Make a Masculine Birthday Card

 

It was spring break for my children's school last week, and I got to visit one of my good friends, and downline, and do some stamping with her!  It was such fun to be in her new craft room with tons of space to play, and use these great goodies from the spring catalog.  I drove from New York down to Georgia and it really felt like spring there, so warm and sunny!

I made this card as a masculine birthday card. I used Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, an Basic Gray as my color palette.  I love this stamp set, Starburst Sayings (133185), and the coordinating framelit, Starburst Framelit (#132967), because lets face it, I do not want to cut out all those tiny little notches!!  I did notch out the tiny circle to match though because it looked better than using the 1" circle punch as my mat.  My large banner background was also cut out using the Banners Framelits (#132173)  Can you tell I love my magnetic die platform, and framelits??  They make it so easy to line up my images and cut everything out perfectly!  To order, visit my website before June 1st when the occasion catalog ends!  I certainly hope these guys make it into our new catalog which comes out June 2014!

Thankful Thoughts

One of my favorite things in November on Social Media, and blogs I follow is the daily "Thank You Moments".  I am not as wonderful about posting them on my family blog, but I do try to get a few up there during the month, or in my journal.  I thought I'd make a Thanksgiving type card to show awesome fall colors, and so send to someone truly special.  Everyone knows that getting some thing in the mail that isn't Junk mail is so very special!

So here is is, Gently Falling, Gorgeous Grunge, and Chalk Talk! I combined those cards to do some fun two step stamping, don't worry, it doesn't need to be perfect, and used the leaf outline stamps to create my own patterned paper on some Very Vanilla card stock.  I used Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, and Pumpkin Pie, can't get more fall like than that!

I also layered my punches to create a neat new look.  I saw this on Pintrest, can't recall the card I copies, but what a great idea to turn the Modern Label punch and layer under the Wide Oval, and because I love tags so much, I made one more to add in that pop of color.

Super fun to do, and fast and easy!  Shop Online Now to order any of these materials!

Just a thought for a unique scrapbook/gift idea, take a photo each day of something you are thankful for, add your daily message, compile both into a simple scrapbook, maybe a 6x6 or smaller, and you have an awesome Christmas gift for a loved one.

Chalk Talk Framelits Christmas Card

 
Today we are using Chalk Talk Framelits to make a simple Christmas Card.  I am loving the Magnetic Platform, and the Big Shot.  It was so easy to cut out the Framelits just the way I wanted.

I also like my neat little punched edge using the Modern Label Punch.  It adds a great little scalloped edge, but lets me use as much paper as I need to fit my saying from Greetings of the Season.   Check out my video to see my trick in action.

Materials List

Chalk Talk Framelits (#129983), Big Shot Magnetic Platform, and Pennant Parade (#122742), Gorgeous Grunge Stamp (#130517) Greetings of the Season (#128033) clear stamp sets.


Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, and Crumb Cake and the Holiday Catalog Season of Style Designer Series Paper Stack (#132181)

Modern Label Punch, Pennant Punch, Gumball Green stitched ribbon, Rhinestones, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Daffodil Delight Classic Inks 

You can order all of these products online 24/7 at my website StampPaperScissorsInk.com, just look under the Products tab for Shop now!

Petite Purse die projects

My latest
stamp club asked for a project using the petite purse die. We did a simple purse for club, and I made a few more sample to show some other purses! So fun!

And guess what I found out, our new embossing folders are longer and wider than before. I was not able to turn it sidewise as I have done in the past to run through my Big Shot. This won't be much of an issue, but I'd wanted to try doing part of the purse die only and it was a bit tricky. You can see the polka dot embossing folder on the rose red purse! Scalloped oval makes the adorable white ruffled purse edge!

Don't you love the green box! It is made using the 4 dies put together.

Triangle fold technique

This is a fun square card with a new fold technique. What I like is that you can take a 5.5x11 cardstock piece and fold in half then fold the top piece in a triangle. This makes your base.

You need a 5x5 background piece, glued to the inside. Your top is made of the of a piece of 4.5x4.5, and another piece of 4x4.

I stamped on the 4x4 and embellished it. Hardest part is making sure you get your word so it works vertically and horizontally.

I used Betsy Blossom and itty bitty banners and the big shot framelits that cuts out the banner.

Color scheme: melon mambo, Midnight Muse, Pink Pirouette, Daffodil delight

No sew pin cushion and Sewn version

I found this awesome pair on this blog, and had to CASE it! Thank you for the inspiration!



Sewn version first-
I adore my Big Shot for fabric projects. I used my square scallop die to cut out 8 squares from my Spice Cake fabric.
See together with right side out so you have the scalloped edge. Repeat 4 times and then sew the top and bottom block. Now you have a front with 4 squares and a back. Press with an iron. Go around the edges leaving a hole out for stuffing. Stitch the open edge closed.

Take two buttons and a large needle. Go from side to side pulling the buttons in to create a divet. Snip thread all over and you are done!


No sew version-
Cut a 8" square of fabric and grab a handful of fluff. I used a fancy feast cat food can, but a different small container would work for this project as well. Think small flower pot or metal can.

I cut a 1.25" x 12 strip and wrapped my can. I heated hot glue, and ran a bead of glue around the top of the can. Wrap the fabric and fluff in a ball, and pit inside the cat food can without burning yourself! Tie a bow or embellishment and you are done!

Advent Calendar project in the works

I have been searching for the perfect advent calendar for years ever since we had children. This year, I will have one that I will be able to use for years to come!  Stampin' Up! thoughtfully created a great new advent stamp set that I am going to use to make an incredible calendar for this year.  I will also be using the new coordinating Big Shot die and  1" Square punch.  I debated doing it on paper or in a frame like the awesome one I saw at Stampin Up! Convention, but I think I like this new idea better.  I will be using a 25 small boxes around a frame so I can put little treasures inside for my children to take out each day!

I will stamp, punch and color, and then decoupage all the boxes, and create a wonderful punch art for inside the advent frame!  Winter Wonderland, snowmen, and glitter here I come.  No finished pictures yet since I finally found a supplier online for the box frame, and they have been shipped out Wednesday. Normally I try and use only Stampin' Up Products, but I needed something that we didn't have-gasp!. 

Check back next week to see what I have created!  This is a great holiday gift which I will be selling only 2 of at a local benefit in November.  If you want to order the materials or a complete kit, please contact me!

Layering & Paper Piecing

This week on Creative-Sketches.com we are doing a layer sketch.  I came up with this as my final card.

I really enjoy tearing paper when I am working with a winter or hilly scene.  I adore this little snowman set, but then I have to admit, I am a sucker for anything with snowmen!  This set is called Snow Much Fun (#122562)  So I took our sketch of the week, then added a wonderful snowy background with my Northern Flurry Big Shot Embossing Folder. (#120902)  I flipped it around and sponged the back-the part with the dembossed side-so that the snowflakes would remain white and the paper would take the Bashful Blue ink color.  I really like this little technique because it is not the normal approach to using this embossing folder.

My tip when doing this: Use dimensionals to lift the embossing folder so that the impression does not get destroyed.

Then I stamped my images a few times on different pieces of paper.  You can use Designer Series Paper to do this as well and to great affect, but for my image it worked best with solid cardstock. I colored my images with markers and cut it all out to assemble it.

The bird and the snowman got stamped directly on my white background so that I could have the legs and arms on the cardstock and not trim around them.  They are really just too small to cut out effectively even using the Paper Snips, which in my opinion are the best little scissors for cutting.  I also highlighted portions of my image with our new glitter glue!  So easy to use, and what a cute effect!

So, now you know what I did, what will you create this week?  Enter your card on our challenge blog!

Earn a Free Big Shot in October

 

I absolutely love my Big Shot!  I can't imagine crafting without it.  If you don't have this little beauty, consider getting yours for free today when you sign up with me as a new demonstrator.  If you already have a Big Shot, get $100 of product instead-maybe the new holiday Big Shot dies would be more your thing! Free is always more fun for crafting!

Artist Trading Card Owl Punch Art

At Convention I went loaded down with about 40 swaps-cards I made to trade with other stampers.  I would have liked to make many more swaps, but I was so busy prior to convention, it just wasn't possible!  I was so thrilled to see all the different cards made by the very talented stampers!  Such a treat!

I was participating in a ATC or Artist Trading Card Swap with my upline's group.  Trading Cards are smaller cards that can stand alone, or be taken home and added to a larger card.  It is fun to create the mini cards as you really have to stretch and think what will look good and work on a smaller scale.  ATC cards are 2.5 x3.5.  There are several sites with cutting templates to get 10 card bases out per page of 8.5x11, but this is the page I normally use for reference.

I had so much fun designing this little Owl, but when I made the first, I did not think about how many eyeballs it takes to make 20+ Owls!  Yikes!  Luckily my good friend and downline was willing to help me assemble my little creations.

Supplies Needed:
Two Step Owl Punch
Two Step Bird Punch- wings, branch
Big Shot- Spiderweb Embossing Folder
Great Greetings
1 3/4" Circle Punch
Rich Razzleberry
Daffodil Delight
Early Espresso
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie 1/8"Grosgrain Ribbon

Milk Carton Big Shot - Part 1

At Convention on Main Stage Carrie Cudney presented the most adorable Gingerbread house made from the Big Shot Milk Carton Die using the Sweets for the Sweets (pg 65 in the new catalog). Now I don't have that stamp set yet, so I had to improvise.  I think my little box is quite cute, and uses my love of punch art to create the roof (Scallop Border punch), a tiny wreath(Itty Bitty Punch), door (Large Tag Punch), and gumdrops (Word Window Punch). As soon as I can order from the Holiday Mini, I will add some mini Jungle bells :)

I also made some little curtains using my paper snips.  I can't wait to try the new Glitter Glue.  I hear it is a lot like Stickles.  I used Tombow glue with plenty of Dazzling Diamonds for the gumdrops, roof, and wreath. 

 

I'm thinking Mini Gingerbread Village for fun decorations, or possible party treats!

My next Post will be a Double Milk Carton Box.  It was also demonstrated at Convention, although I missed that presentation, but heard about it from friends. It is fun to see how versatile one Die can be when used different ways!

Iris Folding-ornament punch

This week our challenge was to do a Card using Iris Folding. I have never done this before, and it was so much fun to learn how to do it, and then make a card myself.



To make an Iris Folded card, you need to have this strips of folded scrapbook paper. Then you layer them around in a pattern based on your template or shape you want to use.  If you google it, you can come up with tones of free templates, and some really interesting projects.  Mine is a great beginners project though!




I had my ornament punch and wanted to do my folds using that punch so I created my own template. I basically took my punch traced it out, then doodled around with my ruler until it looked good to me. I have a picture of my template. I'll clean it up and add it as a new file for downloading.

Then I used my punch piece and laid it down and taped it with scotch tape so I could check my work. Layer up your strips, trim the excess and go around until you get to the center shape. I popped my ornament with dime Sui dale and finished my card with glitter, and a greeting from Greetings Galore. Simple but fun!

Give it a try, and post your project at Creative-Sketches.com.

Stampin Up fabric projects

I wanted to share a few of the incredible projects made by Stampin Up demonstrators that were on display at convention.

Flirtatious Fabric



Beau Chateau Fabric


Love the tea towel ruffles!! What a cute gift idea!


Bags, coasters, and ornaments





Messenger tote with Flirtacious fabric. She also had a crayon roll and a round tote!

Convention- sneak peek holiday mini

So exciting to be here! Just finished the first general session! Wow! I'm so excited about our July $99 recruiting special starter mini kit!




Best part is the incredible Christmas box that the new recruit will receive for free.




Contact me before July 31st to take advantage of this incredible offer.

We also just got a sneak peek of the Holiday mini for this fall, and my jaw is on the floor! I can't wait to start preordering in august, and start my new holiday classes and crafts. Can you say advent calendar? With a great big shot die to make it with?




Stamping Up is going to be launching their very own Simply Scored tool. Wow! Score 12x12 paper, every 1/8", stylus comes with, plus 3 awesome little place markers. Perfect time saver, so good for all 3D projects!  This little beauty will be available September 1st, and I know you will want one for all your 3d projects.  It will come out in The Holiday Mini catalog.  If you are not on my mailing list, and would like to be added to the list, please contact me with your information.  This will also be available through my store online.

Please be ready to come and make incredible holiday projects! This new mini is out of sight! Pictures to come!!

Week 1 sketch- summer mini

I love the weekly sketches, for no other reason than getting the creative juices going.

This week I did a sketch layout from creative-sketches.com, with my new stamp set from the Stampin Up Summer Mini Touch of Kindness,#123203- clear. I adore cats, so when I saw the set, I had to have it!! Plus, I love to color, always love a session of coloring therapy! I also used my newest Big Shot die, with two scalloped squares.  They are absolutely wonderful! The designer series paper is the flip side of the fantastic Play Date Designer Series paper, which is on sale and will be retiring at the end of the Month.  Supplies for this paper are limited, so order soon!

My posting this month has been a bit slow, but please visit Creative-sketches.com to try our weekly challenges!  We have a new one each week.

Birthday Invitaton

 

I designed this invitation for a friends daughter's Birthday Bash.  She loves Hard Rock Cafe, and I was thrilled when I found the Grunge Rock set.  Not only was it birthday themed, but it had an awesome guitar.  I used the rock and roll technique to stamp each guitar in Cherry Cobbler and Basic Black, creating a unique guitar on each invitation.

Supplies on this card included the Rockin Wheel, Twine, Inviting Stamp Set, and the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder.  Unfortunately the inside image is terrible, and I already gave the cards to my friends.

Creative Sketches Week 4 Holidays

This week we were working with circles in our sketch at Creative-Sketches.com.  I took the sketch below and altered the circle concept to use a variety of circles, punches, and dies. Our concept also included Holidays, but my card didn't have an actual holiday in mind.  Is there a National Friends Day?
I adore my new Boho Blossom Punch! My favorite stamp set right now is the Just Believe stamp set.  I have watercolored it, stamped it and now colored it with markers.  Love all the variations!  Hope you get a chance to come by and join us in our design challenge!

Creative Sketches Week 4 Mother's Day

This week, the Creative Sketches Design Team tries to combine a Sketch and a Holiday card.  Knowing that Mother's Day is really not all that far away, I started thinking of what my mom might like to get in the mail. My Mom does not love pastel colors, which typically are used in the spring and for Mother's Day so that makes it challenging to make a card for her.   She loves rich jewel tones though. I was thrilled that I was able to combine the Color Challenge from Just Add Ink (Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, and Whisper White) with the Creative-Sketches.com Sketch Challenge to come up with a card that I think my mom will love!

This adorable card uses one of my favorite Holiday stamps sets, All Holidays.  It covers just about every major holiday in the year.  So versatile!  I pair with my trusty Big Shot Top Note Die, and Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder, my new Boho Blossom punch, the two Step Bird Punch, and some wonderful Designer series paper from the Bold color pack.

To add a little sparkle on this card, I used my favorite Old Olive 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, a Rich Razzleberry brad, and some wonderful pearls. I love the different sizes with the pearsl too!

So, go on over to Creative-Sketches.com and post your holiday card! Can't wait to see what you make!

Mosaic Tile Card

 

I got to help my newest downline with her first workshop and together we designed this adorable card.  We used the new Clearly for You set (#121911 W or #121976 C) from the Occasions Mini catalog.  I love that the 1 1/4" square punch fits the large background stamp.  We punched 9 squares and layered them onto daffodil delight, and whisper white.  The whisper white piece will be the card body and opens from the bottom.  The basic black piece is difficult to write on, so this way, we get the look we want, and don't need an extra piece for the inside. 

We also used the scallop punch to create a wonderful distressed flower.  Punch two scallops and distress and crumple repeatedly until the edges seperate.  Pull apart and layer with fuzzy edges facing up.  I wanted to use a Black button for the center, but since I didn't have any, I stamped the background stamp again with VersaMark, and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  Unfortunately this picture did not show the wonderful shimmer.  After it had cooled, I punched it out using the 1/2" punch. I also used the Two Step Bird punch for the leaves on the card.

I just posted this to a new sketch challenge site I found out about - Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  Fingers crossed!

Creative Sketches Week 1 Challenge

This week for our sketch challenge, we had a vertical layout with several thin layers.  I decided to use one of my layers with a stamp instead of adding a piece of cardstock.  It is a little hard to see in the picture, but look to the left of the larger image.  I used my other layer as the edge of the top note die.

I have really struggled with Poppy Parfait as a color, but this color challenge from Handstamped Sentiments provided the Colors for the week, Pear Pizzaz, Poppy Parade, and Blushing Bride.  I like the combo very much.  I will definitely be using it again soon!  I cheated slightly and added a tiny sliver of Crumb Cake!  Sorry guys!

The stamp set I used is Just Believe.  I absolutely this set and have used it several times.  I had not used the frame stamp though so it was great to get that inky!  Hope you like it and want to go over to Creative-sketches.com and give it a whirl for yourself!