Artist Trading Card Owl Punch Art

At Convention I went loaded down with about 40 swaps-cards I made to trade with other stampers.  I would have liked to make many more swaps, but I was so busy prior to convention, it just wasn't possible!  I was so thrilled to see all the different cards made by the very talented stampers!  Such a treat!

I was participating in a ATC or Artist Trading Card Swap with my upline's group.  Trading Cards are smaller cards that can stand alone, or be taken home and added to a larger card.  It is fun to create the mini cards as you really have to stretch and think what will look good and work on a smaller scale.  ATC cards are 2.5 x3.5.  There are several sites with cutting templates to get 10 card bases out per page of 8.5x11, but this is the page I normally use for reference.

I had so much fun designing this little Owl, but when I made the first, I did not think about how many eyeballs it takes to make 20+ Owls!  Yikes!  Luckily my good friend and downline was willing to help me assemble my little creations.

Supplies Needed:
Two Step Owl Punch
Two Step Bird Punch- wings, branch
Big Shot- Spiderweb Embossing Folder
Great Greetings
1 3/4" Circle Punch
Rich Razzleberry
Daffodil Delight
Early Espresso
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie 1/8"Grosgrain Ribbon

Milk Carton Big Shot - Part 1

At Convention on Main Stage Carrie Cudney presented the most adorable Gingerbread house made from the Big Shot Milk Carton Die using the Sweets for the Sweets (pg 65 in the new catalog). Now I don't have that stamp set yet, so I had to improvise.  I think my little box is quite cute, and uses my love of punch art to create the roof (Scallop Border punch), a tiny wreath(Itty Bitty Punch), door (Large Tag Punch), and gumdrops (Word Window Punch). As soon as I can order from the Holiday Mini, I will add some mini Jungle bells :)

I also made some little curtains using my paper snips.  I can't wait to try the new Glitter Glue.  I hear it is a lot like Stickles.  I used Tombow glue with plenty of Dazzling Diamonds for the gumdrops, roof, and wreath. 

 

I'm thinking Mini Gingerbread Village for fun decorations, or possible party treats!

My next Post will be a Double Milk Carton Box.  It was also demonstrated at Convention, although I missed that presentation, but heard about it from friends. It is fun to see how versatile one Die can be when used different ways!

Simply Scored Tool Raffle September 10th - Enter Now!

I love to make 3d projects for myself, as gifts, in Classes, and in workshops.  I have been using my little black slider on my old Stampin Up! Paper trimmer.  It works after a fashion.  But more often then not, I mess up, and each project I try and score is either done wrong or is not identical to the others.  My reject pile can't get pretty high on some projects! This is really frustrating to me so when Shelli announced on Main Stage that we would be getting a Simply Scored Tool, I was absolutely thrilled!!  Our Simply Scored Tool holds 12x12 paper.  It has 1/8" tracks which is absolutely great!  It comes with 3 little place markers that stick in place on the edge (Tiny hash marks on my paper trimmer were not working for me).  It also includes a stylus with 2 different size ends.  The stylus glides wonderfully well on paper and cardstock! It has nonskid nonmarking feet on the bottom, and has a little storage slot for a bone folder, lipstick, candy, or extra markers.

The best part in my opinion are the rulers.  We have 2 different rulers, one goes from 0-12".  The other starts in the center at 0" and goes out in each direction.  Thank you so much for that one!!  Perfect for some many uses.  The Rulers will not fade or wear off either. And because they know it will happen, they sell extra feet and stylus.  I'll probably lose mine at least once!

So now you know all about it's features, now look and see some of the fun things you can make!

 

Did I mention as a demonstrator I can preorder it August 1st?  That might be one of my favorite benefits as a demonstrator getting to order product early!  I was not one of the lucky winners of a Simply Scored Tool Prize Patrol at Convention, but I'll have mine soon enough!  It is so worth signing up on my Team in July, just to get the Simply Scored Tool a month early, and at a 30% discount!

Now that you love it and absolutely want to have it, here is how you can win it for free!  During the month of August you can earn tickets for my Raffle in September. I'll be giving away a Simply Scored Tool to one very lucky ticket holder.

To enter the raffle: 
Like/Follow me on Facebook at Facebook.com/StampPaperScissorsInk and comment on my Facebook page to earn 1 Ticket.


Attend a Class and place a $50 order at class to earn 1 Ticket. Bring a Friend and Earn 1 Ticket.



Place an order online (or email me your order) for $75 and receive 1 ticket.  Each additional $75 order earns another ticket.

Host a Workshop in August or schedule your workshop for September to earn 2 Tickets.

Attend a Workshop with a friend to a workshop and receive an extra Ticket.

Place a $50 workshop order and earn 1 Ticket.

Sign up as a Demonstrator to earn 5 tickets.  Sign up Before August 16th and earn an extra 5 tickets.


Please add a comment below and let me know your ticket progress!

Stampin Up! Convention Display Boards

I will probably stop talking and dwelling on my fun trip in another week or so, but I really had fun downloading my completely full camera and going over my pictures from the trip.  I still can't get over the incredibly talented people creating display boards, demonstrating during opening night, and coming up with the incredible Product Park.

This post has a sample of each of those areas.  I will try and put together my scrapbook & slideshow quickly to share in better detail!

Most of our new product lines had a display board like each of these.  It was filled with wonderful examples of fun and interesting samples to make with the various product lines.  These two from Beau Chateau and Big Top were really incredible!  They also had sections for each product line in the Product Park.

Here is a display board that was posted after a main Stage presentation by Sara.  She showed fun, fast, easy, and inexpensive ideas.  She made a 20 page 6x6 scrapbook album, 16 3x3 notecards, and still had supplies left over all from one $20 Simply Scrappin Kit!  Now that is a great use of materials!  I also loved her fast & easy Big Top Accent cards.  She made 40 cards using 1 Quick Accent set, and 2 packages of notecards, plus a stamp set and some ink.  It is great to show what you can do when you have limited time and resources.

 

 

One of my favorite ddemonstrator presentations on Wednesday night was all about Buttons.  We have a new stamp set (Button Buddies p. 71 #122737-clear) dedicated to using our buttons.  Each of the 8 stamps in the set goes with a button. Linda Heller had so many incredible ideas to use, store, and give away buttons.  Of they are just so shiny and touchable on her button cookie tray. How inviting! Check out her button bracelet in the top picture.  Not sure how she made it, but I love it!  She also has a button ring.

Stampin Up fabric projects

I wanted to share a few of the incredible projects made by Stampin Up demonstrators that were on display at convention.

Flirtatious Fabric



Beau Chateau Fabric


Love the tea towel ruffles!! What a cute gift idea!


Bags, coasters, and ornaments





Messenger tote with Flirtacious fabric. She also had a crayon roll and a round tote!

Two step stamping with Raining Flowers and Workshop Words!

Free stamps stamp better! It is simply more fun with free goodies! I got home from Utah last night and could not wait to get my newest stamp sets inky!! This card is for one of my customers to thank her for a recent order. I'm using the new set in the catalog that all convention attendees received Raining Flowers. I also used a wonderful new set that we earned by going to different classes, Workshop Words! What a great set! I will be using it quite a lot as I plan on doing many more workshops!

I used 3 new colors, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, and Pool Party. Stampin Up has the most fun color names! I also used my square lattice embossing folder and color spritzer to give some great texture to the cardstock.

Raining Flowers is a 2 step stamping set. 2 step stamping is a great technique and a lot of fun to do. The catalog has a special symbol to indicate which sets can be used as 2 step stamping. If you don't know how to do that technique and would like to learn it, I'd be happy to teach you! Click on my events page to schedule a workshop on an open workshop night, or contact me to arrange a convenient time.

Convention- sneak peek holiday mini

So exciting to be here! Just finished the first general session! Wow! I'm so excited about our July $99 recruiting special starter mini kit!




Best part is the incredible Christmas box that the new recruit will receive for free.




Contact me before July 31st to take advantage of this incredible offer.

We also just got a sneak peek of the Holiday mini for this fall, and my jaw is on the floor! I can't wait to start preordering in august, and start my new holiday classes and crafts. Can you say advent calendar? With a great big shot die to make it with?




Stamping Up is going to be launching their very own Simply Scored tool. Wow! Score 12x12 paper, every 1/8", stylus comes with, plus 3 awesome little place markers. Perfect time saver, so good for all 3D projects!  This little beauty will be available September 1st, and I know you will want one for all your 3d projects.  It will come out in The Holiday Mini catalog.  If you are not on my mailing list, and would like to be added to the list, please contact me with your information.  This will also be available through my store online.

Please be ready to come and make incredible holiday projects! This new mini is out of sight! Pictures to come!!

Convention Swaps

I just spent a few hours working on my swaps. I decided to do some conventional ones, and some digital ones. I had so much fun creating 4 different cards to use. My favorite right now is the one with the Owl punch. We have this now as a physical punch, but I downloaded it tonight as a digital one! What fun. I love instant gratification!

The second card was an attempt at a more masculine sort of card. After I printed it out, I colored in the couple. It looks so much cuter colored in, but without using a Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, this is a hard set to get exactly right. I love nudging around on the computer!



More pictures coming soon of the traditional swap and my artist trading card.