July Downline Meeting

Each month, the Rocky Mountain Inky Fingers group gets together to share creativity and celebrate each other.  This month one of the gals from up in the mountains is having some issues with her Baby Bear stamp set.  I wanted to have my make and take project try to address some of the issues.  I made a couple of samples to start out with:

and then finally settled on a design for the make and take project:

I used my MISTI on all of these (which I know made it much easier than for someone that does not have one - yet), but I will also be bringing along blocks, a Stamp-a-ma-Jig and my foam pad from the die brush set as I think the coverage issues can be helped by having a bit of a squishy surface under the paper.  The nicest thing about the MISTI is that if you get uneven coverage, you can always ink it up again and re-stamp without worrying about your images being lined up!  The Stamp-a-ma-Jig also works for this but since getting my MISTI, I really have not used it that much.  I am hoping that somehow SU finds a way to make this wonderful tool available to my customers!

Here are the products I used for the make and take project:

Baby Bear Photopolymer Stamp Set

$26.00

2016-2018 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack

$22.00

Brights Enamel Shapes

$9.00

Pearl Basic Jewels

$5.00

Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

I also used the bow from the Balloon Framelits (#137362) set to cut out his little bow tie!

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PP303 - A color challenge!

I really loved the color challenge this week at Paper Players:  Mint Macaron, Island Indigo and Sweet Sugarplum:

Here's my card:

I used a 110 lb. Neenah White card base and sponged the three colors through a template cut from vellum.  The dragonfly is just a small single stamp I picked up at a LSS and it along with the sentiment are stamped in Memento black.  I brushed some clear Wink of Stella on the dragonflies and added a couple small dots of Crystal Blizzard Nuvo crystal drops.  The lettering is a new (to me) set that I snagged when it became available again from Altenew and it is called Invisible Alpha.

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Stamp Camp North - July 9, 2016

Stamp Camp North is this Saturday, July 9 at the Westminster Elks Lodge in Westminster, CO.  Here are the particulars:

Here is the card the gals will be making at my table:

This card is based on a card that was very generously given to me at a downline meeting I attended for a group I don't really belong to.  The gals were totally wonderful and I got several very inspiring cards!  Stampin' Up! demonstrators are really the most wonderful people in the world!

Here are the products used in the creation of this card:

Floral Phrases Wood-Mount Stamp Set

$25.00

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$9.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$5.00

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

I used some navy blue sock yarn for the bow and I think it worked out just fine.  This is a really fun camp and if you are in the area, you should definitely come and check it out!

Work is progressing on the RV and DH nearly has all the old graphics scraped off and it is ready for the new graphics!  Our son is a graphic artist who makes vinyl designs for wraps on cars and trucks and trailers and most everything that moves.  He also does wonderful photographs that have been used all over the area.  I will have pictures of the new graphics on the RV when it is complete.

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Tina's Stamp House

Yesterday was our gathering at Tina's Stamp House!  This time I remembered to take my camera!  Here's her lovely crafting cottage:

There were six of us and we really had a grand time!  Here's some more pix:

We had a fun filled day of crafting, food and fellowship, it was wonderful.  Here are the projects that we made:

Thanks Tina for being such a marvelous hostess!

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Just for Fun!

Once a month a bunch of us get together and create, share, eat and just generally have a ton of fun.  Our friend Tina has a stamp house (I am taking my camera tomorrow to try to capture how wonderful this space is.)  Here is my contribution to our "shoe box swap" tomorrow:

I am totally in love with this die!  This card uses that wonderful die and:

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Watercolor Wash Clear-Mount Background Stamp

$15.00

Perfectly Wrapped Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

Sweet Sugarplum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

$7.00

Pearl Basic Jewels

$5.00

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

I also used some seed beeds and sequins that I had in my stash.  You can embellish this with almost anything!  

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Longmont Senior Center Class

I have been doing (or at least trying to do) one class per quarter at the Longmont Senior Center.  This month our class was Special People, Special Birthdays.  We had so much fun making these:

I used a variety of products on these, both retired and current.  If you have any questions about any of them, please leave me a comment or send me an email.

Several of my demonstrator friends have been getting together once a month to do a shoe box swap.  This Sunday is the date for this month so look for coming posts about that fun activity.

I really am hoping to get back to blogging more regularly.  We are finding that getting to bed early and getting up early (before all the kids get here) gives us some time to get some things done - like playing in the craft cage!

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Paper Players Challenge #300

I've been getting some new goodies from the new Stampin' Up! catalog and have finally had a few minutes to play with them.  Paper Players is celebrating their 300th challenge post!  I love seeing these challenges and the wonderful creations that the design team comes up with.  I decided this time I would play along:

I know this is a clean and simple challenge, but this die cut just screams for a little bling so I added some tiny pearls.  Here are the products that I used on this card:

Perfectly Wrapped Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

I used a retired in-color called Lost Lagoon.  I totally love this color and have a stash of the paper and a couple re-inkers so that I can keep using it!

I also made a couple other cards using this motif that are no so clean and simple:

It was just too much fun to just make one!  The first card uses rhinestones and the other card uses a matted die cut image along with another die cut from that set along with a gold mounted sentiment that ties into the gold bling.  I had such fun making these!

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Hello, it's me!

I'm dating myself with that title I suppose, but ....

Things have been crazy here, both at home generally and in the craft cave too.  We have been watching grandchildren since school let out last month, and while it is wonderful to have this time with them it is also nearly impossible to do a whole lot else!

Here's another reason:

Our home away from home #3!  We are hoping to take this "land sailing" to New England in August.  We will also be able to use it going back and forth to the boat each year and alleviating the need for hotel rooms!   Needless to say, the grandchildren are thrilled and now want us to take them all camping (not so sure 5 kids and 2 adults will fit comfortably but we shall see!)  We hope to do just that at least once before we hit the road in August though.

I've played with a challenge recently too, but decided to put those images in a separate post later today so be sure to check back!

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