Stampin' Up! Art With Elizabeth in Michigan and anywhere in the USA: 2009-08-23

Friday, August 28, 2009

Inspiration For Melanie

When Melanie called me and said she needed to make Baby Shower Invitations for a friend and could I help with ideas - I had absolutely no idea where to start. All I knew was that I needed to keep it simple because I know how Melanie loves brads and I knew somehow I needed to leave her some "brad mania" space, she also wanted bright colors....

.... Well, here are a few of the samples I gave to Melanie - I knew she'd be making a lot of cards and so I wanted to keep it simple and because she was making so many cards I liked the idea of using curvy verses, because you don't have to get the stamp perfectly strait every time. Once I hit on the idea of polka dots, I wanted to repeat it and so it is in the ribbon and embossed on the white card and again in the eyelet punch boarder and of course I made the ribbon a simple knot so that Melanie didn't have hours of frustrating ribbon tying.

I added a little dazzling diamonds glitter to the bunny tail and to the owl wings, which you can just about make out in the picture. What I loved about this card is that she could use one as the invitation and then keep the theme going by making coordinating Thank You cards with a different "Forest Friend". She stopped short of creating coordinating favors for the shower.

Way to go Melanie, you created beautiful invitations for the shower and you are one heck of a friend, she's one lucky lady to count you among her friends!

Have a great weekend everyone - stop by here for "Movie Monday" on what will be the last day of August!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Build A Bear Delight

Imagine untying this bow and finding a wonderful Build A Bear surprise inside.......

I was having so much fun with my Build A Bear stamp set that I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning to create this fun card. You only have to wait a few more days and you tooooooo could be having as much fun and creating as many smiles on little faces as I am. These cute stamps are featured in the new Holiday Mini which goes on line September 1st 2009.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Hot Off The Press - Growth Chart Success

Stampin' Up! have just shared this fabulous information with us on our Demonstrator web site and I just had to share them with you too:

The Décor Elements Growth Chart Everyone loves the Décor Elements Growth Chart special offer so much, it is now the top selling Décor Elements item for the month of August! Lucky for you, this offer is still available until September 30, during the Just for Kids campaign. Great School Products!

A fellow demonstrator and second-grade teacher from Metairie, Louisiana, reports, "Everyone at my school decorates their classroom doors, so I decided to use the growth chart on mine. This was the first Décor Element I had put up . . . and I'm hooked!"

Here's how she plans to use the growth chart at her school:

"On the first day of school, I always take a picture of each student . . . so I will take it in front of the grow chart. At the end of the year, I'll take a second picture and send both of them home with our last writing project which will be a book about how they have grown to be better students during the year.

I also plan to use the growth chart during Math and let the students compare the length and height of various objects. I'm going to invite other classes to send their tallest and shortest students to be measured on our door, and we'll compare the differences to the tallest and shortest in our room.""Since my main focus is getting my students to be better readers, I also plan to use the chart to graph the number of books they have read at home . . . so I will be putting other numbers where the metric ones were and adding student names and small punched shapes to the door to show how many books they read."

"Last but not least, my new door decoration has already had lots of comments and questions about where I got it. It's a great conversation starter!"

It's An "IN COLOR" Thing.....

When I came to America over sixteen years ago, I thought a "Queen" was someone who lived in a castle and wore a crown - wellllllll, I couldn't believe it when I discovered that here in America you even have a "Queen" of your very own and here she is........

....So right now you're thinking "what the heck is this crazy English Stampin' Nut talking about now" - am I right?.........

...... Well, I've been telling you for several years now how you'll see the current Stampin' Up! "In Colors" featured in all kinds of places so you'll be able to coordinate your paper crafts with gift giving in the very latest colors and now you don't have to take my word for it, just look at the cover of the last Oprah magazine, almost every Stampin' Up! in color is being worn/featured by none other than your very own "Queen".....

You don't have to take my word for it, just look at how fabulously they all go together. Isn't that just amazing?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Build A Bear - Color Me Caddy - Sneak Peak

Just imagine, you're going to visit someone with a youngster and you take this fabulous hand made color me card caddie for their little one - now who's going to be the coolest visitor to ever walk through the door?

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Maybe you're giving a party for a little one - you'll be every Mom's best friend if you give these out as party bags - not only will they appreciate the time you took to make them, they'll love you for not giving their children "another" party bag filled with things they don't need - this one will actually give the children something to do and may even encourage them to save their parents money and make the next card they need for a friend.......

These fabulous stamps will be available for you to purchase from the Holiday Mini from September 1st 2009 and I promise this cute tote took just minutes to make and is very simple.... My husband walked in when I was creating the tote and I told him I was flying by the seat of my pants because I had no dimensions and he said "yep I can tell, you're not measuring anything" - he was right, I just used the size of the box of crayons and the envelopes and hey presto it worked out just fine.

Build A Bear - Color Me Caddy - Class Maybe?

Our Build A Bear product line is brand new and as I start to plan my Fall class schedule, I was wondering if you'd like to attend a class to make this fun "Color Me Card Caddy" class. If you think this is a class you'd like to attend, please send me an email reeveelizabeth@hotmail.com and if enough people are interested we'll add it to the Fall schedule.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Pop Up Ball Die For Stampin' Up!

Sizzix Pop Up Ball Die for Stampin' Up!

Sizzix and Stampin' Up!, two leaders in the crafting industry, have joined forces to bring you even more irresistible products! Bring your cards into the third dimension with the pop up dies for the Big Shot. In this video, Donna Griffith shows how to create our pop up ball.

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