Shop Online, Anytime!


  • Click the button above to go to my Stampin' Up! website.

    Click the "Shop Now" button in the top, right corner under my contact information.

Subscribe To My Newsletter and Blog

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Promotions

  • Save 30% on Selected Products
  • Starter Kit Special
  • Summer Fun!
  • NEW Pop-Up Dies for the Big Shot

    Click here to view the PDF.
    Click here for instructions on how to make the 3-tier Cake.
  • Definitely Decorative
  • Big Shot: Special Edition Starter Kit $195.95
    Stampin' Up! has partnered with Sizzix! Get exclusive die-cuts from Stampin' Up!

Stampin' Up! Official Videos

Catalogs

Project of the Month

Disclaimer

  • This is a personal blog of Sandi MacIver, an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, and I am responsible for its content. Stampin' Up! does not endorse the use of or contents of the classes, services, or non-Stampin' Up! products I may offer here.
Blog Widget by LinkWithin

July 14, 2009

OF THE EARTH STAMP SET & MOJO MONDAY95

Howdy Stampers and welcome back.  Firstly I would like to address a couple of questions that have been popping up in the past 24 hours concerning the new tutorial (see right sidebar).

1) - What if you don't have the Dream Garden Stamp set?  Some good substitutes are:  Embrace Life, Eastern Influences, Asian Artistry and even today's spot lighted set, Flower Fancy.

2) - How much are my tutorials?  They are all $5.00. I started the tutorials to help fellow demonstrators with projects for classes, and fellow stampers to create with their Stampin Up purchases.  It is not my wish to get rich from this, just to cover my expenses, and it does.

3) - Where are my tutorials? on my blog www.sandimaciver.com   The right side bar, 2nd item FOR SALE just click on the picture, it will open the description page for you.  There are presently 5 tutorials in there, pick the one you are interested in, click on the picture and the Paypal page will come up.

As soon as I finish my blog tour items, I'm going to do some samples of this latest tutorial in other stamp sets and Design Paper - as requested by many of you.  Thank you for your hints, suggestions and compliments.  I always appreciate feed back good or bad (I prefer good, but I want to hear bad too-as nicely as possible please).  It will help me streamline these tutorials into exactly what you gals are looking for.

Oh, lets get on to some stamping.  I took a well deserved day off today and played a little (ok, a 1/2 day off).  I Loved the layout yesterday for the Mojo Monday week 95 challenge so I am using that as my layout inspiration.

Flower fancy stamp set - green card IMG_0623 I am also using the OF THE EARTH Stamp set (page 101) and the COTTAGE WALL Designer Series paper (page 160)and the Ribbon Originals, ELEMENTARY (page 182).

Wanna know a secret, these are all items I am using for my display in the upcoming ROYAL BLOG TOUR too.....I'm kind of a fan of purple and green.

So why two cards - well I wanted to point out a little gift we get from Stampin Up every single time we buy a package of their Designer Series paper.  It is all coordinated.  These two cards are exactly the same in every single way, except, I turned over the base piece of Designer Series paper.  Isn't it amazing how different the card looks just by doing that one thing.  And, you don't have to worry about it matching, because it's all the same colors, just a different design.

I'm going to help you out a little here with this Mojo Monday design.  Here are the measurements for all the pieces I used.

Base card - 4 1/4 x 5-1/2 side fold.

Rich Razzleberry mat - 4 x 5-1/4

Cottage Wall DSP - 3-7/8 x 5-1/8

The piece across the bottom is actually 3 layers.

Rich Razzleberry 2 x 4 - punched with the eyelet boarder punch.(pg 187) 

Old Olive, 1-1/4 x 4 inches.

Cottage Wall DSP - 1-1/4 x 4 inches.

Background little square on the right is:

Cottage Wall DSP - 2 x 2 inches square.

Old Olive mat 2-1/8 x 2-1/8 inches square.

the little birdie was inked with Old Olive ink and stamped on a scrap of Whisper White, cut him out leaving 1/8 inch boarder and distress the edges with our distressing tool (page 191).

Flower fancy stamp set-pieces Here is a picture of the construction process.  I break it down into little sections, makes it easier.  I layer all my items, then, if I don't have a sketch to follow like I do today, I use all these pieces to audition where I would like them on the card.  Sometimes I add, sometimes I take away.

Flower fancy stamp set - flowers I used my Stampin Write Markers to color these flowers.  Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry and Orchid Opulance.  If you do the lighter flower first, you don't have to clean your stamp before doing the darker color (I hate cleaning stamps - which is quite evident if you actually see my stamps, LOL).

Ok, that's my share for you today, don't forget when you are finished creating your own little jem, upload it to the Mojo Monday website for all to see.

As always, if you do not have a Stampin Up Demonstrator and you would like to order any of these items, I would love to be your demonstrator, just contact me, or simply click the "shop now" button top left of my blog.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you find a little time today to be creative and some ink on those pretty little fingers of yours.

Hugs

Sandisiggy

July 13, 2009

DREAM GARDENS STAMP SET- NEW TUTORIAL NOW AVAILABLE

Dream garden-blog picture400
Howdy and welcome back.  AND, a HUGE thank you to Heather for loading my newest tutorial for me....
and fixing my booboo's....If you need blog help, a blog built, Stampin Up updates, she is your gal.  She ROCKS.

Ok, so, as you can see from the picture, I went GAGA over the new DREAM GARDENS stamp set in our new catalog (page 104).  I added our new LATTICE Big Shot Die Cut (page 198) and the Designer Series paper BELLA BLEU (page 162).  Then, of course, I needed ribbon and as soon as I saw Ribbon Originals ELEMENTARY (page 182), I knew that was it.  That ribbon is BEA-U-T-IFUL.

I continue with my deeply discounted price of $5.00 for this 5 project set.  My way of helping out fellow demonstrators and stamping friends.  Hope you enjoy it.

To order, please go to my right sidebar and click on the picture.  It will bring up a new page with a detailed description and pictures of all currently available tutorials.  Click on the one you wish to purchase and a new page comes up with the paypal button attached. (THEY ARE ALL $5.00 EACH)

RIBBON SHARE UPDATE - I had a wild ribbon weekend.  It is all measured, re-cut and re-wrapped.  I will be packed this morning and mailed this afternoon.  Thank you to everyone who participated.

AND - Demonstrators got a sneak peek this morning at our new MINI......all I can say is........
POOR VISA CARD :0(      I like every single thing in it.  Come on Pre-order..........(as demonstrators, we get to pre-order and play with these items so that when the catalog goes live, we have awesome samples to share with you.....and speaking of demonstrators........

I would like to Welcome Sherry Hostetter to my team.  I met Sherry through my Cyber Stamp Club, she has become a great friend and now a Stampin Up Demonstrator.  Welcome Sherry and we are going to have so much fun playing,,,, errrr I mean, working together (LOL - really hard to call this job work).
Sherry is also an extremely accomplished artist and you can view her blog here.  You will want to sign up to subscribe so you don't miss any of Sherry's great projects.  The one she has posted right now absolutely blows me away.  She has been playing with one of my absolute favorite Stampin Up stamps, the retired "Riot of Petals".

That's my update for today.  I have a new fast and fun card for you tomorrow, so see you then, and thank you for stopping by
Sandisiggy

July 10, 2009

Sharing, a card from CANDI

God's beauty 

Howdy and welcome back.  Today I am sharing a card I DIDN'T make.  But my friend Candi Gayken did.  Isn't it beautiful.  She is an awesome stamper and friend, and one of my stamping buddies I left behind in Sequim Washington when we moved to Portland.  Hi to everyone up in Sequim and Port Angeles, miss you all.

Anyway, she embossed the little plant pot with her cuttlebug, Black embossed the flower stem and colored them, then she black embossed the butterfly and cut it out.  Thank you Candi, your card is going on the WALL OF FAME>

TUTORIAL UPDATE -Yipee Skippy, it's finished.  I tried to load it all onto my blog, and I just messed it up, so my Blog Goddess, Heather at www.blogsbyheather.com  will be fixing that for me in the next couple of days...... stay tuned, you gonna like it.  I'm off to finish the Cyber Club project of the month, then back to my Blog tour projects. (apparently I'm way better at creating stamping projects than I am inputting on my blog..LOL.... hey everyone has to be good at something right?)  Thank you Heather!

OH< and the ribbon for the Ribbon Share arrived today so I will get that all measured, cut and repacked and out first thing Monday Morning.  Thank you to all who participated.

Phewwwww, i'm tired......just reading that.......

Oh, and I love all the e-mails about how much you are enjoying the "card of the week" website.  Isn't it great.  If you haven't gone there yet, do, you will love all the great art in there.


Have a wonderful weekend, and sneak in some stampin time.

Sandisiggy

July 09, 2009

A NEW BLOG TOUR & A SITE SHARE

I don't have a card to share with you today because I'm smack in the middle of building the next tutorial,  But I have a couple of cool other things to share with you.

LNS_Basic_Banner 

There is another blog tour coming, July 26th, 27th and 28, and it is a HUGE DEAl.  There are 4 groups of 20 stampers.... whoooo hooo, clear your plate for that weekend. 

 You will want to be visiting these blogs.  Not only have all these wonderful artists been working hard for weeks to bring you great new ideas and designs using items from the newly released Stampin Up catalog, but there is tons of blog candy so read carefully. 

Visit the home page of this tour by linking to the image above.  There you shall find interviews with participants,a list of who is participating, and on the tour weekend it is the home base for directions to the 4 different tours so save this link.  I will have it posted at the top of my page for the whole weekend as well.

My other share, is a blog I subscribe to and I spend a LOT of time in there.

CARD OF THE WEEK  You are going to so love this site .  She visits all kinds of blogs and then creates lists of her findings.  I love visiting, some times it's scrap pages, some times it's cards, some times it's gift boxes you will spend hours noodling around, enjoy.

Ok, that's it.  I'm on card #4 of my tutorial and my gosh, it is 19 pages already.  I am very proud of this upcoming tutorial.  The container for the cards is an idea I have been playing with for about 3 months and it finally came together.  Look for it soon.

thanks for stoppin, enjoy your blog hoppin

Sandisiggy

July 07, 2009

OF THE EARTH - HOSTESS LEVEL 1 STAMP SET- a simple card

Of the earth stamp set 

Howdy, welcome back.  As promised, here is my second, simple card with the new OF THE EARTH Stamp Set.  If you have been visiting me for awhile, you know, I have a hard time with "simple".  I'm a product hog, I have to have layers upon layers of card stock, ink everywhere, and something gets embossed!  Well, not today my friends.  Well, not totally.  This was one of those fast and fun numbers.

The card is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 side fold in Crushed Curry (yummy new in color)

Whisper White is 4 x 5-1/4.  First thing I did was put it in my Stampin Up cutter, and I used my score attachment to score two lines down the right side (ok, I know, I embossed it! - dry embossing this time, man, it is so hard to break habits!). 

Next, I used my stamp-a-ma-jig (page 191)to stamp the flower 3 times down the right side in Dusty Durango.

Stamped the sentiment across the bottom with Crushed Curry (these names are making me hungry!).

Next, I stamped the birdie with Dusty Durango onto a piece of Crushed Curry, cut him out, distressed the edges with my little distressing tool (cutting kit on page 191) and I mounted him with some dimensionals.

Easy peasy and yah won't be getting anything easier than that from this old broad let me tell yah.

Ok, I am creating up a storm today, so short post, don't want to lose my mojo.  Wait till you see this tutorial, I am SO LOVING IT>  New toys from my new TOY BOX, a hint, a new die, a new stamp set, new ribbon (of course).  YUMMY, you gonna like it!.

thanks for stopping, hope you got some ink on your fingers today, I know I did!.

Sandisiggy

July 06, 2009

OF THE EARTH STAMP SET AND CYBER STAMP CLUB HOSTESS DRAW

Happy Monday to you.  I have to apologize, with getting my new TOY BOX on friday (that is now what my husband calls big brown boxes from Stampin Up< LOL), and getting ready to celebrate the 4th with friends, I completely forgot to do the CYBER STAMP CLUB - HOSTESS SET DRAW.  I'm so sorry.  I did it this morning, the winner is --------SHERRY FROM TEXAS... I pulled up my sox, and it is already in the mail to you and thank you so much for being a club member last month.  Sherry and I were also chatting on the phone last Thursday because she was looking for the stamp RIOT OF PETALS.  A stamp retired from S.U. about 1.5 years ago.  I did find her one and had promised a couple of pictures of cards.

Blue riotBoth of these cards are done the same way.  I embossed the image in gold on black card stock.  In this one, I used the blue, purple and rusk metallic colored pencils that Stampin Up also used to sell. (ok, yes, this is a history lesson - but you know you have all of this in the back of your closet - just in case you want to play along!).

RIOT OF PETALS

On this one, I used the pink and purple shades of the crayons and the 2 shades of green on the leaves.

It took quite a while to color these, but I really like coloring and when they were done, boy do they pop.

So there you go Sherry, a couple more cards to give you ideas for your stamp.

-----------------------------------------------------


CYBER STAMP CLUB  members for July will be vying for a new Level 1 Hostess set in our new catalog, page 13, OF THE EARTH.  I love this set and it was my very first pick in my order last week.

IMG_0482

I love the little birdie,

That beautiful long stemmed flower has so many possibilities.

I can't wait to color that butterfly and flowers with my new In-Color Markers

and the saying - well, that is what we do every single time we make a card for someone, or a scrapbook, a hand made gift.  We give them a piece of ourselves.




IMG_0484 Here is the card in the catalog.  I really like this card.  Great use of layers and colors.  It's simple but interesting.  I spent a lot of time looking at it.

Look at the great colors they used.  Old olive, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry, is that Elegant Eggplant?

stamp the bird and cut him out

Emboss the flowers with clear embossing powder on Whisper White card stock, brayer the whole thing with Dusty Durango.


Oh look, they over-stamped in the background with En Francais our background stamp (page 134)

Of the earth stamp set - green card and oh looky, I had to give it a go too.  My card is a 5x7, but the inside image all fits on a 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 card because that is where I started, before I had to do crazy background stuff....See what happens when I don't stamp for 4 days.

Black mat is 5-1/4 x 4

Crushed Curry is 5-1/8 x 2-1/2

Whisper white is 5 x 2-1/2, clear emboss flowers, brayer with Dusty Durango, then stamp En Francais also in Dusty Durango over it, wipe off any on the flowers.  (I also gold embossed En Francais again on the corner)

Bottom green piece is 5-1/8 x 1-1/2 and is from Cottage Wall (page 160) NEW DSP my friends, and every piece quite lovely.

Ok, I have another (much easier) card for you tomorrow using the same set.

Remember, if you don't have a Stampin Up Demonstrator, I would love to be yours, just click on the "shop" button top left of my blog and you are on your way.  That automatically enters you into Cyber Stamp Club for the month and not only do you get a chance to win the most awesome Hostess Set, you will get a FREE - Project of the Month from me, and a free copy of the month's tutorial.  Both of which I am now currently working on as my new "TOY BOX" arrived on Friday, so I will post as soon as finished.

Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July, thank you so much for stopping by and come on back soon.

Sandisiggy

July 02, 2009

LEXICON OF LEAVES - stamp set - NEW SCIENCE PROJECT

ALL CONTENT INCLUDING TEXT, PHOTOGRAPHS & DESIGNS COPYRIGHT 1999 - 2009 SANDI MACIVER DESIGNS

You are welcome to case, link backs are always appreciated.  Content is shared for personal use only - no part of this post may be copied for publication, contest entry or on-line distribution without permission.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Howdy stampers, welcome back.  I noticed something yesterday.  I have the touch of death on our stamp sets.  If I buy it - It retires.  I was quite upset to see LEXICON OF LEAVES was not in the new caddy as I had just purchased it with my SAB rewards and thought, or darn, I can't use it now.  Well, the Dormant List is out and YIPEE SKIPPY - there they are.... Item #113710, they are on page 101 of the last catalog and price is $25.95

So, I keep telling you about my science projects.  I have this nasty mess going on on-top of one of my tables in our sun room, (I'll take a picture for you tomorrow).  Anyway, I started fooling with one the other day and put it down to dry. 

Lexicon of Leaves stamp set 

Isn't it interesting.  It is a piece of acetate that I stamped the large leaf image on one side with Stazon Black.  Turned it over and covered the other side with Crystal Effects.  Then with reinkers, I added 2 drops of Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry and Dusty Durango.  I spread it out with a Popsicle stick then laid it down to dry.  You are seeing 2 images in the picture because the sun is behind me, and the second, bottom right image is the reflection through the art piece onto a piece of white paper (isn't that cool, looks like water).  Now, I have to go and figure out a card for this little puppy.

Thanks for signing up for the ribbon share, all of you. (yesterday's post of your interested).

Cyber Stamp Club, I am working on this months project.  I'm in need of a couple of items from my order yesterday to finish it, so please be patient.  I promise a good project this month as is the Tutorial.

If you need a catalog, please e-mail me sandi_maciver@comcast.net

Thanks for stopping by, hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th of July.  Don't forget to wash those inky fingers before you make the potato salad!

Sandisiggy

July 01, 2009

NEW CATALOG - RIBBON SHARE

ALL CONTENT INCLUDING TEXT, PHOTOGRAPHS & DESIGNS COPYRIGHT 1999 - 2009 SANDI MACIVER DESIGNS

You are welcome to case, link backs are always appreciated.  Content is shared for personal use only - no part of this post may be copied for publication, contest entry or on-line distribution without permission.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, are you finished drooling over that new catalog yet?  I just submitted my first order, poor little visa card!  Way to many nice new things in there.

Yesterday, I was telling you about a ribbon share.  Stampin Up asked us not to show any part of the catalog ahead of time, so I didn't, but today, we can share.  So here is the Deal.

 

SHARE #1

Ribbon 

PAGE 182 - NEW RIBBON ORIGINALS

there are 3 sets.  Each has 3 yards of 3 designs.  To buy all three would cost $29.85 

SHARE - 1 yard of each of 9 ribbons for $12.90. (includes postage).

SHARE #2

Ribbon 2 

also page 182 of the catalog.  In Color - 1/2 Inch Polka-Dot Grosgrain Ribbon

6 colors at $9.95 each = $59.70, (plus $5.97 shipping)

SHARE - 2.5 yards of each 6 colors for $12.90.

SHARE #3

Ribbon 3 sorry - bad picture - bet no one steals this one :0)

page 183 - 1-1/4 WIDE STRIPED GROSGRAIN RIBBON IN PUMPKIN PIE, CHOCOLATE CHIP, OLD OLIVE AND BASIC BLACK.  we first saw this ribbon in the holiday mini last fall in red and white and it is awesome to work with.

4 rolls @ $8.95 = $35.80 (plus $3.58 shipping)

SHARE = 2.5 yards each of 4 colors for $11.85

As per Stampin Up Guidelines.  You must sign up and pay before the deadline of July 8th to participate in this share.

If interested, please e-mail me sandi_maciver@comcast.netI will send you a paypal invoice to complete the transaction.  As stated, the order will go in 1:00 P.M. July 8th, please allow a week for delivery, distribution and mailing to you.  If you are watching your nickles like I am, this is a great way to get a working supply of all the new awesome ribbon, without having to buy a roll of each.  All prices include S.U. shipping to me, and my postage to you.  U.S. Residents only please.

Next month we will do the same thing with the accessories.

No card today, sorry, I was collecting and prepping orders all morning, now I'm waiting impatiently for new rubbah.

thanks for stopping, hope you got your fingers inky today.

Sandisiggy

June 30, 2009

HAPPY LAST DAY OF THE YEAR TO YOU ALL

Yes, it is the very last day of the STAMPIN UP YEAR.  Our new catalog goes live tomorrow at noon Utah time... WHOO HOOO,,,,, NEW RUBBAH.  I am sure I have changed my order 8 times.  I am loving this new catalog.

If you are one of my customers or a member of my CYBER STAMP CLUB you are now reading your new caddy too, hope you're enjoying it.  If you are not a member of Cyber Stamp Club, you missed out, because I overnight express mailed a FREE catalog to every single member from the past 3 months.  Don't you just love surprises in the mail, I sure do, hope you all did too and thank you for your support and joining the club.

Those lucky gals also know something you don't.  I'm hosting a Ribbon Share that I can't announce officially until tomorrow.  So check back.  page 182 and 183 of the new catalog is the home of the ribbon.  I have 3 sets I am "sharing".  As per Stampin Up Rules, you must have joined and paid the "Share", before I order.  The next order is going in July 8th so if your interested, come on back tomorrow for the details.  It is a great way to get a super selection of ribbon at a fraction of the price of having to buy all the spools.

And, I have a little card share for you today.  I was cleaning up the STAMPIN CAVE and I found some flowers left over from the oh so sweet smelling Coffee episode a couple of weeks ago, those cards still smell so great.  So I did up a little quicky to share with you.

Flower fancy stamp set 

Not bad for left overs ey?  You should see what I do with Meatloaf, ROFLOL!

This card is a 9x4, the bottom turquoise part was run through the Big Shot with a Texturz Die that I first inked with Tempting Turquoise ink.  (I stamped the flowers first with my stazon Black in pad).

The Circle and the scallop circle were also left overs from other projects as well so I just painted my sentiment stamp (from All Holidays) with my Stampinwrite markers, in Summer Suede, Temp. Turquoise and Basic Black

The Gold strip in the middle was yet another Science Project.....I wet a piece of Old Olive card stock and ran it through the Big Shot on a Texturz plate, the one that looks like the side of a barn, or bark....when it was dry, I ran my Versamark pad over the embossed section, covered it with gold embossing powder, and heat set that with my heat tool.  Gotta tell you, it is pretty funky my friends, very texturorial (spell check is going to have a blast with that one!). 

Note:  I spray my card stock with water before I emboss it because the embossing gets twice as deep!

The ribbon at the bottom comes up through the sentiment piece because I punched a slot with the Horizontal Slot punch, the ribbon is dyed with coffee and is actually Stampin Up Organza Ribbon (white).

I have a photo box in my studio that I toss all my left overs into.  The box overflowed last week, but it was the end of the catalog and I was packing up all my retired designer papers and card stock to send down to Sherrill Graff, so I threw in all the little art pieces, alphabets, embossed pieces, all my retired rub ons too.  Sherrill is the leader of a great program in Vegas in conjunction with the Ronald McDonald House.  She takes all these supplies to the hospital and she has stamping and card making days with the sick children and their families.  The children absolutely love having the artistic distraction, the interaction with others, and they make some awesome cards.  Ronald McDonald House, is part of Stampin Up's, Make a Difference program.  Each catalog has a stamp set dedicated to this worthy cause and $2.00 from each sale goes to this Charity. This year, this set is on the inside back cover, it has 4 very cool stamps in it, and it is called VERY THANKFUL.  A set that is coming to my house soon.

If you would like to contribute to Sherrill's very worthwhile cause, please click on her name, it takes you to her site, scroll down and she has instructions and mailing information for you.  Cleaning out your work space and purging retired items is a cleansing process, donating these items to some very sick children, will make you feel good for days.

thank you so much for stopping by.  The catalog will also be live on the S.U. website tomorrow and you can link through to that from my blog www.sandimaciver.com  to to the top and click on the "shop here" button, you can view it without shopping, but please feel free to shop if you like to, that of course, will automatically enter you into Cybre Stamp Club for this month and I will tell you about the Hostess Set up for grabs tomorrow (when I'm allowed to)

See yah tamorah


Sandisiggy

June 29, 2009

BLoomin Beautiful Stamp Set and SC 234 Challenge

ALL CONTENT INCLUDING TEXT, PHOTOGRAPHS & DESIGNS COPYRIGHT 1999 - 2009 SANDI MACIVER DESIGNS

Feel free to case my work, I'm truly flattered that you want to and I always appreciate a link back.  Content is shared for personal use only - no part of this post may be copied for publication, contest entry or on-line distribution without permission.

Bloomin beautiful stamp set-sc234 

Howdy and Happy Monday to you.  I took time out this weekend to catch up on Splitcoast Challenge #234.  While Jack and I are on our walkabouts I have noticed all the Hydrangea bushes are blooming, so beautiful.  Made me dig out this stamp set. (like, I actually NEED an excuse to stamp)  ;0)

Using Stampin up's Watercolor  Wonder Crayons and my aqua painter, I painted the image.  Then, I decided I wanted to use the definition stamp in the set to add some background, so I built a mask.

Mask 

I am going to stamp in Orchid Opulence, which is the color of my flowers, so I'm not to worried about it showing there, but I don't want it to show on my vase, so I stamped the image on a scrap of printer paper and cut out just the vase.

Stamp over  

Place this "mask" over the part you want to protect (the vase).  Stamp.  I used the stamp off method as I wanted the image to appear faintly in the background so I stamped it on scrap first then on my art piece. (hence the messy scrap paper in the background - hey, just trying to be realistic here... LOL)

Remove mask 

remove your mask and you're ready to put your card together.

This card is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Old Olive, side fold.

Mat is 4 x 5-1/4, Very Vanilla

2nd mat 3-3/4 x 5, Elegant Eggplant

Bella Bleu Designer Paper is 3-5/8 x 4-7/8 (this paper made it to the new caddy by the way).

My art piece is 3x3 watercolor paper, matted to 3.1 x 3.1 Elegant Eggplant.

The bee was stamped on a scrap of watercolor paper, punch with the 1 inch circle punch, matted with a 1-1/4 inch circle punch again in El. Eggplant.  The bottom left image was the main image stamped in Orchid Opulence on another scrap of the watercolor paper and punched with the 1-1/4 circle punch, matted to the El. Eggplant, punched with the 1-3/8 circle punch.  I tied a piece of 5/8 Old Olive grosgrain ribbon around the mat pieces before attaching it to my card.  Once it was all together, I decided to add some Crystal Effects to the bee's wings and my vase.

Ok, that is it for today.  I have started working on my blog tour items for the July 26th Royal Blog Tour.  My, but it is big this time, good thing we have a whole weekend to be touring.  4 groups of 20.  I know all these great artists are hard at work creating for us all to enjoy, and I think I'm going to add some blog candy to mine this time so I will have to decide what that might be....any ideas??????What would YOU like to see for blog candy??  I would love some hints.

Ok, I'm off, early dinner, we are looking at 3 houses this evening....fingers crossed please.....we really need to nail down a house and get this process complete.  Looking at real estate every weekend is getting very old very quickly.

Thanks for stopping, go get your fingers inky and come on back soon. 

Sandisiggy

COPYWRITE & ALL THAT

  • All content (including text, photographs & designs) are copyright Sandi MacIver Designs 1999 - 2009. Shared for personal use only. No content may be removed, duplicated or copied for publication, contest entry, online distribution, or advertisement, without permission.

FOR SALE

  • Affordable Class Kits and Card Designs

Blog Tour


  • ANNOUNCING THE JULY 26, 27 AND 28TH LNS ROYAL BLOG TOUR!
    Find out about all the wonderful things coming in the next tour! Just click on the crown above, and you'll be taken to the Royal Blog Tour Home Blog. You'll want to subscribe to this blog so you won't miss anything. We will have special featured blogs on each tour. The Home Blog will have articles about the fabulous ladies behind these blogs ~ who they are, where they find inspiration and lots of interesting personal insights! You'll also find out who's offering blog candy on this tour; and after the tour, you'll be able to find links to all the blogs on the tour. This is important because the princesses won't be leaving any glass slippers (links) behind at midnight! This blog is also where all the tours start and end, so be sure you are part of the fun by subscribing to the Royal Blog Tour Blog!

Blog Stars

  • Blog Star

Become a SUDSOL Member

  • SUDSOL Member

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Online Calendar

Categories

Recommended Services

  • Laycock Designs
  • Blogs By Heather