SU regionals Seattle '09

So I went with my Stampin Up demonstrator Julie Alberda to the SU regionals here in Seattle. It was a lot of fun. We spent a whole day swapping card fronts, making new projects, learing techniques, and winning prizes. Below are pictures of the three cards I made to swap. This was a little tricky because you could only use current SU products and you had to have at least one embellishment like brads, eyelets, or ribbon. It was fun to have to follow rules and see what people came up with.

Ice cream cone card from the set "Party Hearty"



Beach card from the set "Lifes a Breeze"



Dino card from the set "Prehistoric Pals"



Below are all the cards I got in return. (Julie I added a ribbon and brad to that Christmas card, check it out)

And this next slide show is of the projects we made and the free stuff we got. :)

These final pictures are ideas posted at the convention. Inculding using the big shot to cut out fabric for quilting, and layering buttons and brads.

I had a lot of fun. Thanks so much Julie!

Christmas card time!

Nativity card: gold sponged, purple crystal brad, three bronze eyelets.


Christmas Tree card: this is actually a birthday hat stamp and I added stumps. Plus one has a star eyelet for its topper.



Happy Holidays card: scalloped, punched, dimentional-ed (pop up), ribbons and green crystal brad.



Snowflake card: Silver sponged, blue crystal brad, ribbon.


Lone tree card: gold eyelets, ribbon, green crystal brad.



Snoflake bookmark card: Lucky recievers of this card will get to keep the happy holidays bookmark! its tucked in a pocket made by silver eyelets. This one is also silver sponged, sorry the scans didnt turn out so well.

We decided to put inside a Family update in a short poem and a photo. Below:

In Seattle’s misty shade
Violet her grand entrance made
On an early springtide day,
Now she crawls in merry play.

When Ginny sat with potty under
Her parents cheered in awestruck wonder
Talking day into the night,
Pink and princess her delight.

While rocky rills ‘neath foot were spurned
In the lab with lasers turned
Cells. His test were passed as planned;
Bens degree grows nigh at hand.

And Bri was crafting all about,
Sewing, baking, stamping out
Cards for you with Christmas joy;
Started by a baby boy.

Christmas Cards

As part of my year long campaign to make all of my own cards, I made my own Christmas cards this year.

I had two basic themes: Snowman and Reindeer. All of the cards were made using a variety of cardstocks and the decorative papers were from the DCWV Ultimate Christmas stack from 2007. They have a lot of hand made accents and embellishments, since I wasn't able to get the supplies I wanted out here.

The Reindeer card:
The face was an oval cut from DCWV paper. The nose is a red print paper punched out using a 1" circle punch. I used my eyelet punch to make "button" holes. I used ivory crochet thread for the button. The eyes are just white cardstock punched with a normal hole punch and colored in. The antlers are free hand and cut out of beige paper. The mouth is made from black crochet thread, and the head is accented with a red/blue ribbon. I stamped greetings, and placed them on hand cut tags, which were punched and tied to the antlers with crochet thread (and taped in place on the card). The reindeer head is on a dimensional (made from cardboard).

The Snowman card:
The snowman was hand drawn (I made a template for myself so I wouldn't have to keep drawing it over and over again), as were the hat (made from black cardstock) and "arms" (made from brown decorative papers). I used satin ribbon for the hat accent and scarf. The scarf is held in place by a pewter star brad. The buttons on the snowman are black glass beads, and the body is accented with white glitter. The nose is just a piece of orange cardstock. The rest of the features are drawn on. I stamped greetings, and placed them on hand cut tags, which were punched and secured to the card using a pewter eyelet. The snowman body is on a dimensional (made from cardboard).

Another B-day card

For this card I used a stampin wheel to make the flowers along the bottom. Then I colored in some white with a white pen and made some with eyelets. I stamped a bee and colored in some of it with the white pen as well as made a trail for his flight. Then I made a tag with a retangle paper and punch out the corners on a 45 degree angle. I also punched a slot for the ribbon to go through and tied a bow. I stamped the "b is for birthday" and the present. Cut out the present and put it in the middle of the b with a dimentional. I think it needs more color... but whatever.

~Bri

Birthday card

This card was made by: rounding the corners of the green paper then stamping it with a small pattern. Then tie a bow around the green paper. On a white paper stamp your cupcake, use eyelets for sprinkles and color in the other sprinkles. Stamp a candle. Outline some things to make them show up better. Mount on a lighter color. Then using the word window punch, punch out a saying a glue it on. Ta-da!

Mother's Day

I made this one for my Mom. The picture didn't turn out well, but the background paper is purple from DCWV spring stack. I punched out white dots and made a "pearl" necklace, using silver eyelets and wire for the clasp, and put it on vellum.

Project Keepsake

I tried this project out on my Mom for Mother's Day, and she like it. I decided to start a project making these keepsake cards for every family I know, who has a deployed soldier (in either Iraq or Afghanistan).

This is an example of one of the cards I made. The front is just plain white cardstock, overlaid with a decorative paper, and topped with vellum, that I dry embossed with simple designs. I tacked them all together using metallic eyelets, and threaded normal ribbon through (trying to color coordinate the ribbon with the decorative paper).



The outside of the card and the inside are two separate pieces. I glued the inside accordion fold out piece in using craft glue, and just tacked it to the inside back of the actual card. The inside of the card, starts out with a "title page" for the individual to write something, or put a photo.




The rest of the card is a fold out, kind of like the accordion photo things from a wallet. It gives space to put photos (or other mementos like hand prints, foot prints, dried flowers, etc), on both front and back. I put in a text box (with colored paper backing) for this individual to write a personal message on. It's just a fancy lined paper, backed with colored cardstock.



I am hoping to get these out to all the families soon (I've already delivered two of them), in a sort of project pack. I put the card and envelope in, with some extra text blocks, and then some cardstock blocks and decorative blocks, so they can add and embellish as they like.

Christmas Cards

I thought we could all use a few holiday ideas. I hope those of you who sent me these cards don't mind me posting them!!!!


From Hillary D. I love how this one shines. It's a very classy design.



From Jamie B. Notice the cute eyelets on the corner of the card, which is turned up.

From me:
From Heather F. My sister is amazing! What else can I say? I love the use of brads, colors, and the green stamped on green.
From Amber H. Your cards are always so adorable! I like the bigger ribbon and the edges of the Merry Christmas. This card is even cuter in person and has a lot of texture.From Lynn H. I like the use of the netting...what is that called? I also like the phrase stamped over and over. This card also opens just above the words "very merry."

From Catherine Y. This is embossed and the ribbon/thread is silver. My camera doesn't do it justice.
From me:

This is from a Stampin' Up workshop. It's my favorite, so don't be surprised if you get one in the mail one year. :) Does anyone own these stamps? And that is Robby's finger. He was helping me. We took lots of pictures of his artwork as well...but I wont' post them here!