Card Keeper Box

Did you know you could have a very pretty box to keep your cards in? There is a plain card keeper box offered in the Holiday Mini Catalog on page 35. I think you can easily overlook it so I wanted to point it out. It is only $8.95 – what a great deal!

Friday I had a class and we decorated the boxes. They turned out pretty cute!

We used “Flirtatious” Designer Fabric for the lid and the DSP to cover the dividers that come with the box. I created titles in MDS, printed on white CS. We used the Word Window punch to punch them out and trimmed off the sides some. By the way, it also comes with the silver hardware already included!

The flower on the lid was created with CS and the sizzix die “Fun Flowers” with added petals underneath that were punched with the Blossom Petals Builder punch. Lots of shimmer spray and crinkling and hot glue + a Simply Adorned bauble in crystal clear to make it extra special.

So if you want to give hand-made gifts for Christmas this year, you could dress up a box like that and maybe even put one hand-made card of each category inside.

Whoooo likes Fabric?

Today I wanted to share a very special project with you. My friend Madeline came up with it and used DSP for it… I wanted to create a similar one. But the more I looked at it and saw just how munch punching was involved, I decided to go a different way.

I used Designer Fabric and BigShot dies.  And the result is this cutie:

The “Spice Cake” Designer Fabric was used here. For the ruffles I used the “Tasteful Trims”die and for “feathers” I used the “Island Floral” die.

The eyes, ears and beak are made from DSP, and of course, I did some sponging!

All I can say it was a LOT of die cutting and hot-gluing! But so well worth it. I do think that it’s easier with fabric and dies than DSP and punches. So I took the easy road…

What a nice gift! I had her on a plate with leaves, but forgot to take a picture before I gave her away…

Now I just have to make another one for myself

Designer Sponge Holders

Now-a-days we have everything “Designer”. Like Designer Fabric, Designer Brads, Designer Series Paper, etc.

So I thought, why not have “Designer” Sponge Holders? Hey, we do sponging in style now!

And if you were to give some of those as gifts, you need to do that in style as well! In a little holder with, of course, Designer Fabric on it

I simply tore a strip of the fabric, made sure that both sides were fraying and used it like a ribbon.

And this is how it looks when they are tucked in there:

Now I better get off the computer so I can get ready for the stamp club meeting tonight…

Fresh Air

Oh my – I am SOOOOOO excited with what I came up with today!

Some of you may know that I also sell Scentsy and how addicted I am to the great scents. While I love all of the products I am not so very happy with the air-fresheners they have. (don’t last long enough for me. I am not bashing the product… just my personal opinion).  So I started out on a mission to “make”  my own air-freshener.

And what better thing to do than to “marry” your 2 obsessions… Stampin’ Up! and Scentsy … and they make a good pair:

Close-ups:

I used my BigShot and and the “Fun Flowers” die with some “Springtime Vintage” Designer Fabric… retired Designer Brad, Designer Button and thread … THEN I used some of the awesome room spray from Scentsy and sprayed it on the fabric. Voila… now I have a “Designer” air freshener . I of course sprayed it with “Inner Piece” which sadly is retiring at the end of the month (but I stocked up and now have at least 6 bottles).

And the coolest thing is that once I notice that it looses it’s scent, I can just spray some more on the fabric again.

I put it in the car right before I went to Ft. Benning today and had to tell myself to pay attention to the traffic and not my new pretty and oh-so good smelling air-freshener. I did make it home OK!

Designer Fabric and Cards!

Today I want to show you a card that we made at convention. It combines card-making and “no-sew” use of fabric. That, I can totally do!

Here is the card:

Well you know me… always up for a challenge *grin*. So I told Marci, I am not going to cut mine as per instructions, I am going to tear it like they did on stage!

I think it came out pretty cool! Here is a close-up for you:

I only cut the triangle… I really do like that frayed look!

The Designer Fabric used is from the  “Timeless Portrait” (item #122337) pack. it can be found on page 196.

Oh and the stamp set we used is called “Best Friends Forever”.

It can be found on page 90. I love all the different elements in it. Not so sure about the “BFF” stamp yet, maybe I’m too grown up. But the others are great!

I think tomorrow I will try to make a similar card like this, but use my “Flirtatious” Designer Fabric… So stay tuned!

Introducing: The Petal Cone Die

Today I wanted to show you a treat holder that was made with the “Petal Cone Die” from from the Occasions Mini Catalog.

This die can be used for many different things! But this here is the intended use for it:

And the ladies that are here in class today to make their fabric brooches, will be able to make one of these as a little Thank You from me.

Last night, I was playing around with some extras of the smaller fabric flowers, which I had left over from class set-up. So I starched them and then I decided to SEW them together with a button in the middle. Then of course I had to add a pin back as well and figured it would look cute on the cone.

What do you think?

Supplies

Stamps:
Sweet Summer (free SAB set)

Paper:
Regal Rose, Crumb Cake

Ink:
Regal Rose, Soft Suede

Accessories:
Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon, Button

Tools:
Petal Cone Die, Fun Flowers Die

 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday afternoon!

Christmas Card of the week

OK so last week I think I either told you all or at least had a conversation with myself (LOL) … that I am going to post 1 Christmas Card PER week from now on! This is to ensure that I’ll have a few on hand to actually mail out… AND to get you guys going to!

So here is installment #2:

The stamp sets used: “Tags Til Christmas” from the new mini catalog, and “Short & Sweet”. The Ornaments are embossed in clear, but I am not sure you can see that. Then they were punched out with the matching punch. You really can guess the rest of the items, but I do want to point out that I’ve used some of our new Designer Fabric again… with the XL die “Tasteful Trim”. And then I also used some of our new Waffle Paper. I scrunched it up a little when I attached it to the card.

Can you believe it, this card uses only items that I already had on my desk. The only thing I had to go get was the linen thread!

And you know me… I had to do some sponging … AGAIN!

Until tomorrow…