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Share what you love

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At the Stampin’ Up! annual convention every year, demonstrators are invited to a place called “Memento Mall”.   The Home Office comes up with all sorts of merchandise unavailable in the catalog (or for that matter anyplace else) to entice us to spend our stamp money.  You would think we would hold onto that stamp money pretty carefully, but then maybe you haven’t seen Memento Mall:

Memento Mall 2010

This photo is blurry because no one stands still in Memento Mall.  Demonstrators rush in and pounce on every display, grabbing merchandise and trying to figure out how much it costs and whether or not there is a purchase limit.  It’s a stampers’ feeding frenzy!

One of my favorite Memento Mall purchases is this stamp:

Share What You Love post-its

I’m not going to give you a recipe, because the stamp was only available at the Stampin’ Up! Convention and some of the papers are retired.  These are little Post-It note holders (courtesy of the amazing Becky Roberts – I could CASE her all day) and they are gifts for workshop guests who bring a friend.

The heart of stamping – and Stampin’ Up! – is sharing and I hope you enjoy what I share with you.

A Holiday Mini Sneak Peak

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Robbie is flying out tonight on the red-eye to go to a huge family event in Northern California, and being the amazing and generous soul that she is, she INSISTED I take her brand-new, Holiday Mini Sneak Peak for demonstrators Big Shot die to play with because otherwise it would be lonesome at home.  Now that I have it, I may not give it back:

Sneak Peak Sizzix Bigz Treat Holder in Mambo

I didn’t intend to do anything more than put this Candy Wrapper Box together so that when Robbie returns, I could show her how to assemble the box.  Ha!  If you don’t have the Big Shot yet, you’d better change the channel, Cherie.  Imagine this in Pumpkin Pie with bats and spiders…in Night of Navy covered with stars and snowmen…in Bashful Blue with that cute little onesie rolled around it…you get the idea.

  • Cute by the Inch Hostess Level II stamp set
  • Melon Mambo and Whisper White card stock; Retired Designer Series Paper
  • Regal Rose Classic ink pad
  • Big Shot and Candy Wrapper Bigz L die
  • Pretty in Pink 5/8″ Satin ribbon; Rhinestone jewels
  • Heat tool;  hideously messy non-SU glue
  • Jewelry tag medium punch, 1″ circle punch

Now don’t go thinking I’m rubbah-dulteratin’  (courtesy of Jan Tink) by using a non-Stampin’ Up! flower.  Shannon West showed us these flowers at convention and I’ve been wanting to try them since I got home.  I considered taking photos for you but thought I’d better figure it out first…good decision.  Shannon used our Sticky Pages to form and hold the ribbon into a flower, and since I didn’t have any Sticky Pagges on hand I decided to use a very sticky clear liquid glue – something similar to what hot glue would be if it were liquid.  I won’t name names.

To make the flower, you snip almost all the way through your ribbon at 1/2″ intervals and then use your heat tool to curl up the “petals”.  At this point, I discovered my first challenge.  Any surface appropriate for holding the ribbon flat in order to blast it with the heat tool was not going to survive the blasting, and my fingers were not either.  I ended up warping my old cutting mat (I need a new one anyway, no biggie) because the alternative was holding that ribbon across my lap and believe me, that was not going to happen.

It took a while for the ribbon to heat up, but once it started to curl the edges rolled up quickly and I was on to step 2.  I punched a 1″ circle from a scrap of cardstock and covered it with the Glue That Must Not Be Named.  Shannon had worked so quickly and smoothly, but she wasn’t dealing with those funny stringy bits of glue – you know the ones.  I had to add more and more glue as I worked my way around the circle, mostly because a significant amount of the GTMNBN was at this point stuck all over my fingers.  Not only must it Not Be Named, it does Not Come Off of Fingers very well.

Candy Wrapper Ribbon Flower

The final result is very pretty, especially with that blingy Rhinestone in the middle covering up the messy end bits all covered with GTMNBN.  I want to point out that this was my very first attempt at this technique, and I’m sure I’ll get better.  I’ll also get some Sticky Pages (#114300, $6.95 for two 12×12 sheets and worth every penny).

This takes the cake

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7/24/10   ETA:  The artist is Elizabeth Price from San Jose, CA.  Well done, Elizabeth!

It’s late here in Salt Lake and although I’ve had a fabulous time I need some sleep,  I’ve downloaded some of the photos from my point-and-shoot.  They won’t win any Fabulous Photographer prizes but they’re better than the phone pix.  The lighting in the Convention Center isn’t exactly flattering.

I’m only sharing one now, but it knocked my socks off.  This cake is made entirely from paper.  I am horrified to say that every photo I took of it cut off the name of the incredibly talented woman who made it, and I will go back tomorrow to get the information to share with you.  In the meantime, feast your eyes:

An incredible paper confection

Jewel bird

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I love these deep, rich colors – Elegant Eggplant, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo – colors to dream in.  This last swap was the most fun just because the largest Simply Adorned charm holds a 1 1/2″ x 2″ insert so there’s more room to work.  I love all the new floral stamps we have in the 2010-2011 Stampin’ Up! Idea Book and Catalog, and I’m especially fond of that hummingbird.  It made me really happy to bring them all together in one creation:

Large Simply Adorned Charm

This is the style I really enjoy.  I’m not sure what to call it, but I like all of the layers and the jewel tones.  It almost became a contest with myself to see how many different stamp sets I could incorporate!  If you really want to know what I used, leave a comment.  I’ll do my best to update these after I get home, but it could be a little while.

Sparkling Simply Adorned

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These inserts are for the 1″ x 1 1/4″ Simply Adorned charms.   I designed these straight from a card I found in the catalog and cased here on this blog.   They should really have rhinestone gems on each of the flowers, but I used up most of the small ones on another swap and had to stretch out the ones I had!  I can’t wait to see the swaps I get in return for these – that’s really the fun of participating.  (And here you thought I loved pulling out my hair until all hours of the night finishing these things.)

Sweet Stem Simply Adorned

The flowers are punched with our new Bitty Punches and sprayed with Smooch Spritz – and I challenge you to say that five times as quickly as you can!  You get a beautiful shine on something small with the Spritz.  I’m pretty sure it’s not intended for skin, but it’s awfully tempting.  (I’m sure that statement should be accompanied by all sorts of legal caveats and “DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME” kinds of statements.  So don’t try it, ok??)

One Square Inch

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I can start to show you some swaps now, because I’ve started swappin’ them.  Oh yeah, I love the auto-post feature!  Not a lot of info here, just some fun stuff to see.  I’ll have more details for you next week (that is, if I don’t end up being selected for the Jury Pool.  That would be a fine welcome home from convention!)

1" x 1" Simply Adorned Insert

These are inserts for the 1″ x 1″ Simply Adorned charms.  They are so much fun – since they’re small, you can spend a little more time coloring stamps and cutting things out.   I love that kind of detail and it’s easy to do in such a tiny format.  The butterfly image is meant to be worn on the back side of the charm but you could wear them either way.  I just love that goofy owl!

Embossing Boxes

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You won’t believe how simple this is.  The WOW factor is huge – at least I think so!

  • I {Heart} Hearts, Teeny Tiny Wishes, You and Moi stamp sets
  • Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery and Whisper White card stock
  • Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery Classic ink pads
  • Bashful Blue, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie striped grosgrain ribbon
  • Medium Jewelry Tag punch
  • Big Shot, Matchbox die and Vintage Wallpaper Textured Embossing Folder

Check out that ribbon!  It won’t be available much longer – and for sure it won’t be available after June 30 – so if you like it, order it now!  That Embossing Folder is a 2010-2011 Stampin’ Up! Idea Book and catalog Sneak Peak and it is very, very cool.  Every embossing folder that comes along is more awesome than the last one and this Vintage Wallpaper is no exception.

These little boxes are perfect favors – you almost don’t need the ribbon.  The depth of the embossing folder is enough embellishment, so these would go together very quickly.  I’ve only embossed the band that wraps around the box base.  A few quick tips:

  • crease the fold lines heavily BEFORE embossing
  • insert the band with the wider of the two end pieces in first
  • apply adhesive to the narrower end which remains outside the embossing folder

The box base doesn’t need any adhesive, and the white panel is cut to fit inside.  You could cut all these pieces and then have an assembly line to make a lot of little favors in a very short time.

Using up the Stash Part II

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Are you ready to see the last few clipboards?  Ready or not, here they come:

Clipboards 4

Sweet Pea DSP pack and that fabulous paper that I hoarded…with Kiwi Kiss and Riding Hood Red…you remember!

Clipboards 5

These are oldies but goodies…I think the front one might be Urban Garden and the back one…well it had River Rock in it and it was all these glorious baroque designs and I really loved it and…

You don’t really need the names, do you?

Using up the stash

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I’ve stashed a lot of DSP in my craft room (that’s Designer Series Paper in Stampin’ Up! shorthand.)  Some of it I loved so much I wouldn’t use – flat out hoarding.  Some of it I just couldn’t get inspired, and some of it I just plain forgot I had it.

I decided to use some of it up to make clipboards for my club members.

Clipboards 1

This is the Sweet Pea DSP pack from the Occasions Mini catalog and something else that you will be totally surprised to learn I cannot remember the name of.  And yes, that is bad grammar but some days it just goes that way!

Clipboards 2

These are both from the Sweet Pea DSP, though I’m pretty sure that Saffron paper is from last year’s SAB.

Clipboards 3

One more Sweet Pea…and the one behind it (the one with the funny light reflection from my camera) was called…hmmm…Afternoon Tea?  Not sure, but I remember it has Groovy Guava in it so you know it’s “vintage”.

I’ll share more another day.

Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag

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I’m not going to tell you how long this bag sat in front of my sewing machine, almost completed, while I got distracted with other projects.  Honestly, I think there must be something to this adult onset ADD thing.  It’s either that or caffeine, and it couldn’t be the caffeine, now, could it??

Big Shot Scallop Square bag

I used the Big Shot and the Scallop Square Bigz die.  These are some of my favorite colors, and I’m the first to admit that the patterns are a little busy…but so am I 🙂  Do you like my button?  It’s genuine vintage…from my grandmother’s stash.

Angie Juda has a great video if you need the step by step.  My improvement was to add a cell phone pocket and a ring to hang my keys on in the inside of the bag.  A bag this deep eats keys for lunch.

Do you have a Big Shot?  What are you waiting for?  Anne’s Online Store.  You’ll wonder why you waited so long.