Showing posts with label home decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home decor. Show all posts

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Colorful Seasons Seasonal Decor Frame - Stampin' Up Global Artisan Design Team Blog Hop

Hi stampers!  It's time again for the Stampin' Up Global Artisan Design Team Blog Hop!  Take a trip around the world and see what we made.  Don't forget to use Google Translate to keep up if you need to!

For the focus this time around, we are using the color theory suite which includes the colorful seasons stamp set, seasonal layers thinlits, and the color theory DSP stack.  The colors are so bright and cheerful!

Cards just weren't speaking to me with this suite but some old frames I had lying around were!  I made a little home decor piece for each season!  This suite is perfect for celebration every season!  We have built in shelves on either side of our fireplace, so I'm happy to have another thing to take up space on them :-)  We didn't have any shelves in our old house so I've been slowly collecting things to fill them up.


For each insert, I stamped my sentiment on vellum using versa mark and our classic inks and then used clear embossing powder to keep them from smearing.  It also adds a bit of shine!  This would also make a fantastic gift!

These were a little hard to capture on camera with the glass since it was attached to my frame.  I held them to reduce the glare so ignore my pudgy hands :-)  I kept them simple because sometimes I have to remind myself that less is more and it was in this case!


For autumn, I used both a gold foil sheet and a copper one for my leaves.  For the one with all the cutouts, I left some of them in.  Basically, whatever fell out of it's own accord I let fall out and I didn't poke out the rest.  It made for a really pretty leaf!  Don't be afraid of not poking out your die cuts!  It adds a whole new look!  I tied them with a bit of linen thread.  I also stamped a few leaves in crushed curry across the paper.


The winter insert is my favorite.  I did the same thing with the die cut here and let some of the pieces fall out.  I stamped some falling flakes in dapper denim.  It's simple and pretty, kind of like snowfall.

For my spring insert I simply stamped some blossoms on berry burst and added a branch of crumb cake.  

 Finally, the summer insert reminds me of sitting at my mom's farm looking over her green valley or "bottom" as we call it, refreshing lemonade at hand :-)  Ok, so this one may be my favorite actually.

I hope you enjoyed my project today!  Now you're off to see what colorful project Miriam has for you!




Happy stamping!

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Friday, September 13, 2013

Have a Banner Halloween

Hi stampers!  I am offering something VERY exciting!  My first online or virtual class!  And it's FREE if you purchase the:


  • Build a banner simply created kit (133507) $19.95
  • Halloween banner simply created kit (132698) $.9.95

You can find the info here and on my classes page.


SPOOKY banner class
(FREE with qualifying order)
Any purchase of the Build a banner simply created kit (133507) and the Halloween banner simply created accessory kit (132698) will qualify you for a FREE video on how to assemble your banner with helpful tips and tricks!  You can stamp (even though there's no actual stamping involved) along with me!  Use the video as a guide or step your project up, it's up to you!

You'll get EIGHTEEN banner pennants so you'll have plenty of pennants left over to make other banners and well as all of the pattern and alphabet stencils which are also re-usable!

Other helpful supplies are as follows:
Sticky strip
Sponge dauber(s)
Stampin' Spritzers
Black ink
Re-inkers (any orange and yellow will work)
Hot glue gun

You can add these two items to an online order (in addition to any other merchandise you'd like) or email me to order.  The purchase of these two items will automatically qualify you for the FREE class!   After your purchase I will email you a link to my private YouTube video.  This link will be unique to you and I do ask that you don't share it.

This banner is unique to me and this class.  It is NOT the banner shown in the Holiday catalog.  Order yours today so you can decorate your house for Halloween!

Feel free to contact me with questions.  And don't forget you can order directly from my blog using the shop 24/7 button over the right or you can email me and I'll order for you!  I'll also have another class coming for a Christmas banner so if you order the banner kit now you'll have your "left overs" for that class as well!

Happy stamping!

Saturday, August 11, 2012

2012 Artisan Finalis Blog Tour - Day 3

Hi stampers and welcome the the third day of the Artisan Finalist blog tour!  You may have just come from Tara's blog....wasn't her project fantastic....but don't worry if you didn't...we make an endless loop so make sure to check out everyone's entries!

In honor of the third day I'm sharing one of my 3-D projects today!  We have to submit 5 cards, 3 scrap pages and 2 3-D items.  Now, I know most people say they struggle with the 3-D submissions the most....and I did too but for a slightly different reason...I couldn't decide what to enter....I had too many ideas, lol!  I really like doing 3-D items, especially home decor stuff and now with Pintrest I had SO MANY ideas!!!!  I have a list a mile long of things to make and thing to possibly enter next year!  I finally decided on doing a framed subway art though as subway art is HOT right now!  I used MDS and created a hybrid frameable.  Feel free to click on it to see it larger for more detail.
This was also my least favorite project in the end because I messed it up slightly.  I was in a rush (big surprise there) to get this done and printed and back to me so there wasn't time to fix it.  I actually had to pay a rush fee to get it here to me on time.  That ought to teach me for next time!  But as you can see in the picture some of the words and images are slightly cut off under the frame but live and learn...I know for next time now I guess.  So I was really extra surprised when I found out I was a finalist since I had "messed" this one up:-)  It's still cute though!

I used a LOT of downloads in this and just played around with colors and sizes until they were how I wanted them.  MDS is SO fun and SO great for this kind of thing!  However, I should have written down exactly what downloads I used because we had to include that information and I probably spent more time looking them up after the fact than I did creating the thing, lol!

 I added on a few little extras like the pearls, punched flower, brad, and rhinestones for a bit of extra fun!  I debated about what occasion to make this for and finally settled on a birthday theme because it was a bit out of the box and not just some fall or Christmas or other season/holiday that you would normally see subway art for.  How cute would this be out on a table for a birthday party or in the birthday girl's (or boys....) room the week of their birthday?

Well that's the end of the tour....unless you started in the middle in which case you're off to Connie's blog to start all over!  Her project is just the cutest!!!!  And in case you get lost here's the list!  And be sure to come back each day for the rest of the 10 projects!

1:  Connie Collins
2:  Holly VanDyne
3:  Melissa Stout
4:  Amy O'Neill
5:  Sandie Conner
6:  Amy Rogers
7:  Mercedes Weber
8:  Tara (Murphy) Bougroin
9:  Mindy Bingamon (You are here)

Happy stamping!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Quoth the raven

Happy Halloween stampers!  I have a super spooky project to share today but I have a "horror story" first.  This is the first year that I can remember that I have NOT dressed up for Halloween or gone to a party!  The shock, the horror!!!!!  If you know me then you know I LOVE Halloween, it rates right up there with Christmas for me!  It's super fun to decorate and super fun to come up with costumes and be someone you aren't for a day or two!  We usually go to my BFF's boyfriend's for a party and he goes all out, I think he likes H-ween as much as me!  But this year my hubby got sick:-(  We made it about an hour away from home but he was feeling worse and worse.  He wanted to keep going but I said there was no sense in him being miserable.  I wouldn't have had fun anyway knowing he was sick.  So, after driving for over 2 hours we ended up back at home:-(  I guess we can always wear our costumes next year.  Anyway, so sad!!! I didn't dress up at work either because everyone else was lame (hahaha) and didn't want to.  Oh well, maybe I'll just show up in costume some random day, lol!

See, wasn't that a terrible Halloween story????  Now, onto the spooky project!  I had been wanting to make my own crow from the mini catalog for a while.  I got the crow about a month ago (and it quite freaked my hubby out when I left it out on the counter one night...scared him the next morning, lol) but never got around to making him.  Hubby couldn't imgagine what I was going to do with such a weird thing but really liked how it turned out!  So, this past week I finally got him done!  Isn't he super spooky?  Just look:


Sorry for the bad/blurry pic.  It's the best I could do with the light early this morning.  I used one of the decor elements blocks and covered it with DSP.  After I put him all together (he is hot glued onto the block) I sprayed him and the block with spray adhesive and sprinkled dazzling diamonds over it.  Now, I goofed a bit and he's got one super sparkly spot but that's ok.  The spray adhesive and glitter technique does take some practice.  I also think  I should have used a different box out in the garage to spray him and catch the glitter but I couldn't find another one.  At least I know for next time:-) 

I hope everyone has a safe and spooky Halloween!

Happy stamping!

Monday, October 3, 2011

Framed Flower

Hi stampers!  I have a project for you today that I've been working on for MONTHS!  Once you see it you'll go, "um, it's so simple, how could it have taken you months to make?"  Well, I got the idea at convention in the product park and came home and made my flower.  Then began the hunt for the right frame.  I could NOT find a frame that I liked anywhere!  But, this weekend at Target I finally found a frame that I liked!  So, without further ado, here is my framed flower:


Isn't it fresh and pretty???  It's actually much prettier in person since it's glittery!  After I cut out my flowers and adhered them together and added my rhinestones and brad I LIGHTLY sprayed the whole thing with spray adhesive and sprinkled some dazzling diamonds on again, very lightly.  I actually wish I had added some more but I didn't want to over-do it.  I'm going to be bedazzling lots of other things this way now, it was so easy and looks great!  I think this is how Shelli makes a lot of things sparkly!  There were a lot of things like this at convention!  You can see the flower a bit better here.

Stampin' Supplies:
Paper:  Pocketful of posies
Accessories:  Fun flowers die, antique brads, basic rhinestones, pear pizzazz ribbon, dazzling diamonds, spray adhesive, frame

Some pear pizzazz "leaves" and it's all done! I just attached it to the glass in the frame with some glue dots!  It's going to look great in my new, bigger stamp studio that I'm going to get....more on that later!

Happy stamping!

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