelle. She has kept that group going for 2 years, and now that I"m back, we're sharing the group while we work to build up new ones in addition. So, for our first shared club, Michelle and I each prepared a project for the ladies to make 2 of.

I first saw the cris-cross pocket card using the pennant die on Patty Bennet's blog, and loved the idea. To the right here is the sample I made for the ladies to follow using 2 large pennants cut from the Bella Rose DSP. However, when I did this I wasn't thinking about the fact that they would be making 2 - requiring a lot more DSP.

The night of club, everyone got to choose 2 different half sheets of the Bella Rose DSP to cut at the same time with the die. We had a discussion as to how to place the papers on the die to get the opposite patterns (one each side of a double-sided paper) in the same size pennant. Long story short...I messed up! I had 2 large pennants going the same way...so they weren't going to work together. One of my club members was playing around with the pieces we had cut out and we came up with the brilliant plan of using a large and small penant together! And so, the cards below were born.

We used one of the scalloped circles that gets cut with the pennant die, and then we used the new Curly Label Punch Bundle to stamp the greeting and punch it out. Some Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon finished off the pocket portion, and the inside card was made with Pink Pirouette paper and the Totally Tabs set along with the rounded tab punch.

So, to borrow a phrase from one of my favorite Painting shows, there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents that you can turn into something wonderful! :-)

I plan on stamping tomorrow (Saturday) and hope to have some fun new things to show you this weekend. Have a great one!!

Supplies: (all supplies from SU! unless noted)
Stamps: Cute & Curly, totally tabs
CS: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Bella DSP
Ink: Riding Hood Red
Acc: Big Shot, Pennant Die, Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon, Curly label punch, round tab punch

TFL!

Prettie Wednesday, a day late!

Sorry folks that I'm so late! My computer was NOT behaving yesterday, so finally last night my husband moved it into the office closer to the wireless router - now it seems to work a little better! So, I'm just now uploading the card that I did manage to get made yesterday while Julia was at kindergarten - woohoo!!

Jules challenged us all 2 weeks ago to make a shaped card, but it couldn't be square, or circular, or some regular shape. If you haven't seen the beautiful creations of all the other Prettie Girls you need to check them out, because they are all much more creative than me! I just cheated and made a card with my new Big Shot and the SU! Top Note die. I placed the fold of my Pacific Point cardstock so that I could create a folding card. Then, I diecut a piece of Stamper's Select White (finally cleared the pile from my desk and found that!) and cut it out around the perforrated line. I stamped this wonderful little surfing Snowflake and colored him in with my prismacolors. Lastly, I added the felt flowers because they seemed Hawaii-ish and the colors matched pretty well.

For the sentiment, I gently curved the acrylic before placing it on my block so it would curve around the wave some - cool, huh???

I hope you all are having a wonderful day, and I hope to be back tomorrow with another project I created yesterday. :-)

Supplies: (all supplies from SU! unless noted)
Stamps: Surf's Up by Paper Pretties
CS: Stamper's Select White, Pacific Point
Ink: Brilliance black, Pacific Point
Acc: Prismacolor pencils, OMS, blending stumps, felt flowers, rhinestone brad, Top Note Bigz Die and Big Shot

TFL!

Finally...a project for you all to see!

So, I've actually gotten a little stamping done this last week. Of course, I did very little of it here in my own home, but mostly at my good friend Michelle's house. She had her annual Hostess Appreciation Tea last week, and designed these adorable Make & Take's for everyone to make. Michelle is my only remaining downline after my long break, and I'm always amazed at the things she creates! I loved the creativity of this!!

We started with some of the light chipboard that comes in the back of your DSP packages. Ran that through the new Big Shot with the scalloped note die, along with some Bella Rose DSP. Then, we used some of the mini dies with Pink Pirrouette, Kiwi Kiss and Riding Hood Red to decorate. Behind the bird/flower combo is a mini binder clip - the embellishment is added with pop-up glue dots! We also added some ribbon to the top of the clip (which I could have dyed, but I preferred to leave it white.)

I really love the little bird and flowers, and especially the fact that his wings are separate so you can add them on with some dimension. Isn't he just the cutest?? Michelle, you really outdid yourself this time! I'll be helping Michelle get her own blog started soon...so you can look forward to seeing more of her work soon.

Supplies: (all supplies from SU! unless noted)
Stamps: None!
CS: Bella Rose DSP, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Pink Pirouette
Ink: None
Acc: SU! Big Shot, Scalloped Note die, Birds & Blooms Sizzlits Dies, white taffetta ribbon, silver brads, pop-up glue dots, mini binder clips

TFL!