Club Projects

Hi to my girls in club. I have been asked to post the club pages for this month and I am keeping it a surprise this month (I will post them after club) but I will give you a hint, it is retro (think of the catalog) and someone said it looks modern (you will get to try my new circle cutter)!! so have fun guessing!

Something Different

I have been making cards to swap lately and I am not sure which one to swap so until then I won't post them but I wanted to show you something. I realized today that I didn't ever post a picture of these earing holders that I made last year. My neighbor works in woodwork of some kind so he made the frames and the center is just a piece of metal mesh that they use to make window screens that we hot glued inside. The paper is just mod podged onto the wood. I love this paper and it makes me happy everytime I pick out some earings. This one is made with Urban Garden DSP. I was surprised at how easy these were to make since the hard part was done for me. It was the first time I used mod podge also and it was fun! I love the way these turned out, it is so much fun to pick out earings now. These ones have little pegs in the bottom that help them stand up, other people poked holes in the top and hung it up with a ribbon.
This one is made with the now retired Maine Blueberry DSP.

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top note thank you's

I have a bunch of thank you notes to send out this week and I am horrible at writing them so I told myself that it would be easy, so with a few turns of my big shot and the top note die, I made an easy base for the note. I didn't mean to stamp on all the writing surface but the stamps were too cute!! (and new, I love anything new :) I had just enough space on the top of the top note for my quick note. I took another picture of the exact same one just taken with a different color background cause white on white is hard to see. These were so easy to make, I made 10 in just a few minutes.

Here is just another picture of more S-up! supplies in the center of a flower. This time I used felt fusion flowers and the new flower assortment designer brads. I love these I am sure you will be seeing a lot more of the brads but I am done making flowers for quite a while so this may be the last :) We also put a chocolate chip flower brad inside of a pink flower and it was really cute but sorry my sister has that one so I can't take a picture of it.

It's all about the center

I haven't designed anything for a few days but I did for the first time ever make hair bows, or I guess they are hair flowers. I don't know the correct term, those of you who have girls, what are these called?? you can click on the picture to make it bigger. My Mom and Sister bought some flowers from the craft store and It looked like fun to make something girly, so I bummed a few flowers after I realized that I couldn't make many with just my Stampin' Up! supplies (I did make one all SU!). With all the flowers we made we used my Stampin' Up! stuff for the centers. Our favorite centers were with the build-a-brad. With the cream and hot pink flower we just used a antique brass build-a-brad without a paper cut out, the blue flower has a circle of chocolate chip cardstock and the poinsettas have a large halfback pearl on top of the build-a-brad. I also loved the felt fusion flowers in the middle. Our 1/4 inch grosgrain was great to cover the clips with too!!

Which one is your favorite???

Pop Out Valentine

I have had Valentines Day themed ideas on my mind lately, can you tell? I have a valentines day workshop next week that I am making projects for. This idea is from one of Stampin' Up!'s talented demonstrators (I don't remember her name but I will try to remember to add it later :)
I thought this would be a lot harder than it was and it is fun to see it unfold when you open it. For this project I used the love you much stamps that are on sale this month (check the link on the left) and Iused the Bella Rose DSP (designer series paper).

A catalog case

One thing that I love in our catalogs is all the awesome ideas. You need one of these books, there are hundreds of ideas. Ask me how you can get one for free!! When I saw the hearts on page 56 I knew I would have to learn how to make it. I love the idea to put a cookie inside like in the new catalog. If I had one I would put a sugar cookie with pink icing in this bag to show you but I don't and I didn't want to make them either :)

I Absolutely Love Love Love this, it was so simple and fun to make and I love the way it turned out. The only stamp I used was the Polka Dot background stamp. The flower I used is from the pretties kit. I also love the basic grey and the pink together, it reminds me of my mom cause she likes these colors together.

Do you want to learn how to make this???

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B-mine

I really wanted to use this stamp set and last night I tried to stamp while watching my favorite TV show online and so that is my excuse for not loving this card. I think it needs a little help but I love the colors together and I really like the Urban Garden DSP. oh well, better luck next time.

Homemade Notebooks

My friend Ashley made some of these awesome notebooks and I thought they were so cute and they were surprisingly easy to make. Ashley and Kristina can tell you how to make them better than I can and Kristina even has a video so click on their names for the instructions :) For these notebooks I used the Eastern Blooms stamps and the Riding Hood Red and Washington Apple DSP. (designer series paper)

Just a side view. I loved Ashley's tip to use the ribbon as a bookmark, so clever. Well this last one I made with my sisters retired music stamp set because I thought this book would be perfect for me. I play the piano for the kids primary in church and this notebook will be perfect to keep notes of the songs to practice for the next week!

Wild About Candy!

Something that not many people know about me is that my favorite candy is Good & Plenty. Yes I did go through a junior mint phase and they are still really good but for the last year or so it has been these pink and white covered licorice. I just found out today that they are a perfect color of Rose Red, which I love so I decided to decorate them. (we will see how long they stay wrapped up) The Stampin' Up! top note die for the bigshot works for both the small and medium sized celo bags. This one is a small one, if you want to use the medium one then just fold the top note the other direction! The scallop circle I used is the smallest circle from the Big Shot Scallop Circles #2 die.

Here is another topper, this time I used real red, so saffron, and certainly celery and the valentine birds that are so cute! (the words I used are retired)

Here is a picture of our fisherman :)