My Inkin' Cute Craft room Business Supply area

This is the little space I have set aside for my Business Materials (Catalogs, order forms, invites etc....) Of course What would a Stampin' UP! business Supply area be if I didn't "Stampify" a little bit? I found this little Pigeon hole shelf at a Garage sale.... Actually an "After Garage Sale" they were packing everything up to go to the second hand store and said I could take what I wanted. I walked away with a TON of free stuff. All this little baby needed was a new coat of paint and it makes the perfect little display!!!
This lamp was salvaged from a sweet lady who passed away in my old neighborhood.
This is what it looked like when I stated. It is hard to tell with the lighting, but it was a dark blue before I spray painted it black.
I made the flowers with ....you guessed it.......the Island Floral Big Shot die. I layered the pieces together and used clear rhinestone brads to stick it right to the lampshade. The brads did a wonderful job of piercing the lampshade on their own.

xoxoxo-Heather

My Inkin' Cute Craft Room Fireplace

When we first decided to use this room as my Inkin' Cute Craft Room I was not too excited about the fireplace. I could think of a million things I would rather do with the wall space.

That is until I was given the idea for a wow topiary! After that I was all over having a place to showcase TWO of them!
I know, I know, I know....the vinyl is retired! I bought it way back when with the intention of using it in my house someday. That someday is here! The wreath is made with the Flirtatious Designer Series Paper as well as each topiary.


xoxoxo-Heather

September Hostess Club Project

I am so excited about this months hostess club project, not just because it is Freakin' Cute, but it is also the VERY first project I created in my new Inkin' Cute Stamp Studio!!!

I focused on the holiday mini seeing as how it just came out this month, and really what is not to LOVE?

The accordion medallion was created using the new SIMPLY SCORED and Stampin' Up's SPICE CAKE Designer Series Paper both of which were just introduced in the new mini.
I covered the More Mustard circle with DAZZLING DETAILS creating a luscious bling!
I tore a one inch strip of the SPICE CAKE designer Fabric to go through one of the holes, down under the box of crayons, up and out the other hole that had been punched with the crop-a-dial and then tied a knot at the top. Now when you pull on the fabric the box will pop up and reveal the fun surprise that the cardstock is hiding. Notice that you don't have to know how to sew to use the adorable fabric Stampin' Up! has to offer? It makes a great substitute for ribbon!
I chose the Family Reunion stamp set, so my customers could choose the word or sentiment they want stamped across the front.

xoxoxo,

Heather

A remarkable class

This bookmark is a little handout I created for a class I teach in my church. I am a teacher for the Women's group. I saw a similar bookmark on www.soshelli.com. In fact, Shelli made her bookmark for the same reason I did. I wanted to leave everyone with a little reminder of what we learned that day.
I made it simple because I needed to create quite a few of them, and in the grand tradition of Heather.... I waited until the night before to create them.
Thank you for looking today!

xoxoxo

-Heather

Connie Collins flip flops and Thank You Card

You will be able to tell from this post that Connie Collins is a wonderful woman who goes above and beyond the call of duty. Connie is the one who organized the Artisan Award Winners Blog Hop and she designed all of our watermarks for the hop.

These Stinkin' cute flip flops are made with Stampin' Up!s fabric. Connie removed the plastic "toe things" (Wow....I honestly cannot think of a better name at the moment), and used the Big Shot Fabric Adhesive to iron it right on. YEAH, that is right.....FABRIC WITHOUT SEWING!!!!! I love it!!!
Connie took it to the next level by tying the Striped Melon Mambo bows on them. She made tons of extras as to make sure that everyone would be able to get one in their own size. No way am I putting these on my feet! They are going on display! I am so serious, I even picked a pair to match my (soon to be) Craft Room.
Here is where we see Connie's "above and beyond" come out. She made 2 swaps for us.Connie used the Fun Flowers Big Shot Die to create these spirited flowers. I don't think I could ever stress enough how simple the Big Shot can make crafting. Just run some of Stampin' Up!s designer Series paper through it (you can do 8 layers at a time) and Shazam....you have these!!! I love all the layering on this card. Layering is a great way to give a card a major POW.

See you Tomorrow

xoxoxo

-Heather

Jenn Picard's Gratitude Card

Pictures (especially ones from my camera) do not do this amazingly beautiful card justice. I didn't sit close to Jenn at the Artisan dinner, however I was able to learn a little about her when we all shared a bit about ourselves and what inspired us to enter the contest. She brought me to tears as she told how she was a professional make-up artist, until she was in a car accident that did a lot of damage to her shoulder. The accident left her unable to continue with her career. She has since been able to express her creativity through Stampin' up! and loves what she does!

I can't tell you how much I love the finial press embossing folder that Jenn used on her Gratitude card!!! SOOOOO elegant!

She really seems to have mastered the vintage look. the card is complete when you see the coordinating inside. She has tied in all of the accessories very well.

I am so "grateful" to have met such an amazing woman!

Thanks for peeking in today, see you tmorrow.

xoxoxo

-Heather

Wish big

I showed you my swap that I made for the Artisan Award dinner, well now you get to see all of the amazing swaps I received!

Not only did I get to swap with the other Artisans, but the Concept Artists also participated in our swap. These incredibly talented women design cards, scrapbook layouts and 3-D items for the Stampin' Up! idea book and catalog. I felt like I was in the presence of Royalty (Stampin' Up! Royalty anyway).

This Card was designed and created by Melody Hyde, she is in her first year as a Concept Artist with Stampin' up!. She originally designed this for the catalog (you can see it in there for yourself if you would like).
I love seeing this card close up and having the chance to see the little details that you don't get to see in the catalog.

Thanks for looking today.

x0x0x0

-Heather

Artisan Award Dinner place settings

One of my FAVORITE parts of winning the Artisan Award was having dinner with the other nine winners and some of the "big wigs" from Stampin' UP!s home office (including Shelli). My camera was not behaving as a good little camera should, so I had to borrow my friend/ downline's camera. I still need to get the pictures of the actual dinner from her, however until then I have pictures of the place settings that were created just for our dinner.

All of these match the invitation we received in the mail inviting us to the dinner. I have the invite packed up in a box somewhere. As soon as I have my craft room together I will get a picture of that also.

We all had place cards assigning us seats. The adorable name cards were held up by card holders that were available in the "Memento Mall" a demonstrator only area to shop at convention.

Even our menus were Stampified!!!
B-E-A-utiful.........
The best part of the dinner was the "favor".
Just after dinner we opened up these up and found that each of us had our own personalized Artisan Stamp made for us. I can't wait to actually use this!!!
Satmpin' UP! went above and beyond what I ever could have expected. I enjoyed the food, obviously the table setting AND the company. It was so fun to chat with each of these unique women and learn their story.
BLOG CANDY is tomorrow.......

x0x0x0

-Heather

Buy 3 Get 1 Free

Hey guys! Don't miss out on this great special!!!!!!!

Dates: August 1-31, 2011

Promotion Details: During August, you will get a FREE package of Designer Series Paper when they buy three! This is a limited-time offer so stock up on all your favorites today, including brand-new designs from the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog.

Things to Remember

• Orders may be placed on any order type (customer, , workshop, or online).
• There is no limit to the number of free packages of Designer Series Paper a you can earn.
• Designer Series Paper ordered in Hostess free does not qualify for the promotion.
• Specialty Designer Series Paper, and Hostess Designer Series Paper are not part of this promotion and cannot be redeemed through this offer.
• Ordering deadlines:
  • Phone: Wednesday, August 31, 2011; 6:00 PM (MT)
  • Online: Wednesday, August 31, 2011; 11:50 PM (MT)

2011 Artisan Award blog hop Day 8

Welcome back everyone! you should just have come from Jenn Picard's AMAZING project of the day!

Let jump right into this next project..... The "MY DRESS" page. This page was of course inspired by the dress I made for my little girl which happens to be one of my 3-D projects I entered for the Artisan Award.

This dress design was actually not originally created for the contest. I had made a blessing dress for my 2 month old baby out of all white material using the scallop square die. Why did I use the scallop square die? Well.... I don't know how to use patterns very well, and honestly HATE using them. The scallop square allowed me to have strait lines without having to cut anything out on that crazy tissue paper stuff! So Anyway, While I was making that dress for my baby, my 4 year old kept asking when I was going to make hers..... and here it is:
The flowers Are made from the Springtime vintage material.they match the ones I put on the dress on the upper right hand shoulder. I cut them out on the circles die with the big shot. I sewed all of the circles back to back with another one so that when they bend and fold you can see pattern from all directions. I then took three different sized circles and gathered and bunched until it looked the way I wanted and took a needle and thread to sew the three together.
Of course I could NOT resist using the Springtime Vintage Designer Series paper to match the material.

This is my favorite shot of her in the dress.
I used the Big Shot to cut out the words MY DRESS from chipboard and decided to leave it raw. You can also see in this shot that I embossed a lined image from the Flower Fancy stamp set on the background, it seemed to flow well with the pattern of the material and paper.
Thanks for taking a peek at my project today. Summer Stone is the next stop on the Hop, she has the cutest projects so don't miss out!