Creative Images Stamp Camp

Boy, howdy, has it been a long couple of months.  Lots of things happened since beginning of December, not the least of which was being sick for weeks, which pretty much ruined Christmas.  We went to Alabama for a week and finished up with Russel’s company party.  After that, everything went down hill fast.  It’s a good thing we put the tree up before we left, or it would never have gotten up.  Like Forrest, I’ll say that’s all I’m gonna say about that. 

Christmas is over, there was no Creative Images meeting/party in December, and I am now getting back in the saddle with my blog.  This last weekend, we had our January stamp camp, followed immediately by Jeannie, Helen and I going to a Sale-a-Bration Celebration put on by Stampin’ Up in Orlando.  Lots of pics, lots of fun.  I’ll start with the Stamp Camp and work on the SAB Celebration another day.

My nephew’s wife, Shana, asked me what a stamp camp is.  I told her I’d write all about it in my blog, so here goes.  Our stamp club, Creative Images, figures out which of several projects we would like to work on that take longer than we could do during our monthly meeting.  The members decided to go with Jeannie and Therese’s photo-transfer to canvas and Tange’s Artist Trading Card (ATC) memory box.  We also had our business meeting, nominating officers, planning the calendar, did our card exchange (left over from December) and had our Chinese gift exchange.  Busy day. 

First up, pictures of Jeannie’s and Therese’s samples.  They had taken laser color copies of photos, adhered them to canvas with a medium of some kind, I forget, rubbed off the paper, let it dry and attached the canvas to cards.  Click on a picture to see details, then back to return.  I love the glittery sand and shell on the first one.

 

I didn’t finish mine as it wasn’t drying fast enough.  Hope to finish it this weekend and put proper pictures on here.

Next we worked on Tange’s ATC memory box.  Tange and the club provided the boxes that hold 12 ATC’s.  Here are pics of two of Tange’s finished ones and one in progress to see how it’s done.  Again, click on the pics to see details, then back.

 

Before I had seen Tange’s red and black sample, I had decided on a black and white theme for my box.  I cut black rectangles to fit in the spaces, then slightly smaller pieces of designer papers, all different.  Tange went through her trinket box and we pulled out lots of little things.  I decided to add a couple of touches of red to make it pop.  A couple of brass things like the butterfly and clock I am going to paint white.  Here’s a pic of the basic idea.

For show and tell, Ella brought in her 12 days of Santa ATC memory box.  So cute!

We had five exchange cards, theme “Glittering Good Time.” First up is Lona’s.  Hard to see the glittery snow on the trees.

Ella had glittery champagne glasses!

Herman had glittery leaves, much prettier in real life.

Jeannie’s snowman card has glitter all over it.

My poinsettia stickers had glitter on them.

Here’s Jeannie hard at work on her ATC’s.

Here’s a pretty card Jeannie made from an ATC with fussy-cut ladies on it.

Here’s Therese passing out spoon/names for the exchange to Lona and Herman . . .

. . . and Ella and Tange.

That’s it till I do the SAB Celebration.  Thanks for stopping by.

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November Stamp Club

I’m slow again, but at least this time, it’s still November!  We had lots of absentees for various reasons at the meeting, but we did our exchange of thank you cards and made our projects.  I couldn’t find my list of who did what, but I actually remembered!

First, Pam’s Upsy Daisy masked and sponged card, an oldie but goody.  I love black silhouettes.

Here’s Ella’s nostalgic swing on a tree with some Flower Soft grass to finish it off.

Herman did this bright patchwork quilted card. 

I made this Thanksgiving card using masking and a shimmery spray that’s hard to see in this pic.

Lona made this lovely card with some decorative scissors (I think) and embossing.

Jeannie had the project, a cute ATC with die cuts of layers and birdies and roses or posies, the latter to be quilled into pretty embellishments.  Jeannie had a conflict, so she gave everything to me to have Therese show how to make it, but Therese couldn’t come either.  Good thing I kinda sorta remembered how to quill flowers!  First up, Jeannie’s two samples.

On the left is Pam’s finished ATC and mine is on the right.  As Jeannie likes to point out to us, if we’re not all that into ATC’s, we can turn them into cards.  So, I did!  I mounted the ATC on a card front and had a lovely get well card I gave to Janice.  She’s home now.

When I went to see Janice, she showed me some cards her friend Millie had made.  I especially liked this one with the punched out black butterflies cut in half and layered under the white butterflies.

That’s it for this month.  Thanks for stopping by.

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October Stamp Club

Busy, busy is the Beaver.  Can’t believe I actually said that!  Also had severe case of lackawanna, but finally got all my pictures from last couple of weeks processed and ready to blog.  Our good friends Misty and Bob are in Florida from St. Louis and we’ll see them at least one more time before they head home before Thanksgiving.  I also need to send Tange some notes on the meeting.

The exchange theme for October was was “A Stitch in Time.”  Most of the cards had some stitching of some sort, or a sewing theme.  My favorite was Herman’s.  He layered this lovely collage and stuck a threaded needle through a clock.  Way cool!

Ella did this fashionable card with thread, pins, sewing machine, etc. 

Lona actually embroidered this pretty thank you card.

 

Pam dug out a sewing machine to run a line of stitching through her punched out circles.

 

Therese made this dress form with lots of dimension on a faux silk frame and also dug out her sewing machine.

This is my layered and fussy cut card with rows of faux stitching in white gel pen over the tiny holes made by a Dritz marking tool.

 

Three ladies brought in ATC’s and instead of waiting another month, they were divied up.  Former member Cheryl joined us and brought her spooky tree ATC’s.  I like the moon and owl’s yellow eyes.  Therese did the doll ATC she named “Bebe.”  Lots of interesting stuff in that one.

  

Jeannie made this cute little giraffe ATC.  She used the same design on some invites to a baby shower.

I had the project for October.  Here are the bases I made getting the technique down right.

Here’s my sample.  I made two others, but I can’t find the pics and don’t want to take even more time getting this done. 

I was inspired to learn this technique by Dawn Griffith’s beautiful Easter card in her April 8, 2012, post.  It was turquoise, white and silver with lots of butterflies.  Gorgeous.  There’s a link to her post here.  Dawn had a link on her post to Frenchie’s stamps with a video tutorial.  I made my project based on that tutorial:  here.  Frenchie did another video tutorial here on two different ways to add designer papers to the card.  All are great.

I think everyone had a good time making the cascading card, especially Herman who loved the mechanics of how it went together.  On the left below is Jeannie’s almost finished card and Cheryl’s on the right. 

I have more pics to share of a workshop at Pam’s and my visits with Misty and Bob, but it’s time to fix supper.  Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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September Stamp Club

Wow, two posts in one day.  When the inertia breaks free, it really goes!  I have many excuses, but procrastination is the best one!  Herman did a great project, we had some good “Perfect Day” exchange cards and we finally got enough sympathy/thinking of you cards to do our swap. 

First up is the inside of Therese’s exchange card.  Totally lost the pic of the outside which showed the little old man’s backside as he peered in a window.  ???  Lots of fussy cutting and coloring.

Ella did some fussy cutting of her own on this pretty tree.

Here’s Jeannie’s fussy cut cardinal with lots of bellies and my lighthouse from one of Therese’s CTMH workshops.

Pam used one of my favorite sets for this lady in the boat and Tange made her pink flower with another favorite set and punch.

We got five swaps and Tange made this lovely slightly Asian card.

 

Jeannie made this lacey sympathy card.  Liked the inside sentiment so much, I had to get it in here, too.  Perfect.

On the left is my sympathy card using a retired ribbon lace border.  On the right is Lona’s bright card.  Love the colors and the French BG.

Pam made this delicate sympathy card, colored direct to the rubber with markers.

Herman’s project was this lovely layered card.  Here are two of his samples.  Hoped to have mine finished to show you, but maybe next time. 

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Hello Dolly Bars

A while back I saw on Dianna Gibbs’ blog, a recipe for Hello Dolly squares.  I had a spanking new brownie pan from Pampered Chef and wanted to try them out.  I really like the chewier corners on brownies, just like Di, and this pan has lots of corners!  It finally got cool enough to actually bake something.  Here’s how mine turned out:
Here’s graham cracker crust and half with coconut.

Here’s the nuts and chocolate chips stage.

Here’s half with the sweetened condensed milk.
 
Here they are fresh out of the oven!

Ready to eat!

Di lists the recipe on her June 26, 2012, post, here, and has a couple of pictures.  Compare them to mine, which were a little too done, but still very yummy.  Next time, I’ll just cook them a little less.
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