Even Spies Have Birthdays

My boy Zac is turning 9 shortly.  He's having a small party with a few friends and it has to involve some spy work.  We did a great make and take at Convention in May using 'Party This Way', one of the free stamp sets we were given.  (This is a great little stamp set for kids' birthdays and costs just $26.95 for a set of five stamps.)  I adapted it for Zac's invite.  The arrow in the middle spins, using a brad and a dimensional. The spy picture is from the internet but if SU! had one, I'd love it!  The Number Nine is done with the Big Shot. (So often I type 'Big Shot' and look up to find I have typed 'Bog Shot'.  Hooray for proofreading!)

Stamps:  Party This Way (page 35)
Card: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie
Tools:  Big Shot, 1 3/4" Square Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet

Night Owl

I love the new owl punch - it's really easy to put together a cute card.  Different colour combinations combined with different patterns of paper can give you a variety of 'characters'.

Here he is on a full sized card using Soft Suede and Baja Breeze.  By giving him a background of a Top Note, he is a picture of elegance.

Stamps:  none
Card:  Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Old Olive, Elegant Soiree DSP
Ink:  none
Tools:  Two-Step Owl Punch, Big Shot, Two-Step Bird Punch

Soft Suede

Soft Suede, one of the new colours teams with Engraved Greetings to create a simple card.

Stamps:  Engraved Greetings
Card:  Soft Suede, Whisper White
Ink:  Soft Suede
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon (retired, though I don't know why!)

Medallion and Soft Suede - a great couple

Soft Suede is a beautiful new colour - from some angles it has a gold sheen to it and it suits masculine and feminine cards. 

Love the medallion stamp - even part of it looks good.  Use it as a background or the main feature.

Stamps:  Medallion

Card:  Whisper White, Soft Suede, Elegant Soiree DSP

Ink:  Soft Suede

Tools:  Word Window punch

Elegant Lines

The Elegant Lines Textured Impressions Embossing Folder co-ordinates with Elegant Soiree DSP and both, as their names suggest, are very elegant! 

Add some of Stampin' Up!s Basic Pearls and you have a beautiful combination.

Stamps:  None!

Card:  Crumb Cake, Elegant Soiree DSP

Tools:  Big Shot, Elegant Lines Textured Impressions Folder

Accessories:  Basic Pearls, Kraft Taffeta Ribbon (retired)

Regionals

On Saturday I attended Regional Training at the Convention Centre.  I think they said there were over 200 demonstrators attending.  It was a great day to swap ideas with other demonstrators, hear talks on running your SU! business and seeing fantastic demonstrations of creativity.  The Make and Takes were so beautiful and creative.  I'll post those another day.

Remember my penguin swaps?  This is what I got in return.

Lots of great ideas!


Donna Griffith, one of the presenters from America gave every one of us a cute little pin.  She and her husband made hundreds of these!

All up, it was a fantastic day...to which guests are also invited.  Perhaps you'd like to come next year.

Anna