Ladystamper

The annual Stampin' Up! convention was last week in Salt Lake City. I love love love getting together with hundreds of other crazy stampers and sharing ideas! It is fun to see old friends and to make new ones. We had loads of fun! I came home feeling rested and ready to create!! Thank goodness for my friends that took tons of pictures and that shared them with me. As I was looking through them today, I decided to try my hand at some of the projects I saw. This cute memo board is one that I saw at the Stampin' Up! distribution center in Riverton. It is super easy! Just take a frame (I have tons, kind of a sicknes...) and put some DSP in it. I added some stamped images and small layer of text DSP .... just cuz I wanted to! I also added the flower to the outside of the glass for more detail. The cool thing is that you can write right on the glass with a dry erase marker and it wipes right off! Very cool idea! now....if I could just find some space on my desk to set this...... Enjo...

What a weird word. Seriously....Brooch. Anyway, this is the brooch we made at leadership.....kind of. I modified it for the stamp camp. Instead of using a clear tile in the center we used a clear button and a rosette. I like the way it fluffs up so cute. The fabric Stampin' Up! carries is so colorful and classy. I really like it a lot. This brOOch could also be used as a hairpin or on a bag or any number of things. Super easy to cut out with the Big shot and just hot glued together. If you look reeeeealy close you might see that there is some newsprint paper in there as well as a shimmer paint colored daisy from the pretties kit. SO shabby chic.....you need one in every color pallette!

I haven't done a stamp camp since I moved back to Arizona and I have missed them! Camps are one of my all time favorite things to do. I love getting together with my stampin friends and just crafting all day! Camps are also where we get to do bigger more involved projects than just cards or scrap pages. This is one of the projects we will be doing tomorrow. The block is from the Decor blocks that Stampin' Up! sells. They come in a set of four, but I thought this was a fun and cute idea to use them independently. I used the new newsprint DSP to cover the block and then used the Big Shot to cut out LOVE. I kept my color scheme to black and white with just the pop of red here and there. The photo holder is made from 14 gauge wire I picked up at Home depot. I used wire cutters and pliers to bend them into the shape I wanted and then hot glued it to the top. I hope my campers like this project!!