Saturday, May 1, 2010

Extreme Elements of Style & a Giveaway

The new Stampin' Up! Summer Mini Catalog went LIVE for ordering today!!!  If you've ordered from me before, you should have gotten yours in your snail mail very recently.  Now, stick around...I'm giving away a random prize as blog candy!  All you have to do is answer 2 easy questions in the comments.

Stampin Up Extreme Elements of Style Beautiful Butterflies Big Shot Summer Mini Catalog Card Cracked Glass Favorite Thoughts Blog Candy Giveaway Prize Welcome Neighbor Paper


I love how the butterfly turned out on my card.  I copied the design (it's called CASE-ing) from the new Summer Mini Catalog that went live today, but used my own colors.  I LOVE that Stampin' Up! has samples on every page of their catalogs!!!

Here's how YOU can make your own:

  1. Cut a folded piece of Confetti Cream Card Stock with the Stampin' Up! Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die and your Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, unfold the large butterfly.
  2. Ink up the wild rose stamp from Elements of Style (I got this free by attending the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference at Phoenix in January...it ROCKS being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator...will you be my Stampin' Up! girlfriend?!) with the Always Artichoke and Perfect Plum Stampin' Write Markers, spray the inked rubber with a fine water mist from a distance of about 12" away, then stamp on large butterfly you cut out.  You can stamp off once on a piece of scratch paper if you'd like the image to be more subtle.  Spraying with a mist of water gives the image an easy watercolor look.
  3. In Basic Black Classic Ink, stamp the "Don't treat me any differently than you would a queen!" greeting from the new Favorite Thoughts Summer Mini Catalog stamp set over the top of the flower image.
  4. To make the cracked glass coating on the butterfly, you're going to turn your VersaMark pad upside down and press the clear ink all over the butterfly (have Grid Paper underneath...I can't LIVE without Grid Paper!), then heat emboss some Glassy Glaze Enamel Stampin' Emboss Powder over it...then while that is still hot (be VERY quick about this!), cover it with MORE Glassy Glaze Enamel powder and heat again.  Repeat until the card stock is all covered, maybe 3, 4, or even 5 times.  If your fingers get too hot do one wing at a time.  Put the butterfly in the freezer for a few minutes, then take it out and crack the enamel to make it look antique!  Pretty cool, huh?
  5. To finish off the card I stamped the flourish in VersaMark ink on the 3-1/2" x 4" Almost Amethyst Card Stock, then stamped the crown from Extreme Elements in Basic Black Classic I ink.  With SNAIL Adhesive I layered this on top of 3-5/8" x 4-1/8" Mellow Moss and then 3-3/4" x 4-1/4" Confetti Cream Card Stock pieces.
  6. Attach a lilac Square Ice Rhinestone Brad to the crown and through all layers using your Paper-Piercing Tool and Mat Pack, then staple two 1-1/2" long pieces of Mellow Moss Taffeta Ribbon to the bottom and trim at an angle.
  7. Using Stampin' Dimensionals, adhere your butterfly to this, then adhere the whole assembly to the Kraft Card Stock base!  
  8. Always stamp the back of your cards with your Stampin' Up! personalized stamp (pages 136-7 in your 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog) and sign it by that stamp!

Extreme Elements of Style Summer Mini

Now for the prize giveaway:  

To win my last Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad, all you have to do is answer the following questions in the comments section of this blog post (not on my facebook page, although I love comments there too!):

  1. What page in the Summer Mini Catalog is the card I CASEd on?
  2. What is YOUR favorite project sample in the Summer Mini?
It's THAT easy to win!  You don't have to order to win {it DOES keep me motivated to create projects for you every day here at my blog :-)}, but if you're wanting to order from the Summer Mini, you can do so NOW online and get your goodies on their way to YOUR doorstep to begin making your own cool projects with the new stuff.


Make sure you keep coming back to find out if you've won!  The best way is to subscribe to my blog via e-mail or reader from my sidebar widget.  I'll announce the winner sometime next week and will give the potential winner 24 hours to respond or will draw using random.org again.

GOOD LUCK!

Stamp away today!
Michelle

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or, you can e-mail me at michelle@2stampis2b.com


Shipping throughout the US! - copy & paste the item numbers!
STAMPS: Elements of Style #118611, Favorite Thoughts #120048, Extreme Elements #115181
CARDSTOCK: Kraft #102125, Confetti Cream #102835, Mellow Moss #102898, Almost Amethyst #102158
INK: Basic Black Classic Ink #101179, Perfect Plum #1000035 & Always Artichoke #105113 Stampin' Write Markers, VersaMark Pad #102283
ADHESIVES: SNAIL Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals
ACCESSORIES: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine #113439, Stampin' Up! Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die #114507, Glassy Glaze Enamel Stampin' Emboss Powder #100477, Heat Tool #100005, Powder Pals #102197, Square Ice Rhinestone Brads #109113, Paper-Piercing Tool #116631, Mat Pack #105826, Mellow Moss Taffeta Ribbon #109069



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