12x12 Gift Bag

I'm currently working on writing a toutorial on making one of these bags. I've got it nearly done in a word document, however I was thinking of acutally making another and taking pictures.

Materials used:
2 Sheets of 12x12 paper (Frosty Day Designer Series Paper used)
White Velum Paper
Chocolate Chip Cardstock
36 inches of ribbon (used 5/8 inch Grosgrain Ribbon in Brocade Blue)
4 Jumbo eyelets
3 brads (used Old Olive from the Earth Elements set)
Ink: Black
Stamp Set: To You & Yours

Tools used:
Big Shot Top Note Die Cut
Eyelet Setter
Sticky Strip
SNAIL Adhesive

A Christmas Wish

Materials Used:
Cardstock: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Shimmery White
Silver Elastic Cord
Ink: Black
Markers: Close to Cocoa, Going Gray, Mellow Moss, Real Red, Sahara Sand, YoYo Yellow
Stamp Set: Home for Christmas

Tools Used:
SNAIL Adhesive

Holiday Lineup

Materials Used:
Cardstock: Whisper White and Real Red
Prestwick Designer Series Paper
Raised Dot Oval Holder & 2 3/16 inch brads (from the Styled Silver hodgepodge hardware set)
Crystal Effects
Red Glitter
Ink: Black, Silver
Markers: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Real Red
Stamp Sets: Holiday Lineup, Merry & Bright (snowflake background), To You & Yours (Sentiment)

Tools Used:
SNAIL Adhesive
Small Oval Punch

Monday Mojo #60

I finally did it, I made a card for Monday Mojo on Poetic Artistry. This one was a little difficult for me at first, but I think this isn't bad for my first attempt.

The Stamp Sets used were both Stampin Up and both are retired. They were Something to Celebrate and Big Celebrations.

I didn't really do anything special with this card. The scallop was made using one of the die cuts for the new Big Shot that Sizzix made for Stampin Up. The three presents at the bottom are slightly raised from the card with stampin' demonsionals. I had originally wanted to bring out the ribbon on the large present with some crystal effects. However, there are still a few boxes unpacked since our move and so I could not locate it last night. I bet its in the last box I didn't look in last night.

More Butterflies

And here is the birthday card to go along with the vase I posted about in the previous post. I think its obvious by now I really like the Flight of the Butterflies stamp set and the Big Shot. :) I had actually wanted to use the circle scallop die-cut, but it was a little too big for the card. Turns out it will probably work for the Monday Mojo #60 .

Birthday Project - Glass Vase

Today is both my mother’s and a co-worker’s birthday. My co-worker is a super nice woman who is always doing things for others. In fact, I happen to pass her cubicle one day and on her lunch break she was trying to start a crochet project. I stopped and chatted with her and showed her a trick I use to start a chain. We were talking about knit vs. crochet and I shared that I couldn’t knit very well, so I started using knitting looms. I told her about some projects I finished using looms and how much my friends loved the things I’d made them.

My birthday was a few days after that discussion and that morning I found a gift bag on my desk. Inside was a book full of some really neat patterns using looms. That’s the kind of thoughtful person she is.

Another co-worker and I were discussing how our co-worker always does things for people on Christmas and we wanted to do something for her. I shared some ideas of Christmas presents we could make, but then later learned that her birthday was coming up. So I shared this info and we purchased a very nice glass vase and using a set of rub-ons I received from a stampin up mini-catalogue last year, I put together this:



I actually really like how this came out and I’m considering doing something similar for my sister-in-law for Christmas. I also found some clear ornaments and I’m thinking of doing the same to them for a few people.

Happy Bird-day!

We're having another birthday celebration tomorrow at work for my boss. I was so excited to finally be able to use my Big Shot! I used the Top Note die cut and two retired stamp sets. The first was Sweet Songbirds, which is where the cute birdies came from. The "happy bird-day to you!" in the cute curvy style is from the "Love Ya Bunches" set. Pretty much everthing else was either purchased at JoAnn's or from a great little store near me named "Beverly's Unique Scrapbooking". The flowers are those pretty paper ones I'm sure you've seen around that come in bottles. I attached them to the paper simply with brads. I had considered using demonsionals or pop up glue dots, however these cards get passed around a lot and I didn't want to chance something getting snagged and/or falling off.

Happy Fall, Ya'll! - Birthday

Look at that ... another card! My goal is to make at least one card/craft item a week.

This week is a card for a friend and former co-worker. She once told me she liked to get fall themed birthday cards. She was surprised when I told her that I remembered this. :)

So I pulled out a retired, but one of my favorite, fall sets and put together a really quick card earlier today to send to her.

Flight of the Butterfly - Birthday Cards

Its been a while since I've posted anything.

I've started to make the birthday cards for our birthday celebrations here at work. We're celebrating October's birthdays next week, so there are the cards I made.The photos aren't that great, I either need a new camera or need to take lessons on how to take better photos.

The bases of each card are pre-made textured cardstock. I got a box of them with envelopes a while back from Michael's. Everything else is stampin up.

Birthday Card - Word by Wilson

I'm cutting it a bit close, but I just finished this card for one of the supervisors in my office. We celebrate each month's birthdays at once, and he and I share the month of September. We're supposed to be celebrating with cake on Thursday and I just finished his card. :)

Christmas/Winter Holiday Card Swap

I signed up to participate in a Christmas/Winter Holiday Card Swap. This will be my first swap in a very long time, and my first as a Stampin Up Demonstrator. 

Needless to say, I'm extremely nervous and probably being a little overly judgemental of my work. I decided to use the Loads of Love set, adding in some stamps from the Loads of Love Accessories set. 

This is the first version of my card.

As I said, I was not happy with this so I worked on it a bit more, and this was the card I came up with.

As you'll notice, the only change between the two is that I used the same color ink as the paper and did a watermark kind of background using the tree stamp. 

This made me a little happier, but I was still not 100% happy with the card.

I thought about it a lot yesterday and today, trying to figure out exactly what it was about the cards that I wasn't happy with. Part of the issue was that it seemed a bit plain to me. Another part of me thought that all the extra detail I was adding was too much and maybe that was what I was having a problem with.

The card for the swap has to be made completely from Stampin Up products, and so this limits me a bit because I just became a demonstrator and a lot of my supplies are not Stampin Up. Thats when I realized that this was exactly what my problem was. If I could use anything I owned, I'd have used patterned paper, etc.

And so I redesigned my card and this was the next result.

I've found, I'm a LOT happier with this card.

You'll notice that I did the watermark background on both the rose red and the sage shadow cardstock and that the truck is stamped on the rose red paper, but I only cut off the wheels to have the others stand out.

Yes, I'm happy with this one and will be using the card for my swap. :)

Birthday Celebrations Card

Stamp Set

• Upsy Daisy

Paper

• Pacific Point card stock

• Baja Breeze card stock

• Very Vanilla card stock

• Muirfield Designer Series Paper

Ink

• Pacific Point Classic Stampin’ Pad®

• Baja Breeze Classic Stampin’ Pad®

Stampin’ Up! Accessories

• Baja Breeze 5/8" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon

• Sizzix Big Shot™

• Top Note Bigz Die

Happiness Always Card

Stamp Set
• Happiness Always (Hostess Set Lvl 3)

Paper
• Old Olive card stock
• Pumpkin Pie card stock
• Confetti White card stock
• Summer Picnic Designer Series Paper

Ink
• Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad®
• Pumpin Pie Classic Stampin’ Pad®

Stampin’ Up! Accessories
• Old Olive 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon
• Earth Elements Colored Buttons
• Glassy Glaze Embossing Powder
• Stampin’ Dimensionals®
• Scallop Edge Punch