More is More

Last night was my monthly Stampin’ Up! Class and the last meeting of the current round of my SU Hostess Club.  My next round starts in August with the new catalog and it’s almost FULL already!  I have the best customers ever and I have so much FUN holding a class for them every month.  One of our three projects last night focused on the Sneak Peek deal for June – the Fresh Cuts stamp set and laser cut notecards.  I only had one package (15) of the notecards and I knew I needed to save 12 for class, so I didn’t have many to play with.  I decided I better just head over to the SCS Gallery for inspiration and to find some cute samples I could work with (CASE).  After looking at tons of cute stuff for ideas I went to my stamp room and made these two samples (very similar to ones I had seen in the gallery):

The little flower in the center is a felt flower flower from Flower Fusion.  I didn’t have enough of any one color so I put together packets with

• Old Olive flower, yellow square rhinestone brad, Certainly Celery cardstock square

• Rose Red flower, pink square rhinestone brad, Regal Rose cardstock square

• Pumpkin Pie flower, orange square rhinestone brad, So Saffron cardstock square

And then everyone could choose which of the two designs they wanted to follow.  We decorated the insides of the cards as well as the envleopes.  We mounted the colored cardstock square on the inside of the front panel  with foam tape to allow a little depth.

Once I got started on these samples I found I was in love with the both the stamp set and the notecards!  I wanted to be able to show my girls some other options so I made this super quick little 3×3 card with the petals I had punched out of the Olive card above.  Once they saw this, my girls became very protective of their punched out petals!  LOL!

I added a little piercing and some Kaiser Crafts bling.  The Regal Rose panel was stamped with the Paisley background stamp in Regal Rose ink.  Easy Peasy!  Next I wanted them to see how the 4″x4″ notecards could be mounted on a quarter sheet of cardstock to be mailed in a standard sized envelope so I put together this little 5 minute card using Real Red and Bashful Blue – love that color combo! (Keep in mind that the 4×4 envies cannot be mailed.)

If you decide to make your notecards mailable like the one above, you’ll have lots of cute square envelopes left over.  Check out what my very talented friend Dianne Shiozaki did with these envleopes over at her blog Catchin’ the Stampin’ Wave.  Dang I’ve resisted getting a Bind It All for so long, but that little book might just push me over the edge!

I was lamenting the fact that I didn’t have any more note cards  – I think I could I could have played with them all day and I’m ordering more immediately!  Now I’m just trying to decide if I really need to order the 5 petal flower punch too – so many of the gallery samples used that punch.  Hmmmm…

 BTW – I am taking pre-orders for the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog due out in August.  If you are interested in purchasing a catalog at the discounted pre-order price please contact me by June 25th.  I want to be sure I order enough boxes. 🙂

Tomorrow afternoon we’re having family over for a little Father’s Day BBQ, so I guess I better get crackin’.  Need to put away all my class stuff (my least favorite thing about teaching classes) and get the groceries and stuff (wish I knew of a place to get really good steaks).  Hope you have a wonderful weekend.  Remember you can still play Taylor’s challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.