I was on Pinterest last week and came across a really cool card layout. I needed to make a birthday card for my friend Sherri and decided to CASE it using the Sweet Shop specialty DSP.
This is an easel card - here is a different view of it. I love these papers - the colors are so fun!
Here is a picture of the card I CASE'd from the Lime Doodle blog.
Thanks for stopping by! What have you pinned today? Use it for inspiration and create something fun.
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I have not had a chance to re-create a project I've found on Pinterest using my Stampin' Up! products in a while, but found a scrapbook layout today that I wanted to CASE for my second Scrapbook Club project for tonight (the first one is a Fabulous Friday project from several weeks ago). Above is my page using the Apothecary stamp set with the Twitterpated DSP from the Occasions Mini catalog and below is the layout I pinned...
The simplicity of the layout really appealed to me along with the fun colors! You can find the original blog post for this page here.
To easily create the scalloped border, I turned to my trusty Big Shot and the Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die. I also used the new Framelits Labels Collection dies to cut out the mats and stamped images from the Apothecary Art stamp set... I love that this stamp set coordinates with the dies!! It was quick and easy to color in the images using a blender pen with my open ink pads.
Lastly, I added this flower embellishment - I used my new favorite Blossom punch along with the Boho Blossoms and 2-step Bird punches to create it.
What have you pinned that you can re-create using your Stampin' Up! goodies? Want to see what I'm pinning? Be sure to click on the "follow me on Pinterest" button at the top of my blog to find out... oh how I love Pinterest!!!
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A while back I came up with an Angry Birds card because my son loves that game... this week I decided to come up with a project involving Domo - a Japanese character that my daughter Kelsey loves. This is a mini notebook that she can throw in her school backpack or purse. Check out the giant Domo pillow she got my Mom to make her based on her little stuffed character (sorry for the blurry photo - it was taken with my phone)...
This Domo duct tape folder that I pinned on Pinterest is the inspiration for my project this week - not only does Kelsey love Domo, but she is a Duct Tape fanatic!!
In order to make my project with Stampin' Up! products I decided to make a mini notebook - it was soooo easy to put together, from start to finish I think it took maybe 15 minutes and that is only because I was photographing the steps to share with you!! I chose soft suede, real red, basic black and whisper white card stock and a small spiral-bound mini notebook that I picked up at the $ store.
Here are the supplies and dimensions, the photos follow...
Notebook - soft suede card stock, 5" x 3"
Mouth - real red card stock, 2" x 1"
Teeth - whisper white card stock, 1/2" squares cut in half
diagonally
Eyes - basic black card stock, 3/4" circle punch
3/16" corner rounder punch and Crop-a-Dile used to finish
off the cover
Adhesives - SNAIL and Tombow multipurpose Adhesive
Craft & Rubber scissors used to bend the wire
UniBall white Signo gel pen used for highlights in eyes
To order any of the Stampin' Up! products listed above, please contact me via email or visit my online store. Thanks!!
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How did it get to be Tuesday already? I was checking out my boards on Pinterest and a card I had pinned really caught my eye - the colors are stunning and the simplicity of it just screams sympathy card to me. My take on it is above and here is the card below originally created by Heather Telford of Bits & Pieces.
Here are my step-by-step instructions for creating it using Stampin' Up! products...
1. Choose a square punch (I used 1-1/4") and cut out a piece of card stock to 5-1/4" x 4" to use as your template. Line it up with the left side of the card stock and make sure the punch is pushed as far up from the bottom as it can go. Punch out your first square.
2. Slide the punch over slightly to the right, making sure that you keep the punch pushed up all the way against the bottom (this helps to keep it lined up). Repeat this step until you have the size rectangle that you want for your card.
3. My punches are very well used so I had some rough edges... I used my sanding block to make sure no stray pieces of card stock would mess up my sponging.
4. Take a 2-way glue pen and scribble the adhesive all over the BACK side of your template - be especially sure to get near the edges of the rectangle that you've cut out on your template. Allow this to dry so it becomes tacky.
5. Apply some Dotto repositionable adhesive to the back of a piece of 5-1/4" x 4" whisper white card stock and attach it to your grid paper. This ensures that your paper won't move when you're sponging. Place your template on top of it (please disregard the fact that I applied the 2-way glue pen to the wrong side of my template the first time!).
6. Choose several colors that work well together - I used more mustard, pumpkin pie and real red. Beginning with your lightest color, sponge the inside of the rectangle. Repeat with all your colors, making sure that you don't have all the color concentrated in one spot, blend them around a bit.
7. Remove the template and use jet black StazOn ink with the oak tree image from Lovely As a Tree and stamp image to the right of the sponged rectangle, overlapping it slightly.
8. Use a stamp-a-majig and the sentiment from Vintage Vogue with the StazOn ink at the bottom corner of the card stock.
9. Attach your card stock piece to a crumb cake base card (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") and you're done.
I really love the way this card turned out and think I will play with other color combinations. What are you pinning on Pinterest that inspires you?
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So I have become totally addicted to Pinterest (a social media site where you share virtual bulletin boards of ideas with your friends and followers) over the last couple of days when I had some downtime after Christmas. There are just so many ideas out there - I am constantly amazed at the creativity and imagination of so many people! To justify the amount of time I am spending on this site, I decided to start something new for 2012 and will be posting a project on Tuesdays using my Stampin' Up! supplies featuring an idea I've pinned to one of my boards on Pinterest. Want to see what I'm pinning? Click the "follow me on Pinterest" button on the sidebar to the left.
I realize that today is Wednesday and I REALLY had plans to get this done yesterday as I started my post above on the 1st... but my kids have been sick with the stomach bug and you know what they say about the best laid plans... anyway, I decided to go ahead and post this and pretend that it is Tuesday so pretend with me, okay?
Since I just came up with this idea I'm starting off small... I saw this idea above for making a rose out of colored computer paper and decided to try it with my new Blossom punch from the Occasions mini catalog (available for purchase starting TODAY!) and gorgeous new Everyday Enchantment designer series paper from the Sale-a-Bration brochure (available for FREE with a $50 qualifying order Jan. 24th-Mar. 31st). Mine is the blue flower at the top of the post... pretty close, isn't it? I did change a few things from the video tutorial so I thought I would share them with you here.
First, instead of hand-cutting six flowers I let my punch do the work and punched out 5 flowers from the DSP - it is thicker than computer paper so I deleted one layer from my finished flower. I also could not locate a single toothpick in my house so opted to use a paper clip.
First, take each petal and wrap it around the end of a paperclip or toothpick to curl the ends under.
Next, I lightly misted three flowers with water (I used an old Stampin' Mist bottle and filled it with water - I like the fine mist that it sprays) and wrapped them around the end of a fat highlighter. If you're wondering why I wet the paper it is because our DSP is thicker than computer paper and a little less forgiving when you maniupulate it like this - when it is damp you are much less likely to tear it. I then took the last two and wrapped them around the end of a smaller marker and curled the ends in tighter.
This is how the flower layers should look - two tighly bunched flowers and three not-so tighlty bunched ones. The tutorial called for using a hot glue gun but I couldn't find mine in my mess of a stamping studio (it still hasn't recovered from Christmas!) so I used my trusty Tombow multipurpose adhesive and filled in the centers of the three looser flower layers and set them aside for a minute to begin to get tacky (much easier to adhere them together when the glue isn't as wet).
Begin by laying each flower inside the other, offsetting them so that the petals do not align. I used the other end of my paperclip to kind of mash them together and hold it down for a few seconds for the glue to set. Next, attach one of the tighter flowers to the center holding it down to set with the end of your marker, gathering and bunching the petals tightly around the marker.
For the final layer, really bunch up the flower so it looks like the one above. Add adhesive to the end of this flower layer as well as the inside of the flower and give it a minute to get tacky. Attach it to the flower and voila... you get this gorgeous paper rose!
Now you give it a try... it's really very easy! I'll figure out something to put this rose on next and share that with you soon. And thanks for pretending that today is Tuesday!!
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