Paper Ribbons

I'm getting ready for convention at my house.  If you have seen our 2012-13 Stampin ' Up! catalog you will have noticed all the paper ribbons showcased in it.  I thought it would be fun to make some as one of my swaps for convention, sooooo here they are.  Piles of them!   

Rainbow Pinwheel Sugar Cookies

Since it was pouring rain again yesterday, Shae and I decided to make these cute Rainbow Pinwheel  cookies. Here's the ingredients and recipe:
1 package of Betty Crocker Sugar Mix
Sprinkles

Directions

1. 1Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. 2For rainbow pinwheels, divide dough evenly into five bowls, and color each with a different color liquid food coloring. (We used McCormick Neon shades in pink, green, blue and purple, as well as the yellow from the standard pack).
3. 3Roll each color dough into 14 grape-sized balls.
4. 4Combine a ball of each color and quickly roll into a larger ball. It will look like a little beachball.
5. 5Then roll that ball between your hands and the counter or cutting board until you have a cylinder about 6 inches long.
6. 6Starting from one end of the cylinder, roll the dough into a coil, twisting the cylinder as you go.
7. 7Roll edges of the cookie in sprinkles.
8. 8Repeat with remaining cookies.
9. 9Bake the cookies for 10 to 11 minutes, or until done (fully done middle with the barest touch of golden brown on the edges).
10. Then Eat!   yumo!

More Business Shares

Don't you just love this card?  This is the Herringbone Technique that was demonstrated  at Leadership Conference in January.  Cami Eastwood shared these four cards with us at the Business share meeting on saturday.  This technique is a great way to use up your DSP scraps,  and the key to holding it all together is the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets, they come in a package of 12 - 12x 12 that you can cut down to any size.  #120805 for $14.95, you can order them to the right of my blog
You can find the tutorial at Spiltcoast Stamper  here

Business Share Meeting

What an amazing day yesterday was!  We had a great business share meeting locally at Renton Tech College.  Had a great turn out,  shared business ideas, some  Make and Takes of course!  and had incrediable demonstrations!  did I mention Cami Eastwood's demo?!  She did an amazing job showing us all the new DSP papers and how to make some amazing Banners using them.  Cami has been dubbed Banner Babe since she makes so many of them!  And let me tell you she is quite talented and super funny!  Here are just a few things from the day I have more to show tomorrow. 

Here is one of Cami's creations.....

Here is the Banner Babe's Halloween tags made with the Rosette Die, to Die for I would say!

Here is another one of her adorable cards.... I have more to share later.....

Love you

Okay,  I  stepped away from the Storytime today just for a brief moment to stamp something a bit more spring/summery.  I used the new  Chevron Embossing folder # 127749 - $7.95.  You are gonna love it!  Look at how it looks with just a portion of the card embossed.  Love it!  The flower is made with the new Polka Dot Parade Designer Series Paper.  I used the Fun flowers Big Shot Die for the flower and added the glitzy new Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons for the center with the Linen Thread.  Also incorporated the new Paper Piercing Pack Essnetials around the Adorning Accents Framelits which coordinate with the Paper Piercer.

Cardstock:  Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Polka Dot Parade
Ink:  Basic Black
Stamp Set:  Itty Bitty Banners
Accessories:  Fun Flowers Big Shot Die, Linen Thread, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Paper Piercing Essentials, Chevron embossing folder, Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons

Storytime Vintage Book Strap

So I was trying to go for the ole' vintage book strap here,  hmmm.. well I tried.  Anywho,  my idea was to make a book strap and wrap it around a stack of 3 x 3 notecards to give as teachers gifts.  And of course, you guessed it!  "Storytime" again!  The strap is made out of Chocolate Chip cardstock, some brads and the vintage brads, uniglo pen and a 1/8' inch punch. 

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Here are the cards I made out of the Storytime Designer series paper, quite easy and super cute!  stacked them all up and wrapped them with the Vintage book strap.  Hope you like it!

Storytime Purse

Love Love Lovin this DSP!  Storytime it is on my desk,  I keep reaching for some of the other new paper to create with and it's always back to Storytime.  So here you go a oldie but goodie.  I used the purse pattern from Splitcoast to create this purse.  To make the tag I used the Decorative Label punch, one in Wild Wasabi turned one way the other Whisper White turned the other.  The girl I cut out of the paper and the "For You'  is from the new stamp set "Itty Bitty Banners"
The handle is a 1/'2 'x 8' piece of real red carstock attached with the Vintage Brads.  The tag is hung with the Linen Thread.