Tigers Valentine Box

Tiger and Beth stopped on their way home from school this morning to make a Valentine's box.  The teacher said that the "box" just needed to be a container that the kids could put Valentine's in so I gave him this empty Tootsie Roll jar that I had kept.  I told Beth that they could use anything they wanted out of my retired stash and this is what they made.  Do you think he'll have the cutest one in school? 

 

 

And here's a close up of the valentine tree on the jar.

Valentine hearts

 

I kept thinking that there should be a way to make heart shaped rosettes and guess what?  Someone figured it out and posted the instructions online.  So I made a couple and attached them to this card.  I'm planning on making a wreath for Valentines day with heart rosettes instead of just round rosettes.  And the good news is that it's not hard to make them.  Just go ahead and cut your paper and score it like always.  For the hearts above I used paper that was 12" long and 1 1/2" high.  Then fold the strip in two and cut it out like the picture below. 

 

 

After you cut it out then fold the strip on all the score lines.  Then when you flatten the rosette make sure that the cut edge is to the outside of the rosette.  It's as clear as mud, right?  If you need more instructions let me know and I'll email them to you. 

 

If you've been studying the new Spring catalog you've probably noticed that there are lots of accessories in there.  So here's a couple of different ones used as something other than card embellishments.  This first picture shows the Designer Build A Brad that is on page 12 in the mini.  There's a card there showing these brads but I used them a little differently.  Here's a necklace and earrings that I made.  It was really easy to get the prongs off the back of the brad.  The crown is from the set called Itty Bitties. 

 

 

This next set is made out of the bottle caps that are on page 24.  There's a couple of cards there that use the caps as embellishments.  Here's the necklace and earring set that I made.  The bottle caps are real easy to flatten.  Just run them through your Big Shot without any tabs.  It's best to do one at a time.  The image on the earrings is from the Itty Bitties and the images on the necklace are both from the Collage Curios that is also on page 24 in the mini.  On these I adhered the image and then I coated it with Crystal Effects.  You need to let them dry overnight.  And the image is a little blurry because of the Crystal Effects.  If you don't want the image to smear then you could emboss the image.  And I punched the hole using the 1/16" punch.  It was a little hard to punch so you might need to ask someone for help. 

 

 

There are lots of accessories in the Spring catalog and I hope to show you more of these as time goes on.  Some of them are really cool.  And don't forget that right now if you spend $50.00 you get to pick something out of the Sale A Bration mini for free.

 

 

 

Sale A Bration started today.

I can't believe I'm so far behind.  I guess taking a vacation isn't the best idea for me.  I need a vacation from the vacation to get my brain back on track.  So anyway, today is the first day of Sale-A-Bration and I decided to post a few cards that were made using FREE stamp sets. 

This first one features the "Vintage Verses" stamp set. I got this card in a swap from Lynette Fresn.

 

 

This next card also use "Vintage Verses".  Tamie Ackerson made this cute card.  Notice that she also used the new hexagon embossing folder out of the Spring catalog.

 

 

This is from my favorite free stamp set "Feeling Sentimental".  I used the phone booth out of this set for one of my swaps at Leadership and then forgot to take a picture of it.  This card was made by Pam Knowles.

 

 

This next card also used "Feeling Sentimental".  This one is by Brenda Suchy.

 

 

And finally one of my own designs.  This set is called "Blooming Marvelous".  And the ribbon is out of the Spring catalog.  It's the two toned Pink Pirouette/Rose Red ribbon.

 

 

So this is  a sample of some of the free stuff that you can get during Sale A Bration.  I'm hoping that I'll get lots more samples posted.  Hopefully you've all got a Sale A Bration brochure and the new Spring catalog.  But if you haven't gotten them yet please let me know and I'll get one to you ASAP.  There's tons of cute new stuff in both of these publications.  And I've got a lot of it out in the Paper Palace so if you want to see and feel everything please come and see me. 

Best of 25 Years.

This is Stampin' Up! 25th year of being in business.  And to celebrate they are bringing back some golden oldies each month.  And some new stamps too.  And the best part is that you will get a collector's card and stickers with each set.  When you have six stickers on your collector's card you can redeem it for any stamp set priced at $14.95 or less. 
These sets will all be available until March 2014 and you will have until April 2014 to redeem your free set.  This first set is all birthday stamps and I'm thinking about doing a stamp camp with these stamps.  Let me know what you think.
Check out the new Best of 25 stamp set for January here. http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/DEMO_Best_of_Birthdays_25th_Year_flyer_NA.pdf
I wish I was more computer savvy but I'm not so I hope this works for you.

 

Well I guess it's time to get back in the saddle.  I've had a great time here at Disney World but tomorrow it's back to the cold and snow.  So I decided to start posting some swaps that I got at Leadership.  And to announce a new class.  I'm calling it a valentine class but the cards could be used for weddings or just "Thinking of You".  We'll be using the Amour designer series paper that is in the spring catalog.  So the class is on Jan 31 but you'll have to let me know by Jan 24th if you want to take the class.  We'll be making 4 cards for $12.00 and this includes a pack of the DSP.  You should be able to make 24 card fronts using the trick that I'm going to show you.  Then just put the fronts on the card stock of your choice and your good to go.  Add some stamping and embellishments and you've got some really cute cards. 

I;m starting home in the morning so please try and have it warm up.

 

Here's Sandi at the pajama party that Stampin' Up! had last night.  It was a general session but there were probably about 3/4 of the people there had their pj's on.  It was so much fun and so comfortable.  And it was a great general session because we all won something. 

And yesterday they announced a new program.  Check out http://mypaperpumpkin.com

You can subscribe to get a stamping kit in the mail each month.  And you can stop the prescription at any time.  Just think how great this will be for people who aren't sure they want to stamp.  And it'll make great birthday presents.  So check it out and when I get home I'll post some pictures, because of course we all got one of the kits so we can show people.