Having Fun with a new Style card

This week our Demonstrator, Nancy Lewis who took over my workshops, showed us 2 beautiful cards and this Swing Fold card was one of them. Nancy said she got the idea from one of her downlines. The card below is the one I did in our workshop on Tuesday Night.  Boy was I impressed with this card.  Even after being a demo for the last 5 years, I am still learning from Nancy now!  You never learn it all!

So impressed that I decided to make a retirement card for a co-worker of mine and we are doing the retirement party here at my house around 12:00 today, so I had to get this posted and get some house stuff done before they come.  Anyway, here is the card I did last night for her.

Is it not just the cutest card.  I actually went through my retired papers to pick out one piece that I thought would be perfect for this design card and this paper just called my name.  Again, I am using the Ice Cream Parlor Designer Paper that was a Sale-A-Bration item last year.  As I show you the photos following, I am going to show the same shot with the card I made at the workshop. 

See how you can decorate the inside of each card.  The bottom one already had some design in the paper which I did not want to cover up, so I cut my inside piece a little shorter to show off the design.  I also used a retired stampin' up! set called Pedalling Past which I have not used in a long time and love.

And here are both of the cards totally closed!

So there you have it.  So easy and quick to make.

Now I am going to give you the measurements and hope you can figure the rest out.

Cut a piece of Designer Paper or any Card Stock to 5 1/2 X 12.  With paper the long way on the scorer, score at 2, 4, 8 and 10.  That leaves the inside at 4". 

Then from the bottom of the paper on each side you will measure up 2 3/4" and make a dot.  Now at the workshop we cut with scissors from the dot to the 4" score line.  But, I placed mine in my cutter and cut the diagonal piece from the 2 3/4" to the 4" score line.  You can kind of see what I am talking about by looking at photo # 2.  Then using the pieces you cut out on the diagonal, you can adhere to the bottom of the card, as you can also see in photo # 2.  That just gives a little more color to the card.  I am sure you could leave that part off, but why would you unless you really like the look of your Designer paper.

Cut your inside piece of card stock to the desired size and make an outside piece and voila, you are done.

Hope you enjoyed the post today and now I need to get to work on this house.  Let me know what you think and God bless!

Herringbone Technique/Workshop

I just wanted to share with you guys what we made tonight at my first stamp club meeting since I have stopped being the demo.  And, boy did I have fun!  No worry or having to get anything together, just a great stress reliever!  Yea!!!!!!  And, Nancy Lewis was just the best demonstrator as she had a technique to share with us that I have not seen or done before.  It is called the herringbone technique and it is wonderful.  Here is the card we made using this technique.

How cute is this?  And, this is my first time doing it!  So of course Nancy's card looked a lot better than mine.  The paper used is the Attic Boutique which I love anyway, but was perfect for this card!  Here is a tutorial I found by searching!  Hopefully it will help to show you how this technique is done!

Now here is a gift card that we also made tonight and also made an envelope to go with it using the new

Simply Scored Diagonal Plate.  It makes a great envelope!

Now here is the gift card holder closed.

And again with the envelope we made!

Thanks Nancy for a wonderful time tonight and the ones that did not make it, I am sorry I had to show you these great items.  Now you are sad! LOL

Have a great evening everyone!

February Workshop

I am so excited to be able to share this card with my stamp club tonight as our first project.  Our Theme for tonight is either Newlyweds or Anniversary (according to the sentiment used) especially since this is the month of love!  I am hoping they will like it as much as I did.  The best part is it is fairly easy to make.  I guess we could say that the bigshot is also part of this theme as it is used a lot with both projects.  Have you tried these new edgelits die?  If not they are a must to have!

Here is a little different angle of the card which just shows a little more of the depth of the card!

This card is made using the new adorning accents Edgelits Dies and the Testured Impressions Embossing Folder.  The flower is made using the stamp set Mixed Bunches and the punch called Blossom.  I used the new Large Pearls in the center of the flower and the word window punch for the sentiment.  The ribbon is the new Baja Breeze pleated ribbon.

Now here is the second project and it is a gift card holder for the bride and  groom or for the anniversary couple, "just change the sentiment!"

Here I cut a piece of card stock 8 X 3 1/2, scored at the 4" mark and attached about a 1" strip of sticky tape to each top corner to hold it together. Then embellished as you see here.  The actual gift card holder that you see below is made by using the two tags die and then using the "slit punch" which is now retired, but I used it here.  You could also cut a slit if need be.  You get the top slit when you run the die through the machine.  I hope you understand what I am saying here! lol

For the heart embellishments, I use the Fashionable Hearts Embosslits Die in the occasions mini catalog!

Now here we come to the Hostess gift for tonight.  I always try to make my hostess something that is home made and here is not exception.  I stamped here on tiles to make them coasters.

Here are the two coasters I put together for her.  I found a photo of her and her family on face book and saved it and used My Digital Studio to frame it, then printed it off and put it on the coaster.  The second coaster I actually used a stamp set which is one of the freebies with a $50 order called Fresh Vintage.  The verse comes from a stamp set called The Nicest Things.  I hope she likes it!

Well now for the announcement that I gave my stamp club tonight.  I will be stepping down from SU in the near future and this will be my last workshop.  I will stay active for the next quarter, but will not be putting together workshops.  I have already spoken with a wonderful lady who will be taking over the club if they want.  This will in no way mean that I will not be stamping.  God has just changed my path a little and a new ministry has been laid on my heart to help with at our church.  With a regular full time job, I just don't have the time to prepare as a demonstrator should so it is best that my club is placed in more capable hands at this time. 

Well there you go for tonight!  Hope you enjoyed your time here and thanks for stopping by and keep stopping as I am going to continue to stamp!

January Workshop

Hello all and welcome to my January Workshop!  Well at least to the items we made at our workshop.  First of all I would like to share with you the original layout for the workshop and then it grew to 11 people and I had to rethink the colors I was going to use as I did not have 11 12X12 daffodil delight card stock.  So anyway, I went ahead and decorated this page with the photos from the Taylor Swift concert I went to with my two Daughters and two granddaughters!  I really wanted a wow page since it was for Morgan's birthday and Taylor Swift is a WOW performer, so I did add some bling to it.  So here is the page!  So hard to get a good photo on a 12X12 layout.

So now here is the actual page we did at the workshop with the colors I had enough of!

My dear husband seemed to like these colors better than the yellow!  But that is a man for you! lol

So once we finished with the scrapbook page we went on to make a simple card! Now I did make one change and that was to use Textured Card Stock instead of the plain for the workshop.

Here is a side view of this card!  Still got to do the inside!

Will still need to finish the inside at some point this weekend, but I do love it and love those new framelits.

And, last but not least is the hostess gift.  It is a little bright, but what I was doing was showing the group all the different sizes that come with the Labels framelits.  So I used a color family group to do this.  Also she can use these again, as I added very little adhesive.  Inside the envelopes are some of the new items in the occasions mini that I thought she would enjoy.  4 of the Paper Doily (sizzix large die) the blossoms punch flowers, and the new hearts embosslits. 

Thanks so much for looking and hope you enjoy your evening!

November Workshop

Hello my faithful cyber friends!  It has been a few days since I have posted!  Was out of town a couple of days and then had my last workshop for the year and stamp crop afterwards yesterday and am just now getting in to do a post.  The card above is the card we did yesterday at our workshop and everyone loved it.  It was a lot of fun using the white embossing powder, sponging and using the stamp pad to make a background.  So we used 3 different techniques on this card!  Always learning a new technique is a lot of fun. 

Here is a side view of the card!

And a close up of the image!

Looks like the house is all lit up doesn't it?

Also we made a sachet and we really had the place smelling high with a scent called "sticky buns."  But we had so much fun!  Here is a link to how to make these wonderful sachets by "The Southern Stamper."

Isn't this just darling and all we used was a crumb cake envelope by stampin' up, snow much fun stamp set, some markers, gel pen white and a crimper.  Cute as they can be and smells yum!

All items used are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted!

Card: Stamp set: Christmas Cottage

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Ink: Versamark, Cherry Cobbler, chocolate chip

Accessories: White embossing powder, cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon, spellbinders scallop oval, oval cutter by fiscars

Sachet: Stamp Set: Snow Much Fun

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Markers for coloring, Real Red grosgrain ribbon, white gel pen, Crop-a-dile, crimper, Crumb cake envelopes

Thanks for looking and hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!

October Workshop

Well good afternoon all!  This evening I will be having my workshop and it is sure to be a fun one!  I am excited about what I have planned for them tonight.  Just hope they are as excited as I am!

Our first project will be this wonderful fall scrapbook page!  I figured since it had so much detail, we would get it out of the way first!

As you can see I actually used three different stamp sets!  We will be creating our own designer paper by using the french foliage which you can see on the left hand side of the 6 X 6 piece.  We will be using a Alphabet stamp set for the letters of FALL!  And we will be using the Notes and Detail stamp set for the journaling area on the upper right hand side!  You can use 3 photos as I have it laid out or if you take off the journaling you can use four photos!

Next is a card that I decided to use because it will be quick and easy!

You have already seen this one before and you can get the details from this post here!

And of course not to leave out my hostess for this workshop, this is what she will be receiving!

This is what is called a box in a card!  It is held together with a band and on the inside, you will find these wonderful tags!

This is what it looks like as you open it!

And the tags just fit inside beautifully!  I got my directions from Valita and you can find a tutorial here on how to do this great box card!  Make sure you go to the bottom of her post for the video.

Thanks so much for looking this evening and thanks for looking today!

Monthly Workshop!

How pretty is this card!  You have seen it before as this was my preview to our Fabulous Fall Gallery at Christian Paper Crafts!  To see more about this card you can go to this post! 

We will also be making a nugget treat holder which, can you believe, I forgot to take a picture of with everything else that is going on.  I did not realize it until I started looking for the photos and no photo of the treat holder.  But be assured, I will have one after the workshop tonight and will add at that time.  So keep checking back!

No more checking back, here it is!

I made this by using the big shot top note and the Paisley Petals desinger paper.  I just love that paper.  I also cut the inside white at 3X4 and rounded the corners.

Here is another photo!

As you can see three nuggets fit on the inside and then you close it up by using the belly band we made.  To make this here is a video I followed!

And, yet another photo!

Now on to the hostess gift I made for my wonderful hostess tonight.  This was a lot of fun since I am making some journals for my craft show and of course the others will not be this decorated.  But I was in the mood to really work on this one and I think it turned out great.

How cute is this journal.  I used a few different dies (swirls scribbles and blossom party), made some of the spiral roses and some retired DSP (lap of luxury) to make this awesome journal.  The stamp set I used was Word Play.  Love that stamp set!  Punches used are the 1 1/4" round punch (spiral flowers) and the dotted scallop ribbon border punch. 

Here is a close up!

Thanks so much for looking!

August Workshop Samples/Hostess Gift

Hello Everyone!  Last Night we had our August workshop and of all things, I left the fancy flower punch at home.  So I will be getting everyone the flowers so they can add to their little boxes we put together last night.

But, we will start with our card that we did for the workshop!

I posted another card like this last week and I am loving this stamp set and this technique.  Actually I used two techniques on this card.  I embossed the stems and leaves.  But the one technique I am loving the most and I think they all enjoyed it last night is using the clear blocks to stamp a background on your card.  The colors I used for this card and the workshop last night are Pool Party for the over all and then ran the edges of the clear block onto the Baja Breeze to give it a deeper frame effect.  Of course you then just use the block as a stamp and this is what you get.  The stamp set we used is called Field Flowers and isn't that just the best flower set.  I loved it from the time I saw it in the catalog!

We also made a box last night and as I said before, I forgot to bring the fancy flower punch, so they punched all the other items out, but did not put the flower on.  I will be getting everyone their flowers as soon as possible. eek!!!!!

Also for their boxes, I let them use the wild wasabi card stock for the leaves because it matched the embossed image on the card.  There are times when you finish something and you think, oh my I should have used this. 

Here is the set of what we worked on together.

And, now let me show you what I made for the hostess thank you gift.

This is a set of 5 cards, each one made a little different using some retired SU Designer Series Paper.  I used the new hostess stamp set called Tagtastic.  It actually has 6 sentiments, the reason for the 5 cards and one box. 

Here are the all the cards.

Well that does it for this workshop!  I hope you all have enjoyed looking at what we did.  Thanks for stopping by!

July Workshop

Hello everyone!  Well tonight is my normal scheduled workshop for my club that gets together on the 3rd Thursday of each month.  And following are the projects we will be doing tonight.  We are using new stuff out of the new catalog which is always so much fun.  Our first project is a scrapbook page!

With this page, I used items out of the summer mini and out of the new catalog.  I am really loving this Pennant builder punch.  What do you think of it?  And this paper is wonderful!  Here are the items I used to make this page!  And, all items are Stampin' Up!

Stamps/Kit: Alphabet (retired) Sunny Fun, Notes and Details

Card Stock: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Real Red

Designer Paper: Big Top Birthday

Ink: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Markers, Red & White Baker's Twine, Cupcake Builder Punch, Petite Pennants Builder Punch, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Now for our second project, we will be doing the embedded embossing technique and making this cute but simple card!

Is this not just too cute!  I actually punched out the flowers from the paisley petals designer series paper with the Fancy Flower Punch.  I also used a new punch for the border which is called Lace Ribbon Border punch.  Is that not just too cute!  I certainly am enjoying my new stuff and hope my club members have fun tonight.  Here is the items list for this card and all items are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set:  Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock: Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White, Always Artichoke

Designer Series Paper: Paisley Petals

Classic Ink: Bravo Burgundy

Embellishments:  3/4" round punch, Fancy Flower Punch, Bird Builder Punch, Lace Ribbon Border Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Square Lattice Embossing Folder.

Thanks so much for looking and hope you have a wonderful rest of the day!

Stampin' Up! Workshop Samples

For my workshop, stamp club, this month I decided to do a clean and simple card - if you can call paper piercing clean and simple!lol  Anyway, this is what we will be doing tonight.

What really made this card stand out to me was the flowers and the leaves that I used, but not only that, what I used to make them stand out.  We actually had embossing powder in our summer mini in the colors of Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo which I used on this card!  Wish you could see it up close and personable because it really does shine with the embossing.  We had not done any heat embossing for a long time and I thought after seeing these in the summer mini it was a perfect time to show this technique again.

Now for our second project, I am going to show them how to make these gorgeous little roses!

Are they not the best!  I am just loving them and if you look through the last week of all of my cards you will see just how much I am loving them.  They are so easy and can really brighten up a project!

And finally, what was it that those little roses were on?  Well this is what I will be giving the hostess tonight for doing the workshop in her home.

How sweet is that?  My daughter has been saving all the larger baby food jars for me and so what I did was add the roses onto the jar and added about 10 pre-made roses to the inside in different sizes for my hostess.  I also made one for myself!  They were just too cute!

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Card ingredients:

Stamp Sets: Just Believe, Printed Petals, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock: Confetti Cream

Ink:  Versamark and Melon Mambo

Accessories: Melon Mambo and Wild Wasabi Embossing powder, round scallop punch, paper piercer and mat pack, melon mambo marker

Altered Baby Jar Ingredients:

Card Stock: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Rose Red, Whisper White: Accessories: 1 1/4", 1 3/8", 1 3/4", 2 1/2" circle punches, extra large bird punch for leaves.

Hope you like what you saw and please let me know what you think!  Thanks for looking today.

Workshop Samples and Hostess Gift!

Hello everyone!  Tonight is my workshop and these are the items we will be working on!  I was really excited about the outcome and hope they like it as much as I do!

This is a page I put together using a sketch from Got Sketch!  The sketch was for one photo and I wanted at least two, so I changed it up a little.  But there are times I just need a sketch to get me motivated and this one did the job.  The photos are from my daughter's bridal shower about 2 1/2 weeks ago.  The one I almost missed!  I got up at 2:30 that Saturday Morning to get a flight out early enough to make the shower and then was not sure they would be able to get me on an earlier flight.  How I scheduled a business meeting out of town and a bridal shower around the same time I don't know!  Maybe it was brain overload with the wedding and everything else!lol

The second card we will be making is this wonderful card below using one of the new stamp sets in the Summer Mini.  As soon as I saw this set, I knew I had to have it.  I just love summer and this stamp set will definitely get the use it deserves!

Of course I found this design from Laura Lipe and knew I had to share it with the ladies in our stampin group.  You can find the directions to this card template here!  Thanks Laura for a wonderful funky-fold card to share with my ladies.

Here is a side view of the card!

And last but not least is the hostess gift for my hostess!  I used the new paper from the summer mini to cover this notebook and when I was trying to figure how to decorate it, my daughter said, "Mom it is beautiful just as it is."  So I took her word for it and just let it ride.  The new paper below is called "Beyond the Garden" and is absolutely beautiful!

Here is the backside of the notebook and it also have a place keeper built in with the ribbon.  That way you know what pages have already been written on or if you would like to mark a specific page for something.

Thanks so much for looking and hope you have a wonderful evening!