This month we are focusing on sewing on paper, This layout uses both machine stitching and hand stitching.
These cutie cards are going to be samples for my after school craft club-they are 6th and 7th grade girls-eight of them. I want to give them some design freedom -but at the same time I bring the class to the kids so I have to be practical-last week I put out the papers for the girls to choose and all the pink was gone before the last of the girls picked so I knew I had to switch things up-fortunately the girls are very sweet so when I pointed out the some of the girls didn't get any pinks they pitched in and shared! I'll post a picture of that project soon. For this week I'm giving the girls-4 half sheets of kraft, one of Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Saffron, Regal Rose. a 4x4 square of each of the six DSP's from the Build-a-Bear collection and four envelopes. I'm toting along my Big Shot, 5 punches and 3 Dies-ink pads, blender pens, sponges, and markers as well as grid sheets. They will decide what to do with the supplies-copy my designs or make their own-they will have 12 dsp designs to work with and the four colors! These girls love to mix things up-I'm excited to see what they make! I pre-cut the whisper white circles but they will do the rest! I'm going to bring along glitter and two way glue pen and only bring it out if they finish early-We have an hour and a half and we ran over 10 minutes last week.
I thought this die was too hard to deal with-I'm changing my mind-this was so fun to make-I don't have this die yet -we went to a meeting held by an upline-Jan and she gave us a challenge to turn this tree into a project-well I had been working on little projects for my craft club at GMA and was inspired to put the tree in an explosion box
-had to alter the usual pattern to get the tree in but I think it came out very fun! This merry moments paper is lovely-so traditional and nostalgic. The Old Olive and Real Red and Chocolate Chip are so great to work with. Gets one in the mood to deal with Christmas-sort of! Might take more then super cute paper!
Hi! I can't believe how long it's been since I posted-guess the start of the school year kicked my butt. Here is the Splitcoast sketch that I gave for home work-and the three cards I did as home work. I think these three have been my favorite so far!
I have just finished up at the Stampin' Up convention in Salt Lake City Utah! It was such a blast! So much to see, do and learn! 
Well I've been off my blog for too long-I had a wonderful trip to the West Coast for 12 long sunshine days. I came home to lots of catching up, weeding and work. 
Here is a card I made to send to my Emily away at school. I love Susan Wodcott's Gorguss Girls as anyone who reads here knows-my diverging from a SU stamp is an unusual occurrence. I used some of the new "in colors" and the Razzle Dazzle stamp set. The flowers are Hero Arts-I colored with Copics-I was experimenting with matching up copics to the SU colors-challenging!
The latest Challenge for the DD group was to make a gate fold card-Well here it is! Inside and out side-The images are Sugar Nellies colored with copics. The Paper and button and Die are all Stampin' Up! 
Okay-here is one more card using Razzelberry Lemonade DSP-are you sick of it yet? This one does look different-there is no Razzelberry I used papers that only show Dusty Durango and Crushed Curry. I stamped the Razzle Dazzle stamp set on the textured card stock-I love that the in colors are available in 8.5 x 11 texture card stock!
I'm finally posting the challenge from a few weeks ago it was to make a card with a neutral base and purple and yellow of any shade. All products are again the sneak peek for SU! The Top note is DSP the Very Vanilla layer is stamped and sponged the Rich Razzelberry and Crushed Curry work just fine for purple and yellow.
So one of the SS challenges was to make an ATC-I never made one before-so her is my first try! I used all Stampin' Up! Sneak Peek products-"in color"'s papers and ribbon are yummy!
Well I haven't posted in a week-first I wasn't feeling well then my scan wouldn't work then my camera's memory card was corrupted! Issues with technology continue but I did manage to scan this picture to share-It is of my scrappling-I did the pair-the square card and the leftover also known as a scrappling-and I put a magnet on it to make it a bookmark. These are for my secrete Sister! I used all Stampin' Up new to be released on July 30th products! Including new "in colors".
Hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable weekend-We had a lovely visit in New Mexico -after the worst adventure getting there last week-Tuesday was not the day to be flying! took us 18 hours to get from Philly to Albuquerque. So tonight I'd like to share this clipboard and magnetic clip- The clipboard is SU!-I colored the edges and a border around the front with craft ink and a sponge dauber I was happy with how it turned out as far as helping it look more finished-I think this would look cute with a picture or memo clipped on it can hang on the wall or in a cubicle, the clip is from Walmart and I punched the hole for the ribbon with the crop-a-dile I used crystal effects to glue down the paper in the circular indentation then sealed it all over with a heavy coat of crystal effects! All stamps, inks and paper are Stampin' Up! I love this set of woodland animals-I'm so happy they made the new catalogue! but I am sad this paper will be retiring, along with the Baja Breeze color that it features, although SU did say to hold on to our retired "in colors" so who knows what they have up their sleeve for next year!!!!
These are two more of the projects from the stationary basket-this is two of the cards from the set of six and a journal with matching pen. This is Bella Blue Paper-Very Vanilla and Not quite Navy along with Craft Paper! One cool thing that I did was for the piece of paper over the top of the book I ran it through the xyron with laminate/adhesive so it was more durable and had greater flexibility. The ribbon is not on the cards it's around the box.
The next set of cards was this blank inside set of 6. Close to cocoa and very vanilla card stock close to cocoa ink. They are simple but elegant-I put just a touch of glitter on the center of the largest flower. This background stamp is retired but one I won't be parting with soon!
Well I have been very busy stampin' the last week-I had a class last wednesday night -then I had to have a handmade basket of stationary put together for the Beef and Beer this past Friday night. I will post over this week pictures of the contents of the basket. Here is the first set of cards-it's a set of six Birthday cards-all products Stampin' Up! except the acetate box.
The latest challenge was to make a red white and blue card-here she is! Real Red, Brocade Blue and Whisper White. the main image is from Sugar Nellie-These came to me by Royal Post...I had such a moment of weakness when I saw these-reminded me of my own scraggly-haired girls. Colored with copics and sponged with Classic ink old olive and bliss blue.
Here is the Second set of Whiff of Joy cards I did again colored with Copics-everything but the image of the girl is SU! I sponged Classic ink around her to give a background of sky and earth. my daughter loves these Whiff Stamps. I feel like such a traitor. ugh! the guilt.
I have been dying to play with the meager 12 or so Copic Markers I bought at the art store-but I didn't have and good stamps to color so I finally broke down and ordered some non-Su stamps-and here are my first attemps-every thing except the image of the girl is SU! and she is colored with Copics-I only have a few random colors so I had to get inventive with my DSP-all in all I'm okay with how I did so far.
Challenge week three is to make a Birthday Card-Well I knew right away I wanted to use my new cupcake die cut set for the big shot! I sent the cupcake base through the Big shot with an embossing plate and I think it looks super cute! Close to cocoa and pink pirouette for the cupcake and Regal rose for the card base and candles.
Week two's challenge is to make a box or bag that you never made before-well I had this match box die sitting around for a couple months and hadn't touched it-I mad it from SU's new cover weight DSP-it's so great for this type project-I made this and went right on line and ordered more pattern's! The flower is also cut from the same heavy weight paper and it curled beautifully with the bone folder and held it's shape! The paper is chocolate chip and soft sage and the tag is a rub on-it says happy day!
My Blogging group has a regular challenge-this week was Kristi's turn to host-her challenge was to alter something-and make a holiday theme. Since I need instant gratification I had to pick the next closest holiday and That was Memorial Day-will also be good for Independence day! I altered 7 4x4 coasters covering them with real red and brocade blue DSP from some hostess packs I had left from last year, I cut the letters on my Cricut with the Mickey Mouse Font cartridge, the stars are from the Simon Upper Chipboard Letters from SU! I inked them with Whisper White craft Ink and heat set Iridescent Ice embossing powder over the craft ink. The blue ribbon is some old stuff from my scrap stash-non-SU! and the striped gross-grain is SU! I used the mat pack to help me place the holes and punched them with the crop-a-dile. Everything is adhered with SU! glue stick except for the chipboard for that I used our Tombo multipurpose adhesive. I drew in the little stitching lines with SU!'s white gel pen.
