Shoebox Stampers

Wow Wednesday - more cards

I had so much fun creating these final two cards for tonight's technique class!  Have you reserved your space yet?

 

Isn't this one just fun?  The purse is our top note die, folded about 1/3 way down - the underside is the faux alligator technique and the background is shaved chalk - never know what you'll get with that one!  What I really love about this card is that you can customize it to anyone by changing it to pink, purple, blue, and more!  Plus, I only put adhesive around the edges of the purse so it's a pocket, perfect for a gift card!

 

This one reminds me of one our neighbors - they hang these colorful large glass ornaments from their porch at the holidays.  It's so festive and one of my favorite decorations!  This uses punches and a wheel (I used Bold Snowflakes) to create the ornaments, and of course, some ribbon!

If you haven't registered, make sure to contact me to determine if there is still space.  I hope you'll join me!

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Scrapbookin' on Saturday - be mine

I know you are going to think you are on the wrong blog when you see this one, but I promise you, you are at the right place!  And it's not because of the colors...not because of the embellishments...

 

but because, quite accidentally, my title is (mostly) straight!  I didn't even try to line up my taffy alphabet letters!  When I stamped the word be, it just happened, so I thought I'd give it a go, and it ended up almost straight!  I used our Tea Party Designer series papers under the pictures edged with our scallop edge punch and basic gray cardstock.  I used some more of the paper for my hearts, punched from our Heart to heart punch or our Hearts sizzlet set. 

 

The stitching was fun - I haven't used my sewing machines nearly enough lately, so it was like visiting an old friend to pull one back out.  

What do you think of the pictures?  Yes, I have my camera fully operational and I am loving it!  Now to get my hands on our new My Digital Studio...what fun that would be!!!

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Shake out some take-out!

While you would normally find something sweet and sour in this container, this take-out box only contains sweet...sweet thoughts that is!  I recently found it at Dollar Tree - they had several colors, including white, pink, green, orange, and blue.  If you are like me, you tend to purchase when you see something, so I had this one on hand.  The little cards we created for Ben (see this post) fit inside perfectly, and the contents are even better than lo mein noodles!

I had to work very hard to make this acceptable for a boy (you know I love embellishments, especially our pretties kit, felt flowers, rhinestone brads...) so I pulled out some black vinyl and used our top note die for the base.  The B is from our On Board Timeless Type chipboard and is inked in yoyo yellow craft ink (remember, those are Ben's favorite colors!).  I added basic black and yellow grosgrain ribbon (sorry, the yellow is retired, but I have a couple yards if you really need some!) and black gingham ribbon. 

I love this card - the girl who made it decided the have the caterpillar going up a stalk of grass! 

Now I'm just wondering...how soon will you be heading to the dollar store for your own take-out box?  And what will fill your container? Most importantly, how will you decorate it???

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Look what you missed!

So you already saw the first three cards we did this past Friday for Christmas in July.  I thought I'd show you the last two we did! 

 

I have had these scallop circles left over for ages from this project, and thought they'd make great ornament fronts for a card!  I stamped them with the flourish from Baroque Motifs in versamark, then embossed in silver.  I added the top using our rounded tab punch in brushed silver cardstock, and added the bit of bashful blue taffeta ribbon, really because it's pretty!  The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations (did you know demonstrators received this a couple years ago for Christmas?) and punched with our wide oval punch in night of navy ink.  The cardfront is always artichoke and was embossed with our texturz plates (going for a faux tree look!).  Can't really decide what I think...

 

Another not-so-traditional card, I used bashful blue and chocolate chip with snowflakes from Best Wishes & More and Short & Sweet stamp sets.  I stamped the large snowflakes in versamark and then both in whisper white ink.  The sentiment is from All Holidays (I used our chocolate chip marker so I would only get "Peace") and punched with our Designer label punch.  This is probably one of my favorites!

If you'd like a completed kit for $25 shipped, let me know!  You can email me or use the link below.  Have you started on your holiday cards yet?

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Scrapbookin' on Saturday - gone buggy

So I received some new stamp sets and couldn't wait to play!  So I did what I usually do and found pictures that went with Bugs & Kisses!  It's okay to start with the stamp set, right?

We live in a subdivision, but have a creek right behind our house, and then lots of common ground, so we see lots of characters.  We found this little praying mantis and Ben was having a blast watching and holding it.  Andrew was two at the time, so we gave him a chance, but...what you don't see is that right after the last picture was taken, he smacked his little hand on top of the guy, and, well, that was the end of play time with the mantis (amazingly, the little guy made it so Ben had him back!).  I used pumpkin pie, bashful blue, green galore, brilliant blue and going gray inks, and stamped off the images (stamped on scrap paper then on my journaling block) so they wouldn't be so strong.  The bottom strip of bugs was done with versamark.

 

I ran the solid piece of brilliant blue through my Big Shot using the texturz plates with simply dots.  The little ant for the title was punched with the 3/4 inch circle, then the 1 inch circle for the mat in brilliant blue.  I also used my craft ink in brilliant blue for the title - I love how the color stays rich and strong!

I think I'm just about ready for some girl pages...all that testosterone comes through the paper (and pictures) and wears me out!  Or maybe it's just reliving those crazy days when they were little!

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