Tutorial Tuesday-Jumbo Paper Clip Bookmark

Before we get to the tutorial here's something fun. While my sister was visiting last week she went to Walgreens and found these two bottles of nail polish. She got them just because she thought they were pretty, when I saw here wearing them I said "Hey those are the new In Colors!" They're so close in colors, it's almost a perfect match.

The Melon Mambo one is Wet and Wild #454D called Lavender Creme (no clue why lavender but that's what the bottle said-go figure).

The Bermuda Bay one is #446C called Caribbean Frost. So if you want to wear the new in colors, head on down to Walgreens and pick up a bottle or two!

For the tutorial today, I'm going to show you how to make a bookmark with a jumbo paperclip. I'm using chipboard and the cute hippo from the Pun Fun set. I've already colored and cut out my hippo and covered my chipboard with DSP. You'll also need alot of dimensionals.

Assemble the top decorative part of your bookmark. I just used dimensionals and attached my hippo to one of the stars.

Then place your jumbo paper clip on the back, bottom of the image you just decorated. Cover with dimensionals. Make sure to put plenty of dimensionals on the inside of your paper clip loop to hold it in place. I didn't do this on mine but I suggest on yours you also put dimensionals around the top of the loop around your paper clip. My star on my paper clip rock back and forth slightly because there's nothing anchoring it down. I also stacked my dimensionals 2 high to be deep enough for my paper clip.

Attach the other star on the back and you're done. Super simple.

Place it in your book to hold your spot!

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

Deal of the Week #3

Second post for the day

Deal of the week #3. The week it's the Square Fire Rhinestone Brads. Normally $10.95, this week only $6.99. You only have until Monday July 20 at 9:50 AM to take advantage of this deal!

On The Wire

Just a quick reminder you only have a couple of days left to sign up for our annual city wide Stamp Camp and get the early bird registration price. Here's some more details about Stamp Camp. I hope you can come, it's always so much fun and this year will be no different.

• Stamp Camp this year will be held on August 29.
• Admission this year does NOT include a catalog, however you can get one free by hosting a workshop or placing a $50 order AT stamp camp. Catalogs will also be available for purchase for only $5 the day of stamp camp only. If you would like a catalog prior to stamp camp, please let me know and we'll make arrangements.
• There are 2 prices this year! Register before July 15 and save!!!
• We will only accept checks and cash for the retired stamps and accessories this year.

I hope you can come. If you have any questions please let me know. The projects have been decided and they're AMAZING, you will not want to miss this camp!!! Here's the website to register.

Now for today's card. I actually made this card months ago, took the picture and have had it saved on my computer until I needed it. It's such a cute card too. I don't know why I haven't posted it before. It does use some retired DSP, so you'll have to forgive me on that, I'll have some new stuff really soon. I have a huge order coming to me sometime this week! I can't wait to get it, new dies for the bigshot, new stamp sets, new decor elements! Oh I'm so excited. I'll show you all of it, when it gets here! Ok, anyway, how cute are those little birds on the wire! I saw a card similar to this on Splitcoast so that's where the idea came from.
It's actually been so long since I've made it I'm not sure what colors I used. I'm going to guess and it's really going to be a guess. I looked and looked and couldn't find the card to confirm colors. It's in my swaps somewhere and I'm so sad to say I don't know where. When I find it if I'm wrong on the colors I'll update.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Cheap Talk

Cardstock: Apricot Appeal, Tempting Turquoise, White, So Saffron, Regal Rose, Rainbow Sherbet DSP

Ink: So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Regal Rose

Accessories: Eyelet border punch, white ribbon , silver brads, linen thread, dimensionals, Summer Love Rub ons

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow for Tutorial Tuesday!!

So Happy Together

Quick post today, I'm off to my New Catalog Class!
How cute is this little set of quails!! I just loved it when I saw it in the new catalog and had to have it. I'm doing a new catalog swap that's due August 1 and I have to mail them so I need to get them done soon. Here's what I'm going to make. I think it's adorable and just love all those birds.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Happy Together

Cardstock: Taken with Teal, Bermuda Bay, So Saffron DSP, White

Ink: Basic Gray Pad, Taken with Teal, Bermuda Bay and So Saffron Markers

Accessories: Silver Brads, Paper piercer, Word Window, Blender Pen, Bermuda Bay ribbon, dimensionals

Thanks for looking, see you Monday!

Inspired Thank You

Yeah it's Friday! Tomorrow is my New Catalog Stamp Therapy Class. I'm so excited to show you the new colors (in person), new stamps and so much more!!!
I also finally did my drawing for the June Customer Appreciation Winner. Why does it take me so long to do it? Well anyway...Jennifer Stark...you're the winner of the stamp set Botanical Blooms! I'll be doing my Customer Appreciation Program a little different this year. Instead of stamp sets I'll be giving away a variety of things, with every order you place that month you'll be entered into the drawing.
Today I have a Thank You card. It actually came out better then I thought it would. I had my doubts when I was embossing it and it wasn't looking exactly right. There were a couple of spots that I had to go over again with the versamarker and more EP but after that it looks great. After embossing I used my brayer and Barely Banana Ink and brayered over the entire image. It's a very simple card card but quite stunning in person.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Inspired by Nature, Fresh Cuts
Cardstock: White, Black, Barely Banana
Ink: Old Olive, Black, Versa Mark, Barely Banana
Accessories: Heat Tool, Black EP, Large Oval punch, dimensionals, brayer

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

Cards for Lisa

Welcome to another Thursday, is it me or does the year seem to be moving way to fast! I leave for convention in less than a month. I'm so excited but also not near as ready as I should be. Fortunately I don't have any swaps to do. Well I am doing a special shoebox swap with my sidelines and other invited guests while there. So I guess I need to prepare those. But I'm not taking any swaps to swap. The first year I went to convention I took almost 200 swaps. I got great cards back too. I had a great time swapping and I love swapping cards. I choose not to do swaps this year because I have sooo many cards already and running out of storage room for them. And I participate in a couple quarterly/monthly special swaps so I feel that with those I'll have plenty of cards and I can always take a picture if I see one I really love. Swapping at convention is like nothing I've ever experienced. I remember one year we were in line for check-in and people were swapping over my head and all around. It was so much fun. I also love the people who spend so much time and mass produce like 10 different designs then sit on the floor and lay them out. It reminds me of the Native American markets we have in Albuquerque. If you go to Old Town they sit on the ground and lay out all their handmade jewelry and belts and so much more. And you shop and I'm always reminded of that when I see people at convention sitting on the floor with their cards in front of them. Such fun times. I can't wait to go in a few weeks!!! I haven't been to convention since 2005, so I'm really looking forward to it!! Oh my goodness look at me going on and on and on.

I'm sure you want to see today's card right? Logan and I go to church every Thursday. I go to a Mom's group and Logan goes to play in the nursery. Lisa works at the church. She is one of the nicest and caring people I know. She is so funny too. Logan adores her. We get there early on Thursdays to chat with her and Logan plays game and looks at pictures with her on her computer. He birthday is this weekend so we made some birthday cards for her.

Here's mine. I've used this layout alot, I just love the layout of this card. And it seems to be my go-to layout when I'm in a rut.

I used chipboard and some of our new Razzleberry Lemonade DSP to cover it. I love the Melon Mambo. I think it's my favorite in color. On the inside cover I embossed my greeting. The you can open the Melon Mambo card and write your message on the inside. I also stamped the flower background from the Sprinkles set in versa mark all over. Though it's really hard to tell in the pictures.

Logan also made a card for Lisa. He really wanted to use the bear stamp from Under the Stars and so we made him holding some balloons from the Crazy for Cupcakes set. Inspired by this card from Splitcoast. He colored the bear and balloons and did all the sponging and gluing. I cut the bear and balloons out for him. He is turning into quite the little stamper!

Supplies: (my card)

Stamp Sets: Full of Life, Sprinkles

Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, White

Ink: Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Versa Mark

Accessories: Scallop Border Punch, Dimensionals, Chipboard, Tombow Multi glue, Melon Mambo Polka Dot Ribbon, Horizontal Slot Punch, White EP, Heat Tool

Supplies: (Logan's card)

Stamp Sets: Under the Stars, Crazy for Cupcakes

Cardstock: White, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry

Ink: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery pads, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Black Markers
Accessories: dimensionals, sponge daubers

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

Birthday Celebrations

Ok, I love the polka dot ribbon. I haven't been using it much. Only because we're using it at my class this weekend and I didn't want to use it all and not have enough for the class. But I love it!! My favorite is the Melon Mambo ribbon but I'm loving this Soft Suede ribbon too!! Those are the only 2 colors I have in the ribbon so far---until I order this weekend anyway. So here's something funny for you-I'm sitting here typing this and I looked down and I have, I kid you not, about 5 of the backings to the dimensionals stuck to my shorts-gotta love static! It's no wonder I'm always finding them all over the house. No joke, I've found them stuck to couch, in Logan's room, the kitchen, just to name a few. Those and backing to sticky strip, but sticky strip is soooo staticy that I usually do a body check before I leave the room to make sure it's not stuck to me anywhere. Ok that's enough of that-lets move on to the card.
This card was made for Barb, who's a demonstrator in our group. I mailed it to her last week so she should have received it by now, if not and she's checking my blog-Surprise Barb-you should get it soon!
Isn't is just the sweetest card! I love those Filigree brads!

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Best Wishes and More, Upsy Daisy

Cardstock: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac, Soft Suede, Tea Party DSP

Ink: Lovely Lilac

Accessories: Soft Suede Ribbon, Filigree Brads, dimensionals, Metal Edge Tags

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

Tutorial Tuesday-Pop up box card and A Winner!

Before we get to the tutorial I have a winner to announce! Thanks to all those who left comments for the blog candy post. I loved reading what you love about SU too!!!
I did a random drawing from random.org and the winner is........comment number 4 from Mary Skow!!!
She said-
"My favorite new item are the new In Color markers! I am so excited for these. I have been waiting a very long time for SU to make these available. YAHOO!!!" Mary Skow

Congratulations Mary!!! Please email me with your mailing address so that I can get your prizes off to you!!!!

For today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make the rose card that I posted last week. The rose card was started with an 8x8 piece of cardstock so when it's folded it's 4x4. For today's card I'm using a 6x6 piece of cardstock and we'll end up with a 3x3 card. This card is easily adapted for any shape. You just need to start with a square and you can make any size card.
Ok, I have my 6x6 piece of Creamy Caramel, I also have 4 pieces of Chocolate Chip that are 2 3/4 x 2 3/4. Other supplies you'll need, sticky strip, bone folder, you're stamps, some ribbon. I've already stamped everything using the Animal Crackers set and we're just going to assemble. This card is going to be so CUTE!!!!

First I thought I would show you how I made all the acorns for this card. The bottom of the acorn is the small oval punch in Creamy Caramel. After I punched it I pressed it into my Creamy Caramel pad to get random texture on it. The top of the acorn is about half of the 3/4 inch circle punch. Just put the top on and you have your acorn!

For the card, score your 6x6 cardstock at 3 in both directions. If you're using a 8x8 piece score at 4. You're just scoring down the middle so whatever size square you use score down the middle.
Cut the bottom vertical score line until you get to the horizontal score line. Then score the top right square diagonally from the corner to the center of the cardstock (or where the scoreline intersect).
Fold on all your score lines.
This picture better illustrates what you need to do.

Put adhesive on the bottom of the bottom right corner-does that make sense. Sticky Strip would work best. I'm just using snail for this tutorial.

Glue the bottom 2 squares together. You should have the box shape.

Glue your scene on.

MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU GLUE THE RIGHT SIDE ON, YOU ONLY PUT GLUE ON THE BOTTOM CORNER. BELOW THE DIAGONAL SCORE LINE. If you put glue on the whole part, the card will not fold correctly.

This is how your card will fold. The diagonal score line will fold in and the left side will fold over that.

Glue the front of your scene on. I used dimensionals to put it on, so I can slide my ribbon under it but if you are gluing it without dimensionals make sure to put your ribbon on first.

The ribbon will wrap around the card, tie at the bottom.

Your card is done. How adorable. The greeting says, "I'm nuts about you" How cute it that! I just love it!!!

The little squirrel and the giant acorns reminds me of the movie Ice Age with Scrat and his quest to get that acorn. I really want to see the new one that just came out. We just have to find time to go.

So that's the tutorial for today. I hope it wasn't too confusing.

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!!

New Deal of the Week special

Second post of the day, scroll down for first post.

Today is a new week and a new Deal of the Week. This week's deal is the
Sizzix Big Shot Doctor's Bag
Normally priced $69.95
Now only $49.99

You have until July 13 at 9:50 AM to take advantage of this special.

You can order on my website, or email me directly.

Robot Challenge

It's the first Monday of the month, that means it's a card challenge for Logan and I. I decided that he works with small 3x3 cards best, instead of the normal 5.5 x 4 .25 size cards. We made birthday cards, not sure who we'll give them to yet. I'm sure someone will have birthday soon, and they'll be more then happy to receive a hand stamped card from Logan.
As always I'm sure you can tell who's is who's. We used the big shot textured plates to add some texture to the card. Then we used sanding blocks to sand it a little and bring out that texture a little more. Other than that the cards are super simple, we just colored the robots with the Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue and Ballet Blue markers, Logan only used the Bordering Blue.

Here's some close ups of them.

I just think his is so cute and other then cutting he did it all.

Logan put his greeting on the inside-upside down. That's how you know it's handmade! And it's adorable!

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Lots of Bots

Cardstock: Bordering Blue, Ballet Blue, Brocade Blue, White

Ink: Basic Gray pad, Bordering Blue, Ballet Blue and Brocade Blue markers

Accessories: Big Shot and Textured plates, Small Oval punch, dimensionals, sanding blocks,

Thanks for looking, I'll see you tomorrow for Tutorial Tuesday!