JEN REITER'S BIRTHDAY

Jen's birthday was yesterday. I heard it was a great birthday. This is the card I made for her. I used apricot appeal card stock for the card base and sunshine garden simply scrappin kit dsp. (p.s. that is my favorite scrappin kit by SU!). Next I stamped the leaves in apricot appeal onto the card stock base. These leaves come from the stamp set TRUE FRIEND. The sentiment "Treat yourself to a wonderful day!" and the adorable duck are from Wagon Full of Fun stamp set from the Spring Occasions Mini. I water colored the duck and added crystal effects to make him glisten. I cut out a second wing and popped it up with SU! dimensionals. I don't know if you can tell that in the photo, but I love a 3D appearance. The ribbon is certainly celery twill ribbon that I got from Sale-a-bration. Jen emailed me that she got my card and really liked it. I'm glad; she deserves a nice birthday. For all who are wondering where my other stamp camp projects are - I need to photograph them and post them. I am off tomorrow, so I will try to do that then. I have to show you a great hodge podge necklace by Sandi and our bonus easter projects. Stay tuned!

MORE STAMP CAMP PROJECTS

These are some of the other projects that we did at Stamp Camp this past weekend. One of the highlights of our events has been the technique cards. This was no exception. We did the sponge dauber shading for depth technique. We used the Bella blossoms stamp and in this particular one I colored the stamp first with cameo coral and then added rose red by dauber for the shading and depth. The leaves and stem are done in certainly celery and then I added old olive for the shading and depth. I also used my SU! Big Shot for the white circle and the black scallop circle. We didn't have black brads which I liked for this project better than the others, so we colored the gold brads with black sharpie marker. The dsp is delicate dots from sale-a-bration. The ribbon is so saffron. I have a few more of these technique kits available with the stamped image in some different color shades. If you were not able to attend stamp camp, they are available with the page protector for $5. Just email me by the end of the month.

This framed object was one of the best projects. Linda Kincaid designed this. What is not easy to tell is that this is 3 dimensional inside the frame. She used paper blocks to raise the USA part up in front of the not quite navy card stock. It is spectacular in person. You might be able to tell a little if you click on the image and make it just a little larger. She used the sets Independence Day and the Free and the Brave stamps. She also used the 2 sizes of star punches. This is such a beautiful home decor piece. In addition, Linda painted all of these frames white for everyone. They come in natural wood.

The next project was this lovely decorated Springtime block using the new set Wagon Full of Fun as the main stamped images for each of the sides of the block. This stamp set is in the new OCCASIONS mini catalog. This duck is my absolute favorite. Everyone water colored the images with their SU! watercolor crayons. Linda Kincaid designed this project as well.

This side of the block uses the sets curvy verses for the phrase and the new oval all stamp set and oval scalloped punch. This new punch is in the occasions mini.
This side uses the wagon full of fun. By the way, the background papers are all from A WALK IN THE PARK - new double sided designer paper in the Occasions Mini catalog.

I have to say that I love anything that Linda Kincaid creates and demonstrates. She is very talented. She water colored this flower which is also part of the wagon full of fun set. I think this set is perfect!

Tomorrow I will show you the adorable matchbox and pendant that Sandi Haertig created.

STAMP CAMP PROJECT - CARD BOX USING SIMPLY SCRAPPIN

We had a great time at STAMP CAMP. We made 11 projects. 5 of them are the cards that go in this card box. We used the Stampin UP! Sunshine Garden Simply Scrappin kit and made the cards that go inside. You can make about 50 plus different cards from this kit, or you can use the kit to do scrapbooking. Some of my attendees are scrapbookers and some are card makers. I chose to have everyone make cards to show the versatility of this kit. Now there are 7 cards here. The first two are additional cards I made that I wanted you to see. The next is the clear cardbox and then the 5 cards and envelopes we decorated.

Before we look at each of the cards, I want to let you know that with all orders going in for stamp camp today...take 20% off this Simply Scrappin Kit. My special offer to blog readers and to all those who attended stamp camp.

This first card used some of my leftovers and I made it a birthday card. The colors in this kit are so happy! The cardstock base is certainly celery. The other colors in this kit
are baja breeze, old olive, bashful blue and so saffron. I love them! OK, so my font colors don't match exactly.

In addition, the kit has some gorgeous designer double sided paper from SU! It is wonderful. We used only one sheet for all of these cards and still had lots more paper left for more. The kit has 6 sheets of dsp and 8 sheets of TEXTURED card stock in addition to the 6 sheets of card stock die cut stickers. The stamp set I used here is Simply Said.
We used it for a lot of the sentiments inside cards and on the envelopes also.
Everyone needs a get well card. I used one of the die cuts to make a sun. It could also be the top of a flower. Next I stamped the retro stamp set (love that one!) with the sentiments. Notice how I used one of the sentiments for the flower's stem. Also, I used one of our SU! rhinestone brads as the center of this card. The card stock base is so saffron.

This is the clear box that fits the cards and envelopes perfectly. I got the boxes from an online company called papertrey ink. We are going to try to get a group order for these so we can save on shipping. Please let me know if you are interested. They are really neat and great to package up a few cards for teachers gifts and other gifts. I gave a box of cards to a nurse at work and she loved it. It was an elegant but inexpensive gift. By the way...the ribbon is certainly celery twill that I earned at SU! SALE-A-BRATION, which just ended.

This is the Thank You Note. I used the sentiments from the thank you note mini kit. You can get this kit FREE! with any $40 order from the OCCASIONS MINI. Click on the side button UNDER $10 for the info. This kit is adorable. It comes with little cards and envelopes and a chocolate chip stampin spot. I love the script handwriting "a little note of thanks."

This was one of my favorites. I used certainly celery for the card base and then added the die cuts from the kit. You get 6 sheets of die cuts in this simply scrappin kit. There is so much you could probably split the kit with a friend. The sentiment on the envelope is from the CURVY VERSES stamp set which is so versatile. We use that set quite a bit in class.

There is a brand new stamp set in the occasions mini catalog that is called GREAT FRIEND. I think it is my favorite set in the catalog. It has this wonderful "for you" sentiment written in script, this gorgeous butterfly (a few posts back I showed you the envelopes I made for some birthdays we had at work - see April 1 post), and the leaf branch which is so delicate, and then there is a friend verse that we stamped on the inside of the card. This is the perfect stamp set for Spring! You could use this card for thinking of you or get well or just because. Possibilities are endless. A few of my stamp campers said they don't have enough get well cards. We are going to need to do some of those and will most likely do some at the JUNE 18th Soft Summer Class. I hope you can come to that one.

This is another one of the cards we made. It has so saffron for the card base and I forgot to mention that we used old olive classic ink pad for most all of the stamping on the cards and inside for the verses. The other ink colors we used were so saffron and baja breeze in classic. This was a birthday card.

Tonight or Tomorrow I'm going to post the other projects from Stamp Camp. Wait til you see the home decor pieces that LINDA designed and the gorgeous Technique Card we did as well as the matchbox and necklace that Sandi made.

SPRING STAMP CAMP HIGHLIGHTS FEATURING ATTENDEES AND DEMONSTRATORS

Diana Hnat welcomed us into her beautiful home again for Spring Stamp Camp. Diana is such a great hostess. Here she is giving out these adorable Hershey bars covered with punched out bunnies. Everyone who came to stamp camp received one. They were so adorable. She used all SU! punches.

OK, while we all love to stamp, the highlight of the event is always the food!

Now to the business of stamping. Lauren Mercier is shown here working on the spring home decor block that Linda Kincaid designed.

Ok, another break for food. Carla Supik and Eileen Sumner are enjoying some baked goodies. Carla made a homemade vanilla bean cheesecake and we got to celebrate all of the April birthdays. There are a lot in our group!

Lori Butler is working intently - but enjoying every moment - on the matchbox that Sandi Haertig designed. Linda Kincaid is demonstrating her home decor piece to Patti Phillips. It was Patti's first stamp camp!

I demonstrated a technique card using the SU! sponge daubers. I'm shown here with Hsiao-hui who is working on hers.

Diana looks wonderful in this picture. Her kitty is adorable. He was a highlight of the event. He is so gentle. You should feel his fur. It is soft like mink.

Patti stopped to give a smile for the camera. She is working on her home decor piece. I'll show all of the projects in the next post. I'm photographing all of them so you can see what wonderful projects we all worked on.

This is Sandi Haertig - a good friend of mine. I only met Sandi last summer, but let me tell you - I feel like I have known her for ages. She is so sweet. This was the first stamp camp she has demonstrated at. She showed everyone how to use the SU! matchbox die to make a wonderful matchbox that held 4 covered chocolate nuggets. She also used the vanilla hodgepodge to make some jewelry. Watch for that project in the next post.

I am going to upload all of my photos to a gallery and I'll post the link so you can see the rest.

My next post will have all or most off the stamp camp projects. We did a lot so I have quite a bit to photograph.

HAWAII DOLPHIN QUEST

I'm a little behind in posting more of my Hawaii photos. The BEST part about our trip was swimming with the dolphins. It was really cool! Here Bill is feeding one of the dolphins. JP loved his swim. This is one of the coolest things you can do! We each got some one on one time with the dolphins and then we also got some time as a group. We learned so much about them. If you ever get a chance to do this, there are about 5 Dolphin quests in the world, I highly recommend it.

Greetings from Dolphin Quest on the Big Island of Hawaii!

WINDOW SHEETS ARE HERE

It is a brand new month and I have a new video on my blog - CLICK HERE - to watch it. It shows you how to use our new window sheets. These are absolutely amazing. You can use the new window sheets in so many projects. This material even goes through the BIG SHOT. But what I love most is that you can stamp on it and you can color the white parts with stampin pastels. Isn't that cool. Have fun watching the video and order yours today. I'll be sure to add more samples as I create new and exciting things with these window sheets.

SOME LINDA CARDS

Linda Kincaid is a SU! demonstrator with a lot of talent! I love her cards. Last week she went to Elizabeth Evans home in Woodbine, Md for a class and the ladies loved her cards. Here are a sampling of the cards she made.

This first cards uses the new Manhattan flower set. She did the glitter window technique on top of coloring one of the flowers in. The colors used are baja breeze, whisper white and kiwi kiss. The ribbon is our exclusive striped grosgrain in kiwi kiss. These colors go so well together.

Linda used certainly celery on this folded card and saleabration designer paper that she earned free during SALE-A-Bration! This is one of our favorite stamp sets called FUN and FAST Notes. It has a stamp for every celebration. Linda also used certainly celery twill ribbon that is so soft. She also got that during saleabration.

This card is so beautiful. It uses the priceless stamp set and the sentiment is from the heard from the heart stamp set. I love anything with script. The pearl in the center of the flower is from the SU! exclusive pretties set. Notice how Linda also used the top note BIG SHOT die to stamp on. Very very nice!
Lots more cards to share. Come back tomorrow for more!

MORE BIRTHDAY CARDS FROM FRIENDS-HOMEMADE

WOW! The cards are incredible! I love them all. Joann Bernard another SU! demonstrator sent me this card. I love the water coloring she did. she used the top note die for the BIG SHOT, the oval all stamp set that is brand new with the brand new scallop oval punch! Ladies, put this punch at the top of your wish list/order list. It is a great one to have! The other stamp set used is Friends 24/7 - a Shelli Gardner (co founder of SU!) exclusive.

Linda Murphy used brand new chocolate chip corduroy buttons and the brand new clips from SU! on her card. I love her use of color and her personalized letter stamps to spell my name. The leaves are another exclusive SU! die for the Big Shot. The flowers are punched from the exclusive three flower punch. Her stamp is from a saleabration set that we earned free last year.

Katie Ford, another SU! demonstrator, made this great card. She used the party hearty stamp set on the outside, the large oval punch, the circle punch and the scallop circle punch. I love these colors. My favorite color is blue and the teal and aqua color palates fall right in there. SU! punches are the best!

This is the inside of Katie's card. I love this 3D effect with the butterfly hanging down and free flowing as if she is flying away. These stamps are from the stamp set Priceless. I love all of the swirls in this set. Katie did an excellent job coloring this card. Notice too, that she made some clouds in the background with the white craft pad.

SOME GREAT BIRTHDAY CARDS

My Birthday was March 30th. I got some great homemade birthday cards. It was so neat to come home from Hawaii and have lots of mail! I opened card after card. Most were homemade. Actually, all of my friends make my cards and my family buys their cards. Too funny. Over the next couple of days I'm going to share them with you. Here are two cards made by two very sweet friends. The first is made by Rita Gorrick. She used the tea party papers and the delicate dots papers from saleabration. The cake comes from the set Voila.

What I love the most about Rita's cards is her ability to put colors together. Also...look at how neat her handwriting is. I would give anything to have handwriting like that.

The next card comes from another good friend Carol Hartline. She used bashful blue for the base of the card and then her dsp is Rainbow sherbet. The colors in that designer series are so yummy. She used the saleabration set polka dot punches and then with a scallop circle punch she punched out happy birthday which came in a set from last year's saleabration.
On the inside of the card Carol used the saleabration set Congratulations and again used the Rainbow sherbet papers. Really nice Carol. Oh, and did you see how she layered the papers on the card. She also used the scallop edge punch on all of the layers and then poked tiny holes in the bottom. So clever!

More cards coming tomorrow and the next day or so! I might even post again later today.

GREAT FRIEND

I'm in love with this stamp set and this butterfly die. This new stamp set debuts today. It is a must for all of you stampers. I stamped it once on each of these envelopes and then stamped again twice. It looks like the butterfly is in flight. This is certainly one of my new favorite sets. I also like the for you stamp in script. It is really elegant. I've used these 3D butterflies before. They are an exclusive BIG SHOT die cut from Shelli Gardner at SU!