A Week of Pinwheel Party - Pinwheel Project

I love our Paper Pumpkin kits.  While easy enough sometimes to do with my daughter, there is always a way to make them more challenging but always cute.  To get my creative juices flowing, I always start by making something exactly as the instructions show and then I get more adventurous.

Today's project is very easy. We are doing this project for our playdate on Wednesday.  The project is straightforward and the kit outlines how to put the pinwheels together. 

My Paper Pumpkin kits come with photopolymer stamps.  This differs from our usual stamp offerings as they are completely see-through which allows for great alignment.  When the stamps come, they may be a little sticky which can prevent the ink from stamping clearly.  Just clean them once using Stampin' Mist and they will clearly stamp on the paper banners!

• If you'd like more information on the Paper Pumpkin kits, go here: http://craftasticdayswithstacy.blogspot.com/2013/07/join-my-paper-princesses-club.html
• If you are interested in receiving next month's Paper Pumpkin kit, you can sign up here:https://mypaperpumpkin.com/en/?demoid=80380. 
• If you know someone who might like to have a craft room in a box, you can buy prepaid subscriptions for 1, 3, 6, and 12 month increments.   Most details on that are available here:  http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryID=1444&dbwsdemoid=80380

Have a craftastic day,
Stacy

A Week of Pinwheel Party - Sneak Peek

When Stampin' Up! started selling My Paper Pumpkin, I bought it as a demonstrator because I thought it would make it easier to sell.  I let them pile up because I was too busy working on other projects and had a "I'll get to it later" attitude.   Now that I've had Michael, I've realized My Paper Pumpkin provides me a window of craft time that is otherwise impossible these days.  The last three months of kits have been my favorites by far as they have let me create cards and projects for the holidays instead of my typical any occasion crafting.  And, the kits can be used for cards or 3D decor items which makes them even easier to fit my mood.

 

This week I'll be posting projects using Pinwheel Party, the newest Paper Pumpkin kit. 

 I had a lot of fun warming up with the Pinwheel project which is outlined in the instructions.  After the goodie bag, I was feeling brave and decided to try a card.  After the love note, I thought I needed an album for my cute 4th of July pictures of Callie.  Here I almost derailed and tried to go to Project Life to do all the cute pictures I found while filling that album but I stayed on course and finished up with a fun 4th of July wreath.  With my goal this year to create and post 5 projects with every stamp set or kit that I buy, this showed me how great a value the kit was for only $19.95.  Plus I still have 15 pinwheels, 19 straws, 18 cello bags, and a lot of banners, twine, brads, and clips left to play with on other projects and to use with Callie Craft Time.Plus, each Paper Pumpkin kit comes with an ink spot (Night of Navy) and a set of Photopolymer stamps (celebrate, party, and stars) so I can keep creating long after I use up what's in my kit.

 

I hope you tune back in this week while I offer up some instructions and details on these projects and also some tips to stamping with the photopolymer stamps. 

• If you'd like more information on the kits, go here: http://craftasticdayswithstacy.blogspot.com/2013/07/join-my-paper-princesses-club.html
• If you are interested in receiving next month's Paper Pumpkin kit, you can sign up here:https://mypaperpumpkin.com/en/?demoid=80380. 
• If you know someone who might like to have a craft room in a box, you can buy prepaid subscriptions for 1, 3, 6, and 12 month increments.   Most details on that are available here:  http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryID=1444&dbwsdemoid=80380

I hope you have a great crafting weekend!

 

Have a craftastic day,

Stacy

 

A Week of Tag Talk - Welcome Baby

Through this week I've shown you four different cards using this stamp set and the stamps are interchangeable on each of them.  This final card is close to my heart.  My son is now 3 1/2 months old and when I sit down to create, I sometimes have 3 minutes or 3 hours.  One thing I really liked about the lullaby paper is that it allows you to make both girl and boy baby cards in no time just by flipping the strip over.

Like the Bravo stamp and Wedding Bliss stamp in this set, they coordinate with the Bracket Punch and also the 1" Square punch.  The Welcome Baby image works with the 1" Circle Punch but I really wanted to try it with a scalloped edge since it feels a little more baby like (do I have bibs on the mind?!?)

I really like our new sequins too - they work with the mini glue dots and offer some flat MAILABLE bling.

 

Supplies:

• Paper: Whisper White, Hello Honey, Lullaby DSP
• Ink: Hello Honey
• Stamp: Tag Talk
• Accessories: In Color Sequins, Glue Dots, Decorative Dots TIEF, Scissors, 1 3/4 Circle Punch, 7/8 Scallop Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Scissors, and Adhesive

The Tag Talk cards that I am posting this week are part of my summer Tag Talk card class.  I will be teaching this class a few times at my house over the summer but can also prep it and teach it to you and your family and friends for $10 a kit.  Leave me a comment or email me if you are interested in setting up a class of your own!

 

Interested in buying this set now that you have so many ideas for it?  Check it out here:

http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=134249&dbwsdemoid=80380

 

Join my team!!

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A Week of Tag Talk - For You

My college colors were purple and gold.  I am feeling very nostaligic as I work with our new In Colors: Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey.  Maybe that's why these two colors speak to me so much and I've been using them on EVERYTHING!

This card was inspired by the layout I found here.  The page no longer exists but the demonstrator, Erin Gonzales, deserves the starting credit for this cute card. 

I liked the idea of stamping the horizontal strip on the card and then layering the DSP on top of that at the same angle.  I laid my beautiful ribbon on the DSP when I cut it so that both pieces had the same degree of slant (OCD anyone?)  Then I stamped the image and layered it up using dimensionals.  There are a few rhinestones on this piece too, because it needed just a little more dazzle for me.

 

This stamp set really is more beautiful in person than in the catalog. 

 

Supplies:



• Paper: Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White, Moonlight DSP Pack
• Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey
• Stamp: Gorgeous Grunge, Tag Talk
• Accessories: Bracket Punch, 1 3/4 Circle Punch, Blackberry Bliss Stitched Satin Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Scissors, Adhesive and Dimensionals

The Tag Talk cards that I am posting this week are part of my summer Tag Talk card class.  I will be teaching this class a few times at my house over the summer but can also prep it and teach it to you and your family and friends for $10 a kit.  Leave me a comment or email me if you are interested in setting up a class of your own!

TIP:
If you have clear mount stamps that aren't sticking to the block, try using a squiggly line of 2 Way glue on the sticker.  Then let it dry and it will be just tacky enough to hold the image on your block without you having to wipe the glue off the end!

Join my team!!

During the month of June, you can join my Stampin' Up! family for only $50.  You will get $55 worth of merchandise that you pick out and a business pack of forms and catalogs.  Whether you are looking to make money or just help yourself through the discount on your own hobby supplies, this is the best deal we've had yet to join up!  When I signed up 10 years ago, I paid $249 for my kit!  There are perks to being a demonstrator like pre-ordering product, admission to demonstrator only events, and webinars and training exclusive to our company.  Contact me today for more information or sign up.

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Have a craftastic day,
Stacy

A Week of Tag Talk - Wedded Bliss





I am trying to fall in love with our photopolymer stamps.  I love Stampin' Up! products and have tried everything at least once but it has taken me some time to really like clear stamps.  I know why they are great - you can see where you put them, they are super sticky, and the designs that SU tested out over the last year were some of the cutest I've seen.

 

But they get ink on your fingers, they are too sticky sometimes, and I turn them all red when I clean them.  I have weaknesses, I admit it.  But with this last order, I ordered THREE sets and was determined to fall in love with them at least as much as my wood blocks (but not more than my favorite product ever.... dimensionals!)

 

This card's layout was inspired by this pin from Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/156570524520493641/  I loved this layout and started out with something very close to it.

 

And then I started messing around.... and then I realized I needed a heart.... and then I realized that I needed something other than an embossing folder and the photopolymer stamps let you align everything very precisely.  And we ended up with a card that makes me quite happy.  Now if my friends would just get married so I can use it (and if you read this, you know who you are, this doesn't count for my monthly get married zing...)

 

 

I used the bracket punch on the end of the Cherry Cobbler banner to show another way to use it. I think it adds a little elegant flair to the card too!

Supplies:

• Paper: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
• Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake
• Stamp: Tag Talk, Draw the Line
• Accessories: Doily, 2 1/2 Circle Punch, Bracket Punch, 1" Square Punch, Basic Pearls, Big Shot, Heart Framelits, Dauber, Dimensionals, Scissors, and Adhesive

The Tag Talk cards that I am posting this week are part of my summer Tag Talk card class.  I will be teaching this class a few times at my house over the summer but can also prep it and teach it to you and your family and friends for $10 a kit.  Leave me a comment or email me if you are interested in setting up a class of your own!

Join my team!!

During the month of June, you can join my Stampin' Up! family for only $50.  You will get $55 worth of merchandise that you pick out and a business pack of forms and catalogs.  Whether you are looking to make money or just help yourself through the discount on your own hobby supplies, this is the best deal we've had yet to join up!  When I signed up 10 years ago, I paid $249 for my kit!  There are perks to being a demonstrator like pre-ordering product, admission to demonstrator only events, and webinars and training exclusive to our company.  Contact me today for more information or sign up.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/stacymccain/jointhefun
Have a craftastic day,
Stacy

A Week of Tag Talk - Happy Birthday

In the last year I have taken advantage of some great business conventions online taught by fellow demonstrators.  When we do these Online Creative Conventions with Ronda Wade and Maggie Patterson, we can get a make-n-take kit with pre-cut supplies that we put together using their instructions.  I am addicted to kits, more so than I am to crafting supplies (yikes) and I love taking their layouts and applying them to other sets that I have! 

One card that we did in these packets was with Starburst Sayings.  The card was vertical and we used a strip of paper from the Fresh Prints DSP pack, twine, and the fringe scissors on it.  It became my favorite layout for all my Spring cards.  I took that same card idea and turned it on it's side to create this horizontal card.  This one would also look great embossed but I wanted to show the Tuxedo Black ink pad to my customers since it looks so good on our Whisper White cardstock (and also comes off your stamps, a true plus for those that HATE black on their stamps!)

 

 

The Happy Birthday is stamped on Whisper White and punched out with the Bracket punch.  Then you layer it on a 1 3/4 Circle and put that on dimensionals.  The DSP is our Back to Black paper which is going to be really fun to play with.  The twine is also new, and comes now in 10 colors.

 

Supplies:



• Papers: Back to Black DSP, Whisper White, Basic Black
• Stamp: Tag Talk
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: Fringe Scissors, Basic Black Baker's Twine, 1 1 3/4 Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Scissors, and Adhesive

The Tag Talk cards that I am posting this week are part of my summer Tag Talk card class.  I will be teaching this class a few times at my house over the summer but can also prep it and teach it to you and your family and friends for $10 a kit.  Leave me a comment or email me if you are interested in setting up a class of your own!

 

Join my team!!

During the month of June, you can join my Stampin' Up! family for only $50.  You will get $55 worth of merchandise that you pick out and a business pack of forms and catalogs.  Whether you are looking to make money or just help yourself through the discount on your own hobby supplies, this is the best deal we've had yet to join up!  When I signed up 10 years ago, I paid $249 for my kit!  There are perks to being a demonstrator like pre-ordering product, admission to demonstrator only events, and webinars and training exclusive to our company.  Contact me today for more information or sign up.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/stacymccain/jointhefun

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Have a craftastic day and I'll see tomorrow for another great sample using this set!

Stacy

A Week of Tag Talk - Bravo

Now that the new catalog is out, my stamp room is overrun by new supplies getting to know the old supplies.  The introductions have been going well and my creativity has been in overdrive.  This catalog is by far my favorite in the 10 years I've been demonstrating.  So many things to choose from!

Often we purchase stamp sets and do not know what to do with them when we get them in the mail.  I purposely designed this card class for this single stamp set because it stood out to me in the catalog and I sketched it out based on the colors and new products I thought coordinated with the sentiments. That kept me from being overwhelmed by all my options.  :)   I love our stamp and punch combinations and the sentiments on this set make it a great one to have in your stash.

These five cards that I will be posting this week are part of my summer Tag Talk card class.  I will be teaching this class a few times at my house over the summer but can also prep it and teach it to you and your family and friends for $10 a kit.  Leave me a comment or email me if you are interested in setting up a class of your own!

This first card made me think of embossing right off the bat.  I love the shine that comes from an embossed image and the horizontal strips really pop in person. 

I also like using my punches as many ways as possible so you will see that the four corners of the Basic Black square are punched using the upper corner of the Bracket punch.

The strip of horizontal paper and text paper are from new Typeset pack which has 24 sheets of really thin paper in 6 double-sided designs. This paper made me think of vintage flowers (which is what I'm working on next!)

Supplies:

• Papers: Typeset DSP, Very Vanilla, Basic Black
• Stamp Set: Tag Talk
• Ink: VersaMark
• Accessories: Neutral Candy Dots, Bracket Punch, Hexagon Punch, Black Embossing Powder, Powder Pall, 1" Square Punch, Dimensionals, Scissors, and Adhesive

 

Join my team!!

During the month of June, you can join my Stampin' Up! family for only $50.  You will get $55 worth of merchandise that you pick out and a business pack of forms and catalogs.  Whether you are looking to make money or just help yourself through the discount on your own hobby supplies, this is the best deal we've had yet to join up!  When I signed up 10 years ago, I paid $249 for my kit!  There are perks to being a demonstrator like pre-ordering product, admission to demonstrator only events, and webinars and training exclusive to our company.  Contact me today for more information or sign up.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/stacymccain/jointhefun

 

Have a craftastic day and we'll see you back tomorrow for another sample!

Stacy