SUStars Blog Hop April 2011

Welcome to my blog! The SUStars April Blog Hop starts on Saturday, but I'll be at camp so I'm posting early. If you're here early, come back over the weekend!

If you are following our Hop, you should have arrived from FancyNancyKay's blog. If you'd like to start at the beginning, click here. SUStars is a Yahoo!Group just for SU! demos. If you're interested in joining us, click here.

This month our Blog Hop theme is ABC - Anything But a Card. These are some cute tin pails I found at the Dollar Spot at one of my favorite stores. You know the one, I'm sure!

The pails are decorated using our exclusive Island Floral Big Shot die. I used Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight card stocks. The Tempting Turquoise flowers are sponged with Pacific Point classic ink. The Pumpkin Pie flowers are sponged with Tangerine Tango. The Melon Mambo flowers are sponged with Melon Mambo ink. The white and yellow center flowers are sponged with Daffodil Delight.

After sponging them, I curled each petal around my finger for some dimension.

The flowers are held together with a silver brad. The leaves are stuck on with Glue Dots, and each entire flower is stuck on the pail using a hot glue gun.

I tied Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White and Daffodil Delight grosgrain ribbons around the handles for the final touch. I wish we still carried Tempting Turquoise grosgrain!

If anyone is local to me and would like one of these pails, I am selling them for $5 each. I am raising funds for my Relay for Life walk next month. I have four left!

Blog Candy: Would you like some of these flowers to play with? I'll make a packet of flowers and send it to one lucky person who comments on this post!

Your next stop on the hop is Bluegrass Stamper's Studio. You'll love her work!

Happy Hopping!
Shari

April Birthday Card Bonanza

It's spring! Time for crocuses, tulips, and Daffodil Delight! Both cards for this month feature this sunny color.

The Easter card is made with Trendy Trees and the snowflake punch! Can you stand it? It's so stinkin' cute. I got the carrot idea from the Ink Paper Stamps blog, and altered a layout from somewhere else.

Cards are still $1 each with envelope. Greetings can be changed to meet your needs. Let me know how many of each you'd like to make. We'll meet on April 1st at 7PM (no joke!).

Happy Stampin'

Shari

SUStars Blog Hop March 2011

Welcome to my stop on the Hop! You should have arrived from Deborah Robb's site. If you just happened along my blog and you'd like to start at the beginning of the Hop, click here.

SUStars is a Yahoo!Group just for Stampin' Up! demonstrators. If you're a demo and you'd like to join in the fun, click here.

Our theme for this hop is Spring or Occasions Mini. Mine fits both! Today's stamped art is another from my Seasonal Frame class series. This is our spring frame. The whole piece is 9x9. The small squares are 1 3/4" square. The frame itself is from IKEA. If you click on the photo, you can see it larger.

I used Springtime Vintage DSP, the Decorative Label Punch and the Vintage Flower Adornments from our Occasions Mini.

Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes and Everyday Flexible Phrases (retired).

Colors: Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Rose Red, Crumb Cake, River Rock, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke

Punches: Curly Label XL, 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" circle punches, 1 3/4" x 7/8" Oval Large, Scallop Trim Border, Two-Step Bird XL (leaves), Jewelry Tag Medium, Decorative Label Punch (Occasions Mini)

Big Shot Embossing Folders: Manhattan Flower, Perfect Polka Dots, Vintage Wallpaper

Accessories: Rose Red Grosgrain (retired), Very Vanilla Grosgrain, Linen Thread, Antique Brass Jumbo Eyelet, Antique Brads, Vintage Flower Adornments (Occasions Mini), Stampin' Dimensionals, Moonlight Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink.

I have a wee bonus project to share. It is from our recently completed Big Shot Card Swap.

BLOG CANDY: A random comment will be chosen by my elite judge (my 7-year-old son) to win this card!

Your next stop on the Hop is Stamp With Jane. I'm sure she'll have something fabulous to share - she's awesome!

Happy Hopping!

Shari

March BCB Cards

Here are the cards for tonight's Birthday Card Bonanza! We start at 7PM as always. $1 per card. All you have to do is tell me how many of each you'd like to make.

Happy Stampin'

Shari

Stamp-a-Stack on March 13th

Hello, Stampers!

Here are the five card samples for my next Stamp-a-Stack. It is scheduled for Sunday, March 13th at 2PM.

You can make as many of each card as you like! As always, the cards are $1 each and include the envelope. The greetings shown on each card can be changed to fit your needs.

Please RSVP by March 4th (that's this Friday!) and let me know which cards you'd like to make and how many of each. I will need to order some extra card stock this time around, so I don't want to cut it too close on shipping times.

1. Stamped with Forest Friends - base is Marina Mist.

2. Stamped with Artistic Etchings - base is Sahara Sand.

3. Stamped with Simple Snowflake - base is Bashful Blue.

4. Stamped with Trendy Trees - base is Wild Wasabi.

5. Stamped with Pocket Silhouettes - base is Crumb Cake.

Click on the photo to see it larger.

See you on the 13th!

Shari

Birthday Card Bonanza for February 2011

Here are the two cards for tonight's Birthday Card Bonanza. As you can see, one of them is for Valentine's Day.

As always, cards are $1 each. Let me know how many you'd like to make. We'll make them after the party.

SALE-A-BRATION PARTY at 7PM

Normally, BCB is at 7PM, but tonight I'm hosting a Sale-A-Bration Party at that time. We'll all be making three projects using stamps that are FREE this time of year! You've gotta' love free!!! How can you get these freebies? You can pick one free product with every $50 you spend on products from our Idea Book & Catalog or the Occasions Mini Catalog. There is no limit to how many free products you can earn!

This is also a great time of year to host your own workshop. You get exclusive benefits as a hostess, free Sale-A-Bration products with your own order, plus a free Sale-A-Bration product when your workshop is $300 or more. Contact me to book a date.

Let me know if you can make it tonight (give me a call!) so I will be sure to have enough materials prepared for everyone.

Happy Stampin'

Shari

Seasonal Frame Series

Here is the January piece for my Seasonal Frame series. It is made with the Ice Cream Parlor DSP & Quick Accents Pack that is featured in our Sale-a-Bration catalog. (Sale-a-Bration starts on Janury 25th this year!) It is full of flowers and cheery colors. I had to get a bit creative to make it look wintry! I think it turned out well.

The colors used are Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Old Olive, Peach Parfait (InColor) and Pumpkin Pie.

I used a couple of retired sets for the stamped snowflakes and some words. The cute little penguin is from Every Little Bit. "January" comes from the Full Calendar set.

A couple squares have Moonlight Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink on them. The snowflake on the top right is painted in Smooch, as well as the white circle in the bottom row. It really made it shimmer!

I am considering doing this as a cyclical class, meaning that I will just keep doing these frames all year, every year and you can dive into the series at any time. If you are interested in joining us, please let me know.

Happy Stampin'!
Shari