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Fabric Stationery Case

This is the other 3D project I entered in the Artisan Award contest. It's a larger version of my Stationery Box from several years ago. On the left is a card box with matching note cards (you can't see them). On the right in the back is stationery stamped with the doily stamp set. The clear box holds some coordinating paper clips that I purchased them at the $1 store and recovered with DSP and crystal effects. The front panel of the case is a dry erase calendar with with matching pen and fabric flower magnets.

Textured Joy

This is one of the 3D projects I made for the Artisan Award contest. I purchased the frame at Walmart. The inside dimentions are about 13"x13" making it too large to use a piece of DSP for the background so I cut individual 3"x3" squares and texturized them with a variety of embossing folders that Stampin' Up carries. I enlarged the letters on my computer, printed and cut them out to use as a pattern. The leaves were punched from Wild Wasabi using the Two Step Bird punch and the berries were punched from Poppy Parade with the 1/2" circle, sponged around the edges with Cherry Cobbler then covered with Crystal Effects. After making a project I don't normally like to make it again but I want one of these for myself so this is a project I'll be repeating.

Diagonal Plate Card Box

Here's a project using the new Simply Scored Diagonal Scoring Plate (shown in my last post). I won a diagonal scoring plate at leadership so I've had a little bit of time to play with it. I'm hoping to have time to post a few more projects this week. Here's an Envelope Style Card Box I made using the Diagonal Score Plate.

 

Big Shot Garden Stakes

All of the presentations were great at the San Antonio Regionals but this was the project I couldn't wait to come home and try. These garden stakes were popular last spring but I didn't realize how quick and easy they were until I saw them demoed.  Linda Barnes was the demonstrator and she did a great job presenting and had lots of nice samples.

My hubby is away for the weekend so I might make a trip to the hardware store and give these a try (it frightens him when I shop there).

The supplies Linda used were Aluminum Flashing and 12 gauge hanging wire if you want to make your own stakes. You might also want to purchase some metal spray paint.

Some additionals supplies you'll need: Big Shot, Embossing folders, crop-o-dile, dies and brads. For tools you'll need some large pliers to form the curl on your plant stakes or you can purchase premade stakes. You'll also need something to cut the flashing into workable pieces. She used a utility knife and metal ruler, scored the metal and bent it back and forth until it broke on the score line. I've also heard that the Stampin' Up craft and rubber scissors work. I'm going to use hubby's tin snips. As long as I don't leave any glitter behind he'll never know I was in his tool box.  

To get started cut out a shape from the flashing with one of your Big Shot dies then emboss it with one of the empressions folders. Punch a hole with the crop-o-dile to hang it on the stake.

On some of the samples she used the chalk board elements to make a label. The letters were cut from white vinyl decor elements sheets.

The colored magnets were spray painted with metal paint

The stakes that have more than one layer like the butterfly on the scallop circle, she attached the element with a brad.  

Roommate Gifts

I made a couple of these make up bags and accessories as roommate gifts. One for my Convention Roommate Rita who I was hoping to run into  at the San Antonio Regional (and I did). It was great to see her again. She's so sweet.

 

The other I made for my Leadership roommate Beth. Thanks Beth for sharing your room with me. I hope I didn't snore. 

Beth was great. I've never met anyone whose sense of direction is as bad as mine. I'm surprised we managed to find our way around the city. I'm not sure about her taste in jewelry though. Check out her photo below. 

Twitterpated Birthday

I made this card with some of the products from the Twitterpated Suite in the 1012 Occasions mini. The flower is a CASE from the Sale-a-bration catty and the hat pins are one of Stampin' Ups newest embellishments. If you're not a Stampin' Up demonstrator you'll have to wait until January to see all the new products but I'm sure you'll love them as much as I do.   

 

 **Tip**   To attach a fabric flower like this one, punch a small circle from card stock and stitch the flower to it or use a brad to attach the flower to the circle then you can glue the card stock circle to the card without it showing on the inside of your card.

 

Here's a video tutorial to make the fabric flower 

More Simply Sent Boxes

Here's another version of my simply sent cookie box made with the Everyday Elegance Simply Sent Kit.  The finished box size is 3-1/4" wide x 3-1/4" long x 2-1/2" high with a coordinating tag/card made from the left overs. I've included a photo tutorial you can download. Download Simply Sent Cookie Box

Simply Sent Cookie Box

I made some cookie boxes from the Everyday Elegance Simply Sent kit. You can purchase the kit from Stampin' Up's idea book and catalogue or earn it free during Sale-a-bration.  The box is large enough to hold about 4 of the cookies I made with the Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. Download Simply Sent Cookie Box

Birthday Wardrobe

Needed a quick little girls birthday card. I was using up some card stock scraps so this is one of those cut-until-it-fits kind of cards.

Feathered Friends Pet Ornament

My Stitched Stocking Online Class included a couple of punch art ornaments for our four legged friends. Here's one for the bird lovers out there. I used the Language of Friendship and Tags til Christmas stamp sets. The berries were made by stamping the largest flower from the Language of Friendship stamp set in Cherry Cobbler and punching it out with the circle punch from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack then sponging around the edges with Cherry Cobbler. I coated them with Crystal Effects after I had them glued into place.

These are the cat and dog ornaments from my Stitched Stocking Class