tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083287269306230412011-04-21T12:31:23.791-07:00Stamping and Paper Crafting using Stampin' Up! products.Rhonda Beadellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152508871488823613noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-608328726930623041.post-69779684705410238642008-10-05T16:09:00.000-07:002008-10-05T16:21:26.240-07:00

I'm back! We got a little cold snap this weekend and I think it got me in the mood to start thinking about my Christmas cards this year. There are too many good options in both the new mini and the catalog this year. It's a tough decision! Since I haven't posted in forever, I thought I'd show a couple of cards I created for my holiday workshops last year. This is a belly band card with the

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I've been snapping some pictures of my fabulous swaps from convention, so here are the first couple done by one of my favorite stampers, Rose Kerry. She used Party Hearty on the top card and Wow Flowers on the bottom. I love her colors combination with the new Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point. We love to tease Rose about the number of brads she throws on her swaps...so many I think sometimes her

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It always amazes me how quickly it starts to feel like fall as Labor Day approaches and school starts. I just completed my first week back teaching - the first time I've taught full time in eight years! It was a crazy week, but the good news is that I still NEED to find time to stamp and WILL find the time. It's what keeps me sane! This is my "shoebox swap" card from convention. I think I

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Here is another swap I made for convention using the new set "Dreams du Jour." I stamped the image with white craft ink on cardstock vellum and embossed with clear powder. Then I colored the back with markers. The look was a little too subtle, so I re-colored the front of the image...all 40 of them! I used a glue dot and vellum spray adhesive to stick the vellum on without it showing through.

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I think the one of the best parts of Convention is getting together with the friends I've made from all over the country. Some were from my online swap groups and this was the first time we had met and some I look forward to seeing every year. We all lead different lives in different parts of the country, but we have this passion for Stampin' Up! the creates an instant bond. Hmm....I wonder how

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I just got home yesterday from the most exhausting fun four days a stamper could possibly have! It was so exciting to finally meet some of my favorite swapping girlfriends for the first time and to get together with the friends I've made from past conventions. I was told my previous blog picture looked nothing like me, so hopefully these ones do. The top one was taken by my eight year old!

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Since I can't show you what I'm working on right now, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite swaps I've recently received. This one was created by Charlotte Brown and she used Fresh Cuts which is a set that will be available in the new catalog. She glittered all of the leaves and I love how she added the white dots with the gel pen. This one was done by Chat Waszelaki using Pretty Amazing.

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This is called convention swap procrastination! As much as I LOVE swapping at convention, making a gazillion cards of the same design can get very boring! I can't wait to share those with you, but that will have to wait until until they are swapped. I want my swap group to be surprised! This page was a spin-off of a card I made a few months ago. I loved how it turned out, and I thought it

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I scrapbooked! One of my goals for the summer is to get loads of pages done - with journaling! I'm bad about never getting around to the journaling part. These chipboard stars are just sponged with Ruby Red craft ink and glue dotted on. I stamped my title and fire crackers with white craft ink and embossed them with white. Here's the recipe: Stamps: Independence Day, Well-Worn Alphabet,Paper:

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I just finished making reservations for two nights at Lake Tahoe for our anniversary. Whoohoo! The boys are going to my parents' house for the whole week, so we're going to take a few days for ourselves and celebrate our 14 years of marriage. Can't believe it has been that long! After doing that I thought I would share a couple wedding samples I've received. This top one was done by Karen

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Here are a few swaps I've received using the set Wonderful You from the main catalog. I earned four free sets for my sale-a-brations sales, and after seeing these beauties, I think this will be one of my choices! Isn't this gorgeous? Judy Discipio has done some wonderful work with this set. I love her bleached moon using Big Pieces (I think). This one was done by Barbara Dondero. Along with

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Hello! I can't believe I haven't updated in a month. Sorry about that. The end of the school year was intense and then I started out the summer with a six credit course to try to move over on the teaching pay scale. Unfortunately time for stamping has been far too limited. Here is the card I made for my dad last weekend. I love this truck from "Thoughts of Father" because I have a very

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I noticed this week's tutorial on SCS is on the grid technique and it reminded me of this card I did for a shoebox swap at convention last year. I'm already signed up for this year's shoebox. It was one of my favorite parts of convention. Thanks Rose for all you do to organize it! Here's the tutorial link: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/grid_techniqueI took this card a

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For this card I tried this week's SCS technique challenge, color combo challenge and this great Mojo Monday sketch from Poetic Artistry http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/05/mojo-monday-week-37.htmlThe technique challenge was to emboss and watercolor, and the color combo challenge was to use Ruby Red, Soft Sky, and Pumpkin Pie. I had to throw in a little Chocolate Chip because it's my

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I haven't stamped this week, so I thought I'd show you a few more wonderful swaps. This one is by Dina Anderson using Live Your Dream and Afternoon Tea Designer paper. I love her subtle canvas background and sponging. Danielle Lounds used Watercolor Wonder crayons to color this image from For Father. She used a great color combination with soft sky and close to cocoa, and I love the piercing

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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I cased this card from Treasureoiler on SCS http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/866274 who cased the layout from someone else. It's funny to see how a great card gets recycled over and over. I thought is was a perfect teacher thank you. The set is Tart and Tangy and the paper is Summer Picnic. I stamped the apple in craft red and clear embossed

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Happy National Scrapbook Month!! I'm still recovering from a weekend of scrapbooking for a total of 19 hours with 128 other crazy scrappers. Isn't that insane? Even though I'm now buried in housework and laundry (the price you pay) it was so much fun! I completed 18 pages! Okay, that's a lot for me! This is a page I actually made last week using the stamp sets Wanted and Bronc Buster with

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Morning Soft is one of the first sets from the Spring - Summer catalog that I had to get. The artwork reminds me of Stippled Rose - a retired set I will never part with. I did this card for yet another Control Freak swap. I stamped the image in white craft ink on cardstock weight vellum and embossed it with clear powder. Then I flipped it over and colored it from the back side with markers. You

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Here's my last boy card and then I think I'm going to have to dive back into some flowers! I used the set Pun Fun which has the most adorable images. This month when you buy the set, you get the coordinating wheel for free!! Again I watercolored with reinkers, an aquapainter and our watercolor paper. I poked in a little clear rhinestone brad from the Pretties Kit for my rocket window - an idea I

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Hey look what I got! Isn't it pretty? :))) This is the famous Arte Y Pico award that's been hopping around all of my favorite stamping blogs. My good friend and swap buddy Erin Blair nominated me for this award, and the deal is I have to tag five more blogs. It's a fun way to discover new blogs out there. Be sure to check out Erin's new blog. It's fantastic!Erin Blair: http://

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Here's a card I did for my last two workshops. My customers have informed me that they are tired of flowers, so I have a few masculine cards I'll be sharing in the next few posts. I guess I love flower cards because with three boys I rarely get to play with them in my scrapbooks! The set I used is Light Unto My Path with the quote from Live Your Dreams. I think it's a perfect card for graduation,

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Here are the swaps I have for She's All That from the Occasions mini. These ladies did a fabulous job on them, but I have to say this chick is way too skinny! This one was done by Yvette Ashe. She stamped the bride in Soft Sky on white cardstock and then stamped the border with Pretty Petals (just ordered that background stamp!) in versamark and embossed with iridescent ice. She even whipped

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Belly band cards are very fun to make and even more fun to open. As you can see below the main image slides right off to open the card. To make it I scored a regular half sheet at 2 and 2 1/2 inches. Then I scored the black band at 2 and 2 3/8 inches so it can slide but still hold snug. I used the set Fun and Fast Notes with the Polka Dot background. Once again I stamped on watercolor paper and

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I created these pages a couple of months ago and I just finally got them scanned. May is coming and I'm hoping to get a lot more pages done since it is National Scrapbook Day and month! This is the card I offered as an option for those at my workshop who don't scrapbook. I copied a swap from Cindy Lawrence and just switched up the colors to match my page. Love those rhinestone brads! It's hard to

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These are the rest of the swaps I received using Bloomin' Beautiful from the Occasions Mini. I love how each one is so different and yet so gorgeous! This one was done by Karen Barber, a new member to our group. Wow! I can't wait to get more of her stuff! She used the new Afternoon Tea paper with Blush Blossom and Soft Sky and she stamped her background with Floral in white craft ink. This is

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Really good stampers can find inspiration for their cards from places like advertisements to pillow cases. I just look at other people's cards for inspiration....MUCH EASIER! Here is a card I came up with using the ideas from the cards below it. I like taking ideas from two or more cards to see what I can come up with. I used the new stamp set Bloomin' Beautiful and Weathered for the

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Here's a card we did at my workshop last weekend. It was inspired by a swap I received last summer from Taylor Vanbruggen. Notice the little flower ribbon slide in the knot. Those are in the styled silver hodgepodge kit from the mini. They're very fun! The sets I used are Garden Whimsy, Whimsy jumbo wheel with versamark, Baroque Motifs, and the flower from Little Pieces. The butterfly

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This was my "Control Freak" swap for the Occassions mini. I used the set "Live Your Dream" with a technique called "chalkboard." It's a technique I've been meaning to try for months and this set was perfect for it. All you do is stamp in white craft ink,dry it a little bit with your heat gun and dab the image with chalks. I love how it pops the image off the dark cardstock. Easy and fun!

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I got my taxes done! To celebrate, I escaped to my stamping room and created this. I've been wanting to try this Dahlia fold and I paired it with today's SCS challenge to make a Flap-Fold Card. Here are the instructions for the Dahlia - http://www.cardsandcrafts.freeservers.com/dahlia.htmlAnd here are the instructions for the Flap-Fold card:http://scor-pal.com/feb_magazine/index_files/Page449.

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I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday. We went to my family's ranch in Lovelock and had our traditional egg hunt there. The weather was amazing and today is just as beautiful - a perfect day for a bike ride! Here are two more swaps using Time for You from the Occasions Mini. The top one was done by Ann Walker and the bottom by Jan Tinklenberg. Have a great day!

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Here are some baby themed swaps I received from the Occasions Mini. This first one was done by Joy Kennedy using Big On Spring. This one was done by Stephanie Leider using By Ones and By Twos. I love how she zig-zag stitched her border with her sewing machine. I love how Alice Erickson created the wall of a baby's room here and how she stamped the onsie on patterned paper and cut it out. She

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I spent the better part of the day doing taxes, but I managed to procrastinate a little and upload a couple shots of the swaps I just got back from the Occasions Mini. These two feature the new set Tart and Tangy. This one was made by Dannie Graves. She also used the new paper Summer Picnic that's made to match the set. This one was created by Lisa Martz. She sugared up the oranges with

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Aloha! We just got back from a fabulous week in Hawaii, and I wanted to do a quick post to let you all know I haven't dropped off the blogging planet. Here's a quick card I made last summer using Artfully Asian and Tres Chic for the background. I watercolored with reinkers and an aquapainter on shimmery white paper - excellent paper for watercoloring! I just got an amazing swap back from the

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Happy Monday! It happens to be the Monday I have off, so I'm happy! This is a card I did for my convention swap last summer. This summer is Stampin' Up!'s 20th anniversary, so I'm betting it will be the best one yet! For this card I used Pick a Petal which is an adorable set with 6 different petals to choose from. This card is held closed at the top with a slit punch. The greeting is from

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This is another card we did at our Stamp-a-Stack of 10 event last month. The hearts are simply stamped in versamark on Purely Pomegranate cardstock and embossed with clear. The greeting is stamped with chocolate chip craft and also embossed with clear. The sets I used were Priceless and Boho Backgrounds and a new background stamp called Twill. I was pleased at how quickly people were able to

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Here are a few more of the swaps I received for Sale-a-Bration. This one was done by Taylor Vanbruggen using So Many Scallops and the new Ginger Blossom designer paper. It's hard to see, but she has a little dot of glitter in the middle to make those flowers pop. I love the simplicity of this card. This one was created by Yvette Ashe. She stamped with the SAB set Merci on watercolor paper.

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Here are a few of my favorite swaps from Sale-a-Bration. Lisa and Barb used So Many Scallops which is by far the most ordered of them all. Love Lisa's layout and her rhinestone brad and Barb's z-card is very fun. Ann used Friendship Blooms with a build a brad to set it off. Remember these sets are FREE with a $50 purchase!

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It's Sale-a-Bration time! For every $50 you purchase, you can earn a free set. The free set I used here is Birthday Whimsy. I also used All in a Row for the faux stitched look and Bali Breeze designer paper. The cake is just stamped with versamark and clear embossed. I made the scallop with the scallop circle punch! I made 30 of these for a swap and I'll be sharing some of the beautiful

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I finally broke down and bought this set Fabulous Flowers when I received a Christmas card using it from my sideline - Kristine Chubb. I've seen many beautiful samples with it, but her card really showed off the versatility of this flower. I stamped it three times with ruby red craft ink and cut each one out smaller and smaller to fluff it up. The other sets I used were Baroque Motifs, True

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That was fun, so I'll do another post. The thing that's cool about blogs, is that you can SUBSCRIBE to them. That way you'll get an e-mail notification every time I post something new. I think that link is at the bottom.This is a card we did at our Stamp-a-Stack of 10 cards on February 9th. If you haven't attended one of our events, you don't know what you're missing! We had 50 wild women

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Hello!I can't believe I'm finally starting a blog. I remember the first time I read someone else's blog, I thought that person must not have enough to keep her busy in life. A year later, I'm addicted to reading all of my stamping buddies' blogs, so I thought I would check it out. I'm not promising I'll keep this up, but I figured it was worth a shot.Why do I call myself a Stamp Tramp? That's a

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