kwernerdesign.com Color Inspiration #28

This card was made for the kwernerdesign.com Color Inspiration #28 (click on the image to go to her blog). It was to create something using Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Sage Shadow and Whisper White.

Here is what I came up with. It uses all the above colors and nothing else! This card just came together for me and I liked how it turned out!

The stamp sets used were Bella Blossoms and Canvas (stamped on the Sage Shadow for the background). Other accessories used were Pumpkin Pie ribbon and a clip from SU's Clips Assortment.

The Pumpkin Pie part of the flower is popped up using dimensionals. This pictures shows that a little better.

I had fun making my first kwernerdesign.com Color Inspiration and I hope to do more in the future!

Thanks for looking!

Thankful

I made this card for the SoShelli.com Creative Challenge. It was to make something that you are thankful for. This card is going to be sent out to friends and family (what I am thankful for) for Thanksgiving.

The card stock I used was Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron. I used Chocolate Chip ink to stamp the sentiment (from the stamp sets Celebrate Everything and Fundamental Phrases) and the background (Canvas stamp). I used Pumpkin Pie ink to sponge around the pumpkin to give it some depth.

Other materials I used were the Wide Oval punch (punched five times to make the pumpkin), 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon in Chocolate Chip (for the pumpkins stem), the 1/2" and 3/4" circle punch cut into a spiral shape to make the vines on the pumpkin and a paper cutter to cut the So Saffron card stock into "hay" pieces.

Thanks for looking!

Bag-Box Tutorial

What you will need:

-Ghostly Greeting DSP cut at 5 1/2" X 11" (or any DSP)
-Basic Black card stock cut at 4 1/2" X 4 1/2" (or any card stock, used for the base and decorating)
-Whisper White card stock (or any card stock, used for decorating)
-Batty For You stamp set (or any stamp set)
-Basic Black ribbon (or any ribbon)
-Scallop edge punch
-Scallop circle punch
-1 3/8” circle punch
-Tab punch
-Crop-a-Dile
-Stapler
-Double sided tape



1. Take your 4 1/2" X 4 1/2" piece and score it at 1" in on all four sides.

2. Cut on the white lines (shown below) so you can fold your card stock to make a box. Tape the box together as show below.

3. Take double sided tape and wrap it around the outside of your box.

4. Now take your DSP and attach it to your box with the tape you just put on. Make sure that the paper is lining up with the bottom of the box.

5. When you get to where you started with your DSP, you will need to put some double sided tape on the tall edge of your DSP (shown below with the black strip) so it will stick together.

6. Now take some more card stock and line the bottom outside of your bag box to give it a finished look. Attach it the same way we attached the DSP to the Box (step 3 and 4). I used the scallop edge punch on my paper.

7. Take your tab punch and punch out 2 tabs. Attach them to the top of your bag box with a stapler on opposite sides of the bag box. Use your Crop-a-Dile to punch a hole in each of them so you can put the ribbon through the holes.

8. Decorate your Bag Box as you please and you are done!

If you have any questions, please let me know!

October Club Cards

These are the projects that we did for club this month. They all are a little fall-ish!


The first one is a Bag-Box. These cute bag-boxes are simple to make and would be great to use for any occasion (mine is a Halloween themed one for this time of year!). The supplies that I used are:

Ghostly Greeting DSP
Batty for You stamp set
Basic Black card stock
Whisper White card stock
Basic Black ribbon
Scallop Circle punch
Scallop edge punch
1 3/8" circle punch
Tab punch
Crop-a-Dile
Stapler
Double sided tape

I am going to post a Tutorial on how to make these cute little bags soon!

The next project is this fall card. I used the Season of Friendship stamp set from the Holiday Mini. I think this stamp set has a lot of potential, because it comes with the leaves you see here, a snow flake, a flower and a bird for you to decorate the tree with. You could make so many cute seasonal or non seasonal cards with this set!

For my card I used Mellow Moss, Really Rust and Whisper White card stocks. The leaves are stamped in Mellow Moss, Really Rust and More Mustard. The sentiment at the bottom reads "The season of friendship lasts forever"and it is stamped in Chocolate chip. The ribbon is the Chocolate Chip double stitched grosgrain.



The last project we did is this card using the Eastern Blooms stamp set. The branch image is stamped in Chocolate Chip craft ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I put small dots of Crystal Effects in the middle of all the flowers and then poured the Orange Micro beads (these beads are TINY!!) all over the image, so the beads would stick to the middle of the flowers. Here is a close up of the flowers with the beads.





The card stock I used was Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and Tangerine Tango. The DSP is from the Haiku paper. The "ribbon" is the 3/8" Twill Tape. The greeting is from the stamp set Thank You Kindly and is also stamped with the Chocolate Chip craft ink and then embossed with the clear embossing powder.

Thanks for looking!

Multi Layered Glass Frame

This is a picture frame that I made. The frame is one of those that has multiple pieces of glass layered, so you can create a layered look with pictures. I chose to use one picture and some chipboard letters.

I thought that "love" was a good word choice for this frame. I covered the chipboard letters in white craft ink, so that they would become white and stand out on the black and white photo of my husband and I on our wedding day.

Since this frame has multiple layers of glass, I thought I would use them all. As you can see from this close up photo, I put the "l", "v" and "e" on the top layer and put the "O" on the layer behind that. The picture is then on the farthest layer back. I used mini glue dots to adhere the letters to the glass.

This was a simple and fast project, but I think adding the word "love"really made this an extra special frame and finished it off well.

Punched Giraffe

Five other demonstrators in my area and I are holding a World Card Making Day Stamp Camp on Saturday. We are each going to have our own table and each have one project for the "campers" to make. I am going to make this punch art Giraffe card. I wanted to do something a little different, so I thought I would use punches.

The Giraffe was fun to make, and not all that hard. If you would like a tutorial, you are in luck! The next post is going to have step by step instructions on how to make this cute little guy!

Have fun!

Punch Art Giraffe

Supplies

Punches:
-Key Tag (head)
-1 3/4” Circle (head)
-5-Petal Flower (ears)
-Horizontal Slot (horns)
-1/4” circle (eyes)
-1/8” circle* (eyes and nostrils)
-3/16” circle* (horns)
-3/4” circle (spots)
-1/2” circle (spots)
-Wide Oval (leaves)

*These punches are on the Crop-A-Dile

Ink Pads:
-So Saffron (sponging on giraffe)
-Old Olive (sponging on leaves)
-Bashful Blue (stamped background)
-Basic Brown (greeting)

Card Stock:
-8 1/2” X 5 1/2” Very Vanilla folded in half (main card)
-4 1/8” X 5 3/8” Chocolate Chip
-4” X 5 1/4” Bashful Blue
-4” X 1/2” So Saffron (giraffe neck)
-4” X 1/2” Chocolate Chip (mane)
-scraps of So Saffron (head, ears and horns)
-scraps of Chocolate Chip (horns, nose, eyes and spots)
-scraps of Very Vanilla (eyes and greeting)
-scraps of Old Olive (leaves)

Stamps:
-Canvas (background)
-Fundamental Phrases

Other:
-Tombow Adhesive or something similar
-Double sided tape or Snail adhesive
-Scissors
-Sponge
-Scrap computer paper

Instructions:

1. Fold your Very Vanilla card stock in half. Then tape the Chocolate Chip card stock centered on the Very Vanilla.

2. Stamp the Canvas background onto the Bashful Blue card stock with Bashful Blue Ink and tape it centered onto the Chocolate Chip card stock.

3. Punch a Key Tag punch out of So Saffron paper. Use a little piece of double sided tape to tape the So Saffron Key Tag on to a scrap piece of computer paper.

4. Take the 1 3/4” circle punch and punch a little sliver off the middle of each of the long sides of the Key Tag (this is going to make the Giraffes face shape). After that, sponge the So Saffron ink around the edge of the head you just made.

5. Take the Key Tag punch and punch out the end of the Giraffes nose with Chocolate Chip card stock. Now take the 1/8” circle punch and punch out the Giraffes nostrils. Set aside.

6. Punch two 1/4” circles out of the Very Vanilla scrap, two 3/16” circles out of the Chocolate Chip scrap and two 1/8” circles of the Chocolate Chip scrap. Using the Tombow adhesive, glue the 1/8” (smallest) Chocolate Chip circles in the middle of the 1/4” Very Vanilla circles. Set aside.

7. Using the Horizontal Slot punch, punch out two slot in the So Saffron scrap card stock. Now glue the 3/16” Chocolate Chip circles on to the top of the slots, to make the horns. Set aside.

8. Now take the 5-Petal Flower punch and punch out one of the petals using So Saffron scrap card stock. Cut the petal in half. Set aside.

These are the pieces you should have now:

9. Take all your pieces from the above steps and glue them together to make the Giraffes head. Set aside. It should look like this when it is done:

10. Now punch out a few 3/4” and 1/2” circles from the Chocolate Chip scrap card stock. Cut all the circle in half (they don’t have to be exactly in half)

11. Take the 4” X 1/2” So Saffron piece of card stock and sponge So Saffron ink on it (while you have the sponge and the ink out again, sponge the ears of the Giraffe a little bit too!)

12. Take the Chocolate Chip 1/2 circles and glue them onto the So Saffron piece

13. Take the 4” X 1/2” Chocolate Chip piece of card stock and make little cuts all the way up the 4” side. Now glue the “neck and the mane” together.

14. Glue the head and the neck together, to make the Giraffe. Set aside.

15. Punch two Wide Oval’s out of Old Olive card stock. Fold each of them in half the long way. Un-fold and cut triangle shapes out of the sides of the ovals to make leaves. Sponge Old Olive on the leaves.

16. Stamp greeting in Basic Brown on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock.

17. Place all the pieces on the card the way you want them and then glue them all down!

If you have any questions, let me know!

Birthday Boy and Girl

Here are some more All in the Family stamp set cards! (I told you they are fun to make) These are for the birthday boy and the birthday girl. I think the "film strip" fits this stamp set very well.

The boyish colors I used for the boy card are Real Red, Basic Black, Chocolate chip, Bashful Blue and YoYo Yellow. The HUGE cake is from the Fun and Fast Notes stamp set and the greeting is from It's Your Birthday (retired :( )

For the girl's card, I used Rose Red, Basic Black, Close to Cocoa, Lavender Lace and So Saffron. The cupcakes on this card are from the Sock Monkey set and the greeting is from the Crazy for Cupcakes set.

Doesn't it look like they both had a great birthday?

Cute Soccer Kids

I made these cards to sell at the show I was recently at. I knew I had to make a few Soccer cards, seeing is how everyone and their brother (or sister) is playing soccer this time of year!

Looking through my stamp sets, I found that the All in the Family Accessories stamp set was the only one I had with any sort of soccer anything in it! So that is what I used! I think the cards came out cute! I was sooo careful while I was making these cards, because I didn't want to smudge any of the black ink on any of the white paper!

Here is a close up of the girl soccer player. I drew in the shin guards on her legs and the cleats on her shoes, because you can't play soccer without those two things.

The All in the Family stamp set is so fun to create people with and with the Accessories, you can have more fun with them!

Thanks for looking!

"Girls Night Out" show

Last night I was at a show called "Girls Night Out", it supports our local Advocates Victim Assistance Team. Here are the things that I made to sell there.




First are a few of the Halloween Bag Box's that I made. Everyone really liked them, as I sold out of them and now have a small order to make a few more!





I used the Ghostly Greetings DSP, Batty for You stamp set, some ribbon a few punches and a little bit of card stock to finish them off.





Next I made these metal card storage box's. They are the perfect size to keep all your cards organized in. I included five dividers that I made, so people could label each section the way they

wanted to. Again, people must have really like them, because I sold out of them!



I used Bella Rose, Maine Blueberry and Green Tea DSP along with coordinating ribbon and chipboard letters to create these card storage box's.






Kind of along the same lines as the card storage box's I made a couple chipboard recipe box's. Again I used some DSP (Green Tea and Washington Apple), ribbon and some chipboard letters the make these. They all sold as well!













My last thing that I made was a few Accordion Scrapbooks! (I was the most excited about these!) I got the idea from SCS to do a Scrapbook in a tin, and as soon as I saw the tins, I thought ACCORDION! So I went with it and had a lot of fun making them!






This is the front to the Baby Girl book I made (it sold) and this is what it opens up to be...
















The blank spots (Groovy Guava and the little flower DSP from the kit) are for your pictures and the whisper white card stock spots are for you to journal on.

I used the Simply Scrapping kits (I think all of the kits I used are retired) to make them. You could easily get 3 books from one Simply Scrappin Kit with a little extra 8 1/2 x11 card stock.

Here are the other Accordion Scrapbooks that I made:

I also made a lot of cards to sell and some of them are pictured in my slide show that is on the left slide bar. I had a good assortment of cards for all different occasions.

Thanks for looking!

Tealight Lantern Tutorial

Supplies:

Solid/Bold stamp set (I used Halloween Frights from SU)

Basic Black Card stock

Black Staz On

Vellum (I used vellum card stock)

Scrap paper

Creaser of your choice

1 3/8" square punch

Red Sticky Strip

Snail (or other adhesive)

Scallop Edge punch

1/8" circle punch (smaller circle on the Crop-A-Dile)

Directions:

1. Cut your black card stock at 8 1/4" x 3"

2. Crease your black card stock at 2,4,6,8". This is what it should look like now:

3. Punch a 1 3/8" square out of your scrap paper. (You will use this as a guide so you punch the window out of your box at the right place.) Put a small piece of tape on one side of the 1 3/8" square and place it on your creased black card stock where you want your window to be, like this:

4. Now take your square punch and line up your punch with your scrap piece of paper and punch it out:



Repeat step four until all four squares are punched:






5. Punch the top edge of your black card stock with the Scallop edge punch and then punch the middle of the scallop out the the 1/8"" circle punch (Crop-A-Dile):

6. Cut out 4 squares of vellum at 1 3/4" x 1 3/4"


7. Stamp your images on your vellum squares with Staz On and let dry:





8. Use the snail adhesive to glue your vellum squares to the black card stock over the squares you punched out:

This is what is should look like now:

9. Fold on all the creased lines


10. Put stick strip on the skinny "good side" of your box:

11. Peel the red backing off your sticky strip and stick the box together:

12. Put a fake battery operated flickering tea light in the middle and you are done!

To Change things up a bit, you can make your box taller! You will do everything else the same, except for punching the squares out and cutting your vellum to fit over your squares.

(I cut this one at a height of 4 1/4")

1. Punch your 1 3/8" square out. To make sure that they are centered line up the bottom of your punch with the creased lines, (here I used a white gel pen to show you the creases better)

This is what it will look like with one square punched out.

2. To make the rectangle, you need to line up the 1 3/8" square punch with the first square punch you punched:

The top (smallest) arrow is pointing to the top of the first square you punched out. The bottom (bigger) arrow is pointing to the bottom of the first square you punched out. It is important that you line up the bottom of the first punched square with the punch as you punch the second square out. If you don't then they will not line up.

When you have have that done this is what it should look like:

Continue punching out the squares until all four sides are done and then cut your vellum to the appropriate size, stamp your images, glue the vellum to the cards stock and make into a box!

You can see in this picture there are three different sizes of boxes.