TRASH TO PARTY FAVOR

Hello Crafters! Yesterday I was enjoying a zero point (W.W.) sugar free Jello cup but instead of throwing the cup away I inadvertently put it in the sink for washing! Later I did wash it and thought; well, now what. And here is what I came up with. I saw on SCS a birthday cake type project with a battery opperated tea lite which gave me the idea for the top of this project. This is my test project so the dsp is from the Occasions mini and no longer available but how cute is this idea? I'm not through trying projects with these little treasures! I used the Scallop Circle #2 die then used the Circle Scissor Plus to cut a circle out of the Scallop to insert the jello cup. I covered the bottom of the jello cup in the same manner used to cover the SUp! Treat Cups. Lastly I added a thin strip of dsp to the bottom of the cup. To me it looks a little like a cupcake! Thanks for visiting!

FROM THE CATALOG

Hi Crafters! I love our Idea Book and Catalogs, they are seriously full of layout/design IDEAS. I have a couple of old ones and I enjoy just looking through them for inspiration. Stampin' Up! demonstrators are never at a loss for ideas thanks to the creativity that is shared from the Home Office. So this card is a design idea from the current 09/10 catalog, page 104. I kept the color and layout idea and changed the stampset and used a butterfly instead of a flower. I used Melon Mambo, Sierra Sand and Basic Black c/s; the stamp set is Elements of Style from the current Summer Mini. The flower was die cut with the SUp! Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die. Thanks for visiting!

FOND FAREWELL

Hi Crafters! Today's card uses one of the colors that we will say good-bye to when the new catalog comes out; Cameo Coral. I didn't use that color a lot in the past but doesn't it look great with the Bermuda Bay In-Color? We'll be saying farewell to that color also. The Cameo Coral c/s was embossed with the SUp! Square Lattice Folder from the Summer Mini. The small flower embellishments were punched with the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack also from the Summer Mini. Thanks for visiting!

WEDDING CARD

Hi Crafters! What happens when you sit down at your stamp table and there are scraps of white cardstock laying around? You get an idea for a wedding card! Here is a simple card I made using Whisper White c/s and some scraps of Brushed Silver c/s. I added some Dazzling Diamonds and rhinestones from the Occasions Mini (which will also be available in the 2010/2011 Idea Book and Catalog!) and a Basic Gray Taffeta Ribbon bow and called it done. I may add a sentiment stamp before I send it out. Thanks for visiting!

CONFESSION

Hi Crafters! Time for me to come clean about something. Over a year ago I bought Texturz Plates (#114512) for my Big Shot. I fell in love with them but after I received them I couldn't for the life of me get them to properly texture my cardstock. I tried every suggestion I received but could not get them to work. Then I saw a card posted by Tracy Woodman-Raymond on Late Night Stampers and she indicated that she had used the Texturz Plates! I emailed her right away to find out her secret to get the plate to properly "texture". She was nice enough to email me back and she told me that she sprayed her cardstock with alcohol!!! Yes, that's right! I thought, what do I have to lose? So I dug those plates up from a drawer in my stamp room, pulled some Very Vanilla cardstock, sprayed it with spray hand sanitizer (the primary ingredient being alcohol!) and low and behold it worked! No one was more surprised than me! I layered the Very Vanilla on Old Olive after sponging it with a little Creamy Caramel classic ink. I'm not sure if you can tell but I also clear embossed several elements of the texture for a little depth. The bird and sentiment are from the stampset Elements of Style (#118611) from the 2010 Summer Mini Catalog. Thanks for visiting!

ANOTHER TEAM MEETING PROJECT

Hi Crafters! Here's a second card we created at our Team Meeting last Saturday. My upline, Jennifer, brought all of the great projects for us to create. This card uses one of my favorite stamp sets, Friends 24-7 (#113218). You'll see I've used this on a couple of other projects I posted previously. Cardstock used is Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose and Whisper White. We used the "rock and roll" method to stamp the background on the Whisper White c/s used for the card layer. First stamp the image in one color, here I used Regal Rose, then "roll" it in the second color. that would be the Chocolate Chip you see on the tips of the image. After stamping the bird image in Chocolate Chip I water-colored the tummy with Regal Rose. Can you see the "speckles or splatter" on the card; we used the Color Spritzer Tool and the Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write marker to get that cool look. Thanks for visiting!!

QUICK MOTHER'S DAY GIFT

Hello Crafters! Today a young woman called me for a quick gift idea she and or her kids could create for her mother. After giving it some thought I came up with this bookmark idea. I used Perfect Plum and Very Vanilla c/s. The stamp set is Things I Love (#115229). I layered the bookmark with Vellum and stamped the sentiment with Staze On. To complete the project I included Very Vanilla Taffetta ribbon and stamped, cut out and "glittered" the chocolate, purse and shoe images, using Dazzling Diamonds of course. I added these 3 images on top of the vellum, thus allowing me to add adhesive just under the vellum on top of the same images. Not sure if you can see it clearly in the picute but I also included 3 clear beads from the Pretties Kit, I added it to the ribbon with silver elastic cord before adhering the ribbon. Thanks for visiting!