Monday, February 22, 2010

Feb SOM "Piece of Cake" Birthday Card Trio

This is the project we made in my Stamp Clubs this month.  We used the cute February stamp of the month set "Piece of Cake" and made three birthday cards.  I also used the Topstitched paper pack.  I know you may be getting tired of seeing this same paper, but I just love it!
Here are the cards and the instructions to make them:
This first one looks familiar?  Yes, it is the same as the one I posted before, but I used a clear button instead of the flower.
Card #1
Paper Cutting list:

Colonial White standard A4 card base
4” x 5 ¼” Heavenly Blue B&T
1 ½” x 4 ½” Diagonal Stripe B&T
2 ½” x 3” Chocolate CS
1 ¾” x 1 ¾” Baby Pink CS
1 ½” x 1 ½” Colonial White CS

Directions:

1. -Ink distress edges of Heavenly Blue B&T with Heavenly Blue ink. –Adhere to card base, centering.

2. –Ink distress edges of diagonal stripe B&T with chocolate ink. –Adhere to left edge of card approx. ½” from top.

3. –With Versamark ink, stamp “You’re the sweetest thing” on the bottom of chocolate CS. – Use white embossing powder and heat to set. – Ink distress edges using chocolate ink. – Glue to card front approx. ½” down and ½” over the edge of the diagonal stripe paper (see picture).

4. – Stamp cupcake image on colonial white CS using chocolate ink. – Color image using watercolor pencils. – Apply liquid glass to the three front cupcakes and sprinkle with Prisma Glitter. – Apply liquid glass to the cherries. – Ink distress edges using Baby Pink Ink. – Glue to baby pink CS. – Use 3-D Foam Tape to attach to card front.

5. Attach ribbon and button using Fabri-Tac glue at lower left corner of square.

Card #2
Paper Cutting list:

Colonial White standard A4 card base
3 ¾” x 5” Diagonal Stripe B&T
2 ½” x 4” Heavenly Blue B&T
½” x 4 ¼” Chocolate CS
1” x 2” Pink B&T glued onto a piece of CS
½” x 2 ¼” Blue CS
1 ¼” Circle Colonial White CS

Directions:

1. Ink distress all edges of paper except card base using chocolate ink.

2. Glue diagonal stripe B&T on card base front a little towards the right edge of card.

3. – Stamp cake image using chocolate ink directly on the Heavenly Blue B&T (Candles should be almost to the top of the paper). – Color in the flames using yellow marker and the candles using chocolate marker. – Glue to card front approx. ½” from top and ½” from the right side of diagonal stripe paper.

4. Stamp cake image on Pink B&T using Chocolate ink. – Cut out and adhere to the card front using 3-D foam tape.

5. Stamp cake image (platter only) on Heavenly Blue CS. – Cut out and adhere to card front using 3-D foam tape.

6. – Stamp scallop image on chocolate CS, flip image over and stamp again using chocolate ink (see sample). – Adhere to card front just below the bottom of the cake stand.

7. – Stamp “Make a wish” on colonial white circle using chocolate ink. – Use 3-D Foam tape to adhere to card front.

8. Apply liquid glass to “make a wish”, polka dots on cake and candle flames. Apply Prisma Glitter to candle flames.


Card #3
Paper Cutting list:

Colonial White standard A4 card base
1” x 1 ½” Blue flower B&T
2 ½” x 1 ½” Diagonal Stripe B&T
2” x 1 ½” Chocolate CS
2 x 4 ¼” Pink or Blue Textured CS
2” x 3 ¼” Colonial White CS
1 7/8” x 3” Chocolate CS


Directions:

1. Use corner rounder to round the 2 right edges of card base, all edges of colonial white CS, and all edges of chocolate CS.

2. Ink distress all edges of papers including the card base front using chocolate ink.

3. Use glimmer mist spray on textured CS piece. Set aside to dry.

4. Glue blue flower B&T to upper left corner of card base.

5. Glue diagonal stripe B&T to lower left corner of card base.

6. – Bend back upper right corner of textured CS approx. ¾”. – Punch hole and insert Chocolate bigger brad. – Adhere brown B&T behind textured CS and adhere to card front (see picture).

7. Stamp “Happy Birthday” using chocolate ink on lower left corner of card base.

8. Stamp cake image using Versamark ink on Chocolate CS. – Apply white embossing powder to image and heat set.

9. – Use edge distresser tool or scissors to distress the edge of the chocolate CS. – Glue to colonial white CS. – Use 3-D foam tape to adhere to card front.

10. Use a glue dot or Fabric-Tac glue to adhere ribbon to card front.

Monday, February 8, 2010

CKC Portland Fun

Hi - What did you do this weekend beside watch the "Big Game"?  I hope that you had as much fun as I did.  I was able to attend the CKC Portland convention.  I took classes and did some shopping at the vendor fair and it was a day full of fun creative projects!  I was very excited that my friends Amanda and Cari were there too!

Here is a small sample of some of the classes that I took.  In all of my classes we recieved so much product, but ran out of time to complete everything.  Hopefully I will get a little time this week to finish some things up.

This is the first class that I took.  It was by Technique Tuesday.  We recieved product and instructions to complete 6 very cute cards.  We only made it through 2 of them in class, but I'm looking forward to finishing the rest.  Look at the cute stamp set that we all got to take home.  The ribbon on the first card we dyed with brown ink on one side and blue on the other.  Then when you twist it you get to see both colors.

Another class that I took was how to create your own embelishments.   We made flowers and butterflies.  I can see how this technique would be really fun to add embelishements to cards or layouts that match your papers you are working with.


Here is a close-up of the flower.  We used a circle of paper, cut slits with our scissors and added glitter polka-dots.  Glued dimensional elements and a button on top.

On this layout we made our own butterflies.  I just need to add some pictures to this.


This was my last class of the day.  We were to make 12 cards, but we only made it through 4 of them.  So I will be working on completing the rest of these.  I kind of changed some of the original designs a little, but I like how they turned out and that they are more funky than I would usually make myself.
I aslo took a summer vacation album class.  We recieved an adorable album, matching paper pack, and tote bag too.  We made 5 of the 10 pages, so when I get that one finished I will post some pictures of that too.  It was a great day and I'm looking forward to attending again next year.  Thanks CKC!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

February Special Give & Get Back for Haiti

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Love the Topstitch Paper!

I had such a fun day on Saturday at the Unit Meeting for CTMH consultants.  We did a lot of great papercrafting and sharing information with each other.  Thanks to all the Consultants that came and shared their talents with everyone!  I had a blast!

Here are some items that we made using the very cute new Topstitch paper pack from our Spring 2010 catalog.

This is a Journal cover for our new Journals that Treena Patzke taught us how to make:


This next item is a Tag booklet taught by Karen Gerlach.  I can't wait to put some pictures of my kids in it.


Here it is opened up:



Here is the bookmark that I taught.  It can stand on a table or slide in a book:



And here is the card that I made for the February Stamp of the Month Swap - It's a little sneek peek of the adorable "Piece of Cake" stamp set we will be offering next month:


This is just a small sample of the many items that we made on Saturday.  Stay tuned and I will post more of the fantastic artwork we had so much fun creating!  Thanks again to Julie and all the Consultants that were there!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Stamp Club Card

That's right at the last minute (day before my stamp club) I decided to change the card that we will be making for our club nights.  I do this from time to time, but I'm much happier with the new card and from the comments from the ladies at club they liked it too!

The front has a hole cut through so you can see part of the picture inside the card.  Of couse, I couldn't throw away the circle that was left over after cutting out, so I made a tag too.


Here is the inside of the card showing the other birdy and the rest of the sentiment.  So cute!

Here are the instructions to make this adorable card:

Featured Products:

• Veranda Creative Basics

• Inks: Garden Green, Juniper, Crème Brulee, Tulip

• D1406 True Friends stamp set

• C1396 Love Birds stamp set

• A1103 A Love stamp set

• Z1269 Filigree Charms



Supplies:

5 ½ x 4 ¼ Colonial White Card Base

4 x 5 ¼ Juniper CS

1 ¾ x 3 ¾ B&T Floral

1 ½ x 3 ¾ B&T Stripe (2)

3 x 2 Colonial White CS to stamp image for card front

1 ½ x 1 ½ Colonial White CS for heart image on tag

2 ½ x 2 ½ Garden Green CS punched with scallop circle

3-d Foam Tape

Sponge for inking edges

Ribbon for tag

Coluzzle circle, Knife and Mat



Directions:

1. Ink edges of all three pieces of B&T paper and Garden Green scallop circle using Juniper ink and sponge.

2. Glue the two striped pieces of B&T paper to the Juniper cardstock leaving an even edge on the sides. Glue the Floral B&T to the Juniper cardstock centering between the two striped pieces.

3. Glue Juniper CS to the front of the Colonial White card base.

4. Open card base and place on cutting mat. Using the 3rd smallest circle on the Coluzzle template, cut a hole through all layers of the front of the card. See picture for placement.

5. Save cut out, ink the edges using Juniper ink and glue to center of scallop circle for tag.

6. Lightly outline the hole using a pencil.

7. Open card and stamp the bird image using Juniper ink – placement should be at the bottom edge of circle. Place “mask” over the bird and stamp the Cage image using Garden Green ink. Remove mask.

8. Stamp the other bird image using Juniper ink and the three hearts using Tulip ink.

9. Stamp “you” using Juniper ink. Stamp the bracket using Garden Green ink and then rolling in Juniper ink.

10. Stamp the frame using Garden Green ink and then rolling in Juniper ink onto Colonial white CS. Stamp the heart using Garden Green ink and then rolling in Juniper ink onto small piece of Colonial white CS.

11. Stamp the words “Somebirdy Loves” centering in the frame using Juniper ink.

12. Cut out frame and heart images.

13. Use 3-d foam tape to mount frame to front of card. Use 3-d foam tape to mount heart to front of tag.

14. Stamp the squiggle line above the cage on card front using Juniper ink. Use a glue dot to adhere the Filigree charm to card front.

15. Punch a hole in tag and add ribbon for loop. Stamp with love on back of tag using Juniper ink.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Stamp Club Project - January SOM


This is the card we will be making this month at our Stamp Clubs.  It uses the Veranda Creative Basics paper pack including the ribbon.  The January Stamp of the Month "True Friends", The cute little bird is from the National Papercrafting Felicity Kit.  I also used the new Filigree Charms for the metal accent and a paper flower cut in half.  Colors used are Twilight Blue, Garden Green and Creme Brulee is the yellow.  Thank you goes out to another consultant (will need to look up her name)  for her card that I lovingly cased.  Love this paper pack!

Valentine Card - Truly, Madly, Deeply


I made this card using this past weeks Split Coast Stampers sketch Challenge # 262.
I used CTMH Notebook paper and added a little Silhouette black stripe paper.  Colors are Hollyhock, black and Bamboo.
Stampsets used:  January's Stamp of the Month "True Friends" for the frame and bracket, "A Love" set for the heart, " Priceless Word Puzzle" for the words Truly Madly Deeply and "Solo X" for XOXO.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Surprise! Lollipop Party Favor

This is the party favor that I made for my friend's surprise birthday party this weekend.  I used the new Noted Backgrounds stamp set from CTMH.  She loves Houndstooth so this was perfect for her.  I also used the Be Yourself stamp set for the Girls and for the Frame and Happy Birthday I used a set called Annotations.



These are really very easy to make.  I started out with punching out two scalloped circles for the top.  One in Black Cardstock and the other in White.  I stamped the houndstooth image on the white scallop circle using black ink.  Then I stamped the little frame and Happy Birthday on a piece of white cardstock, cut it out and used 3-d foam squares to pop it up.

For the base I started with a 2" x 7 1/2" piece of white cardstock and scored it at 2 1/2", 4", and 7". (You'll want to check the size of your lollipops and adjust if needed.  I used Tootsie Pop's for mine)
I folded on the score lines, punched a hole in the center of the last score line and stamped the girls using black ink on the front and back.

Oh, I made little wrappers for the Tootsie pop lollipops because they didn't match the black and white theme I was going for.  I just stamped the houndstooth design on some white computer paper and wrapped them right over the tootsie pop wrapper.

Stick the lollipop in upside down and poke the stick through the hole.  I used a little double-sided tape to keep them centered.   Then I used double-sided tape to adhere the 1/2" flap down.  I used my Martha Stewart Loop punch to make a 2" x 1" loop border to cover up the flap, glued that on using double-sided tape.

Used glue dots to adhere the houndstooth scallop circle to one side of the stick and another glue dot to adhere the black scallop circle to the back of the stick.  Then I added the piece of houndstooth ribbon to the stick tying in a knot.

Done!  They are very easy to do and would be so cute done for Valentine's Day too.


Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Years! Celebrate with National Papercrafting Month...


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Monday, November 16, 2009

Thanksgiving Placecards

This is the placecard that I created for Thanksgiving this year.  I used my 2" scallop punch and created a little box to hold M&M's.  I used Autumn Terracotta Paper from CTMH and the Turkey is from a retired stamp set by CTMH.  The letter "D" is from the Typewriter keys stamp set.  (set to retire this December)


I punched out two scallops and then cut off 6 of the scallops making the bottom flat.
I cut a piece of cardstock 3" x 3 1/4" for the box.  Then I scored it along the 3" side at 3/4", turned it around and scored again at 3/4".  Then I scored it along the 3 1/4" side at 1 1/4", turned it around and scored again at 1 1/4".
I cut the center scored lines and folded to create a little box, using Tombow to adhere the sides together.
I cut the handle at 1/2" x 5".  Stamped the design on it, inked the edges and then adhered it to the little box centering it up.
I punched out a smaller circle and stamped the Turkey on it using Chocolate Ink.  Stamped my initial using Typewriter alphabet and cut out.  For the back I punched out some retired CTMH paper with leaves on it.
Glued everything on, tied a ribbon on the handle and filled with M&M candies (holds about 20 candies).  It is small, but oh so cute!!!