Slight Bloggin' Break

I leave today to go on my vacation to visit my family. I will be gone just about two weeks. I will try to post things while I am at my parent's house but I can not guarantee anything. While we are in Sunny California we will be going water skiing for a week and there is NO Internet access there, GASP! What am I going to do? Aaack! So during that time it is sad to say but there will be no posts during that time. I couldn't sleep past 4 AM this morning because I had forgotten to make the card to go with the Brag Book that I made, and because I am so excited to go to California, so I got up and made this card to go along with the album. Conveniently my order of ribbon came in yesterday and I was able to add some to this card. They have such pretty ribbon in the New Catalog. I think I could go on and on about this thing. Anyway, I was so excited to find out that some of the ribbon on the Beachfront Ribbons Origionals matches the River Rock Card Stock. I love that everything matches!

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Ahoy, Matey, Holidays & Wishes

Paper: River Rock, Soft Sky, Whisper White, Soft Sky Prints

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, River Rock

Accessories: Beachfront Ribbons Origionals, Blender Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals, Stampin' Sponge, corner rounder punch

And the Bloggin' Sweets Winner Is . . .

The person who said this:

Sarah Gilreath said...
Hi Shawntel!I love your blog-and I love stamping stuff, so it's only natural that I should comment! = )I would like to see... maybe some step-by-step instructions for folding cards certain ways. Like for the card that flips around, or the "old lady color" (ha) one that the middle part pulled up...that's all i can think of. But I love your site and all the ideas! You're the best! = )
July 13, 2007 8:55 AM

Congratulations Sarah! Contact me with your information and I will get you your Stampin' Sweets!

Thank you all for all your kind and wonderful comments. I definitely need to come up with some tutorials to post.

I told you I wouldn't show you any more pages for this Brag Book but I am going to share with you the outside cover. I love the linen albums that Stampin' Up Offers, they are high quality and they look so nice and you can stamp on them. Make sure if you do decide to stamp on the cover that you use the Craft pads and NOT the Classic pads because they just fade where the Craft pads hold their color SO much better.

Here is a close up of the tag. I used my Timber Brown Stazon Pad and stamped the ship and used my blender pen, of course, to watercolor the image on a tag that came from SU!'s Tag Sheets. I then sponged around the edges in Close to Cocoa ink and glued the tag on Blue Bayou CS and cut a border. I took 3 little tags and sponged around them in Soft Sky, River Rock, and Blue Bayou and stamped on them with Everyday Flexible Phrases, sweet, little and boy. I tied them all on with Taupe Ribbon and Hemp twine.

Want to open my first order from the New Catalog with Me?

Well, the UPS man came today with a wonderful delivery just for me! I just love opening the box so I thought I would share the excitement with you all.Here are some of the stamp sets I ordered. I have lots of fun ideas for each one! I got a lot of fun accessories including the build a flower, long notes in the New In Colors, and the Pick a Petal Embossing Template! Oh, the beautiful paper! I can't wait to get some more! Punches . . . need I say more! I love these things! Okay, I think this Pretties Kit was the thing I was most anxious to get. I am so excited to dye the flowers and use them on some cards or scrapbook pages. So I made a silly mistake and this picture is the result. I was meaning to buy the set Bundled with Love, and its order number is 109288. I ended up putting in the number 109228 which is the number for this Simply Sent Kit, one number off. So, I will have to send this back and fix my mess-up. Oh well, I know I have learned that I will always check my orders twice.

I Finished . . .

My pages for the Brag Book I have been working on, all 10 of them! Since they are all not so exciting I thought I would just share my favorites of the ones I did. I used the jumbo wheel Matey's Map with an uninked cartridge inked in versa mark. I love wheels because they make projects look great and they go so much faster.

I really like how the treasure chest turned out on this page. I used my 2 way glue pen and I sprinkled dazzling diamonds for behind the treasure and then I used my New rhinestone brads ( the tiny ones) and used them as jewels in the box. I cut the top of the box off so it would be open. I also used some of my silver cord and made a necklace and put a "ruby" on it.



This page is the other side of the layout for the treasure chest page. It is simple but to bring the two pages together I added some rhinestones to the corners. I just love how pretty they are.

So here is another page with the jumbo wheel. I used a black ink cartridge with this map and then I colored the map with my blender pen and then I sponged around the map with Close to Cocoa ink to give it an older look. Don't worry I won't bother you with any more of the pages from this baby book. This is just what I have been up to the past couple of days. Maybe I will be able to do some cards now that I have finished the pages. I still haven't done the outside of the album. We'll see what I come up with next.

More Pages for my Brag Book Gift

I got a bit of scrap booking done this morning after I cleaned my house. Okay so my house isn't spotless but it is tidy! I was able to get most of my stamping done while my kids were sleeping. On this page I didn't want the safety pin, since this is a pirate themed baby book, so I covered up the safety pin with a bit of a post-it note and inked up the image in the Blue Bayou ink, then I removed the post-it note and stamped the image on whisper white CS. Then I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the anchor in the right place.

On this page I used my SU! tag punches and I made a tag that can have a sentiment stamped on it or something written about the picture.

I took the ship image and stamped it on whisper white, Soft Sky, and River Rock Card stock. I used my blender pen to color in the image on the WW CS and then I cut out the body of the ship out of the River Rock and I cut out the waves from the Soft Sky CS.

This was a very simple page to do. I stamped Ahoy, Matey in Close to Cocoa and then a bird in Soft Sky. Punched out the sentiment with my 1 1/4" circle punch and then I punched out another circle with my 1 3/8" circle punch. I then punched a 1/8" circle out of my makeshift tag and then I added some taupe grosgrain ribbon.

I inked up just the bird for this page and I used my blender pen to color him in. I used my square punches and then I put the bird on an angle when I went to glue the squares together.

This is a technique called spotlighting. I stamped the image of the pirate in Close to Cocoa and I did not color him in. I stamped him again on another sheet of card stock and I colored him in with a blender pen. I then took the smaller of my two square punches and I punched out the part of the pirate I liked best and then I framed it in Soft Sky Card Stock. I glued the two squares together then I lined them up with the image on the scrapbook page. I still have at least 10 more pages to go so I can post them later when I have done them. I hope to get them all done tonight. That would make me happy!

Bloggin' Sweets Up for Grabs!

My counter has almost reached 500 hits! I think this is mostly because I am always checking my own blog but anyway, to celebrate I wanted to give away some blog sweets. I chose Blog Sweets instead of Blog Candy because the name of my blog is "Sweet" Stampin' Mama, ha ha. That's clever, huh? So I am a little corny, okay a lot! I will be giving away a 8 1/2 x11 sheet of each of the New In Color CS papers for this year; the hostess set Riveting; and 3 yards each of black, ivory, light pink, silver, and celery organdy ribbon. So to have a chance to be in the drawing for this SWEET Giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment on THIS post. Make sure you leave your name and what you would like see more of on this blog. I have changed the setting so that anyone can post on this blog you do not have to have a Gmail account.

Please, only one comment per person.

I will pick a random winner Tuesday Night.
Thank you all of you who visit my blog, I really do appreciate all your comments, I read every single one!