Andrea Walford, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Canada

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Feb

Bee Mine

Posted: Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | Comments (26)

This has not been my best week at all! My daughter came down with a Gastro-Intenstinal bug, which means keeping her quarantined to her room, doing tons of steralizing and lots of extra clean-up from her being sick. Thankfully it seems to be paying off since the younger two have managed to avoid getting it. Needless to say I have not had a ton of free time.

Anyways, for this project, I decided that I wanted to create something really cute and fun to give my daughter for Valentine’s day. This bee was the perfect solution. He expresses my sentiment nicely, and he is so bold and bright to cheer my girl up! I am also thinking that he could be used for other projects, such as a get well ( Bee Better), or a ( Just Bee-Cause) or how about a simple cheer up ( Bee Happy). So many fun applications! Well I hope you enjoyed today’s projects and that you will visit us again tomorrow when Andrea posts another fabulous creation

Download Handout Here

Hugs,

Categories : Big Shot, Punches, Stamping Ideas, Valentines, Video Tutorials

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Jan

Potty Punch Project

Posted: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | Comments (37)

Well today’s post was made out of necessity! I wanted to create an incentive for my son whom I am potty training. He has proven very challenging compared to my daughter who trained easily. I know that he can do it because he has requested to go before and succeeded, but unfortunately, since my husband has been gone alot, it seems to really have affected him. He is more clingy, and more reluctant to be a “big” boy. So I created a fun chart and potty treat jar. The idea is that he puts down a star every time he does something on the toilet. On the fifth time (represented by the orange dot) he gets a little extra for a treat. The stars are put down with 2-way glue pen which was allowed to air dry so that it was tacky and removable. I figure that once the chart fills up, we can remove the stars and start over again. The toilet idea was taken from a Quickutz toilet die. I always find it handy to check out other companies to see how they do things, and then to go on my own and create it with what I have. I hope some of you can have fun with this one. One alternate idea would be to give a toilet on a card and make mention of a bad day, or use some other potty related humour to amuse your boys.

Download PDF Handout Here

Well I must run, but I look forward to posting my next card on Friday.

Hugs,

Categories : Big Shot, Punches, Stamping Ideas, Video Tutorials

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Jan

Valentine’s Patchwork Card

Posted: Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | Comments (40)

Woohoo! I am so excited! I received my invite today for Stampin’ Up!’s Stampin’ Connection – an online community exclusively for Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. I’ve been waiting for Stampin’ Up! to do something like this for a loooong time! If any of YOU are also Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, look me up on the Stampin’ Connection site and add me as a friend okay? I’d love to hear from all of you!

On to today’s card. I’ve called my project for today a “patchwork” card because it reminds me of a patchwork quilt. It uses my new favorite DP – the Sending Love Specialty DP and some the rockin’ new Sending Love epoxy brads (a must have accessory in my opinion!).

You can download my pdf HERE. The pdf includes a picture, supply list and written directions on how to make this card. I’ve put it into this format to make it easy for you to print it out and add it into your inspiration binder.

You can watch a video on how this card was made below:

I hope you enjoyed this card!

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* Denotes products from the Occasions Mini Catalogue

Stamps: With all my Heart (118623)*
Ink: Real Red Classic ink (103133), Chocolate Chip Classic ink (100908), Versa Mark pad (102283)
Paper: Pretty in Pink CS (100459), Very Vanilla CS (101650), Kraft CS (107070), Sending Love Specialty DP (117153)*
Accessories: Snail adhesive (104332), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430),Stamping Sponges (101610), Wide Oval punch (112082), 1 3/8” square punch (103375), paper-piercing tool (116631), mat pack (105826), Sending Love Real Red Epoxy Brads (117270), Real Red 5/8” Satin Ribbon (117286), clear-mount block C (118486), clear-mount block B (117147)

Categories : Cards, Valentines, Video Tutorials

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Jan

Valentine’s Fancy Favor Treat Box

Posted: Friday, January 8th, 2010 | Comments (86)

*Please be sure to scroll down to the next post to see the winners of the January workshop planner*

As part of our ongoing effort to make this blog as helpful to you all as possible, we’ve decided to test out a new feature. Instead of putting the written directions to our project IN the blog post, we’re going to put the directions in the form of a downloadable pdf handout for you. That way you can print off the handout and put it in your “idea” binder. Then whenever you want to make the project it will be a quick and easy process to refer to your handout. What do you think? Is this something that you would find useful?

Keep in mind that this is something we are testing out. In other words we’re going to try it out for awhile and see how it goes. If we find that it doesn’t significantly affect our workload then we are going to keep doing it. If we find after awhile that it significantly adds to our workload then we may discontinue it.

The second thing I want to note is that the handout is going to be 1-2 pages long – and it is going to include a photo of the project, full supply list including item numbers, written directions and if required, a template. In some cases, depending on the project, in the handout we may simply refer you to the video if we feel that a particular technique is too difficult to explain in words. If you look at today’s handout that is exactly what I’ve done for the assembly of the box. I was struggling with how to word the various steps of assembling the box so I simply stated in the handout to refer to the video for the box assembly. In the handout you’ll find the link to this post where you can view the video.

Today’s project uses Stampin’ Up!’s Fancy Favor Bigz XL die. It’s a Valentine’s-theme treat box, and it was decorated using some of the new products in Stampin’ Up!’s Occasions Mini Catalogue.

Download the handout HERE

You can watch the video of how this project was made below. Please note that for some reason we are having issues with You Tube. For the first few hours after a video is uploaded sometimes it will show an error message, whereas other times it will play fine. If you get an error message then please try again later.

We hope you enjoy this new feature of our blog!

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Categories : 3D Projects, Big Shot, Valentines, Video Tutorials

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Jan

My Matryoshka Watercolour card

Posted: Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | Comments (26)

Wow, all I can say is that I am glad to be back! I missed my stamps and tools. I had brought some stuff with me, but it always seems that no matter how much I pack, I end up desperately needing everything that I did not bring! Now my card today is sort of a trying to find my mojo card. Whenever I don’t stamp in awhile, I need to build myself back up again. For those of you who are missing the punch art, have no fear, I will have it again, I just need to figure out my next few ideas lol. The other thing that I noticed is that my videos are having an issue playing on You Tube. If you are having problems, then I apologize, I have not figured out what is wrong yet. Ok, well enough yacking and on to the card.

I wanted to create something with a bit of a Vintage feel. I have a few of the new goodies from the Occasions mini as well as the Sale-a-bration. The technique I did is watercolouring with reinkers. The style of watercolouring is definitely looser in this card, and there is a bit of a pointillism look to the shading. The videos today will show how the watercolouring was done, as well as how to form the flowers.

Directions:

Stamp your matryoshka image on to SU watercolour paper using your Jet Black Staz-On ink.
Colour in using the directions in the videos.
Die cut your leaves from Kiwi Kiss CS or Old Olive CS and the flowers from Very Vanilla CS, set them aside
Cut out your Very Vanilla CS mat and sponge the edges with Creamy Caramel and Close to Cocoa Classic ink. Stick your cut out and coloured matyoshka to the mat using your Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add your shading as shown in Video 2.
Mat the Very Vanilla CS on to the Chocolate Chip CS (it is 1/8″ bigger)
Mat it again onto the Very Vanilla CS which was scalloped on the top and bottom with the Scallop Trim border punch.
Take your Close to Cocoa card base and sponge it with a touch of Close to Cocoa. Take your three pieces of Sweet Pea designer paper (1 1/2″ x 4″ ) and distress the edges using your distressing tool, then sponge the edges with Creamy Caramel and a wedge of Stampin Sponge. Stick them on to the Close to Cocoa card base.
Take a piece of Real Red satin ribbon (5 1/2″ long) and fish tail the end. Glue it down with 3 glue dots. Stick the matted image down using Stampin’ Dimensionals. With your Tombow multi purpose adhesive, stick down your flowerw and leaves which have been sponged with Regal Rose Classic ink (for flowers) and Old Olive (for leaves). Add rhinestones to the center of the flowers.
you are done.

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Stamps: My Matryoshka (115213)
Ink: Chocolate Chip Classic ink (102128), Creamy Caramel (103220), Close to Cocoa (103139), Regal Rose (105211), Melon Mambo (115656), Old Olive (102277), Kiwi Kiss, Black Stampin’ Write marker (100082)
Paper: Kraft CS (107070), Chocolate Chip CS (102128), Very Vanilla CS (101650), Close to Cocoa CS (101341), Old Olive CS (100702), Sweet Pea DP (117161), SU watercolour paper (105019)
Accessories: Bone folder (102300), Scallop Trim Border punch (118402 – this is currently a Sale-a-Bration item which you can receive free when you place an order of $65 CAN worth of Stampin’ Up! product), Stampin’ Up! Little Leaves (114511), Big Shot (113439), mini glue dots (103683), Stampin’ Up! Floral Fusion (115969), Snail adhesive (104332), Eggcellent Eggs Kit (117179), Real Red Satin ribbon (117286), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Aqua Painter (103954), Tombow Multi purpose adhesive (110755), Cutter Kit (106958)