SUMMER MINI CATALOG LAST MINUTE SHARES

I wanted to show you a few more things from the summer mini catalog by SU!  You know this mini is ending on August 31st so there is not much more time to purchase what you would like from the mini.  A few stamp sets carried over into the main idea book and it is possible that other sets may find there way into next year's book, but it is a safe bet to say that the dsp will not carry over.  I have not seen dsp from any mini catalog carried over into the new idea books lately.  If you don't want to take a chance with any of the stamps or stamp sets, order what you like now so as not to miss out.

This is a great stamp from SU!'s under $10 collection.  It is a single stamp called Birthday Block.  It is #118084 and costs only $7.95.  I used Island oasis paper (the dotted) that is retiring.  I also did a reverse blocking technique with the stamped circles.  I punched a 3/4 inch circle from white card stock and then using the negative and a sponge dauber I added the color.  I love doing this over a stamped image and on dsp.

This is an exact CASE from Missy Bollinger.  She did an amazing job with this card that I just had to copy.  She actually embossed aluminum foil with the Big Shot using the square lattice die.  I don't ride motorcycles and I don't have that much of an interest in them, but I loved this card so much I had to obtain the stamp.  It is called Motorcycle and it is #117657 for only $8.95.  Another single under $10 stamp. I love the addition of the fine glitter by SU!

 This is a great patriotic card I received in a Remarkables swap.  It is by my good friend Cathy Buch.  I love this card.  Cathy used the stamp set July Fourth and the wheel Red, White and Blue.  We have a coordinating star punch that works perfectly with this set from the summer mini. If you need a patriotic stamp set, this is a good one to have.  This set is #118523 for $18.95 wood mount or #120063 for $14.95 in the clear mount.  Just think of all those fourth of July, parades, birthdays, trips to Disney, fireworks events that you want to scrapbook or do cards for.  This is a perfect set.  The wheel is #118622 for only $8.50.

MORE GREAT CARDS FROM CLASS

Class at my home on Monday night was really amazing.  The ladies made some great cards.  Here is another Maria Pane original.  I am so proud of this card.  I used Travel Journal dsp and the stamp set Watercolor Trio.  These are in the SU! Summer Mini Catalog that is retiring on August 30th.  This stamp set is so versatile.  It has some fabulous verses as well.  I used From the Heart.  One lady did Birthday Wishes and another did From the Heart.  We added pearlized smooch paint and dazzling diamonds glitter.  Don't be fooled by the Travel Journal name of the paper.  This paper has some fabulous prints to it.

The ladies were really impressed with the Big Shot.  I had them all die cut some mini envelopes, but I think they really like the embossing the Big Shot can do.  In the card above they embossed the very vanilla card stock with the SU! vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.  This is a great card for any occasion.

Here is the next card that we did.  I modeled the card design after the fancy fold card Hsiao-hui demonstrated back in early May when the mini catalog first came out. This card requires a 4 by 12 inch piece of card stock.  You score it at 2, 4, 8 and 10 inches and then cross score from the center of the lengthwise piece 4x to get it to fold this way.  I used my scorpal for the impressions, but you could use your paper trimmer with scoring blade.  If anyone needs more specific directions, email me.

This card uses the Travel Journal Papers also.  These papers are really neat.  The stamp set is perfect now that school is starting.  I love this little bookworm and I told the ladies last night that they could alternatively put pictures in the center and if it were a student making the card, one of the ladies - Suzanne - suggested that the students could write something about themselves on the blank areas.  A really cool idea Suzanne!  My son JP is entering 5th grade so I made this card in honor of him. This stamp set is also leaving us on August 30th.  It is called First Day. 

Here is the First Day Stamp set.

This is the Travel Journal Paper set.  This paper is retired on August 31st.  There is also a 6 by 6 mini album that coordinates nicely with this paper and there is a great travel stamp set as well.  We've used a couple of these papers over the summer for different projects. 

See the next post for the card that Hsiao-hui demonstrated.

GREAT CARD BY HSIAO-HUI LIN

Here is the card that Hsiao-hui demonstrated to everyone earlier in the season.  She used a stamp set in the Summer Mini Catalog called A Little Bit of Magic. Hsiao-hui also used the cool new mini punches and the 5 flower petal punch that she embossed with the Square Lattice Die for the Big Shot.  Do you recognize the Island Oasis dsp?  Great Job Hsiao-hui and thanks so much for showing us this fancy fold card.

This is just a magical card!

GREAT CLASS TONIGHT

Tonight I had a FABULOUS CLASS at my house!  I had 5 lovely ladies come for the first time.  They had a wonderful time and we made some great cards. Some of the cards were brand new ideas I came up with .  One was a repeat card from class last week (my all occasions class).  I would like to share these ideas with you also and so I'll do that today and tomorrow.  Almost all of the cards and papers are from the SU! Summer Mini Catalog which is ending on August 31st. So if you see anything you like, you may want to pick it up before it goes. 

Here is the first card that we did.  I used the stamp set sweet scoops. This is a card CASE from Dawn Olchefske - a truly remarkable SU! stamper. She made a similar card with different colors for the SU! Cruise Swap.  And just below is the envelope and inside of the card.  The Birthday sentiment is from the new stamp set in the Idea Book called Perfect Punches.  Do you like how the ice cream scoops are highlighted with dazzling diamonds glitter?  Got that idea from Dawn also!

This card was another card with the same design just a different stamp set.  This set is tropical party - another set in the summer mini catalog.  Love this set.  If you like it too...pick it up by the end of the month.  The dsp in both of these cards is Island Oasis and it is retiring paper as of 8/31.  That will be the last day to get that dsp.  It is really neat to change card stock papers and dsp to make different cards.

Here is another card we made tonight.  This one is a total Maria Pane original.  I used the Island Oasis dsp. (This dsp is so versatile) and the under $10 stamp All a Flutter, which is NOT in the new Idea Book.  This is a single stamp for $6.95, so a good one to add to your collection.  The card stock is old olive and tempting turquoise.  I used smooch paint on the butterfly and 2 whiffs of smooch spray in the gold over the stamped image and the card.  You can see the spritz without enlarging the card, but if you click on this card (or any card) you can see it in greater detail.  The swirl and sentiment are from another Summer mini catalog stamp set called Elements of Style.  That set is in the new idea book.

 Pictured below are all of the designs in the Tropical Oasis dsp we used tonight.

Ok, 2 more cards tomorrow.

SUNDAY SHARES

This first card was CASED by my friend Carolyn Serviss.  I love this card.  The only thing I think she changed was the sentiment.  She used the stamp set Fabulous Phrases for the words.  I love it. There are 30 words in that stamp set.  She also used the background stamp Bella Toile and the main stamp set is Studio Sketches, which is new this year. The colors used are So Saffron and Basic Gray.

I made this next card using my Circle #2 Big Shot Die.  I die cut the circle and put the circle aside.  I took the negative and sponged pumpkin pie and daffodil delight inside to make a sun.  The sentiment and the leaves are stamped in basic black from the stamp set Just Believe, which is one of the most popular SU! stamp sets.  This is a really cool way to make a sun.

MAKE AND TAKES

These are the make and takes from our REMARKABLE TEAM MEETING last week.  I love them all!
There were actually 5 make and takes but I only have 4 shown here.

This one might actually be my favorite one of all.  It uses the new spiderweb embossing folder for SU!  I've seen another folder with a web on it - in fact I may also own it - but this one really has more depth to it.  I would love to use this card as my Halloween card.  I love these Greeting Card Kids stamps.  They remind me of the campbell soup kids and are so cute.  We used peach parfait twill ribbon, new brads, new punch (happy halloween is punched on a new punch coming out with the web on Sept. 1st, and new dsp, yeah!

This is another one of our make and takes and it features the spider web embossing folder, the bat punch (so cool and available now), wide striped grosgrain ribbon, and a new stamp set coming out Sept. 1st called Dark and Dreary.  Oh, I can't wait to own this stamp set.

This is a really neat invitation.  We put two pieces of dsp together from the summer mini catalog to make this pinwheel.  It is super easy.  We used tropical dsp which is retiring August 31st, so if you want a pack of this paper order it before then.  The stamp set is called Inviting.  I love the font used and although we didn't use it on this invite, the stamp set has a really cool pin tack that you can stamp and can be used for scrapbooking, card making and a variety of different crafts.  The umbrella paper is part of the tropical dsp.

This is a really great card that Jan presented for us.  It uses an exclusive Shelli Gardner favorite (Shelli is the cofounder and CEO of SU!) stamp called French Filigree.  It is really a neat background stamp.  The Remember when is from the set Word Play.  We added some new crochet ribbon lace (so cool, you have to see this up close and personal) and a new sticky back pearl - which is a fabulous accent for the card.  The dsp is brand new and is called Elegant Soiree.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL

Today is my husband's birthday!  These are the cards we made for him.  The first is the card that I designed.  It uses crushed curry card stock as the background.  I precut that card stock to fold 4.25 by 7 inches.  I like that it is a longer than a traditional A2 card just because it is nice to give the hubby something a little different.  I used the stamp set grunge rock (guitars, crown and sentiment), extreme guitar (guitar player) and Extreme elements.  These sets are really cool.  After stamping I ran the card through the Big Shot with the square lattice die to emboss. I really like the effect.

This card was done by my son JP with a little help from me.  The card base is Bermuda Bay card stock.  The dsp is the tropical dsp from the summer mini catalog.  The stamped images and sentiment are from a NEW stamp set called Party On.  I stamped the balloons and Happy Birthday directly onto the dsp and then added crystal effects.  I stamped the pennants and then cut them out, punched holes in the top corners and added 1/8 inch basic black taffeta ribbon, and the die cut letters "dad" from Timeless Type (exclusive Big Shot letters for SU!)

This last card I made for Luigi to sign for his daddy.  I wheeled the SU! wheel P is for Paw with soft suede ink over a crumb cake card stock base.  Next, I ran the card through the Big Shot using the square lattice die.  I also die cut part of the top note die (exclusive to SU!) and stamped the dog and the paws from D is for Dog and the happy birthday from Party On.  The ribbon is dotted grosgrain soft suede which is retired but I love it and so I bought extra for personal use.

I had to show you the inside of the card because Luigi actually stamped his paws inside (with a little help of course - and I did get the ink off really easily with a washcloth). 


Well, here's hoping your birthday is really nice Bill!

MORE FROM THE REMARKABLE MEETING

Here are some photos of display boards and samples from the Remarkable Meeting this past Saturday. The last few photos are of Kimberly Van Diepen (#1 SU! demonstrator of the year) with my upline Janet Wakeland.  Kim has the highlighted blond hair wearing pink.  Janet has a SU! apron on!

SOME REMARKABLE SAMPLES

I did some card swapping this past weekend with some of my remarkable friends - Kathy Winland, Arleen Graham, and Lisa Chattergee.  Everyone did an amazing job with their cards and we had a great time at our Team Meeting.  Here are some photos from the meeting and some of the swaps.  First up is the very talented Arleen Graham showing one of her swaps.

This card is one of Arleen's swaps with Lisa, Kathy and I.  We made full cards. Arleen cased this from the main idea book.  The stamp set is For All You Do, which I love.  The bird and branch is punched out with one or our new EXCLUSIVE punches from SU!  Plus we have a NEW level 1 hostess set that allows you to stamp a patterned bird that you can then punch out.  Really cool.

This turtle was water colored very well by Arleen and the background stamp on the chocolate chip card stock is the wood grain stamp.  Love it and love the way she tied the ribbon to ribbon.

I missed out on taking a photo of my good friend Lisa Chattergee, but I didn't miss taking a photo of her great cards.  I love this one.  It has the French script background and the lattice die cut.  Lisa wanted to showcase our new crocheted lace.  Just awesome Lisa.

These  monsters are really fun to stamp.  Lisa brought her stamp set with her to the meeting so that we could all have the opportunity to stamp them.  Don't you love her little itty bitty button on the third monster?  Oh, and Lisa used the brand new swirly die from the upcoming Holiday Mini catalog.  If you are on my mailing list, watch for the mini to arrive within the next week or so. If you are not on my snail mail list, email me.

 Kathy Winland and I have been friends for awhile.  I think Kathy is a great friend and stamper.  She is very crafty!  Here we are photographed together at the team meeting.  We each received these parfait cups at the meeting with a sample of every colored ribbon and brad and button to add to our color coach. It was very generous for Jan Wakeland, our team leader, to provide this for everyone.

This is one of Kathy's cards.  We are always short on male birthday cards, so this one is really cool.  I think I'm going to have to CASE this one for my brother in law - luckily, his birthday is not until November, so I have plenty of time.  Notice how Kathy used the wood grain texture plate on the wild wasabi card stock.

Kathy used the new Elegant Lines embossing folder EXCLUSIVE to SU! on this card.  I love it.  She also showed us some cool things we can do with the new OWL punch that is also a SU! EXCLUSIVE.  By the way...this owl has so many different looks himself.  All you need to do to change his look is to change his coloring using different card stock or dsp.  But you can even change the expression on the owl by just changing which way his pupils are pointing.  Pretty cool, huh?