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Stampin’ Up!’s Color Renovation for 2010

Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Comments (2)

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I have very exciting news to share about the new catalog that will be coming out July 1st and Stampin’ Up!’s color palette changes.

The new color collection combines current colors with previous In Colors and introduces five brand new colors. This palette will give you new and vibrant choices, keeping your papercrafting passion original and exciting. Need a peek? Click here or the graphic to the left to see the new ‘core’ 40 colors.

The ‘In Color’ program - The 40 colors shown in the PDF here do not include the 5 new ‘In Colors’ that will also be introduced in July (so they are in addition to these). And in regard to the ‘In Color’ program, Stampin’ Up! will continue to introduce 5 new ‘In Colors’ each year, however they will be available for two years instead of one.

Get up to speed with a kit! With the new catalog, Stampin’ Up! will be offering ‘kits’ of ink pads, cardstock, markers, etc. to get you up to speed with the brand new colors! But, if you join now, you can get in on how to earn the kits free as a benefit that they are offering all active demonstrators with a special promotion until May 31st. Contact me for more information or read about the Stampin’ Up! opportunity here.

Farewell?! And for those of you who have favorite colors that you think you will miss, don’t worry–you can still stock up on paper, re-inkers, markers, etc. by shopping my online store.

Don’t wait until the end of the catalog (June 30th) to order as they will most likely be available only while supplies last.

Personally, I have been working with a LOT of the new ‘In Colors’ and many of my work is designed around the color combinations featured in the Designer Series papers (which are colors that are staying).

I hope this news comes as a happy surprise–honestly, if Stampin’ Up! had called me, these changes would have happened faster. Now I can take my private stash of Pink Pirouette and River Rock out of my drawer (next to my chocolate) and do the happy dance that they are back!

I have lamented more than once about Pink Pirouette, River Rock, Riding Hood Red and Pacific Point going away when they retired as In Colors (but now they’ll be back!). There are many of the 48 colors as they are right now that I almost never use anymore. I hope you find this news as welcoming as I do!

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Great Friend Card

Posted: Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 | Comments (5)

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Can you believe I had this set ‘Great Friend’ for two years and have never used it until last month?

The delicate butterfly is stamped in Versamark and embossed in white on vellum cardstock (#101856) then trimmed within 1/8th of the inch of the edge. It is highlighted by the ‘Modern Label punch’ (#116630) and celery cardstock.

I love the green/black combination (as much as yellow/black combination that I have featured in my posts lately).

And I’m happy to announce that the Scallop Edge punch is going to be available in the new catalog (though some of you got it free during SAB.

The ribbon is the white organza (#114319) and it is so elegant! The name is confusing to me as it has a stripe of satin down the middle (go figure!).

Set(s): Great Friend (#113792)
Accessories:
8 ½ x 5 ½ Basic Black cardstock
4 x 5 ¼ Celery Green
4 ¾ x 3 ¾ Basic Black
2 ½ x 4 ½ Designer Paper ‘Cottage Wall’
1 inch strip of Celery (for punching)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Vellum cardstock (for butterfly)
Certainly Celery & Black StazOn pads
White embossing powder & Versamark
Embossing Heat Tool
Modern Label Punch
Scallop Trim Border punch
Pretties Kit (pearl), Dimentionals
White Organza ribbon

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Last Day of Sale-A-Bration!

Posted: Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 | Comments (1)

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

I can’t believe that the end of Sale-A-Bration is here… kind’ve sneaked up on me–how about you?

This adorable (and easy) money holder birthday card was made with the FREE Sale-A-Bration set called ‘Happy Moments’ #118664 wood, #119125 clear mount.

I stamped the ‘outline’ image of the gifts on the Razzleberry Lemonade designer series paper twice… once on front and once on the back and cut out two gifts to make them look ‘wrapped’ in our designer paper.

If you missed the memo these last three months, you get one SAB set or accessory with each $50 in catalog purchases.

Details of this card:
4 x 11 inch Melon Mambo cardstock (scored at 3 ¼ x 8 inches)
2 x 3 ½ White cardstock
2 ½ x 3 ¾ Crushed Curry cardstock
Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper
– 3 ¾ x 2 ½ striped designer paper
– 3 x 2 ½ tiny yellow/orange floral design
Silver brads, 1 1/16th inch circle punch
Eyelet border punch
1 3/8 inch Jumbo circle punch
Crushed Curry polka-dotted grosgrain ribbon
Melon Mambo marker

You can view the Sale-A-Bration mini catalog HERE… and remember to either place your order online or contact me!

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Gift Tag Holder

Posted: Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Comments (3)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

I have so much of the ‘Cottage Wall’ designer paper left over from my Stamp Festival so I thought to put it to good use!

At my team meeting last week, we made this adorable ‘tag’ holder (which was an idea that I flagrantly stole from the very talented Becky Roberts who made me one for a private ‘Take 3′ swap at Leadership). What a nice gift this makes!

And as a funny coincidence, Amanda Coughlin this morning posted her CASE of a Becky Roberts project tutorial she purchased for our swap in January!

The body of the booklet is a 3 1/4 x 10 1/2 inch piece of Razzleberry Red cardstock, scored at 5 & 5 1/2. The ‘pockets’ inside are 3×5 flat cello bags (#103104) lined in white cardstock (so the tags really show up). The other coordinating color is Old Olive.

If you made this to hold the 4×6 flat cello pockets, this would make a nice photo holder, don’t you think?

While I used a different designer paper/color combination, I loved her designs of the tags (and hers were WAY more detailed than mine) so I copied three of them with what I had on hand.

The middle mini-pocketbook is fully functional in that it opens! The pocketbook is a piece of designer paper folded in half and punched with the large oval leaving out the bottom seam so it opens. The purse ‘clasp’ is the very small oval punch decorated with the Trio Flower (#109183) punch and a crystal brad held shut with a glue dot and the handle is the medium oval punched out and then the scalloped oval punched out above that!

The tag on the right is a flowerpot made from the ornament punch upside down, the leaves is the Sizzlit Die – Stampin’ Up! ‘Little Leaves’(#114511) and again the flowers are the Trio Flower punch.

Accessories Used:

Scallop Trim **ONLY AVAILABLE TWO MORE DAYS** #118402
Two-Step Bird, #117191
Trio Flower, #109183
Small Oval #107304
Large Oval #107305
Wide Oval #112082
Scallop Oval #114889
Scallop Circle #109043
Ornament #116794
Designer Label #107590
Stampin’ Up! exclusive Sizzlit die ‘Little Leaves’ for Sizzix
#115613 Rich Razzleberry ribbon
Rich Razzleberry cardstock and ink, Old Olive cardstock & ink
Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper #115671
Sponge daubers

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Chocolate Easter Bunny

Posted: Thursday, March 25th, 2010 | Comments (1)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Ah, those three beautiful words every woman wants to hear… ‘chocolate Easter bunny’!

The fabulous ‘single’ stamp ‘Chocolate Bunny’ (#116980, $7.95) is available for a limited time while the Occasions Mini Catalog is available… don’t miss it!

I made a simple ‘treat sleeve’ with a 2 1/2 x 10 inch piece of Mellow Moss cardstock and folded it back up on itself to form a pocket.

The best part is the ‘chocolate’ on the bunny! I stamped the bunny in Chocolate Chip (how appropriate!) Crafter’s Ink (#101816) and heat set with Crystal Clear embossing powder (#109130, $4.75) on Creamy Caramel cardstock.

The floral stamp in Blush Blossom on Blush Blossom paper is from ‘Razzle Dazzle’ (#116714, $18.95) set. The pocket is held together with Moss brads from the Soft Subtles brads assortment.

One important thing to remember about the ‘handle’, punch out the jumbo circle and THEN punch out the flower… it is close to impossible the other way around, LOL!

Materials & Dimensions:

2 ½ x 10 inch Mellow Moss cardstock
(scored at 6 ½ inches)
2 ¼ x 3 Blush Blossom cardstock (for front panel)
2 ¼ x 3 Creamy Caramel (for the bunny)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Close to Cocoa (for the flower punch)
2 ½ x 2 ¾ Blush Blossom (for the scallop circle punch)
Blush Blossom dye ink
Chocolate Chip Crafters Ink
Crystal Clear embossing powder & Heat Tool
1 ¼ inch jumbo circle punch
Scallop Circle Punch
Extra Large Fancy Flower punch (118073)
Earth Elements brads (Olive)
1 1/16th inch circle punch
Dimensionals™, Chocolate Chip narrow grosgrain ribbon

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Abundant Hope 3D Easter Card

Posted: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | Comments (3)

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

This card gets me thinking about how beautiful my daffodils are going to be when they finally bloom–they are growing bigger with every sunny day!

And I am going to miss this set when it expires on April 18th. ‘Abundant Hope’ is a limited edition set in our Occasions Mini Catalog which retires on April 30th.

It took me two days to make this card and finally ‘like’ the layout. I knew I wanted the black & yellow combination… and ended up with this very simple card. So simple that I decided the ‘pop up’ two of the daffodils or it wouldn’t satisfy me. You can’t see the glitter… it does improve it.

Accessories include:
Basic Black & So Saffron cardstock
Black StazOn
Earth Elements Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters
#107590 Designer Label Punch
#116630 Modern Label Punch
#118402 Scallop Trim Border
(SAB FREE with $50 order)
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter & 2 Way glue pen

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Abundant Hope Easter Card

Posted: Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | Comments (0)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

My daffodils are starting to come up (seems like winter was forever this year)! I included an up-close shot of the beautiful detail of the stamp. You can click on the card for a close up as well.

The card is Vanilla and the Saffron designer paper. The flower was colored in with the Summer Sun and Old Olive Watercolor Crayons and an Aquapainter. This was a very quick card! The vanilla satin ribbon gave it a richness and don’t you just LOVE the Scallop Trim Border Punch (#118402) which is a FREE Sale-A-Bration gift with your $50 order and available only until the end of this month.

This limited edition set ‘Abundant Hope’ (click on thumbnail below to see full sized set), is available until April 30th.

Materials:
Vanilla cardstock
4 x 3 inch Certainly Celery Cardstock
3 ¾ x 2 ¾ Very Vanilla cardstock
2 x 4 So Saffron Designer Paper
Vanilla Satin Ribbon
Scallop Trim Border Punch #118402 (FREE SAB)
Black StazOn
Earth Element Watercolor Crayons
Aquapainters

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5th Avenue Floral Easter Card

Posted: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Comments (3)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

This beautiful 3D Easter Card is made with Stampin’ Up!’s ’5th Avenue Floral’ stamp set and the (leftover from the Stamp Festival projects) designer series paper ‘Cottage Wall.’

The flower heads were cut out and petals bent with a bone folder and then attached with Dimensionals®. I love the colors Celery and Plum together anyway.

UPDATE: I bought a new Nikon D3000 SLR camera and I took a new photo… way bolder color! The thumbnail photo lower is with the old camera and you can see how washed out the color is.

It doesn’t help that I also have a terrible case of ‘photography envy’ from looking at the superior photography of Jon Haverstick and his photography of his wife’s Stampin’ Up! creations. Oh well, I must embrace my mediocrity for now (but you can run out and buy, buy, buy more Stampin’ Up! products from me so that I can afford some better equipment…).

Materials Used:
Set(s): 5th Avenue Floral,
Well Scripted (#118601)
Accessories:
5 ½ x 8 ½ Perfect Plum cardstock
4 ¼ x 3 inch Certainly Celery cardstock
4 x 2 ¾ inch Whisper White cardstock
4 ¼ x 2 ½ inch Whisper White
For stamping and cutting flowers out
5 ¼ x 2 inch ‘Cottage Wall’ DSP (#115671)
Dimensionals®, Celery Satin Ribbon
Black StazOn ink, Bone folder
Certainly Celery Watercolor Crayon
Perfect Plum watercolor Crayon
Aquapainters

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Stampin’ Up!’s Color Renovation for 2010

Great Friend Card

Last Day of Sale-A-Bration!

Gift Tag Holder

Chocolate Easter Bunny

Abundant Hope 3D Easter Card

Abundant Hope Easter Card

5th Avenue Floral Easter Card

Limited Edition Holiday Mini

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