Sketches for week of Sept 9, 2012

Hello Ladies!

Here are your weekly inspiration sketches for the week of Sept 9, 2012....remember to share your work....we love to inspire others!

A Special Anniversary Card

Carole has sent us this card that she made for her brother and sister in law for their 45th wedding anniversary.

 The front of the card features a picture of them today.  Carole chose a beautiful stamp from the Word Play greeting set.

The inside of the card features photos from their wedding day- 45 years ago. 

How special is that!

Thanks for sharing with us Carole- I love it when you share with us and inspire others! 

Birthday Invitations for My Grandson

My grandson Richard will be turning 6 years old on October 30th.

His Mom is having a birthday party for him with a Halloween theme, and she asked me to make invitations to send to his friends at school.

Here is what I came up with, what do you think?  Suitable for 6 year olds?

Video- Ink Pad Tips

Chat and Challenge Host for SUDSOL....

I wanted to share with you that effective Sept 1/12, I will be hosting Chat and Challenge twice a month on SUDSOL. 

During these one hour online chats, I will be providing a sketch, and the other Stampin Up demonstrators who attend the chat will all create a card or scrapbook page (or both), based on my sketch, while we are chatting online.  After the chat they post photos on SUDSOL gallery, and someone will win a FREE week of membership*.

SUDSOL is an online group of hundreds of Stampin' Up! demonstrators, that I belong to. 

The name, SUDSOL stands for "Simply Unique Demonstrators Sharing Online" 

This is a great place for any new demonstrator, there are chat forums, sample libraries, article libraries, and anytime you have a question or need help, all you have to do is send an email and within minutes you have the answer or the help you requested- it is GREAT!

So, any of my demonstrator friends out there....if you haven't checked out SUDSOL, please do so.  Their website is www.sudsol.org. and they offer a free trial membership.   Once you join, you have options- you can simply pay for your membership, or if you share pictures of your samples, you can earn free membership time- how easy is that!

For any of my blog readers out there, if you would like to receive weekly sketches via email for cards or scrapbook layouts, just send me an email and  I will add you to my list.  Then you will receive the sketches once a week.  Use these sketches to help you in desiging your projects. If you want to take photos of your completed projects, and send them to me, I will post them on my blog for inspiration to other blog readers.

Back to "Spool" - September Promotion !

2011 August Card Class- Summer Silhouettes

This is the final card we made during August card class. 

It features the stamp set entitled "Summer Silhouettes" found on page 82. 

The card base is River Rock, and the mat is Basic Black.  I punched one side of the mat with a border punch.  The stamped images are stamped in River Rock ink and Basic Black ink.  The butterfly is stamped from the Pappillon Potpourri stamp set on page 115, then punched out with the new butterfly punch found on page 184.  The greeting was stamped and then "flagged" using the square punch found on page 183. 
Very striking card.....

2012 August- Paper Pierced Card

This is the third card we made in August card class.  It features paper piercing techniques using the new paper piercing templates.

We made this using the large 2 1/2" circle punch, a small heart punch, a large heart punch, and the scalloped border punch. We assembled the card front and then pierced it using the paper piercing templates on page 181 with the new paper piercing tool and the new stampin pierce mat.  Then it was mounted on a Rich Razzleberry card base. Doesn't the piercing just finish this card nicely?

2012 August Scrapbooking Class- Layout 3- Word Search

This is the third layout we made during Augusts Scrapbooking Class.

It features a Word Search puzzle as the title- how cool is that! 

I just used an Excel spreadsheet and formatted the letters in a way that I could have it spell out my title! 

This layout features my sons, now grown men, when they were just 6 and 8 years old.....talk about a trip down memory lane for me!  A journalling card with "fill in the blanks" was a cute addition.  I used "foam candy" under the photo and just used permanent bic markers to color them to match my layout. 

2012 August Card Class- card two- Pretty Postage Emboss Resist

This is the second card we made in August card class. 

It features two techniques.  The card base  technique is called " Artist Canvas" and is achived by rubbing the ink pad direct to paper and then filling in the open areas with a coordinating color and a sponge.  The colors used here were Crumb Cake and Midnight Muse.

The focal image features the "Emboss Resist" technique and is achieved by stamping an image with clear embossing powder and versamark.  Heat set with the heat gun.  Then using sponges sponge color all over the image as desired.  Here i used Midnight Muse and Soft Suede.  Then use a dry papertowel to remove the excess ink from the embossed areas.

My girls LOVED this card....so much fun!

2012 August Card Class

This is the first of four cards we made in August card classes.  I love the clean and simple lines of this card.  We used the new in color, gumball green along with early espresso and whisper white cardstock. The stampset is entitled My Friend and is found on page 122.  The butterflies are from the Beautiful Wings embossalit on page 188. 

2012 August Scrapbooking Class- Distressing

In this layout, we had a lot of fun with the Zutter Distress-It-All.....an electric tool that does all the hard work of distressing your edges.  You can just distress a little....or a lot.

We also used assorted Ranger distress inks and the distressing tool with sponge applicators....messy but oh so fun!

A cute little paper bag and a tag for journalling are a great addition to this page along with the distressed metal bookplate that I attached with brads.....

This layout is my Dad and Mom when they first started dating.......I LOVE the way this page turned out and the black and white photos!

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