Summer CRAFT CAMP

Coming soon!  Kids Craft Camp.  Held at the Potter Site building in Potter, Nebraska each Tuesday morning in June.
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.  $15 material fee  For students K-6

This is a fundraiser for the Art students going to Chicago in May 2015.  Each participant will go home with oodles of fun art projects with each week being a different theme:

June 3 - Paint It: flower paintings, canvas paintings and a 3-d painting

June 10 - Stamp It:  stamp a stack of greeting cards and crafts

June 17 - Melt It: crayon art projects including monogram canvas and other waxy creations

June 24 - Craft It:  4th of July wreath and other summer crafts.

Contact Jennifer Thomas at thomas@daltontel.net to register or if you have any questions.
Class sizes are limited.  Your payment confirms your spot in the class.

Jr. & high school Art students will mentor the campers.
All materials are provided.
Wear old paint clothes for June 3 & 17!

Collection of projects!

 

Here's a collection of recent projects from my stamp room.

It's fun to see the bright spring colors after looking at snow and cold for the past several months.   
Here are several cards that use fun cuts with the framelit dies.  This bib card (above) stands up kind of like a tent.  Love that color combination!

My desk at home and school are both filling up with graduation invitations.  I had time to make this quick and easy scrapbook page for one of my nieces and one of the many senior portraits she has given me.  It was the perfect opportunity to try out that chevron punch I recently purchased but had not had time to open and play with.  :-)

  And for a few 3D items we made these cute birdhouse.  The birds are sponged and really look real.  Both have dimensionals to make the wings pop out.  These were a hit at one of the last stamp classes.

Below are the shower invites I made for an upcoming bridal shower.  I bought the Stampin' Up! preprinted invites and dazzled them up a bit.  I thought it might be fun include a recipe card for each guest to fill out and bring to the shower so it used a chevron bag instead of the envelope to hand out these invitations complete with a bow on the outside. (Ribbon from clearance rack...check out those great finds on a regular basis!)   Of course the real invitations didn't have the washi tape hiding my address, some times a little privacy on the internet is a good thing.  Happy Spring!  Happy Stamping!

 

2014 Retiring stamp & accessory list is here!

click here to shop   Stampin' Up! Retiring Products Dates: April 21-June 4, 2014 (all items available while supplies last) Details We're saying goodbye to hundreds of retiring products from the 2013-2014 annual catalog. Now's a great chance to contact your customers and let them know they'll need to get their favorite  retiring products before they're gone for good! ALL products are only available while supplies last, so be sure to get your orders in early! Also, make sure to take advantage of FREE standard shipping on EVERYTHING from April 21-25. See retiring accessories list . See retiring stamp list. FREE standard shipping on EVERYTHING from April 21-25. Retired list items available while supplies last, so order while you see them available as they may not be there tomorrow! :-)  Ready to order? Click here to shop from my Stampin' Up! website.

Ready, Set......Swap!
I'm ready for convention.  This is one version of the card design I made to swap at the Stampin' Up! Convention this next week in beautiful Salt Lake City.
Most all products used are new stamps, inks & cardstock from the new 2013-14 catalog.  The 2-step flower stamp is from the set called:  "Too Kind" (pg. 71).

#SLCbound!

You are invited to our

“Stampinterest” Saturday

Where and   Stampin' Up! & Pinterest   combine for creative inspiration for our stamped projects.

Saturday - June 8, 2013

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

2690 58th Ave.  Greeley, Colorado

Class fee is $30 for 12 projects! 

Most all projects include new product from the NEW 2013-14 Stampin’ Up! Catalog.

Class size is limited to 24 stampers. 

Register by emailing thomas@daltontel.net

You will then be given general instructions for this event

and info on sending in your payment.

Hosted by Demonstrators:

Jennifer Thomas   &    Joanne Randolph.

 

                              

More Four Season ornaments: Fall & Winter

Here are the ornaments for the seasons of fall and winter.  You can view the Spring and Summer ornaments in yesterday's post.

Four Season wall ornaments: Spring & Summer

This "Four Seasons" stamp set was one of my favorite sets when I saw the new hostess sets in the new annual Stampin' Up! catalog.  I used the spring and summer images to create ornaments to hang on a small shelf with pegs.  I think it would be fun to have these ornaments up for each season.    I glued the Comfort Cafe' designer paper to some cardboard....I love the cardboard that comes with the Glimmer paper (silver or red) as it is solid but cuts great in the Big Shot.
I'll post the fall and winter versions next.

Scrapbooking MDS & Traditional

This page layout was done with the My Digital Studio program and then I added mini brads, cardstock pennants, lettering for the title for a little 3d design on this 12x12 page.

Scrapbooking Baby Page

Can't believe that Blair Matthew is about to turn one.  How time flies.  I made this page a few months ago for the Artisan Award contest. This scrapbook layout is done in Always Artichoke, So Saffron and Poppy Parade. 

Spinner card

 The red scallop circle ( on the right ) turns to reveal different messages:  "I miss you", "I love you" and paper punched hearts.

This is what the inside of the card looks like.  The card is a 6x6".

Peekaboo Frames Die

 Here's a card made with the Peekaboo Frames Die for the Big Shot.

Reason to Smile $5

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The Reason to Smile Set is exclusive to this promotion and will not be available after July 31, 2012.

Deadline: Tuesday, July 31, 2012; 11:50 PM (MT)

Wedding Cake Card

I love wedding cake...Yum!  Here's a card for the happy couple on their special day.  You can easily change the colors to coordinate with the bride's wedding colors.

More NEW Products........FaBRiC!

 I love the Comfort Cafe' Designer Series Paper but this is the FABRIC....same gorgeous colors and designs!

This was a June stamp camp project.  Just iron on the Fabric Adhesive (pg. 171) to the back of the Comfort Cafe (pg. 171) fabric. I used a piece of each of the 3 fabric designs.   Cut all 3 of these at the same time on Big Shot Die:  Fun Flowers Bigz L (pg. 193) arrange the fabric on the die so you cut the smallest flower with the 2 circles.  Mix and Match these 3 shapes to make 3 different flowers.  I used a scrap of fabric from the pieces I ran through the Big Shot to cut the pennant shape by hand, just kind of free handed that shape.
Arrange all these shapes on to a notecard (pg. 160) and iron in place.  Add a Dahlia or button to the flower center.  Make 3 cards at the same time for a quick and easy project.  Add a stamped sentiment of your choice.  I used Midnight Muse cardstock with the Modern Label punch and then several phrases stamped on white, with Midnight Muse Ink, and punched with the Word Window punch.

New 12x12 Divided Page Protectors

 These page protectors (pg. 169) have divided slots on each page to give you lots of fun options for photos or for paper designs.

 Fill each spot with a photo or a decorated paper filled with embellishments.

 Here's a close up of one of the sections.  The Designer Paper is:  Floral District (pg. 163)

 I used the stamp set:  Betsy's Blossoms (pg. 72)

Sorry, the 3rd paper section didn't want to load.  I used the Oval Accent Bigz Clear Die in Daffodil Delight....folded it in 1/2 and it was placed at the top edge of that Lucky Limeade 4x6" piece of paper so it showed on both sides of the Lucky Limeade 4x6". 

New to YOU! New product!!!

I love the new Comfort Cafe designer paper!  You can find it on page 163 of the 2012 Stampin' Up! catalog.  This card was made with other new product in the 2012 Stampin' Up! catalog:  Midnight Muse Cardstock  and Ink (pg. 152) and Midnight Muse Dahlia (pg. 175).  I used the  Blossom Petal Builder punch (pg. 185) for the flower shapes and Boho Blossom punch (pg. 185) for the flower center punched from Cajun Craze cardstock.

I Miss You.... cold weather!

This was an Artisan Award entry.  Now that it is 106+ out the past few afternoons I really do miss the cold weather, ugh.

Raspberry Ripple & Apothecary Art

Apothecary Art, Floral District dsp, Raspberry Ripple cardstock and ink, Primrose Petal ribbon , Label Collection Framelits and new buttons: Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons.  This card is pretty in person as there is also Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the stamp flower images!

It's wedding season.  Here is one version of a wedding card using the embossing folders for a frosted cake look. This is the new Primrose Petals In-Line Color.  I love the silver glimmer paper!

A Cherry on Top

This is one of the projects from the stamp camp in Greeley yesterday. Isn't this new set adorable? It is called "A Cherry on Top". This card uses new "In-Colors" of ink/cardstock/ribbon in Midnight Muse and Gumball Green and a regular color of Marina Mist. This card was created by Joanne Randolph. Stamp camp was great fun, thanks for all who attended and thanks for Joanne for opening up her house for us again this year! Happy stamping, Jennifer