Thanks from the Lovebirds

This is a thank you card for our engagement party.  :-)  We had an absolutely fabulous time!  With each card, we are sending photos of the family/couple at the party. 

Supplies:

• Certainly Celery 4 1/4 x 11
• Bashful Blue 3 x 5 1/2 + scrap
• Choccolate Chip 4 x 4
• Always Artichoke scrap 6 x 6
• Crumb Cake scrap
• Red Glimmer paper scrap
• Dimensionals
• Xyron Create a Sticker
• 2 Way glue stick
• Computer generated Sentiment

I cut the tree out of Chocolate Chip.  Then I cut the layers out of Always Artichoke.  I cut 2 layers, one with a circle cut out of the middle.  I adhered all of these together and then put a dimenional on the back of the birds and placed in the center of the circle.  I added some leaves around the birds and a little punched heart just above them.

Score the Certainly Celery at 1", 2 3/4", 3 3/4", 5 1/2" then flip and score the other end the same way.  Fold all score lines.  At the 5 1/2 scoreline, make a small slit from .5 to 9.5 cm (using the cutting guide on a paper trimmer).  Fold both of the 1" scorelines in and add ashesive, slip the Bashful Blue through the slit and then line up with the 1" fold.  Then line up the other 1" fold and adhere together.  Add dimentionals to the tree and then place at the bottom of the little box that forms when the tag is pulled up. 

Engagement Party Invitations

Ok so I am so excited about these cards!  They turned out absolutely adorable.

Supplies

• 2 sheets 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cardstock (I used Elegant Eggplant and Whsiper White)
• 3 x 4 3/4 cardstock (Elegant Eggplant)
• Dazzling Diamonds
• Computer generated Sentiment
• Dimensionals
• Xyron Create a Sticker
• 5" 5/8 ribbon

So I took the top piece (elegant eggplant) and 3 1/2 in cut between 3/4 & 4 3/4 on both sides then do a 90 degree turn and slide it in to 4 3/4 and cut between the two cuts - this is the bottom).  Starting with the bottom score at 1 1/4, 3 & 4 3/4.  Fold your score lines.  I find it best to fold them and then fold them back slightly so it lays flat.  The 3" score line will be a mountain and the other two will be valleys. 

Line up the top and bottom pieces and punch a half circle at the top near the 4 3/4 scoreline.

Adhere the 3 x 4 3/4 piece of cardstock to bottom of the section you cut (it should be about 1/2 an inch).  Now adhere the top and bottom pieces nust on the sides and the bottom on the very edge.

Adhere the ring and box to the front and the sentiment above that.  I also then adhered a photo to the top part of the tag.

 

 

3 Month Anniversary Star Card

I am seriously excited about this star card (it is more like a book really).  It turned out very nicely!

Supplies:

• 7 - 5 1/2 x 11 white cardstock
• 7 - 5 1/2 x 9 white cardstock stamped
• 7 - 5 1/2 x 7 cherry cobbler cardstock
• 2 - 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 chipboard pieces (covered)
• 2 sets of computer generated sentiments
• Decorative Label Punch
• 2 - 12" pieces of ribbon
• Cherry Cobbler Ink
• Scraps
• Clear thread
• Xyron Create-a-Sticker
• 2 way glue pen
• Scotch tape
• Dimensionals
• Lots and lots of adhesive
• Half back self-adhesive pearls

Cut the sentiments out with the decorative curly label punch.  Run one set through the Xyron create-a-sticker and then attach two pieces of clear thread to the edges and then adhere the other sentiment to the back to hold the thread in place.  Fold all of the pieces in half (so you will have 5 1/2 x 5 1/2, 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 & 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 pieces).  Starting with the 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 pieces, adhere them together into a "stack."  Then inside each of the 7 pieces, adhere the sides a 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 pieces (lining up the edges.  Using scotch tape, adhere the thread to the back of the 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 pieces.  Adhere the edges of these as you did with the 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 pieces.  Attach the ribbon to the top and the bottom of the stack and then adhere the covered chipboard pieces to the front and the back.  I decorated the front cover with the double heart from the Wedding cartridge.  I glittered the layer and adhered it with dimensionals.  This was a fairly easy project, but it was a bit time intensive.

New Craft Space

Woohoo!  A new desk and a new chair!  My sweetheart definitely went all out for our 3-6 month anniversaries.  :-)  My old desk was super wobbly, so he bought me a new desk and then decided I also needed a new chair.  I just can't get over how much space I have now! 

Click on Craft Space to see the before photo.

Day 6 Collection of Cards

Have I mentioned that I absolutely LOVE shadowbox cards??  If not, I DO!



Supplies:

• 2 - 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 Chocolate Chip cardstock
• 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 Cherry Cobbler cardstock
• Computer generated sentiment
• 2 - 9" pieces 1/8" brown ribbon
• Cuttlebug (Swiss Dots)
• Scalloped Heart punch
• Dimensionals

Score each piece of the chocolate chip cardstock (on both sides) at 5 & 4 1/2.  Cut a circle in the center of one of the chocolate chip pieces.  Run the piece of cherry cobbler through the cuttlebug and adhere to the center of the back piece of chocolate chip.  Cut the sentiment out (the same size as the circle you cut in the front of the card base) and then using the scalloped heart punch, cut a little piece out to look like a bite has been taken out of it.  Adhere with dimensionals.  Adhere the front and back of hte base together.  Punch two holes on each side and thread the ribbon through and tie it into a quick knot.

Day 5 Collection of Cards

I just love the colors on this card.  It came out really cute!

Supplies:

• 5 1/2 x 12 blue cardstock
• 1 1/2 x 12 Always Artichoke cardstock
• Scrap Daffodil Delight cardstock
• Scrap Chocolate Chip cardstock
• Scrap Crumb Cake cardstock
• Scrap lavendar cardstock
• Half back self-adhesive pearls
• Computer generated sentiment
• Cuttlebug (Beautiful Wings SU embosslet)
• Black .1 mm pen
• Dimensionals
• Mini gluedots

Score blue cardstock at 2, 4, 8, & 10.  Cut 1 1/2" in between the 2" & 10" scorelines.  Fold mountain and valleys.  Also score the always artichoke cardstock 2, 4, 8, 10 and fold and adhere to the bottom of the base.  Adhere the signs together and then to the card.  Adhere the sun with dimensionals.  Cut butterflies using the beautiful wings embosslet.  Fold the 2 larger butterflies in half and then adhere with glue dots.  I cut a 1/8 strip of always artichoke cardstock and cut in 1 1/2" lengths for the stems.  Adhere the stems and then using dimenionals adhere the flowers above them.  I placed mini pearls in the center of each flower.  Adhere the computer generated sentiment. 

Day 4 Collection of Cards

Day 4 of my collection of cards for my boyfriend.  This is a brand new technique for me.  From the outside it looks completely normal, but inside there is a fun surprise.

Supplies:

• White cardblank 5 x 7
• 3" circle of acetate cut in a spiral
• Yellow & black cardstock scraps
• Mini glue dots
• Computer generated sentiment

Decorate the outside of the card with the beehive cut from the Sentimentals cartridge and a single bee.

Cut the 3" circle into a spiral and place a glue dot on the center and adhere to the inside of card where desired.  Place a glue dot on the end of the spiral and close the card to adhere.  Adhere the bees in various locations on the loops of acetate.

NOTE:  I didn't have any acetate, so I used a transparency sheet. 



Day 3 Collection of Cards

This is card for day 3 of my collection of cards for my boyfriend.  This is a waterfall card and as with most of my cards, it looks way more complicated than it is.

Supplies:

• 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cherry cobbler
• 4 x 3/4 cherry cobbler
• 4 - 2 x 2 cherry cobbler
• 2 x 4 cherry cobbler
• 2 x 9 white cardstock
• 4 - 1 3/4 x 1 3/4
• Computer generated sentiment
• 2 white brads
• 2" white ribbon

Score long strip at 2, 2 3/4, 3 1/2, 4 1/4.  Adhere the edge of the scored section to the center of the shorter strip.  Attach the shorter strip to the base with 2 brads.  Starting at the bottom of the long strip adhere the 2" squares at the score lines (put adhesive just at the top of the squares).

Day 2 Collection of Cards

This is day 2 in my collection of cards for my sweetheart.  :-)  This is another easel card.  These cards look difficult, but they are really really easy to make.  This card is made to fit a 5 x 5 envelope.

Supplies

• 5 x 10 white cardstock (base)
• 5 x 5 white cardstock (front of base)
• 4 x 4 white cardstock (layer)
• 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 pink cardstock
• Scraps pink cardstock
• Black 1 mm pen
• White gel pen
• Ribbon (7" & 3")
• Cuddlebug (Swiss dots)
• Dimensional

The easel card is so simple to make!  Score the 5 x 10 piece at 2 1/2" & 5" so you will have a half fold and a quarter fold on one section).  Adhere the 5 x 5 piece from the edge to the 2 1/2 score line.  Inside the card, place a little heart where you want the easel to rest.  Add the sentiment.  I embossed the heart on the front using the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

To make the bow, just put a loose knot in the middle of the 7" piece of ribbon, slide the 3" piece into the knot and then pull tight.  Adhere the ends of the 7" piece on the backside of the layer and trim the 3" piece to the size you want.  This saves a lot of wasted ribbon!

Day 1 Collection of Cards

I am making a special collection of cards for my boyfriend.  He is going on two trips in May.  He will be in Orlando with some friends and then he is coming to see me.  :-)  So I am making him a collection of cards so he will have one for each day from the day before he leaves for Orlando until the day he comes to visit me.

This card is for Day 1.  It is a side step card and the sentiment is on a scrolled piece of white cardstock and then layered onto a cherry cobbler base.

Supplies:

• 6 x 9 cherry cobbler plus a scrap
• White cardstock
• Computer generated sentiment (white cardstock)
• Cherry Cobbler classic ink
• Deminsionals
• Cuttlebug (Love is in the air folders)

The base is made to fit into an A6 envelope (4.5 x 6).  It is cut at 6 x 9 and then measure in 1.5 inches and cut from 1 1/8 to 7.  Then score the wider side at 1 1/8", 2", 3 3/8", 5" & 7".  Score the 1 1/2" section at 4 1/2".  Fold alternating mountains & valleys (1 1/8 is a mountain, 2 is a valley, etc) and the 4 1/2" score is a mountain fold.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 1/8" smaller on all sides and then embossed it using the cuttlebug and Love is in the Air folder.  I adhered this to the front of the card.  I printed the sentiment from my computer and left an inch on either side to roll up to form the scroll.  I adhered the scroll to a piece of cherry cobbler cardstock and then adhered it to a white piece of cardstock and adhered this to the base of the card.

Bride of Christ Placemats

My church is having a ladies' tea in May and they asked people to sign up to decorate one table with whatever theme they chose.  Since I am getting ready for my wedding, I have weddings on the brain.  So my table is going to have the theme "The Bride of Christ."  I will take some photos of the table when it is all decorated and put them up here, but in the meantime, I made placemats for the occassion.

Supplies:

• 10 sheets Whisper White 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock
• Versamark Ink pad
• White embossing powder
• Crumb Cake classic ink
• Cherry Cobbler classic ink
• Vintage Vogue stamp set
• Heat gun
• Computer generated text

The text says:
The Lord will hold you in His hand for all to see
a splendid crown in the hand of God
Never again will you be called
"Forsaken" or "Desolate"
Your new name will be "God's Delight"
and "The Bride of God"
for the Lord delights in you
and will claim you as His bride
God will rejoice over you
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
Isaiah 62:3-4, 5b

I printed out the text.  Then I stamped 6 of the large flowers from the Vintage Vogue stamp set with the Versamark ink and applied the embossing powder and melted the powder.  Then I sponged them with the Crumb Cake ink.  I stamped 4 of the small flowers with the Crumb Cake, but to lighten them, I stamped on scrap paper and then onto the placemat.  Then I stamped the decorative element with Cherry Cobbler.

They look complex, but they really are not.  In fact, I was able to do 10 of them within about an hour and a half. 

I also took them to a local business and had them each laminated so they can be easily cleaned off and perhaps framed and hung on the wall later.  :-)

Wedding Book

I wanted to share my latest undertaking.  This is going to be a huge momento of our engagement and wedding.  My fiance (it will be officially official in May - that means I will have a ring and it will be posted on Facebook) and I decided that we wanted to do a photo guestbook.  However, I thought that the guestbooks that you can buy that are designed to hold photos were rather plain and quite pricey.  So I originally was just going to make a guestbook.  But as I was looking for ideas on making a guestbook, I found this idea for a flip flop book (she calls it a Gate Fold, but to me Flip Flop is more fitting) Gate (faux)ld Paper Bag Mini Album by Follow the Paper Trail and thought it would be an interesting way to do the guestbook.  After a while however, I got the idea that it would be so awesome to just have a book for our courtship and wedding and the first year of marriage.  So my small project has exploded, but still having tons of fun with it.  This book will be bound on both sides.  I am waiting to bind it until I have more of the pages done.

Supplies:

• 5 pieces Medium weight 12 x 12 chipboard (you don't have to start with 12 x 12 for all of them, but that is what I had)
• 1 sheet is 9 x 12 (back cover)
• 2 sheets 9 x 11 1/2 (section covers)
• 1 sheet is 9 x 8 1/4 (front left cover)
• 1 sheet is 9 x 4 1/2 (front right cover)
• 6 sheets 12 x 12 Elegant Eggplant cardstock
• 8 sheets 8 1/2 x 11 Elegant Eggplant cardstock
• 12 sheets 12 x 12 Whisper White cardstock
• 9 sheets 8 1/2 x 11 Whsiper White cardstock (just for covers and sections, not counting inside pages)
• Pearls (3 large & 3 medium)
• Dimensionals
• 3 feet ribbon
• 2 pieces 1 1/4 white wire (for bind it all)
• 3 rolls Sticky Strip
• White Stayz-on ink
• Elegant Eggplant classic stamp set
• Vintage Vogue clear stamp set
• Bind-it-All
• EK Success Paper Shapers Corner Adorner Trumpet Flower Punch
• Computer generated sentiments (Penshurst font)
• Xyron Create-a-Sticker
• Glitter

First you want to cover the back cover with the Elegant Eggplant cardstock.  Since the cardstock is the same width as the chipboard, I took the strip that I cut off the second sheet of cardstock and added it to one side so that the cardstock could be wrapped around.  I adhered the second sheet on the inside of the cover (this sheet is cut to 9 x 12).  Using my Bind-it-All (a present from my sweetheart), I punched 15 holes on each side.  

Note:  To get the holes to line up properly, you need to punch the holes on the left with the front toward you and for the holes on the right, punch them with the back toward you.

Cover all the remaining pieces of chipboard in a similar fashion.  For the front right cover, adhere the ribbon on the left (unpunched) edge before attaching the back cover.  Punch holes on the left side for the front left cover and one of the inner section covers.  Punch holes on the right side for the front right cover and the remaining inner section cover. 

Next cut the 12 x 12 sheets of whisper white down to 9 x 12 and adhere two sheets together for added thickness.  Do this with all of the sheets of whisper white.  Punch half for the right side and half for the left side.

I inked all of the pieces front and back along the edge with the decorative element from the Vintage Vogue stamp set.  I inked the Elegant Eggplant paper with white and the Whisper White paper with the Elegant Eggplant.

I cut a 5" heart on my cricut using Sweethearts and also the blackout.  I ran the blackout (upside down) through my large Xyron Create-a-Sticker and then pealed it off and put the cutout on top of this and then sprinkled glitter on the remaining adhesive.  Using Dimensionals I adhered this so the center of the heart is hanging over.  (I put the dimensionals about 3/4 of an inch from the center of the heart to allow for the ribbon to fit perfectly under the heart.)

I printed all of my sentiments and trimmed them down.  I cut a piece of Elegant Eggplant cardstock 1/2 an inch bigger and then punched two opposite corners with the Trumpet Flower corner adorner punch.  I cut a piece of whisper white 1" bigger and inked around the edges with Elegant Eggplant and then adhered the pieces together.  I did this with all of the "sentiments" that were going on the Elegant Eggplant cardstock.  For the "sentiments" going on the Whisper White cardstock, I skipped the second mat.  I then adhered each one to the Section covers.

Each of the pages that will go into the book will be "flip flopped".

You're My Pot o' Gold

I made this card for my boyfriend for St. Patrick's Day.  It turned out super cute.  :-)  I was having trouble uploading the inside of the card, but it says "My Pot o' Gold" and has two shamrocks.

Supplies:

• 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card blank
• Green shimmer paper
• Gold shimmer paper
• Black metalic paper
• Computer generated sentiment
• Dimensionals