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More Circles!

Good evening!

I finally figured out my issue with downloading picture and it was nothing more serious than a flawed cable. Whew!

I only have one card to show today as I'm busily getting ready for a little getaway.  So I won't be blogging for a short week or so.    Enjoy and I'll be back with new lots of swap cards I've received recently.     Liane

Another "Circle Circus" Card.  I told you I'm loving this set!  :-)  

 

I actually CASED this card off of SCS which was originally stamped using the retired "Seeing Spots" stamp set.  Black and white is such a simple color combo but can be so striking.  I added a touch of color with the Bermuda Bay ribbon and ink.

Open House / New Catalog Launch!

Hi everyone,

Sorry this has taken me a week to get these pictures posted.  I've been having problems downloading and had to resort to taking my camera card to a friends and having her download them and e-mail them to you.  A rather round about way to get my picture blogged but it worked!

Our Open House was a huge success and we were visited by over 70 customers plus a few "strays" that found us walking by the event and wondering what all the excited commotion was about.

Here are a few pics from the event.  Notice how neat and clean the Make and Take tables look!  LOL!  We set up for about 24 people to make their projects at any one time.

Here are the tables buzzin' with activity!

We had some great Make and Take cards in everyone's Open House package that used the new In Colors.  Here are the cards every was busily making at the card tables.

This card was made using the new "Circle Circus" stamp set on basic black and white cardstock with the new "Bermuda Bay" textured cardstock as an accent piece. 

I am so loving this set!

This card was made using the new "Razzle Dazzle" stamp set, the new In Color cardstock "Melon Mambo" and the new Melon Mambo Polka Dot Ribbon.

That's it for now. 

Enjoy!

Liane

In Color Card Samples!

Good morning!

Tomorrow is our big Catalog Launch Party/Open House!  It's going to be a blast!  If you haven't signed up yet there are only about 4 spots left.  E-mail me if you are interested in coming so we can have a Make and Take package ready for you when you come!

Prepping for this Open House has been a huge undertaking with over 70 people coming that I'm surprised I've had time to stamp!  I was able to make a few samples to add to the display boards for our Open House - here are just a few of them.  Enjoy!

Liane

This card was pain stakingly confusing.  It's a spotlighting technique which isn't difficult but I think the pattern of this new "Razzle Dazzle" stamp set made it a bit challenging in matching the patterns up. Maybe I was just having an off day, but the amount of cardstock tossed in doing this one over and over until I got it right is just embarrasing.  :-) 

 

I used several different sized circle punches and after stamping Razzle Dazzle on Very Vanilla punched several holes.  I then stamped the images again on Crushed Curry and tried to find the matching pattern that would fit in the punched out circles. 

I also used the Scallop Edge punched and the Word Window punch for the saying.  I'll have this card on a display board at the Open House tomorrow so you can see it up close. 

This next card is a long note card that's 6 1/2" x 3 1/4" that fits into the Small Open-Ended Envelopes Stampin' Up! sells.

  

This card was stamped with the new set "Circle Circus" and the more I stamp with this set the more I love it!  I used the new in color cardstock "Crushed Curry" along with Chocolate Chip and Crushed Curry ink pads.  The saying is from the stamp set "Wonderful Favorites".

Yet another "Circle Circus" card!  A simple 4"x4" Thank You card stamped on Whisper White with Chocoalte Chip and the new Bermuda Bay ink pads as well as the new in color Polka Dot ribbon in Bermuda Bay. 

 

New Catalog On-Line Ordering

Good afternoon,

Well did we ever have the rainstorm over the last couple of days!  Wow, I thought for sure the soil in my garden would all wash away. Today it's beautiful and sunny and a good thing too, I think my kids were going a bit squirly indoors.  There's only so much TV, Wii games and computer one can do.  

I received a couple of new stamp sets recently and pulled them out to play yesterday.  Good Friend and Owl Together Now.  I pulled out all the new in color paper and inks and started surfin' for some ideas.

I found this card on SCS in different colors and added my own slight twists to it.

 This set is "Good Friend" and the cardstock and ink I used is the new Bermuda Bay along with Crushed Curry and Dusty Durango.  I also used the new Bermuda Bay Polka Dot Ribbon which I am fast falling in love with ALL the new polka dot ribbon.

My daughter decided she liked the bird with it's wing slightly bent up for effect so we went with that.  :-)

The size of the card is 6x3.

This card was done with the "Owl Together Now" stamp set and the new Soft Sude cardstock color and the Kraft cardstock.

I would have loved to put the Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon on this but I don't have it (yet ;-) I think it would have made this card pop.

That's all I did today!  I just received a couple of new pre-order stamp sets today (Razzle Dazzle and Circle Circus).  I'll be playing with those next and hope to have some fun cards to show you soon.

Have an awesome weekend!

Liane

Where has the time gone?

No... I haven't disappeared.  June has been such a busy month with school end activities plus getting ready for our big Open House/Garage Sale of Retired product with workshop and club events thrown in between.  It's all been very time consuming.   On top of all of that my messy office has truly got in the way of inspiration, so I hunkered down today and went through it all.  It's getting rather tight in here with all the stuff I keep accumulating so I've had to make some decisions and started throwing stuff out.  Like the containers full of scraps -  I just tossed it ALL.  Don't gasp!  Those scraps have been sitting in baskets for years without being touched. In fact, I'm sure they've been accumulating dust and are responsible for all my sneezing in here!  

All my retired stamps have been cleaned out, priced and boxed up for the Garage Sale  next week.  Now I'm putting sample boards together and will try to make more samples with the new in colors as well over the next few days.  

I've only been able to stamp a couple cards in the last few days and only because I went to a Stampin' Up! Demo's meeting where it was all prepped for me to stamp. :-) It was great to just sit and stamp something without having to make it up.  Here's part of what we did.

We made this card using the new "Circle Circus" stamp set stamped on Glossy cardstock with Versamark and brayered using Melon Mambo (new in color).  It's mounted on Crushed Curry cardstock and finished with the Polka Dot ribbon also in Crushed Curry.

The thinking of you is actually mounted to the inside of the card and peeks through the front.  We did this using the Movers and Shapers Exclusive Big Shot Die from Stampin' Up! and the magnetic die Modern Label along with the Modern Label Punch.

You really need to see this Exclusive die in action so check out Meg Loven’s You Tube Video to see how the Movers and Shapers die is used.  Very cool!  The new catalog will have an addition to this Die with 4 Movable pieces, PLUS these movable shapes will match the punches and are slightly larger so that you can layer the shapes.  So exciting! 

 

 

This card I made last week with a few other cards when playing around with my new "in colors" from SU!   I was attempting to take a card I had seen similar in style to this and add my own twist but came up a little empty (in my opinion)  lol. 

I used "Soft Suede" cardstock in this card and Under the Stars stamp set.

That's it for now.  Now that my office is tidy with plenty of room to stamp, I'll pull out my new stuff and get to work. 

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Liane

New In Color Fun!

Hello again,

Remember a few posts ago when I said June was a busy crazy month!  Yeah well, I think that was an understatement.  Last Friday I had hoped to find a few hours to play with the new In Color cardstock but my niece woke up with a torn muscle in her neck which started a day of doctors visits, ice therapy and running around filling prescriptions - in between all that, picking up my kids from their final exams and running them around town.  With company arriving on Saturday I've had little time to breathe.  However, today and tomorrow I get a bit of a reprieve as my kids are on a camping trip with their classmates so I have time to just sit and play with some of the new In Color cardstock I received last week and have been itchin' to play with. 

So I took out my packages of new In Colors and started playing around.  Here are a couple of the cards I did today.

I used "Bermuda Bay" to make this 3x3 card with the stamped image from "A Flower for All Seasons" and the vine from "Fresh Cuts".

The scalloped circle was punched out of "Crushed Curry" cardstock and the layering smaller cirlce is ""Soft Suede".

The new Polka Dot ribbon is also "Bermuda Bay" which I pleated and added a white brad to.

For this card I used the "Just Buzzin' By" set and the bear from "Under the Stars".  I stamped the images on colored cardstock (Soft Suede and Sahara Sand for the Bear and Crushed Curry for the Bee Hive) and cut them out. The Bee Hive is popped up with dimensionals and highlighted with Crush Curry ink using blender pens.

The flowers were colored with blender pens using the same colors.

Those are the only two I'm willing to show ...lol!  The other ones I haven't decided if I like them or not.  Maybe I'll post them tomorrow... maybe I won't.  I'll play with more colors later.

Liane

It's Here!!!!

Morning:

Ahhhhhh..... my complimentary copy of the new 2009/2010 Stampin' Up! Catalogue arrived yesterday.  Perfect timing too... my DH left for a Fishing trip last night so I've got ALL the time in the world to relax and take in every new stamp set, accessory and sample pictures.... Ahhhh!!!!!   Love seeing all the new product, in-colors, dsp's, ribbons..... Oh My Goodness... the Ribbon Originals... LOVE THEM!

I woke up at 6:00 am this morning (not my typcial wake up time... 7:30 is my wake up time) and couldn't go back to sleep.  So I made myself a cup of coffee and began to browse through the new catalogue for about the 10th time... LOL!   This time scribbling ideas down on paper with all the new things I saw.  Sigh, July 1 seems like a long time to wait to order everything I want.

Today I'm going to play with the new in-color papers and hope to have some new cards posted by days end.

Have an awesome day!

Liane

Too much to do so little time!

Hi everyone,

It's becoming very apparent that June is turning into a very crazy, busy month!  With a couple nephews graduating, more birthdays in June than I can count, school concerts, school trips, final exams and then all the normal stuff on top of that I'm finding it a little difficult to find time to create.  So to get my stamping fix today I CASED a couple of cards I found in a SU! publication. 

Since I have a couple of nephews graduating and I don't have any "grad" type stamps I thought I'd try and make this cute Owl with paper punches.  I didn't have all the punches it required so I fudged it a bit and hand cut the beak and feet.

If you know anything about me you'll know that I just love cards made with punches.  I think they're so creative and fun!  Not that I've been able to come up with my own punch characters, I'll leave that up to the real creative types and just CASE their wonderful ideas.  Check out my Punch Gallery for more great punch cards I've collected over time. 

To make this Owl with all punches you'll need the following:

Scallop Circle (Wings), Round Tab, (Head), Small Tag and Word Window (Hat), 5-Petal Flower (beak); Boho Blossoms (Feet); 1/2" and 1/4" Circles (eyes)

The next card I made in a jiffy.  I really like the Manhattan Flower Texturz Impressions Die, it makes for such quick gorgeous cards. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there will be more of these in the new Stampin' Up Catalogue.

 I used my last piece of scrap Baja Breeze cardstock to make this 5 1/4" square card.  I'm going to miss Baja Breeze.  The new blue in the next In-Color collection is called Bermuda Bay.  I should be receiving my shipment of new In-Colors tomorrow along with my complimentary copy of the 2009/2010 Stampin' Up! Catalogue.  The poor UPS man isn't  going to know what hit him when I come flying out of the house to "grab" my box of goodies... someone should warn him.  lOL

The dsp is "Walk in the Park" from the current Occasions Mini Catalogue.

That's it for now.... Enjoy your day!

Liane

Upsy Daisy Gift Box

Well, I just finished pulling out all the stamp sets, accessories and paper that will be retiring at the end of this month and thought I should make a few things with it before it's gone forever and I add to my pile of things to sell.

I saw this unique little gift box in a SU! publication and thought I'd try one for myself.  I made mine with Parisian Breeze Specialty dsp, a Chocolate Chip Top Note, Baja Breeze Wide Ribbon and the Upsy Daisy Stamp Set.

It has a little box adhered to the inside where you can put a small gift or cellophane bag with some goodies in it.  Perfect for year end Teachers Gifts!

 

Simple and quick to make too.  You just need two pieces of cardstock.  10 x 1 1/2 for the box on inside scored at 2", 3 1/2", 6 1/2" and 8" and the outside piece 4x12 scored at 5 1/4" and 6 3/4".  The top note was scored at 1 1/2" in from each side point.   24" of ribbon to tie around the box and your done!  I used designer cardstock but you could also use a solid color cardstock stamped with your favorite images.

Hope you try it!

Liane

Just Buzzin' By

Hey everyone!

You know, it's a wonder I get ANYTHING done in my office.  No sooner do I have a clean stamping surface when seemingly out of nowhere I create this mess!  I frustrate myself!  lol   No amount of embarrassing myself by sharing my messiness from time to time with all of you seems to make me create in any other environment.  It's a wonder I can stamp anything at all!  I get so wrapped up in my ideas that cleaning my stamp area takes a backseat.  Please tell me I'm not the only one! :-)

 

Somehow amongst the mess I managed to stamp something (amazing but true).  Today I took out my "Just Buzzin' By" stamp set with the idea to make a spinner card using one of the bee stamps.  I'm quite happy with what I came up with.

 

 

I used Chocolate Chip and More Mustard cardstock and stamped all images on Whisper White cardstock.  The Bee Hive and flowers were colored using Aqua Painters.  It was a little tricky getting the bee to hide behind the hive and making the hive high enough for the bee to roll behind.  Having said that it turned out better than I expected!

Spinner cards are fun to make and can be done using Stampin' Up!'s "Word Window" punch and two pennies.  Simply insert cardstock into punch as far as it can go and punch a window.  Slide punch over and punch again to extend the size of the window.  My slider is probably 2 1/2 punch widths.  Now take two pennies and sandwhich them together with a dimensional.  Slip into window just made, adhere a stamped image to the penny using double sided tape and watch it roll back and forth as you tilt the card.   Make sure and use dimensional or pop-up glue dots to adhere your spinner card to the front of your card or your pennies won't spin.

The Bee Hive I had to raise a little higher than a pop-up dot allowed so I folded the pop-up glue dot in half to make it sit higher than the spinning bee!

Hope you enjoyed this card as much as I did making it today!  

Gotta go clean up now!   

Liane