Serenity Stamper Sandra Heck

Guest Designer Sandra

At our last Serenity Stamper Inspiration meeting I went over individual goal sheets with each of my team. I challenged each one of them to have their goals sheets back to me with a beautiful handmade Stampin' Up! card. This one featuring the NEW Build -a-Blossom stamp set and so many techniques and die cuts incorporated into the card just took my breath away!
Sandra Heck is a very talented crafter and joined my Serenity Stamper team in November.
She is right on target with her goals and thanks for the AWESOME card.

This card is very intricate and very time consuming I love the little threads in the middle of the blossoms. They are resting in little pockets of the blossoms.

Love, Love, Love the spritzing and sponging. "Guess those classes paid off Ma"
Sandra has very unique and original designs.
Thanks Sandra for such a gorgus card!
What do you think of Sandra's card?? Give her a shout out!

Whitney's Stampin Studio-Spotlight Crafter

Dian Sulzbach is the spotlight crafter of the week at Whitney's Stampin' Studio.
Diana is a 3rd grade teacher in Edgewater. She has a scrapbooking club at her school for the children. I first met Diana at The Annual "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" crop 2 years ago. She was a fan of Stampin' Up! products and slowly began her collection of SU products.
When I met Diana I could see that sparkle in her eye for the love of crafting and the many scrap books she had made thru the years. She recently joined my Big Shot Club in October of last year after this years MSABC crop. After a few month's of test driving all the Stampin' Up Sizzix exclusive die cuts and stamps, inks and CS, she too fell in love with all the many possibilities that and her desire to learn new techniques began to grow.
She is now a member of my Serenity Stampers team.
Diana just joined Stampin' Up! as demonstrator in November and has worked very hard to share her love for crafting with others.

(Left to right) Kelly, Me, and Diana
This month she brought her very first Hostess Kelly to visit our Big Shot club.
Kelly is a natural crafter, she just jumped right in and hung with us.

This is a couple of shots of Diana's first workshop where she got her first booking with Kelly as her Hostess. Her guest loved the BIG SHOT and requested more Big shot projects at the next event. Diana has really dedicated herself to her business and I am very proud to have her on my team. It is such a blessing to have such talented team members to share my passion
for Stampin' Up! with my downline.

Diana sharing her skills with friends. They loved her make and takes and are looking forward to there next meeting on Saturday.
Way to go Diana!

Sprintime Vintage Petal Cone Pouch

This just screams Victorian Vintage to me!
Springtime Vintage DSP in the OMC pg 15 #121782$9.95
with the Petal cone die making a pouch where you can fit up to 3 round scallop mini cards inside.
Check out the Beveled Windowpanes OMC #121881- $7.95
they can really bring great dimension into your project
I stamped the sentiment BLISS from my FREE sale-a-bration set and highlighted the focal point by placing it undert the pane and running the baha breeze seam binding thru the panes
with the added rose red seam binding and trinket keys, 1/8" taffeta vanilla & espresso ribbon-
Very vintage
Stamp set: BLISS in the SAB catalog on the last page
Receive a FREE SAB gift with every $50.000 purchase!

These adorable little cards are made with the #2 scallop die #113469 $19.95
and the NEW 3 inch circle in the OMC #122125 $17.95
The banner across is cut from the petal cone . The coordinating buttons are on
pg.16 in the OMC Springtime Vintage Designer Buttons#122301 $6.95 and you get 48 of these babies!

I used my sale-a-bration stamp set "So Happy for You" that received for FREE for the sentiments on the cards.

If you would like to order any of these items you can visit my online store 24/7 ant
www.whitneyrichardson.stampinup.net and remember for every $50.00 you get to select a FREE SAB gift!

Petal Cone Mini album for my Hubby

This is my petal cone mini album I gave my hubby for Valentines Day.
I was inspired by Meg Loven's sample of the petal cone mini album.
On the front it is decorated with the Fun Flowers Die with Pretty in Pink CS and then the SEW Suite DSP across the middle along with the pom-pom trim in the OMC. I embossed the front petal cone with Vintage Wallpaper along with the fun flowers and then I used my Vanilla smooch spray and misted over the top.

This picture is my daughter Chesne while celebrating her 18th birthday with Dad.
See Dad's eyes? This about how we look all the time with a daughter this age!! LOL

These pictures are of my nine year old Ansleigh the left her 9th bday opening her new computer which I was able to pay for with my Stampin' Up! business!! WhooHOO! the right side is a Halloween shot of her (in her Taylor Swift costume)and Dad in his mask.
Can you guess who his mask is???

I really enjoyed making this for him. The pictures are a bit tricky to put in but there is a technique that we will be learning in our petal Cone Mini album class!
Join us and make your own. Feb 27th Sunday 1-5pm or get your kit to go if you are not local with color picture tutorial.

Love Birds Petal Cone Mini Album

I think one of my favorite products we sell are the Simply Scrappin Kits which are designed to coordinate the Designer Series paper and the Accents and Elements with our wonderful quality of cardstock to give you a complete Scrap Kit. I cannot describe to you the difference in quality I find in these kits vs. those I have used in the past from other sources.

My specialty with Simply Scrappin Kits has always been my signature design scrap tins and now I have found a new passion to use them for and I think these will be a hot item at my craft shows and will also be the feature project at my upcoming Petal Cone Blitz-a-rama (stamp camp) on February 27th. So check out this mini scrap album that I finished in one and 1/2 hours!! Now I just have to pick my pictures and use my handy dandy Stampin' Up! Punches to crop my pictures. YES our punches are great for cropping pictures.

This kit is from
The Love Birds Simply Scrappin Kit
(pg.178 in the (IBC) $19.95 item #118707

NEW 3 -1/2 inch circle die cut in the OMC $17.95 item # 121811

layered with the 3" circle on top

You can crop your photos with the 2 1/2 inch circle punch and the fancy flower punch, etc....

This is the Scallop duo die cut from the Holiday Mini Catalog which is still available for purchase
$21.95

this circle is the NEW 3inch circle die cut in the OMC #122125 -$17.95

Hope you enjoyed the birds eye view of my mini album.
this was made with
Stampin' Up's! exclusive Petal Cone Die cut in the OMC
pg. 15 item # 121810 $32.95


Join us for our class on February 27th and make one of your own, plus a few other petal cone projects. If you would like a kit to go I can mail you one of those too. Just shoot me an email.
whitneyrichardson1969@gmail.com
Let me know what you think about the mini album?

Occasions Big Shot Club

We celebrated Birthdays this month at our Big shot Club Meeting! I went outside my comfort zone and tried a color combo from a swap I received at Leadership and my customers loved the BRIGHTS! Concord Crush, Real Red and White..This is a box made with the Petal Cone die and the Fun Flowers die cut in the OCM.
The flowers were cut and and sprayed with water let set and then peeled them apart and sponged the flowers to give them a 3 dimensional look.
I first saw this box without the the top petal on it on Chick & Scratch's blog Angie did a great video. I have seen several versions since. this one I just tweaked to my own specs.

side view

Supplies:

Fun Flowers Die #121812-$32.95(OCM)

Petal Cone Banner-#121810-, $32.95 (OCM)

Friendly Words Jumbo Roller Wheel #114696 $8.50 (IBC)

Glue Dots #103683

Concord Ink #119785$5.95 - Card Stock #119792-$6.95

Real Red- Ink#103133$5.95 Card Stock #102482 $6.95

Whisper White Card Stock #100730-$8.50(40 Sheets)

Measurements:

Real Red (2) 5 ½ x 8 ½ (cut 2 petal cones at a time)

Concord (1) 3 ½ x 3 ½ for large flower on Fun Flowers die

White (1) 3x3 for medium flower

Red (1) 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ small flower-

Ribbon: White Satin 16 inches

Technique for Flowers

Sponging TIPS**

In a Stampin’ Sponge piece on an ink pad by pressing and twisting into the ink

Begin on scratch paper to the side of your flowers and wipe the sponge from the scratch paper, across the edge of the card stock and on the card stock.

This ensures that the ink will be darkest at the edge and prevents unexpected dark spots.

Cut your Stamping Sponges into 8-10 wedges, rather than using the full circle sponge for a single color

You can use the round tab punch and staple a piece of that color paper to the top of the sponge to show what color it has been used for.

Create a Cupcake Birthday Card

Measurements:

Concord Crush: 4 ¼ x 11 score at 5 ½

White: 5 ¼ x 5 ¼ use polka dot embossing folder on this CS

White: 3x3 ½

Real Red: 2 7/8 x 3 ¼ trim corner rounder each corner

Concord: 2 ¼ x 2 5/8

White: 2 -1/8 x 2 ½

Red Glitter Scrap- pop out small cherry from cupcake punch adhere with a dimensional

Real Red 2x4 scallop trim the bottom emboss it thru lattice embossing folder

Wrap Concord Crush twill ribbon around and tie bow.

White Scrap -stamp the bottom of the cupcake in real red and the top in concord pop out with the Cupcake punch and adhere with a dimensional, add rhinestones and stamp Happy Birthday on the bottom of the white focal point CS.

Supplies:

Create A Cupcake Stamp Set - #121915 (Wood) - $22.95 #121982 (Clear) $16.95

Punches: Build a Cupcake Punch- #121807 $16.95-Scallop Trim Corner-118870- $9.95

Ribbon: Concord Crush Twill - #119266-$8.95

Concord Ink #119785$5.95 - Card Stock #119792-$6.95

Real Red- Ink #103133$5.95 Card Stock #102482 $6.95

Whisper White Card Stock #100730-$8.50(40 Sheets)

Basic Rhinestones-119246- $4.95

Two Tag Gift Tag

Tag inspired by my upline Lisa Curcio as a swap from leadership

Cutting Measurements

Real Red: 3 x4 ½ Cut large tag on the Two tag die

Concord Crush DP: 2x1-5/8

White: 2x1- 5/8 inside sentiment stamp sentiment

Real Red DP: Top of cupcake punch

White scraps to punch cupcake bottom

White banner – stamp sentiment in Concord or real red cut off the end.

Concord scrap put cherry on top.

Silver cord

Supplies:

Stamps: Bring On the Cake- (OCM) #121899 - $38.95 wood #121958- clear $27.95,

Afterthoughts stamp set level one hostess set (IBC)

Big Shot- Two Tag Die Cut-115954 $ 21.95, (IBC) Petal Cone Banner-#121810-, $32.95(OCM)

Punches: Create a Cupcake, Corner Rounder

Crimper, rhinestones, glue dots, matches

Girl Scout Valentines

Whew!! 35 Valentines in 4 hours! Nothing like waiting until the last minute.
Do you find yourself teaching classes on Valentines starting way back in January and then when it comes to getting your own family Valentines done it some how always comes down to the entire family working together at the last hour getting Girl Scout Valentines and School mate Valentines done??? I say every year I am not gonna let this happen..... but here we are again!
Any hew seems like we work better under pressure.

This Valentine pouch is made from the lovely NEW petal cone die from the NEW Occasions Mini looks like a heart doesn't it?? This is one of the most versatile die cuts that we have. I can't wait to show you all the petal cone projects I have been making and they are fun, fun!
My daughter Ansleigh and I had a blast making these and Dad even left the Nascar throne to come and help on Sunday.