Stamp With Shawna

April Easter Stamp Club Projects

Wow! Has it been a month since I posted last. Time is going by so fast and my job that pays the bills is eating up all my time an energy. It doesn't look like it will be slowing down anytime soon, but I will do my best to post as often as possible. Thanks for all of you guys who stick with me and view my blog on a regular basis. I really appreciate it!!!

This month in club I decided to do my projects a little differently since one club was going to be before Easter and the other after. I gave both clubs the option to choose the date they wanted to attend. Or they could choose to attend both clubs to make all the projects since they will be different. Members will still only have to place their club order, but I do ask if they attend both, that they pay a small supply fee or they can use the same amount toward an order.

My first club's projects were all about Easter! We made this adorable bunny treat bag that I saw on Meg's Blog...I changed it just a little by using the wide and large oval punches for the ears instead of the large and small ovals as Meg did. I liked the bigger ears. I also wanted my bunny to have brown eyes.

Take a look...

And look at the back...added a cotton ball for the tail...VERY cute!

 

Here is the recipe:

• I used Candy Lane Designer Series Paper that I had left over from Valentines Day that worked perfectly
• Big Shot with the Scallop Circle Bigz die
• Pink Pirouette Cardstock for ears and cheeks
• Pretty in Pink Cardstock for nose
• Whisper White Cardstock for ears and teeth
• Chocolate Chip Cardstock for eyes
• 1" Circle Punch for cheeks
• Large Oval Punch for ears
• Wide Oval Punch for ears
• 3/4" Square Punch for teeth
• 1/2" Circle Punch for eyes and nose
• Pretty in Pink 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon
• Stampin' Dimensional to pop nose
• White Gel Pen for the eyes
• Sponge
• Cello Bag the any size to fit your treats
• Pretty in Pink Stamp Pad to rosy up the checks using the sponge

I also made these for my preschool class at church...they loved them! Thanks Meg for this awesome idea! She always has super cute ideas so go check her out...

Wemade this super cute and easy Easter Card using the egg from the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set in the Occasions mini. I got this idea for my upline and good friend Leasa. I am in her stamp club and we used A good egg set. I substituted since I didn't have that set.

We used Raspberry Tart DSP and white Organza Ribbon. The eggs are water-colored and we added dazzling diamonds glitter.

Finally we made these super cute Easter pages also using Wagon Full of Fun and the Raspberry Tart paper. I love these pages and so did my club members.

We also used the new oval scallop punch. Isn't that wagon sooooo cute?

My second club for the month will focus on scrapbook pages. I'm almost done with them and will share with you next week. I promise....so check back!

Have a very Blessed and Happy Easter!

Valentine's Card and Birthday Pictures

I had a great Valentine's this year...my husband bought me beautiful flowers and a very cute bear. I LOVE stuffed animals. My sister, Lillie, made me a great valentine card. She is sooo creative. Check it out...

 

The "Loads of Love" Truck is a slider and will move around the heart! VERY Cute!

   

Thiscute valentine's were made with the Big Shot and the large scallop circle die. We made this project at our Stamp Camp and I made these for Javon's teachers at school. Thanks to my friend Stefen for finding this on Linda's Blog! Check her out she has lots of cute projects. You can find Stefen here on his Scrappin Guy Blog.

My daughter LOVES Hello Kitty and so do I. So I decided to make her a Hello Kitty Card for her Birthday. I got this idea from a swap that my friend Angie received this past year at the Stampin Up Convention.

 

Pretty cute huh? And my friend Amy found that Sizzix makes all kinds of Hello Kitty Dies. Guess who will be getting some? Yep, me and I will share my creations with you!

Here are some pics from Jasmine's Birthday Dinner! Here is Me and Jasmine...she is sooo pretty!

 

Here is Jasmine with my sister Lillie, in yellow, and Jasmine's friends Kendra and Olivia.

 

Here is my sister Lillie and my nephew Ty.

   

Here is Jasmine, Olivia, and Kendra...

   

Last but certainly not least, here is my crazy son Javon!

 

Until next time!!

Stamp Clubs 2009!

It's that time again! Time to enjoy the company of people who like to make beautiful handmade gifts, cards, and scrapbook pages. Stamp Club 2009 has arrived. This year I have two 6 month clubs. Each meeting month we will make themed cards, a scrapbook page or two, and a gift giving idea. This month's theme was focused on Valentines. We will be making scrapbook pages to fit in the 8.5 x 8.5 Stampin Up chipboard album.

My first club met this past Sunday and by second club will meet this coming Sunday.

Take a look at our projects this month...

 

This Valentine treat bag with made using the Top Note Die and big Shot. Punch out the handles using the large Oval punch.

 

This card features the new Love You Much Stamp Set and Candy Lane Designer Series Paper.

 

Sticking with our Valentine theme these 8.5 x 8.5 pages also used the Love You Much Stamp Set and Candy Lane paper, along with the new Heart to Heart Punch all from Stampin Up!

I still have a couple of spots left so please contact me today if you are interested in joining club. If you are out of town, no problem. I will make your projects for you and ship them with your club order.

I had a little help taking these picture tonight. My son was camera happy and not only did he help me take pictures of my club projects but he also took a picture of himself...

 

and of the cat...doesn't she look evil?

 

and the dog...

 

and he couldn't resist taking a picture of me...but it't too ugly to post! Sorry...

But he also wanted to pose with Oreo our dog...aren't they cute?

Check back this weekend for pics of my daughter's birthday cards. She turns 20 on Sunday. Boy do I feel old!

Home Decor and Stampin Up

Here are some great gift ideas using the fabulous Decor Elements from Stampin Up. I took a class that my upline and good friend Leasa designed. She is very creative and always has fun and fresh ideas that captures the latest trends.

Take a look...

 

I bought the candle, plate stand, cork board, and glass plate at Hobby Lobby. The glass plate can be found in the candle section. The tiles came from Lowe's and they are really cheap.

I used the Decor Elements to decorate the candle and plate. I used craft pads to stamp on the tiles. Classic pads will run if you use clear acrylic spray like I did. The spray will waterproof the tiles. Cut the cork board to fit the tiles and use crystal effects to adhere them to the back of the tiles. This will help to protect your furniture.

These are so easy to make. I made two sets in an hour, one for each of my in-laws. They make great personal gifts and they loved them.

Check out my website to see more great decor images and there is a brand new line coming out in the next week! Be checking back for more details.

Happy New Year and Stampin Up Calendar!

Wow! Where has the time gone? First let me wish everyone a very and blessed New Year! I hope your holidays were as enjoyable as mine were. 

It has been a month since I have last posted. Thank you to my faithful readers who are sticking by me, even through my slump! I promise to get back on the bandwagon so keep checking back!

Where have I been you ask? My paying job has been over the top. I am on the computer and phone the entire day and there has not been much left of me to do anything more. I did get some time off at Christmas and New Year but I tried to make those as restful as possible and I wanted to make sure I spent as much time with the family as I could. We spent a couple of days in Virginia visiting my in-laws, but other than that, I tried to do very little.

Check out our Christmas photo! My nephew, Ty, was the photographer and he did an awesome job!

 

We just returned from my son Javon's band concert and since we were all dressed alike, and I waited way too late to get our pics done professionally, I decided it was now or never. We even got the pets to cooperate, so it must have been meant to be.

And here is Javon at his first concert...

   

He is doing well and even played the Little Drummer Boy in our Christmas pageant at church. I was so proud.

Here are a couple of our Christmas morning pics. We had to get up extra early this year because my husband, Michael, had to work later that morning.

   

 

My daughter, Jasmine, would kill me if she knew I put this picture online...shhhhh don't tell! Santa was good to all!

Now, what about stamping you ask? Well, I haven't done much. I did get about 70 hand stamped cards out, but thanks to Stampin Up's Card Kits it didn't take long at all. I did find time to make a new calendar from our Create a Calendar Kit. I had a class right before Christmas and planned to have another after the new year, but the kits are on backorder so I hope to get another in before the end of the month.

Take a look...

 

 

In addition to the Create-a-Calendar Kit I used:

• Large On Board Book Basics
• Summer Picnic Designer paper
• Felt Flowers
• Rhinestones brads
• Office clips

I decorated the chipboard with the designer paper and embellished with the self adhesive flowers found in the kit along with the brads and felt flowers. I also decorated the back and adhered the calendar pocket, that also comes with the kit, to the back to store the rest of the adhesive embellishments and the used calendar pages.

Speaking of the pages...here they are!

   

   

   

The back of the calendar pages were designer paper so I folded up the ends, added some adhesive to each side to form a pocket. I just couldn't waste the pretty paper.

I hope you like it and I hope to be able to hold another class soon. Please contact me if you are interested and if you are out of town, I can package this up as an on the go kit. The cost of the class is $20.

Check back tomorrow, when I plan to post some of the gifts I made for Christmas! Monogram home decor...you don't want to miss it!

Christmas Stamp Club Projects

Hello...

Wow can you believe it's only 16 days until Christmas? Are you ready? I am no where near being ready. But I did have time to celebrate Christmas with my club members this weekend. We made an awesome DVD Tin Stationary Gift Set and Christmas ornaments from the Country Living Kit. I LOVE that kit. I have made so many things with it and I still have stuff left over. It is well worth $50.

We embossed stamped the tin with versamark and then embossed with silver embossing powder. The trick is to use your embossing buddy before stamping, giving the tin a good dusting, so that the embossing powder doesn't stick to the tin where you don't want it too!

 

We used the Holiday Collections Stamp Set from the Country Living Kit  for our project. I made a belly band for the in using the left overs from the kit. The snowflake is punched out with the scallop circle punch and then I used the exclusive Pennant die from Stampin UP to mat the snowflake. The kit comes with rhinestone brads that I used in the middle of the snowflake. This very cute, but simple design was cased from one of my favorite blogs...chicnscratch!

Let's take a look inside...

   

I made pockets with designer paper and added a set of 4 cards with envelopes.

We also made ornaments from the kit and since I have decided that our Christmas Tree this year would only be decorated with handmade items, it helped me get started.

 

These are so easy! Everything is already cut for you, all you have to do is punch them out, glue the paper to the chipboard and add glitter and other embellishments. I also use the direct to paper technique around the edges of the snowflake. I know it's hard to tell in this picture.

Here are more ornaments from the kit...

   

 

I also made some ornaments with clear glass balls I purchased from Hobby Lobby. I added Stampin Up rub ons to the outside and crimped scraps of paper and snow to the inside.

 

 

Here are some square ornaments I made. I also got this great idea from chicnscratch...the square scallop punch is the exact size of the small squares on the ornament. Very cute and easy!

 

 

I want to share my tree with you, aalthough I do plan to make a few more ornaments this weekend that I want to add. And please don't pay attention to the clutter behind the tree...urghhhh!

 

I hope this inspires you to take some time to make some handmade items for Christmas this year! I would love for you to share your projects, just leave me a post!

Did you miss me? Gift Giving Class projects Twilight and more....

Wow, can you believe it's already December? Where has the time gone and where the heck have I been? Well I have been extremely busy with my "paying" job which involves being on the computer and phone the entire day, sometimes night as well and sometimes there is just not enough energy to do much more. While I enjoy blogging very much, I do want to leave you with something meaningful that you can duplicate or use to help with your creativity and stamping projects and it's hard to do that when I'm not feeling very creative myself. So, I will have to learn to find a balance and I hope you are patient with me while I do that.

With that said I want to share some of the awesome project we created during my gift giving class I held before Thanksgiving. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday, I did, as I have so many things to be thankful for!

For the class we complete a fabulous monogram stationary set...

 

Very cute ornaments created from the Country Living Kit...

 

Everyone loved this cute but very simple to create candy jar. I bought the jars from Hobby Lobby they were 50% off that week.

   

and last but not least this super cute Santa gift bag that I cased from the San Antonio Stampin Up Regional in October...it uses the large scallop Big Shot die. You know I had to get my Big Shot in one of the projects!

 

I really loved all the project we created and so did all my customers. This coming up weekend we will have our final club meeting for the year. I will share those project with you later this week . We will be embossing on tin....very cool!

On a personal Twilight note...did you see the movie? I did 3 times, yes 3 times. A bunch of us moms and daughters went to the midnight opening on November 21st. It was so much fun. Loved Robert Pattinson, he is the perfect Edward. I can't wait until New Moon comes out.

 

This is us standing outside in the freezing cold so we can take a picture by the movie poster. I am the one with the super cute Twilight shirt! I am so addicted I have even read the entire book series again over Thanksgiving. It was even better the second time! Should I go for a third? If I do you probably won't see me online for another week! He he.......

Also, my good friend, and awesome upline, Leasa and I went to see Tina Turner in concert last month. She was awesome! I hope I look as good as she does and have as much energy when I am pushing 70...it truly was amazing!

     

This is us being silly...Leasa's arm was obviously not long enough to hide my humongous nose!!!! I guess we look pretty good after a long four hour drive to Atlanta from Nashville, and yes, we drove back the same night! What were we thinking??????

 

I think I got everyone caught up over the last couple of weeks. I promise I won't stray this long again, even if I just pop on to say I am alive!

Big Shot Christmas Card

Hey everyone...can you believe the weekend has come and gone? This is a huge week...yes it's Twilight week! So if you are keeping up with my blog's countdown, it's only 4 days away. I can't wait...a big group of us girls are going to see the midnight showing on Thursday night/Friday morning. It is going to be sooo much fun. I have even ordered a Twilight T-shirt for the occasion. And I have the soundtrack, which is pretty good. Yes, I am addicted. If you haven't read the book, it's a must read. You will quickly be able to see why I am addicted...

To learn more about the book and see some great pictures and clips from the movie, check out StephenieMeyer.com.

Now on to tonight's tutorial...I hope you like it! This is one of the cards I did in my Christmas Card Class. It's using the negative from the Stampin Up Top Note Big Shot Die. Take a look...

 

I want to try to take family Christmas pictures this year because it has been a couple of years since we took some. And I thought this card would work perfectly as our Christmas card. It's so easy and very cute.

Supplies:

• Riding Hood Red and Kraft Cardstock
• Big Shot, Top Note Die, Sizzlits Snowflakes Die
• Any snowflake stamp set, I used Best Wishes and More that I received for FREE at the San Antonio Regional last month
• Riding Hood Red Stamp Pad
• Red Glitter and Pearls from the Pretties Kit
• Dimensionals and Mini Glue Dots
• I used the Xyron to adhere my glitter to the snowflakes but you could use a 2 way glue pen

 

Cut your Kraft paper 4.25 x 5.5 and run it through your Big Shot using the Top Note Die. Be sure you center the paper on the image to ensure you get an even frame.

 

If you don't want to use the actual Top Note cut out you can use it to make your snowflakes so you don't waste paper. Use the Sizzlits snowflake to cut out your snowflake. I ran mine through 2 times because I wanted to use the same snowflake. You can't double up on the cardstock with the Sizzlets dies because they are too thin and will not cut out the image properly. So make sure you use only one piece of cardstock at a time. Now, run your snowflakes through your Xyron or you can cover the snowflakes with 2 way glue.

  

Cover your sticky snowflakes with red glitter.

 

Use the flat pearls from your Pretties Kit to embellish your glitter snowflake. Adhere the pearls with mini glue dots.

If you are going to use this for a class I would just glue down one side of the frame so that you can still insert a picture and leave the snowflakes unmounted. Once you add your picture you can attach the snowflakes with dimensionals. If you didn't want to add a picture, you could stamp a Christmas Tree or other large image. You could also add a poem or Bible verse to center.

Here is my finished card with a picture of my children from Christmas last year...

 

How cute is that? Now it's your turn! You can use this template for all types of picture cards. I hope you enjoy and be watching out this week for more Twilight stuff as I count down to the big day!

Happy Friday and Christmas Gift Giving!

This week has been nothing but crazy for me. I had to go out of town for my real "paying" job. It's certainly not as fun as stamping and blogging but a necessity especially in these hard economic times. I certainly didn't anticipate how expensive paying for college would be so it's work work work for me!

With that said, I didn't get a technique done for you today, but I do plan to try to get one up sometime this weekend. My sister Lillie and I are working a craft show tomorrow so I will be there all day. I will take some pictures of the cute things we made.

For today's post I am going to highlight an upcoming Christmas Gift Giving Class I will be holding. We will be making an adorable monogram stationary set and a Christmas gift bag. We will also be making a couple of the ornaments highlighted in the Stamping Up Country Living Promotion. All of this for only $30.

Long distance customer's can take advantage of this class as well, you will just pay a small shipping fee. Please email me for details. Class takes place next weekend!

Here is the monogram stationary set...

 

and the very cute Christmas gift bag...

 

And you don't want to miss out of the awesome deal you get with the Stampin Up Country Living Promotion...check out the link for all the details. This kit makes a great gift by itself or keep it like I plan to do!

 

Take care and have a great weekend...

Technique Friday Tip - Twilight Inspired Birthday Card

Happy Friday!

I finally had the time to make my sister, Lillie's, birthday card. We are both Twilight fans so I thought I would make her birthday card around that theme. She always blows me away with her creativity, so this time I hope I can surprise her.

I learned this very cool technique at the San Antonio regionals last month as part of one of the Workshop Wows. There really isn't a name, so I will call it "Painting Effects"!

Are you read? Here we go...

This technique turns crystal effects and reinker into paint. In this project we are going to paint a flower from the pretties kit. Take a look...

 

Cool right?

Supplies Used:

• Crystal Effect
• Red Riding Hood Cardstock, Reinker and Stamp Pad
• Watercolor brush and Sponge
• Pretties Kit and Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon
• Rhinestone Brad and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
• Heard From the Heart Stamp Set
• Black Cardstock and Stamp Pad
• White Cardstock
• Glue Dots

Instructions:

Use a plastic plate to mix your paint. Ingredients for paint include crystal effects and reinker.

 

Pour crystal effect on our place and squeeze 4 to 5 drops of reinker into the crystal effects. Use a toothpick to blend together. Use more or less reinker depending on the color you are trying to achieve.

   

Use a watercolor brush to pick up your paint and generously start to color your flower.

 

Once you have completely colored your flower, sprinkle it with dazzling diamonds glitter while it's still wet from the paint.

   

Cover it was as little or as much glitter as you desire and shake off excess onto plate. You can dab the flower with the glitter on the plate if you missed any spots. Leave the flower on the plate to dry completely while you complete the rest of the project. Finished flower should look like this...

 

You ready to see the final card? Here it is...

 

I think it turned out pretty good. I hope Lillie likes it! I sponged around the white cardstock with Red Riding Hood ink and I used glue dots to attach the flower and hold down the pin from the Pretties Kit.

Leave me comments and let me know what you think and to wish Lillie a Happy Belated Birthday!

Check back this weekend when I will share a Big Shot Christmas Card with you... May all your days be Twilight Days!