Order Bags

Fall Order Bags

Order bags for Fall, decorated with a scarecrow to stick in your potted plant, super simple to make with a few dies and punches. 

Head is the Stampin' Up Top Note Die cut twice for front and back.  His hat is also made from two Top Note die cuts.  Brim of hat is cut lengthwise, top of had is cut across then a half circle punch was used to put a little dip in the hat.  Bow is a piece of burlap.  Bird Builder punch for the bird.  Eyes are small oval punch and circles.  Nose is the Triangle punch.  Mouth is hand drawn.  Straw hair is made with strips of 1/4" card stock run through the crimper and crumpled up.  Stick is a long screwer with a pointed tip.

Stamp set is from Close To My Heart:  S1209 Fall Favorites

Thanks for taking a look, and Happy Fall Y'All!

Elements of Style

Just Because You Are Seriously Amazing

For this watercolor card I used Stampin' Up Elements of Style, embossed with white embossing powder and watercolor washed with Blackberry Bliss ink.  I used a piece of drywall tape pressed into the wet ink for different element to the card.  Background of the card was embossed in the Cuttlebug Madison embossing folder after rubbing the positive side with the Blackberry Bliss ink pad which kind of gives a lace effect.

Silver sequins and a watercolor paper tag stamped with stamps from Michael's $1 bin (Just Because) and SU August Paper Pumpkin "Seriously Amazing" Kit.

Stampin' Up Pleasant Poppies

Just Because, You're Awesome

I was playing around with glossy paper, white embossing powder and Stampin' Up Real Red and Certainly Celery ink pads.  After using the heat tool on the embossing powder, the paper began to crack and I really rather like the effect.

Papers are Real Red, Whisper White and Basic Black.

Wedding Gift Decorations

Wedding Gift Flowers and Tag

An upcoming Fall Wedding in the colors of Navy and White.  I could not find any curling ribbon in Navy at any of our local stores, so I decided to put the Cricut to work and made some Navy and White flowers for the wedding gift packaging.  I also made a tag with the Stamping Bella "The Couple" stamp and colored it with Copic markers.  I added a few sprays of pearls and a satin ribbon, done. 

Scrapbook Baby Pages - Family

Family

For our next workshop I designed the following pages featuring a Family Tree.

Design elements and the word Family all cut from the Cricut Close To My Heart Artbooking Cartridge pages 61, 67 and 72.  Paper is Stampin' Up and some scraps for the tree leaves.  

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon and Certainly Celery (Retired).

Scrapbook Baby Pages - Sweet Boy

Sweet Boy

Cricut Close To My Heart Artbooking scrapbook pages.

Our second scrapbook workshop featuring baby pages featured a Scrappin' Dreams template the positive space was used on the Sweet Boy page and the negative corners were used on the animal page.

Cutouts are from the Cricut Close To My Heart Artbooking Cartridge and the Cricut Lite B Is For Boy Cartridge.  Papers are Close To My Heart.

Halloween Workshop

Halloween Workshop

We had a great time at the Halloween Workshop assembling a table top Boo Banner; Matchbox Pop Up treat holder, M&M Matchbook, a brown bag and a Vellum bag for goodies and a very cute Kit Kat Owl.  Various papers and card stock, stamps, die cuts, punches and ribbons and twine were used.

Stampin' Up Order Bags

 Here are a few of the Thank You bags that contain  orders for this last week:

Stamp Sets:     Choose Happiness, Backyard Basics and Gorgeous Grunge

Inks:                Early Expresso, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Gumball Green, Tempting Turquoise   and Lost Lagoon.

Accessories:   Buttons, thread, Ribbons, hole punch, watercolor brush, die cut.

Zentangle Halloween Card

Homework for one of my paper crafting clubs this month was to Zentangle the large Blossom Beauty by Stampendous and make something with it.  I had the Split Coast Stampers "Ways To Use It" WT494 in mind which was to go "Back To Old School" and use Chalkboard.  This is my entry for that Challenge as well.

Papers:            Stampin' Up basic black, whisper white and Tangerine Tango
Inks:                Stampin' Up Craft Whisper White and Zig Millennium .05 Black
Stamps:           Stampin' Up Bite Me (Spider) and Good Greetings (Sentiment)
                        Inkadinkado All Hallow's Eve (Corner Web)
Accessories:    Tangerine Tango Button and 1/4" black ribbon

Inside of Zentangle Card

Stampin' Up Twick or Tweet and Inkadinkado Halloween Stamp (Web)

August Paper Pumpkin Thanks

I used the August 2014 Paper Pumpkin kit to embellish my Thanks Stampin' Up order bags for this month.  

Large Halloween Match Box Pop Up Treat Holders

  This box is large enough to accommodate the pop up flying bats and some treats and a gift card or maybe even a little cash.  Super easy simple and fun to make.  Directions below the photographs.

How cute is this little Dracula Puppy Dog with the evil black kitty watching from above.  Too cute to spook!  

With a big ol' bat inside to protect the goodies inside.

And we can't forget SPIDERS, YIKES!

No bats in here, just more spiders.

Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, so to say, I took apart a larger box of Diamond matches and used it as a template, you remember the kind of matches Grandma kept in the kitchen to light the wood burning stove so she could cook up something yummy.

Box:  Stampin' Up 80# basic black card stock cut at 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 scored at 1 3/8 on all four sides.

Covers:  Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells Collections and K&Co. Halloween Designer papers including flocked spiders cut at 4 1/2 x 9 and scored at 1 1/2, 3 1/4, 5 3/4 and 7 1/8.

Inside pop up section:  2 1/2 x 5 1/2 scored at 1/2, 1 1/2, 2 1/2, 3, 4 and 5.

Inside treat section: 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 with pop-ups or 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 for full coverage.

Rosette: 1 x 12 scored every 1/2"

Stampin' Up Bat Punch and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set for "happy halloween"

Glittery spider by Recollections

Smooch Copper for the bat eyes

"Spooky" was computer generated

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Scrapbook Wedding Pages and Photo Wallet

Fall Wedding Pages 

These 12x12 Wedding Pages are very dimensional and were made to be framed.

4 1/2" x 9" Photo Wallet

Stamps:         Stampin' Up Elements of Style and Label Love

Papers:          Bazzill Admiral Blue, White and Authentique "Genuine Perfection"

Punches:        Stampin' Up Petal Flower, Round Tab and Artisan Label; Martha Stewart Hydrangea;     Punch Bunch Cherry Blossom

Die Cuts:       Ellison Designs Thick Cuts Leaves; Die-namics Leafy Flourish; Spellbinders Fleur De   Lis Squares

Accessories:  Pearls, Ribbon, White Thread, Brads, VersaMark and Embossing Powder

Wedding Wallet Mini Photo Album

Black and White Wedding Wallet Mini Photo Album.  Following the wonderful directions of Dawn Olchefske found here:
http://dostamping.typepad.com/dostamping_with_dawn/2011/08/stampinup-dawn-dostamping-celebrates-day-2-wedding-photo-wallet-mini-album-video.html

I put together this lovely little 4 1/2" x 9" wallet to hold a 4" x 7" four page, eight photo mini album.
Great shower gift.

I used Stampin' Up Whisper White and Basic Black card stock and embossed the Elements of Style stamp set.  Sentiment is from the Labeled Love set and die cuts are Spellbinder.  Black and White satin ribbon was used for the bows on the belly band and the tag was attached with a piece of white crochet thread.

2014 Scrapbook Expo Project (1)

The Rubber Cafe

While attending the 2014 Scrapbook Expo in Santa Clara, CA, I took a class from the very talented and fun, Melissa Forsyth of The Rubber Cafe.

You pull the ribbons on each side of the box, a tag rolls out on the left and a box on the right.  The box is pretty big at 3x5x1, plenty of room for a gift card and lots of chocolates.  The matching card is tri-fold and all three of the facing sections have pretty flowers.

Thanks Melissa, you are AWESOME!

Summer Silhouettes Thanks So Much

August order bags stamped with Stampin' Up Summer Silhouettes and Simply Sketched in Rich Razzleberry and More Mustard.  I masked each side and stamped in the middle then lightly rubbed More Mustard all over the stamped images.  Thanks to everyone who placed orders so far this month.

I found a card on Pinterest by Aileen Skene in the UK with this design and thought it was so pretty. Thanks Aileen for the inspiration.
http://stampupyourcraft.blogspot.com/2012/10/stampin-up-summer-silhouettes.html