Bleached Out Images

Our Club technique this month was "Bleached Out Images" - here is our technique card for our binders. 

Here is a close-up of the bleached out image.  I used the tips of a worn out blender pen (the ones that no longer blend), but you can also use a paint brush.  Gel bleach is a little easier to work with as it's a bit thicker and will not spill quite as easily.  I always use it when doing this at a workshop - just easier to handle.  Below you can see a close up of the image.  You can keep bleaching to get it all pure white if you want, but each color of cardstock bleaches out a little differently, and I like the different tones you get when you just put the bleach on and see what happens.  This coloring reminds me of stonewashed jeans.

Finally we always try to do one extra project, and I wanted to demo our little purse die.  It's pretty plain and simple due to time in our workshop, but I think it turned out cute.  Used the International Bazaar paper to add a pretty front to our little purses.  Stick some little candies in, and it's the perfect party favor!!

Hope you stop back soon!! ~Maureen

Club Hostess Gift

Wanted to show you my Hostess gift for my Club Hostess this month - but really I thought I had a better picture.  I already gave it to her, so can't retake - so please accept my apologies for the blurriness.  It is a wipe off board made out of a frame and decorated. 

I did take a close up of the flowers and that seems to be much clearer - thank goodness.  These flowers are made out of the brown packing paper that comes in our SU orders.  I think they are just beautiful. There are two sizes made by punching scallops out of 8 layers of paper then put together with a brad, scrunched and sponged. 

Diane - thanks for being a terrific hostess - enjoy!  ~Maureen

12x12" DSP package

At my last club we made this adorable little package out of a 12x12 piece of DSP.  If you've been with Stampin' Up! for awhile you'll remember this prette paper we sold years ago.  It came in four patterns of blue and four patterns of pink - I loved them.  To make this you just score and fold up the sheet of paper and then you can fill and decorate as you like.  Of course this is not my original idea - I got it from "Cosmo Cricket" and she has a great video tutorial - so check it out.

 Here is a side shot of the same little package - we filled it with salt water taffy - but you could put anything in here - what a fun little packaging idea.  You could make them in smaller sizes - like a 6x6" piece of paper to fill with a small treat for a table setting.   So cute!

 Hope you enjoyed!  Stop back soon!! ~Maureen

Stamper's Club Hostess Gift

My hostesses for my Club are a wonderful group of ladies.   I love stamping with them every month.  June of this year is our new round of Stamper's Club and our first hostess was Jen B.  Thank you Jen!!  So for my club hostesses this year I decided to make a wipe off board for them to leave notes in their home.  I purchased colorful frames and some great Crayola white board markers - these markers write so bold and beautifully and match the brightness of the frames.  Each hostess will get decorated frame for their month.  To be able to see the writing better I used a piece of lined notebook paper under the glass.  Looks adorable, and gives you lines to keep your writing straight. 

Hope you enjoyed this project - stop back soon!! ~Maureen

Stampers Club June Club Technique

So this month we did the Grid Technique for Faux Tile - Here is our technique card.  What a great technique to show case the new SU diagonal scorepad. 

Here is a close up of the technique - the cardstock is scored, stamped and then lightly sponged with creamy caramel to make the score line's pop.  Looks just like tiles with grout. 

Here is the card we made using the technique - I know I saw this card on Monica Gale's blog - http://monicas-passions.blogspot.com/2012/05/stampinup-more-team-training-projects.html and just changed it up a little bit.  I made my score lines a bit closer together, added gems to my flowers, used a different punch for the sentiment - but other than that I just cased.  I love the fact that so many creative stampers are out there sharing their ideas and helping us all to make beautiful things.  Thanks Monica!!

Hope you enjoyed this - try and make your own project with this technique.  Email me your sample, and I'll be happy to post it on my blog.  Thanks for fluttering by ~~Maureen

April Stamp Club

Last Friday was our April Club - what a great group of ladies - our group grew by two for this next year - and I'm looking forward to lots of FUN!  Our group is a technique club and each month we learn a different technique.  This month it was two-step stamping - as so many great two-step stamp sets are being retired.

Here's our 6x6" technique card for their binders - using the "Raining Flowers" set.

This is the greeting card we made using the "Flower Fancy" set - one of my favorites!!!  The verse is from "Kindness Matters".

Finally - we made this little corner bookmark using the "Flight of the Butterfly" set.  I love these simple bookmarks - they work so well to hold your page!

Thanks Ladies for a great Friday night of stamping!  See you soon!  ~Maureen

Club Project

Some month's depending on the difficulty of the card we create at Club - we have time for an additional project so this month we made these adorable little diaper fold pouches.  It is amazingly easy to make and so cute.  The instructions are simple - a 6x6" piece of DSP - lay it in front of you like a diamond.  Fold the bottom peak to the top peak - fold the bottom right peak over to the middle of the opposite side - then fold the bottom left peak over to the middle of the other side.  Take the front piece of the top peak and fold down, and your pocket should stay with no adhesive!!  Love it.  Then we added the cute little punched flower.  Everything on this project is from items you can get FREE in the Sale-a-bration catalog with a $50 purchase.

Here's the pouch.

Then we filled a little cello bags with conversation hearts and tied with the SAB ribbon.

Here it is all together - how sweet is that!

Just as a PS - I saw a heart garland made on Pinterest - and had to try it.  Here is my version using the SAB DSP - so simple and so cute!!

Stop back soon!! ~Maureen

Club Gifts

I wanted to send my club members something for Christmas - so I came up with these cute little calendars.  They were already great colors and so all I did was add a couple accents.

Here is a close up of how I embellished them.  Hope they like them!!  I even kept one for myself :)

Club Technique and Card

This month at club our technique was Reverse Masking. Here is the 6x6" technique card for our binder. I love this technique, it is just so fun to do the sponging and stamping and pick up the post-it mask and voila! We made this beautiful card using the same technique. I have seen several similar cards - but just love the richness that the black and Cajun Craze bring to this. We even stamped the owls on the inside of the card - sorry for the blur -but you get the idea.Check back next month to see our next technique!

Club HOSTESS gift

Today I want to share with you the Hostess gift for my first Club Hostess of the stamping year. This past week Jackie was a wonderful hostess of our group. The hostesses this year for my technique club will receive a beautiful notebook in a case - our SU DVD cases to be exact. Here is the outside of the case - The butterflies, pearls and ribbon are all under the plastic cover of the case, so they are protected from damage. Here is a close-up of some of that detail -here you can see the little vellum trim behind the ribbon.
Finally here is the inside of the case - on the right side a lovely decorated notepad and on the left a pack of post-its and a small little pouch at the bottom to tuck receipts, etc in.
You may recall the notebooks like this we made for convention - http://crazystampinglady.blogspot.com/2011/04/pre-convention-kickoff-meeting.html
I've been carrying mine around in my purse since we made this in April and it looks wonderful - my paper is never messed up and I always have a pad at hand to use. LOVE IT!! Do you want one???? Consider signing up in one of the last spots of this CLUB - just email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com and I'll get you all the details!

Technique Club

This week our Technique Club started again for the new stamping year, and I want to share with you what we did. This month we learned the Floated Reinker technique that is all over the web. I LOVE the way this technique looks on flowers - so beautiful. Here's the technique card they made for their binder - sorry for the glare!
Here is a close up of the rose we made for our card - note how the shimmer of the SU shimmer cardstock comes through.
And below is our finished card - so pretty! We used the Manhattan Flower embossing folder on the background, and the Rose leaves are made by looping our seam binding behind and taping it.
Here are a few more flowers we made using the same technique. Each flower turns out so uniquely different and beautiful - just like a flower garden. I think the ladies enjoyed learning this and I can't wait to see what beautiful creations they might come up with in the future.
If you'd like to join one of my Clubs contacting me now - this Simi one has two openings, and my San Fernando Valley Club has several openings. Just email me at crazystampinglady@gmail.com and I'll get you full details. Come join the FUN!

Stamping and Eating :)

Last week got away from me, but I had to share our Club group finishing up our projects and eating a wonderful dessert provided by our hostess Lyn. It is a low calorie, low point dessert from HungryGirl.com - This is a lo-cal ice cream, frozen in a ball shape, rolled in crushed Fiber One caramel cereal, and served with lite whip cream and sugar free caramel syrup. It was Amazing - so delish. And I love the way Lyn served it in a beautiful Martini Glass - made it that much more special. Such a great group to stamp with.

I'm currently taking sign-ups for the next round of clubs - you can check out more information by going to - http://crazystampinglady.blogspot.com/p/stampers-10-stampers-clubs.html

See you soon! ~Maureen

February Club

Last night was our February Club Meeting - this month's club featured Heat Embossing - here is the technique card that club members added to their binders - And here's the card we made using the same technique. We used the Easter Blossoms set from the Occasions mini - that little girl is perfect embossed in black like a silhouette against the sky. We surrounded her with the apple blossoms, distressed the edges of that layer a bit and added a touch of pink to the distressed edge.

What a lovely spring feeling this card has to me - reminds me of my girls in their Easter dresses when they were little. Enjoy!

Stampers Club

My Stampers Club met this past Friday evening - and what a great group. It was at Diane's home and she invited some of her friends to join us for the evening. We had a full house. This month we did the Imbedded Embossing technique that is everywhere right now - it is so neat. Here's the card we did for our Technique binders with a sample and instructions:You can check out all the techniques we've done by clicking on Techniques from our Stampers Club right under my banner at the top of this blog. Next is the actual greeting card we made. Diane had requested a Valentine theme, and I love this Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder - it has a romantic feel to me - so was perfect with the theme. Doesn't it look like the hearts were part of that piece of cardstock all along?

Here is a close up so you can see just how neat the embossing plate presses the heart right into the background - love that!

As many of you know I also have a challenge each month for the club members to make their best card using the previous month's technique - last month we did the reflection technique (see here -
http://crazystampinglady.blogspot.com/2010/11/november-stamp-club-technique.html ). I was the only one to bring a card for the challenge this month - but I wanted to share it. I used the sweet little girl from Greeting Card Kids and had her looking into a mirror on the wall - hope that's how it came across. Let me know what you think.

Gift for my Club Members

So before Christmas I want to share one more little gift item - the is what I sent to the members of my Stamp Club. I found these nice two year planners - they are kind of plain on the outside - but inside they have beautiful inspirational poems and sayings on each month. Here's a close up of one.So I stamped these pretty outsides for the calendars for them. This design is a near CASE of a calendar I got as a 3D swap at convention. Sorry I don't have the name of the swapper - but if it was you - let me know and I'll be happy to give you credit. I think it is lovely!

Here's a close up - it's dark, but I think you can see the detail.

Thanks for stopping by!!

November Stamp Club Technique

This month Kathy wanted me to do the Mirror Image/Reflection Technique. So here is the technique card we made to put in our binders - showing the Mirror Image way of doing this technique. And Kathy specifically asked if we could use "Lovely as a Tree", so here is the card I came up with using the reflection part of the technique. After we stamped the trees and created the reflection at the bottom, we created a sunset using SU pastels and q-tips. The key is to color the top darker and the reflection lighter, so it looks like what you'd see in a lake or pond at sunset. I really like the way it turned out. We then distress the edges of the focal point and mounted it on the card layers, added a little ribbon and voila! Our club doesn't meet again till January and then the challenge for the group is to make their best card using this technique - so ladies you have a couple months to do this one - the cards should be GREAT! Stop back tomorrow to see your challenge cards from this meeting and our winning card! To see all the techniques we've done so far click on the Techniques ... link at the top of my blog right under the header.

Card from Kathy -

So this Friday is our Stampers Club at Kathy's - she dropped off these cute invites to remind us to be there. How fun is that - can't wait to stamp with this great group on Friday.

October Technique

So this month we did - Shaving Cream - I LOVE this technique (even though it is a little messy) - but I love that every time you do it - it gives you a different swirly pattern. Here is our technique card for our binder. I do it in colors different than the card we'll be making to show the versatility of whatever technique we are doing. And here is the card we made - how cool is that!

Here's a close-up of some of the swirls - aren't they amazing. Thanks Karen for a great club meeting - next month we're at Kathy's - we'll see if she has a favorit technique she wants to do :)

Stamper Club Card Challenge

Our card challenge for our club this month was to use last month's technique (emboss resist) and create a card. Here is Jackie's - Kathy W's -

Lyn's entry - My entry -

and Karen's entry -

How great are these cards - Lyn and Karen tied and each won a prize! Check back tomorrow to see what this month's club technique was!