Color Renovation

Stampin' Up has a new refreshing, updated color palette ready for the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog. While many colors are retiring, 5 new colors are coming in and several In Color colors from the past are returning. There will be 4 Color Collections (formerly color families): Brights, Regals and Subtles and Neutrals. I particulary love what they have done to Regals and Subtles. Below are samples.

Brights Collection: Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquiose, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango and Real Red.

Regals Collection: Eggplant Envy, Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Always Artichoke, Garden Green, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Riding Hood Red, Cherry Cobbler, and Bravo Burgandy.

Subtles Collection: Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Perfect Plum, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, and So Saffron.

Browns, grays, and blacks have all moved to the Neutrals Collection to include: River Rock, Chocolate Chip, Soft Suede, Early Expresso, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Basic Gray, and Basic Black.

For future blogs, I will be posting cards made with the new colors. Stay tuned!

Vintage Vogue

The cards above were made using products from the Occasions Mini Catalog. The card on the left was made using SU's new Two-Step punch. You get more than one image in a single punch. The Two-Step Bird punch includes the bird, wing and branch. I used Sweet Pea Designers Series paper which is 2 sided to punch the bird and the wing. The card on the left was made using the Vintage Vogue stamp set and also the Sweet Pea paper. Colors are Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive. The Occasions Mini Catalog is only good thru April 30, 2010!

Card Swap

Christie and I have done a couple of card swaps since she moved to San Antonio over a year ago. Below are the last cards she made. My favorite is the "sweet" card in the lower left corner. Thanks Christie! I'll be glad to have you back home stamping with me this summer.

Fabric Gone Wild!!

Christie challenged her fellow quilters to actually count their projects that are waiting to be completed. I have 16 quilt projects (4 of these are Crazy 9 Patch projects) and 5 apron projects in line at this time. That's a total of 21!! This means I would have to complete 2 projects each month this year just to complete them all!

The 12 projects above are for quilts. In some cases I have a pattern in mind and in some cases I'm waiting for the perfect pattern to come along. The project in the lower right I have had since 2006. It's fabric for my craft room. The newest fabric would be the Amy Butler fabric top left.

The 4 projects above are for the last of the 12 Crazy 9 Patch quilts that I have been working on for over a year.

Last but not least is the fabric for aprons. Beware - the fabric photo on the left contains my most favorite fabric ever!! The black and white polka-dotted chicken!! Ashlan picked these fabrics up for me in a quilt shop in Dallas. The chicken fabric was a surprise - she really knows what I like!

As you can see, I need to end this post and get to sewing! I'll send updates as they happen.

Sale-a-Bration

Sale-a-bration this year includes 4 exciting stamp sets, a 6"x6" designer series paper pad, one of SU's new style punch, and plus options for free stamps from the big catalog. All of the cards above were made using the new stamp sets, 6"x6" designer series paper and the new style punch.

Stamp sets: Vintage Labels, Happy Moments, Good Neighbors, and Whimsical Words
Designer Series paper pad: Welcome Neighbor
Punch (in the new SU punch style): Scallop Trim Border

It's not too late to take advantage - but hurry, Sale-a-bration ends March 31, 2010. Get 'em before they are gone!

Sale-a-bration catalog link

One Last Valentine's Post

 

As you all know, I'm crazy about Crazy 9 Patch quilts. I am working toward having 12, one for each month to hang in my stairs. This one is for February. It will soon go to the quilt shop in Arkansas to be quilted and will be ready to hang in February 2011! The fabric is a Moda called L'Amour. I have 9 Crazy 9 Patch quilts with fabric picked out for 2 more right now!

Also, from the scraps from the Crazy 9 Patch valentine's quilt, I made this adorable scarf! Next will be key chains. That will be a later post!

Sending Love II

I love the "Sending Love" designer series paper from the Occasions Mini. Above you see 2 Valentine boxes made from the DS paper with cute 3x3" note cards tucked in. Each box is embellished with either the corduroy button brad or an expoxy brad from the Occasions Mini Catalog. The boxes were made using the "Scallop Envelope" Bigz die (2 envelopes each). The red box uses real red striped grosgrain ribbon for a handle. The 3x3" note cards were made with the "Happy Moments" stamp set also from the Occasions Mini catalog. The Valentine card was made using "The More the Merrier" stamp set from the IBC in pretty in pink and chocolate chip papers and inks. I love how the 1-1/4" chocolate chip striped grosgrain ribbon anchors the birdies and sentiment on the card.

 

Above is a collection of Valentine cards that I made over the years. My favorite above is the LOVE card bottom right. The teddy bear card is probably the oldest.

Happy Valentine's Day!!