Time for Paper Dolls

Hello Crafters,

Did you ever play with paper dolls??  

I did when I was a little girl. Bet you did too. 

Gee, I guess I'm dating myself, LOL. 

Oh well age is just a state of mind (IMHO)

The stamp club that I belong to, has a theme card that we are to bring each month. 

(Check out the post here that displays my theme card I made for the June theme)

We also have a challenge item that we must work with 

and we then bring that to the club meeting.

At the May meeting we were given 

 a Graphic 45 12X12 paper

Penny's Paper Doll Family (2017)

We were to use images from that sheet 

and come up with a card 

or some other project 

and bring it to the 

June meeting

Here is a pic of the 12X12 G45 sheet we were given

This is the cutest paper. 

It would be perfect for a little girl to play paper dolls. 

It contains a couple of dolls and hats, bows and dresses.

 And even some flowers.

Well I decided to make a card and use a pretty die from Becca Feeken

to show off the cute doll image. 

Recently, I came upon some urn and sentiments images

 from years ago from Flower Soft. 

(Unfortunately they are no longer available.)

The flowers on the G45 sheet looked great growing out of that urn image. 

My sentiment is also from Flower Soft from years ago.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Paper/Card Stock: Graphic 45  Penny's Paper Doll Family (2017), White CS Dies Used:  Spellbinders - Cascading Grace (Amazing Paper Grace) Accessories: dimensional foam, urn and sentiment from Flower Soft (old)

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Sentiment Designs -  Anything Goes (#14)
• A Bit More Time to Craft #94 - Always Anything Goes (#43)
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#146)
• Crafts Galore Encore  #64 - Always Anything Goes (#121)
• Creative Craft Cottage Challenges  #119 - Anything Goes (#91)
• Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations  #104 - Anything Goes (#60)
• Happy Craft Challenge  June - Always Anything Goes (#75)
• Happy Little Stampers Dies  June- Always Anything Goes with Dies (#58)
• Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge  June - Anything Goes (#71)
• The Creative Crafters  #17 - Anything Goes (#9)
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Always Anything Goes (#16)
• Your Scrapbook Place June - Anything Goes (extra entry if you use sponsor image) (#16)

Hope you liked my paper doll card.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.

I'll be back soon

The Portfolio

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for stopping back in today.Recently I posted about the two classes that I took up in Circleville Ohio. The first project I shared earlier was the Tea Box Class. If you missed it, click here to check it out.The other class was a date book portfolio and I am sharing that class project today. The class was taught by Terri Sproul, a talented artist from California. These two projects were fabulous.

All of the papers in this project are Graphic 45 except for one, which you will see in a minute.

Here is a front view of the portfolio, closed. It has a belly band with a card attached to the front of the band. The band stays shut with the aid of magnets.

Here is the back view closed. These G45 papers are spectacular they are from the By The Sea line!!!

Here is a full view of the portfolio on the outside.

Lets peek inside. This portfolio houses a perpetual calendar of sorts. You can make note of birthdays and anniversaries and whatever dates are important to you on the sheets for the different months, which are stored here in the portfolio. This calendar is not year specific which makes it good forever.

The first 6 months sheets are on the left and the last 6 months reside on the right side of the portfolio.

Let me share with you the January card as it comes out of the portfolio. The bottom portion is folded up and decorated with a stamp image and a little paper strip all from the G45 papers. The cards are printed with the lines, the numbers  that coincide with the days in the month and the month name but are not from the G45 line. Terri made these. These would be easy to replicate on the computer.

Here is the January card opened all the way.You can see the back of the card is attached to something

Here is the other side of the January card.That gorgeous card is another piece we cut from the G45's  By The Sea line. Terri had rubber stamps for each the months, to identify the month on the  top of the backside of each months card.

This project is adorable and I can see other themes for a portfolio besides a date keeper.You can too I'm sure.The portfolio shape was made using a template from Greensneakers.com it was so easy to use and fit right on a 12X12 piece of the G45 DP.


That's the portfolio and I am so happy you stopped in so I could share it with you.

I am submitting this project in the following challenges:

• Cards Galore Encore - #5 Anything Goes (#39)
• Just B Creative Crazy -   Linky Party Anything goes (#9)
•  Lia Stampz Challenge -   #64 Anything but a Card (#8)
• Treasured Times Rubber Stamps & Scrapbooking -  #17 Mothers day Anything but a card (#2)

See you soon

The Tea Box

Hi Everyone,
Friday, I trotted off to Circleville, Ohio, outside of Columbus, Ohio, to take two classes from Terri Sproul. Terri is a gifted artist and hosts a free get together on most Tuesday evenings. Terri also has a FB group, All Things Terri Sproul, and it is available to join. Terri shares techniques and info on different products.

Terri  is in town from California, for the next couple of weeks visiting friends, going to a show and teaching classes. The classes I attended were held at the nicest store, Creative Chaos. Loved her store, lots of Graphic 45 and things to go with those fabulous papers and many other great stamps and "stuff". The store owner is Angela Beavers, what a great lady. Had a blast.

The first project I am sharing with you today is my fav, although I really like the 2nd one as well.

This project is a tea box, made using Graphic 45 papers from the Botanical Tea Collection. These papers are fantastic.

I wanted to make this box really sturdy and in doing so my back two corners got wonky, however, I just distressed the box as to make the whole box look really old and well used.Wait til I show you the inside.

The stripes are the backside of the paper I used. This box itself is made with just one 12X12 sheet from Graphic 45. The postage stamps and little cards are from a 2nd sheet in that line. Those are little tea bag covers inside the box. Aren't they cute!!

And the stamp images are so perfect to attach to the end of the tea bag string.

Thank you Terri for a great project, this class was so enjoyable!!

I am submitting this project to the following challenges:

• A Creative Need -  No. 18 - April - Signs Of Spring (#45)
• Craftitude -  No. 63 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes or Spring/Easter (#161)
• Crafty Catz -No.228 - Anything Goes (#89)
• Left of Center Creative Challenges - No.30 - (W1 of 2) - Spring Fling (#6)
• Polkadoodles - W, C10 – No.17 -  Springtime
• Simply Create Too -  No.60 - (W1 of 2) - Stack 'Um Up (use 2 or more layers) (#44)
  
• 4 Krafty Girlz - 2W, E3 (W2 of 2) # 16 Anything Goes (#280)
  
• C.R.A.F.T. - W, 5E -#256 Not a Card (#34)
• Crafty Ribbons - W, SIO Anything But a Card (#16)
• Creative Knockouts W, 2E, C8 #34 Anything Goes (#64)

I will be sharing the other project with you Thursday. In the meantime stop back Tuesday for my Craft-Dee BowZ post for April.

Have a great week!!