I've been playing with some more techniques from the Holiday Boot Camp class. This time lots of distress inks, perfect pearls and snowflakes. A bit more "messy" than my usual crafting but definitely fun as a change.
It's hard to make the shimmery bits show up well on camera but here are a few photos... hopefully it gives some idea of what it looks like in reality :)
The snowflake is made using a Martha Stewart punch which I love and some Stickles. When I say "some", I mean "lots"!
I probably won't be blogging over the weekend as it's my birthday on Sunday. So I'll see you next week. Have a great weekend everyone :)
I had fun trying to match my Copics to the colour (in my head) of her rabbit. And I really enjoyed having a play with the Martha Stewart Fridge Scissors. I can see a lot of fun projects being done with these.
My niece is very "girly" at the moment and loves anything pink and/or glittery. So pink colour and glittery Stickles of course had to feature on the card too :)
Thanks to the very helpful lady at Scor-Pal (that you so much if *you* see this!), I have just this morning bought the new Scor-Pal from the US. I guess it will take... maybe nearly 2 weeks (?) to get here, but I'm already excited and can't wait. :) I also bought the Scor-Mat to go with it as I have always wanted it (never had a Scor-mat for my old Scor-Pal).
(original Scor-Pal)
(new Scor-Pal)
I really, really wanted them. But they were £4.30. For a pack of FIVE. That's nearly £1 per little butterfly! A small piece of card and 3 tiny gems. That's a lot. But I kept coming back to them in the shop and wanted them badly...
Pretty eh? I looove glitter! Though normally I stick to my VERY much loved Stickles. I really can't get enough of Stickles. :) I use this because it's less messy. But I couldn't resist these pretty glitters. And I have got some glitter trays coming so hopefully that will help (?) with the mess...
I still need to get some good glue. I've heard good things about Art Institute glue. So if you're a huge glitter fan, please share with me:
Following the imperial (why oh why can't everyone use metric? LOL!) measurements to make a 6x6 inch box, I started off with two sheets of 12x12 cardstock. As it was a Christmas box I picked one green and one red sheet, deciding that the base of the box would be green.
The Score Board is really clever and it's so easy to make the lid that tiny, tiny bit bigger so it fits perfectly over the box.
After having used a selection of the snowflake stamps, I went around the outside edges with a pretty Martha Stewart snowflake border punch.
And here is the box all finished and put together! Since it was my first box, I just followed the instructions as they were given. I think if I was to make a second box (and I had a different coloured and/or patterned card for the base), I might make the lid edges slightly shorter so that you see the base more.
Of course I took some time to do the stamping and the border punching, which was totally extra, but if you don't count these steps this box was SUPER fast to make :)
A bit strange that I couldn't find it anywhere. But I figured it was just really popular and hopefully people would get it back in stock. Then I found out that it had actually been withdrawn due to some patent issue. Now it made sense why it seemed impossible to get it. So on Friday I gave up hope...
Then we went to a craft shop on Saturday. I was looking at the Martha Stewart border punches (which I love!) and Ross suddenly said "Didn't you want the Martha Score Board...?" And I'm like "Yeah....What...Why...?" And hidden below the rows of punches was indeed a Martha Score Board!!! I would never have spotted it myself as the punch rows came out and nearly covered it (and I was totally absorbed in looking at border punches). It went straight in my basket (I was happy to give up some other stuff to get this instead) and all the way home I was like ---> "I got it! I GOT IT!! Yay!"
Supplies needed:
Start by cutting your pink cardstock to size and pick 3 portrait photos. I scrap in true A4 size, so I cut my background cardstock to 29,7x21 centimetres (cm). Please feel free to adapt to another layout size if you prefer. 8.5x11 or 12x12 would work great for this too, just remember to change your photo measurements etc.
Cut your photos to size. I’m using a 21 cm wide background so I cut all my photos so they are 7 cm wide.
Now take your sheets of “Tada” and “Mantra” and cut a strip of each as wide as your layout is (in this case 21 cm). Tear an uneven border at the top and bottom of these sheets so that the “Tada” piece is approx 19 cm tall and the “Mantra” approx 17 cm tall.
Attach to the layout as shown in the picture below. I started approx 2 cm from the top of the layout.
Decide the order of your photos and glue these in place.
Time to create our journaling block using the “Bits and Pieces” stamp. This stamp comes in several parts and can be a bit difficult to line up.
Stamp this onto the green side of the “Tada” cardstock. Round the top corners and use a border punch on the bottom edge.
Glue your journaling block in place.
Stamp out your title and don’t forget to add a date. I used a little date stamp by October Afternoon on another scrap piece of “Tada”.
Finish off by adding some buttons, a strip of ribbon and finally some jewels.
I hope you enjoyed my class! Wishing you lots of fun creating your own version!
It was just a quick challenge and I believe the topic for it was something like "borders" or "punches". I really, really love my border punches (esp Martha Stewart ones!) and on this one I even utilised the left over bits. I have this border punch that makes a butterfly border and I used the tiny little butterfly leftovers to create a little cluster on this page :)
I couldn't resist this little cute cupcake and dog stamp set. And as stamps go, it ws pretty good value price too. Plus it had some good sentiments!
Then some cute bunny & Easter stamps. And yes I know Easter is virtually over. But like with the cupcake set above, this was from the same company, so good value, and too cute to resist. And there will always be more Easters to come :)
...now do I need to say much more than ---> cupcakes?! That is all the explanation it needs for me. It was a definite purchase as soon as I picked it up.
Some cute little animals that I could not resist and I figured would be sweet to have on birthday cards for my little nieces etc :)
Martha Stewart border punch. I totally love her border punches and as soon as I saw this one I picked it up and couldn't put it down. So mine it had to be :)
This is a bit like the cupcake stamps really, all I need to say is ---> birds! I don't know how much use I will get from this (but more than I probably think!) and I really couldn't resist it.
Finally I picked up a sweet embossing folder for my beloved Cuttlebug. Great for card backgrounds I think :)
I didn't go mad. Only simple cards, a card for my parents and one for my sister and brother and their families. I used, what for me are, typical Easter colours of pink, green and yellow. The stamp is by Magnolia (from this year's Easter collection) and I have used my Copic markers to colour them. Sorry I totally forgot to make a note of which shades I used :(
I used white cardstock for the blank base and a Cuttlebug dotted embossing folder on the front. The bottom edge has been done using a Martha Stewart border punch.
And of course, I couldn't forget a little something on the front and back of the envelopes too :)
