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A calendar for September

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I chose an old favorite for my September easel calendar.  I must not be the only one who likes it, because it’s still available in the 2015-2016 Annual Catalog:

Maui Stamper DIY Easel Calendar September 2015

  • Stamps:  Summer Silhouette
  • Color Palette:  So Saffron, Hello Honey, Early Espresso
  • Accessories:  Dazzling Diamonds

I’ve been a little wild and crazy with the Dazzling Diamonds lately, and I hope I don’t get too careless.  Mr. Maui Stamper is NOT a fan of glitter on the run.  If it is firmly attached to something – anything – he will tolerate it, but glitter in the air, on clothing, or (especially) on the furniture drives him crazy.

Maui Stamper DIY Easel Calendar September 2015

But look at those beautiful sparkly bits!  It absolutely had to be done.  Can I let you in on a little secret?  I just added those Dazzling Diamonds a few days ago with my new, about-to-be-released Fine Tip Glue Pen from the Holiday Catalog.  Tombo will always be The Wonder Adhesive in my book, but the Fine Tip Glue Pen is going to need some special recognition too.

Be sure to visit Cheryl and Crystal to see what they’ve created for this month – and stay tuned if you’d like a set of blank 2016 pages for your own creative calendar!

 

RemARKable Memory Keeping

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Maui Stamper RemARKable March Pinworthy Blog tourWelcome to the May edition of the RemARKable blog tour!

It’s National Scrapbooking month and that’s our topic for the tour.  I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I’ve only completed one scrapbook – ever – and it was intended to be Volume I of 2 to document a two-part family vacation.  While I love photos – and have boxes, bags and stacks of them – I struggle with putting them together.

Our collaboration with Project Life inspired me, and I decided to drag out a photo collage frame that’s been gathering dust and pair it with some of the Project Life by Stampin’ Up! products to see what would happen:

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!To say I’m thrilled would be an understatement!  I love the journaling cards, I love the embellishments, I love the colors, and I love the stamps!  (I know, that’s a lotta lovin’).  This went together REALLY quickly.

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!The card on the right is straight out of the box, matted and stuck into the opening.  The red word bubble and the little red heart are from the Point and Click photopolymer stamp set.

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!Stamps, stickers, cards…it went together in about a half an hour.  SERIOUSLY.

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!I took all the words and mashed them up for a simple embellishment – and then I had an inspiration.  I took all the pieces OUT of the frames…

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!I know it’s hard to see, but these are the Project Life 12×12 photo pages.  I did the happy dance when I realized I had finally found a solution for my bags, boxes and stacks!

I had to play with one more set of photos – these are pretty special to me:

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!It’s been almost a year and a half since our oldest daughter was married.  These photos will slip out of the frame and right into Project Life pages – you have no idea how this delights me!

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!The wedding invitations were hand-stamped – SURPRISE! – and I had a few extra inserts left over.

Maui Stamper Memory Keeping Project Life by Stampin' Up!I also had a bit of lace and some tulle from my daughter’s dress that will tuck into the pages.  A few stamped images (and oh, will I miss Loving Thoughts) and this was done.

What I love about the Project Life concept is that it’s so flexible.  It can be anything you need it to be!  The objective is to record the memories in a way that can be shared – or re-visited – to keep the emotion of the moment alive.

Enjoy the rest of the tour – Audra Monk is next, but the rest of the tour is at the bottom of the post in case you want to go your own way!  Thanks for stopping by.

RemARKable PINworthy Blog Tour 2014Nancy Amato   
Missy Bolinger  
Tamra Davis
Sherri Eddleblute
Anne Matasci     YOU ARE HERE
Audra Monk
Maria Pane
Andi Potler 
Michele Reynolds   
Pam Staples

Sweet Thoughts

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Sometimes simple is best, but it can always use a little twist:

Maui Stamper handmade card For the Birds

  • For the Birds and Summer Silhouettes stamp sets
  • Whisper White and Smoky Slate card stock
  • Smokey Slate FFIP
  • Pink Pirouette Stampin’ Write marker
  • Pink Pirouette 3/8 inch taffeta ribbon
  • 1 3/4 inch circle punch
  • Corner rounder punch

I cut the Whisper White card to 4 x 5 1/4 inches and mounted it on a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch square of Smoky Slate.  Just a little twist!

Here on Maui it’s been so hot and HUMID the past week or so.  I can’t think about fall at all.  And I’ve got red and green all over my craft room, but I’m not quite ready to share that.  Soon, though…in the meantime…

Maui Stamper handmade card For the BirdsI love this technique.  It’s so simple.  I used a punch here, but it’s easy to do with framelits, too.  And framelits have so many shape options!  Just for the record, I punch first, make tiny pencil dots at four points on the inside of the card (around the punched space), then stamp.

For the Birds is an overlooked stamp set.  Give it a second look!

Stampin' Up! For The BirdsClear mount #126407 $24.95

Wood mount #132001 $32.95

 

Ink and Painters’ Tape

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Who knew this was SO EASY?

Maui Stamper handmade card Masking Tape Summer Silhouettes

  • Summer Silhouettes and Simply Sketched (hostess) stamp sets
  • Crisp Cantaloupe, Baked Brown Sugar and Very Vanilla card stock
  • Crisp Cantaloupe, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede and Calypso Coral FFIP
  • Painters Tape

I didn’t say it was NEAT.  I said it was easy.  We did this card at Hostess Club and I brought out the box o’ Costco Disposable Gloves.  Cuz a lot of my stampers have gorgeous manicures (not moi).

5 Steps:

  1. Put on gloves
  2. Rip off a piece of tape
  3. Press the tape onto the FFIP (sticky side down)
  4. Press the tape onto the card stock
  5. Peel it off

Maui Stamper handmade card Masking Tape Summer SilhouettesAnd don’t you think Crisp Cantaloupe, Baked Brown Sugar and Very Vanilla belong together?  If you figure that one out, could you please bring some to me?

 

 

Sum-Sum-Summertime!!

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Nothing says summer to me like bright yellow flowers:

Maui Stamper 2013 Calendar August

  • Summer Silhouettes stamp set
  • Whisper White and Daffodil Delight card stock
  • Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Real Red FFIP
  • Rhinestone Jewels
  • Pearl Jewels
  • Red “Sharpie” marker

Summer Silhouettes is one of my favorite all time stamp sets and I was tremendously relieved when it survived the Social Security line (Stampin’ Up! Retiring Stamps List).  I’ve used it for my daughter’s wedding invitation, countless swaps, cards, and projects.   The images are clean and graceful and I  honestly don’t think you make anything but a beautiful project using this stamp set!

Coloring the rhinestone with a Sharpie takes about 3 seconds and is a fun little step-up technique.

June Paper Pumpkin: Hello to You

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Did you get your Paper Pumpkin for June?  If you haven’t signed up, tomorrow (July 10)  is the last day for the July Pumpkin – go HERE and say Yes to the Red Box!!

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouI confess that I added a smidge of ribbon, but otherwise this is the card as designed.  Oh.  Well, not quite.  The example showed it as a landscape card, but I turned it on the side to make it portrait.

The stamps included the Hello to You sentiment (nice masculine font – we don’t see too many of those!) plus the little heart and a big square zig zag (I guess the trendy term is chevron) background stamp used to create the Soft Suede hexagons.  (Once a nerd, always a nerd.  You can call them honeycomb.)

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouInitially I thought I would make all the cards the same, but then I started looking at those pukas (that’s Hawaiian for holes) and I realized how much fun it would be to put different things in the openings.  Flowers seemed like a natural.

Then I started to get silly.  Yeah, goes without saying – it was late:

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouDon’t look too closely at the lion, I smudged his face and had to give him a makeover.

This last one is my favorite:

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouOH YEAH!!!  Now that’s a card I would love to get in the mail!

Stampin' Up! Maui Stamper June Paper Pumpkin Hello to YouDear Maui Stamper,

Please come for cocktails.  Now would be nice. 

Sincerely,

Your Friend.

I mean, SERIOUSLY.

 

Puddin’ Pistachio on the Pumpkin

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Maui Stamper My Paper Pumpkin Pistachio PuddingWell, the Maui Stamper is clearly in a silly mood, isn’t she?

The 2013-2015 In Color Collection has such mouth-watering names for each color that I don’t see how I’ll make it through the next two years without gaining at least 10 pounds!  Fortunately, these colors are just as yummy looking as they sound, so we’ll have lots of ways to enjoy them.

This card is one of five that Crystal and I are offering at a class to follow our “Out With the Old, In With the New” Open House on Saturday, June 1 at the Maui Masonic Lodge.  If you’ll be on the Valley Isle this Saturday, I encourage you to stop by for great deals on retired products, the chance to experience a variety of new products and pick up a new catalog, and a generally great time!  Doors open for the sale at 9am sharp and the class begins at 11am.  Availability for the class is very limited at this time so check with me if you are interested.

The stamps used on this card include Summer Silhouettes (which will be in the 2013-2014 annual catalog, hooray!), Best of Butterflies 25th Anniversary set and the stamps included in the introductory kit for My Paper Pumpkin.  Sign up for your Pumpkin subscription by June 10 and the introductory kit will be on the way to your doorstep in June!

My color palette includes Pistachio Pudding, Early Espresso and Whisper White, and along with a couple of punches and some dimensionals, that’s all it took to put together this card!  Hope you’ll stop by on Saturday.

May Dandelion Wishes

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These flowers don’t have quite round enough a shape to be dandelions, but that’s what I see in them. I have enough of a romantic side that I still think of wishes when I see dandelions, not weed seeds heading off to yet another lawn.

Maui Stamper May 2013 Calendar

  • Summer Silhouettes and Collage Curios stamp sets
  • Regal Rose and Lucky Limeade FFIP
  • Blender pen
  • Pink Pirouette Shimmer Mist in a Stampin’ Spritzer

You do know that you can make any color of Shimmer Mist (just a little Champagne Mist Shimmer paint mixed with rubbing alcohol) by adding a few drops from an Ink Refill don’t you? I always have a bunch of Stampin’ Spritzers on hand. They’re flat-out CHEAP and always good for a quick Wow.

Hurry off to the OnlineStore for your Champagne Shimmer – it’s headed for retirement.

The wedding invitation

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It all began – at least from a paper point of view – with the invitation:

Maui Stamper Wedding InvitationI made about 8 different samples and sent them off to Australia for Carol and Clarence to see.  Thank goodness for Skype, Viber and email!!  We compared and adjusted and tweaked until we were all happy, and then I set to work creating the invitation.

Maui Stamper Wedding InvitationIt doesn’t look like much here, but it was beautiful to hold and very elegant.  I scored an    8 1/2 x 11 sheet of card stock as a tri-fold, then created a panel to complete the front.  That Elegant Lines embossed panel was spritzed with Champagne Mist shimmer paint, and I made a few extras that came in very handy later on.  There’s a little Very Vanilla Seam Binding across the bottom, with that Decorative Label embellishment popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

And no, there isn’t a larger Decorative label punch – that’s two Garden Green labels cut in half and attached to the back to create a mat – you can see it clearly in the first photo.  We were careful to keep the front smooth since we didn’t want to pay for any additional postage due to extra thickness – these invitations travelled far and wide and the necessary postage was already enough!

Maui Stamper Wedding InvitationThe interior was simple – just their invitation to the guests and a few stamped images.  The extra layers of paper gave it substantial weight that felt good to hold.  We used Blushing Bride ink with Garden Green and Brushed Gold cardstock – I didn’t have enough Pear Pizazz cardstock when I made the invitations.

I sent out the U.S. invitations and shipped the rest to Carol and Clarence to mail in Australia and Mauritius.  I confess I was relieved when Carol texted me a photo of the box of invitations safe and sound at her desk in Perth!

Summer Silhouettes, just for you!

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One more craft fair peek:

These little tins are filled with 5 beautiful cards (if I do say so myself) and are perfect for gift-giving.  I’ll be selling them tomorrow – please do stop by and say hello!

  • Maui Stampers Craft Fair
  • Sunday, November 18, 2012
  • Maui Masonic Lodge, 190 West Kamehameha, Kahului
  • 9 am until 2 pm

And don’t forget the Online Extravaganza starting on Monday!  Great deals – check them out.  Hawaii, you get to see it 3 hours earlier because it will post MST, but that means the One Day Specials will end 3 hours earlier too (9pm HST).  Don’t miss the Monday Specials!