Tealight Candles and box

We are making this at club tonight, and if the response I got at work is anything to go by, this is going to be a hit! It would make a great centerpiece on the table, and a lovely gift to the hostess of any dinner party.

• Stamps: Best Wishes & More
• Paper: More Mustard, Close to Cocoa, Naturals Ivory, tissue paper
• Ink: More Mustard, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
• Other: paper cutter with scoring blade, Sticky Strip, Heat gun, 1-3/8" circle punch, 1/16" punch, tea lights, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint with sponge, gold brads, Gold Elastic Cord, dimensionals

Here is a diagram of the pieces to make the box.

1. The box starts as a 3-3/4x8-1/4" piece.
2. Your longest score lines are at 1/2", 1-1/8", 2-5/8", & 3-1/4"
3. Your short score lines are at 1/2", 1-1/8", 7-1/8", & 7-3/4"
4. Cut out the shaded areas and on the cut line to make flaps.
5. Decorate box as desired.
   
6. Crease all folds well with bone folder.
   
7. Apply sticky strip  to the 4 outer most sections and assemble to box.
8. The box cover is made from a 5x6" piece. 
9. Score lines will be 6" long at 5/8", 2-1/4", 2-7/8", & 4-1/2".
10. Crease folds well with bone folder and put sticky strip on one edge flap.
11. Decorate top as desired. 
    
12. Peel the sticky strip and wrap cover around box, adhere flaps together.
13. Fold a piece of tissue paper into 4 layers, and sandwich between 2 layers of copy paper. Puch out your 1-3/8" circles. Leave between the copy paper layers and punch 3 times ine the center with the 1/16" punch to make a hole big enough for the wick to fit thru.
14. Stamp tissue paper with desired images.
15. Slide tissue paper over the wick onto top of the tealight.
16. Put tealight down! Do not hold for this step. Heat top of tea light  with heat gun until the tissue  paper melts into the wax. All done!

Here is another set I made with the same theme and color scheme. Now I want to see what you all come up with! Post a comment with a link to yours so we can all see!

October Club Project #3

So this is the third project we did last month. I know, it's time for another club meeting already! I also posted a very similar card last month, I just changed it a little bit. I used a different texture plate (the other one wasn't Stampin Up!) and decided to use the polka dot side of the Dusty Durango ribbon. Otherwise pretty much the same card as here.

• Stamps: Autumn Splendor, Grateful Greetings
• Paper: Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry, Naturals Ivory
• Ink: Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry
• Other: Distressed texture plate with Big Shot, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, Wide Oval punch, Large Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch, Dusty Durango polka dot ribbon, dimensionals

Ok, now I will work on some posts of more recent stuff! I have so many projects and ideas I want to try, I almost don't know where to start!

October Club project #2-Lattice page

I just love this die, it is so delicate and pretty! And it looks really awesome here in a dark patterned paper (I know, it's retired, but I needed something I had a lot of). This was a  pretty fast project too. Of course, my ladies are getting to be such pros, they can breeze thru a lot of stuff! We stamped different images and punched them out with 3 different sized circle punches,and used a Jumbo Grommet for an accent in the upper left corner with a pretty leave in the center of it. To attach the grommet, I laid the corner of the page on the spongy piece of the mat pack with the hard cutting board piece under the spongy piece, then placed the grommet and leave circle where I wanted it. Then, standing up, pushed down hard with my thumbs to push the prongs thru. Then turned over the page and used the bone folder to bend the prongs out.  I really need to take more photos and develop some that I already have!

• Stamps: Autumn Days
• Paper: More Mustard, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Whisper White, Good Morning Sunshine DSP (retired)
• Ink:More Mustard, Old Olive, Really Rust
•  Other: Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, 1-1/4", 1", and 3/4" circle punches, Whisper White Jumbo Grommet, Bone Floder, mat pack, Lattice die with Big Shot

October Club project- Polar Bear Cocoa Card

Oh my gosh! Did I really not post the club projects from last month?! I can't believe it, and I was doing so well for a while there...
Ok, I'll try to get back on track. I just got caught up in reading, which was my very first addiction ;)
This cute little gut holds a packet of cocoa or apple cider or I'm sure a lot of other things, lol! You just tuck it in at the top. This card is held together with 2 staples in each side, Another quick and easy card/gift. We all got to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig (SAMJ) and learn what an awesomely easy to use tool it is, and how fun it is to mask images. For sets like this, I like to make a permanent image sheet (a piece of vellum cardstock)  for the SAMJ and masks and keep them in the box with the set. It saves a lot of time. On to the recipe and the instructions!

• Stamps: Serene Snowflakes, Cold & Cuddly
• Paper: Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, Sahara Sand, Whisper White
• Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, Sahara Sand
• Other: SAMJ, Signo white gel pen, Chocolate Ship marker, Jumbo Snowflake and Small Oval punches, paper piercer and silver brad, dimensional, staples and stapler, paper cutter with scoring blade

1. Cut a piece of Close to Cocoa  to 4x10", score at 5-1/2" and fold. Cut a Ruby Red 3-3/16" square. Cut a Whisper White 3" square. Punch out a Sahara Sand Jumbo Snowflake.
   
2. Stamp snowflake image all over card base in Close to Cocoa.
3. Stamp a polar bear on a scrap of paper and cut out, this is your mask. 
4. Stamp a polar bear in Sahara Sand on the Whisper white square using the SAMJ, just off to the right slightly. 
5. Place polar bear mask over it. Now place your image sheet with the ice flow over the bear image as desired and use SAMJ again to stamp the ice flow in Choc Chip. 
6. Repeat process with a Ruby Red hat. 
7. You can now remove the mask, and use the SAMJ to stamp a Ruby Red mug.
8. Ink Edges of Whisper White square with Sahara Sand. Ink edges of Ruby Red with Close to Cocoa. Ink edges of card base with Close to Cocoa.
   
9. Adhere the Whisper White layer to the Ruby Red layer, then adhere to the  card base as shown in pic above. 
10. Use white gel pen and Choc Chip marker to make the faux stitching as shown.
    
11. Open card up and lay on the spongy mat pack piece, place the Snowflake punch as shown and pierce thru all layers. Leave on the spongy piece and push the silver brad thru the hole. Then pick up card and open the prongs of the brad.
    
12. On a scrap of Whisper White, stamp the phrase in Close to Cocoa, then punch out with Small Oval punch. Ink edges with Choc Chip marker.
    
13. Apply oval to card with dimensionals. 
14. With card closed, staple at the top and mid way down on each side, about 1/8" from the edge.
15. Write your message on the back, then insert to treat in the front. All done!
    

Shimmery Cupcake Note

Wow! More cupcakes, right! I was on a cupcake kick for a little whil;e there. I think I just needed a break from the Halloween stuff. That and my daughter had a birthday coming up (Oct 29- Happy Birthday again, Chicklet!)
This is another 3x3 Love Note card. This is a really fun size to work with. I stamped the on the cardbase with Frost White Shimmer Paint and used Rose Red and Close to Cocoa ink and a blender pen to color the cupcakes. The DSP is the retired Loves Me paper you can get on the Clearance Rack. The ribbon is from the retired Ribbon Originals Flirty that you can also get on the Clearance rack (it coordinates perfectly with the Loves Me paper!)

• Stamps: Birthday Bliss, Crazy for Cupcakes
• Paper: Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla, Rose Red Love Note, Loves Me designer series paper
• Ink: Close to Cocoa, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip
• Other: Frost White Shimmer Paint, Choc Chip ribbon from Ribbon Originals Flirty, Signo white gel pen, blender pen, Choc Chip marker
  

Christmas Swap #1

This is one of the swaps I made for Chipper's Christmas card swap. I made two :) I am in love with the Shimmer Paints! As of mid October, I used half of each bottle already! I also mixed Soft Suede reinker with Champagne Mist shimmer paint (1 drop reinker to about 3 drops of shimmer paint) and used a sponge dauber to apply the mixture to the polar bear stamp. There is shimmer paint all over this card, lol! I stamped a snowflake all over the cardfront with Champagne Mist shimmer paint too.

• Stamps: Cold & Cuddly, Serene Snowflakes
• Paper: Real Red, Naturals Ivory, Soft Suede
• Ink: Soft Suede, Real Red
• Other: Champagne Mist shimmer paint and sponge daubers, Soft Suede polka dot ribbon, Scallop Oval, Large Oval , and Small Oval pinches, Petals-A-Plenty Impressions folder with Big Shot, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, dimensionals
  

Boo Banner

This was really fun to put together. Halloween is a great time for papercrafting, so many fun things you can do. I have seen lots of these little wall hangings and was inspired by Beate Johns nearly glowing skull on green patterned paper (which I can't seem to find again to link to). The skull image is embossed with black embossing powder and then Frost White Shimmer Paint is rubbed all over it, wiping off the excess. Basically an emboss resist technique. I used the faux distressed stickles  technique (mix Fine Cosmo glitter with Crystal Effects and apply to your surface-I use a toothpick- then let dry) to make the super glittery letters. The glitter doesn't get everywhere and it stays put! Then I used various punches to make the spider and bat embellies and stuck them on with dimensionals. Lots of faux stitching with a white gel pen and a Basic Black marker. Adhered the finished scalloped squares to the Black Striped grosgrain with Sticky Strip. I folded the top over and put a Corduroy Button through it. Tied a piece of Rope Twine through that so it has a hanging handle. Now to find a good place to hang this! Ok, here is the condensed supply list :)

• Stamps: From the Crypt, Grateful Greetings
• Paper: Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Whipser White, Cast-A-Spell designer series paper
• Ink: Versamark, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black
• Other: Scallop Square die and Simple Alphabet dies with the Big Shot, scallop square and scallop oval and large oval and 1" circle and 1-1/4" circle punches, Celery Fine Cosmo glitter mixed with Crystal Effects, Signo white gel pen, black embossing powder, embossing buddy, heat gun, Frost White shimmer paint with a sponge dauber, black striped grosgrain ribbon, corduroy button, sticky strip, dimensionals, rope twine