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Cupcake Punch "Purses" Card
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 2:58 PM 0 comments!

 

LOOK!  How cool is this to make!   

Purses begin with the CUPCAKE PUNCH {the bottom half!} and then  two of our smaller CIRCLE PUNCHES for the top and the handle of the purse - neat!

Back your purses with layers - use a textured backgrounds, a border of SCALLOPS [another of our punches], pop the purses with some dimensional glue dots, a wee bit of ribbon - voila!    What a smart card - can you imagine these using a FLORAL Designer Paper?   

Have fun with it!


STAMPIN UP CUPCAKE PUNCH 

Build A Cupcake Punch   Item # 121807



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Adorable Mini-Cards Note Set - Hostess Workshop Project
Thursday, April 14, 2011 @ 3:24 PM 0 comments!

   Hello again!   Here is another of my favourite projects!  
 It's a mini-note card set whereby you create 3 inch square notecards using 3x6 inch cardstock strips.
This is a great way to maximize a 12x12 sheet of cardstock!



Cute Pocket Notecard Set




Hold a Workshop and this project is one we can do.
Everyone can use this - its a very popular project!


Thank You Notecards



Contact Me to book a Workshop 
Earn FREE Products from our Catalogue, a Hostess Stamp Set
 and a
Free Thank You Gift from me!


Plus its awesome fun!

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My 'specially-created' SAKURA Flower using the Island Floral Bigz Die and Squash Card!
Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 8:43 AM 0 comments!

Yes helloooo to all out in craft-cyber world!

I feel really accomplished this week!  I have finished a set of gift bags for a baby shower AND a nice card in
SQUASH BOOK style - both are ready to fly out the door!!!

In order to decorate the squash booklet, I created my very own "Sakura Flower" using our Stampin' Up!'s FLORAL ISLAND BIGZ DIE.  Its one of a few select flower dies that I own, and its the same for my punches - so to create a flower, I had to borrow inspiration from my friend Maria Vanderform.  Maria specializes in many flower punch art creations, and seems to start by thinking of what she wants to create - then matching idea to tool!

So....I thought the same thing!  I looked up some flowers and chose the SAKURA Flower which is adored on a national level in Japan!  It can also be referred to as the Cherry Blossom Flower. The trees are stunning when in full bloom - and its hard for the eye to take in all the beauty of a grouping of trees, its awesome!

However, my flower is only a stylized ideal of the actual flower - meaning I took some liberties!  So here it is!


Sorry for the hint of pink through out the photo, but the camera read my flower as 'red' and its actually
 ROSE RED which goes nicely with the softer PINK accents and the GARDEN GREEN cardstock. 
The patterned paper is part of a 8x8" Cardstock Pad from Stampin' Up! - they come out with a new one every year featuring several colours cardstock. 

I will do a tutorial on the creation of the flower soon.

Meanwhile, I will show you the size of the SQUASH BOOK! 



Inside of the ' Front '



....beginning to ' OPEN ' !!!


Build-A-Brad  customize your brads!

  
The 1rst extended section ...


Look at its length!!!!  3 pages were joined together - lots of creative journalling or adding pictures! 
You could also use this for a card where many, many signatures are involved - right? 
I have to say - it's FUN to open these!!!   Brings out the kid in you!


And close 'er back up again! 

Well, I hope I've inspired you now! 
Have a great week-end! 

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from STAMPIN' UP!





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Spring Card
Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 4:02 PM 0 comments!




Hello!

Here is my latest....a Spring Card! I have Candace to thank for this, she was curious to know about this technique and so I set out to do my own. I will post a tutorial here by tomorrow - so check back!

I made this card with a pink and a orange flip side - so it can show how the two sides appear when folded - there are 2 corners that get snipped off and rather than waste them, I glued them on the base. I might still find a little something to decorate the base - seems like it needs it.

Sometimes I like to take my time to make something - I once made a painting that took me about 7 years to finish, and I started a pine cone topiary a looooong time ago that is still requiring one side of it to be completed - yikes, better get started. Maybe I'll actuallly have it ready for Thanksgiving!

But I digress....so, this "spring" card - so named because the lower back folds allow the front of the card to be perched on an angle - and the card can be folded flat, yet will 'spring' back up again when released! It behaves like a lovely display.

I shall return to this and try to make it as a 'frame' with a photo - anyone with other ideas?

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