Apr 8, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Easter, Punch Art |
The Easter Bunny is on his way to my family with an invitation to join us for lunch on Easter Sunday!
Every year my family and Greg’s family gather here for Easter lunch – we have had nearly 40 of us here at times. And each year I like to send out a hand made invitation to everyone. Not that they need it since the door is open to them to come even if I don’t send invitations.
After thinking about what I was going to do this year – I saw people using the Petal Cone die to make carrots – and I thought that would be a fun idea. Then I saw a couple of samples that included a punched bunny peeking out around the carrot – Cindy Wilkinson posted one and she saw one that Sandy Hancock posted from her downline meeting. Now that was the perfect idea. Most of the ones I saw were pouches that would hold candy. My original version is also a pouch but I included an extra pull out piece that would be the “card” part. I showed it to Greg and he didn’t think it was obvious that that piece pulled out. I showed it to Tyler and he thought because it was two pieces they would lose the inside part. So then I decided to cut of the extra tab that made it into a pouch and just let it open from the side like a card. I formatted my text to fit the shape of the triangle, printed it on my printed, cut it out and glued it inside the cards. Everything went out in the mail yesterday – so they are on their way!
So let me show you what I’m talking about…
So here is my first version. I used the Petal Cone Die and the Big Shot to create the carrot from Pumpkin Pie card stock. The flap is glued to create the pouch. I also ran it through the polka dot embossing folder. And the edges are sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink. And then cut another Petal Cone in Whisper White to make the insert.
You pull the insert out and that is where you can write your note, invitation, or Easter wishes.
The top of the carrot and the bunny are all made from punches. I created two cheat sheets that I used in my club meetings so that they would know easily what pieces they needed to create this project. And I have those here to share with you too.
The carrot top is Wild Wasabi card stock – punched and cut as shown on my cheat sheet. I did sponge the edges with Wild Wasabi ink.
The bunny is made from Whisper White and Blushing Bride and all the pieces are sponged with Blushing Bride. I used a Black Journaler and a White Gel Pen to add the accents to the bunny. Here is a close up.
The little nose is popped up on a Dimensional but the rest is all glued flat.
Here is a close up of the back side – 
If you really wanted you could finish off the back and add a little tail! But I didn’t do that here. I just wanted you to see how it looked glued to the back of the Pumpkin Pie carrot piece.
This last picture is of all my invitations that I sent to my family. On these I cut off the flap of the Petal Cone die so that it was just a card that opened on the side. Remember the ice cream cone card from a few weeks back – it’s like that. So these are all my little bunnies on their way to mailboxes.
Have a good weekend!
Apr 5, 2011 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, SU Ribbon, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
This weeks Utah Diva’s Color Challenge was much easier for me than some of the others that we have had. I could have made lots of different things with these colors. Early Espresso, Real Red, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla. 
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. This week I decided to use the Sneak Peek stamp set – Four Frames that you can earn free as a workshop hostess or purchase with a $20 order during the month of April. All four images in the stamp set fit inside the Decorative Label punch so you can make quick cards with it. My project is a whole set of cards with a matching box that holds the cards and the envelopes.
The box is actually two boxes glued together – one that holds the 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ cards and the other holds the envelopes. On the front panel you’ll see one of the four images from the Four Frames stamp set. I added the Vanilla Rosettes to the front. To color them I tried first using my Real Red reinker with some water and soaking the rosettes – this didn’t really work with the Real Red – I think other colors would be ok; but the red just looked like blood to me. So then I tried just coloring them with my Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker and that gave me a better color – they actually look Real Red now. This method leaves a few uncolored spots unless you really take time to get your marker in between all the layers of the flower. I attached them with a small drop of Crystal Effects to the front of the box. The cards are two different designs – one is the same as the front of the box and the other I just used the ribbon differently but the parts are the same. So here are pictures of all the cards:
I hope you’ll visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Real Red, Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: Four Frames, Teeny Tiny Wishes
- Accessories: Decorative Label punch, Scallop Trim Border punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Early Espresso and Real Red Taffeta ribbon, Vanilla Rosettes, Crystal Effects, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Apr 2, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, SU Ribbon |
Last night was my April Stamper’s Club meeting and we made this cute Vintage Jar. At least I thought it turned out cute. It was another last minute project that I finally figured out as I was going to bed. And then got up the next morning and still remember what I had finally figured out so I could actually create it.
I got these little jars through the bulk buy group and had used them for the pin cushion button jars but wanted to come up with something else too. I have made these little scrunchy folders for the last few weeks and thought it would pretty to add one to the top of one of these jars. I used the First Edition Designer Series paper and punched using several punches lots of layers. I scrunched them all up and then flattened them back out, stack them up and punch a hole through the center. Add the antique brad. Here is a close up:
The Love Letter DSP is on the lid – cut with the Big Shot and the 3″ circle die – this one is just flat. The punches I used on the First Edition papers were 2-1/2″ Circle punch, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punch, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle punch, 1″ circle punch. I cut a piece of Cherry Cobbler card stock with the Big Shot and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit – added the largest one to the top of the flower and the bitty one to my ribbon. Oh, the ribbon around the lid is the 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon in Basic Black – cut in half – so just half of it was used to wrap around the jar lid and tie in a bow. The last little thing is the stamped jewelry tag using the “{love}” from Tiny Tags. It was tied around the brad using some Linen Thread.
Put something you love inside. Your favorite candy, your favorite buttons, ticket stubs, little notes, ribbon, etc.
Have a great day!
Mar 31, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2011 |
Today is the last day of Sale-A-Bration. Don’t miss out on the free stamps you can get. Today I have one more card – ok actually two cards to show you that use the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Sweet Summer. This card was designed by Stampin’ Up! and I used these last couple of weeks in some of my workshops and classes. I created two different versions of the card. And last night the girls actually made one of each size which was kind of fun. I think we had such a good time last night stamping and chatting we didn’t realize what time it was – I ended up getting home about midnight.
The card on the left is a 4-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ card and the one on the right is 5-1/2″ tall and 4-1/4″ wide. Both use the same supplies the only difference is the top is cut off to make one a square. Sometimes you just need a square project and this size card will fit in the medium size envelope and is really a nice size.
The card base is Peach Parfait. You know what this color reminds me of? My bedroom at my parents house – yes my bedroom was painted peach. That room isn’t that color anymore and now its my dad’s office but at one point in time it was peach. I used the background stamp En Francais stamped in Peach Parfait ink. And I have no idea what the stamp says but it looks pretty. If you have trouble getting a good impression across this whole stamp what I do is ink up the stamp and lay it on the table on top of my grid paper, then carefully place my card stock on it, then fold the grid paper over it so you can rub across the whole thing and get the ink evenly on your entire piece of card stock. Lift the paper up and the card stock off carefully. It works well every time.
In the center is a strip of Old Olive that was stamped with the little stems/leaves image from Sweet Summer. On each side is a piece of Melon Mambo that was punched with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch. (Sometimes I call this the ribbon border because I forget the full name – it’s such a long name).
Then use the Big Shot and the Beautiful Butterflies die and cut the larger full butterfly from the First Edition Specialty Paper and the smaller full butterfly from Melon Mambo card stock. Stamp the tiny bunch of flowers image in Melon Mambo ink on the Melon Mambo butterfly. Stamp the open flower image in Peach Parfait on the First Edition butterfly. Layer them together and tie Linen Thread around the center. Add a piece of Daffodil Delight card stock punched with the Jewelry Tag punch and stamped with “friends” from Tiny Tags. Tie it off in a bow or knot. Add the butterflies to the front of the card.
You can get this Sweet Summer stamp set free if you place a $50 order today. You won’t be able to buy these sets afterwards so get them while you can. Let’s see this is what will be gone after tomorrow – So Happy for You, Punch Bunch, Sweet Summer and Bliss stamp sets, Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon & Button pack and Designer Paper and Quick Accents pack, the So Much To Sale-A-Brate Digital Content CD (a must have if you own My Digital Studio), and the Notes Chalkboard Decor Elements. Click HERE to go to my website and then click on SHOP NOW.
Spring Bingo players – here is the next Bingo piece – is it your winning piece??
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Talk to you later…..
Mar 25, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Summer Mini 2011 |
It won’t be long before a new Stampin’ Up! mini catalog is out. Demonstrators had the opportunity to get a sneak peek of a new stamp set from the upcoming Summer Mini catalog. The set is called Strength & Hope and is a special stamp set. Why?
Stampin’ Up! is donating $2 from the purchase of each Strength & Hope stamp set to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. You’ll be able to purchase this set beginning May 1st, 2011. In the meantime here is a sneak peek of a card that I made for my swap at my PAWS downline meeting earlier this month.
The colors I used are Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Baja Breeze. The scallop circle is Natural White with lots of sponging and spritzing. It’s a beautiful stamp set.
We are still playing Spring Bingo – I’ve had one winner and I’m planning to play until we have 5 total winners. So here is the next piece –
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Good Luck!
Mar 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, Tutorial |
Look at this cute mini scrapbook using the Sew Suite product line from the Stampin’ Up! Mini catalog. This was a project that the fabulous Bonnie Thurber showed on stage at the Leadership Conference. I sent Bonnie a message asking if she could give me the dimensions and she did! So I was able to recreate it and used it as a Make&Take project at my downline meeting this month. So here are the details for this little project. There are 4 pages that are glued to an accordion folded spine that creates the top where the chipboard letters are glued on to. The spine and all the pages are Early Espresso card stock. To create the spine you need a piece that is 8″ x 5-1/2″ then score it at every 1″ to create the accordion – so that is 1″, 2″, 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, and 7″. Fold that into an accordion. I’ll come back to how to finish the spine at the end. Now I’ll show you each page from the bottom up –
So here is the back page – cut the Early Espresso to be 6″ tall by 5-1/2″ wide. Cut a piece of the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 5-3/4″ tall by 5-1/4″ wide and glue it to the back page. Take the back page and glue it to the back flap of the accordion fold. Here is the next page
For this page cut the Early Espresso to be 5″ tall and 3-3/4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 4-3/4″ tall and 3-1/2″ wide. Attach this page to the next step on the accordion towards the left side. On this page there is a flower – it is the Flower Fusion Sizzlet cut from Tangerine Tango. The center is one of the buttons from the Button Embosslit cut from Daffodil Delight. I’ll tell you how I did the words in a minute. Ok next page –
This one cut the Early Espresso to be 4-1/4″ tall by 3-1/2″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series Paper to be 4″ tall by 3-1/4″ wide. Attach this page on the next step of the accordion toward the right side. For this page wrap a piece of Linen Thread around it and tie on one of the Sew Suite Big Designer Buttons. Then add some of the buttons cut with the embosslit from Tangerine Tango card stock. And the next one –
This page cut the Early Espresso to 2-1/2″ tall by 4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer paper to 2-1/4″ tall by 3-3/4″ wide. Attach to the next step of the accordion centered over the other pages. Now to finish up the front of the accordion –
Cut a piece of Sew Suite Designer paper to be 5-1/2″ wide and 2-1/4″ tall – then score at 1″ from each side – leaving 1/4″ in between – this piece will wrap around the spine – glue it to the back of the spine and then to the front. Cut a 5-1/2″ piece of Tangerine Tango card stock and punch it with the border punch Dotted Scallop Ribbon. Glue this under the front flap of the scrap book. I used a piece of On Board Chipboard and cut the letters using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters die set. Cover the letters with Early Espresso Craft ink using a sponge dauber. Well I should have told you this part first – I would recommend cutting out the letters putting the ink on them and set them aside to dry while you do everything else. You can use the green bottle glue or crystal effects to glue those to the front flap.
Now the words – Bonnie used the stamp set Fabulous Phrases for her example (and she used precut chipboard letters from one of the packs in the catalog). I don’t have that stamp set so I thought – hey I can use it in My Digital Studio and print them out – well the stamp set isn’t yet available in MDS either – so instead I chose a font that I thought was similar and just add text boxes in MDS. To make sure I had the size close I added a Word Window punch in MDS to see that my words would fit. I printed out a sheet of words on Whisper White card stock. We punched them out with the Word Window punch and layered them on a Modern label punched out of Tempting Turquoise.
Now I just need to add pictures and it will be done. How cute is that?
Is today’s Bingo piece going to be the one that makes you the winner? Here it is……
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Have a great day today!
So here is my first version. I used the Petal Cone Die and the Big Shot to create the carrot from Pumpkin Pie card stock. The flap is glued to create the pouch. I also ran it through the polka dot embossing folder. And the edges are sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink. And then cut another Petal Cone in Whisper White to make the insert.
You pull the insert out and that is where you can write your note, invitation, or Easter wishes.
The carrot top is Wild Wasabi card stock – punched and cut as shown on my cheat sheet. I did sponge the edges with Wild Wasabi ink.
The bunny is made from Whisper White and Blushing Bride and all the pieces are sponged with Blushing Bride. I used a Black Journaler and a White Gel Pen to add the accents to the bunny. Here is a close up.
The little nose is popped up on a Dimensional but the rest is all glued flat.
This last picture is of all my invitations that I sent to my family. On these I cut off the flap of the Petal Cone die so that it was just a card that opened on the side. Remember the ice cream cone card from a few weeks back – it’s like that. So these are all my little bunnies on their way to mailboxes.
