Card Buffet

Card Buffet!!

Check these out! Here are the cards we made at the card buffet on Friday night. I will hopefully be doing these every 8 weeks so we can have fresh cards for every occasion. This is an awesome way to learn a bunch of different techniques and ideas!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Stamping!!!

Special Occasion Calendar

Special Occasion Calendar

I have designed this perpetual calendar for special occasions. You can use the calendar to fill in the reminder dates for Birthdays and special Occasions.

We will bind the pages and add the wire hanger at the class. Here is a little sneak peek of the 12 different pages you will make.










Check out my site for more information on the dates this will be offered on. If you can't make it then get a group together and set up a private class.

Happy Stamping!

www.sashastamps.stampinup.net

January Kids Class Projects

Here's what we made at my kids class on Friday night!

Flower Card!

First we started out with this Flower card. I figured the kids would like doing the accordion fold to make the flower head! And then using the word stamp for the stem. I think it turned out very well! I may even use something like this for my Card Buffet. ;0)

Kids necklace!

For this we used 2 pieces of hodgepodge and some shrink it.
We stamped our image and then shrank it in the toaster oven. (I love that part!) Then we used 2 eyelets to sandwich all 3 pieces together and added the chain.
How simple and cute is that!!
~I think I may make some more and add some dangly beads to the bottom. ~

Stamping 101

How to Mount your Rubber Stamps

If you purchase rubber stamps from Stampin' Up!© they may look like this.

Or they may be die cut which means they are ready to mount with out cutting out of the rubber.
*But I still trim my die cut stamps :0)*

Next I lay out my blocks and spray them with a wood sealer like Krylon Spray sealer. You can purchase sealers from Micheals, (don't forget your coupon!) Wal-Mart, Home Depot just to name a few. Give them a few coats. This helps to protect your wood from getting stained from the ink.

Take the rubber and pull it apart, they are perforated.

Use good scissors to cut out the image of your stamp. Keep close to the image. Cut in small, straight snips. Don't turn your scissors for the curves, if you do the the foam underneath will be cut on an angle and you won't get a nice image when you stamp especially with word stamps.

Next take your sticker sheet and trim the sticker down a bit so they fit onto your blocks. This way you can line the sticker image up with the bottom of the block, and the rubber onto the bottom on the opposite side. Each sticker sheet comes with a stamp set label, this has the stamp set name, how many stamps are in the set and the catalogue number.

Here's the stamp set all cut out! And ready for ink! Yay!!

If you have purchased a stamp set that is solid images (the one shown here is an outline image set) you will need to prep the stamps for the ink. They tend to have a coating on them and don't stamp an even image. Just take some sandpaper or a sanding block, make sure to use a fine grain sanding paper, the higher the number on the paper the finer it is. I use between 200 and 300. Just take your mounted stamp and scuff up the rubber, then do a test stamp in some dark ink. Repeat this until you get the bold image that you like.

Thanks for looking and Happy Stamping!!!

Christmas Stamp-a-Stack

Here's what we made at my Christmas Stamp-a-Stack! It was a great day of creating, sharing, enjoying each others company and it went by fast! I'm doing a few private Stamp-a-Stacks which are fun. It's just another way we multi task! Socializing and getting our Christmas cards done ;0)

Deer Friend

- Whisper White card stock

- Riding Hood Red card stock

- Alpine Felt Ribbon

- Deer from Deer Friends stamp set

- Sanded Background stamp

- Heard from the Heart

- Scalloped Circle punch

- 1 1/4 circle punch

- 1/16 hand punch

- Crystal Effects

- Basic Brown ink

- Black and Real Red Stampin' Markers

Acetate Winter

- Confetti White card stock

- Soft Sky card stock

- Soft Sky Designer Paper

- Silver Embossing Powder

- Lovely as a Tree stamp

- Many Merry Messages

- Versa mark ink

- Staz On white ink

Non Stampin' Up!

-Acetate sheet

- White Organza Ribbon

Snow Burst

- Snow Burst Stamp Set
- Season of Joy Stamp Set
- Baja Breeze card stock

- Whisper White card stock

- Baja Breezed ink

- Soft Sky ink

- Taken with Teal in

- Mini glue dots

- Silver cord

- Rhinestone brad

- 1 1/2" circle punch

- 1 1/4" circle punch

Season's Greetings

- Sahara Sand card stock

-Whisper White card stock

-Vellum

-Gold eyelets

-Gold cord

-Encore Gold ink

-Bravo Burgundy classic ink

-Corner rounder (punch)

- Baroque Motifs stamp set

- Many Merry Messages stamp set

- Non SU! Gold pen

Be Merry

- Not Quite Navy card stock

- Confetti Cream card stock

- Sage Shadow card stock

- Punch Pals stamp set

- Basic Black classic ink

- Pumpkin Pie classic ink

- Not Quite Navy classic ink

-Blender pen

-Dazzling diamonds glitter

-Scalloped Square punch

- 1" square punch

-Lg oval punch

-Sm oval punch

-Chocolate taffeta ribbon

-Scalloped edge punch

-Slot punch

Thanks for looking!

In the words of Mater "Holy Shoot!"

I can't believe so much time has passed. I thought that when I started this blog that I would make time everyday to post. *HA!* :0) Anyway I will be posting some pics of my Christmas Stamp-a-Stack. In the mean time here is a pendant that I made into a necklace in my "free" time!

Can you guess what I used to make this?!

Mini Candy Apples

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Family Fun. They had a recipe for mini candy apples. Hmmm, I thought I have an apple tree and anything mini has to be cute, so I clicked on it and decided that I HAD to make them. But for who? Well how about my son's PreK class, OK but why would I need to make them. Imagine my happiness that when I looked at his calender and saw Apple Day. Yee Haw I get to make the Mini Candy Apples!!!

Mini Candy Apples: Take a melon baller and scoop out a chunk of apple with the skin. Melt your choice of peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips. Take some lollipop sticks (you can get them from Micheals) and stick them in your little apples then, dunk them into the melted chips and into your favorite coating, I used the little sprinkles.

I'll find out later how they went over at school!