Card Exchange

Here are the swaps from our last downline meeting.

Our color challenge was to use our least favorite color.

Diana's card

Cassie's card

Ruth's card

Dana's card

Dana showed us how she made the pull out card.

Here is the inside view.

Carmelita's card

Monogram Notebooks

How can it be back to school already??  Seems like I was 

just posting about end of the year teacher gifts!

You know how I like to try to make 

easy and inexpensive gifts using my Stampin' Up supplies.

For back to school gifts, I decorated composition notebooks.

I used the Everything Eleanor stamp set

along with some retired paper, ribbon and dies.

Customizing your gifts is easy when you use Stampin' Up products.

I used letter dies and the Big Shot to cut out the teachers' initials.

Here is a slightly altered version of the notebook.

Instead of wrapping it, I tied the gift with our Burlap Ribbon.

Sweet and simple!

Downline Meeting Demonstrations

Carmelita demoed the new Gift Box Punch Board.

This tool is AMAZING!!  It'll be available in the new

Holiday Catalog.  I will be offering a class on this new product soon!

It creates so many sizes and shapes of boxes!  This was my favorite.

Ruth demoed a fun watercolor technique.

See Ruth's directions here.

Carmelita provided our Make & Take.

This pretty card is adapted from the recent 

Convention M&T's.

Color Challenge

For my downline card swap this month, we were given the color challenge to use

our least favorite Stampin' Up color.

I used my least favorite colors with one of my most favorite.

Guess what!  It turns out my least favorite color, Sahara Sand,

isn't so bad and actually is a great neutral with

just about any color.

I paired it with Pink Pirouette.

I'll stop neglecting this versatile color now that I see how great it looks.

Stay tuned later this week for more swaps.

Blendabilities

My Blendabilities class was so much fun

and I loved the projects!

All Blendabilities are tax free this weekend!  Don't miss out!

We started out with coloring on some non-paper accessories.

One of the great things about Blendabilities is that they are alcohol based.

That means you can use them to color on glossy surfaces like pearls, brads, and rhinestones.

This project was inspired by Diana Gibbs.  Notice that the pattern on the 

DSP of the envelope liner matches the pattern on the texture on the Crumb Cake cardstock.

This card was cased from Rachel Tessman.  

So sweet and pretty.

This is an easy card to make as it uses the pre-cut

notecards and envelopes.  I used the Chalk Marker to add highlights to the flower.

Here are samples of the Blendabilities on

Whisper White and Very Vanilla Cardstock.

Samples on Vellum, Shimmery White, and Whisper White.

Blendabilities work best on smooth paper.  They won't work

too well on our Naturals card stock or Watercolor paper.

This is my preferred method when using Blendabilities markers:

Dark first, medium second, then cover the entire image with the lightest marker.