Regional Seminar Swap - Take 2

As this posts, I am on my way to my first ever Stampin' Up Regional in Baltimore Maryland!! I am so excited!!!
So yesterday I posted my original design for the Regional swap, but I had to come up a swap that was a little less time consuming. At first I had stamped some of the circles on Very Vanilla cardstock and adhered them to the red, but that was also quite time consuming, so I changed it to this design. The bottom textured piece is actually the Lattice Square embossing folder by Stampin' Up, I just flipped it to the debossed side. The I used my brayer to brayer Real Red over the surface. This features the "Circle Circus" and the "On Your Birthday" sets. I also used the Ticket corner punch for the corners of the sentiment. I used Real Red, Very Vanilla and Basic Black inks.
I had hoped to make more swaps, but I ran out of time, so I am going with 75 swaps. I can't wait!!!!!

Items for a Craft Fair - Lollipop Holders

I actually stayed up to make these the night before the craft sale to make these. My daughter wanted to have something to sell, and I thought these would be a cute idea. These little holders each have a lollipop inside and are decorated with a image from the "Batty for You" set from Stampin' Up.
My daughter was so proud of herself because she sold every one!

Regional Swap Take 1

I am counting down the minutes until the Stampin' Up Regional Seminar in Baltimore, MD on October 2nd! At the Regional there is an opportunity swap with other Stampin' Up demonstrators. So I started making these swaps. It features the "Snow Swirled" set, as well as the "Delightful Decorations" and "sincere Salutations" sets. The texture is from the Texturz plates for the BigShot. I also used the oval punch, scalloped oval punch, 3/4", 1", 1 1/4" and 1 3/8' circle punches. I used Very Vanilla and Marina Mist cardstock, and finished it all off with Very Vanilla 1/4" grosgrain ribbon. The snowflakes are "floating" with the use of fishing line!
These ended up taking a lot longer then I had anticipated, so I had to come up with a back up plan. Stay tuned for Take 2.

Items for a craft sale - bookmarks

I recently did a craft sale, the first for this year. As I was making some other items I found I was ending up with some scraps, and I said out loud "I wish I could use this paper for something", well my 7 year old daughter was in the room and she said "Mom you could do like the paper and make a stamp fit on it for bookmarks" Great idea! My little crafter! So that is what we did. At the sale, since it was her idea, I let her sell them. She actually sold quite a few of them. The patterned papers, and ribbons were all items I had on hand. I also made others, with other stamp sets I had on hand, they are on my other blog, which is found here:
http://crt2smommy.blogspot.com/

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PhillyInkers swap- version 2

I made this card the same way as yesterday's, however I kept grabbing my corner rounder punch instead of the ticket corner punch. I think it works either way, and just wanted to share both versions with you.

PhillyInkers swap - Version 1

This is one version for my swap for the upcoming PhillyInkers swap. I used the Just Believe set from Stampin' Up. The sun is done by cutting a circle frame in a Postit note and then using sponges to apply Daffodil Delight and a little Pumpkin Pie. The embossed piece I used my Square Lattice embossing folder, then I used my brayer to run Old Olive ink over the piece. Some places are lighter, while some is darker. I cut the corners with my Ticket Punch. I really like how it turned out. I finished it off with an Old Olive bow.