Patricia Stamps

SU Only Challenge - Retired Stamp Set

Every year when the Stampin' Up catalog comes out, there are number of stamp sets that retire. This means you won't be able to purchase them again after the catalog is gone. For the most part, I get rid of all of those sets, to make way for some new ones. There are still a few stamp sets left my retired shelves.

Elegant Inspirations - because it is just beautiful and I love the scriptures. It is my go to set for wedding and thinking of you cards.

Watercolor Garden II - a beautiful floral set that is so easy to use. Two step stamping and nothing else is needed to make a quick beauty with this set.

Stampin' Fun for Everyone - I haven'[t used this set but once or twice, but it is one of those that I just keep thinking I might, because it is so much fun.

Anyway, I could on for a little while about which sets I still have and love, but on to the challenge.

This SUO Challenge is to use your favorite retired stamp set to make a card. I must say that this was a tough challenge. I have so many retired stamp sets that I love. I chose to use Cowboy Kid. I have a little boy and this set is just so cute for cards for his friends.

Click on over to the SUOnly Challenge and play along.

SUOnly Challenge - Wheels

Are you wondering why we are doing a "wheel" challenge and my card has no wheels on it? Well, this card was made with one stamp (the words) and one wheel (for the border of cupcakes as well as the background of cupcakes).

I love to use Stampin' Up wheels on my projects. This one is especially cute and useful. For the border, I wheeled the image in basic black and then colored it in with my markers. For the background, I wheeled with Baja Breeze ink on Baja Breeze cardstock.

TIP: Whenever I wheel a background, I always go on the diagonal. That way, if you are not perfectly straight you cannot see the mistakes nearly as much as if you go horizontally or vertically.

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Love is in the Air - SUO Challenge #11

Our challenge #11 is to make Valentine's Cards.

Here I used the four diferent Stampin' Up punches: scallop circle (for the body), five petal flower (for the head, with two petals removed), the full heart punch and the word window punch (for the legs, punched piece cut in half). I also used the smallest pearls from the Basic Pearls set from Stampin' Up. I'm so thankful those are self adhesive!

I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you make some Valentine cards that you want to share.

Also, I am having class tonight, January 25, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. and we are making Valentine cards. If you live in the area and wish to join us, just send me a note or give me a call.

SUOnly Challenge #10 - Baby cards

I'm glad things have settled down in our lives. Glad to be back to posting fun new ideas to share with you. This year I am going to focus a lot more on all the wonderful things we can do with the My Digital Studio software from Stampin' Up. I am loving it! Not only do I love the software, but I love the fact I can order new things to go with it in the middle of the night and have them just moments later. Instant gratifica tion :)

The challenge for SUOnly group is to make a baby card.

I used the "All in the Family" digital stamp set. I took the baby body and the head and put them together. Then, I enlarged that image and saved it as a jpg file. I printed that image out as a wallet size photo onto Whisper White cardstock.

I colored the image and then cut it out very closely, leaving a very small white border.

I cut out the Duo Square die (larger of the two) with Whisper White. I then cut a slightly smaller square to go inside of it and ran that piece through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder.

The words are from the wood mounted stamp set Short and Sweet and I used Whisper White craft ink to stamp them.

Hope you enjoy it. Now click on over to the challenge page and play along :)

 

SUOnly Challenge #6 - Clean & Simple Christmas Cards

Welcome to a new challenge. Clean and Simple Christmas Cards.

I have made a lot of cards already this season. This one is one of my favorites. Not just because of the beautiful stamp set, but becaue of the simplicity. I love that this one set has the main image, outside words as well as inside words. I only need one stamp set, three colors of cardstock, one color of ink and two embellishments.

Stamp Set: Come to Bethlehem

Cardstock: Shimmery White, Brushed Silver and Elegant Eggplant

Ink: Classic Elegant Eggplant

Other: Rhinestones, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder

 

I hope you enjoyed this challenge card. If you need help choosing your Christmas cards and ordering the supplies, leave me a commment and I will get back with you.

SUOnly Challenge - Punch Art

Time for another round of SUOnly Challenge group. I am a designer for this group. Our challenge was to use only Stampin' Up products and make some punch art.

I used the  1 3/4" circle punch for the body, the wide oval for his head, the 1/2" circle punch for his nose and eyes, a 1/4" circle punch for the pupils of his eyes, the word window punch for the legs, flower from the three flower punch for his "hair". His antenna are from the Scribbles die using the Big Shot die cut machine. I also used the Crop a Dile for the holes in the bag :)  On the torn white edges, I used two way glue and dazzling diamonds to make the snow sparkle. It is kind of hard to see in the photo.

I hope you enjoyed this project. This reindeer is so much fun to make. I made him a lot last year for cards. This year, we have these wonderful brown paper treat bags. Let me tell you, these are not like the bags you can buy at the dollar store. These bags are very heavy duty. They stand up nicely on their own and aren't going to rip when you fill them with treats.

SUOnly Challenge - Fabric

I was recently asked to take part on a design team for the SU Only Challenge blog. I was so thrilled to join this very talented group of ladies. Make sure you visit the blog to see the creations from all the team members and for your chance to play along.

This week's challenge was to use Stampin' Up fabric. I made a puppet for my little boy because he is very into puppets right now.

 

The puppet is made using the Two Step Owl punch digital download that is available for My Digital Studio, or as a jpg file. (and he is standing on a bottle of hand lotion so he could get his picture taken.)

I took the file and enlarged it and used it to cut out my fabric from the Holiday Mini Catalog.

All of the stitching is done by hand and adds to his "rustic" feel.

I hope you enjoyed this project :)

Color Throwdown #114

I used to participate in the Color Throwdown challenges a lot. I haven't done one in quite a while, but this one was such a great combo, I just had to jump in again.

I used my new level 2 hostess set, Apple Blossoms and the patterned paper package that is a level 1 hostess gift. 

 

And here is another shot of the card to show part of the decorated inside.

I used three diferent punches: word window, modern label and ribbon border.

Hope you like it. If you want to order any of the supplies to make this card, or if you want to have a party to earn them for free, please let me know. I'm more than glad to help.

 

Bird Card Challenge

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Please bookmark this new website for Cricut creations. As a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I am not allowed to promote products we do not sell. Many of you have asked why I would remain a demonstrator with such strict requirements. Honestly, I just love being a demonstrator. I have been one for almost 10 years. So, in keeping with the agreement I signed, I won't promote any other products, such as my beloved Cricut. I will be sharing my designs with iLoveToCut. She will post them so that everyone can still enjoy them.

Thanks for understanding and please keep coming back to this site, as I have all kinds of wonderful new Stampin' Up creations to share with you.

Color Throwdown November 11, 2009

I participated in a different kind of challenge today. The challenge was a Color Throwdown. The colors were Real Red, Crushed Curry, Only Orange and some dark neutral (I chose Basic Gray.)

I wanted to use a set that I don't use very often, and I wanted to use the design sketch from the Sudsol challenge.

Here is what I came up with.

 

Interesting colors for a Christmas card, but I think it works.

Have fun and make some of your own Christmas cards :)