Welcome Finnian!

March 25, 2010 By Katherine Pritchard

My niece and her sweet hubby had a wonderful special delivery a couple of weeks ago, in the form of a beautiful son, they named Finnian!  What an awesome day for them!  Erin and Eric have been so blessed and now multiplied by this wonderful miracle.  Their four year old Guatemalan born older son, Vincent was so excited.  (I remember when I brought home our son, Addison, our adopted son Brandon (then almost two) kept asking when we were going to take him back to the hospital!  :)   And so an ‘only’ child becomes the ‘older’ child as the family bonds expand further.

The Bundle of Joy Stamp Set has always been one of my favorite sets and I do enjoy the opportunity to bring it out and use it again.

I thought the spots and  spiked mane on the giraffe would go nicely with the retired designer series paper in my scrap bin.

Mounted on a Brilliant Blue standard size card and using Only Orange 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon over the middle seam.  This is a tried and true card recipe that you can use again and again with all sorts of stamp sets and paper in your stash!  For a little extra ‘pop’ I added Crystal Effects to the Brilliant Blue on the giraffe.  The ‘hello baby’ is from the new Teeny Tiny Verses Stamp Set.

It’s a good idea to have several of these basic card layout recipes in your repertoire to turn to when you need a quick card.

I hope you’re having a wonderful week as March is on the wane and April is growing near!

Thanks for stopping by!

Katherine

Filed Under: Cards, Family, Most Recent

Valentine’s Fold-Out Card

February 16, 2010 By Katherine Pritchard

Once I finally packed away our son Colin’s BSA memories, I  was able to turn my attention to other pressing deadlines…like say, VALENTINE’S DAY!

I’d seen an accordion card a while back and decided that it’d work really great for Valentine’s Day for Colin and our son Brandon to give their sweethearts!

Just a little surprise from me!  I think they turned out pretty cute and the girls sure seemed to enjoy them, so I guess that was a hit!

Front when tied with Whisper White Taffeta  Ribbon

From a single sheet of 12 x 12 card stock cut three, four inch strips and stick together overlapping one panel on each strip.  You end up with a total of ten panels to decorate.  Cut eight pieces of coordinating Designer Series Paper for the background of the center eight panels.

Using the Stampin’ UP! Big Shot I die cut the letters and used a variety of our wonderful Stampin’ UP! punches and brads  for embellishments.  Add a touch of Dazzling Diamonds glitter for extra sparkle!  The fabulous thing about using the Stampin’ UP! Big Shot is that all of the embellishments were created using SCRAPS!!  I love, love, LOVE it!  It’s easy peasy and so smart to have as a resource.

For the final touch I added two pictures of the Sweethearts and my special Valentine’s Day treat for these sweet gals was complete!

This project lends itself to a wide array of possibilities and events to celebrate.    Other suggestions you could  spell out are    C-O-N-G-R-A-T-S-!, B-A-B-Y,      L-O-V-E – U,    Y-O-U  D-I-D  I-T-!,       T-H-A-N-K-F-U-L.

The pictures were printed on my HP psc 2510 Photosmart and a couple were printed as 3 x 5 and then trimmed, others were printed as a wallet size.  To save additional space since this is a very small pallet that you’re creating on instead of matting your pic’s use a dab of Whisper White Craft Ink to edge your pictures ever so slightly.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your creativity takes you to new levels of fun!

Have a blessed week!    Katherine

Filed Under: 3-D Projects, Cards, Stampin' Up!

Autumn Splendor

October 26, 2009 By Katherine Pritchard

This is the other Thank You card I created for my sweet hubby to use with a small token of appreciation that he is sending out to his Top 20 Referral doc’s.  As you can see both the Gratitude Pumpkin card and this are quite different, yet both are very appropriate for their specified use.  I have made ten of each and will let the staff choose which one to use for which referring dentist.

2009-10-25-Autumn--TY

I love Fall and all the beautiful rich colors that it brings with it, but when I saw the Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper in the HOLIDAY MINI CATALOG, it was such a fresh take on the traditional Fall colors by adding the Taken with Teal highlights, it instantly became a favorite of mine that I have reached for over and over.  If you haven’t gotten your hands on a pack, I’d be happy to send you one, just let me know!

Card Recipe:

Stamp Sets:  Autumn Splendor,  Sincere Salutations
Card Stock:  Kraft, Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper
Ink: Bordering Blue, Close to Cocoa, and Pumpkin Pie Classic Ink
Ribbon: 1/4″ Chocolate Chip Grosgrain
Punches: 1 1/4″ & 1 3/8″ Square
Stampin’ Dimensionals were used to elevate the three squares.

I used a Rockin” Dauber technique on this card to create the beautiful color changes on the large oak leaf stamp. You first pick up color from the Bordering Blue Classic Stampin’ Ink Pad all over the image, then using a finger dauber you rock around the edges with the Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin’ Ink and a using a separate dauber add the Close to Cocoa Ink touches. Simply stamp your image on a piece of the Very Vanilla Card Stock and cut out using your paper snips. This leaf is such a great 3-D embellishment because the edges will ‘naturally’ curl as you cut it out and it just needs a bit of adhesive in the middle.

One more thing…you might notice how well the Not Quite Navy Card Stock compliments the Taken with Teal highlights in the Autumn Meadow Designer Series Paper. This is very pleasing to the eye because they are in the same Stampin’ UP! color family. Choosing colors for your projects is quick and simple when working with the same color family. It saves you time and takes the guess work out of the equation!

Thanks for stopping by this rainy morning here in Central Texas, I hope your week is off to a grand start and you find time to share your paper crafting talents with friends and family.

Have a great week!
Katherine

Filed Under: Cards

My Digital Studio Cards 4 & 5

September 22, 2009 By Katherine Pritchard

September is slipping away fast, and October is peeking around the bend, we’re in Football, Football, Football around here. All that Testosterone you know, is somethin’ else! A gal’s got to have some outlet right? That’s why you’ll find me in my stamp room, running my fingers over card stock, and paper and stamps and all that glittery stuff! That is, when I’m NOT watching Football. I love to watch our youngest son (a.k.a. Colin now 18!! He had a birthday Sunday the 20th, along with my brother Mike, we won’t disclose his age… HA! HA!, along with my lovely mom, may she rest in peace; and her sweet mother, may SHE rest in peace…that’s right our family has had FOUR birthday’s to celebrate on the same day, how awesome is that?) Any way…I thought I’d let you see the last two cards together…

Here’s the first one:

Chocolate-Petal-Flower-Card

It’s a sweet Chocolate Chip round petal flower with a Real Red button for the center.

and the second one:

Happy-Birthday-Kalidescope

Images are from the Happy Birthday Simply Scrappin’ Kit pg 166 ’09-’10 Idea Book & Catalog. Teamed with Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon and I added a Filigree Designer Brad over a blue flower that was in the template.

Well, as you’ve seen I had a very successful afternoon last Tuesday after I installed My Digital Studio. And for those of you who may be intimidated by the art of stamping and paper crafting, this is a wonderful tool that can be customized with hundreds of options and images to choose from that give you the look and feel of a hand made card for those special events and holidays coupled with tons of images to use in creating your scrapbook memories. Please call or write if you want more information on this latest great product from Stampin’ UP!

Thanks for stopping by!

Katherine

Filed Under: Cards, My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up!

My Digital Studio Card #3

September 19, 2009 By Katherine Pritchard

Hello again,

I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend I’m enjoying a few days in DURANGO, CO with hubby (a little R&R never hurt anyone!), this isn’t a business trip so we’re really having a good time just relaxin’ and enjoying the cooler temps of the mountains.

Here’s the next card that I created last week with My Digital Studio, I guess I’m beginning to sound like a sort of ‘broken record’ but you just have to realize how much fun I was having and especially how easy it was to do is quite unbelievable…

Kiwi-Kiss-Thanks

(Psst…Now for those of you that have been around Stampin’ UP! a while you might just recognize the Kiwi Kiss Polka-A-Dot Designer Paper that is on this card…yes, that’s right…SU has been developing this product for a while and that’s a sure tell-tale give-away don’t you know? Let’s see Kiwi Kiss was introduced with the Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog)

In My Digital Studio I printed out the Designer Template Card. Some of you have asked about my printer, I have an HP PSC 2510 Photosmart all-in-one. I’m about due for a new one since I’ve had this one going on thee years.

In my Stamp room…I cut it out and re-sized it for a 1/8″ border all around, but oops the top of the card seemed to disappear with the white on white so I scraped the edges with Real Red Classic Ink and added the Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon with a Circle Fire Rhinestone Brad in yellow; then mounted the digital face onto a standard size Whisper White Card Stock base using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

You know, this reminds me of a cooking show I ran across back during the summer, something along the lines of “Almost Homemade” or along those lines, where you kind of altered store bought food items, or ready to eat items and kicked them up a notch. That’s sort of like what using My Digital Studio is for card making. You can use the card just the way it is if you want and it’s really just fine. I like to have the touch and feel aspect of embellishments that are added on for that extra little something. To each his own or her own, anyway however you choose to use it, I’m sure you’ll just love it!

Filed Under: Cards, My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up!

My Digital Studio Card #2

September 17, 2009 By Katherine Pritchard

Hi there, it’s me again!

Here’s the second card that I created Tuesday while I was getting familiar with My Digital Studio

This is just the cutest little birdie (a.k.a. Good Friend Stamp Set #113740 with the Cheep Talk Stamp Set #113204 both in the ’09-’10 Idea Book & Catalog pgs 112-113), and it’s images are in My Digital Studio so it coordinates with the stamp sets that you might have on hand!

Chocolate-Birdies-Card

In My Digital Studio program…I loaded the designer template for a tent fold card this time. Liked what I saw and didn’t change a thing. Printed it out like before and headed to my Stamp room.

In my Stamp room…I cut out the card front, resized it to leave a 1/8″ border around the card face, cut off the bottom third (which was actually white and had the text on it) and mounted it to a Chocolate Chip standard size tent card. Tied a piece of Only Orange grosgrain ribbon in a square knot, used the new Modern Label Punch (pg186-186 Item # 116630 ’09-’10 Idea Book & Catalog) on the greeting and mounted it in the lower right hand corner using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

My Digital Studio is a fabulous tool for all of your creative projects, I’m just getting started, but I think you’ll find it very user friendly. I can’t wait to show you the next card I created so stay tuned it’ll be here in a couple of days…

Thanks for stopping by and remember Stampin’ UP! is launching this great new product at a really great price for only $79.95 on October 1st. Follow the link to the Holiday Mini Catalog in the side bar and go to pages 38 & 39 for more details.

Thanks again for coming by today, I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Katherine

Filed Under: Cards, My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up!
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