WOW! My little un-kept blog has finally hit 100,000 views. Actually a few hundred more than that, but Holy Toledo!
Let's celebrate! I still have an extra Blue Rag Purse. Leave me a comment on this post and I'll put all the names in my jar, pull a name and you can win this purse. I have washed this purse since this picture was taken so it is now raggedy.
You have through Sunday, March 14 to enter.
Good luck and thanks for your support.
These Quilted Rag Purses are really fun to make! I had a wonderful time taking my sewing machine out of month balls and actually using it for something besides hemming!
This is my first purse.
The material was given to me by my friend Lucy. The one that helped me with the quilt square. Lucy was so generous with her fabric I also made this one.
I know, looks like the first one but the placement of the butterflies are different. I just couldn't stop at 2 so here's another one!
I had to go to the fabric store and purchase buttons and saw the printed pattern and had to buy some fabric to make the above purse. That's alright, because I really enjoy making them! I ended up making 4 of the blue Quilted Rag Purses. The fourth one is very similar to the first 2.
Black and red together are one of my favorite color combo's and here is one of the Quilted Rag Purses I made with some of the other fabric Lucy gave me.
I just LOVE these purses! This one is MINE!
Here's what the inside looks like.
Cool, uh? Your purse can be reversible!
Only one of the purses have been washed and I found out I did an awful job of sewing the handles so I took them off and re-did them. Live and learn.
If I can make them, you can too! Angie Kennedy Juda has a video tutorial HERE. Just follow her directions and you'll be home free.
Now if you don't have a sewing machine or just don't wanna' BUT would like a Quilted Rag Purse of your own, you can WIN one of the Blue Rag Purses by placing any order of $30 or more on my SU Website or emailing your order directly to me. All orders received from Monday, February 15 through Sunday, February 27 will be eligible. I will put all the qualifying names in a hat and draw a winner on March 1, 2010.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!
I can't tell you enough how much I love my Big Shot! There is a list of items that can be used with the Big Shot, but until Leadership, I really never paid much attention.
Shelly Gardner gave every attendee at Leadership a quilted square that the people at the Manufacturing Facility made. They all brought in their sewing machines and made 1000 squares. Can you imagine?
This is me after receiving my quilt square. I believe there was at least 4 different color schemes but you didn't really get to choose. Not a great picture, but it's the only one I have of the quilt square.
We were given many suggestions on what to do with the square. Make an apron, pillow, purse and so on. There was even actual items made with the squares, but I decided to make it into a block and frame it. Eventually, it will hang in my stamp room.
Yesterday morning, I went to my friend Lucy Dean's house. Not only is Lucy an avid stamper, she is a great quilter and offered to help me out.
We went through 4 huge bins of fabric (better than going to a fabric store!) and chose a Garden Green printed fabric for the border.
I just love how it turned out! Lucy helped me every step of the way, measuring and cutting all the fabric and the batting for the border. She showed me exactly what I needed to do and let me use her fancy sewing machine to complete my quilt square. At first, I was just going to sewing the edge piece on, but after seeing how nicely it turned out, I hand stitched it to the back so there wasn't any stitching where it wasn't suppose to be.
Before I left Lucy, she let me go through the bins of fabric and I was able to take some to make the Ragged Scallop Purses I've been seeing. I'm hoping to start this weekend and I'll be able to share my version next week.
Big, big hugs and thanks to Lucy. Lucy, you have always been there whenever I needed any help and I so appreciate you. Thank you so very much!
Yep, can you believe it? I'm actually posting. LOL.
It has been crazy busy for me for the last 4 months.
My customers came over in November to make O Christmas Trees for SilverCrest. Santa passed them out in the beginning of December. The residents loved their trees.
I had a mini forest of 47 of these trees with Summer Sun stars on the top, unfortunately, I've lost the pictures.
I had a marvelous time in Phoenix Arizona at 2010 Leadership and the Regional Seminar. More information later. I will share my SUDSOL swap with you.
This is an easy card to duplicate and uses the Good Neighbor stamp set.
I am really rusty blogging so you can help me out if I forget to give you all the information.
Thanks for not giving up on me!
kathy
This is our last day together and it's kinda' sad. It has been so nice to have friends over to play with!
Today we start off with 2 word games.
Here we have Mary, Cherie, Jan and Blythe working on the Word Search puzzle. I went to www.discoveryeducation.com to build a Word Search Puzzle. You enter the words you want them to find and the website makes the puzzle for you and lists the words they should be searching for. All of the words had something to do with rubber stamping and scrap booking.
The second game we played was a Cross Word Puzzle. All the answered were stamping related and everyone attending was an answer too! Coreen and Jann are working hard on the Cross Word Puzzle.
Mary, Jan and Jann were the co-winners of the Word Search Puzzle and Mary was the winner of the Cross Word Puzzle. They each won a stamp from the $10 and under page. Mary took the Reindeer and Jann and Jan each took home the Snowflake stamp.
This morning, I demonstrated how to make a Sweet Treat Flower.
The Holiday Mini that will be available on September 1ST, has a stamp set called Sweet Treat in it. This stamp set is designed to have the centers punched out and a small cup placed in the hole and you can add whatever fits inside! Don't do the candy DOTS. They were too big and I used a few anyways and 3 days later they popped right off! It took me hours to figure out why the DOTS were on the floor!
Here's a flower close up. Very easy to do, I promise. Because the Holiday Mini has not been released yet, this is all I can show you. Another word of advise, save your $ for the Holiday Mini. This Mini will last for 4 months and will adversely affect your wallet! LOL. This Flower will be featured in my September Newsletter. To get step-by-step directions, sign-up for my newsletter now.
The last of the official projects was completed quickly.
This card was CASED from Stamp Addict 77 on Splitcoaststampers. The bling you see in the picture are Hot-Fix Crystals that were set with a Kandi Kane tool. I didn't have enough Clear Rhinestones for everyone to use and it was too late to order them.
Stamp Set: For All You Do
Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Whisper White
DSP: Cottage Wall
Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals, Sparkle Sizzlet Die, Big Shot, Snail
The rest of the day was spent playing. I demonstrated some different techniques using the Embossing Folders and Texture Plates so a station was set-up to try the different techniques. Another station was set-up to make cards from the Mover and Shaper Die Cut. The last station set-up was to make the new O Christmas Tree. This die will be available in the Holiday Mini. This die is exclusive to Stampin' Up! Sizzix does have another Tree like this, but it is missing the third layer. The third layer really completes the tree.
Now how cool is this little tree?! It is actually a pop-up, but everyone made one without putting it on a circle or in a card. Sometime in November, I will invite my friends and customers to help me make gifts for Santa to give the residents at Silvercrest and I think this is it! Everyone will get their own little Christmas Tree! I tried to convince the Convention Participants that we needed to make 70, but no dice! Actually only need around 40 to 45 for Silvercrest and I was thinking the left-overs would be Les' and mine Christmas Card! LOL.
Lunch today was THE best! Les made Salt and Pepper Shrimp. Oh it was better than yummy! It was served with Japanese Rice (or sticky rice or short grain rice) and veggies and fruit. Heaven in our tummies.
Throughout the Convention, when everyone heard the Woo Hoo Song, they would see what bracelet was being displayed on a card and if it was their's they won a door prize. Everyone was a winner of something fabulous out of the catalog. Today we choose the Grand Prize Winner. A $50 shopping spree and the winner was Jann Patton. She was a very happy camper!
Tomorrow I will start sharing the different swaps. Thanks for stopping by!
Up at 7:15 AM to get ready for the 2nd Day of the Mini Convention.
Everyone starts to arrive around 8:30 AM and we begin our "General Session". Instead of WOW demo's, I just go over the projects of the day and then everyone breaks off into groups.
The Convention in Denver, Colorado SU had professional photographers there and we had a group picture taken and before we left the booth, they gave us a 5x7 black & white photo for our scrapbook page we made that evening during the Make-N-Takes. I just LOVE this idea so I've incorporated it into both Mini Conventions.
I asked everyone to wear something that would co-ordinate with Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede, and Old Olive. This way, we were able to have a color photo.
When you pull the Bermuda Bay Round Tab, a 4x6 photo slides out and we all are doing funny things! I forgot to ask everyone if I could show the funny photo, so you only get to see the "proper" one. LOL. The words in the Circles were computer generated.
Cardstocks: Kraft, Crushed Curry, Rose Red, Olive Olive, Bermuda Bay
Patterns DSP: Rose Red, Bermuda Bay
Accessories: SU Lattice Die Cut, SU Flower Folds Die Cut, Serif Essentials Alphabets, Round Tab Punch, Elementary Ribbon Originals, Stampin' Dimensionals, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, White Gel Pen, Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhesive.
This card was CASE'd from Split Coast Stampers site. I believe that it was one of the Make-N-Takes from the Hawaii Incentive trip this past spring. I'm not sure what the style of the card is called, I just call it a Slant Card.
Here's the card open. I just thought it was a fun card. For all the projects at our Mini Convention, I wrote up hand outs. If you would like the directions to this card, leave a comment on this post and I'll send you a pdf file.
How cool is that! The Post-A-Note Coaster with a clear acrylic top was provided by my friend, Gina Taylor of Martinez, CA. Gina wasn't able to attend the Mini Convention so she sent a baggie that contained everything you needed to make the Post-A-Note Coaster. She also sent every participant a box of Mini Glue Dots, an ATC and a fun "I Love Scrapbooking" pin that flashes! You ABSOLUTELY ROCK GINA! We can't thank you enough for such a fun project!
Here are (left to right) Blythe Klipple, Mary Hetherington, Coreen Spurling and Kathy Tapp in the stamp room after completing Gina's Post-A-Note Coaster. Love, Love, Love this project!
Lunch today was the ever popular Les' Asian Pasta Chicken Salad. If you click here, you'll find the recipe for it. Oh, it is delicious! I forgot to mention that Jan Bliss brought Chocolate Chip Cookies and Jann Patton brought Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for everyone. What a treat! Thank you very much! Everyone enjoyed those cookies, right Cherie?
On the 2nd Day of Convention we did another 4 cards, but I think this post is long enough so I'll post another Day 2 - Part 2 tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!
I was in such a hurry to post, I forgot to give you the recipe for the previous card. Sorry about that!
Yesterday's card recipe:
Stamp Set: Sweet Stems
Ink: Night of Navy
Card Stocks: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Designer Series Paper: Urban Garden
Accessories: SU Movers & Shapers Curly Label Die Cut, Window Word Punch, Big Shot, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Tombow Adhesive
Here's another card using the SU Movers & Shapers Curly Label Die Cut.
I made this card for a swap and it was also one of the cards made at my March Card Club. When I make more than one card, I do it all in steps. I cut all the card stock, stamp all the pieces so I can make them assembly line style. When I was picking up the curly label piece, 2 of them were stuck together and that's how I figured out the weaving them together thing.
Stamp Set: Sweet Stems (I can't remember or figure out where the words came from)
Card Stocks: Textured Kiwi Kiss, Cameo Coral, Pretty In Pink, Whisper White
Inks: Cameo Coral, Pretty Ink Pink, So Saffron, Kiwi Kiss
Designer Series Paper: Raspberry Tart
Accessories: SU Movers & Shapers Curly Label Die Cut, Big Shot, Window Word Punch.
Don't forget to enter my blog candy contest. Information about the contest can be found here.
Thanks for coming by!
HELLO!!! Yes, I'm back. I bit off WAY more than I could handle in March so my blogging and newsletter and making my class hand-outs suffered. I am going to catch up this month because it just couldn't get any worse! LOL.
This is my 200th blog post! While that may not mean much, to me it's a big deal. When I first started this blog, I figured I would post once or twice a week. Well, then I found how much fun it was and posted more than that and then I found out how much work it was and then started to post less or not at all. Silly me! I LOVE sharing and this blog lets me do that. Here's my share for today.
The Stampin' Up! Movers & Shapers Curly Label Die Cut is one of my favorites. Here's a card I did.
I love that fact that you can move the Curly Label piece any where on the front of the card. How do you get that weird looking embellishment on the front? Let me show you.
Place the Curly Label Die Cut in one of the corners. Place a 2 1/2" square piece of card stock on top of the die and cut out. You need to do this twice.
Your 2 pieces will look like the above card stock.
Cut your pieces by trimming around the score lines.
Now take your 2 pieces and kinda' weave them together.
Once you have the 2 layers where you want them, glue them together.
Here's the finished embellishment. Now you just glue it in place.
This is the inside of the card. I used the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to place the flower stamp.
Hope you like my twist. Tomorrow I'll show you a card without the twist.
Now, since this is my 200th post, it's time for BLOG CANDY!!! When you enter, you can win...
The Flight of the Butterfly stamp set PLUS your choice of any 12 - 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of Stampin' Up! Color Card Stock.
To have a chance of winning let me know:
What kind of information you would like to see on my blog.
OR
What type of classes you like to attend.
For each class or different type of information, go ahead and enter separately. More chances to win! Just post your comment on this blog post. You have through Sunday, April 12, 2009 to enter.
I want to thank you all for visiting my blog. I've had so much fun with this and will continue to blog as much as I can.
Good luck! Have a wonderful week!..........kathy
