Thursday, May 16, 2013

Ladybug Blog Hop - May 2013

 
 
Welcome to my portion of the blog hop for May.  You probably arrived here from Nichole Gonzales blog.  I can't wait to see what she has done for us this month!
 
It is that time again and this time I am actually going to have it on by tomorrow, what a shocker.  We were to focus on some of what is retiring this month and I have to say it is a sad time to say farewell to some old favorites in stamp sets, colors, punches, die cuts, embossing folders, Designer Series Papers and certain accessories.
 
I just finished a study on the book of Genesis and learned so many new lessons, but the big climax was coming to learn we all have chapters in our lives just like any book.  Each chapter transitions to new situations and the previous chapter has set the stage for what happens in the next chapter.  So it goes in business too. 
 
One of the many items I had grown very fond of over the years was the Just Believe Stamp set.  Not to mention Lucky Limeade, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Baja Breeze.  So here is my final project for this blog post, very simple, very mail friendly, no buttons, bows, brads, rhinestones or pearls, just stamping, color and cardstock.  I hope you enjoy it.
 


Somehow I managed to cut off the left side a bit as there is about a 1/4" between the stamped image on white and the outer edge of the card base.  I did also use Perfect Plum, which to be honest supposed to have been Wisteria Wonder, but I think it turned out very nicely, just picked up the wrong marker!!  When I am working with the older cloth stamp pads I find I get a better coverage with the markers.  I also used one dimensional on the curly label punch used for the sentiment.  These items and the Perfect Plum, nor the Wisteria Wonder have been retired.  My first focus and goal with the new catalog will be to convert my stamp pads all to foam.

 
I love being a Stampin'UP demonstrator.  It is my source of R & R.  Teaching someone new to Stamping and paper crafting brings so much joy not only to me but to them as well.  I want to welcome Joann McKenna to my circle of stamping buddies along with Jamie Snowden.  I look forward to more times together sharing our love for the craft.
 
Til next time which will be next week, see you soon, and don't forget to go to my website where you can order these items until May 31 as long as supplies last, some discounted some not, check it out at www.ktscreations.stampinup.net.
 
Be sure to go onto the next in line which would be Liz Kay at http://kraftasticmrskay.blogspot.com.  She always has great ideas and look forward to seeing that she has to offer tomorrow!
 
Nichole Gonzales Jaramillo http://nicholesu.blogspot.com/
 
 

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Kay's Stamp Camps and Classes for May!
400 Fenwick PL SW, Albuquerque
Greetings!

I was going thru my email and came across some really cool ideas for
classes so I am going to incorporate these ideas in to my May schedule.
I wanted you to know these are not my ideas but the artistic talent of
Brenda Keenan.  www.keenankreations.com
  
Below are my Stamp Camps and Scrapbooking Classes for May, 2013.
All supplies are provided except for adhesive.  Please bring your choice of: 
tape runner, liquid glue, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, etc...  I will also have
adhesives available for purchase at the class.  Light snacks will be served. 
Feel free to share this information with friends you would like to come with
you.  I will have a gift for you if your friend does register.
  
Please RSVP soon (at least 2 weeks before the class) as space is limited and
spots fill up quickly.  Due to an increase in last-minute cancellations, I need to request payment in advance to reserve your spot.  If you cancel, there will
be no refund however you can pick up the class supplies at your earliest convenience.  Please note that per Stampin' Up!'s guidelines, I'm not allowed
to provide pre-stamped pieces as part of the class packet.  Thank you for your understanding.
  
Please also let me know if you'd like the new catalog due out June 1st. 
I'll be ordering them soon and want to ensure I have enough copies for
everyone!
  
Thank you :-)
  
Kay
  
Kay Jantz

Stamp Camp - $20 (2 sets of 3 designs)  This class is closed!
(or free with a min. $30 SU product purchase)
Wednesday, May 8th, 10-1pm
Thursday, May 9th, 1:30 - 4:30 pm
Friday, May 10th, 6:30-9:30pm
Last chance for RSVP for this one class is May 1
In this Stamp Camp, you'll create two sets of cards, 3 different designs, for a
total of 6 cards.  You'll have your choice of a variety of greetings for each of
the cards shown.
This card uses the "Secret Garden" stamp set for a bright and cheerful card
perfect for a lot of different occasions.  The Silver Glimmer paper is punched
with the Petite Butterfly punch and adds a little extra sparkle along with the Rhinestones :-)

This card uses the "Serene Silhouettes" stamp set and would also work well
for a Father's Day card or a masculine birthday.
I couldn't resist the "Swallowtail" stamp set any longer and it works great
for the "Emboss Resist" technique.    
"Flower Fair" Scrapbooking Class - $36
(or free with min. $40 purchase SU product)
Wednesday, May 22nd, 10-1pm
Thursday, May 23rd, 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Friday, May 24th, 6:30-9:30pm
Deadline for registering for these classes is May 8-10. Do not delay and miss out!!
In this class, you'll receive the "Flower Fair" Simply Scrappin' Kit and 8" x 8"
Daffodil Delight album ($31 value) shown on page 31 of the Spring Catalog. 
The kit will allow you to create 8 scrapbook pages and I'll provide Whisper
White cardstock for 4 additional pages for a total of 12.  You'll have access
to my punches and dies to create decorative trims and additional
embellishments.
If you prefer to purchase only the "Flower Fair" Simply Scrappin' kit ($19 value)
to create cards (16 maximum) or scrapbook pages without the album, then your
class fee will be $24. (free with $30 min. SU purchase)
Here are the items included in the Flower Fair Simply Scrappin' Kit:

Bright, colorful elements for cards, invites, memory books! Sized for our new

8" x 8" albums. Acid- and lignin-free. Includes 8 sheets of card stock, 2 of ea.

color, 8-1/2" x 11"; 6 sheets double-sided paper, 3 of ea. design, 8" x 8";
2 sheets card stock


I'll also provide some Silver glimmer paper for additional sparkly elements but
you may want to bring your own Rhinestones (or let me know if you'd like a pack added to your class fee).  Here are some of the pages I created for my personal
album to give you some ideas for layouts (my collage varied the sizes but all the pages are 8" x 8" :-)



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Thursday, March 14, 2013

SURPRISE!


Happy March To All Ladybug Ink Blog Hop followers.  This is my birthday month so March is a happy month for me, especially since 1 year ago I retired from my 2nd job and have been able to focus on SU and family more than ever.

You may have come to my site from Amber Wilson's this month, can't wait to see what she has to offer as her work is absolutely beautiful.  We have a few missing this month for number of reasons but we will be glad to be back with everyone next month!

Todays entry will be somewhat brief as I am on vacation with my husband in Las Vegas, NV,  while he is attending the Mountain West Conference Basketball Tournament as he is a very loyal fan of the University of New Mexico Lobos and this has always been his annual trek and this year I decided to tag along.

At any rate here is my part of the blog hop.




 I chose to do Easter as it is in the spring and and I love spring!  And I love Easter and I love these cute little raggits.  The stamp is call Ears to You and is one of the single stamps available from SU thru the end of March, so if you want it, you best get it ordered soon.  I also used the Everybunny Stamp set in the 2012-2013 IBC for the inside sentiment and image.  The colors were Whisper White, Calypso Coral and Pool Party card stock.  I used our Stampin' Write Markers for the ink on the stamps.  Using Pool Party, Gumball Green, Island Indigo, Wisteria Wonder,Summer Starfruit, and Raspberry Ripple.  I used the Hearts a Flutter Framelit set for the flags and cut them from the Sycamore Street DSP available from the Sale A Bration brochure.  The Island Indigo Ribbon is from the Sycamore Street ribbon and button pack also available from our current Sale a Bration brochure with a $50 purchase.  They are only available thru the 22nd of March, so you need to plan on placing an order of $50 or more to get one of those items for free.  I also used the Elegant Bouquet Embossing folder and the Finishing Touches Edgelits set.

Here is the view of the inside of the card.

 
 
I hope you enjoy this little card and please go to my website, www.ktscreations.stampinup.net  to order these items or give me a call to place your order.  Now the next stop this month on the blog is Carmelita's at http://carmenacita.blogspot.com/
She always has inspirational ideas and another anxiously awaited view on my list!!!!
Just in case you missed a link here is a list of everyone for March.
See you next time and believe it or not, I am actually on schedule this month!!!
 
 

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Friday, February 8, 2013

 
Good Morning!
As usual my plans seem to have gone awry once again this month, but I am not totally late, other than by a couple hours!  What can I say other than my apologies to my fellow Ladybugs.  I got up early this morning to photograph and write this blog and doggone if I had not lost my connection to the internet, so that took a little mucking around for me to get set up again. 
 
So on with my part of the tour.  If you started at the beginning, you would be coming from Nichole’s contribution to our blog hop.  As you can see she has been a real busy LadyBug preparing for us! 
We had our regular monthly LadyBugINK meeting this week and I have used the swap I brought to share with the other ladies attending.
 

 
I used Sahara Sand, Pool Party and Real Red Card stock plus the Amore Designer Series Paper.  I embossed the Pool Party with the Chevron Embossing Folder.  I used the Hearts a Flutter Framelit Dies for the hearts and the flag.  The chevron striped flag is the opposite side of the More Amore Designer Series sheet of paper along the side of the card.  I stamped the top heart with Whisper White using the cute Pretty Petites Stamp set which is available for FREE from our annual Sale-A-Bration event which continues through March 21.  To learn more about how you can earn this set and many other items, please give me a call or visit my Stampin’UP store at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/ktscreations/.
 
The ribbon is also a lovely set of 3 different colored spools of ribbon and matching buttons and available for free.  I layered between the two hearts a mint patty for the treat.  It is pretty easy to make.  I also sponged the edges with the same ink as the stamped image.
 
 
The above photo is the make and take.  It was available for those attending the meeting as a guest or a demonstrator.  This is created using all SAB products.  The DSP is from the Sycamore Street pack.  The ribbon is the Indigo Isle ribbon from the Sycamore Street ribbon and button pack.  The cute little stamped hello stamp is from the Pretty Petites Stamp Set with Whisper White Craft Ink.  I used the Vine Street embossing folder, thank you to my friend Melinda F. for letting me borrow yours, on the Pool Party card stock.  The card base is Sahara Sand.  It is becoming one of my favorite colors for the card base!  The little flag is also from the Hearts A Flutter framelit die set, which also has a coordinating stamp set available which when purchased as a set, you get the two of them at a discounted price. 
I have also included the complete list of our participants in case you get lost and need to get back on track easily.  They are all highly talented and I admire and respect them a bunch!!  You might want to consider joining our fun LadyBugINK group.  Now is the perfect time to join.  Call me for more details. Because it is StampinUP’s 25th anniversary, thru SAB, you will be able to select 25% more retail items in a Demo Kit which bottom line allows you approximately $156 for only $99.  Now that is a deal, don’t you think?   Call me!!!
 
That is pretty much it for the monthly blog hop. The next destination is Liz Kay’s blog and she has out done herself again. I am so going to make some of these for some youngsters I know here in town!!!!
Have a great week and happy stamping to you all!
 
KT
 
Ruth Norton http://ruthsstampingcorner.blogspot.com
Nichole Gonzales Jaramillo http://nicholesu.blogspot.com/

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Valentine Card




This was a very simple card, or as Catherine Pooler would say, a KISS card.  Keep It Simple Stamper.  I used whisper white for card base 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, scored and folded at 4-1/4.  I took another piece of whisper white card stock 5-1/4 x 4.  I scored the end of this piece with the scalloped embossing folder.  I then used the stamp set from the Stamps A Flutter for the hearts and stamped them with Raspberry Ripple.  The smaller heart in the center was cut from Primrose Petals card stock, stamped also with the Raspberry Ripple ink.  My greeting is in the Delightful Dozen stamp set, and then I topped it off with a punched heart from the champagne glimmer card stock which is no longer available, you could always use red or the silver.

Well that is my first Valentine card made this year, you can look forward to seeing more.  I am not very newsy today, just kind of blah.  Just can't seem to get out of the post holiday slump!!!!   I will just leave you with a wish for you to have a wonderful day and weekend!

Thanks,

kt
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Re-Purpose?

"Re-Purpose", the woman said she "re-purpose's old cast off items"...  I am certain I must have looked as blank as I felt at that moment, feeling totally clueless as to what did this nut job mean?     Finally, she recognized I was as clueless as I was feeling.  So, she very patiently, kindly explained to me she takes things or possessions, if you will, which other people have deemed no longer necessary in their life or useful.  Or perhaps they are so beat up they have lost their beauty.   Gosh I hope that doesn't happen to me, oh that's right I am a person not a possession.   That is probably a whole other blog some time down the road.

 Back to the topic at hand.  My last job was as a Program Manager in a research lab.  They had some interesting boxes that looked pretty nice, at first glance, and they looked perfect for small gifts.  So the lab people kindly put these boxes into a sack along with some other plastic boxes I was positive I could find some purpose for those as well.  I happily took home the sack of various boxes.  Well, this job started after I had encountered this woman at the craft show selling her "re-purposed" items.  Her items  really were beautiful, so much so I bought one of her items thinking I could surely find a purpose for it in my home.  Alas, that was not meant to be and I ended up selling it to a friend.  The point is, I was so impressed with what this woman had done I was determined to take any unwanted item to "re-purpose".

 Several months later  I went through the bag of boxes and found they were not so much useful as I had thought, but quite frankly it takes a special type of imagination to come up with ideas on how to take a cast off and turn it in to a beautiful, desirable item someone else might have a need for.  An imagination, I am thinking, escaped my list of talents!

 Now here is the box I decided this past Christmas to turn in to a beautiful box to be the container for a gift.

Yes, I could have wrapped it with holiday wrap, but anybody can do that.  I am a Stampin'UP Demonstrator, I surely could come up with something prettier than ordinary paper and ribbon.  Now let me show you what I did come up with.  Little did I know how much work it was going to take to turn the box into the beautiful box below.  Wish the Dazzling Details I used would have shown up better in the photos below.  I edged the top edges of the lid and the corners.  



I went through my Designer Series Paper and selected the cute owls.  The only way to accomplish this task involves a lot of accurate measuring, cutting and gluing.  I learned a lot about how to cover a box with beautiful paper.  I also learned a project such as this also requires the use of our sanders.  Until I used the sanding block I was wondering how in the world she was not going to be permanently stuck to the box because no matter how hard I tried  glue was coming out all over the box.  I was very frustrated as I was so covered in glue and was getting it all over the box.  I was actually able to lightly sand the paper and the original covering of the box bottom and the stickiness went away.  I was highly impressed.  It was a work of love and by the time I got done I was pleased.  My daughter was so pleased with it she wanted to keep the box.   

 So I kind of went backwards by going back to the holidays, but I had been wanting to share this project since Christmas.  Now I have.  So I can move on.  Valentine's is the next big event coming up.  Sale-a-Bration starts tomorrow, check out my website for this exciting annual customer appreciation event, wonderful stuff you can get for free.
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Monday, January 21, 2013

January Ladybug INK Blog Hop




Hi everyone! It is so gorgeous out today. It is amazing how much more one can appreciate the weather when you feel better. It certainly has been a roller coaster in the Jantz family over the past few weeks with family illness, even one of our beloved pets.  We are all on the mend, some of us still mending, but much better!

 At any rate I am still on the healing end, but there is improvement, probably my medication will be extended. So all that said I finally felt like getting into my very messy craft room to create last night around the stacks of stuff!

 If you are here from Nichole Gonzales Jaramillo's blog, then you have seen her wonderful project and probably some of the others.  We have a pretty great group of highly creative demonstrators in LadyBUG INK.  We have recently added 2 new participants, Amber Wilson, first participated in December and now this month Michelle Carrion has joined the rest of us with her efforts.


 Our theme this month was to use something from the new 2012 Spring Mini (Catalog). I started out with the idea of doing Valentine type project, but I had already done one for our swap earlier in the month and that is posted on my Facebook page. So I thought OK  I like doing 3-D so that is what I did. My Spring focus was the Tea for Two Designer Series Paper, Delightful Dozen Stamp Set, and the Hearts A Flutter Stamp Set. I love that paper and I hope you like it, such fun to make. Love doing 3-D projects!


The color theme is Island Indigo for the box, using the Two Tag die, the Simply Scored, Stampin' Trimmer, toothpick white card stock, Island Indigo ink, Chocolate Chip Ink, InColor Dahlia, and Fancy Flower Punch.  The box comes from an older post from Heather Cserni, SU Demonstrator.  She made the box at a Regional last year.  You will need to look really close to the Island Indigo to determine how I used the Hearts A Flutter stamp set.

The little note cards you see were cut from Whisper White Card stock, 4-1/2 x 2-1/4, scored at 2-1/4.  I drink mostly Celestial Seasonings and their packaging is such there is no excess packaging, very green.  But now that I have had time to mull this over, I can staple or maybe a glue dot, a teabag inside, with a note indicating the flavor and then a note on the other half of the inside.

The finished box does not accommodate tea bags, which I had hoped it would, but I also do not have any basic teabags without an outer wrapper.  By the time the other brands add on the extra sealed wrapping they become too big for the box.  So that said I would say I would probably make my own custom envelopes for this odd sized note card.

If you should need further instruction on how to assemble the box, I am more than happy to provide dimensions along with other details.  Of course you can also go to my Stampin'UP website, www.ktscreations.stampinup.net, to order any of the supplies I have listed for the above project.

Now on to the rest of the Blog Hop.  Next stop is Liz Kay's blog located at, www.kraftasticmrskay.blogspot.com.   Enjoy the rest of the Hop.  Come on back tomorrow I will have some other new things for you to see.  And in case you happened here randomly, here is a list of all of our blog participants.

Ruth Norton http://ruthsstampingcorner.blogspot.com/
Amber Wilson http://amberladybugink.blogspot.com/
Nichole Gonzales Jaramillo http://nicholesu.blogspot.com/
Kay Jantz http://ktmyldyandlife.blogspot.com
Liz Kay www.kraftasticmrskay.blogspot.com
Carmelita Wasson http://carmenacita.blogspot.com/
Cassie Rogers http://lucyslovelies.blogspot.com/
Michelle Carrion www.ilovecrafttime.blogspot.com








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