Hand print scrapbook page

I finally had a chance to do something that I read about a while ago. To tell you the truth, I don't even remember where I read this, must have been on a mailing list or on splitcoast. It talked about doing hand prints with children. What you do is take the child's hand and put versamark on it. Then place the child's hand on a piece of card stock. Next sprinkle white embossing powder on the image and emboss. There you go a hand print with out the messy ink. Versamark is clear so you can take it off with just a quick baby wipe. Since my niece is starting to ask to go downstairs to stamp with me. I just knew I could get her to do it with me finally.

So here is her hand print that I put with a recent picture I took of her on a scrapbook page. The hand image I cut out with my Coluzzle and put the date with my uni-Signal white gel pen. I then place that along with her photo on top of a piece of the retired Berry Bliss retired designer series paper and a stirp of new 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette Grosgrain Ribbon. I tied a knot and put it in between the photo and the hand print. The scallop edge I made with my slit punch. The name Julie was die cut with Big Shot and Serif Essentials die cut. Then I stamped the butterflies from the Flight of the Butterfly set, cut them out and attached them to the page with dimensionals.

What a great way to capture their hand prints at any age. I still can't believe how big her little hand is already!

Gifts Received and Given

It's about a month later, but I wanted to post some gifts I have received from my friends. The first one comes from Debbie Modrowsky. It is a covered composition notebook, she made for me to put my convention notes in. It uses the retired Blue Bayou and Western Sky Designer Series Paper. She framed the title with our Styled Silver hodgepodge and used the ticket corner.

The next 3 projects come from my friend Colleen for my birthday. The All About You book she made for me is by far one of the most thoughtful and most amazing gifts I have ever received. Not only did she make the book for me, she put photos of my life and my family in it. She took pictures that I sent her links to, printed them out and put this in a coaster book that she bound on her own. I have to say I am touched. She even put pictures of my Special Guest Article that was done on me in the book as well as my published card in Stamp It! magazine.

The next projects made by her was a post it holder and a card. All the projects were done with our fabulous Bella Rose designer series paper. The stamp set Dream deJour was used in all three projects. The title on the All About You book was stamped in our Lovely Letters alphabet and embossed.

The next project is one I made for a co-worker. She loves Smarties. What better way to deliver them to put them in a metal tin I got in the Target dollar bins and decorated with our Happiness & Love rub-ons from Sale-a-bration. I put the smarties in a cello bag and tied it with our Regal Rose wide grosgrain ribbon.

Then the last project was magnetic bookmarkers I made for my customers to put in their bags with their purchases. I also made another version of the bookmarker with some retired designer series paper, Fall Flowers, for my own use. The book markers are made with the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set. The first bookmarker is made with Tangerine Tango color. The finishing touches was the scallop edge border made with our new punch and the natural button with linen thread. The second bookmarker uses quite a few retired accessories, besides the paper, I also put on the bookmarker our retired chocolate chip poly twill ribbon and a close to cocoa eyelet.

I hope you enjoyed the homemade gifts I shared with you. Hope it inspires you to make something homemade for the people in your life.

Stamping with Jessica

I got to spend the day stamping with my cousin Jessica. We decorated a notebook for her to use in school. It was great we ended up using some of my retired designer paper and chipboard to make her notebook. The great thing about the notebook it comes with a clear vinyl cover that protects the artwork. She first stamped her name with the Taffy Alphabet and then punched out the letters with the 1 3/8" inch circle punch. Next came a strip of Bashful Blue, Cutie Pie designer series paper and wide certainly celery grosgrain ribbon. Then she put cover the chipboard heart with some more Cutie pie and then she applied some retired Sale-a-bration Love & Happiness rub-ons. Then she tied grosgrain ribbons to the top of the notebook.

While she was working on her notebook, I decided to make a new notebook to write my notes in. I started with the Bella Rose Designer Series paper. I stamped the word notes with the Lovely Letters in Riding Hood Red ink and layered it on top of punched square punches. Next came a scallop edge made with Very Vanilla card stock. I embellished my notebook with two flowers I punched out with the five petal flower that I put a very vanilla ribbon threaded with linen thread. A wide chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon lines the left of the notebook. I then tied some chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon to the top of the notebook.

Amazing Cards Spotted on Convention Boards

Here is a few of my favorite cards that I took pictures of on the Stampin' Up! convention boards. Even though some of the stamp sets are now retired, there is some great inspirational ideas. So let's break open those stamp sets and stamp pads and let's get stampin'!

Amazing Scrapbook Pages

Well I apologize for the couple days of no posts. I needed the weekend to recooperate after 4 days at convention and then playing catch up at home, work and my Stampin' Up! business and all the annoucements last week. I swear I got home on Friday after work and all I did was relax and unwind. Here are some amazing scrapbook pages that I saw on the display boards at convention. Again, I apologize since they are posted on the display boards there is no way of knowing who created what. Hope this inspires all of you to take out those pictures and start scrappin'. I know I can't wait to get started. I just preordered my big shot this afternoon. I can't wait to use my die-cut alphabet!

Here are the scrapbook pages. Hope 17 scrapbook page layouts makes up for not posting for a couple of days. :)

Stamper's Showcase Again This Morning

Wow! I have to say I am suprised to be on Stamper's Showcase again this morning. What a week, the Stampin' Up! website has just been filled with information since we returned from Convention. Have you checked out the specials, oh my. Now, I have two cards on Stamper's Showcase this week. My head is just swimming with everything that is happening.

The most amazing part about this card is I don't even how long ago I submitted it to Stampin' Up! I think I made it when we first got this stamp set. Can you believe it! Just goes to show you, you never know when it will catch someone's eye. Well here are the ingredients to make the card:

Stamps:
POLKA DOTS & PAISLEY STAMP SET
Paper:
CARD STOCK REGAL ROSE 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK VERY VANILLA 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK CERTAINLY CELERY 8 1/2X11
Inks:
CLASSIC STAMPIN PAD REGAL ROSE
STAMPIN WRITE MARKER CERTAINLY CELERY
Accessories:
PUNCH KEY TAG
THREAD LINEN
SNAIL ADHESIVE PERMANENT

Convention News

I am back from the annual Stampin' Up! convention. This year marked the 20th anniversary for Stampin' Up! It was a great time all around, catching up with friends, making new ones. Here's a pictures of some my SU friends,
pictured on the right are Deb Krog, then my 2 roomates Debbie Modrowsky and Tracy Bakunas, followed by Kristen Fuller and Sue Bendinsky.

I also saw and learning fabulous stamping techniques and nevermind all the business tips. This year we received a copy of the Stampin' Up! catalog at convention. It is just fabulous!! You should see my wish list already. On the plane ride home, all of us had our cattys out and spent the whole flight home, writing down all the things we wanted.

Can you imagine 6000 crazy stampers in one room, well here are all of us piling into the convention center for the opening sessions.

The first day we got to tour the home office and the distribution center. It was great seeing everyone's packages being picked and being shipped. It is just gorgous inside there is a waterfall and everything. The entire city is surrounded by moutains and it is just a site to see.

The last night we were there we had an Inkredible group dinner where we meet demonstrators from NC, MA and AZ that are all part of our Ink family. Here we all are. Front and center is our fabulous Tina Rosenkrans, our proud upline!

SU had over 30 boards filled with projects that were submitted by demonstrators showcasing cards, scrapbook pages and 3d items. Talk about inspiration overdrive. I was so excited, 13 of my projects were on the display boards! I was in shock! Everytime I saw another project, I was like I can't believe it. Check all my projects below!

There were several great annoucements made at convention this year. One is there is going to be a 2nd phase to the home decor elements line! The vinyl art includes bold beautiful color images as well as few for the holidays!!! Check back October 1st to see the new line!

Then the next fabulous news is that SU is partnering with Sizzex! We are going to sell the Big Shot as well as the beautiful dies. Can I just say Shelli, our CEO, showed us all these fabulous projects made with the Sissex dies combined with our wonderful papers, the results were out of this world.

We are also partnering with Country Living magazine. We are going to have a 21 page magazine spread in the magazine which will feature the Holiday Collection Stampin' Kit. The magazine will hit the stands in November.