Tag: Cards
Perfectly Preserved Gratitude
Traditionally at this time of year, you would find me bottling fruit. It is a chore I both love and abhor: I love eating the fruit in the middle of the winter and it brings me great satisfaction to see the beautiful rows of the preserved harvest, but I don’t love the work of gathering fruit, peeling and cutting out bruises and bugs or sweltering in the kitchen for hours with a hot water bath. Because we sold our house with the orchard a few months ago and have moved to a new house with only a few fruit trees (most of which our neighbors have kindly divested the fruit thereof), you can find me bottling a different kind of joy with the Perfectly Preserved stamp set from the Holiday catalog:
I know you can’t see it very well, but the bottle is stamped on a window sheet with StazOn ink and cut out with the coordinating Big Shot framelit so it looks like a glass jar! This kind of “Bottling” could become addicting 🙂 My card is a flipped version of the Clean & Simple sketch #206:
I’ll be sending my card to someone who leaves a comment! Thanks for visiting and helping me get my 20th Anniversary celebration started!
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Fresh Sketch and My Color Phase
Do you go through color phases? Meaning you are really drawn to a certain color palette for a while, then something else catches your eye and everything you create for a period is variations on a theme? Yep, that’s me. I found this color combination and pinned it to my Color Palette board on Pinterest, and I keep coming back to it because it makes me so happy:
In Stampin’ Up! colors, they are Basic Gray, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand and Baja Breeze. Thus, my submission for the Freshly Made Sketch at the top stamped with the Blooming with Kindness stamp set (page 87 of current catalog), another one of my current favorites. In fact, I’m teaching a class with this stamp set in September and would love to have you there!
So what is your current (Stampin’ Up!) color obsession? Do you have one color you are always drawn to or a set that you love to use? Share with me in the comments and one lucky person will get this card from me in the mail! It’s even prettier in person 🙂
Back to Crafting with Affection Collection
I am almost put together in my craft room after the move, but I had to create a card for a Holiday Catalog Swap, so I ignored the piles around me and found a few hours to get them finished. I used the new “Affection Collection” stamp set and came up with this card, which I then realized looked a little bit like the sketch challenge #213 on Create with Connie and Mary:
As I was making the card, it needed a little bling, so I added the Silver Glimmer Paper…did you know that you can color it using classic ink refills and an Aqua Painter? That’s how I made the pink glimmer heart!
It felt good to be creating again. I think I packed up my brain cells when we moved, though, and haven’t yet unpacked the box where I put them 🙂
UPDATED 8/15/12: Wahoo! Thanks, ladies, for picking my card as one of your top 3!
Pretty, Pretty!
Pintrested? Reason to Smile :)
I finally caved and joined Pinterest…then wondered why I haven’t done it sooner! One reason could be that it is addicting, but I’ve tried to limit myself to a certain time when I am there and only look at those I follow or for specific things. Luckily, I follow some pretty AWESOME people so I get plenty of inspiration from them 🙂
After a while, I realized that I was pinning all these cool things, but never making any of them! So I took some time to make a few things and put my own spin on them 🙂
Celebrating the “Reason to Smile” promotion this month (see below on how to order for $5! in July only!), here are a few “Pinterested” card…not originally created with this set, but translated beautifully, giving me plenty of smiles and I hope some for you, too.
How do you get your hands on one of these stamp sets for only $5? FOR JULY ONLY, go to my Stampin’ Store and when you order $50 of merchandise, you can add this stamp set to your order for only $5!! And there is still a LOT of good stuff in the Clearance Rack, too, so that can count toward your $50 purchase 🙂 To order the Reason to Smile stamp set in clear mount, use item #131275 or in wood mount use item #131274 after your shopping bag reaches $50 🙂 Of course, there is always the option of calling me to order, and you get the added benefit of talking to me 🙂 801-376-8685
You’re welcome 🙂
Card Buffet Class
You’ve survived the first half of the summer…and hopefully it has included a lot of family fun! If you feel like you could use a little adult conversation and crafts that don’t include playdough or balloons, then make sure you register for the Card Buffet class on
Saturday, July 28th at 1 p.m.
in Spanish Fork! Here is a peek at one style of card you’ll be creating:
This is the new “Moving Forward” stamp set and Stampin’ Up! donates $3 to the Ronald McDonald House Charities with every purchase of this set 🙂 Hooray for making a difference in such a cute way!
For the card buffet class, I’ll have everything cut and prepared to assemble, you just need to bring the standard crafting supplies (scissors, SNAIL adhesive, bone folder-optional). Register and bring an adult friend I haven’t met and I’ll give you a FREE SNAIL refill!
Cost: $15
Looking forward to some cool crafting with you this summer!
Diagonal Fold Card Tutorial
Today I am sharing a fun card and envelope tutorial that uses the Simply Scored and Diagonal Plate from Stampin’ Up! If you are visiting to see the long envelope tutorial, you can see it here…but stick around for a minute to see this fun fold card, too! We’ll start with the card front:
The finished card is 4″x4″ and opens like this:
To create this card, use a piece of 12″x4″ card stock (I used Marina Mist). Score it at 4″ and 8″ on the Simply Scored, then put on your diagonal plate and score diagonally at from the top corner and at the 8″ mark. Fold the straight score lines in toward the center of the card and then fold the triangle folds BACK away so that two folded edges meet in the center of the front of your card.
Cut your Designer Series Paper to 3.5″ square and cut in half diagonally to put on the front of the card inside the scored diagonal areas. I used the Nursery Nest DSP which has been retired, but try any of our fun NEW Designer Series Paper and create your own!
Next, create a 3″x3″ focal point (the baby feet on this sample) and when you are adhering it to the front of the card, ONLY use adhesive in the bottom left corner/triangle so that your card can open! For my focal point, I did the emboss resist technique with the Baby Prints stamp set: Stamp baby feet on white card stock using Versamark ink and emboss in white (or clear). Sponge ink over cooled, embossed image and wipe off the excess with a tissue: Voila! Your feet appear magically!
Of course, this card needs a special envelope, so I created a matching one with the Simply Scored tool and Diagonal Plate (for tutorial, click HERE):
Scavenger Hunt Winner, Friendship Card & Recipe Share!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by Saturday for either the Hostess Appreciation Breakfast or “I Spy” Catalog Reception! As promised, here is the recipe for the Overnight Apple Cinnamon French Toast served at the breakfast (from allrecipes.com with a few modifications):
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 (21 ounce) cans apple pie filling (or 1 quart jar of homemade apple pie filling + 3 apples, peeled and sliced)
- 16-20 slices white bread
- 6 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
Directions
- Grease a 9×13 inch baking pan. In a small bowl, stir together the melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.
- Spread the sugar mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Spread the apple pie filling evenly over the sugar mixture. Layer the bread slices on top of the filling, pressing down as you go. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with the milk and vanilla. Slowly pour this mixture over the bread, making sure that it is completely absorbed. Cover the pan with aluminum foil and refrigerate overnight.
- In the morning, preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place covered pan into the oven and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 60 to 75 minutes. When done remove from oven and turn on broiler. Remove foil and drizzle maple syrup on top of the egg topping; broil for 2-3 minutes, or until the syrup begins to caramelize. Remove from the oven and let stand for 10 minutes, then cut into squares. Invert the pan onto a serving tray or baking sheet so the apple filling is on top. Serve hot.
This is the card we made at the Hostess Appreciation using the “Faux Diamonds” technique…can you see the glitter on the “yes, please” circle? It’s pretty fabulous in person! The stamp set is one of my new favorites from the catalog called “From My Heart” on page 139 of the new SU! catalog:
If you missed the open house, contact me to Join a Club or schedule a party and get a new catalog FREE! And just for fun, here is the link to the “I Spy Catalog Scavenger Hunt” you can print off and play as you discover creative treasures in the fabulous new Stampin’ Up! Catalog!
And congratulations to HEATHER ASH who won the Scavenger Hunt drawing and the “Bright Blossoms” stamp set!!!
I {Heart} My Hostesses!
Saturday morning is my annual Hostess Appreciation Breakfast and I’m so excited to show my fabulous hostess’ how much I sincerely love them for inviting me into their homes to share what I love with their friends! Here is the invite they received in the mail:
This is the new “Floral District” Designer Series Paper…and it feels like summer!
THANK YOU to all my 2011-2012 hostesses and club members: Laura, Heather, Shelly, Heidi, Andrea, Cassie, Rita, Jeanna, Heather, Brenda, Jeni, Mari, Sarajane, Jen, Beth, Kami, Jamie, Whitney, Laura, Lorraine, Ashlie, Diana, Sariah, Charli, Laura, Yvonne, Thaleanna, Carol, Nan, Katee, Nancy, Bobbie, Julia,
Stacy & Cheryl!
If you would like an invitation to this exclusive event next year, call me to schedule your workshop or join one of my clubs that will be starting in June/July! When you hold a party in June or July, you can also earn $115 FREE from the new catalog:
What are you waiting for? Pick up the phone and call me to schedule your party: 801-376-8685 or come to the “I Spy” Catalog Reception this Saturday from 2-5 p.m. in Spanish Fork!!
Creative Juice by Loni 