The Stamping Owl

Join Cindy, Berd, Laura, Norine, Zeny, and me on Zoom for our first ever Stamper's Showcase!  We will be demonstrating projects featuring products from the holiday catalog.  Plus there will be prize drawings, a mystery stamping activity, and a showcase showdown game.  After the event, you will receive PDFs of the projects that include photos, recipes, and tips.

• When: August 30th from 1 pm to 3/3:30 pm
• Where: On Zoom from your computer, tablet, or phone
• Cost: $15

We're really excited to share our projects with you. Here are the products that we will be featuring in our demos:

• Berd - Celebration Tidings Bundle
• Cindy - Gift Wrapped Bundle
• Laura - Poinsettia Petals Bundle
• Norine - Freezin' Fun Bundle
• Zeny - Warm Hugs Bundle
• Jodi - Coming Home Bundle (see sneak peek below).

Click here to register. Then please send your payment of $15 to me (or Berd, Cindy, Laura, Norine, or Zeny if they are your demonstrator).  For me, payment can be made by check or venmo (username: Jodi-Hashimoto, last 4 digits of cell phone 5122).  Everyone is welcome to register.

See you on Zoom at the Stamper's Showcase!

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Sneak peek of my projects and the products:

 

• Stamp Set: We Must Celebrate
• Whisper white for card backing 5 1/2 x 8 1/2”
• Crumb Cake 2 1/8 x 4”
• Pick a Pattern designer series paper 3 x 4”
• Basic black cardstock 2 1/4 x 3”
• Whisper white cardstock 2 x 2 3/4”
• Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
• Stampin’ Blends - Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral

• Stamp Sets: Painted Harvest, Foxy Friends, Petal Palette
• Crumb Cake for card backing 5 1/2 x 8 1/2”
• Old Olive cardstock 2 1/2 x 4”
• Early Espresso cardstock 2 1/2 x 3 1/4”
• Whisper white cardstock 2 1/4 x 3”
• Layered Leaves 3D dynamic textured embossing folder
• Classic ink pads: Real red, old olive, soft suede (stamp off for full background, stamp regular for accent), crumb cake (face)
• Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

• Stamp Set: Lovely Inside & Out
• Fresh Fig for card backing 5 1/2 x 8 1/2”
• Whisper white cardstock 1 1/2 x 2 3/4”
• Gold Foil 1 3/4 x 3”
• Springtime Foils specialty designer paper 2 x 4” and 3 x 4”
• Classic ink pads: Fresh Fig

Supplies

Below are the supplies used for all of the projects.  If you'd like to order any of the products, click on the pictured item to jump immediately to my website and shop or from the top menu, click on SHOP NOW.

Dog and Parrot Card:

Friends Fur-ever Card:

Hedgehog Card:

Springtime Foils Card:

Other:

In the move to my new stamp room in the garage, I found some cream pocket folders.  I decided to put them to use and make notepad folders with a pocket to hold cards or other papers. 

You can decorate the front and inside with your favorite designer papers and stamps.  Of course, I made a critter--one of my favorites, a little mouse using the Playful Pals stamp set.  If you don't have this set yet, get it soon because it is retiring on May 31st!  I  I also used these as my prize patrol item at our Stamped With Aloha Spring Stamp Camp this weekend.  Here are more with different designer paper backgrounds.

Here is how to make this notebook folder:

1. Start with a 2-pocket folder (see photo below).
2. Cut down the height of the folder to 11".  Cut the top of the folder (the end that does not have the pockets).
3. Cut the spine off the folder so that each side is 8 1/2" wide.
4. Your original folder should now be in 2 pieces that are 8 1/2 by 11" each.
5. Score down the middle of the 11" length at 5 1/2".  Fold on the score line.  You should now have 2 folders that are 8 1/2 x 5 1/2".
6. One of your folders will open so that the pocket is on the left and the blank side is on the right.  For this one, cut the pocket flap on a diagonal so that it is easier to use. 
7. The other folder will have a pocket that opens upside down.  To fix this, cut open the top of the pocket, just follow the edge of the folder.  Then cut the flap on a diagonal.  Then use tear and tape to seal the bottom of the flap to make the pocket.  Now you have it set-up correctly.  See photo below.
8. Attach a notepad to the right side of the inside of the folder.  I just used tear and tape on the back of the notepad and attached it to the folder.
9. Decorate as desired and you have your finished folder!

I'm planning to incorporate this project in a holiday class later this year so hope that you can join me then.  Until then, have fun making these!

Here are the supplies I used for this project:

Here are the four cards that we made in April's class.  All supplies used to make the cards are listed at the end of this post.

The first card is my favorite mouse made from the Playful Pals set.  Happily, this set is not retiring and will be carrying over into the new June catalog!  I posted this card on my blog on March 17th "Tea Time Mouse Card".  Please refer to that post for all of the details on this card.

The next card was also made with the Playful Pals set.  It's a party bunny--the images used were the outline stamps for each of the shapes.  She is wearing a cute party hat punched using the tree punch (shortened to 1" in height) then stamped using a pencil eraser with blushing bride.  The bottom edge of the hat is folded up for some additional dimension.   The cupcake she is holding was punched using the little cupcake from the Party punch pack.  One cupcake was punched from Blushing Bride and one cupcake was punched from Early Espresso cardstock.  Then the top of the blushing bride cupcake was cut and glued onto the Early Espresso cupcake.

The third card used the little bear from the Bear Hugs set and was cut out with the coordinating Bear Hugs framelits dies.  So glad that these are not retiring either and being carried over into the new June catalog.  We did a little surgery on the little bear so that his right arm was in the upward position.  We cut the original right arm off.  Then we stamped another left arm and cut it out and attached it on the right side.  Presto, he's perfectly positioned to hold onto the balloons.  The balloons were made using the Balloon Bouquet Punch (also not retiring, yay!).  For the balloon strings, we drew those by hand using the Early Espresso stampin' write marker.  On the front of the card, 2" of the soft sky cardstock was cut from the edge and replaced with a piece of window sheet.  The window sheet was cut at 5 1/2" x 2 1/2" and attached using tear and tape.

The final card was made using the Party Wishes stamp set, which is retiring, so get it while you can.  The message made me smile.  This simple card used 2 coordinating colors--Wisteria Wonder and Blackberry Bliss--plus whisper white.  It's a simple design that would look great in your favorite color combinations.  The little flowers were punched using the flower from the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack (retiring so get it while you can!) and then embellished further using a gold sequin.  The sequin is from the gold sequin trim, just removed from the string.  The Blackberry Bliss background was embossed using the Large Polka Dot embossing folder.  Then the coordinating circles were punched using the 3/4" circle punch.

Hope you enjoyed the April cards.  It's also the time of year when products will be retiring.  Click here to see and shop the retired products--they will only be available until May 31st or while supplies last.

Here are the supplies used for all of the cards (for the first card, refer to my 3/17/16 post).

Party bunny with cupcake card: