Fun Summer Project for Kids

One of my customers asked me to do some fun kid projects for the West Bend summer daycare program. Here is the first one we did last week. This is a summer photo album - perfect to keep pictures and memories of the summer.

The background design is so easy - just put your hand in a fliptop sandwich bag dab with an inkpad! A perfect technique for little ones (kept their hands clean too)! They stamped the fish and the woody wagon on top (and put a fish and their name on the back cover).

They had fun and so did I!!!!

April Get Connected Special

April's special is really a fabulous deal! On page 208, all items are $9.95 or less. You can receive one of these items FREE with a $40 order from the Spring Occasions Mini Catalog in April! Here is a scan of the page - but you can see these in closer detail if you check it out on my Stampin' Up! website HERE. Don't have the Spring Occasions Mini Catalog? You can check it out HERE.
Contact me today to place your Get Connected Special!

A Glittery Good Egg

Aren't these glittery chicks cute? Glitter has a way of fixing up any mistake! I used the new oval scallop punch too (which I love!).

Easter Criss-Cross Basket

Hello everyone~

At my Stamper's 8 meeting this month, I taught my customers how to make this adorable little basket! I love the chickie from A Good Egg stamp set! I also used the wheel Egg Hunt from the 2009 Spring Occasions Mini Catalog. It is the perfect size to give one Peep! I'll post the instructions after the pictures.

Materials Needed
6” x 6” piece of Certainly Celery Cardstock
¾” x 8” piece of Certainly Celery Cardstock (handle)
Scoring Blade/Scissors
Whisper White/Bashful Blue/Certainly Celery/So Saffron Cardstock
Delicate Dots DSP (SALE-A-BRATION)
A Good Egg Stamp Set
Egg Hunt Wheel (NEW/AVAILABLE – IN MINI!!)
VersaMark Inkpad/Gold Glory EP/Heat Gun/Embossing Buddy
Certainly Celery Ink Cartridge/Wheel Handle
Various Markers – I used So Saffron and Apricot Appeal
Big Shot and Pennant Die and Extended Cutting Piece
1 ¾” Circle/1/16” Hole (NLA)/Boho Blossoms Punches
Soft Subtles Brad
Sticky Strip/Stampin’ Dimensionals/SNAIL Monoadhesive
Basket Fillers – Grass, Peeps, Jelly Beans, Trinkets

Instructions
Wheel 6” x 6” piece of CC Cardstock; wheel handle piece if desired.
Score 6” x 6” piece at 2” and 4”; turn cardstock and repeat.
Using a paper cutter, cut off top triangle of each corner.
Cut into the score lines on the square on one side of the basket.
Cut into the score lines on the opposite side of the basket.
Fold triangle pieces back on one side, trim off square to ¾”.
Fold triangle pieces back on the other side, trim off square to ¾”.
Adhere Sticky Strip to wheeled rectangle sides – leave some room at top. Do not take redline tape off yet.
Flip over to unstamped side and adhere one piece of Sticky Strip to either both right-side triangle flaps or both left-side triangle flaps. Do not take Redline tape off yet.
Adhere Sticky Strip to the ends of the handle on the same side.
Take off Sticky Strip and put together basket. Set aside.
Emboss (2) chick images with Gold Glory on Whisper White.
Punch out with 1 ¾” Circle Punch.
Color in chicks with markers.
Using premade embossed chicks in the Delicate Dots DSP, cut out 2 bottom sections and adhere to Whisper White Pieces.
Use Big Shot and Pennant Die (ask for help if you need it) for 2 scallop pieces.
Adhere pieces with Snail Monoadhesive.
Punch out flower with So Saffron and Certainly Celery Scraps.
Insert brad with 1/16” punch. Pop up with Stampin’ Dimensional.

Fill basket!

Enjoy!!!

Sock Monkey Birthday Card

Hi everyone~

I went to a birthday party this weekend for my niece. I created this card for her using Sock Monkey and some Sale-A-Bration items (the So Saffron grosgrain ribbon and the Delicate Dots DSP). I also used my Big Shot and the dotted Texturz plate. Did you notice the new scallop oval punch? LOVE IT!!!

The technique I used in this card was paper piecing - perfect to fill large spaces (like Sock Monkey's body) when you don't want to color in!

Hope you enjoy it - watch my blog for more posts this week. I've been doing lots of workshops and stamping events lately and have finally had a chance to take pics of the projects!

Spring Occasions Mini Catalog Sneak Peek

Stampin' Up! announced today that some of the new stamp sets in the upcoming Spring Occasions Mini Catalog (April 1st - June 30th) will be available to our customers TODAY! Yeah - there are some wonderfully fun Spring-themed stamp sets, so this is great news!

Just click on the Spring Mini picture on the left bar, and you will see the stamp sets that are available on March 1st.