Club Projects

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  My schedule is all out of whack, it's just been too busy around here!  Yesterday was club day and since I didn't have a chance to stamp something new, I thought I would share our projects!  The first one uses the Botanical Bliss stamp set and matching die, Botanical Tags.  I had an idea in my head about using the bird tag on a card without using it as a tag, so this is what I came up with:

The cardstock size is 4 1/4" x 7, and I partially scored it at 3 1/2" but didn't fold it.  I lined up the die so that the bottom cutting portion was along the score line, die-cut it and carefully popped out the pieces, then folded it so the diecut portion stood up.  It still fits into a standard-sized envelope.  We added some Share What You Love DSP, and stamped sentiments and elements on the inside:

We also colored rhinestones with Blends!  Our second project was an Apron of Love candy treat, which was a CASE from my friend, Cindy Brumbaugh.  You can see her wonderful YouTube tutorial here.  I tweaked mine a little, using some retired ribbon for straps; each person used whatever stamp they preferred from the Apron of Love set:

Thanks for popping in today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Stamp Club Projects

My three stamp clubs did these projects this month:

They practiced watercoloring with this card, which was inspired by a sample in the Spring mini catalog……..and then they did this fun-fold card, which I cased from Kay Kalthoff here:

Here it is open:

as well as a close-up of that yummy bunny, embossed with Chocolate Chip craft ink and clear ep:

I also gave them a little peep treat:

I ran the small glassine envelopes through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots EF, then added a little topper.  The egg is the large oval punch, stamped with Boho Backgrounds in white craft ink and shaded with a sponge dauber…the “highlight” was done with SU’s white gel pen.  Can you see those little pink bunnies in there?

We are enjoying some wonderful spring weather here---hope you enjoy your day!

Stamp Club Project

I have been working on my stamp club projects, and I normally don't post them ahead of time, but I am trying out something new (to me) called Windows Live Writer. I saw on Jackie's blog here how neat and orderly her pictures and text were. I emailed her and she said she uses Windows Live Writer. So I installed it and this is my first try--what do you think?

The first card is a double pocket card shown on Joy's blog here. It uses Groovy Guava Prints DP and GG cardstock as the base. I chose to cut down the DP by 1/2" on each side so it could be mounted on a base. I felt that gave it a little more stability. I used a Fire Rhinestone brad on the bookmark and some Hershey's candy as a little "gift"! The butterfly is from Touch of Nature and uses the Faux Diamond Dust technique. It is stamped in Stazon, then colored with a marker & GG ink with a blender pen. The whole image is pressed into a Versamark pad, then covered with Iridescent Ice EP and heat embossed. It is beautiful IRL! You can also see a tutorial for this technique here.

The next card is a gift card holder from Debbie Olsen, shown here. I used Crab & Co as my stamp set. All the images are stamped on shimmery white cardstock with Stazon and colored with ink and an aquapainter. This card uses Summer Picnic DP, which is such a great, versatile set of papers!

Fun Purse

For today's SCS challenge, we had to make a purse from a 12x12 piece of DP. I had seen this done at Regionals last year, and it is a fun, cute project. I used my last piece of Porcelain Prints along with Blue Bayou, River Rock & Confetti Cream. I did mine a tiny little bit different than the tutorial: I put the folded-down contrast on the outside, and I made the fold at the bottom a little wider so it would stand up a bit better. The image is from Touch of Nature, stamped in Stazon and colored with Blue Bayou and Not Quite Navy with my aquapainter. I stamped around the butterfly with the fern stamp in River Rock; the band is also stamped with the fern in Blue Bayou. I added glitter to the wings and purse handles in Stitched Blue Bayou ribbon. Click on the photo for a closer view! TFL!!