End of the month!

Crazy! Tomorrow is October?! Couple reminders....

• Don't forget our blog hop tomorrow! Plenty of fun ideas to inspire your own creations!
• Check out the "What's Going On?" tab at the top to see all of Stampin' Up!'s current promotions and things not offered in the catalog!
• If you're a fan on facebook, you might want to check your "Pages Feed" on the sidebar. I don't know why but I'm getting ads for other pages, and not seeing much from the pages I wanted to follow... Also, if you "like" my posts, you should see more of them...!

Coordinating shades

Today I'm sharing the final card from my Neutral Accessories class. I used a slightly older Freshly Made sketch.
We used coordinating colors of ink to the papers, lol. But mostly this was to show how best to use the pearls or even rhinestones. I have found that using the tip of my Paper Snips scissors to lift it off the sheet of pearls and then putting it in place on the project, is the easiest way, and the adhesive doesn't stick to anything you don't want it on!

Supplies:
Stamps: Summer Silhouettes, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Primrose Petals, Coastal Cabana, Early Espresso
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso & Whisper White card stocks, I Am Me DP
Accessories: Basic Pearls

Chevron Punch!

Today I have the third card we made at my Neutral Accessories class. This card uses a Freshly Made Sketch.
I was in the mood to use brown, but had a hard time coming up with what to put with it. This might possibly be only the second time I've used Raspberry Ripple, lol, but it makes a nice autumn color combination!
We put the buttons across the top for the accessory, and we used the new Chevron Punch! Love this!! This time we punched Raspberry 'arrows' out of a bit of paper and laid them on top of the Chocolate Chip strip. I'm excited to see what else we can do with this punch...!

Supplies:
Stamps: Creative Elements, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Early Espresso
Paper: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Raspberry Ripple
Accessories: Chevron Punch, Neutral Buttons, Glue Dots

Thankful Map

Another sneak peek of my upcoming accessories class.
But mostly, I am SO excited about this stamp set!!! Demonstrators get a sneak peek at products when they release new catalogs and this was part of the preview this summer. I immediately fell in love (I loooove maps!) with this, but it was promptly removed temporarily. Then it came back a day after I placed a big order! I have been waiting quite impatiently for this to be in my hot little hands and ta-da! HOORAY!
I started with the sponging technique. I stamped it in Basic Gray and then sponged ink directly onto the card stock....I have the older, classic ink pads which work so nicely for sponging. And I liked these brads in each point of the punch.

Supplies:
Stamps: World Map, Banner Greetings,
Ink: Basic Gray, Tangerine Tango, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke
Paper: Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Designer Label Punch, Mini Brads, Mat Pack, Hexagon Punch

CASE from the Catalog

CASE means Copy And Share Everything. Sometimes we change it up a bit and make it our own, sometimes we make exactly what we saw! Today its a bit of a change up, but the stamping is the same. Open your catalog to page 93 and see if you can find my inspiration...

Supplies:
Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers
Ink: Gumball Green, Calypso Coral
Paper: Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Epic Day DP
Accessories: Neutral Button, White Bakers Twine

This card is going to be made at my Neutral Accessories class. I rather liked the chevron pattern going across the bottom there, beneath the tree. And the little flag at the top is pretty cute too! What do you think?

52 Week Challenge, Revisit!

If you read my blog earlier this year, you may remember I had challenged myself to do a page of each week of the year. If you've read my blog last week, you know that I lost MDS in May and that project has been on hold (sheesh, do I talk about anything else?! tee hee...). Well, last Sunday I thought I'd start a little catching up by doing a page from this month! Tada!

I don't know which week number this is, lol, that will take a little more time. Catching up will take some time too. But here's a nice start.
The page could not be more simple....I adjusted one of the layouts that comes with MDS to fit the pictures I had. I used a photo from the week instead of background paper. I used a label punch as the journaling mat. (which yes, I have centered better...) And I added a drop shadow to the whole thing...but that is IT.

A Coach-Thank-You gift with MDS!

There are other things you can do with MDS besides scrapbook pages, you know. I've shown before that you can make prints to frame for your house. Cards are, of course, part of the program. I've even shown that you can make a video! Today I'm going to show off a gift set I put together for my daughter's soccer coach.

Most coaches around here have one practice before the season begins, and call it good. The "season" means two games a week and since coaches are parents who volunteer, most don't want to give more of their time than that. I can absolutely understand that, but it has made a world of difference having a coach who held three practices before the season started, and continues to hold practice throughout the entire season!! This is the first time my daughter has played soccer, and this coach has worked with the kids on an individual level, helping them run-and-kick, helping them drop-kick, and tossing the ball at their heads, haha, to teach them to use their heads instead of their hands. My daughter has improved sooo much and she's not the only one!!

I really, really appreciate how much time and effort this coach has put into this team so I really wanted to put something together for him. I asked his wife what kind of snack or treat he might like, so that's what he's getting. My daughter wanted to pick out something for the assistant coach too, and I thought the coach's wife deserved some chocolate, haha!

Now for the "stamping" part of this post...! Who remembers One-Sheet-Wonders? That was a super trendy concept when I started with Stampin' Up! The idea was to take a single sheet of DP (or stamped sheet) and cut it into all sorts of sizes to be used on tons of different projects. That's the basis of my project today.

In MDS I downloaded the Great Sport stamp brush set to get a soccer ball image. I made a collage 8x11 page, using different colors and two sizes of soccer balls. (I resized most of the images) The whole sheet looked like this, and I printed it onto Whisper White card stock:

Then, I used another page and printed off two soccer balls. I sized them first to 1 3/8 because that's the size of circle punch I have, but then changed it to 1.35 to make them fit just a hair better. I printed those onto card stock also. After punching them out, I stuck them on the cards! The card colors are not my very favorite, but they're based on the kids' uniforms.

Here's the coach's gift and the Retro sketch 81 for the card...

And the assistant coach's gift, I used the Monday Mojo sketch 310 for this card:

Supplies:
MDS: Great Sport: Soccer Ball, resized
Fundamental Phrases: Thanks (comes with MDS), resized
Sporting: everything else (comes with MDS), resized
Colors: Basic Black, Going Gray, Crushed Curry, Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo, Only Orange, Pacific Point
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Crushed Curry, Island Indigo, Basic Black & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: 1 3/8 inch circle punch, Hexagon Punch, Dimensionals

Double Challenge Digi Page

As the title so clearly states, today's page used two challenges. First I picked a strip from the 123 Get Scrappy blog, using ribbon, rhinestones and a back to school theme. Then I used Cheryl's EMS sketch from her blog!

Honestly, I'm not sure if I love the page...is it the colors? I just used what I found on her clothes... Is it too busy? Otherwise it looked too plain...I don't know. Oh well, another page done, and that's the part that matters! *grin

Supplies:
Timeless Portrait Content Disk, opacity changed
Flirtatious content disk
Pennant Punch
Sycamore Street content disk, recolored ribbon
2013 SAB content disk, Rhinestone size changed
Pocket Full of Posies content

Great to be 8!

Here's another digi page I made the other night. This one focuses on the people who came to my daughter's baptism, and uses a layout from MDS Monday that I have wanted to use for months! They posted this layout sketch right about the time my laptop died, taking MDS with it, so this is the first chance I've got to make a digital page with the layout (and I don't print photographs big enough to do a tradition page with this fabulous layout!!)
*I have already made a change to this page- I added a little journaling tab under the words at the bottom...
And the top photo kind of looks like it doesn't exactly fit, because it doesn't. There's a border that may be cut off during printing, and if it is cut off, the picture fits perfectly, haha. I had to fit all the people in and the photo wasn't centered to begin with!

Hmm...that sounds like a lot of whining, but really, I'm so excited to have MDS back, and to show off new pages for you, that I love!

Supplies:
Days To Remember content disk
A Split Second download - recolored tag
Lemonade Stand content disk
Seam Binding download

My MDS is Back!!!

I am SO excited!! My laptop crashed in May and it took us a few months to decide what exactly we were going to do as far as me having a computer. I have now finally gotten MDS totally installed and ready for my use- and let me tell you, I wasted no time playing with it again! *squeal! Despite the fact that I literally have hundreds of printed photos waiting to be scrapped, I cranked out three digi pages on Sunday, and Sunday in my house is not exactly a day of rest! This one is actually the last one I made, but the inspiration is the newest source. I saw this layout linked on Erica's blog Sunday, haha, and knew exactly what to make with it!

I love the layout, I love the photos, I love the recolor tool with MDS, I love that so many papers and accessories are right at my fingertips, I love that nothing is wasted if I change my mind and I love how the page turned out!!!
Seriously, what are you waiting for? Give MDS try for 30 days for FREE, or download the program for only $19.95!

Supplies:
Basic Gray Script DSP, opacity changed
Brads, recolored
Domestic Goddess content disk
Days To Remember content disk
Sycamore Street content disk, ribbon recolored
Everyday Enchantment content disk
Paper Daisies download

Soft Sympathy

Happy Monday to you! Busy week ahead? yeah, me too... giggle...
Today's card comes from is based on a recent Mojo Monday sketch. (I didn't copy it down quite right, apparently...) I needed another sympathy card and thought the purples with the lacey doily and pearls made a perfect card for this friend.

Its very, very subtle, but I used a Blender Pen to "smudge" the Wisteria ink and color inside the flowers just a bit. I used post-it notes to cover the doily edge and only stamp in the center. Love how nicely that turned out! Its really a very simple card, and sometimes that's just what we need...

Supplies:
Stamps: Simply Sketched
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: Tea Lace Doilies, Pearls, Blender Pen

Happy Sentiment, Happy Card

This is a fun one for the weekend! I used a Freshly Made Sketch for this card. I love the touch of the bit of gray chevron print from the I Am Me DP! And I thought this made a fun little color combination!

Supplies:
Stamps: Feel Goods
Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: Calypso Coral, Pool Party & Whisper White card stocks, I Am Me DP
Accessories: Neutral Buttons, White Bakers Twine, Rhinestones