Celebrate Summer Demo Event

Hi!  This week I've been posting swaps that I received at the Celebrate Summer Demo event held this past Saturday (May 14).  There was an early bird registration.  If you registered by the deadline, your name went into a drawing for a special prize.  Guess what?  I won!!!!  Here is my prize.

This is the doily punch - one of the new triple layer punches in the Summer
mini catalog.  What an awesome prize!

We were given name tags when we checked in that morning.  The girls sure went to a lot of trouble to make the cute flower pins on our name tags.  Here's mine.

The flowers were made from soda, tea, or energy drink cans.  Pretty sure mine was from a Mountain Dew soda can.  Boy someone sure drank a lot!  Can you imagine how hyped they were on all that caffeine! LOL

Later in the day we did a Make n Take.  We made some cards and decorated a notebook case (empty clear mount stamp case) by making our own DSP using the One Sheet Wonder technique.  There is some planning involved to do this.  Fortunately, that was done for us.  First we stamped an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of white card stock using the Flower Fest stamp set in bright colors.  (This set can be found in the Summer mini.)  More color was sponged on to reduce the amount of white space showing.  Then we cut it up according to the template, which was provided in our packet of materials.  I actually assembled my cards & notebook at home.  I just made sure to stamp and punch everything before we left.  I changed the sentiment on the notebook by inking only a select portion of my stamp from the Word Play set.
Here is the set from the One Sheet Wonder.  Wish I would have thought to take a picture before it was cut up. (Sorry for the glare on the notebook.)

 

Well, that about wraps up this post.  Hope you have a great day and, as always, thank you for stopping by today for a visit!

Anniversary Card

See what I received in today's mail from my dear friend (and upline), Pam D'Urso!  Isn't her card just the cutest?  Pam is such a generous and thoughtful person.  What a pleasant surprise to receive her adorable card acknowledging my Stampin' Up! anniversary.  Thanks Pam!

The stamp set she used is Cheers to You.  Crystal Effects was used on the little strawberry. Dazzling Diamonds on the side of the glass gave it that realistic frosty look. The strawberries on the White panel appear to be made from the small heart & flower punches in the Itty Bitty punch pack, then embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder.  The inlaid technique is achieved by adhering the shapes in place before embossing. 

It's been a busy day - three blog posts even!  Tonight I need to get to bed early instead of early in the morning. (It's after 10 pm. Central time. The blog clock must be Pacific time.  I'm not really going to bed at 8 pm - although it's been known to happen. LOL)  Once again, thanks for stopping in.

Greeting Card Kid with Inlaid Technique

Hi there!  Been busy with preparations to "hunker" down for the ice/snow storm the weather people have been forecasting.  I just hope their prediction of power outages won't become a reality!  Fortunately, I went to the grocery store on Friday because some stores now have empty shelves of staples such as bread.  I remember the blizzard of 1982 and that is what this storm system is being compared to - the last I heard.  OK, enough weather talk.  Let’s get on with the card for today.

I decided to try the inlaid technique that I read about on Glenda Calkins blog here .  I had some Chocolate Chip triangle pieces left over from another project.  A triangle was paired up with the Certainly Celery card base since those are the colors used on the little girl and to create an interesting look (hopefully).  Pretty in Pink and Very Vanilla hearts were punched out with the Heart to Heart punch and glued to the Chocolate Chip triangle. After all the hearts were adhered, it was placed in the Square Lattice embossing folder, then ran it through the Cuttlebug (don’t have a Big Shot….. yet), and voila!  You end up with this cool inlaid technique! The really neat thing about this technique is that you can use ANY shape to create the inlay. Give it a try.  Stay warm and thanks for stopping by!

Recipe:

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Word Play

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, watercolor paper

Ink: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, black StazOn

Tools: Heart to Heart punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Mat Pack

Other: Vintage trinkets