Perennial Birthday Stamp Set Easel Card

This lovely Perennial Birthday Easel Card - was a fun way to make a reasonably simple card with a difference... and once a gain I only used the one Stamp set.. Perennial Birthday (C Mount - 145760 - $38)..

With just a few different mat sizes of card stock and layering them you can make a simple easel card... adding a bit of bling and a few dimentionsals and Whoot Whoot.. there you go one pretty cool little number right there..

The flowers were stamped in Blueberry Bushel Ink (147138) and then using a dauber to colour in with Bermuda Bay Ink (147096).. then to colour in the leaves and the little flowers I used an aqua painter pen (103954) and the ink from the ink pads (Bermuda Bay and Shaded Spruce 147088)

I simply cut the A4 card stock in half long ways (10.5cm x 29.7cm) and folded it in half.. like a normal long opening card.. then taking the top layer you fold it back in half again..  and that is your easel part.. Adhere your card front onto it and you are in business...

 Here's a diagram of what I mean...







Have fun getting your Easel on!!

Triple Tier Slider Card

How cool is this one???

As you know I love cards that move and this one really caught my eye when I was looking for inspiration.. so I watched a YouTube tutorial (Dawn's Stamping Thoughts)  on how to assemble it and off I went... Designing my very own type of Triple Tier Slider Card...

I love how unassuming this one is... And once you get all the measurements it's not that hard to assemble... just take one layer at a time.. and it will all work out fine!!


I got these measurements from Pinterest to make it easier for me to remember what they were...




I black embossed the flower (Beautiful Day C Mount Stamp Set 145915 A$37) and the butterflies (Painted Glass C Mount A$31) and then water coloured them with ink on the inside of my ink pads and Aqua Painter pens... I was quite happy with the lovely colours and how the butterflies turned out especially... And was using up some retired specialty DSP also...
 

Hope you can have some fun making a Triple Tier Slider card also!!!

Basic Tool Kit Case made from Stampin Up's Full Wide Stamp Case

What a FANTASTIC class this was...

We made a lovely little decorated Full Wide Stamp Case into a cute little Basic tool kit holder... of If you want you can make them to hold a set of gift cards.. Or chockies... or anythign really..

Just use some DSP to decorate..
A little of Card stock for the case straps
Cut a little buckle looking punch out shape..
Cut out your letters or decorate as you want..
Punch some holes in the sides and thread some ribbon through to make your handles..
and Whalah!! You got a SUPER cute case to hold some things in.. 

Christmas is coming.. so it's a GREAT time to order some cases to begin to create your own little ones...

They are only $12 for 4 cases... 
Full Wide (19 x 13.3 x 3.2cm) 127551...  
Order today and get a jump start on your Chrissy prezzie making!!!

Boxes FULL of Christmas

What a Fantastic Event.. How Awesome were the projects?

Everyone LOVED them!!!!

This was the TEASER I sent out to all my customers to get them interested in coming to the event...

I took some close up photos of some of the elements on each project and used my PhotoCollage App on my phone and wallah here is the teaser. Too easy...

 And here is all the Projects we made on the day.... We played Christmas Carols all day...
                             And we raised money again for the Angel Baby Boxes....







This Three Times a Reindeer Card was inspired by Margaret Johnson photo I found on Pintrest... www.stamphaven.ca.












This project - Christmas Tea Time Box was a SMASH HIT.. Everyone loved it.. It is such a simple project and easy to mass produce... And it is so DANG cute!!!

I found the cute little spoons in the bargin shop they were $2.50 for a 20 pack... the Measurements in this project are in the instructions in the PDF attached to this blog... If you would like to reproduce... You could make these for gifts for teachers.. for birthdays or just for thank you's...

I found this fantastic idea and was inspired by Franz - www.franz-z-blog.blogspot.com.au ... I changed the measurements slightly...

 

This Wooden Block Christmas Perpetual Calendar  was another hit.. It was pretty easy to make although we did come up with a better way to cover the blocks.. Rather than trying to sand off the excess we learned that it is MUCH quicker to use a craft knife to cut off the excess and then to sand the edges...

My talented Hubbie made the blocks and the stands...
We were so grateful for this GORGEOUS project!!!










The little Mini Jingle Bells are so cute as holly Berries.. and the fine silver thread is just such a nice touch to embellish it a little more...  If you stick the embellishment onto a wooden peg you can change it to something else with ease.





Christmas EXPLOSION Box ... This was fun to make.. a little intricate but could you imagine your loved ones of friends opening it up to find all the wonderful pockets full of pictures and journaling...













Here's a close up of the BEAUTIFUL tag on the outside of the box made with our lovely new Cheerful Tag Framelets... 141838




This is the Box opened up.. It's pretty impressive when you take off the lid and it all folds out..

If you wanted to you could also take out the inserts and put them into a scrapbook album no problem... 

Here is some photos of the individual inserts










And a close up of the Christmas tree...






















I LOVE this Jolly Jumper Card.. How cute is he??
Punch Art is always my favorite things to do with paper craft.. .. and this little CUTIE is made from only 2 punches... (Cookie Cutter Builder 40396 and Jolly Hat Builder 141847) TOO EASY.. FANTASTIC for us AUSSIES!!!  A little Kangaroo!!!


Here is the instructions for how to make this little cutie!!!!

The original Punch Art was created by Carolyn Bennie - www.carolynbennie.com....

I love that Stampin Up demos share their FANTASTIC Creations.. So we can all look super talented and creative!!!

Here is a list of the products I used for these projects... if you don't have all of them you can always substitute... I did do a lot of prep for this class almost everything was cut out and ready for my customers as I knew it was an ADVANCED class... But it was so worth it.. Everyone went home feeling uplifted and feeling that they had made some BEAUTIFUL projects.. Money and time well spent.. for the day of FUN... Plus we supported a worthy cause and as always Satmpin' Up sported us with a FANTASTIC box of Product to raffle off...

We had 7 ladies attend and 4 who couldn't make the day and purchased the kits to take home.. So with our botique class we raised a total of $120... A fantastic effort...

INKS

Real Red

Crumb Cake

Early Espresso

Daubers for everything

StaysOn Ink

STAMP SETS

Cookie Cutter Stamps

Perpetual Birthday Calendar (Snow flake stamp)

Foxy Friends

Sunshine Sayings

Oh What Fun

Embellished Ornaments (Thinking of You Greeting)

PUNCHES

Cookie Cutter Builder

Holly Berry Builder

Jolly Hat Builder

Decorative Lable

Circles ( ½”, ¾”, 1 ½”

Confetti Hearts Border

(RETIRED)

Scallop Circle 2 ⅜”, Scallop Oval, Banner Punch

Itty Bitty Accents, Merry Minis Star, Washi Label   

DIE CUTS

Lg Numbers Framelets

Cheerful Tag Framelets

Christmas Greetings

PDF  Boxes FULL of Christmas Instructions  

Enjoy

Foil Art Frame

I was so impressed with Master 10's finished work of art that it was one of those pieces you just have to frame and put on the wall... Master 10  had to used chalk pastels on black card to draw his own interpretation of a Picasso portrait of himself..
Because the Art was so AMAZING... I wanted the frame to be special.. it had to match his FANTASTIC Picasso self portrait....

After a few days of contemplation I came up with the idea of pressed foiling.... This is where you take a piece of foil (either aluminum food wrap on card stock for thickness or a foil BBQ tray) and you put them through the Big Shot with an embossing folder.... (It reminds me a little of the Old Queenslander homes that used to have the Pressed tin walls and roof... So beautiful..... )

I liked that idea but I wanted a little colour in it...  So I invented a way to have our Stampin' Up! water colour inks and an isocol alcohol mix stay on the panels... You will see the process and results below in this pictured tutorial...  Enjoy.. xxoo

1. Take your card stock and a length of aluminum foil

2. Wrap the foil around the card stock

3. Tape it on back

 4. Place foil covered card stock in your desired embossing folder and run through your Big Shot.

 

5. Cover the embossed foil/card with PVA glue

  6. Allow glue to totally dry

7. Mix some Isocol rubbing alcohol with some re-inkers in a spritz bottle...

8. Change colours

 9. Add more

10. Allow to dry

Finally here is the finished product.. It's not a very good photo.. but the real thing looks quite good...

Have fun foiling it up!!! 

Big Shot Circle Die Fabric Carnation Flower

I discovered that you can use your big Shot Circle die to make a carnation look alike flower while making a bouquet for a bride recently...

It is a little fiddly however the results are quite nice....

I can not wait to try these out with some Stampin' UP! fabric!!!!









You need to cut the largest size circle and some roughly 15cm lengths of wire

 Fold circle in half 3 times
1

 2

 3

 Make a loop in the wire approximately 2 to 3cms from the end.







Place loop over the end of the cone shaped material

 Wrap wire around making sure that you catch the bottom of the cone in the wire and wrap TIGHT & CLOSE!!! this secures the fabric so that it does not come out.

Wrap around at least 5 to 6 times.....

 Repeat this step three times

Secure all three together by wrapping one of the wires round all three.

Take each bud and stretch material to puff apart fabric

And Whalah... you have a lovely look alike fabric Carnation.....

And here is the finished product.... Beautiful Modern yet traditional bouquets of silk flowers....