Stamp Club December 2010 Pendant

Our last Stamp Club of the year at Leslie's was a whole lotta fun. We decided the month before to have a Mexican food potluck and boy was there a lotta food! Leslie had chips, salsa, and guacamole, Nita mad awesome queso, Mo made some kick ass tamles, Heather and I took some cheese, chili, onion enchiladas and some Mexican rice, Jamie brought a Sopapilla Cheesecake that was to die for. There was more food there but for the life of me I can't remember what or who made it. We decided to get the most vital part of the night over with first and spent the first hour or so eating! Hmmmmm....with all the scrapbookers there I wonder why there weren't any pictures? The food was really good!!

The Stamp Club this month was the Pendant Bundle offered by Stampin Up! that consisted of the 116798 Simply Adorned 1" x 1-1/4" Charm, the 24" chain, and the Charming Stamp Set. The group had a blast crafts all sorts of insets to go in the charm and used various Stampin Up! stamp sets and papers from various vendors.
Heather used my matchbox die and made everyone their own jewelry box to store their pendant inserts in. I made everyone a pink flower to go on top of the box. I had made them by spraying some coffee filters (see there's the technique again) with Cranberry Crisp ink diluted with water let them dry and cut them out with the Big Shot and the flower die. In the pendant is the Stamp Club insert that Heather made for each one of us. This next picture looks a lot like the first but I thought the pendant was nice in the first one and the flower is nice in this one!!
The next couple of pics are of the inserts I made. Everyone had a bowl of 1x1-1/4" pieces of card stock and papers in front of them, stamps sets, embellishments and could pick and choose what they wanted to use.


Christmas inserts and Valentine Inserts





It was another fun night to be had by all. I am really looking forward to next month and this awesome bunch of women!

Stamp Club November 2010 Christmas Cards, Box and Advent Calendar

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and is looking forward to the New Year this coming week. We had a good time over at Heather and Michael's and stuffed ourselves on her delicious turkey, dressing and fixings. I took over a big pan of mashed potatoes, fried okra, and some cranberry salad to share. It was yummy!

At our second Stamp Club meeting in November me met to make the advent calendar I posted about in an earlier posting, cards and card box from a single Simply Scrappin kit from Stampin Up!.





The Christmas Cheer Simply Scrappin' paper/sticker pack and a roll of Whisper White Taffeta ribbon made a card box, 14 6x4in cards, 8 3x3in cards, and the advent calendar with 2 pieces of paper left over. The only additional product used was Snail adhesive, dimensionals adhesives, big eyelets, and the bling that I bought a couple years ago and used to sparkle it up for my granddaughter! I used the Cricket with the George cartridge to cut out the Countdown To Christmas on the top bar of the calendar. If I was to do it again I think I would have sandwiched a piece of chipboard between the cardstock back and front to make it stronger.










The card box was made to hold the cards with a single sheet of the contrasting DP. It is 4 1/4x 6 1/4 in by 4 inches tall.






The everyone decorated their cards how ever they wanted to. All the cards used papers and stickers from the kit.









Once again everyone seemed to have a great time and we decided to add a potluck dinner to the agenda and agreed to meet to make the Stampin Up! pendant bundle. The bundle came with a stamp set and the medium pendant and chain.

Stamp Club October 2010 Coffee Filter Fun!

A couple of months ago a friend of mine asked me about doing a Stamp Club and offered to host it at her house. It was to be a group of selected women that had like interests and interacted well together. The first group that got together had so much fun in October and that we decided this was something we just had to keep on doing each month!

The first stamp club was very ambitious with Heather and I showing the group examples of what we had seen made down in Ft. Worth when we went to the Stampin Up! Regional meeting. We were so pumped up about all that we had learned and we had talked so much about the WOW that we had seen that everyone decided to make that project. It was a picture frame, card, and pumpkin that used coffee filters as the focus of each of the three items. We didn't have a tutorial when we started but shortly before the club the Stampin Up! demo that created the set had had so many requests for a tutorial that she put one on the web for anyone who wanted to use it.

A cheap wooden frame from Wally World is the base of the first project. We first inked and stamped the coffee filters then using Mod Podged we adhered the filters to the frame. We cut out leaves with the Big Shot and leaf die from Stamping Up! and adhered them to the frame where the coffee filters over lapped and it was noticeable. My frame turned out a little darker than some of the others but each one was so individualized that there weren't any 'wrong' ways to make them. Due to the shininess of the mod podge it was difficult to get a good picture with light and subsequently the picture is a little dark also!




The pumpkin was fun to create too! A large coffee filter was colored with ink and stamped with a patterned stamp from Stampin Up! then a drawstring was slipped along the top and it was drawn up and stuffed with fiber fill. The leaves were colored and stamped then cut out with the Big Shot and leaf die. We glued the leaves on with 3 and 1 glue and I think if I was to make them again I would use a hot glue gun. The stem here is rolled up card stock but you could use a twig off a tree or some other natural stem!





The last project that day was a card that is very springy compared to the very fall motif of the frame and pumpkin. The focus of the card was to get everyone used to the coffee filter usage in 'art' and we made the flower by dyeing the coffee filters with Stampin Up! ink and letting them dry before cutting them out with the big flower punch. The coffee filter flowers are held together with a vintage brad. Cute huh!!