Showing posts with label Stamps-Petal Palette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stamps-Petal Palette. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2018

May's Club Cards

Our May Club meeting turned out to be just the day before Mother's Day.  I used a Mother's Day card design I saw on Pinterest - more on the rest of the story in a bit.

A week before our Club date, I was working on designs for our meeting, and wanted to focus on soon retiring stamp sets and colors.  This birthday card turned out so well! 

It's a watercolor technique.  Stamp the flowers, and immediately use the aqua painters (water brushes) to spread the color around to give the petals color and dimension.


 I saw this pocket card on Pinterest as well, and loved it the moment I saw it.  The Designer Series Paper, Delightful Daisy is retiring and I wanted to present another idea for using this very pretty paper.
We heat embossed the pocket and die cut it.  Use Tear & Tape to get the best adhesion to your paper.

My students earn points for good behavior, and lose points when they are having issues.  One reward I offer is for 100 points - students can do Arts and Crafts with the Teacher.  I had a dozen kids want to make Mother's Day cards.  I had almost everything prepared, and on Friday, I called that group from each class to assemble their cards.  The students had to color the flowers (This was the sample they could use for an example.) and then glue up all their pieces.  

Here is the Christmas Card I offer every club meeting.  I wanted to feature this very pretty Christmas stamp set.  After looking at it, it needs ribbon.  I'll send that along next club date.  We used the Stamparatus to stamp the sentiment and pine needles.  I had a template set up, and we stamped away!

Many of these items are retiring.  Grab them while you can!  


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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Valentine Event with a Helper!

As we do throughout the year, my upline Kathy and another fellow demonstrator Robin and I get together to present events.

Our first even this year is for Valentine's Day.  I decided to do some searching to find treat holders.  One of my cards didn't go over so well last year and I wanted (needed) to make a change.  Lots of the people I know give treats more often than cards - and Valentine's Day is perfect for treat giving.
 I found this video on making the Ferrero Rocher mini coffee cup holders.  I really love the Ferrero Rocher! 
These can be made from any patterned paper.  Thicker paper will require more sturdy adhesive.  On the green flowered version, I just used a regular tape runner.

My next treat holder features my helper!  I actually redesigned this treat holder from a version I'm presenting for Mother's Day.  The treat inside is a lip gloss!  For our event, I went and got all the flavored gloss. {Fun!}

 Introducing... my Panda helper!  I took the pictures of these projects pretty quickly, and Sandy was hanging around.  He's a good kitty, but not very cuddly. 

I just happened to catch him checking out the lip gloss.  Lucky shot!


Now for the card I'm presenting.  It's a very easy design and can be used for much more than Valentine's Day.  Tell the people you love that you love them.  Always and often.

I used Rich Razzleberry cardstock as my background, and gold foil paper with the Large Letter Thinlits.  I hope you can get the true feeling of this card.  It's stunning.  The paper has gold foil accents.

There he is again.  Softest kitty ever, and I do love him!  My Panda helper.

This is the first time I've used an entire pack of Designer Series Paper.  Yes, I have another pack since I ordered two, but I find it pretty exciting!  I used an entire pack of DSP for one event.  YAY!



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Monday, January 15, 2018

The Missing January Club Card

Here it is!
This card features the roses stamp from the current Stampin' Up! Occasions catalog in the Petals Palette stamp set.  There are also die cuts that work with this set.  My focus for today's Thank You card was to keep it simple and clean.

I had the ladies use Real Red, and Emerald Envy with the Aquapainters - I demonstrated how to get the variation in color using just one ink pad to add color to the flowers and leaves.

The stamp Thank You comes from the set One Big Meaning.  It's a favorite of mine. 



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