A dress for Hostess Club

Posted on February 23, 2013 by mauistamper

I was inspired by a beautiful card my daughter received – made by my dear friend and partner in crime/stampin’/eatin’ Cheryl. I tweaked it a little for my hostess club last week:

No Stamps!
Very Vanilla, Pear Pizazz (ret) and Blushing Bride (ret) card stock
Blushing Bride (ret) ink pad
Big Shot with All Dressed Up Framelits
Elegant Bouquet and Fancy Fan TIEF
Very Vanilla 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon
5/8 inch flower trim
Sponge daubers
Pearls
Stampin’ Dimensionals

I had some of the retired cardstock we used for Carol’s weddding and I haven’t quite let go of that color combination, so I chose to share it with the club. I told them there should have been the teeniest tiniest pearls to line that beautiful neckline, but they had all been used up on wedding favors 🙂 They’re my friends; they understood.

It just takes a few dabs of ink on those fabulous flower trim blossoms to get a little bit of color. This card has a lot of texture which gives it depth and complexity even though it is a very simple layout.

Everyone used something different to adhere that single flower – Tombo, SNAIL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Glue dots…and each adhesive worked equally well.

Are you interested in Hostess Club? 6 stampers commit to spend $25 a month for 6 months, and each person has a month as hostess – and earns the hostess benefits. I’m forming a new group – contact me if you would like more information.

Time to move on to a new color scheme. Thanks for indulging me 🙂

Rows and rows and rows….

Posted on February 15, 2013 by mauistamper

If it hadn’t been for my girlfriends this would have never happened:

Have you ever made one of those little paper rosettes? You stack 6 or so scallop circles, push a brad through the middle to hold them together, dampen the paper and then scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.

It took a LOT of loving hands to make all of those rosettes!

Robbie, Peggy, Cheryl and Crystal literally saved my life – and my fingers – and we had a wonderful time doing it (ok, mostly – it was a little bit insane). Once the rosettes were made it was pretty simple: a doily from the Petite Pennants Bigz die, a flower trimmed from the 5/8 inch Flower Trim, some Pear Pizazz Seam Binding (a Clearance Rack SCORE!), Hemp Twine (also from the Rack) and Linen Thread.

I made the tags a couple of days later, although Crystal was the one who designed them so that I could print them on my printer and then punch them out.

These favor jars were filled with an amazing seasoning salt made here on Maui by a dear, wonderful woman named Iris Nitta. Carol knew her from her Baldwin High School days, and when Carol graduated from college she worked on Maui with Iris’s son-in-law for a while. He brought the season salt to his co-workers as a Christmas gift that year, and when it was time to find something for the favors Carol knew exactly what she wanted. Iris made up a special batch for us and for a few days my car – and my house – smelled divinely as nearly 40 pounds of salt waited to be put into jars! All the loving hands that participated in this wedding made every aspect so special.

I’m really glad Carol and Clarence decided to keep the guest list under 100 guests.

A special wedding welcome

Posted on February 11, 2013 by mauistamper

My daughter Carol and her husband Clarence wanted to be sure every guest at their wedding felt welcomed, and they wanted that welcome to be very personal. They decided to give each guest a lei greeting and take a photo with them. We set up a table for the lei:

One thing I have to make clear before I go any further is that when I say “we” I mean Crystal. Honestly, if you are planning a wedding you need a lot of friends to help! Crystal has a great designer’s eye, and she offered to set up decorations at the reception site while I was being MOTB. We did lots of pennants – sorry to say I don’t have photos of all of them. The bird cage (courtesy of Cheryl) was to hold cards and our idea of a guest book. Wish I had another photo of those goofy birds at the foot of the birdcage – they were hilarious – and 75% off after-Christmas clearance!

The pennants were cut from the Perfect Pennants Bigz die and embellished wtih the new Needlepoint Border TIEF from the Spring catalog. I also used the fabulous new 5/8 inch flower trim from that Spring catalog – THANK YOU STAMPIN’ UP!, your timing was impeccable!! And if you are wondering about the color scheme, we used Blushing Bride and Pear Pizazz – both retired In Colors from 2010-2012. Again, Stampin’ Up! had incredible timing as these two colors of cardstock (and a number of related accessories) hit the Clearance Rack just when I needed them! I had been hoarding bits and pieces, but with all the paper I bought I was able to do anything I wanted!

Check in later this week – I have more photos for you to enjoy! It was such fun to create these small touches for my daughter’s wedding day.