Stampin' Up! just announced a FABULOUS bonus for August Hostesses! If you hostess a workshop between now and August 31, 2010 and qualify with sales of $350 of higher you'll get to select an extra $25 in free product. That's in addition to the already very generous hostess rewards you would normally get! Click here for more details.
If you would like to book a workshop or hostess a book party with me in August send me an e-mail. I have a few days still open on my calendar!!
For over seven years I've been holding a monthly stamp camp, Inkredible Stampers' Club, for my local stampers. If you're in the St. Louis, MO area and want to learn more about these monthly get togethers Visit the Inkredible Stampers' Club Page.
Now I'm really excited to offer a way for all my stamping friends who are out of the area to join in the fun and be inspired by the projects we create at our Monthly Clubs.
The Virtual Inkredible Stampers' Club Stamp Camp, Delivered by E-mail!
Click here to visit my Virtual Inkredible Stampers' Club Stamp Camp page and Find Out More.
Hi Stampers,
This week I decided to play along with you for the color challenge instead of having a sample project ready to go before the week started! I just posted my project in the InLinkz section on the Challenge #2 entry so be sure to check it out – I'm looking forward to seeing your projects!!
-Julie
My second ColorLab Color Challenge started this past Thursday. If you want to see the projects that my Design Team created or you want to play along visit Color Challenge #2 Post.
As soon as I picked out the bright colors for this challenge, I had an idea for another pair of Flip Flops but I had to wait until I could run to the store and pick up some Turquoise Flip Flops. I did that this weekend and quickly put together the project!!
To create the flowers on these Flip Flops I used the Island Floral Bigz Die.
I die cut the biggest flower from a Bright pink felt and the smaller flower from Turquoise felt.
For the leaves I used Sticky Sheets on White Felt, then die cut the felt w/sticky sheets using the three petal leaf on the die.
Peel off the Red Lining from the sticky sheet and dip it into Old Olive beads.
I put everything together using a Rose colored Rhinestone Brad for each flower.
Then use Pop Up Glue Dots to hold the flowers onto the Flip Flops. (Note: You can also use Hot Glue like I suggested on the last pair of flip flops.)
Here's a little close look at the flower.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you create using Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, and Regal Rose as an inspiration – be sure to attach your project to the challenge using the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post.
A big shout out to Kimberley for playing along on our first Color Challenge. I LOVE the way she took the inspiration from my card idea and created a scrapbook page layout. The coloring on her flowers is BEAUTIFUL!! Great Job Kimberley!! You're our Top Color Tester for this challenge!
You can read more about Kimberley's project on her blog.
Hi Stampers,
It's time for the Surprise Me Sunday Mini Color Challenge.
Our Challenge This Week is:
Wild Wasabi, Poppy Parade, Sahara Sand, So Saffron, Peach Parfait
Our Surprise Me Sunday Challenges are based on randomly selected colors. I simply take the first Surprise Me color combo that came up on the ColorLab. This type of challenge stretches your imagination to put together colors you may not normally have put together. Sometimes you'll be surprised by how great colors will work together! Have fun and share your creations below:
Hi Stampers,
It's time for another ColorLab color Challenge!
I found the inspiration for this challenge, this adorable fox plushie, on Etsy. I LOVE getting color inspiration from Etsy – people put together some of the most amazing colors on there!
The colors for this challenge are:
For inspiration, check out these creations by the My Create, Ink ColorLab Design Team Color Chemists, then go out and create something of your own!
Post your creation online and link directly to the project using Inlinkz. You’re welcome to use our Flickr Group to upload the pictures of your creations.
It's wish list Wednesday and this week's wish list makes me SO happy! 🙂 Have I mentioned my fondness for organizing my stampin' toys?? My whole house is chaos – and I'm ok with that – it's how I function best! If you drop in for a surprise visit I make no excuses for the mess!! If I'm being honest – even if you drop in for a scheduled visit I made no excuses for the mess! But when it comes to my stampin' toys I need to be organized, the easier it is to find things the easier it is to be creative!!
One of the things I've struggled to find the right solution for is my Sizzix Bigz XL dies. I have found solutions that work for most of the other sizes but nothing I've tried for the XL ones was just right so when I saw the storage boxes for the Sizzix dies in the Idea Book and I saw that one of the sizes was just right for the XL dies I was over the moon happy!! It's a similar system to what I'm already using for my other dies. So up near the top of my list is a couple of these boxes…
The Big Shot Die Storage Boxes come in a three different sizes.
My Favorite the Large Die Box 122221 ($24.85) holds Bigz or Bigz XL dies!!
There is also a Medium Die Box 122220 ($17.95) which is perfect for the Originals or Bigz sizes and the Small Die Box 122219 ($14.95) which is perfect for your Sizzlits, Clearlits, and Emobsslits.
Do you have a great solution for a craft storage problem? I would love to hear about it! If you want to check out all the great Storage products available from Stampin' Up! visit my Stampin' Up! online store. Click Here.
Happy Stampin'
I promised you a look at the gift I gave my Convention goers this year. Now that they are on their way to Salt Lake City and will soon be opening their gifts I can share with you!
Each year at convention Stampin' Up! gives out a bag to keep all your supplies in. They come up with some of the best bags ever!! (I'm a bit of a bag junkie and when it's done is SU colors and patterns there is nothing better in my book) But in that sea of similar bags it's easy to loose track of YOUR bag – so I always like to clip a few personal touches onto my bag to make it stand out better.
I found these adorable coin purses from Thirty One Gifts that could easily be clipped onto the bag. I knew they would be a perfect gift! But I HAD to dress them up a little 🙂 So I decided to add some Flower Flair to the purses.
To create the pink flowers in the center of the coin purse I started by Die Cutting 9 of the largest circles from the Circle #2 Die. (I found the idea for these flowers along with a tutorial on 17 Turtles)
I used a White Jumbo Grommet and a Baja Breeze Button in the center of this flower.
Then I sewed the flower onto the Change Purse through the button hole.
I used just a little Crystal effects to hold the button in place on the Jumbo Grommet. Probably not necessary but it made sewing everything together a bit easier.
Here's just a little closer look at the flower. I love making fun things even better with just a little handmade touch!
If you would like to see more sewing projects featuring Stampin' Up! dies leave me a comment and let me know!
Hi Stampers,
It's time for the Surprise Me Sunday Mini Color Challenge.
Our Challenge This Week is:
Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango, Sahara Sand, Basic Gray, Basic Black
Our Surprise Me Sunday Challenges are based on randomly selected colors. I simply take the first Surprise Me color combo that came up on the ColorLab. This type of challenge stretches your imagination to put together colors you may not normally have put together. Sometimes you'll be surprised by how great colors will work together! Have fun and share your creations below:
Inkredible Stamping 
