Almost Artisan Scrapbook Share: Day 5

Here is my third scrapbook page Artisan Award entry I made with pictures of a funny-faced little llama from a petting zoo.

Almost Artisan 3D Share: Day 4

I truly loved this project I made for Artisan Award, its a baby mini scrapbook. The pages have headings with room for pictures and journalling. Luckily for me I made two so I could keep one! The chipboard 'b' is covered in silver microbeads. The banner off to the side says "is for baby"

I photographed all the pages but here are just a few, first bath and 3 months:

"Look Who's Crawling" and "First Words"
"First Steps" and a bitty envelope to hold the "First Curl"
Baby's First Birthday:

Almost Artisan Card Share: Day 3

Here is one of the cards I made for Artsan Award, going for a vintage look:

Almost Artisan Scrapbook Share: Day 2

So here is my second Scrapbook page entry for Artisan Award. I have two sons but wanted to do a girl page so I used a close up of one of my son's feet just after he was born and made a page for my imaginary daughter! Hey, a girl needs some pink sometimes!

A close-up of the paper punch flowers and the layering of the page:


Paper Piercing around the layer of Bermuda Bay:
Hope you like it!

Almost Artisan Share:Day 1

Well, I can't way I'm not bummed because I didn't win Artisan Award (a contest for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators) but it is nice to finally be able to share the projects I worked so hard on. I made 3 scrapbook pages, 5 cards, and 2 3D projects for the contest and I will be featuring one each day for the next 10 days so please check back daily to see them. (And a comment to stroke my bruised ego would be much appreciated too!!)

Here is my first share, an 8.5 by 11 scrapbook page of my son.




Its hard to see but the background is stamped in Versamark with the dotted swirl Treetop from Trendy Trees.

Some of the other "Almost Artisans" will be posting their projects on their blogs too-go check them out and leave a comment!

http://www.jhurley90.blogspot.com/

http://www.stampspaperandink.typepad.com/

http://www.igotstamps.com/

http://www.jackietopa.typepad.com/

http://www.paperpatty.blogspot.com/

http://www.onyxstamps.com/

http://www.reneevs.blogspot.com/

http://www.monikastamp.wordpress.com/

http://www.inkspotsandgumdrops.blogspot.com/

http://www.alattestampin.com/

Also, I've extended indefinitely my BIG Tutorial Sale!

Bummed

So I'm not an Artisan Award Winner, but I'm happy that starting tomorrow I'll be sharing my 10 projects I made to enter the contest, please check back!

BIG Tutorial Sale!

From now on, when you purchase my Shopping Organizer Tutorial you will receive my Bella Toile Candle and Matching Box Tutorial FREE! See this post to order today!

Inspiration Challenge

An Inspiration Challenge card for Late Night Stampers:

Another Sneak Peek

Here's another Sneak Peek at new Summer Mini products! This card features the new Island Oasis Designer Series Paper, Bouquet Bunch Stamp Set, and I used the Chat Room Rub-ons from the Occasions Mini Catalog (only available until April 30!)

Summer Mini Sneal Peek!!

My goodies arrived this week and I LOVE the new Summer Mini products! I think for me, getting "the goods" early is one of the best Demonstrator perks (other than the big discount!) This card uses the new Island Oasis Designer Series Paper. When I saw this pattern I immediately thought of the Cheer's to You stamp set! Hope you like it!!

You're so Tweet!

My youngest son (21 months) sees a bird lately and signs "bird" and repeatedly says "tweet, tweet" so he just LOOOOVED this card I made when he discovered it on my craft desk!


I love this little card for all the tiny details. The card base is Whisper White cut to 4.5 squared. A Chocolate Chip Scallop Square cut out with my Big Shot was added and my White Gel Pen added some faux stitching. The Old Olive cardstock was cut to 4" square and run through my Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder (my favorite!) My image is was stamped in Jet Black Stazon and colored with my Aquapainter and ink pads.

What do you think? Does it make you want to say "tweet!" too?!

Another late Night Stamper's Sketch Challenge Card

Here is another card for this week's Late Night Stamper's Sketch Challenge!

I really love the way this one turned out!


My card base is Kraft, followed by a layer of Very Vanilla I ran through my Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder. I rounded the corners with the Corner Rounder Punch. An Old Olive Satin Ribbon was added under my Rose Image which was matted on Rose Red cardstock. Some Hemp Twine finishes it off!

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My Shopping Notebook

I made this little notebook to carry my shopping list and organize my coupons.

Inside is a shopping list and expandable file to hold your coupons.

(My shopping list came courtesy of Carole'Anne and her business...thanks Carole'Anne!!!)

You may order yours for $7.00 by clicking the button below. Please note you'll have to supply your own shopping pad (easily found at big box or dollar stores).

*****Update! From now until May 1, you will receive a FREE Bella Toile Candle and Box Tutorial when you purchase my Shopping Organizer Tutorial (if you have already ordered this tutorial prior to the promotion, please email me to receive your free tutorial!)***********

Stampin' Up! Color Renovation!

Stampin' Up! made a BIG announcement today...a complete Color Renovation! I for one am just so excited about this total revamping of their color system. They are reorganizing their color families, retiring some less popular colors, bringing back some very popular previous In Colors, AND introducing 5 new colors!

There will now be four color families of 10 colors each: Rich Regals, Soft Subtles, Bold Brights, and Neutrals. Now, before all you Earth Elements Lovers like myself freak out...they have kept most of the colors, just rearranged them into other families.

We will now have 5 new In Colors each year and they will stay for two years. So we will have 5 new In Colors this year, then next year an additional 5...the year after that the 5 from this year will retire and 5 more will be introduced, and so on and so forth.

SO...big question you may have, what colors are staying and which are going?

Staying:
Old Olive
Real Red
Pumpkin Pie
Regal Rose
Tempting Turquoise
Basic Black
Basic Gray
Chocolate CHip
Whisper White
Very Vanilla
Kraft (renamed Crumb Cake)
Sahara Sand
Bravo Burgandy
Always Artichoke
Elegant Eggplant
Garden Green
More Mustard
Not Quite Navy
Night of Navy
Bashful Blue
Certainly Celery
So Saffron
Perfect Plum
Pretty In Pink
Rose Red

These are Retiring:
Pixie Pink
Pink Passion
Pale Plum
Orchid Opulence
Lovely Lilac
Lavendar Lace
Almost Amethyst
Bordering Blue
Brocade Blue
Brilliant Blue
Ballet Blue
Glorious Green
Taken with Teal
Handsome Hunter
Sage Shadow
Mellow Moss
Green Galore
Gable Green
Barely Banana
Yoyo Yellow
Summer Sun
Apricot Appeal
Only Orange
Really Rust
Ruby Red
Cameo Coral
Blush Blossom
Creamy Caramel
Close to Cocoa
Going Gray



Returning In Colors:
Melon Mambo
Soft Suede
Rich Razzleberry
Wild Wasabi
Pacific Point
Tangerine Tango
Riding Hood Red
Pink Pirouette
Baha Breeze
River Rock

NEW Colors!!!
Daffodil Delight (warm yellow)
Cajun Craze (spicy Orange)
Early Expresso (warm, rich brown)
Cherry Cobbler (rich red)
Marina Mist (cool, clear carribean blue)

Sooooooo.....stock up on the retiring colors you love and get ready to fall inlove with the new color palette! I'll post pictures as soon as I can!!! Email me at saucystampin at yahoo dot com to place your order today!!

Artisan Reject!

I sent in my Artisan Award entry last week and this was one of my reject scrapbook pages. I am not a huge scrapbooker although I really enjoyed working on it for my entries and think I may do ore of it in the future! This page is one of the ones I made but I decided to go with something different for the contest. The picture is one I took in Venice when my husband and I went for Carnivale in 2006, just after he returned from a deployment (we were stationed about 40 minutes outside of Venice at the time.) It was a really fun trip, although after a year apart a trip to the grocery store was relaly fun if we were together! I hope you like it!

A new Sketch Challenge

This week's Challenge on Late Night Stampers is a Sketch Challenge and here is my take on it, for my Dad who has to have another and hopefully his last surgery today (prayers appreciated!!):



Did you know that Late Night Stampers has a new Social Site? You can chat with other stampers in real time, have discussions in forums, and add your photos to the gallery as well as browse the creations of other stampers! Its really funa nd I'd love it if you'd pop on over to join us! www.latenightstampers.ning.com

Another Sympathy Card

Here is my last Design Team entry for this week's Late Night Stamper's Sympathy Card Challenge. You have until midnight Sunday night to upload your card to the challenge folder here! Please play along!

Another Sympathy Card

For the past three months I have been working very hard on my Artisan Award entries and I finally finished them and mailed them out yesterday! It was a ton of work (5 cards, three scrapbook pages and 2 3D items) but end the end I'm very pleased with the work I sent in and while it would be AWESOME to win, I'm proud of what I created either way. I actually wasn't a big scrapbooker at all prior to this and learned a lot over the course of making my entries and really enjoyed it.

Now that all that work is behind me, I can finally get back to posting my blog more and sharing my other creations. It was hard not to share my entries (part of the rules) but rest assured I'll be posting them once the contest winners are announced whether I win or not!

Here is another card I created for this weeks' Late Night Stamper's Challenge to create Sympathy Cards. I tried for a more masculine feel with this card. Please join us here to play along, its a fun group of anyone who loves Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Of the Earth Hostess Set, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Not Quite Navy

Ink: Jet Black Stazon, Chocolate Chip

Etc: Texturz Backgrounds 1 Damsk Impressions Plate, Big Shot, Pretties Kit, Chocolate Chip Tafetta Ribbon, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch

Sympathy Card

This week's challenge at Late Night Stampers is to make Sympathy Cards....we never want to have to send these out but in all honesty they are probably some of the most important cards we send. Here is my sample for the challenge, I prefer a Clean and Simple, uncluttered look for my condolence cards. I hope you like it!

Late Night Stampers Anything but a Card Challenge!

Here is another project I created for this week's "Anything but a card" Late Night Stamper's Challenge...a little bag and pillow box that would be perfect for Mother's Day I think!


I created my bag from Old Olive cardstock and used the new Scallop Punch from the Saleabration catalog along the top (yes, you can get it for free through the end of the month with any $50 purchase!) To decorate the front I stamped my image from the Bella Toile background stamp on Whisper White cardstock in Jet Black Stazon and then colored it using my Aquapainter and ink pads. I clipped out the part of the image I wanted and mounted on Basic Black I had run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dot Impressions Folder (in the current Occasions Mini Catalog) I adhered it to Pretty in Pink cardstock and distressed the edges of both.

My pillow box was cut out with my Big Shot and Stampin' Up! Bigz Pillow Box Die and run through the Big Shot with the Polka Dot Folder. A gorgeous Old Olive Satin Ribbon finishes it off and helps tie it in with the bag.

I hope you like these projects! I'd love for you to come join us on Late Night Stampers, its a group for anyone who loves Stampin' Up! You can join here. If you are a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator youc an also join us on the Late Night Stampers Demonstrator Only group to get great ideas and business help!