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.

 

 

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".

Key to My Heart

This one was super simple.  I think I am getting stuck in a rut of just doing flat cards!

Supplies:

• 5 x 7 card blank
• Cherry Cobbler cardstock
• Gold cardstock
• Black cardstock
• Cherry Cobbler classic inkpad
• Computer generated sentiment
• Dimensionals

Nest in a Tree card

This card was inspired by Jeannie Phillips on the Cricut messageboards about a year ago.  This is the second card I've made for my "tweetheart."

Supplies:

• Always Artichoke cardstock
• Chocolate Chip cardstock
• Bashful Blue cardstock
• Cherry Cobbler cardstock
• light blue DCWV cardstock
• 5 x 7 card base
• Always Artichoke classic stamp pad
• Dimensionals
• Mini Glue Dots

I cut the tree out of the chocolate chip cardstock (I believe at 5.5" high) and cut two of the shift feature for the tree at the same size out of always atrichoke (one of the trees, I cut a hole in the center using a circle from George).  I adhered one of the trees to the base and then used dimensionals to adhere the second one.  I inked around the edges of the tree with the always artichoke ink.  I added the leaves around the tree with mini glue dots.  I cut the birds out of bashful blue.  I just colored the hat with a black pen.  I cut the two hearts out of cherry cobbler and the nest out of crumb cake.  I adhered the birds inside the circle with a dimensional.

Very simple card, but I love how it turned out.  :-)

Wedding Invitations!!

Ok so no date is set yet, and I don't have my ring yet, but I was too excited to not post the idea I had for wedding invitations.  :-)  I absolutely LOVE how this turned out!

(Oops put wrong date!  Should have said 2012.)

Supplies:

•  White cardstock
• Base 5 1/2 x 1
• Extension of base 2 1/2 x 5 1/2
• 8 1/2 x 11 Elegant Eggplant cardstock
• Piece A cut at 1 1/2 x 5
• Piece B cut at 3 1/2 x 5
• Piece C cut at 2 x 5
• Piece D cut at 5 x 5
• Piece E cut at 3 1/2 x 3 1/2
• 6 self-adhesive Basic Pearls (3 mm)
• Xyron Sticker Maker
• Crystal Fine Glitter
• Dimensionals
• 2 Way Glue Pen
• Stampin' Up Vintage Vogue Clear Stamp Set
• Stayz On Opaque White Ink
• Computer Generated Sentiment (Font is Penhurst

Score the base piece at 2", 7 1/2", 11 1/2" and then adhere the base extension at the 11 1/2 score mark.  Fold all score marks.  (The 2" fold will form the flap at the top of the invitation.)  Adhere the sides of the base extension to the base to form the pocket that holds the RSVP card.

Cut the heart and shadow and LOVE from the Sweethearts Cart at 1.5" Run the white blackout heart through the sticker maker.  Adhere the flourish heart to it and then sprinkle with glitter.  (I tried to use a 2-way glue pen and it did not work as well.)  I adhered the self-adhesive pearls to the corners of the top flap and to the bottom.  (I adhered them to the heart also, but decided I didn't like them on the heart.)

Stamp all pieces of Elegant Eggplant with the flourish stamp from the Vintage Vogue stamp set with the white StayzOn.  Adhere Piece A to the front of the flap.  Adhere Piece B to the bottom flap (under the flap). Adhere the glittered heart to flap using dimensionals.  Adhere Love to the bottom flap.  Open the card.  Adhere Piece C to the RSVP pocket.  Adhere Piece D to the inside of the base card.  Adhere the computer generated sentiment to Piece D.

I stamped both sides of Piece E and then adhered the computer generated RSVP sentimentto the front.