Oct 25, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Halloween |
So this week’s UDI Color Challenge just screamed Halloween and Candy Corn to me!
Here is the inspiration picture:
Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White is all candy corn! And the I had to add black. So I am thinking about what to make and that everyone is thinking candy corn or at least Halloween. So do I want to make something else – thinking, thinking, and I just can’t get the candy corn out of my head. So I went ahead with my idea and here is what I ended up with:
Yep it is a giant candy corn on a piece of Basic Black card stock for the card base. I started by cutting a piece of Daffodil Delight Patterns Designer Series Paper with the Big Shot and the Perfect Pennants die. And also a piece of Pumpkin Pie Patterns Designer Series paper and a piece of Whisper White card stock.
For the Pumpkin Pie piece I cut off 1″ from the bottom and 1-1/2″ from the top. For the White piece I kept the 1-1/2″ at the top. I glued the Pumpkin and white pieces onto the Daffodil Delight piece so they matched up in the right spot. Now I used my Corner Rounder Punch to round the corners of my candy corn.
I tied a piece of Whisper White Taffeta ribbon around the center of the candy corn – I really wanted to use Pumpkin Pie but that ribbon retired with the last catalog. I added a little BOO tag from the Tiny Tags stamp set to the ribbon. And then attached the Candy Corn to the front of the card.
Because the inside needed a panel for writing I decided to dress it up a little too. I added strips of the Designer Paper and the Happy Halloween greeting from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
- Stamp sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Tiny tags
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Perfect Pennants Die, Brights Designer Series Patterns Stack, White Taffeta ribbon, White Baker’s Twine, Jewelry Tag punch, Corner Rounder punch, 1/16″ punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Oct 20, 2011 | Big Shot, Stampin' Up! Events |
So here are the last of the paper bag ideas that I had –
This one is a Hot Cocoa filled bag. If I had found a candy cane I would have put that in there too but those aren’t out right now.
I made the little bag like I showed at the Birmingham Regional but this one I ran through the Big Shot with the Snow Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. It really makes the paper feel like fabric. And I would recommend running it through with no tabs on the platform so that it doesn’t cut through the paper when it embosses so deeply.
I took a piece of the wide striped ribbon and cut it in half and used half the width to tie around the bag. It frays which I kind-of like. I stamped the snowman from Button Buddies on some Whisper White card stock and punched it out with the wide oval punch. Colored the band on the hat with Marina Mist and also went around the edge of the tag with the Marina Mist marker. Punched a little hole and tied it to the ribbon with Baker’s Twine.
I also thread some Baker’s Twine through a Marina Mist button and added that to the snowman.
Ryan took the cocoa out of the one I made and I had to replace it with a new one for my picture.
This next one is one of my favorites (along with the snowflake one). I wanted to try dressing the paper bag up a bit so it was a little fancy and vintagy (is that a word) looking. I stamped the leaves from the Best Friends Forever stamp set all over the paper bag and then made a flower with the First Edition DSP. I love these flowers.
I punched scallop circles from the paper about 3 or 4 in each size and also some from the 1″ circle punch. Crumple them all up and then uncrumple them. I stacked them all up from largest to smallest and then poked a hole through with the paper piercer. Insert one of the Antique brads. I used a Stampin’ Sponge to add some Crumb Cake ink to the flower to give it some aging. I also tied some Very Vanilla Seam Binding around the base of the flower.
Finally I added a little Jewelry Tag that says “Thanks so much” – it is from the Tiny Tags stamp set. This is tied on with the Baker’s Twine.
And inside I added a Stampin’ Spot and a little stamp to make a cute little hostess thank you gift!
The other bag that I showed was the original Halloween bag that I made – the post is here.
There was one other idea that I had that I didn’t get a chance to make and that was to do a Valentine version and inside put some 3×3 love notes. I’ll try to make that up later when I’m ready to work on V-day projects.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you liked all the little paper bag ideas.
Oct 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Flight of the Butterfly, Pocket Silhouettes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
I wasn’t finished sharing my little bat ideas that I showed at the Birmingham Regional. I had a bunch. This is the Get Well bag. Inside is a pack of tissues and a tea bag.
The bag is stamped – the bottom with Pocket Silhouettes and Flight of the Butterfly. White Gel pen doodles all around. And a tag from Word Play. I used tempting Turquoise and Old Olive for my colors. And I did add rhinestones on the “i” and on the one butterfly.
Really a quick project. So it is a quick post. Directions for how to make the bag were posted last week – Click Here.
That’s all for today… have a good one.
Oct 17, 2011 | Big Shot, D is for Dog, Stampin' Up! Events |
And another one of my bags from the Birmingham Regional.
It’s hard to see in the photo but the bag is stamped with crumb cake ink with the bone and paw images from D is for Dog stamp set. I used the Old Olive Polka Dot Scalloped ribbon to go around the bag and the Decorative Label is stamped with the dog image from the same stamp set. I punched a second Decorative Label in Old Olive – cut it in half and layered it behind the white tag.
And inside the bag there are dog bones of course. The one in the this picture has the D is for Dog tag tied around it with White Baker’s Twine. It was punched with the 1″ circle and layered on an Old Olive 1-1/4″ Circle.
I still have a few more bags to show you. I got all of the pictures taken today. But I had a lazy Sunday – I got laundry done and did some more cleaning up from the My Digital Studio Retreat that we had this weekend. We had 12 demonstrators at my house all day Saturday learning about My Digital Studio – it was so much fun! I’ll be sharing more about that later in the week along with pictures of our projects. My friend Cindy Schuster teamed up with me to hold this retreat – it was something we first talked about on our plane ride out to the Stampin’ Up! Convention this summer. And it was a huge success! Thanks to everyone that joined us we hope you had as much fun as we did.
Have a productive week!
Oct 15, 2011 | Big Shot, Stampin' Up! Events, Under the Stars |
Here is another bag from my Birmingham Regional Workshop Wow presentation.
This one is a SMORES bag. And the great thing about this one – you can use the bag to help start the fire that you need to cook the smores! How about that for some recycling – that using it three times.
So the bag is made the same as the others. I used the Under the Stars stamp set – the smores are stamped on the bag and again on Very vanilla card stock and cut out. I used a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker to color the bear and the Graham Crackers (the old Creamy Carmel would have been a good color for this). The chocolate is Chocolate Chip of course. And the Marshmallow has just a hint of Crumb Cake sponged on to make it look toasted.
And what do you suppose is inside – 
what else but a chocolate bar, marshmallow and graham crackers.
What a fun little treat for a campfire.
Enjoy!
Oct 14, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Stampin' Up! Events |
Here is another bag project from the Birmingham Regional. This is my circus bag or birthday bag.
For this one I added a 1″ strip of Big Top Birthday Designer Series paper around the bag before I crimped the edges. I wanted the paper to be crimped also.
On the front is one of the scallop circle die cuts from the Perfect Pennants die. I cut it from Real Red card stock. In the center is a White piece that was stamped with the Clown image from Under the Big Top stamp set that was punched out with 1-3/4″ Circle punch. The clown is colored with Stampin’ Write Markers – Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Peach Parfait. I used the White Gel Pen to add dots around the scallop circle.
And can you guess what might be inside?
Peanuts! Since the are in the shell I just filled up the bag and stapled it shut at the top.
If you need directions on how to make the paper bag – I posted those yesterday – see my Snowflake bag project.
Have a nice day today! Cindy and I are making final arrangements for the first ever My Digital Studio Retreat on Saturday. We can’t wait for everyone to spend the day with us learning about My Digital Studio – we have a fun day planned.
And I’m excited today to hear from Kyle – her flew Thursday night to California and today he is interviewing for a summer internship. His first real trip by himself – the company arranged for a limo to pick him up and take him to a hotel. I am excited for him but does it have to be so far away!
Yep it is a giant candy corn on a piece of Basic Black card stock for the card base. I started by cutting a piece of Daffodil Delight Patterns Designer Series Paper with the Big Shot and the Perfect Pennants die. And also a piece of Pumpkin Pie Patterns Designer Series paper and a piece of Whisper White card stock.
