August Card Club

Hello Ladies,


This month's card club is going to take place on Tuesday August 23rd at 7pm.   We are going to be playing with some new stamp sets.  If you are interested in coming, please let me know as soon as possible. 

Happy Stamping!

So Many Birthday Parties

We had back to back parties this weekend.  My daughter Alex had her twin friends Hannah and Sarah's party on Friday night and then we had my 2 oldest daughters Hayley & Alex's party on Saturday.  I remembered to take a photo of Sarah's card but not Hannah's.  Oh well.  Here it is.  It features that cute little owl.  We had so much fun playing with that punch at one of my card clubs that I wanted to bring it out again.   The photo isn't the greatest but you get the idea. 

Supplies used:
paper-pink pirouette, whisper white, old olive chocolate chip
Stamps-dot dot dot
Ink-old olive
Accessories-owl punch, little leaves sizzlet,ticket corner punch, rhinestones, white gel pen

TAX FREE WEEKEND!!!

As many of you Massachusetts residents know,  This coming weekend (Aug 13 & 14th) is tax free.  This also includes your Stampin Up! purchases.  If you'd like to take advantage of this 6.25% discount, you can order directly through my site at www.sylviakipnes.stampinup.net or you can contact me direct to place a group order.  Any group orders have to be emailed to me no later then 12 noon Aug 14th. 

Beautiful Wings

I can't believe that it took me so long but I finally ordered the Beautiful Wings Embosslit.  It cuts out 5 different butterflies all at once.  It's a must have if you loves butterflies as much as I do.  I layered the 2 largest butterflies 3 times on my layered Wild Wasabi card stock.  I also used the En Fracais background stamp with whisper white ink.  It's a pretty quick card to make and the color combinations are endless.

Emboss Resist

Here's another new In Color.  It's called Island Indigo.  It's soooo pretty!  We did the emboss resist using the flowers from the Inspired by Nature stamp set.  Then we used my new color spritzer with the island indigo marker and added these little splatters all over my background.  Cleaned my flower back off and then sponges the Indigo over one side of my card stock.  I was pretty happy with how it came out.  The spritzer takes a little practice but gives a nice touch if you just wanted to add a little color for texture.

Bleaching technique

I thought I'd share a card that we made last night at Card Club.  We did the bleaching technique with this flower from the Fifth Avenue stamp set.  We first embossed it in black and then used our aqua painters to color it in with bleach.  I almost couldn't stand to have the bleach in the room because it's so strong so I only put a little bit into a sweet treat cup and everyone shared.  I'm sure that we wouldn't have lasted long in my enclosed scrap room if I had more then that laying out.  We used the new Calypso Coral card stock by Stampin Up!.  At first I didn't think that I was too crazy about this color and now I have no more card stock left.  It's moved right up to being one of my favorites.

 

All supplies used:

Stamps-fifth avenue floral

Paper-Calypso Coral, Whisper White

Tools-black embossing powder, 1 1/8 circle punch, embossing folder, corner rounder, bleach

New Demonstrator Special for July

 During July, you can join the Stampin' Up! family as a demonstrator for only $99! This limited time Starter Kit--valued at $185--comes with the following high-quality products:

• Easy Events Clear-Mount Set*
• Pennant Parade Wood-Mount Set*
• Basic Black Classic Stampin' Pad
• Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad
• Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad
• Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad
• Brights 8-1/2" x 11" Assorted Card Stock
• Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper*
• Chocolate Chip 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon*
• Note Cards (20)
• Clear-Mount Block C
• Blender Pen (1)
• SNAIL Adhesive
• Business supplies

*Brand new to the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog!
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2 Spots Left

My July Card Club is planned for Monday night (the 18th) and I have 2 spots left.  If I have any more takers, please let me know by Friday.  See you then.

Happy Stamping!

A Rockin Birthday Card

My nephew Andru is 13 so I had to think of something that would be more for a teenage boy.  This now retired stamp (Extreme Guitar) seemed to be perfect.  I still can't believe that they got rid of these great single stamps. 

 

Supplies used:
Paper-daffodil delight, basic black, whisper white
Ink-basic black, daffodil delight
Stamp set-Extreme Guitar
Accessories-silver foil smooch spritz, iridescent ice embossing powder, non su metallic paper

A birthday card with my new favorite In color (Pool Party)

I just had to use the new pool party card stock since my niece Emma will be having a pool party for her 7th birthday this coming Saturday.  I know that she will have no idea what the name of the paper is nor will she care.  I just needed any excuse to use it.  

 Supplies used:
Paper-pool party, melon mambo, pear pizazz, whisper white
Ink-basic black
Stamps set-swirls & curls versus
accessories-embroidery floss, glass glitter, SU markers in pool party and pink pirouette, crystal affects, scallop border punch

New Card Club night for the summer

Happy July everyone!!!  I had a great day today at the beach with my sister and all of our kids.  It was 96 degrees here today and it was so relaxing.  I figured that I would post our new and next card club date.  For this month I will be having our regular card club on a Monday night.  I know that our weekends are so busy with BBQ's and parties so Monday seems to work better.  I'm planning on having our next get together on July 18th at 7pm.  If you plan on attending please let me know. 

Happy Stamping!

Teacher's Card

I made this simple but adorable card for my daughter's teacher.  I used the build a blossom stamp set and punch that I haven't used in a little while.  I'm sure that she will also enjoy the Dunkin Donuts gift card that I put inside as well.

Supplies used:
Paper-pink pirouette, crushed curry, whisper white
Ink-pink pirouette, basic black
Accessories-polka dot embossing folder, ribbon tag nestie, crushed curry brad

Recycle Those Books

I have created this card but my friend Rachel who has a birthday coming up.  I wanted to make a card using some items from around the house.  I ended up using a page from my daughter's old Hardy Boys book.  It was a book that she didn't like and didn't even want to keep so I took it with me to my scraproom and went to work.  I'm really pleased with what I came up with but I'm very sad that this stamp set (cheers to you) is retiring at the end of this month.

Supplies used:
paper-chocolate chip card stock, whisper white, book page
Ink- soft suede, basic black
Accessories-red rinestones, certainly celery marker, real red marker, dazzling diamonds, certainly celery ribbon

Open Sea

What a great set!  I really love having more options for masculine cards.  I used it for father's day and now I'm using it for birthdays. 

 

Supplies used:

paper- whisper white, river rock, basic black

Ink-crumb cake, soft suede, basic black

stamp set-open seas, short and sweet

Accessories-chocolate chip ribbon, black brads, corner rounder

Elements of Style

We got together for my monthly card club last night and we made some fabulous cards.  We also had some great goodies to match.  My friend Margaret brought over some chocolate covered strawberries that her and her daughter Zoe made for us and I served some sangria.  It really got our juices flowing (at least we would like to believe they did. lol ).  Here's a photo of the first card we made.   I know that you can't see it in the photo but I sprayed the whole card with some champagne shimmer mist.  It looked so nice in person.

supplies used:
paper-whisper white, river rock, elegant eggplant
Ink-elegant eggplant, river rock
accessories-basic pearls, embossing border
Stamp set-Elements of style, watercolor trio

Another Birthday Card

My sister Patty also had a birthday this month.  I've been having so much fun with the Cheers for You stamp set.  It's retiring at the end of this month so I'm so glad that I have it already.  I may make another one of these for a friend who also has a birthday this month.  It's super quick and easy to make but looking at the cocktail in the glass makes me want one and that strawberry looks so yummy!

Happy Birthday My little Monkey

My youngest daughter Ava turned 6 on Thursday.  After she fell alseep the other night, me and my other 2 daughters went down to my scrap room to make her birthday cards.  We always call her a little monkey so that's why I picked this stamp from the fox and friends set.  I'm so sad that this jumbo wheel is retiring.  It's called Classic stars and it makes a great background on cards or scrapbook pages.  I also added Dazzling diamonds to the monkey's bellys.  Hope you like it. 

Happy Stamping!

Open Sea Stamp Set

Here's one of the new stamp sets featured in our Summer mini catalog.  If you haven't got the Open Sea set yet, you must get it.  It's great for Father's day, an adult male birthday or even a child's birthday.  It's great for any masculine card.  If you're like me, you probably keep buying all of those beautiful flower and butterfly stamp sets which I know are wonderful and as girls we can't resist.  But every once in a while we need to give the guys a card too and I'm sure that they wouldn't appreciate a rose with some polka dots.  He he, that would be funny though.  On to the card, 

Supplies used:
paper-whisper white, chocolate chip, river rock
ink-crumb cake, soft suede
accessories-photo corner punch, white gel pen, misc. brads

2011-2012 Catalog Giveaway

Hi All,

I'm going to do a little giveaway for the month of June.  Since the new Stampin Up! Idea Book and Catalog is due to come out on July 1st, and I know that you all want a hard copy of it.  I figured that I would give away a new catalog to anyone placing a minimum $50.00 order in June (before tax and shipping).  

Our current Stamp Club is also coming to an end this month, so anyone who wants to continue onto the next stamp club starting in July please let me know.  It's a 6 month commitment where everyone takes turns being the hostess each month with a $25 min. order. 

I will be putting in an early order on June 5th for those of you who want to place a retired order.  You can place your order on the 15th with our regular order but I can't promise that your items will still be available then. 

Here it is!

Stampin Up's retire list is out as of today.  If there's something on this list that you just can't live without, Then you better move fast before they are all gone.  These items are only available until June 30th.  The link is listed below for anyone who wants to look through the items or if you would like to place an online order.  You can also just place an order directly with me on  the 15th.  




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