Stamping With Di

Swingin'

Well I'm down to cutting the ribbon and then I can box all the cardstock up and mail it off to Linda. I'm so fast I'm smokin', well actually it's cause it is so stinkin' hot in AZ it just feels like it.

Here is a diorama that I did for Stampin' Up! Last year they asked if I would make one for a Stampin' Success article, and I said sure. Then it was funny cause my diorama was online and not actually in the Stampin' Success, the one in there was so plain compared to mine.  I understood it was basically to teach the technique, and not to take hours to make it...ha!

 To learn how to make these, I did a tutorial for Splitcoast Stampers, and you can see it here.

This is what I used to make the card above, please realize most of it is retired now. But always keep an eye on the clearance rack, you never know when things show up over there.

Stamp Set: A Kind Word, Owl Together Now, A Flower for all Seasons

Ink: Jetblack Stazon, Baja Breeze, Blush Blossom, Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Going Gray, Kiwi Kiss, More Mustard, Pink Pirouette, Real Red, Regal Rose, So Saffron

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP, Watercolor paper

Misc: Linen Thread, Aqua Painter, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, white gel pen

Well I am going back to cutting ribbon.

Have an awesome Thursday and thanks so much for stopping in!

 

15 minutes (plus a dit) of fame...

...equals big grins.

So in Jan/Feb Stampin' Up! contacted me about doing a Diorama card for the July Stampin' Success magazine, I learned how to do these at a Stamp & Scrap University that we taught years ago.  Then I was asked to teach them at a Managers Reception a few years back.  So I was surprised that they even remembered that I did them.  But anyway they said that they would like it if I could give some tips for the 3-D article that was coming out and make a diorama too.  I love making these and they are really so simple once you get the hang of them, plus it makes you look at your stamps in a whole other way. To see the tutorial I did for Splitcoaststampers, click here.  Here are a few different views.

Stamp Set: A Kind Word, Owl Together Now, A Flower for all Seasons

Ink: Jetblack Stazon, Baja Breeze, Blush Blossom, Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Going Gray, Kiwi Kiss, More Mustard, Pink Pirouette, Real Red, Regal Rose, So Saffron

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP, Watercolor paper

Misc: Linen Thread, Aqua Painter, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, white gel pen

Close up of greeting, I love how her foot is in the way and kind of blurry almost like I know how to take pictures fancy....NOT!

This kinda shows the thickness of the Diorama, it just folds flat for mailing.

I have a Parisian Breeze DSP class coming up, I wonder if everyone would want to have this be one of their make n takes?  Hmmmm!!!!

So how surprised was I when I got the Artisan Award call and they said that the winners would be announced in the July Stampin' Success, and I was thinking ohhh that will have my diorama tips in it too...gee, are people gonna be sick of my name?  Oh there's that Diana again...good grief!  So hence the title of this post...everyone knows what a dit is right?  If any of you have been to a class at my house, you know that I have an odd way of measuring.  I sucked at math, and well I still do, when I am cutting I say 2 inches plus a dit, then I know that I cut on the little mark after the two, or 1 dit before the 2, is the little mark before the two.  That was one thing that my BFF Tracy and I laughed about, we have so much in common, (freakishly so) we were gabbing one day, and I said I say dit when I measure, and she laughed cause she says ditty!!!  Our hubby's don't find it so funny, their brains understand 15's and 18's and stuff.  In fact Tracy's sugar pie hunny bunch Steve cut a whole bunch of cardstock wrong one time, cause his ditty was not the same ditty as her ditty...you know men and their measurements....I am sure his cardstock was cut too big...ha!!!! (just joking!)  So Steve taught Tracy to measure properly.  At one of our big group events, I had to give out hand written measurements, so I had Jeff tell me what they were, and you know what? At the event everyone wished I would have used my dits, cause it is easier to understand.....but I will be honest depending on the cutter you use, the dits may not be the same...so when I say dits, it is from my big rotary cutter, and I think there are less dits on it then my personal cutter...OMG! All this talk has got me ditty dizzy now.

Oh and we did it...500K hits happened today! Holy Moly, I best be figuring out some blog candy eh? Perhaps I should wait till I can order out of the brand new catalog, and perhaps let the person winning the candy have a choice...this might be fun.

Have a great Monday, and thanks so much for stopping in!

Updating, Tutorial and a Fun BFF Challenge

I was playing around with my blog, I mean heck it's a year old...ha!  I still don't know a whole lot how to do things...I mean I had Twitter on here, I took it off and added Facebook only to realize that I can't use my phone to text to Facebook like I could Twitter, and then I thought who the heck wants to know what I am doing when I ain't at home anyway...unless I need to text..."Help the M&M's have me tied up in the backroom at the grocery store", then maybe I will wish I left Twitter on here...I think more people Facebook then Twitter and eventually I am sure my phone will do it, or I can always use the web access with my phone, but really is it necessary right now? Nope! It aint like I'm a world traveller!

I also changed the Books I Recommend, just in case anyone took my advice and read one or two, I thought you might like to see new ones.

I also wanted to let you know that my friend Dawn Griffith has done an awesome video tutorial on making a Diorama like the bowling one I showed the other day. Check the video out here.  Thanks Dawn for doing such a great job, you are the video tutorial queen!!

So a while back I sent my BFF Tracy a little care package, and in it I surprised her with a couple stamped House Mouse images and told her it was a friendly little BFF Challenge, and if she choose to accept it, we would each do a card and then I would put them on my blog, I did mine the other day and Tracy emailed me hers last night. What do you think?  I can't get over the similarities that we have in our cards...We are so much the same person it is freaky teaky. We did not talk or anything about the card, and look how they turned out...

This is Tracy's House Mouse - front view, look how cute she did it with the sprinkles laying around.

In fact she actually put real sprinkles on the card. Too fun, too brilliant, too Tracy.

 

 

Here is the closeup of the card.

She cut and popped some of the donut, and then she even crystal effected the donut's frosting so the sprinkles would stick.

Then she even wet the back side of the mouse, rubbed it with her stylus on her foam pad so his belly stuck out, and then she put a dimensional back behind it so happy fingers don't go touchy feely and poking him back down.

Click on the pictures and they will go bigger, Tracy sent them and all cameras are different, so I hope they blow up good, I usually let my blog go live before I go to bed so I can check things, but I don't want to jump the gun on Dawn's tutorial so I have set it to go live at midnite.

This was so much fun, we will definitely be doing it again.

Here is my card, it does not have all the bells and whistles or sprinkles that Tracy's does, and it is another attempt at the Cindy Haffner look, but you can see the similarities in our embellishments, and our mouses are even both gray!!! Love it!

Stamp Set: Donut Bliss (House Mouse), A True Friend (Sweet n Sassy Stamps)

Paper: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Watercolor paper, Candylane DSP

Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss, Creamy Caramel, So Saffron, Going Gray, Regal Rose

Misc: Martha Stewart punches, oval punch, flower daisies #2, riding hood red striped ribbon, nestabilities, cuttlebug

I added some glaze pen to the tail and some spica glitter pen to the edges of the frosting, here you can see it a bit, sorry the picture is yellow.

I have been so enjoying reading your comments to win the blog candy, you are making me feel so good, and I laugh too at some of your comments.  Plus it looks like more tutorials is winning so far in what you want to see more of. Some of you have requested I do a watercoloring tutorial and there is actually one on here already, check here, this should help, but I can certainly do some more tips about it.  I love your suggestions and keep them up. Make sure you comment on the actual blog candy post ok? That is where I will be picking the person (or random.org will), I had a couple post under the the little question box on the side and those won't count, I see that Krista (hey honey) re-did hers, and I have not noticed if Lenny redid theirs too.

So are you all watching American Idol?  Are you scratching your head on some of the decisions? I am! I can't believe that they did not bring Danny's friend along... I think that they realize that he is already star material, and perhaps he will get a contract now.  I have picked Danny from his audition but I totally missed that he was a widow.  I think I just heard him sing and not the back story part. As for Tatiana, welcome to another season of Sanjina...can you spell abnoxious, ears bleeding screaming? Cause really if she would just act human and sing, she does not sound half bad, but I don't like her.  Remember the old gong show? I was banging and clanging my gong but obviously no one was hearing it...except poor Jeff!!!! 

Well I have a busy day today and some fun things to show you tomorrow, a little something for your "sweet tooth", that's all I'm gonna say...my lip is zipped...

Have a great Thursday and thanks for stopping in!

Hugs, Di

Diorama - Hanna Style

A couple years ago I sent Stampin' Up! a few samples of cards etc. to have a chance to demonstrate at Leadership.   At the last minute I added a Diorama amongst the cards, and I will be darned if that is not what they wanted me to demo. They changed the name to Peek-a-Boo cards, I have the sign that was on my booth hanging in my studio.  I also did up an easy to follow tutorial here at Splitcoast Stampers.  Added since original post: My friend Dawn Griffith has done an awesome video tutorial here - so go check that out, she did an amazing job teaching this technique, you the video tute queen Dawn. 

So one of the Hanna Stamps! challenges is to make anything but a card and well that was easy enough. Sharon came over today and visited, and after she left..for the second time...hee!hee!  I whipped this up...fun! fun!  Some sets just lend themselves to a diorama...and I knew I wanted to do a bowling one! 

Front View:

Stamp Set: Hanna Bowling (Hanna Stamps!)

Paper: Blush Blossom, Real Red (you can't see it, it is what I backed the DSP with to make it heaftier) Gina K Luxury paper, Gutterball paper

Ink: Memento Tuxedo, Copics, art pen

Misc: white gel pen, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch

Side View: This kinda helps you see the thickness and the side view a bit.

These cards are so much fun and they lay flat so you can mail them.

Neat eh?

 

Here is the view looking inside so you can see the bowling lane. 

I just drew it in with an art pen and a ruler and colored with copics...Voila'

To understand the way the diorama is made up here is a top view of it.

That's the other team yelling "Gutter Ball!!" but it looks like a strike to me!

Now go and look at your stamps in a whole other way, and make one...or two...or three.

If you make one up make sure you come back and tell me and link to your blog so I can go check it out.  If you don't have a blog then upload it to Splitcoast Stampers or Paper Craft Planet (if you upload to PCP make sure to tag your card     dioramacards    - just like that small letters and no spaces and I will snag it and add it to the album)

Well I hope you have enjoyed looking at my diorama as much as I liked making it...I have a few more I gotta make for a special project...I'll show you those at a later time!

Have a fantastic Friday and thanks for stopping in!

Hugs, Di