Mother's Day Trio

My Thursday Card Club group will be making the following items for Mother's Day:

Another trio for a second class project.  This time I used the Stampin' Up Crumb Cake as a base and  "free" Sale-A-Bration" paper pack Sweet Sorbet, I love, love, love this paper.  Super simple card and memo pad.  The tea box is a little more complicated, but well worth the patience it takes to cut all of the pieces out and put them together.  Stampin' Up Tea Time Trinkets and Antique Brads were used on the box.  Stampin' Up stamp sets: Tea Shoppe, Well Scripted and Peaceful Petals.  Oval punch, 1" circle punch, and Boho Flower Trio punches.  Rosette was cut out on the Cricut, but for the class I will be using a much simpler and prettier Martha Stewart Scalloped Three Dot border punch.

Uptown Girls - Night Out

Stamping Bella - Uptown Girls - Victoria and Juliette's Night Out

21st Birthday Card

Card base is Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler, designer paper is by Adorne.  I stamped on Neenah Solar White and colored the lovely Uptown Girls with Copics using Stampin' Up Iridescent Ice on the red dress and shoes.  The Artisan Label punch was used to punch out the sentiments which were computer generated.  The inside of the card has a pocket at the bottom for "Taxi Fare" after a night out of celebrating.  A Happy Birthday to my beautiful granddaughter, Victoria.

Mother's Day Class May 3, 2014

My Mother's Day offerings for a class at The Creative Stamp 

on May 3, 2014 from 1-3 PM

Three items any Mother would love to receive on Mother's Day.  

A card, a tea box and a magnetic note pad.

We will be using other papers and stmaps for this project provided by the store, but for these samples I used Stampin' Up papers in Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Very Vanilla and designer papers from their Spice Cake collection.  I tea stained the Wilton cupcake doily. 

Join us if you can and find out how to make Mom a homemade trio of Love this Mother's Day.

Sentiments © Stampin' Up (Well Scripted and Tea Party)

Easter Class April 12, 2014

Easter offering for class at The Creative Stamp 

April 12, 2014 from 1-3 PM

Pop-Up Box Card folds flat to fit into a standard A2 envelope.

For this sample I used heavy 110# Recollections Ivory Card Stock.  (We will be using stamps provided by the store for this class.)  The designer paper is by Best Creations called Bunny Love and the bunny stamps are from Close To My Heart's stamp set "Sensational Season"  the bunnies were quite large so I stamped them then reduced their size on my copy machine, and colored with Copics.   The little eggs stamp in front is by Hampton Arts.  Butterflies and flowers were punched out of the designer paper and added to the box with strips of transparency sheet.  A little ribbon tied into a bow and a computer generated greeting with a Stampin' Up Modern Label background finish off the design.

Easter Egg Cards

Two Easter Egg cards to share today.  The first one  is a white egg card for a challenge.  We were to take the egg shaped card, chocolate bunnies, the butterflies and the grass and put together a card.  I chose to use the rickrack edge punch to cut out some trim pieces.  I also used my Spellbinders oval dies to cut out a window and frame, this was backed with packing tape and glitter was applied to the sticky part of the tape.  I punched out tiny flowers  and added liquid pearls to the centers.  The bunny is finished off with a little pearl eye.

The inside of the card was stamped with a greeting from Crafty Secrets Easter Joy stamp set.  The eggs, grass and flowers were stamped with a Hampton Art stamp in Staz-On black and colored with Stampin' Up markers.

This second card is actually the very first egg card that I made about two weeks ago.  This card was front was covered with Stampin' Up So Saffron card stock and Pool Party trim.  The little pink flower and leaves were made with my quilling tool and stylus.  The Sentiment is from Stampin' Up Everybunny stamp set.

 The inside of this card features the one of the lovely little bunnies from the Stampin' Up Everybunny stamp set.  She was masked and then I stamped the same Hampton Art stamp for the eggs.  This time I used Momento Ink and colored with Copic and Pencils

Fun and cut cards to make.  Total overall size of the card is 4" wide and 5 1/2 tall.  Fits nicely into an A2 envelope.

Spring Class for April 5, 2014

My Spring offerings for a class at The Creative Stamp

April 5, 2014

1-3 PM.

A pretty cut of tea, box holds two teabags.

A Spring Birthday Card featuring Stampin' Up stamps from Morning Cup and Simply Sketched

A spring time bird pin featuring a retired stamp set from Stampin' Up called Seasonal Birds from 2002.

Chocolate Bunny Easter Card

Chocolate Bunny Easter Card made with the Cricut Cartridge Kate's ABC's and stamps from Hero Arts, Months - April set.  Brown and white checked ribbon and a tiny pearl complete the outside of the card.  On the inside is a lovely easter egg from the Hero Arts set.

Easter Pop Up Box Cards

Two Pop Up Box Easter Cards (4 1/4" x 5 1/2")made to fold and fit into a standard A2 card envelope.

The first card used stamps by Stampin' Up from the Everybunny stamp set, I also used a CraftSmart Easter basket stamp and a little chick by Penny Black all colored with Copics.  I punched out some of the butterflies  and flowers from the Best Creations Bunny Love designer paper with Stampin' Up punches. 

My second card was made using 110# vanilla card stock by Recollections which makes the card more sturdy.  I used stamps from Close To My Heart - Sensational Season and Hampton Art, I punched out Butterflies and flowers from the Best Creations designer paper with Stampin' Up punches.

Paper Bag Birthday Card

This is a paper bag card made with a standard 5" x 11" lunch sack.  I trimmed the open edge off to make the bag 5" x 8 1/2".  The bottom of the bag was glued down on the edges to form a pocket for  the gift card, I also glued the gusset closed on both sides and made a tag for the pocket.

Stamps used here are:
 Route 66 by Artistic Outpost
 Bird Notes by Crafty Secrets
Stampin' Up Rev Up The Fun, Travel Post and
Inkadinkado Travel

Paper is Stampin' Up Basic Black, Real Red and Crumb Cake

Inks are Versifine Onyx Black, Stampin' Up Real Red, Crumb Cake and Gumball Green
Ranger Distress Ink Vintage Photo

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and scallop circle dies
Stampin' Up Round Tab and Banner punches

Calendar Pages

This is my February calendar page which I will be submitting for the SCS WT468 Challenge to use something from a calendar.  Stamps used for this page are Stampin' Up Post Card, Postage Collection, SWAK, P.S. I Love You and their Postage Stamp Punch and Close To My Heart Moments In Time.  Calendar was a free download from the internet.

Here is my March page:

March Calendar Page uses stamps from Flourishes Sweet Violets, Stampin' Up Post Card and Postage Stamp Punch and Close To My Heart Moments In Time.

Irish Teacup

Saint Patrick's Day Teacup

St. Patrick's Day Teacup

Base is cut out from Cricut "Love You A Latte" cartridge x2, and I made a little box for the center to hold the Wilton tea stained doily, Twinings Irish Breakfast Teabag and two Andes Mints.  The cup forms were run through the Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing Folder to give them that Irish "Belleek" look.  

1/8" ribbon was wrapped around the front of the cup as is an antique piece of trim before adhering it to the box.  The tea tag was embossed with the Stampin' Up Needlepoint Border embossing folder then stamped with the Itty Bitties clover and "tea" from the Tea Shoppe stamp set on both sides.  Crochet thread was attached after punching a tiny hole in the tag, taped to the back of the cup before adhering to the box.  

By adhering the ribbon and tea tag to the front of the box before gluing it to the box keeps it from shifting and holds them firmly in place.

Three clovers were punched out of Stampin' Up Garden Green and glued to the front of the cup.  Martha Stewart flower punch in Elegant Eggplant and a one of the SU 3 Flowers punch flowers were put together to make the flower with a dot of Liquid Buttercup Pearls for the center.

This is a simple and easy project and I know all of my Irish Clan will love receiving them.

Interlocking Peaceful Petals Sweet Sorbet Card

Stampin' Up Interlocking Gatefold Card

Stampin' Up Peaceful Petals stamp set colored with ink and blender pen.  Papers used are Whisper White, Crisp Cantaloupe, Black and Sale-A-Bration Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper which is one of the "FREE" selections when you spend $50 on Stampin' Up products. 

Trinket Box Makeover

Wyanet Book Box Conversion

This is an "Altered Art" Project.  I scored a half dozen of these cute little magnetic closure book boxes at an after Christmas sale for around a $1 each.  Although they are lovely just the way they are, I couldn't resist making one into an extra special trinket box to hold some small items.

The cover design is Wyanet by Sylvia Zet for Wee Stamps-Whimsy Stamps was stamped on Neenah Solar White and colored with Copic markers and highlighted with Stickles and Glossy Accents.  The ovals are Stampin' Up Crumbcake and Bermuda Bay cut out with Spellbinder's Nestabilities dies and sewn together on my sewing machine.  The beads were strung on strong buttonhole thread then the feathers were glued into the bead holes.  The little conch or dreamcatcher metal piece is from Close To My Heart.  The flowers were made using various punches and the leaves are cut from Sizzix die cut Branch w/Leaves.  The sentiments are computer generated.

I removed the inside cover piece and used it as a template for the inside cover which goes over the box to hold it together.  I also removed the box from the cover so that I could lay the piece flat to adhere the cover.  I cut the cover piece from some of my favorite old Cosmo Cricket "Wanted - Kissin Kate" designer paper and glued it to the book front-spine-back with Bookbinding Adhesive.

Once the cover was pasted on, the magnetic closure was not strong enough to hold the box closed so I added ribbon before adhering the inside cover piece and box to the back cover.

This is a before and after picture of the book box.

Sweet Little Donkey Baby Cards

Two more baby cards.  Our first little one was born at 5:45 this morning and one of yesterday's cards will go to welcome her to the world.   We have three more little ones arriving soon so I am on a mission to make baby cards.  Here are two more:

This Sweet Little Donkey was a free digital download by Meljens found here:  http://meljensdesigns.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=64

I colored the donkey and hearts with Copics and added Stickles and Liquid Pearls.

Papers are Stampin' Up Crumb Cake, Bashful Blue (I wish they would bring this color back) and Blushing Bride.  Background designer papers are from my scrap bin.  I made the flowers using punches and an edge punch and the leaves are a die cut by Sizzix.

The round sentiments are also free digital downloads by Netty and can be found here:  http://nettyscards.blogspot.com/p/freebies.html

Miscellaneous ribbon and twine.  On the boy card I ripped up a piece of cardboard and tore off the paper exposing the ribs, and added a little white paint.  The ovals are Spellbinders.

I printed two Sweet Little Donkeys for each card using one as a base and coloring and cutting out the second and adhered with foam dots to give some dimension.

I have had a lot of fun working on these sweet little baby cards and have a few more in the works, hope to get them all done by the time the babies arrive.

Baby Cards - Wee One

Papers:  Stampin' Up Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride and Whisper White

Designer Papers by K & Company

Image is by Sylvia Zet called Wee One ©Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps

All flowers were handmade using various flower punches

Whisper White Taffeta ribbon

Sentiments are computer generated

Sewing machine used to sew image to background