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At the Leadership Conference in San Antonio last month there were some beautiful Stampin' Up! fabric projects on display. Stampin' Up! doesn't JUST do stamps, ink, and paper right! They do fabric, too!
Dresden Designs Die #125597 and Twitterpated Designer Fabric #125412
Dresden Die and Twitterpated Fabric Pillows
Using the Pleated Satin Ribbon on a quilted pillow
Love these little Twitterpated Designer Buttons #125579
Using the Elegant Bird Bigz Die on a quilted wall hanging
Riding Hood Red Pleated Satin Ribbon for fringe on pillow
Use the Dresden Designs Die for the Big Shot with fabric or with paper!
The Petal Cone Die#121810 can make a beautiful Valentine gift, holding candy or whatever treat you want to put in it. I felt like a school girl decorating this one for Valentine's Day! I just kept sticking on more stuff and hoping I would know when to stop! Isn't that what you remember when you were little and decorating a valentine shoebox for school or making your own valentines? We had our scissors, probably that school paste stuff, construction paper, doilies, and maybe some stickers or those little stars that teachers would put on your paper. Aren't those some of the best memories, making our own cards and gifts for our parents and family?!
I hope you will take some time to have some old-fashioned Valentine fun! Make a Valentine or gift for someone.
Need a Valentine gift? This is the Stampin' Up! Simply Adorned Charm and Chain and the valentine insert that I designed myself. It is so much fun to design your own jewelry by making a little insert for each side of the Simply Adorned Charm.
And you can also design something on the backside of your insert or make another one to show through on the other side of the charm.
Here's the other side using the same Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, a string of rhinestones and an embossed heart from the Fashionable Hearts Embosslits Die.
The Simply Adorned line from Stampin' Up! is going to be discontinued so if you are interested in owning this unique jewelry, be sure to get the pieces you want. My charm is the 1"x1 1/4" Charm #116798 with the Simply Adorned 24" Chain #116800.
Here are just a few of the beautiful displays Stampin' Up! had up at Leadership! Each one is creative, beautiful and exquisite!! You can probably click on the photos to enlarge them.
Stampin' Up! Leadership has ended and I really don't even know what to say or where to begin. I think if all companies could be like Stampin' Up!, the world would be a better place!
We all got so many gifts and prizes (I even won a prize for the first time!!) and several promotions and things coming up to help us all grow and develop our businesses. The socializing and fellowship with other demonstrators in classes, while standing in line, swapping, or while eating lunch is priceless.
The Stampin' Up! employees giving their presentations....oh my gosh, what can I say???!!! Not only was there a fisherman/painter but we had salsa dancing on stage not to mention a gigantic Harley (at least I guess that's what it was!) riding on and off stage. The creativity and personality they all show is amazing....everything is so clever and entertaining. The theme was "My Way" so each presenter did it "their way".
A gift from Shelli at Make & Takes
Another gift and candy inside homemade by a Stampin' Up! employee!
Not sure I can explain this yet without looking back at all my photos and notes, but one part of an afternoon stamping demonstration at Stampin' Up! Leadership showed us how to use ourstamping tools in baking/cake decorating - type projects! It was so creative! Here she is using her Aquapainter on stamped fondant or something to color in. Somehow in there, vodka was involved!! Talk about a WOW project!
Here are some more photos. I can't figure out how to get all my photos onto my laptop yet, just this afternoon group appears right now.
Did you know you could use an empty brad container as a cookie cutter??!
I've had these lunch box tins in my stash for quite awhile and decided to decorate them with some of my stash of retired designer series papers, rub ons, and ribbons for gifts! The initials are cut using the Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine #113439 and the Serif Essentials Alphabet #113464. I find that it is easiest to use the Anywhere Glue Sticks #104045 on a project like this. The rectangular tip fits right into the corner of the paper. I always apply glue sticks to both the tin and the paper for a better adhesion.
While you are on Christmas break, why not look around at your craft supplies and see what you can make with what you have!
It's so easy to make a cute Christmas tag with the Two Tags Die. I just stamped the snowman from "Snow Much Fun", punched him out and adhered him to a Silver Glimmer Paper Scallop Circle. No coloring, simple simple....and beautiful!
Using this tree from Season of Joy#110384 and the Top Note Die to decorate a gift bag for Christmas is one of the quickest projects I have ever done. Use those shopping bags you accumulate from stores and decorate with your own creative touch! Fancy gift bag for free!
Ink tree from Season of Joy in Old Olive. Wipe off star at top and use Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Marker to color in. "Huff" on stamp to remoisten and stamp on Whisper White Top Note die cut. Stamp greeting in Cherry Cobbler ink.
Cut along scored border to trim die cut and layer on Cherry Cobbler Top Note Die cut. This makes a border in the same shape!
Adhere a piece of Cherry Cobbler 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon across the bag using SNAIL in the center. Tie the sides with Linen Thread. Trim ends and adhere with Mini Glue Dots.
Adhere Christmas Tree piece over ribbon using Stampin' Dimensionals.
Add some Rhinestone Jewels to the tree if you like or to the star on top!
If you are still looking for Christmas ideas or ways to wrap those Christmas presents, try this gift bag idea with whatever stamps, ribbon, and embellishments you have on hand.
Is this Petal Cone Die Santa not the cutest thing??!!!! There are many versions online and I copied one of them. We made this in our stamp camp this past weekend and I think everyone loved it. Just imagine having one at each place setting at your holiday dinner either as a place card or filled with candy or treats as a Christmas party favor!
The box is made with the Petal Cone Die#121810 with Real Red card stock. His beard is another cut with the Petal Cone Die but I trimmed just one triangle section and then embossed it with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I cut it off about half way so that some of the red box would show for Santa's hat.
The moustache is from the Bird Builder Punch#117191 (the wings!) as are the green holly leaves with part of the stem cut off. Just punch some small circles for the berries and a larger one for Santa's nose.
The Silver Glimmer Paper#124005 hat fur is a little tricky. First punch a little bit out with theScallop Oval Punch #119856 to get the bottom part, then punch with the Scallop Punch #119854 to get the top edge. Place it on Santa's head where it fits the best. His face is Blushing Bride card stock cut with the Large Oval Punch #119859. I chose to just color in his eyes with a black marker and add the little highlights with our Signo Gel Pen#105021.
The little pom pom on top of his hat is punched from the Boho Blossoms Punch#119858.
Once you sit down to make this Petal Cone Die Santa, you will see that he is very easy and fun. You can change up a lot of the design to make it your own or substitute for what supplies you don't have.
If you need any of these supplies, just contact me or visit my Online Store for all your Stampin' Up! supplies! Still time to get them before Christmas!
On someone's blog, I saw a Santa made out of the Petal Cone Die #121810, and it made me think that I could make a snowman the same way!
Just glue your two Petal Cone pieces together, close up the bottom and put the point at the top.
Punch out a large 1 3/4" Circle for the face, sponge a little Bashful Blue around the edges and make his face.
For the hat, just punch or cut a square, then use the Word Window Punch for the brim and put a little strip of red.
I fancied up his little lump of coal buttons with the Itty Bitty Shapes flower shape.
The arms are the Snowflake Punch, trimmed. I folded the ends and glued onto the sides of the snowman.
Really, you don't need directions! Just use your "snowman imagination" and go for it! Put some candies inside and make one as a Christmas party favor for everybody for your holiday table!
If you need more punches or other stamping supplies to make this Petal Cone Die Snowman, I would be happy to have you order them HERE! Thanks!
As you are looking through lots of old family recipes as you prepare for Thanksgiving dinner, you might consider doing something creative with those real special ones. A friend asked me to do something with this favorite recipe of her mother's. I love how it turned out and I think she did, too.
She had already made copies of the recipe, so I scanned it again and printed on Very Vanilla card stock. I did a little stamping in the corners using markers on the stamp, which, as it turned out, gave it that lighter, more vintage look. The edges are sponged with Soft Suede very lightly.
For the paper flower and the bottom border I used the retired Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper. It looked perfect for this project.
As I have said before, if you ever think your handwriting is not good enough for journaling or scrapbooking or writing notes in cards, just take a look at this handwritten recipe and realize how it brings the person to life for the people who knew her. Get off the computer and pick up a pen once in awhile! Your handwriting will be a real treasure to someone in later years, I guarantee it.
With an assortment of stamping supplies you can make more than cards or scrapbook pages. Explore your creativity and see what wonderful projects you can come up with!
It's fun to make a little album with the Top Note die, especially for Halloween. Here I used Halloween paper from last year to make a little album for my niece and her grandma to make a little Halloween scrapbook mini album. Just cut out your page shapes from chipboard and paper and decorate to your heart's content!
Don't try this when you're supposed to be getting ready for a trip....but be that as it may, I really like the new Stampin' Up! Cookie Stamps! There are recipes enclosed in the box. I'm just rolling the dough into balls, rolling in extra sugar, dipping the stamp into sugar, and then pressing into the ball of dough! The batter tastes good so I think the cookies will, too! Be sure to put these on your next order!
The Bigz Fancy Favor Die for the Big Shot is so useful for all sorts of projects. Here I have a made a cute little Halloween Fancy Favor Bag (or box). Just fill it with some crinkled paper and a Halloween treat and decorate the outside how you like.
Supplies I used:
Stamps: Wicked Cool, Sooky Bingo Bits
Ink: Stazon Black, Wisteria Wonder, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green
Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Fancy Favor Die, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Large Oval Punch, Sponge, Paper Snips, Paper Piercer
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I crumbled and sponged the First Edition DSP with several colors of ink. For the pumpkin I punched the 1 3/4" circle and the placed the punched oval over the center. For the pumpkin vines, I cut slivers of card stock and curled around my paper piercer. Just stamp and cut out the witch's feet!
Just have fun with it! For stamping supplies, order here.
The first time I saw these tea lights turned into little cakes I thought they were the CUTEST things! So when I wanted just a little something for a friend to celebrate her belated birthday, I thought this would be perfect!
These little tea light birthday cakes are so easy to make and so much fun! You can pick the LED tea lights almost anywhere these days for pretty cheap. Then just decorate with a 5" x 3/4" strip of paper around the side. Punch a 1 3/4" Scallop Circle for the top. To get it over the light bulb, you have to punch a hole in the center and cut little slits. You can make a template first if you want by folding a scallop circle in half, half again and half again and then snipping the point which is the center....or draw lines across the scallop to see where they intersect in the center. Then use Paper Snips or a hobby knife to cut the little slits.
For the flowers and leaves, I used theItty Bitty Shapes Punch, the Boho Blossom Punch and the Bird Builder Punch. Then I added some rhinestones and pearls to the flowers. Put a little Scallop Border on the side of the cake if you want. I added some Dazzling Details, the new irridescent glitter glue in the Holiday Mini to the scallop border.
If you need some birthday cake ideas, get some tea lights and try this! Really cute! It's an easy birthday cake to make and you can make cakes for all occasions! Have fun!
Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps!! Who would have thought that besides talking about stamps, paper and ink we would also be talking about baking at Stampin' Up!?
We were surprised at Convention last summer to hear that the cookie stamps would be coming out! We even got to sample them at lunch one day when Stampin' Up! gave us a surprise dessert! What fun!
Listen to Shelli's daughter, Sara, talk about the new Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. I'm putting them on my order today and can't wait to try them! Yum!
"Take your love of stamping into the kitchen! Create fun and tasty stamped cookies for any occasion. Fit a silicone stamp over the bottom of the wooden handle and press into dough—it's that easy! Let the kids help! Food-safe, easy-to-clean and dishwasher safe. Each set includes 3 silicone stamps, 1 handle, and 2 great cookie recipes."
To order your Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps just add #125152 to your order! Better pick up some extras for gifts, too!
Grab one of those paper gift bags you have and let's make a spooky ghost gift bag for Halloween! You might want to take a hostess gift to a Halloween party or maybe someone has a Halloween birthday. There are so many fun Halloween ideas out there you should use them whenever you can!
Here's how I made the Halloween gift bag. It was a total accident!! My plan was to make one of those medallions or lollies out of Halloween paper, perhaps sticking it on a bag. I wanted to try scoring the Halloween paper and folding up part of it to get a two-toned medallion. I was doing that and after glueing the two scored strips together and flattening it, trying to push it together in the center, I got this oval shape and thought why not do something with that?!
Here is the scored Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper #122351. I made two strips, each 12" x 2 1/2" and scored at every 1/2". ( I should have cut ONE strip 12" x 5" and cut in half later!) Then I turned the paper in my Simply Scored #122334and scored at 3/4" to get the edge I would fold over. Love the Simply Scored!!!
After I got the two strips glued together and played around with the shape I wanted, I turned it over and used Sticky Strip #104294 to hold it in shape on the back side. The scissors is just holding it down in place. It is not glued to the bag yet, I'm just fitting it around the ghost to get the proper shape. The ghost I made with the Owl Punch #118074....punch out the owl, cut off its feet and turn it upside down! Make his face with punched pieces or draw them in.
Take off all the Sticky Strip red covering and stick to the bag centering the ghost, which is already glued down on a black piece of card stock.
There's still plenty of time to order paper and stamping supplies for Halloween projects! Just go to my website at www.karenfontinelle.stampinup.net and click the "Shop Now" button!
Just in time for holiday baking, Stampin' Up! has introduced a new product called Cookie Stamps! You get three cookie stamps with a wooden handle to decorate your cookies. This works best with a shortbread recipe so the stamped image will not become distorted while baking. Demonstrators were treated to these stamped cookies at our Stampin' Up! Convention this summer!
And after you bake the cookies, use Stampin' Up! products for decorative packaging! Make a cute tag with a pretty Stampin' Up! ribbon....or use our new Kraft Gift Boxes. You can make great gifts any time of year!!
To order these brand new Cookie Stamps, just email me or go to my Online Store. Be sure to check the Clearance Rack while you are there for some great bargains!
Paper flowers have been "in style" for awhile now, but now with the new Stampin' Up! Simply Scored scoring tool this accordion-folded style is so easy to make! It's another one of those "bet you can't make just one" things! Here are some of my most recent paper flowers, often called lollies!
Made with Spice Cake Designer Series Paper #124003 with an Antique Brad #117273 in the center.
This one is tied with Baker's Twine Early Espresso/White #123124.
This one I adhered a wooden skewer to the back of the flower. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue #110755 to attach the stick, then put Stampin' Dimensionals #104430 (two stacked together) on each side of the stick to attach the large circle punch to hide the stick.
It's fun making paper flowers...or should I say lollies?!
If you need a Simply Scored Scoring Tool, doen't hesitate, order one today! You'll be glad you did! Don't forget some designer series paper!
