Stamp With Shawna

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!

Big Shot Saturday on Monday?????

Yes, I missed yet another weekend. I had such a great plan. This past Saturday was the only Saturday this month that I could catch up on all my stamping project. Did that happen???? Heck no! And it's all my sister, Lillie, and my friend, Leasa's, fault. You know who you are! They tied me down and forced me to read Twilight! Ok, they didn't tie me down, but they did leave me no choice. They are planning a big Twilight party for the movie premiere next month and I want to come to the party, so I had to read the book. Of course I am way behind, because Twilight is only the first of four part series. So I spent my entire Saturday reading the ENTIRE book. Then I spend some of Sunday and today reading the Midnight Sun draft off the internet....and you guessed it! I am hooked!!!!!! I am purposely not going to buy the second book, New Moon, until I catch up.

My first catch up is this post and the next is getting my Christmas cards done for my class on Sunday! If you are a Twilight fan, leave me comments of your theory on what is going to come next for our favorite couple!!!!

On to the Big Shot....so I did get four of the ten cards done for my class. I decided to use the snowflake swap I received last week from Valerie as one of my cards, because I love it and it's easy. Let me refresh your memory...

   

You would use both the top note die and the large snowflake die for this card. I am working to make my card and I run my snowflake through the big shot and look what I had left...

 

I just couldn't let that beautiful image go to waste so I came up with this card. You can't tell in the picture but I am using shimmery white cardstock for the snowflake...

 

Supplies:

• Baja Breeze cardstock and stamp pad
• Shimmery White cardstock cut to 4.25 x 5.5
• Best Yet Stamp Set
• Big Shot and Snowflake Die
• Clear packing tape
• Dazzling diamonds glitter
• glue dots
• Pearl from the Pretties Kit

I used the glitter window technique for this card. Here are the instructions:

 

Attach the clear packing tape to the back side of the negative snowflake image. Be sure to use a surface that the tape will not adhere to. I used two strips of tape to cover the entire snowflake.

 

Cover the sticky side of the tape with the dazzling diamonds glitter. Tap off the excess.

Add adhesive to the back side of the snowflake and adhere to the front side of the base of the card.

 

Use a couple of glue dots to adhere the flat side of the pearl from the Pretties Kit to your card.  Stamp your greeting and your card is complete! Very easy and very pretty...

 

Now it's your turn. Don't ever throw out the negatives images cut from your Big Shot. They can turn out to be beautiful projects and you are going green and saving the earth too. Leave me comments as to how you used a die negative. Have fun and check back later this week to see the make and take I am planning for a crop I will attending on Saturday.

Big Shot Halloween Treat Card

Well, it's really Tuesday, not Saturday but I'm making up for the lost weekend! I hope you don't mind?

I LOVE the Big Shot. What did I ever do without one? I'm pretty frugal and could never see the benefit of buying something so expense just to cut some paper. Boy was I wrong!The Stampin Up Big Shot is awesome and there are so many different things you can do with it and my favorite die, the Top Note.

Tonight I am going to show you how to make this very cute but easy Halloween treat card. Are you ready?

 

Supplies include the following:

• Black cardstock cut 5.5 x 4.25 
• Tangerine Tango cardstock cut 8.5 x 5.5
• White cardstock big enough to stamp the skull image and bow
• Black and Kiwi Kiss stamp pad
• Big Shot and Top Note Die
• Just Jawing Stamp Set
• Ghostly Greetings Black Designer Paper cut 4.5 x 3.75
• Ghostly Greetings Kiwi DSP, cut the desired words from Kiwi
• Silver Chunky Glitter and Crystal Effects
• Slot Punch and glue dots

 

Fold Tangerine paper 8.5 x 5.5 like you are making a card.

 

Position folded side of cardstock just below the top of the Top Note Die.

 

Big Shot sandwich should be cutting pad on the bottom, Top Note Die with folder paper, and cutting pad on top. Run through Big Shot.

 

You should get a Top Note card, already cut and folded. If you get two pieces of paper, that means you didn't position your folded cardstock just below the top of the Top Note image on the actual die as shown above.

  

To complete your card:

• Stamp skull from Just Jawing on white cardstock and cut out
• Use crystal effects to adhere chunky glitter to eyes
• Stamp and cut out the bow from Just Jawing, adhere to skull
• Adhere black Ghostly Greetings DSP to black cardstock
• Adhere desired words to top of the Tangerine Top Note Die Card, use Top Note die to cut out words then cut the top note in half. 
• Adhere skull to Top Note Die Card
• Use slot punch to punch black cardstock, this will hold down the top of your Top Note card by the jaw of the skull
• Adhere Top Note card to black cardstock

 

All you have to do is add a glue dot to the inside of your card and your favorite piece of chocolate and you are done!

This would be a great project for your kids to help with for their classroom treats. My son Javon loves to use the Big Shot. I'm bummed that this will be the first year we won't be able to make classroom treats since they can't have parties in 5th grade.

Now it's your turn, leave me comments and let me know how your Halloween treat cards turn out! Check back tomorrow when I will share some of the swaps I recieved at my Upline meeting on Monday night.

Big Shot Saturday - Black and White Cards

Here we are...the weekend! Not much relaxing for me. I'm off to a women's retreat with my church and I'm trying to get a jump on the all the holiday events I have coming up. And, of course, I'm going to share a Stampin Up Big Shot tip with you today. Please leave me comments and let me know what you think about today's tip!

I am going to show you how easy it is to make 3 cards with one die and one pass through the Big Shot! Less work, little mess as we are going to use all of the paper that passes through our Big Shot. Sound good? Take a look...

 

This card uses the top note die outline as a frame. I stamped the images on a white cardstock base with the black craft pad and embossed with black embossing power. I used the black maker and the color spritzer tool (hmmm that might be a good tutorial) to spray the black specs on the card. I then assembled the card adhering the black top note frame onto the white card base.

 

This second card uses the two top note cut outs as a mat. Using black cardstock as the base for the card, use the direct to paper technique and a white craft pad to add color to the edges of the cardstock. Tie the white grosgrain ribbon around the card and add a piece of black gingham tied to the knot of  the white ribbon.Trim off the border of the black top note cut out. Stamp on the black top note die using the white craft pad. Adhere the black top note to the white top note and then adhere to the black card base.

I've only shown 2 cards but I will explain how you can make your 3rd.

I'm using the Upsy Daisy Set. I LOVE this set and I got this set for FREE at the Stampin Up Convention. I won it! How cool is that?

 

Supplies I used for the cards:

• Black and Whisper White Cardstock
• Black and White Craft Stamp Pads
• Big Shot, black embossing powder, white 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, black gingham ribbon, black stampin write marker, and the color spritzer tool

Instructions to make 3 different cards using the Big Shot:

• Take both a black and white piece of cardstock cut to 5 1/4" x 4.
• Sandwich both pieces of cardstock between the cutting pad and die. Should look like this: 
  • cutting pad
  • top note die
  • 2 pieces of cardstock
  • cutting pad on top
• Make sure the cardstock is centered on the die so that you will get a good frame
• Run the sandwich through the Big Shot, you should have 2 top note cut outs and 2 frames
• Use the two top note cut outs to make a top note mat as shown by the second card example above
• Use the two top note frames to make 2 more cards as shown in the first card example above

Simple but very quick and cute! Now it's your turn. What wonderful creations can you come up with using this Stampin Up Big Shot tip? Don't forget to leave me a comment and let me know what you did! Until next time, have an awesome weekend.

Halloween Treat Bag Tutorial

WELCOME...to BIG SHOT Saturday! And my very first tutorial! Sorry it's so late, but we still had birthday party goers still here until about 2 this afternoon and I had 20 baby thank you cards to make for a shower I attended today as well. I will be posting those later...very cute, and I still had to make this tutorial. Better late than never right? I will have to try much harder to get this posted earlier next week.

BIG SHOT Saturday is where I will give you some helpful tips and techniques using the Stampin Up Big Shot by Sizzix. This week's tutorial will show you a very very cute Halloween treat bag we made in 3D stamp club. Thanks to my upline Leasa W. for showing me this technique.

I haven't seen this particular project posted anywhere, although I have seen paper bag treat bags. This is a very cool way to use your Big Shot during the entire Holiday Season and I hope you enjoy it. Please leave me comments or suggestions as I hope to get better as I do more tutorials!

So here it is.....

 

Cute right?

Let me show you how to make it...

 

Supplies needed include the following:

• Paper Lunch bag and medium Stampin Up Cello bag
• Tangerine Tango and Black Classic stamp pads
• Tangerine Tango and White Cardstock
• I used Autumn Harvest and Batty For You, and All Holidays Stamp Sets
• 1 3/4 inch circle, scallop circle, rectangle, 1/16 inch circle, and Ticket Corner Punches
• Tangerine ribbon, silver cord, glue dots, snail adhesive and Dimensionals

 

Step 1: Stamp you paper bag all over. Don't forget the sides and the back.

   

Step 2: Using your top note die, inset the die into the center of the paper bag. Make sure it's pretty far down, leaving only about 1.5 to 2 inches from the bottom.

 

Step 3: Sandwich your bag with the die inside the bag, between your cutting pads. You will have a cutting pad on the bottom, lay your paper bag with the top note die in the bag on top of the cutting pad, then top the sandwich with another cutting pad. Insert into your Big Shot and turn the handle until the paper bag sandwich passes through the big shot. You should only cut through one side of the bag, as the top note die should be inside the paper bag.

   

Step 4: Using your snail, add adhesive to the very edge of all 4 sides of your medium cello bag. Insert the cello bag, sticky side up, into your paper bag and adhere where you cut out the top note die to create a window. If you have any adhesive showing, use your adhesive remover to take off any excess.

 

Step 5: Fold over the top of your bag and punch out two holes, spaced as evenly apart as you can, using your rectangle punch. How far apart the holes are isn't as important as it will just determine how much ribbon you might use and the look you might be going for. The further apart you make the holes the more ribbon you will have to use.

     

Step 6: Thread your ribbon starting from the back, so that both ends will be hanging from the back. Then take one side of the ribbon that is hanging and thread it back through the opposite hole. You will have to pull the ribbon slightly so that you can see the hole as seen in the picture on the right. Take the opposite side and repeat the process. Now you will have both ends showing in the front.

   

Step 7: Stamp onto white cardstock with a stamp from Batty for you and punch out with the 1 3/4 inch circle punch. Also, punch out a scallop circle using tangerine cardstock and the scallop circle punch. Attach stamped image with 2 dimensionals to the scallop circle. This will be a decoration for your cello window. Attach to the window using a glue dot.

     

Step 8: Cut out a 3" x 1" piece of tangerine tango cardstock. Stamp with Happy Halloween from All Holidays stamp set. Using your ticket corner punch, punch on all 4 corners. Punch a hole in the middle of the left side of the piece to make a tag. Using silver cord, thread the cord through the tangerine ribbon on the top of the bag and tie in a bow.

   

Your treat bag is complete! I know it seems like a lot of steps but it's very easy! Try it for yourself. But wait, we are missing the treat! The treat we used was microwave popcorn. Fill a ziploc or bread bag with about a 3rd of the microwave popcorn. Insert into your paper bag before attaching the ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed my very first tutorial! And I hope you will stop back by next Saturday for more!