Rubber Room Stampin'

HOW ABOUT SOME CONVENTION SWAP CARDS?

Remember those cards I mentioned the other day?  The ones my husband mailed home the end of our first week of our cross country 4 week trip?  Well, since I couldn't pick them up at the post office yesterday because of the  Labor Day Holiday, I finally got them today.  It's very frustrating to return home on a Saturday afternoon and not be able to get your mail until Tuesday.  We did manage to unpack the suitcases and do laundry in that time period though.  I wouldn't have been much help if I'd been able to have that box in my little hands any earlier so---it was a good thing!  Anyway, I thought I'd share some of the great cards I received.  These are from a private swap I joined, each item being a class worthy project.   Between us we can try to figure out what the ingredients are since I won't be posting all of them here.  I'm willing to try to figure them out though it you let me know that you're stumped.  I'll be adding the names of the creators of these projects later tonight as I'm already away from home for an overnight visit.

I love this little desk set-----you can use any Designer Series Paper you want!  This was created by Karie Beglau.  Karie was kind enough to give each recipient an instruction sheet so if making this set yourself interests you, please send me an email and we can 'talk'.

 

Bella Rose was a DSP (Designer Series Paper) demonstrators were able to pre-order before Convention so I have lots of projects using this sweet paper.  I used it myself for a project.  Just add photos to the wall hanger below and you have a lovely attention getter.  Sadly, I don't have the name of the demonstrator who created this wall hanger.  If it's "you", please let me know so I can give you credit.  I love what you did!!!

I used this tin earlier this year to fill with DSP wrapped Hershey's "Nuggets".  Here's another use for it.   It was made by Diane Workman from Colfax, IA.  Nice job and I love the "B" for Blythe!

Inside, a tablet and four 3 x 3 note cards.  A charming 'belly band' to secure it.  Clever and cute!

 

I know who did this one: my friend Kathy Chono-Herring.  Kathy blogs here.  This teasing little cube takes a strange path exposing 8 different displays of papers and words.

Here it is, "exposed" a bit more.

 

This clever box is made from a 12" x 12" piece of textured Kiwi Kiss card stock.  It opens into ......

......a clever little photo album using 4" x 4" coasters.  I wish the name of the creator was attached to the album  because I don't know who it is!  If it's "you", please let me know so I can give you the appropriate kudos and credit.

  

This is just the cutest little bulletin board!  Joan Cristo, from somewhere in Canada made it.  It's now hanging right next to my computer corner in my stamp room.  All important notes go right there!

 

Again, if the artists of the 2 uncredited pieces let me know who they are, I'll gladly put their names with the projects.  Thanks all of you stampers.  Great work! 

See you tomorrow........

MORE MAKE 'N TAKE SAMPLES

Hi again and thanks for coming back for more.

Part of the fun of making the Make 'n Take samples at Stampin' Up!'s conventions or regionals is the camaraderie that exists with your table mates.  This year I was so busy I didn't take any table photos.  But, that being said, we do have a lot of chat:  where are you from, are you having a great time, do you need this supply or that?

Here are some more of this year's make 'n take projects.

This cute little thank you gift bag shows some other uses for ribbon and the great new Scallop Edge Punch.

Ingredients:

Stamp Set:
Eastern Blooms
Thank You Kindly

Cardstock:
Naturals White: 1" x 3"
Pink Pirouette (In Color): 2-1/4" x 4" and 9-1/2" x 6"
Bella Rose Designer Series Paper: 12" x 2"
Whisper White Note cards and envelopes

Ink:
Chocolate Chip Classic Pad
Pink Pirouette Classic Pad

Accessories:
Chunky Stampin' Glitter: Silver
Pink Pirouette 1-1/4" grosgrain ribbon: 11"
Linen thread: 12"
Fire Circle Rhinestone brads: 1-pink
Hidden Garden Rub-Ons
Crystal Effects
Mini Glue-Dots
Pop-Up Glue Dots
Sticky Strip
Crafter's Tool Kit (or 1/16" hand held punch)
Scallop Edge punch
1" Circle punch
Paper Snips
Paper Cutter with scoring blade

Please email me if you'd like exact directions or if you'd like to order any (or all) of these ingredients.

Here's another cutie that we made.  It's  a tidy bookmark that's just been unpacked and placed in the book I'm currently reading.

Ingredients:

Stamp Set:
Eastern Blooms

Cardstock:
Pacific Point (In Color): 2 pcs. 1-7/8" x 1-7/8"
Whisper White: 2-1/4" x 4"
Old Olive Patterns Designer Series Paper: 1-5/8" x 1-5/8"

Ink:
Old Olive Craft Pad
Tangerine Tango (In Color) Classic Pad

Accessories:
On Board Essentials Scallop Square
Pacific Point (In Color) 5/8" striped grosgrain ribbon: 20"
Filigree Designer brads: 1 small and one large
Stampin' Dimensionals
Mini Glue Dots
Sticky Strip
1/2" circle punch
Sponge Daubers

This Thank You card introduces several new accessories: 1" double stitched ribbon, Vanilla hodgepodge hardware, the scalloped edge punch, and on-board loads of letters, plus a tip on getting a longer punched out space by punching overlapping holes and then sliding the crop-a-dile between the holes, smoothing them out.

Ingredients:

Stamp Set:
Flight of the Butterfly

Cardstock:
Baja Breeze (In Color): 4-1/4" x 11" and 1" x 5/8"
Certainly Celery: 4-1/2" x 5-1/2"
Riding Hood Red (In Color): 2-1/4" x 4"

Ink:
Chocolate Chip Classic Pad
Versamark Pad

Accessories:
On Board Loads of Letters
Chocolate Chip 1" double-stitched grosgrain ribbon: 10"
Whisper White 1/4" grosgrain ribbon: 10"

Stampin' Dimensionals
SNAIL Adhesive

Mini Glue Dots

Coluzzle Cutting System

Crafters' Tool Kit

Crop-a-Dile

Boho Blossoms punch

Scallop Edge punch

Pencil, Rule, Staples
Sticky Strip
1/2" circle punch
Sponge Daubers

As for the other cards, please just email me if you'd like specific directions or if you'd like to order any of the ingredients.

The 8" x 8" scrapbook page below is my second favorite Make 'n Take (the gift bag from yesterday, using Inpired by Nature is my favorite).  No, we don't now carry 8" x 8" scrapbooks but we do carry 8" x 8" On Board Albums which you can decorate with DSP (Designer Series Paper) and other accessories to your heart's content.  The group in the photo are all near and dear to my heart: my son and daughter (left and right) and 3 best friends from the neighborhood they group up in.  Plus 2 additional members: spouses.  They'd do pretty much anything for each other.

 

Ingredients:

Stamp Set:
Flight of the Butterfly

Cardstock:
More Mustard: 2" x 3-3/8"
Old Olive: 2" x 8-1/2"
Rose Red: 8-3/4" x 8-1/2"

Whisper White: 2-1/4" x 4"

Baja Breeze (In Color) textured CS: 6" x 4-1/4"

Ink:
Old Olive Craft Pad
Tangerine Tango (In Color) Classic Pad

Accessories:
On Board Loads of Letters
Rose Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon: 10"
Flower fusion Too Accents & Elements:  Extra Large Baja Breeze 5-petal flower

Button Bouquet: Baja Breeze embossed flower
Stampin' Dimensionals
Mini Glue Dots

SNAIL adhesive
Scallop Edge punch
Paper Snips
Sponge Daubers

Stamp-a-ma-jig

Once more, if you would like specific directions or would like to purchase any of the items used to make these projects, simply send me an email at blythe@stampinwithblythe.com  .

About those funny spacings in between ingredient lines above........I have no idea why they occurred or how to get rid of them.  If you have a clue, please let me know.  I tried a bunch of 'tricks' but non worked!  See you tomorrow........

I AM ALIVE! I'm in Cody, Wyoming!----no, I'm home in Mi Wuk Village, CA

It was really hard to add content to my blog when:
1- I was on the road for an entire month---after Stampin' Up!'s 20th celebration Convention--- on a driving-cross-country-and-then-back-to-California vacation (you can check it out here if you'd like to see what what did and where we went, and
2- I had no stamping supplies with me except those I acquired at Convention a month ago, and
3- Your husband mails your swap cards home instead of the no-longer-needed swap apron, flying clothes, and few souvenir tee-shirts.  Moral: seal and label your own package!  He meant well.

I don't know how some stampers can post daily when their lives are also crazy busy.  I just accept my human side and post when I can give it my full attention and thought.  You'd be sorry if I didn't use that strategy.  I did try to create a post from Cody, Wyoming but it just didn't work out--as you can well see.  :)

But now I'm home.  We returned Saturday afternoon.  I'll be having blogging withdrawals since I did do our trip blog everyday we were gone.  I can put that energy to this blog now!  Here we go!

I would imagine that there are one or two of you out in the world that haven't yet seen the great samples we made at Convention in the form of our Make 'n' Takes.  One of the sets we received FREE was the one I intended to make as my first purchase from the new Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book and Catalog:  Inspired by Nature.

We made 2 samples using this set.  First, this lovely gentle card:

 

Ingredients:

Stamp Set:  Inspired by Nature

Cardstock: 

Chocolate Chip:3" x 12"

Kiwi Kiss: 2-7/8" x 6"

Very Vanilla: 4" x 2-1/4"

Very Vanilla Small Open-End envelope

Ink:

Chocolate Chip Classic Pad

VersaMark pad

Accessories: 

Chocolate Chip 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon: 8"

Clips assortments: 3/4" wire clip

Stampin' Dimensionals

Wide Oval punch (new!)

Sponge Daubers

Please email me if you'd like exact directions or if you'd like to order any (or all) of these ingredients. 

The other item made with this favorite stamp set is this great gift bag:

 

It's actually a tad brighter in real life.

Ingredients:

Stamp Set:  Inspired by Nature

Cardstock: 

Tangerine Tango (new In Color): 7-7/8" x 8-1/2"

Tangerine Tango Patterns Designer Series Paper: 7-7/8" x 2"

Whisper White: 6" x 3"

Ink:

Tangerine Tango Classic Pad

Basic Black Classic Pad

Whisper White Classic Pad

VersaMark pad

Accessories: 

White Gift Sack

So Saffron 7/8" poly twill ribbon: 20"

Sticky Strip

Crop-a-Dile

Paper Snips

Stamp-a-ma-jig

Sticky notes

Again, please  email me if you'd like exact directions or if you'd like to order any (or all) of these ingredients.

I promise to be back now, on a regular basis, so show you more of the items we made at convention, some swap samples, some Stampin' Up! specials and finally, some of my own creations!  The energy put in our "On_the_Road" Travel Blog will now be focused back on my business-----which I have really missed.

See you tomorrow........

Great New Products introduced.........

So many way cool new items were introduced at Convention!  As an Demonstrator attendee, I received 3 FREE stamps sets in my convention bag along with the new catalog and various other publications and announcements.  Receiving that bag is always an exciting moment! My bag:
This is one of the nicest bags I received in my 13 years as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  It uses two of the 2008-09 In Colors: Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze.

And here are my FREE stamp sets:

Top left: Eastern Blooms
Bottom left: Flight of the Butterfly
Right: Inspired by Nature (which would have been the first set I purchased from the new catalog)

Stampin' Up! loves to surprise us and they pulled a great one this year!  A UPS man 'rang the doorbell', ran up to Shelli (Gardner, our CEO) on stage and announced that he had stamps for every demonstrator in the audience!  Through the curtains came the flaming UPS truck, and out jumped what seemed like thousands of UPS drivers delivering stamps.  Can you say "pandamonium"?  6500 demonstrators went nuts!

Our FREE stamp set, compliments of UPS, was this year's Ronald McDonald House Charities set: Say It with Scallops.  Of course it perfectly matches our new  Scallop Square Punch!  What a generous gift from UPS.  Shelli said there was a UPS driver from nearly every state in the union there to pass out the stamp sets.   Wowsers!!!

Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware is introduced!

It's beautiful. 

 

Isn't that just lovely?  There are approximately 100 embellishments and 100 really neat 3/16" brads in each Hodgepodge Hardware Kit:  Styled Vanilla and Styled Silver. 

There's more to come so come on back soon. 

Where have I been?

         

Especially right after Stampin' Up!'s 20th Anniversary Convention????

I almost have to ask myself that very same question.  I live in California.  Right now I'm in Pennsylvania.  My husband picked me up in Salt Lake City after convention was over and we drove cross-country for a Family Reunion yesterday.  I don't seem to have two or three of 'me' so I just could not get posts written for my blog.  I am so sorry to give you all none of the news from Stampin'  Up! so I'll remedy that starting today!

First I have to show you the NEW CATALOG!  The front cover has a scalloped edge. 

The copy demonstrators received at  SU!'s 20th Anniversary Celebration Convention is spiral bound.  Copies that I sell will not be, so please don't be looking for the binding.  :)  The scalloped edge highlights the new Scallop Edge punch, 112091, $15.95.  Available for purchase August 11, 2008!

News from Stampin' Up!?  I'll say so!  I think the most exciting thing is that Stampin' Up! has partnered with Sizzix and has announced a new product for us:  The Stampin' Up! logo'd (is that a word?) Big Shot Die-Cut Machine.  I have wanted one for several years, but would not purchase an item I couldn't demonstrate to my customers.  I'll be ordering mine tomorrow and will have it to show to you when I return from my road trip later in August.  This is going to be an awesome tool!

 

You can cut cardstock of course with the Big Shot, but you can also cut fabric, leather, and vinyl. At this point there are 10 exclusive Stampin' Up! die, with more to come, including several alphabets.   Here are a few items you can make with it:

How fun is this cake for a kid's party?  I can show you lot of accessory pieces to go with this one!

This frog mask has an alligator buddy as well as a goofy bird pal.  Frog is made from the Baskets & Bloom Bigz XL Die, exclusive to Stampin' Up!. 

This lovely Thank You note is part of a baby shower display.  It's made using the Birds &Blooms Sizzlits Die 4 Pack.

  Jolly Old Santa, and also a reindeer, are make using the exclusive Pennant Bigz XL Die.

More news tomorrow..............

Blogger Slide Show Caution

As a caution to fellow rubber stampers who either have, or are thinking about having, a slide show of samples of their blog, please check out the following link on John Sanpietro's Stamping is my Business Blog:
http://stampingismybusiness.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/slidecom_warnin.html

My Blog is Alive--Welcome!

Well, here I am in Kindergarten, creating my own b-l-o-g!   I'll be back with lots of ideas to share with my stampin' compatriots.  Wish me luck in understanding it all and getting an 'A' on my test.  And don't forget to check out my Stampin' Up! website at http://blythestamps.stampinup.net.  Thanks. :)