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Quick & Easy 6 x 6 workshop project page for Spring!
March 17, 2010, Leave a Comment »
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Here's a quick workshop project for old and new scrappers alike…remember, even if your customers don't scrap, they can still purchase a 6 x 6 frame to pop in this adorable page. With 1/4 inch grosgrain for the stems and "With All My Heart" flowers, and a "Flight of the Butterfly" friend, this page will take your customers about 5-10 minutes tops! But look at all the great products they'll get to use!
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Another Easter Treat
March 17, 2010, Leave a Comment »
Here's another little Easter Treat idea, using the Petal card die and the Polka Dot Embossing folder for the Big Shot. The Eggcoutrement set (Occasions mini page 22, item # 115165 wood mount $22.95 or item # 118556 clear mount $16.95) is perfect for this little candy pocket, that fits one Ghiardelli chocolate. I love how the belly band exactly matches the Scallop Border punch for a perfect scallop edge. I did this project at my last workshop and it was a HUGE hit!
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Easter Cards
March 8, 2010, 1 Comment »
It is so good to design cards using soft light colors! Can you tell I want Spring NOW?! This stamp set, Abundant Hope (#118547 clear mount $13.95) is so lovely and can be used for any spring card, be it birthday, thank you or thinking of you. With as many different varieties of daffodils out there, think of all the different ways to color in the image! I used markers for the flowers and a blender pen with the Bordering Blue marker to make the faint shadowing. The DSP paper is from the new Sweet Pea Stack (#117161 $24.95) and of course, no card would be complete without the Sale-A-Bration Scallop Trim Border Punch (#118402) you can earn FREE with a $50 minimum order.
This card was TOTALLY cased straight out of the Occasions Mini Catalog, with a few alterations! I crimped the bottom of the card front for some texture and cut the little leaves from the (celery) scallop border stamped image.
And that cute little pink flower? There's that great Trio Flower Punch again (#109183 $15.95)! It punches out 3 flowers at a time.
So…who's hiding the eggs?
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Luck o’ the Irish
March 7, 2010, Leave a Comment »
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For those of you with a little Irish in your blood, here's a great easel card. The design was adapted from an idea by Brandi Weinette. Look closely…the leprechan's mustache is the bird body and the eyebrows and nose are made with the bird wing from the Extra Large 2-step Bird Punch (# 117191 $15.95)! The shamrock is made with the small LOVE heart from the I {Heart} Hearts set (#117010 $26.95 wood-mount ; #118571 $18.95 clear-mount) and his top hat uses "Pawsitively Perfect" Build-A-Bear DSP (#118060 $9.95) and Old Olive 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon (#111368 $4.95)! Add the little Trio Flower punch flower (# 109183 $15.95) and this jaunty leprechan will be looking for that pot o' gold in style!
Here's the card opened up like an easel.
Erin go braugh!
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Hearts of Love Valentine projects
February 7, 2010, 1 Comment »
Here are some lovely Valentine gifts and projects for that special someone!
This CD frame came from an idea by Wendy Randall. Notice the legs are black clips from the office supply store, covered with DSP!
Click here for the directions.
While at Leadership Conference (or was it at the Regional Seminar afterwards?), we were shown how to make a dial-up card. I made one using the Sweetheart set and matching Heart Treat Cups. What's cool about the dial is that you don't have to rip up the card to get to the candy! There's a punched heart opening in the dial that releases the M & M's! Click here for directions.
This lovely valentine is a Heart Explosion card. I originally saw a blog from Patty Bennett on how to make this pop-up variation, and it just lends itself so well to popping hearts! Check it out when it opens…
The hearts, which look suspended in air, are actually attached with strips of clear medium window sheet!
Click here for directions.
This cute little Heart box uses our Favor Box die for the Big Shot. As you can see, the black GROOM Specialty paper looks so classy with the red and white.
Click here for directions.
Finally, props go out to Amanda Coughlin, who designed this adorable birdhouse using the new Milk carton box die for the Big Shot. I added the little bird perching on the roof, using the new Extra Large 2-step Bird Punch.
Here's the back side of the birdhouse.
This box holds like 13 Kisses!
I punched out 2 birds in white and burnished the color, then attached one side to the library clip with Sticky Strip and then aligned and attached the second bird with Sticky Strip.
Happy
Valentine's
Day!
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