3/6 Little Friends and Occasions Alphabet and More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper

Good Evening Friends,

If you placed an online order with me Last month or attended my open house, you may be getting one of these pretty friendship cards in the mail this week! 

My good friend Jenny sat down and helped me watercolor a bunch of them and honestly, I had a ball with her!  :) 

If you are interested on how to watercolor with markers, I did a tutorial here.

Measurements:

The Real Red Base Layer measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and is scored at 4 1/4" and folded in half.

The large hearts DSP layer is 5 1/4 x 2 3/4" and the small hearts is 5 1/4" x 1 3/4"

The very vanilla strip across the front measures 1/2" wide and was cut down from 4 1/4"

Here's another look at this pretty card.

Stamps: Little Friends and Occasions Alphabet stamp sets
Ink: real red, primrose petals, soft suede, and pool party, and More Amore Designer Series Paper
Paper: Real red, very vanilla, watercolor paper, primrose petals
Accessories: markers and aquapainters, self adhesive rhinestones

Want to see more examples of Watercoloring with markers?  Click here to see more samples!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a wonderful night!

Love,
Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach
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8/20 Stampin' Up! Dinoroar Kids Card

Happy Monday to you all!

Today I'm sharing a Triple Time Stamping card, I made at my friend Diane's Stampin' Up Workshop!

I guess I should call this "double time" because we didn't stamp the top layer.  That became our focal point.  This was the "boy" card we did at the "mom and me" style private class earlier this month.

This one is pretty easy and the boys in the class (around 8-9 years old) LOVED this card after making the "girly girl" one.

Measurements:

Base: Always Artichoke Cardstock, 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, scored and folded in half at 4 1/4”

Layer 2: Very Vanilla 4 x 5 1/4”

Layer 3: Always Artichoke Cardstock 4 1/4” x 3 1/4”

Layer 4: Very Vanilla 4” x 3”

Layer 5: Always Artichoke Cardstock 3 x 2 1/4”

Layer 6:  Very Vanilla 2 3/4” x 2

Step By Step Instructions:

Step 1:  Grab a packet and use temporary adhesive to attach layers 4 and 6 on top of one another. 

Step 2: Stamp the green the “t-rex” artichoke ink twice (top and bottom corners (don’t worry about any gaps that show up).  They will be covered by the green mattes when we assemble the card with the permanent adhesive. 

Step 3: Stamp the bird and triceratops in other random areas around the frame and set aside

Step 4: Stamp the triceratops in midnight muse ink on the smallest white piece, then use the blender pen to move the ink around and “shade” the dinosaur.

Step 5:  Stamp the “roar” sentiment in artichoke ink just below that on the same piece (Layer 6). 

Step 6: Attach layer 6 to the layer underneath, add 4 dimensionals to this layer to “pop it up”

Step 7: Attach the rest of the layers to the front of the card, keeping in mind that you shouldn’t turn the white (they line up the way you stamped them). 

Step 8:  Enjoy!

Shopping List Made Easy

Item Numbers	Stamp Set:	US Price	Have √	Order √
122535W/122537C	Dinoroar  ~ Page 64	24.95W/17.95C
129851	Clear Block Starter Bundle C, D, and H	$19.95
	OR
118486	Clear mount block “C” for clear stamps ~ page 7	$6.95
118485	Clear Mount Block “D” for clear stamps ~ Page 7	$8.50
118490	Clear mount block “H” for clear stamps ~ page 7	$8.50
	Ink:
126972	Always Artichoke Ink pad  ~ page 155	$5.95
126860	Midnight Muse ink pad ~ Page 152	$5.95
	Card Stock:
101650	Very Vanilla Cardstock ~ page 156	$8.50
105119	Always Artichoke Card Stock ~ page 155	$6.95
	Accessories:
102845	Blender Pens	$9.95
104332	SNAIL adhesive DISPENSER  ~ Page 177	$6.95
104331	SNAIL adhesive refills	$4.50
106959	Tabletop Paper Cutter ~ Page 180	$45.95

Thanks so much for stopping by today!


Selene Kempton
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8/18 Stampin' Up! Gooly Ghouls Designer Kit and Champagne Glimmer Paper

Good Morning Friends!

Today's project share is a treat bag I did at my friend's "mommy and me" private class at the beginning of this month.  We made two Halloween treats, a girl birthday, and a boy birthday card.  The mom's and children squealed with delight after they ran these AWESOME new glassine bags through the big shot.  As much fun as it was to see the bags embossed, I felt they needed some "pop" so after it came out of the big shot, I had the children lay the bags down on their protective paper, and randomly run a stazon ink pad over the top to add ink that wouldn't move, and some color to the front of the spider web!  Wicked fun!  So in the kit you get 10 bags, and 20 tags.  10 are round (as shown here) and 10 are oblong.  We used those on the second project which I'll hopefully share next week.  I want to write you a little tutorial for that one because it is "off the hook coolness," Just sayin'

I had 10 people, including my own daughter, Alexis.  So, there were 5 moms and 5 kids (ages 7-10), and we used the full contents of one $7.95 kit at the workshop.  Plus, each mom and child got a small bag of candy corn to eat share and decorate the inside of the bag. 

Here's what the kit looks like:

• 20 printed double sided tags 10 of each in two designs
• 10 galssine bags with die-cut edges: each 3x5" x 1 1/2"
• 50 adhesive-backed googly eyes (ea. 5 mm)
• 10 pieces Pumpkin Pie/Whisper White Baker's Twine, ea. 8" (color exclusive to this kit). 

Colors are Basic Black, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie, and Whisper White.  I added a little glimmer paper, and dimensionals, glue dots and a 1/16" hole punch, plus the Ghoulish Ghouls Stamp set.  

If you purchase the stamp set in clear, it's only $12.95, if you bundle it with one of the kit's it's priced to save you 15%.  So the stamp set AND kit in clear is only 16.95, that's like paying $4 for the kit!  Wood mount is priced $4 higher for both.   This is so affordable to do for the kids for Halloween so THEY can give treats.

So my workshop "wow" was running the bags through the big shot and then adding some stazon ink.  I pre punched some champagne glitter paper  with the 2 3/8" scallop circle punch.

Next I had the kids make a simple swoop with their ribbon and a few glue dots to stick it to itself behind the tag on top.  They stuck it with glue dots to tack it, but added some liquid glue to cement it in between the layers.  They stamped the bat from the coordinating Gooly Ghouls stamp set and attached that to the glittery punched piece with dimensionals. At this point my own little one Alexis (7 years old) pipes up and says: "I love using dimensionals, because you can stick them on the back of your element and wait to put them on your project when you're ready"  WOW, Go Alexis!  I want to recruit my 7 year old! :)  Finally the children put the sticky eyeballs on.  I don't know how I missed those in my photo.  I think I skipped mine because Alexis showed them how to do that with their paper snips.  The sticky backed eyeballs that shake come in the kit too, but you can buy them separately (qty 50) for $2.50.  yea baby!  

Finally, I had the children punch a hole or two side by side one another using the 1/16th" hole punch and run the pumpkin pie bakers twine through.  (that twine color is exclusive to this kit).  All and all we had a fun day.  I don't usually do workshops with kids, but when the kids are such good kids (like this group was), it makes it fun for me!  

Shopping List:
Stamps: Ghoolish Goolies Designer Kit BUNDLE in Clear OR Wood
Ink:  Stazon black
Paper: Glimmer Paper in Champagne color
Accessories:  Extra Kits if you need more than 10, 1/16 circle punch, 2 3/8 scalloped circle punch,
Extra Sticky backed eyeballs (50) , RIBBON Basic Grey striped satin ribbon 1/2"

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'll see you on Monday with some more fun things to share.

Selene Kempton
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Dinosaur Birthday Roar! Saturday Sketch Challenge 250

Good Evening Friends!

This week's card, I stamped about 3 weeks ago.  My daughter had a birthday party to go to and I really thought this would be a good sketch to "man up"  I knew immediately that my dinosaur would sit in the front on the circle panel in the middle. 

I got to thinking about the big circle on the far right and thought... "I need dino feet to make muddy prints!"  I don't have anything that could like that, so I grabbed my medallion stamp.  I really love this background stamp. I inked it up with blue ink and stamped it.  I wanted it to hit the edge of my card to mimic the sketch more closely, but I didn't want the pretty flourishes to "girl up" my manly man boy card!  So here's my creation!  What do you think of my Roar-Birthday?  I tied the manly ribbon in a knot and added my sentiment on some leftover scraps.  I save all my 1/2" strips of white in case I need a ribbon banner sentiment.

So ~ for my measurements, I went smaller.  4 1/4" square card.
Base is 8 1/2" x 4 1/4", scored and folded in half at 4 1/4"
layer 2: 4"square
Layer 3: is that fabulous striped ribbon,
Layer 4: 2 1/2" circle punch
Layer 5: cut dinosaur. 

Easy peasy, rice and cheesy.. :)  Did I just say that?  If you're still reading, I hope I made you smile!
TGIF!
Selene~