Here it is the last day of May. I don’t know if you realise it or not but May has been National Scrapbooking Month. I really don’t scrap very much, actually very little. I really struggle with it, but my goal was to do more scrapbooking this year. Well, not much as happened so far. But, since it is National Scrapbooking Month I do have some pages I can show you. I did these a few months ago.
This is a very cute photo of Carlie when she was 3. I don’t think you can see it very well, but she LOVED to create. This is using the Newsprint DSP and even some of her artwork!! I used the Big Shot to die-cut the letters for the title.
Another page. This layout was copied from my lovely friend Brigette.
Of course, Another one of my DD. I have to dig out some photos of Josh to do a page on him. He might be feeling left out!!!!
This one was using the retired Orchid Opulence but I think it really suited the colours in the photo. I have used Cottage Garden on this and die-cut the letters again.
There you go. Now I don’t know when I will get to do some more scrapping. I hope too soon, but don’t hold your breath for that post!!!
Come back again soon and I will show you some cards I have been creating. I do enjoy cardmaking so much more. 🙂
Do you want to hear some more about our “Incentive Trip” weekend????
Firstly, let me show you the gorgeous little bags that Leonie made for us.
They were made in Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz, Cherry Cobbler, Poppy Parade and Daffodil Delight. The card fronts were embossed in the “Elegant Bouquet” embossing folder and covered brown lunch sacks. Another piece of card went over the top to create a flap and ribbon was attached to the top flap. Leonie used the lovely hostess set “Because I Care” and this card piece was actually attached to the front. Here is a close-up. It is a bit dark though sorry.
We had a lovely lunch by the pool in the sunshine. By the time we finished though it started raining and that was it for the rest of the weekend. But, who cares if it rains and your inside creating!!!
Here are some of the Make and Takes we did on Saturday.
This is one that we all did by Tracey.
This is so much nicer in real life. You can’t tell but the card front has been sprayed with shimmer mist to give it a nice gold sparkle. Just what you want for Christmas. The centre of the Medallion stamp has been punched out and the Old Olive centre is adhered inside. You can see it in this next photo.
You can see a bit of sparkle there. The gold centre is faux metal. I had been wanting to try that for a while so that was great to do.
This next card is by Erin. It uses the “Cottage Garden” set.
This is using the new Incolors Concord Crush and Pear Pizzazz and the bright and funky “Sunny Garden” DSP. There was a bit of cutting for this but that can be very therapeutic!!!
Here is Leonie, Andrea and Tracey hard at work creating.
Tracey winning Prize patrol!!! That is always a lot of fun!
This was my Prize Patrol gift. Isn’t it gorgeous. It was created by Andrea and filled with ribbon and ink refills.
Now if you stop by Andrea’s blog you know that she is very sweet and lovely. BUT, she can be a bit cheeky!!! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by. I have some more projects to show you next time.
Wow! It’s been over a week since I have been back here. What a week it has been!!! Between running around with banks as our credit card had been swiped last weekend, organising the rides for the school fete that was on yesterday and organising my own stall, I had a funeral to go to and my husband left his job. Also, Stampin’ Up! announced huge discounts to their clearance sale before the end of the catalogue finishes tomorrow and my phone has been running hot with orders. Today I have been at the orthodontist for my daughter as she got her plate fitted on her mouth. Apart from all that, I really have no excuse!
I thought I would come up for air for a minute and show you some more cards with retiring products. It’s only 2 days until the new catalogue goes live. How exciting! These cards I did at a class a few months ago. I am a bit behind, aren’t I??? These were for a Fun Folds class. We did the Joy Fold card. The tutorial to create this card can be found here. I used the bright and funky “Pink Flamingo” DSP. We used the direct to rubber technique with the markers to colour the tree from “Thoughts and Prayers”. This was done twice and then a circle was punched with the 1 1/4″ circle punch from one and then layered on a 1 3/8″ Pink Passion circle and then on a Gable Green scallop circle. This scallop was raised up with dimensionals to allow the flap to tuck. Note: Only add the dimensionals to one half so you can fit it under!!!!! The edge of the white card was sponged with Pink Passion.
Here is the inside:
This time the tree image was inked up with the Pink Passion stamp pad and stamped onto whisper white. The edges were sponged in Pink Passion again. The greeting on the inside and outside was from the set “Teeny Tiny Sentiments”.
The 2nd card we did was the criss-cross card which can be found here. This was another bright and funky card using the “Kaleidoscope” DSP. For the inside card I cut a top note from Whisper White, added a tab using the circle tab punch. I sponged the edges with Tempting Turquoise and the small flowers are from “Cottage Garden”. On the front of the criss cross pocket I added a strip of Pink Passion, then crimped a strip of Tempting Turqoise. The greeting is from the Hostess set “Best Yet”, then punched out using the circle punches and scallop circle. These were layered and raised up with dimensionals.
Lots of retiring products on these cards. I must run now. I will be back in a few days with the new catalogue. Whoo Hoo! There are so many exciting new things in there.
I had time to stamp for myself the other day which was so nice. I have been inspired by all the beautiful cards created with the Vintage Vogue set from the current Autumn/Winter mini. As yet I haven’t got that in my collection, so I played around with what I had. Here is the end result. WARNING: Anyone with an aversion to pink (*Lynda*) should look away now!!!
I stamped the leaf from “Fresh Cuts” in Pretty in Pink around the edge of Whisper White card and then sponged the edges. I did the same with a smaller piece of Whisper White. On this piece I stamped the words from Cottage Garden in Rose Red. I inked up the Sanded background in Pretty in Pink ink and kissed the solid flower from Cottage Garden set. This gave a different effect to the flower. I inked up the small flowers in Rose Red and cut the larger one out and adhered this to the centre of the flower. I raised up the flowers with mounting tape. With the ribbon I adhered sticky strip along a strip of white card and ruffled up the Rose Red grosgrain ribbon onto it. I added some glue dots on the outside to help hold it into place. I then adhered the strip onto the card. I did the ribbon separately as I was a bit worried about messing up the whole card if I got the ribbon stuck on wrong. You could stick it straight on if you were feeling brave!!
Just stopping by with a quick post. These are the projects we will be making at my Mother’s Day class this week. If you are in the area, why not come along? I have a few places left.
When: Friday 30th April, 7.3opm in East Corrimal.
Cost: $15 to make both these cute projects for Mum for Mother’s Day or change the greeting for a friend. RSVP: ASAP.
I’m back, did you miss me???? You probably didn’t even realise I had gone. LOL Well, I have the computer back now. I can’t say it is working fantastically still. We will have to see how things go. This last week I realised how much I get done when I’m not wasting, spending time on the internet. It has been school holidays so we have had some fun family times together, we have had our roof replaced so we had no water and power for a day, but I have been very creative. I will show you all the projects eventually. You will have to wait some time to see my convention swaps though. 4 weeks to Convention! I’m so excited!
I wanted to show you the Make and Take from the workshop the other week. My lovely hostess wanted ‘Pretty and Pink’. I wanted to use the Big Shot and some of the other lovely products from the new Autumn Mini Catalogue. So, here is the card they all got to make.
Card: Regal Rose, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Whisper White.
I ran a piece of Regal Rose cardstock through the Big Shot with the Dots Textured Impressions Folder and added this to the front of the Regal Rose base card to create another layer. The flowers were stamped on scrap paper inking first in Regal Rose and then rock and rolled in Rose Red. They were cut out and raised up with dimensionals.
So, is it Pink and Pretty enough?????
Of course, I stepped it up. Here is the stepped up version.
I added some Regal Rose Grosgrain ribbon and a clear button. I threaded some Regal Rose ribbon through the button. The text was stamped on scrap card and punched out with the Large oval Punch and then a scallop oval punched out with Regal Rose. I added some dots with the white gel pen. There you have it! Hope you like!!!!!
Stop by again soon and I will show you some of my other new creations.
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Here are my projects to show you today. I am using the beautiful Cottage Garden DSP and Stamp Set and the Circle Scissors.
Firstly, I want to show you this cute Circle pocket. This was one of the projects we made at my Autumn Mini Launch last weekend. I found this idea some time back and stored it in the back of the vault to use sometime. I can’t remember where I first saw it.
With the Circle Scissors it makes life so much easier. I cut a 14cm circle with the circle scissors from Old Olive cardstock. Score it across at 4cm, this is your bottom score line.
Turn the circle 1/4 turn and score it at 2.5cm and 11.5cm. When scoring these lines, check the bottom score line is horizontal or you will have a crooked pocket!!!
Scoring the circle at 4cm.
1/4 turn, score at 2.5cm and then along at 11.5cm.
Turn the circle over and stamp the side sections as desired. Turn back over and fold up on the score lines. Place snail adhesive or sticky strip on the bottom flap before folding up.
Decorate as desired. I added a belly band using the Rich Razzleberry cardstock and Cottage Garden DSP. I stamped the flowers from the Cottage Garden set. This is a great 2-step stamp set. First I stamped the solid image in Orchid Opulence and then the outline in Rich Razzleberry. I did this twice, cut them out and layered them up. I added some Dazzling Diamonds with the 2-way glue and mounted it with Dimensionals.
I made up a quick Love Note size card to fit. I used the other gorgeous images from the Cottage Garden set, and the text from ‘Short and Sweet’.
My next project is a circle bag. I first came across these here on Kim’s blog. I was so amazed how small they were though when I made one up. They are about 11cm or 4 1/4″ high. They are so cute!!
Cut 2 x 14cm circles with your Circle Scissors. I used the gorgeous Cottage Garden DSP. Cut off 2cm from the bottom of each circle. Before any assembling, punch a circle from the top of the circles to create your handles. (Believe me it is sooooo much easier to do this first. I learnt the first time!). I used the 1 1/4″ circle punch. I also punched out 2 circles with the 1 1/4″ circle punch from Old Olive cardstock and punched around these with the scallop circle punch.
Here is what you should have.
Kim used a lunch sack inside her bag, but I didn’t have any so I created a box.
Cut cardstock 17cmx12cm. On the 17cm side scored at 4cm and 13cm. On the 12cm side score at 4cm and 8cm. On opposite sides cut up to the score line. This is how it should look.
Add adhesive to the flaps and fold up. To adhere your circle pieces on, place Sticky Strip to the long sides of the box. Do one side at a time. Place the circle down with right side down and line up the bottom edge of the box with the bottom edge of the circle, and adhere. It is so much easier doing it this way than lining up the circle onto the box. Turn over the box and repeat on the other side. Add your handles and tie up with a bow. I used some 5/8″ Old Olive Grosgrain.I added a tag using the Big Shot ‘Lots of Tags’ Die. I sponged around the edge with Rich Razzleberry and stamped the greeting and flower from ‘Short and ‘Sweet’.
PS. In my rush to get this out I forgot to show you the finished bag. DOH!!!
Here you go!
The cute little circle bag, with the Big Shot Tag from 'Lots of Tags'
Side view of the bag!
There you go! I hope you enjoyed these creations. It might be time to stock up on the drink and chocolate before you move on with your Blog Hop journey. You could be a while! You will now move on to Juliette’s blog. Don’t forget as you visit each blog to leave a comment. Then email Sharlene at stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com to be in the draw for some blog candy.
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