Stampin' Lizbess

September To Remember

A few times a year my friends Di & Rhonda host an awesome stampin' event. This last weekend was no execption with their September to Remember . . . we were spoiled with awesome projects, great demos and lots of Stampin' Up! product.

One of my favorite things about these events is that the make & takes are always things that I would probably not sit down and do by myself. Take this stair step card that I have been seeing EVERYWHERE . . .and it was really easy . . . well that is besides all the cutting I did on the leaves and the Branch Out Tree!!! CRAZY!!!

As always I color outside of the lines and like to make the projects my own . . . I changed the greeting and added the jack-o-lantern faces to my card . . . enjoy!

Open . . . Open . . . Open!

I think that the Mervyns (RIP) commercial with this tag line is one of my all time favorites! So it is only fitting that I use it this morning since the online Clearance Rack is now open on my Stampin' Up! Website at:

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/elizabethmartinez/

Shop for retired ribbons, designer series paper and other Stampin' Up! accessories while supplies last.

Orders must be placed online so be sure to use the link above and then go to the shop now button and select the Clearance Rack Section on the left of the page.

All orders can be shipped directly to you and can be combined with current merchandise.

Happy Shopping!

Elizabeth

Moving outside my box . . .

So it was all I could do to not stamp something in the background on this card . . . but I love how it turned out. My card was a case from another demo Beate Johns. I simplified my card a little since I was trying to stick with limited supplies for the demos on my team.

I love the idea of using the square image stamped side by side and then punched with the large oval punch to make a completely different look for this stamp!

Enjoy!

Elizabeth

For All You Do . . .

Recently Stampin' Up! offered a mini kit to get started as a demonstrator. I was so excited that 2 of my regular stampers decided to join my team! Since both ladies chose the mini kit with all the In Colors and the "For All You Do" stamp set I decided to come up with a few samples using the set and some basic stampin' supplies for both ladies to use at there first workshops.

We will be meeting tomorrow to go over a few business basics and a little stampin!

Here is one of the cards that I made:

This card uses the following supplies:

• For All You Do Stamp Set
• Melon Mambo Classic Ink
• Crushed Curry Classic Ink
• Rich Razzlebery Classic Ink
• Basic Black Classic Ink
• Melon Mambo Cardstock
• Crushed Curry Cardstock
• Whisper White Cardstock
• Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper
• Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot Ribbon
• Word Window Punch

Enjoy :)

Elizabeth

So I tried to stay away . . . really I did!

I have really been stampin' and not just playing with My Digital Studio, really I have. It's just so easy to share my scrapbook pages . . . with my cards I have to clean off the desk, stage the photo area, take the photos, color correct them in photoshop and add my copyright info and with the digital pages I just have to upload them.

My youngest recently went to the Sadie Hawkins dance with his girlfriend Julia. That evening I was at the Poison, Def Lepoard & Cheap Trick concert so I didn't get to be part of the photo shoot. So I had to keep bugging until I got a few pictures from them. Here are my pages.

 

Thoroughly Modern Mini Album

This is the project that I taught this weekend at the Crop-a-Roo Event in Phoenix, AZ and I have extra kits available for sale.

The kits contain all the consumable supplies need to make this project including the letters cut for the front on the envelope that read "You & Me". I will cut the letters for the inside if you provide me with your theme (max of 12 letters). You will need the following items to complete your project:

• Flight of the Butterfly Stamp Set
• Butterfly Punch
• Stamp a ma jig
• Soft Suede, Rose Red, Sahara Sand, and Bermuda Bay ink pads
• Crop-a-dile
• Round Corner Punch
• Sticky Strip
• Snail Adhesive
• Glue Dots
• 12x12 Cutter with Scoring Blade

Colors of kit may vary within the different styles of the Thoroughly Modern Ensemble.

Cost of the kit is $25 - including priority shipping via USPS in a flat rate envelope. Sorry, however, I can only ship kits within the United States.

Kit comes with written directions and an email with detail photos will be sent after your payment is received.

Order your kit via the PayPal Button below. You have the choice of your outside envelope: Rose Red, Sahara Sand or Bermuda Bay. Please make your selection when you order. Paypal will not let you order a kit that is out of stock. I currently have 10 kits left.

Don't forget to include your choice of words for the front of the album. Max of 12 letters.

Gussett Envelope Color

Rose Red $25.00Sahara Sand $25.00Bermuda Bay $25.00

Making a Difference

 The Stampin' Up! Statement of the Heart reflects there commitment to making a difference in peoples lives. On an individual level, we build relationships with customers, hostesses and other demonstrators through the Making a Difference program, we also strive to make a difference on a larger scale. As a demonstrator I donate my time at Ronald McDonald House programs. In addition, Stampin' Up! fundrasiers have generated more than $2,000,000 for charities around the globe.

Another way that Stampin' Up! contibutes to the Ronald McDonald House is through the RMH stamp set that is offered every year. This years set is VERY THANKFUL (115338) offered for $14.95. Stampin' Up! then donates $2 of the sale of each set back to RMH.

While most are suffering during these uncertain times, charities have been hit really hard. More people need the services that they offer, however, the donations that the charities receive have declined greatly.

I am proud to be part of the Phoenix RMH team and would like to give back. My commision on the Many Thanks Set is $3. From now until October 30th (our next stampin' event at the house) I will donate my commission of this set to go towards supplies that the house needs. Or if you would just like to help out they can always use donations of Toilet Paper, Paper Towels, Windex, Toilet Bowl Cleaners and Pine Sol. I will be gathering the donations to take to the house for our next event. So please spoil yourself with a new stamp set, make a direct donation or both!

Digital is Beautiful . . . but there is an art with traditional Scrappin'

I have been having so much fun playing with the new My Digital Studio! But I still love playing with my rubber stamps! As a matter of fact I was spending so much time on the computer with the new software that I have completed 4 wrestling pages, 2 puppy pages, 2 pages from the No Doubt concert, and a 24 page 8x8 scrapbook (which I just sent out for professional printing and can't wait to see how it turns out!) now thats a lot of scrapbooking! My husband even asked me if was giving up all my stamps??? IS HE CRAZY???? I think he is just eyeballing my studio for some boy room! NO WAY!

Ok so on to some samples!

 

Sometimes as moms and as scrapbookers we tend to scrap and tell stories about everyone around us and forget to tell the story of ourselves. This 2 page spread was designed to share things I LOVE! Although there are still photos and stories of my loved ones I told my story! Now I just have to get a little better about getting in the photos too!

Enjoy!

Elizabeth

Pixie & Moto

 

Meet my 2 four legged friends Pixie & Moto. They kinda rule our house, but we love them! While it may just look like I have been playing with My Digital Studio I really have been working. I discovered a few things today. . .

• Making a background is pretty easy. I placed a stamped image of the fire hydrant in the background, colored it Night of Navy, lowered the opacity so that it looked like tone on tone stamping, then I rotated the image. After you have the image how you want it just copy and paste all over the background changing the rotation as you go until you have the back ground how you want it. I did add my background after the photos where placed so that I didn't have to place images where it would be covered up by a picture. Just make sure to send the background image to the back so it resides behind your picture.
• My 2nd tip is that I wanted to do a mirrored page. So as soon as I finished Moto's Page I went to the "INSERT" menu and selected "INSERT A DUPLICATE PAGE MIRRORED" I then had an exact duplicate page mirror. I replaced the images with Pixie's photos, changed the headline & journalining and made a few tweaks to how some of the elements were flipped and VOILA. I had a 2 page spread.

So, for you tradional scrappers that are not quite ready to take the digital plunge how about this? This software is a great tool for planning your pages. You can figure out your layout and embellishments ahead of time and print out a scrapmap to take with you to crops. That way you don't have to pack all your supplies - just what you know you will need.

Enjoy!

My Little Wrestler . . .

 It just seems like yesterday that we finished Wrestling Season, finished snack bar duty, finished with torturing parent to volunteer, donate etc. But guess where I will be tomorrow . . . in a snack bar.

However, I really don't want to complain since before I know it Wrestling will really be over . . . especially since Ace is a Junior this year. So it was only fitting that I try out single page layouts in My Digital Studio. This page was started from scratch, I just chose a layout, tweeked a little and added a few elements. This software is going to be great to design my pages for classes.

Well good night! I think I will go do a couple more Wrestling pages for a few of my other favorite wrestlers that Ace has been wrestling with since 6th grade.