November Card Club

HelloEveryone

I just wanted to announce that November's card club will be held on Friday the 18th.  It's going to be Christmas themed.  This is always my favorite card club because I love making Holiday items.  So much fun and looks so great around the house.  Hope you can make it!  Please let me know as soon as possible because I already got some rsvp's for this night and I limited space.  

Happy Stamping!

What we made at Card Club last night

Hello Everyone,

Last night I had a Halloween themed card club.  Here are photos of what we made.  I hope you all had fun!

Masculine Card with my Scraps

This is a card that I made for my Husband's Birthday.  I'm always saying that it's a challenge to make a masculine card because I don't get to use any of my pretty flowers and butterflies but I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out.  I used the mosaic embossing folder on the piece of Night of Navy and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  The leaves used is from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set from Stampin Up!.  All of the other papers are just scraps,  Card base-river rock, Top layer Misc. designer paper, and banner is certainly Celery.  The sentiment came from one of our newest hostess sets called Birthday Wishes (I think???) and I added a little liquid pearls. 

October Card Club

Now that it's officially October,  I figured that I would send out a reminder for this month's card club.  It's going to be a Halloween/Fall theme.  We'll do 1 home decor project and 2 cards.  It's on 10/14/11 at 7pm.  Please let me know if you'll be attending since my space is limited.  Thanks

Happy Stamping!

Happy Birthday Zoe!

My best friend's daughter Zoe had her 8th birthday party yesterday.  She looked so cute with her princess outfit on that I wanted to share.  I asked her if I could borrow it when she was done with it but she said "no way....I'm going to wear this forever".  Can you blame her.  Here's a photo of her and the card that I made for her.

supplies used:
stamps-happiest birthday wishes, dot dot dot
paper-rich razzleberry, whisper white, vellum, silver
ink-rich razzleberry
accessories-ticket punch, build a blossom punch, round tab punch, ribbon, silver liquid pearls, dot embossing folder, rhinestones

Card Club Updates and Stamp Club orders

Unfortunately, I will not be having a card club this month because of some Friday commitments that I already have but I thought that I would give you a heads up on October's card club.  Friday October 14th we will be having a Halloween themed card club at our usual 7pm.  I will re post this date at a later date as a reminder since it's a month away still. 


Another note,  Our Stamp Club order is going in on the 15th (Thursday) so if anyone wants to be included on this group order, please email me by Thursday morning.  

Got Birthdays

My daughter Hayley is going to a double Birthday party tomorrow for her friends Lilly & Liz.  I just had to use my new birthday stamp set again called Happiest Birthday Wishes.  This set comes with so many different stamps that is comes in 2 dvd cases.  Unfortunately you can't just buy it because it's a hostess set but if your order reaches $150.00 or more, you have a choice of free Hostess or regular catalog stamp sets.

 

 Stamps-Happiest Birthday wishes

paper-rich razzleberry, river rock, whisper white, rich razzleberry dsp

accessories-1 3/4 circle punch, 2 in scallop punch

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes

paper-whisper white, old olive, daffodil delight dsp, melon mambo

accessories-little leaves sizzlet, beautiful wings embosslit

Happy Stamping!

No Power, Yes Scrapbooking

Well, What else can you do when a bad storm takes away your power, internet and water.  SCRAPBOOK!!
Here are some pages that I got done yesterday during the hours of daylight.  No way could I ever do it with candlelight.  Mind you, I didn't have my cricut to work with so I just used what I had including stamps. 

Language of Friendship

This little bird is so cute.  I love using stamp sets with coordinating punches.  It makes it so easy and quick to make a card.  We also made this one at last Friday's card club.  We all enjoyed using some of Stampin Up's new stamp sets from this new catalog.  My wish list is still very long but I managed to get my hands on a handful of new sets so far.  I'm actually creating this post on Saturday the 27th because we are due to get hurricane Irene tomorrow and I'm sure that there won't be any power for a little while so I figured that I would set this up ahead of time. 

Supplies used:

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes, language of friendship, frame it

ink-soft suede, bravo burgandy

accessories-ribbon punch, 2 step bird punch, corner rounder punch

paper-soft suede, whisper white, patterned paper

Happy Stamping!

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

I love using recyclable items in my cards.  I use a page from an old Hardy Boys book behind this piece of vellum in this card.  It was a real simple card and very easy to make at our card club.  The ladies found it very easy to color in these flower from the old fast and fabulous stamp set using Q tips. 

Supplies used:

stamps-fast and fabulous

paper-wisteria wonder, black, recycled book paper, whisper white, basic black

Ink-wisteria wonder, certainly celery

Faith in Nature

I thought that I would take my mind off of the upcoming hurricane and do a post today.  Here's one of the cards that we made at Friday's card club.  I've been wanting to do a lot of texture lately and I just love using these warm earth tones.  We did some dry embossing with the ms scoring board for our background piece of crushed curry and crimped this piece of pumpkin pie for the center.  This image is from one of the new hostess stamp sets in the Stampin Up! catalog.  It's called Faith in Nature.  Any order of $150.00 or more qualifies you for $25 worth of hostess sets or any other catalog item of your choice.

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

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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