created by Beverly Pardue

The leaves are from the Holiday Mini set, Autumn Splendor. 

I really like the two-tone ribbon!  Its a very unique look.

Another card from the Holiday Mini Shoebox Swap.

This is AMAZING! 

My Digital Studio is a digital papercrafting software, brand-new from Stampin’ Up!  (It will be available for customers to purchase Oct 1st.)  This includes digital scrapbook albums (and individual pages), cards, calendars, and a lot more!  You can even burn CDs & DVDs, including videos and music!  (Though I haven’t had a chance to try any of the multi-media section yet.)

My Digital Studio was delivered Monday night.  I had it installed fairly quickly and yesterday Esther (my six-year-old) and I spent quite a bit of time playing with it.  It is so much fun!

This is the first card I made.  It uses the digital version of the Together Forever stamp set.

And then I played around with Eat, Drink & Be Scary.

My daughter spent at least an hour playing with it!  I finally had to make her go outside to play.  This is the card she made (one version of it at least).  She started by picking one of the designer templates, then changed colors, moved things around, and added punches & stamps.  When she found out it comes with the set All in the Family, she was so happy!  (She calls it “the Esther stamp set”, because she can make an Esther with it. lol)

After playing with My Digital Studio for just one day, these are some of my favorite things about it:

• Easy to use!  With each project, you start with 3 options: Designer Template (which is a completed project designed by Stampin’ Up! artists, which you can manipulate to your hearts content- or just leave it as-is); or Photo Only Template (where you start with a basic layout and you add colors, stamps, accents, photos, etc); or Create Your Own (which is just a blank page.  You choose the size of your project and start from scratch, just like when you are at your own stamp table).
• Fully and completely customizable! No matter which template you start with, you can change everything about your project that you want to: colors, sizes, images- everything!
• Stampin’ Up! colors, papers, and images we love!  My Digital Studio includes 2,000 items (stamps, DSP, ribbon, etc) for you to play with right away!  Stampin’ Up! will also offer additional Digital Downloads in the future to add to your collection.
• Professional print services.  Stampin’ Up! has arranged for our projects to be printed professionally from a company they trust.  Stampin’ Up! will regularly monitor the quality of the print jobs and especially color accuracy.  When you want Real Red, you’ll get Real Red! Of course I haven’t tried it yet- but I love that it is an option and will be printing a project (or a few!) with them soon. (Of course, you can also print using your own home printer, but the colors won’t be guaranteed as they are with the designated print service.)

Can you tell I’m excited?! 

I love the possibilites!  And I haven’t even started about hybrid projects!  (I’ll talk about that soon.)

You can count on seeing more digital projects from me soon.  (But don’t worry- I’m not even close to giving up my real ink & paper!  And you’ll be seeing more of that soon, too.)

This is made with the new stamp set, Pumpkin Patch, in the Holiday Mini Catalog. 

I love that the set includes patterned ovals that you can use for so many other things- think Easter Eggs, balloons, and flower centers!

See the sparkle on the faces?  We used the 2-Way Glue Pen to adhere Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.  I love that stuff!

And here is a cute little box made with Pumpkin Patch that Stampin’ Up! is featuring on their website right now.

I shared a Shaker Card last week, and today I have another interactive card for you: a Spinner Card!

I love spinners!  They are just fun to play with!!

I think you’ll like this one, too.

This card features Flight of the Butterfly and uses the new Butterfly punch.  Perfect combo! Love it!

As you tilt the card from side to side, the butterfly spins!  I added a sentiment from the stamp set that shows through the spinning section.

These cards are really best seen in person.  But I did the next best thing- a video!  Its just a few seconds and shows that butterfly move!

This card is definitely going to be one of the projects we make at my On the Move card class.  Sign up today!

On the Move: Specialty Card Class
Friday, October 9th @ 7pm
Where: my house- 9141 Brevard Dr, Sacramento, 95829
Cost: $20
RSVP & Prepay by Weds Sept 30th

    

This last time I returned it to my mom, I included a little gift of thanks.  I wanted to create something cute, clever and camera-related.  And I did just that!

Check out my camera matchbox!  Its designed to match my mom’s camera.  Its almost exactly the same size.  I used my punches, a circle cutter (for the larger ones), dimensionals and 1/4″ basic black grosgrain ribbon.

The back of the camera with my kids’ photo in the “viewfinder screen” holding a thank you poster.

The camera opens up like a matchbox, revealing dark chocolate kisses and a strip of photos.

This project uses Basic Black, Basic Grey and Going Gray, all of which you can find in the Neutrals assortment of card stock.

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Make plans today to host your own Stampin’ Up! workshop and enjoy this sweet reward.

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*Offer does not include My Digital Studio or hostess sets.

I am so excited to share with you the best mini catalog ever!  Really!  Its this year’s Holiday Mini Catalog.

Along with the holiday sets (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas), Stampin’ Up! is introducing three new product lines.

First, there’s Simply Adorned.  These are charms and chains that you use to create unique jewelry and home decor.

Also, My Digital Studio- which I am so stoked about!!!  Digital (and hybrid!) scrapbooking- the Stampin’ Up! way!!!  I’ll share more about that later.

Today, I’m sharing with you the partnership between Build a Bear Workshop and Stampin’ Up!  Genius!

Build A Bear Workshop is very popular in my house.  My daughter, Esther, got her first Build A Bear for her birthday last year.  She loves her Princess Fluffy.  We’ll probably take my son to get his first for his birthday later this month.  (They’ve got some cool boy styles.)

My kids got SO excited when I showed them the BABW section of the Holiday Mini.  They want it all!  We’ve got three stamp sets, eight Sizzix dies and patterned paper.  They are all fabulous for making cards and scrapbook pages.  But with the dies, you can also make super cute and easy paper dolls for the kids, where the can change the clothes and have so much fun!  Your kids, grandkids and friends’ kids will have hours of fun playing with these.

On Monday, I went to a demonstrator swap where we made cards with a lot of the Holiday Mini products.  I’ll share the rest of the projects later this week.  Today I’m sharing the bears. :)  Both cards are made with the new set Beary Best Friends.

This is the project I designed:

I stamped and watercolored our cute girly bear using Watercolor Wonder Crayons.  Then I punched out the flower and balloon from our new Cottage Wall DSP.  (The punches are the Trio Flower & the 3/4″ Circle punches.)  I popped those up with Dimensionals. I made the grass using the Scallop Edge punch, like I did with my Upsy Daisy silhouttes card.  I popped that up with Dimensionals, too.  The background was made with my Big Shot and Stampin’ Up! Backgrounds 1 Texturz plates.

This one was designed by fellow demonstrator Aimee Wayment. 

 I love how she used Crystal Effects to shine the shoes!  Also notice how the skirt is “paper-pierced” using Razzleberry Lemonade DSP.

The sentiment up on the side is from Beary Nice Wishes.  They are cute sayings in the BABW font.

Contact me to order your Build A Bear Workshop supplies!

I love cards that have texture, or that are 3-D. I think it makes them more interesting. Some cards go a step further: interactive cards! These cards are so much fun to make- and to receive!

This is a Shaker Card. The focal point is a rubber stamped cupcake that shows through a window holding confetti. You can shake the card and the confetti moves all over the image.

I like to show the cards I make to my kids (they’re actually very constructive critics!). But I have a hard time getting my shaker cards back out of their hands. They’re too much fun!

I’ll be having a class soon to teach the Shaker card technique, along with the Slider and Spinner cards. I haven’t decided yet whether we’ll be making this particular Shaker, or another one. I have lots of ideas and will let you know when I pin one down!

Here are the details (you’ll be seing more samples in the coming weeks):

On the Move: Specialty Card Class
Friday, October 9th @ 7pm
Where: my house- 9141 Brevard Dr, Sacramento, 95829
Cost: $20
RSVP & Prepay by Weds Sept 30th

                       

               

Party Hearty Shaker Card Supplies

Stamp Set: Party Hearty
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Regal Rose, Old Olive, Certainly Celery
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Whisper White card stock
Accessories: Word Window Punch, Certainly Celery 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Big Shot machine, Stampin’ Up! Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plate 

 

This one uses just Stamps, Ink & Paper (the stamping SIP), with a little heat embossing. 

I simply sponged the colors onto Whisper White card stock, starting with the lightest.  I used So Safron, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie and Real Red.  Then I rubbed the Embossing Buddy over the card, so the emossing powder wouldn’t stick to the background. I stamped the image from Upsy Daisy with VersaMark ink, then used Black Emboss Powder.  I also embossed the sentiment from Inspired by Nature.  After embossing, I made the grass (from Basic Black card stock) using the Scallop Edge Punch!  I simply punched every 1/4″ in or so, rather than using the guidelines.  This created a curved, jagged grass line.

In this photo, you can really see that shine on the images!

And here is a small 3×3 version of the same card.