Customizable Birthday Party Invitations, Thank You card, Bottle Wrapper, and Goodie Bag tags

I used MyDigitalStudio2 to design a set of Rollerskating themed birthday party invitations, thank you card, Party banner, bottle wrappers, gift tags, and goodie bag tags for my daughter's 11th birthday.

I posted them for sale on etsy!  Now you can have an adorable customized rollerskating party without all the hard work!  Contact me to get a pdf you can print out for your own party!

I created a 4x6 Party Invitation, a 5x7 Thank You postcard, a goodie tag,  Water Bottle wrapper, a happy birthday banner, and a bottlecap insert to make a personalized party favor for your guests!

The party favor goodie tag is designed to work with the largest Stampin Up punch #118874 and the bottlecap inserts will work with either the 1" Circle punch #119868 or the 1 1/4" circle punch #119861, depending on the bottlecaps you choose.  You can use the smallest circle punch to assemble the banner.  The Bottle Caps Stampin Up have work well with the 1" punch.  You can shop my SU Online store to purchase any needed cardstock, punches, or adhesive!  Coordinating colors are Bermuda Bay and Basic Black.
   

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!

Color Challenge - Wild Wasabi, Rich Razzleberry, and Peach Parfait

Another fun Color Challenge this month from Creative-Sketches.com.  I used my new Touch of Kindness set from the Stampin Up! Summer Mini.  I absolutely love cats, and so do both of my daughters.  I know they will be all over this stamp as soon as I let them in my stamp room! 

Come on over to the challenge site, and submit your card or scrapbook page, using this color combination.  Summer, and fresh.  I would not have put these three colors together!

Creative Sketches Design Challenge

 

My new box arrive this week with my pre order materials from the Summer Mini Catalog.  Yeah!  I adore all my new toys. This card uses the fabulous Florets Stamp set. I didn't use my coordinating paper or embossing folder yet, but believe me, they are coming soon!

My sketch this week from Creative-Sketches.com was a fun and simple sketch. 

I almost turned the sketch horizontally,but decided to try and plan it as intended.  I'd love to see what you can make with it, so pop over and submit your designs.  Can't wait to see what you make.

Strength and Hope Campaign

Stampin Up! just released a wonderful stamp set which will be not only beautiful, but proceeds from purchase will go towards Breast Cancer research.  I got my set just yesterday in the mail, and I was thrilled to be able to make my first card with it.

This was based on the Creative-Sketches.com layout challenge. I used my wonderful Designer Series paper in the Occasions Catalog, Presto Patterns DSP,  as well as the adorable rosebud buttons!  My palette was Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Early Espresso, and Crumb Cake. I'd love to see what you can make with this layout at Creative-Sketches.com, so go over and post your entries!

Mosaic Tile Card

 

I got to help my newest downline with her first workshop and together we designed this adorable card.  We used the new Clearly for You set (#121911 W or #121976 C) from the Occasions Mini catalog.  I love that the 1 1/4" square punch fits the large background stamp.  We punched 9 squares and layered them onto daffodil delight, and whisper white.  The whisper white piece will be the card body and opens from the bottom.  The basic black piece is difficult to write on, so this way, we get the look we want, and don't need an extra piece for the inside. 

We also used the scallop punch to create a wonderful distressed flower.  Punch two scallops and distress and crumple repeatedly until the edges seperate.  Pull apart and layer with fuzzy edges facing up.  I wanted to use a Black button for the center, but since I didn't have any, I stamped the background stamp again with VersaMark, and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  Unfortunately this picture did not show the wonderful shimmer.  After it had cooled, I punched it out using the 1/2" punch. I also used the Two Step Bird punch for the leaves on the card.

I just posted this to a new sketch challenge site I found out about - Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  Fingers crossed!

Creative Sketches Technique Week

So this week we were using punches at Creative-Sketches.com.  I had planned to do a punch art card, but my inspiration just wasn't there.  I'll keep trying!  So instead I got out my new favorite stamp set, Sew Suite, from the Stampin Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and went to town with my punches.

I used my 1 1/4" square punch to make a Designer Series Paper quilt.  (I even went the extra mile and sewed it down!)  Then I stamped buttons out from the Button, Button Stamp set, which nicely fit into our 1" and 1/2" circle punches.  I finished of with my 2 3/8" scallop punch which went behind what could be a 2" circle punch but was actually cut from my Circle #2 Big Shot die.   So there you have it, punches galore on this card!  4 in all on one card. So what can you make with your punches?  Post your card at Creative-Sketches.com to play along.

 

This card was also designed using the layout from Mojo Monday.  I skipped the bow and used the tape measure instead for this card. 

Valentine Defined

 

I just love this new set in the Stampin Up! Occasions Mini Catalog.  To create this fun Valentines Card, you need Valentine Defined. I am a sucker for our definitions stamps sets like Define Your Life, so when I saw this one, I had to have it.  I used it once today creating a card for Stamp Club, but this card is for my Love Sweet Love Class next week.  

Creating the card was straight forward.  I did a zigzag of the hearts on a string to create my background, stamped my other pieces and assembled.  I also stamped my heart punches to give them a little texture. Fun and easy!

Supplies Used:

Punches-1 1/4, 1 3/8 circle, Heart to Heart, and Scallop Edge

Real Red Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Cherry Cobbler Cardstock, Basic Black Cardstock

Basic Black 1/8" Taffeta ribbon

Basic Black and Real Red Classic Ink

Clean and Simple - Punch Bunch

I was preparing for my Stamp Club and wanted to try some clean and simple stamping.  I used the new Sale-Bration set Punch Bunch, which I absolutely love!!   I really like this minimal look, so give it a try at home, or come to club and try it out with me.

This fun card was made by running my Poppy Parade cardstock, throught my trusty Big Shot and my with my Elegant Bouquet embossing folder.  Then Iinked my stamp and used my blender pen to remove some ink to color my stamp with Old Olive and soft Suede.  I punched out my center, then the scallop and placed the scallop base down on the card, then popped the center.  I also stamped the scallop on the inside just for fun.  Simple, easy basic stamping.  It just look awesome when you are done!

My second card is a fun non traditional "love" color palette, but could be given to a guy!  Masculine cards always seem a little harder to me.  My husband is not into ribbons, lace, glitter, or bling.  Silly man!  I used Pear Pizzaz, Temping Turquoise, and Chocolate Chip.  I stamped and punch the owl, then stamped the hearts and popped Mr. Owl on the heart string. Then I added my little Love you in chocolate chip. I layered it all up on Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz, then Confetti White as the base.

Creative Sketches Week 2- Color Challenge

 

This week at Creative-Sketches.com we were working on a color Challenge with Black, White, and Brushed Silver.  I love the a la carte stamps Stampin Up! carries in the back of each Mini catalog and in the Main one, so I wanted to highlight one of the newest ones, Be My Valentine # 122045. 

I chose Basic Black Cardstock and ran it through my polka dots embossing folder.  Then I took my Brushed Silver cardstock and scalloped each edge with my scallop border punch.  I inked up my stamp twice, and stamped on my whisper white cardstock with Basic Black ink, and then on scrap with Real red ink for a very subtle pop of color.  I trimmed out my Valentine Sash, and mounted it on my card with dimensionals.  Before I attached the silver and white pieces, I carefully added a Basic Black taffeta ribbon around the edge of my card and adhered my bow with a mini glue dot.  I love that stuff.  You can't really see it in the picture, but I also added two rhinestones to the smaller flowers on the top half of the heart.  I do love a little bling! I think the overall look is very elegant, but somewhat masculine because of the color palette.

What can you make with just Black, White, and Silver?  Pop over to Creative-Sketches.com and post your link!  Can't wait to see what you make!

Creative Sketches Week

This is my second post as a member of the Creative Sketches Project Team.  Having a blast so far! I was working from the layout below. I created this card using my trusty Big Shot and my Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder.

I have not used Friends Never Fade stamp set and Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Wallpaper in awhile so it was fun to get those back out.  I have been holding back on this sheet with the huge Pumpkin Pie flowers, but it was just right on this project. I used the coordinating markers to color in my stamp to match the paper.

I used a bunch of punches on this card as well; Word Window, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle, 1 3/4" Circle, and my corner rounder.  I also used my Circle #2 Die from my Big Shots which nests perfectly inside the 1 3/4" Circle. This was my first time using my newest embellishment- my 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon.

Hope on over to Creative-Sketches.com to submit your sample!

Mojo Monday 172 - Eat Chocolate Stamp Set

It's a new year, and there are more Design Challenges to enter!  I really enjoy the Mojo Monday one, and it is a always exciting when I can get to it on a Monday!

 

This layout is really not something I normally do in my own work, so it was stretch for me.  But I love my new set Eat Chocolate from the new Stampin Up Occasions Mini catalog, and I knew it would be perfect for this layout. Picking a good color combination was hard since I knew I wanted a lot of browns, but I went with Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Pretty in Pink, and Ridinghood Red. I love my Big Shot Embossing folders, and the square lattice one gave me some fun texture that almost mimics a cork board to hang my to do list.  I used my spiral border punch and love the fun note pad feeling that gives!  And any good notepad is a little distressed, so crumpling and sponging worked for me there. My Jumbo Brad felt like a giant push pin too!  Love those little guys!

I didn't use actual brads as indicated by the layouts since my stamp had the 3 square check boxes. I think that works just as well in this case! I also inked only the saying at the bottom of the stamp to use as my highlighted rectangle strip.

Just believe card set

I got this set at Stampin Up Convention, and have loved it, but jut recently taught a workshop using it. Such a wonderful set!! We did a simple card that I cased from another demo and put a little twist of my own on it. Love the colors and simplicity of the set.

Teacher gift idea

I got a free package of play date quick accents at convention and finally pulled them out to work on a variety of teacher gifts using those.

I got a metal tin at the craft store and went to work. Sticky strip is your friend here, but tombo mono works well too. I colored and stamped with forest friends owl. I added a few strips of the quick accents and used my scallop border punch as well to make the cardstock a little more exciting.

Spooky Halloween card

My UPS order came and I pounced on the box eager for my web embossing folder. I ran a piece of black card stock through and lightly sponged whisper white craft ink on the web. I love the eerie look it gives!!
Then a punched piece of scalloped old olive, a piece of wicked cool, a large whisper white scallop circle, pierced in each scallop and finally I combined using two stamps to get a new saying! I masked my spooky stamp and stamped each half of my original stamp.I used markers to color each section in too. I love the result!

Birthday card

My daughter is headed to a slumber birthday party tonight so when my little one was napping we made this cute simple card together. Glitter makes all the difference to an eight year old!! 



We used Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White cardstock, with some of the Sale-A-Bration DSP I had in my stash.  Most of the paper came from my scrap basket which I spent about an hour sorting and filing.  I do love using scraps!

A Good Egg Pop Up card #2

I did this card once already, but reworked it slighlty. The grosgrain ribbon is a bit bulky, so I used the new Satin ribbon this time. I also used more Shades of Spring DS paper for the eggs, shells, and as a mat. I am pleased with the subtly upgrades to this fun card!

Sale-A-Bration Valentine's Day card

Here is a card using materials from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. Sale-A-Bration runs only from Jan until the end of March.

I used Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede, and Whisper White. For tools I used my Big Shot with Texture Plates, and my Heart punch. I used 3 stamps sets for this. Teeny Tiny Wishes gave me my little saying, the Love You Much gave me my trio of hearts, and my Good neighbor gave me my wonderful little Houses. I just love my Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper! I need to get more!

If you don't have a Big Shot, and would like to order one, purchasing one of my Big Shot kits will let you earn 4 free Stamp sets. I can't think of a better time to buy than now!

Santa Big Shot Treat Holder

Yesterday I went to a meeting my upline was having, and we could bring a 3D Holiday item as a Shoebox Swap. I loved the Mummy I made a few weeks ago and I wanted to see if I could turn that same basic idea into a Santa. I googled the Coca Cola Santa for inspiration, and then went to town.

This little guy is pretty easy, but has lots of steps. I started with 4 card size pieces sheets of cardstock I ran through my Top Note Die on my Big Shot. Then I sketched out a rough hat shape and trimmed that out of Real Red, and then trimmed out the lower half of Santa's beard, and used the scrap white to make my fur trim for the hat. Apricot Appeal made a perfect face for Santa. I used my sponge Daubers and pastels to add blush to his cheecks.

I trimmed scallop oval made perfect mustaches after I cut it in half and scooped out the middle a bit. I punched 2 whisper white 1 inch circles for eyes, and 1 more for a pompom hat. I also punched 2 basic black half inch circles. I punched a 1 inch circle from real red and cut that in half for the lower lip. I used my slit punch for a nose from pretty in pink. I used my small oval to punch out eyebrows from whisper white. I took the Basic Black pastel and darkened my eye brows.

I took a Sahara Sand marker to add details for the eyebrows and mustache and beard. I also used the sponge dauber on the edges of the beard. I also used my White gel pen as a highlight on the eyes, nose and lower lip.

And no Santa would be complete without a touch of dazzling diamonds on the pompom and hat trim.

To Assemble Santa, I filled a small cello bag with soft peppermints and stapled the bag shut. then I used a pop up glue dot on each side and pinched the two together. Santa can stand up by himself now!

Feel free to duplicate Santa if you like, but if you have a blog, please link back to me! Have fun with it!

Holiday Mini Catalog Sneak Peek

Here are 2 new cards from the Holiday Mini Catalog. I absolutely love the new stamp sets in here. Well, actually I love all it all! The two featured Stamp sets tonight are Sweet Centers, and Delightful Decorations. Sweet Centers will work beautifully with the 1 3/4" circle punch, and the adorable Sweet Treat cups, as well as the Big Shot Movers & Shapers Die. You can create a wide range of holiday cards with this set, not just Halloween. The other stamp set, I used on my Halloween card is from our Grateful Greetings stamp set also in the Mini Catalog. This set has 2 different sayings cover the next few months of holidays. I used Basic Black, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry.

My second card features Delightful Decorations, and our marvelous background stamp, the Medallion. I also used the new ornament punch, but it also works well with the Movers & Shapers Big Shot Die. I used Real Red, Old Olive, and Soft Suede

The Holiday Catalog is available online September 1st. If you are on my mailing list, you should be getting your catalog in the next few days. If you aren't on my mailing list, email me and I will add you to my list. Drop by my Open House for a mini catalog make & take. My Open House will be September 12th at 8pm.