Mommo's Convention Snowman Swap

Here is my mothers Snowman swap for Convention. This is the first of many great swaps and tutorials that will be posted for the next week. Make sure you keep checking back to see whats posted! There will be more then one per day for most days too!

I have already posted how to do this card so you can see how to make this card HERE!

He is so cute, I love this little guy!

Convention Tuesday Night Gathering!

Is anyone getting to Convention early with nothing to do on Tuesday night? How about an informal get together?

Bring any swaps you have or any swaps that are not finished that you need to work on. We can get together, share some samples and hang out! If you have extra swaps, bring them and we can do a pre-convention swap!

Let's meet at the Hilton Hotel first floor Lobby at 8:00, Tuesday Night!

If enough people want to come, we can find somewhere better to go!

I have lots of fun samples to share and lots of swaps to swap or show! Bring a camera to take pictures of everyones great stuff!

Hope to see you guys there!

Flirtatious Purse & Cards

Here is my Purse & Cards project using the Flirtatious Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Lace Ribbon Border Punch! You can change out the DSP, stamps and card stock colors to make these into any type of cards. Use the purse to hold the cards and envelopes or to give a gift in! You can learn all these new fun ways to use this great punch too!

To see more details or get this tutorial

CLICK HERE!

Make sure you check back next week while I am away at convention! I will have daily posts with lots of free tutorials for all my swaps that I brought with me!

Fruit Cards

I saw coasters that looked like the orange on The Purl Bee blog made out of fabric, and I thought they would also make the perfect cards! They are so easy to do and lots of fun. My kids can't wait to play with them.

To make them I used the 3-7/8" circle die cut with the Big Shot for the outside, the 3-1/2" for the middle and the 3" for the center. The watermelon uses Garden Green, Whisper White and Melon Mambo card stock. The seeds are black punched using the circle from the Punch Pack and just trimmed to the right shape. I sponged the center with Melon Mambo ink to make it darker.

The orange uses Tangerine Tango and Whisper White card stock and then I just cut the smallest circle into triangles and rounded the edges.

So simple and perfect for summer!

It's Almost July! Busy times!

I don't know about you guys, but life has been crazy here at our house!

I am getting ready to go to Convention next month and finalizing all the details for the 3-D Tutorial Swap I am hosting. If you want to be a part of it, CLICK HERE for the details!

The current catalog is ending so if you have not placed an order to get all of the stamps and accessories that are going out, you had better do it soon! June 31st is the last day to order!

CLICK HERE for all those details!

HERE is the list with photos!

We also just had a birthday party for my daughter Ashley, who just turns 6 today. We did a Royal Princess Tea Party and it was great! Here are some photos of the event.

Here is the place setting for each Princess, and my Mommo pouring tea! Yes, that's right, mini porcelain tea cups and saucers for the 6 year olds!

I used pink mini scalloped cupcake wrappers to hold all of the food and everything was bite size. We had miniature cupcakes and cheesecakes for dessert. Here is Timmy carrying in Ashley's candles.


Here is Ashley at the table before the party and my little peanut with her friend that is the same age as her! She's so tiny!


Hope you are all having as much fun this summer as I am!

Craft Project Central

Here are some more great projects that are featured on the Craft Project Central site for June!

Here is my project!
Planting Party Birthday Invitation and Favor Box

Vintage Scrap Album & Tote Box – Monika – www.stampnmad.typepad.com

Fabulous Florets Seed Keeper & Garden Journal – Kim – www.paperpunchaddiction.com

Love Letter Watering Can Treat Container – Connie – www.constantlystamping.com

Travel Log Travel Organizer – Naoko – www.nstampage.com

Dress Shirt Gift Bag & Father’s Day Card - Julie - www.inkrediblestamping.com

Fourth of July Party Ensemble- June Bonus Project – Heidi – www.stuckonstampin.blogspot.com post date 6-14

D is for Dog: Homemade Dog Treats – Kris – www.paperfairykris.blogspot.com

Fabulous Florets Wedding Ensemble Part II – Sonya – http://www.stampwithsonya.com/

Fabulous Florets Trifold Card Holder – Wendy – www.wickedlywonderfulcreations.blogspot.com

Growing Green Pedestal Pop-Up Card – Kim – http://www.paperpunchaddiction.com/

Scallop Circle Fabric Bear

I saw one of these fabric bears at a recent demonstrator meeting that I went to made by Fran Trischetta (who saw it on Shelli's blog), using different sized circles. I wanted to make them using only Stampin' Up dies with the Big Shot, so I made these using the Scallop Circle and Scallop Circle #2 Die Cuts. Needless to say, my daughter is in love with this little bear! He is so cute and little, only about 3" tall.

Here is how I did it!

You will need one large scallop for the body, one medium scallop for the head, and six small ones for the ears, arms and legs. You are going to sew around them, going in and out every scallop with thread. (This is called making a yoyo.) I used the new Flirtatious fabric from the new catalog to make this. You can get yours July 1st!

Now when you pull the thread it will gather the edges like shown below.

You are going to put a little bit of pillow stuffing (or cotton balls) in each one and then pull your string tight and tie it to make these little balls. You want them stuffed pretty full.

Then I just used a hot glue gun to put the head, ears, arms and legs onto the body. I used the Filigree brads for the nose and black brads for the eyes and nose. You might want to put these on before you stuff the head. I did it after and made it kind of tough. Then add the bow and you are finished!

Swap Holder Garden Bag - Perfect for Convention!

Here is my Garden Bag style purse, which perfectly holds over 100 cards. It is the perfect bag to bring to Convention or any Stampin’ Up event to hold your cards to swap! You can also use it to carry along all of your tools and materials!
This bag is large enough to also be great to use as a purse or gift bag for any occasion.
You do not need 12"x12" paper to make this project.

CLICK HERE
to see more details or purchase this tutorial!

Mommos' Circle Snowman Card

I don't know if you guys have seen these great circle cards that are all over the place now, but my Mommo (and fellow SU demo, Gerry Dyer) came up with a great idea.
She thought it would make the perfect snowman card!
Here is the card that she thought up and I put together. If you are lucky enough to get into a swap with her at convention, you might get one of hers!

First I punched/die cut 1-3/4", 2-1/2" and 3-7/8" circles in Whisper White card stock. Then I sponged the edges with Bashful Blue ink.


Take off the top circle, and you are going to put a brad through the two larger circles, while they are centered on top of each other.


Then put the smallest circle on top and put a brad through this one and the middle size only (not the bottom one). Do this lined up right on top of the other brad like shown. (I changed the color of brads at the end to black and white so they would blend in better.)


Now when you open them up, this is what you have! When they are closed, they fit in an envelope!


For the hat, I used the Word Window and Cupcake (bottom) punch. The circles are from the Cupcake punch also.


The arms are from the snowflake punch and the nose is cut with scissors. When he is all folded up, he looks like he is starting to melt!


My Mommo is so talented!
This would be the perfect card for a Christmas in July class!

Caramel Popcorn Teacher Gifts

So I came up with a fun idea for end of the year teacher gifts! We made homemade caramel popcorn and put it in canning jars (I found the great jars with the red and white tops at Walmart) to give to the teachers and ladies at front desk and our wonderful nurse of course. For the kids main teachers and the nurse we also included a gift certificate to go to the movies in the card.
Here is a brief run-down of how I made them!
(I was going to write a free mini tutorial for this, but I am just way behind with everything right now! It is our last week of school and I am working on convention swaps!)

For the strip that goes around the jar, it is an 11" x 3-1/2" piece of red card stock. I used the scallop Border punch on both sides, making sure to line the scallops up across from each other. I made a second identical strip out of white card stock, and then cut between each scallop, to give me a bunch of long word window looking shapes. I used Tombow to stick these on every other scallop section to give me the striped look. The red center square is 3" x 3-1/2" and the white on top is 3-1/4" x 2-3/4" with the edges sponged with Bashful blue. (Sorry, I forgot to take pictures of this part!) I attached this to the jars with red Sticky Strip tape.

For the popcorn I used the small flower in the Punch Pack punches and punched them in white card stock. I colored them in with the So Saffron marker leaving some white and doubling in some areas to make it darker. Then I trimmed off three of the petals to give it the popcorn shape.


The popcorn container is just a 2" x 1-1/4" piece of red paper with the sides cut at a slight angle, then using the scallop oval punch on the top. Do the same to a white piece of paper, then cut it into strips and alternate gluing them on the red. (One white will make stripes for two red pieces) Then just put the popcorn on the top!


For the movie strip on the card, I used the Spiral Border punch on the edges of the 2-1/4" x 7" black piece. The white squares are 1-3/8" x 1-3/4".


The white part of the card is sponged with Bashful Blue ink put on a red main card. Just trim your photo strip that hangs over. The bucket and popcorn are put on with dimensionals.


To make the background for the sentiment, (Afterthoughts- Hostess stamp set) I just cut one red Decorative Label punched piece in quarters and glued it on the back with the edges showing.


Here is all of them that I made!
And yes, I gave up on having any free time in the last few weeks punching out, cutting and coloring all of the little popcorn pieces!

The people at my kids school are more then worth it!