October Stamp-A-Whole-Lotta Cards

October was Christmas card month, here are the 5 cards we did at that SWLC Class. Card one:

This card was CASED from a newsletter of another Demonstrator....is it your card? If so, e-mail me and I will post your name with this lovely card. This was one of the favorites!

SU! Supplies used--
Stamp sets: Sweet Centers (pg.7, Holiday Mini Catalog), Four the Holidays (pg.19, Holiday Mini Catalog). Accessories: white satin ribbon, dimensionals, silver embossing powder, glue dots. Paper: Christmas Cocoa Specialty, Whisper White, Real Red. Ink: Versamark.

Card two:
This card is so simple and sweet. It has a country Christmas feel to it.

SU! Supplies--
Stamp sets: Grateful Greetings (pg.8, Holiday Mini Catalog). Accessories: 1/4" red grosgrain ribbon, tag punch, small tag punch, crop-a-dile, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds glitter. Paper: Christmas Cocoa Specialty, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White. Ink: Chocolate Chip.

Card three:
This was the other favorite--talk about simple! This card would be very easy to make multiples. One quick tip, you ink up the trees with Ballet Blue and take the ink off the bird with a q-tip. Then use a Real Red marker to color the bird back in, huff the stamp to moisten. Also, we used a Stamp-a-ma-Jig to place the trees.

SU! Supplies used--
Stamp sets: Scenic Season. Accessories: wide Real Red grosgrain ribbon, Real Red marker, dimensionals, slot punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig. Paper: Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery, Whisper White. Ink: Real Red, Ballet Blue.

Card four: I received a card at Convention from Betty Travis using this stamp and color combination. I simplified a bit so that it was easier to mass produce.

SU! Supplies used--

Stamp sets: Dasher (pg.208, IB&C), Simple Snowflake (pg.208, 2009-2010 IB&C), Warm Words (pg.141, 2009-2010 IB&C). Accessories: silver brads, dimensionals, Razzleberry polka-dot ribbon, Modern label punch, stamping sponges. Ink: Razzleberry.

Card five: This is a layout copy of a card on pg.82 in the 2009-10 IB&C. I used the one of the hostess sets from Holiday Mini Catalog called Snow Buddies--love the way you can dress the snowmen up.

SU! Supplies used--

Stamp Sets: Snow Buddies (pg.5, Holiday Mini Catalog), On Your Birthday (pg.139, 2009-2010 IB&C). Accessories: clear brads, wide celery grosgrain ribbon, 2way glue pen, dazzling diamond glitter, Jumbo Snowflake punch, Pumpkin Pie, Going Grey, Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue markers. Paper: Basic Grey, Whisper White, Bashful Blue. Ink: Basic Grey

Next month's dates are December 10, 11 & 12. We will be making Winter Themed Thank-you Cards which is always a popular class. You can see the rest of my Holiday Class Schedule by clicking on the calendar in the left hand column.

Make sure you come back and check out the Fab Friday post...

Karla c(:

August Stamp-a-Whole-Lotta Cards

These are the cards from last months Stamp-a-Whole-Lotta-Cards (SWLC). I took trades that I received from Convention in Salt Lake, tweaked them a little-

Card #1: Here is a picture of the first trade card I used, Sherry Harter made it:Here is the card we made....I added the red gingham ribbon and I changed the greeting to Happy Birthday. That's it, thanks Sherry for the great idea!

Card #2: This trade was received from Jennifer Cotton.

I added the Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon and mounted the white/black panel on Regal Rose card stock.


Card #3: While I was in Salt Lake at Convention I participated in a Shoebox Trade that Dawn Rapsas put together, it was a lovely time! Thank-you Dawn for all of your hard work. This was one of the cards that we made at the Shoebox, I didn't get a name--if it belongs to you please e-mail me and I will credit you for this cute design.

I just changed the base of the card to another InColor. I'm seeing this card, one of each InColor, bundled together in a gift pack...maybe as a nice thank-you gift for my son's teacher. What do you think?

Card #4: I love the simple way this card is laid out. This trade did not have a name on it.

I made a few changes to this trade for the class. The panel that the frog sits on is a wee bit bigger, I used Basic Brown ink pad to stamp the image instead of Basic Black ink pad.

Card #5: This last card is a combination of 2 trades I received using the same stamp set.

Like the layout of the card above (no name on trade) and the color combo of the card below is very nice (trade was made by Heather Van Duker).

Here is the card we did at the class.

So there you have the 5 cards we did at the SWLC in August, next months class is October 8, 9 & 10. It will be the Annual Christmas Card Class which is always fills fast. Click on the calendar to the left to RSVP.

Tip Tuesday

Welcome to the First Tip Tuesday on my Blog! I have been publishing Tip Tuesdays for about 2 years now via e-mails to customers, friends who are stampers and members of my team. The picture above is of a punch template I purchased at the Momento Mall when I was at the Stampin' Up! Convention in Salt Lake City 2 weeks ago. The item number and the name of each punch is printed on each of the blue colored plastic squares--but it's printed in black and it's hard to read. I purchased the plastic tape at Walmart, it was inexpensive. I placed the tape on the backside now you can read all the info! I noticed one of the Presenters on stage at Convention had done this and I copied it, well....because I thought it was a great idea!