Raining Flowers with Faux Linen

Ok, so when I got the Raining Flowers set at convention, I didn't think I liked it. When I picked it up on Friday to do a club project with it, I still wasn't feeling the love for it. But after I paired it with some of my current favorite colors and the Faux Linen technique, I can say that I do now carry a fondness in my heart for this set :) I just needed to stretch a little with it!

We made this cute little 3x3 card, which are ever so useful, and a coordinating box, which I will get to later. The Faux Linen technique is really very easy, but you might want to wait for the paper to dry before mounting it to the cardfront with dimensionals.... mine kind of bows into the center even with a dimensional there... lesson learned!!
For the Faux Linen technique, here are the steps:

1. Cut a piece of tissue paper a little bigger than your finished piece will be. You will be gluing this to a white cardstock base. Stamp your images on the tissue paper.
2. Apply a thin coat of liquid adhesive all over your white cardstock piece and stick your tissue paper to, making sure you have wrinkles in the tissue paper and that the wrinkles are glued down. Fold the tissue paper over the edges and adhere to the back. 
3. ALLOW TO DRY ! :) Then use as desired on your projects.

OK, now for the supplies for this  project

• Stamps: Raining Flowers
• Paper: Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, tissue paper
• Ink: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Lucky Limeade
• Other: Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, Sticky Strip (to attach the ribbon)

 See awesome this looks?! Now don't you love Raining Flowers too?

And here is the little box I made to go with the card. Ad can you guess what I made it with? The Mini Milk Carton die!! Brian Pilling showed us how to make this at convention, but I discovered something else cool about this box.... if you crease the score lines well at the base of the top, you can push the top down into the box a little and it will stayed closed! How cool is that idea?!!

This is "open"- the crease line I am talking about is the top edge of the flat portion under all of the "peaks"

So you push down like so....

And it stays down and looks like this! I love this... maybe I'm just easily amused though  ;)
My club ladies were super excited about this and thought of all kinds of uses for it!

Ok, that's it for today! Still trying to get back on track with more frequent posts. Hopefully I will get some productive time in in the next day or so cuz I work 6 out of 7 days starting Tuesday. Just keep smiling!

July Club projects

Well, I guess I should have posted these last month, but better late than never! The card for July was a one layer card, but is really turned out amazing! I just hope I can do it justice here :)

I did a little bit of clear embossing over the stamping to give is an added level of detail. It was a real wow at club! Nobody minded that there was only one layer.

• Stamps: Array of Sunshine, Kindness Matters
• Paper: Naturals White
• Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Versamark
• Other: Embossing Buddy, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Lucky Limeade ruffled ribbon, Sticky Strip

I think you can see the embossed butterflies, at least I hope you can!

and here is the inside. This is one of my current favorite color combos :)

We also made this fun little treat holder. We inked the embossing folder with Rich Razzleberry ink before running it through the Big Shot.  This is a super easy and fast project! It will hold a candy bar, a little lotin bottle, chapstick, etc...

• Paper: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive
• Ink: Rich Razzleberry
• Other: Big Shot with Top Note die, Little Leaves sizzlet and Simple Flower embosslit, and Square Lattice embossing Folder, brayer, Word Window punch, and Rich Razzleberry satin ribbon (retired)

And I have a little surprise! I am giving away TWO free passes to anyone who has never been to a U Stamp With Dawn And Friends event before. SO! Leave me a comment and I will be picking 2 people from comments on my blog on September 9th.

USWDAF I Heart the Holidays! Cornucopia

My project for this event was posted early this morning! I really love how this turned out. This was almost the project that didn't happen... I was trying to create a cornucopia out of waffle paper, and it just was not happening the way I had envisioned it... so on to plan ! Actually it was more like D or E, but who's counting ;)

This is the complete ensemble. If you want to know how to make this yourself, head on over the UStampWithDawnandFriends.com and check it out! You always get at least 40 tutorials like mine for the price :)

Like my pear? It's in the tutorial :)

How about a pumpkin? It's in there too!

And  a fun little flower...

Some journaling slips too!

And what I'm thankful for...

The card...

And envelope...

I love the limitless ways you could fill this little basket!

One last shot of just the cornucopia.

Let me know what you think, I live for the love ;)

Field Poppies

Ok, I have been way too absent this summer! I am going to have to do better... so here is a project I whipped up this morning. I have gotten a lot of new rubber lately and sometimes when that happens, I get a little overwhelmed and I don't MAKE anything. I have also been working on projects that I can't post yet...stuff for swaps and blog hops and UStampWithDawnandFriends.... BTW the next UStamp event started today!! Woo-hoo! And since I get to see them all before they go live, I have to tell you there is a lot of great stuff going to be shared :)

Alrighty then! Time to get back to this project. I earned the stamps used here doin some stampin stuff and it just came in the mail on Tuesday and I just couldn't wait to play with these 2 sets.

I even used the new Simply Scored tool that will be available on Sept. 1st. LOVE IT! It is so much nicer than the Scor-Pal, which I own but rarely use since it does not have score lines every 1/8"! I created a frame around the flowers by scoring at 5/8"  all the way around, then stamped the polka dots from Borderlines around the edge. I did the same for the inside.

• Stamps: Field Flowers, Borderlines
• Paper: Calypso Coral, Naturals White
• Ink: Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso
• Other: Simply Scored, Stampin' Dimensionals

 Don't you love how the Calypso Coral and Poppy Parade coordinate so well?! And then I just had to make a treat to go with this...

A little Candy Wrapper with a belly band!

Don't you just love it?! I sure do. Now I have to figure out who gets this little duo :)

SASCRAP 48 A Few of My Friends

Stampin Addicts is at it again with a great Scrapbooking Challenge! Every Saturday is another challenge. I finally got around to doing another one and this one was a product challenge...to use Baker's Twine. that wasn't too hard, since I love the stuff :) It was a great excuse to get some of my Utah photos scrapped. I did it all with MDS, which I am lovin more and more. I didn't use any stamps this time, even though I intended to use the GROW stamp on it somewhere....

• Paper: Domestic Goddess, Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Basic Gray, Whisper White
• Ink: Basic Black
• Embellishments: Tasteful Trims die shape #1, Modern Label punch, Whisper White Baker's Twine, Basic Stitches in Basic Black and Whisper White
• Font: Claudia Jean

And look what else we have in store for you!

 

Remember to stop by ans check it all out, we will have a ton of fabulous ideas for you all :)

12x12 Scrapbook swap

We can always use more layout ideas, right! Well I signed up for a scrapbooking swap at convention and got some great ideas. I didn't actually use any stamps on this one, but it just didn't need any!

This is page one. The large photo mat is for a 5x7 and the 2 squares are 3x3 I believe. There is a 3" strip of First Edition DSP behind the Lace Ribbon punched strips. You can't see them very well in the photo, but there are pearls dotting the Lace Ribbon punch strips also.

Page two has a 8x8 piece of DSP with more 3x3 photo mats. And see how well the Blossom Triple Layer punch coordinates with the Lace Ribbon punch! I did ink all the edges with the coordinating inks too.

• Paper: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Indigo Island, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, First Edition DSP
• Ink: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Indigo Island, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder
• Other: Lace Ribbon border punch, Blossom Triple Layer punch, Basic Black marker, Signo white gel pen, Pearls Basic Jewels, Chocolate Chip Scalloped Dot ribbon

Until tomorrow!

Pink Doilies Swap Card and a Little of My Garden

Time for more of my swaps! I got home Sunday evening and was so tired and I needed to wash my sheets before I slept in them. It is VERY humid in Minnesota, and even worse lately. Our main level of the house is a walk-in basement and our bedroom is in the very back corner. The floor in one corner was wet and the linen felt soggy! I actually went a bought a dehumidifier yesterday because it was getting so bad for my asthma in there. You really don't want mold to get a hold.
And you should see my gardens! I'll add some pics at the end of this post.

Don't the black doilies look great against the Crumb Cake? I went a little crazy with sponging the edges too, but it looks so good! Lots of layers, of course.

This was my prototype, so you can see that my white outline is really close to the edge. I initially had a narrower layer but didn't like it so I trimmed it down.

• Stamps: Delicate Doilies, Pennant Parade
• Paper: Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake, Naturals White
• Ink: Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Craft Whisper White
• Other: Big Shot with Perfect Pennants die and Vintage Wallpaper EF, Doily Triple Layer punch, 1¾" Circle punch, ¾" Circle punch, Signo white gel pen, sponges, Stampin Dimensionals, Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Ok, now for garden pictures!

Here I am standing right in front of my tomato plants. They are taller than my shoulder!! I have never seen tomato plants so big and they have so many tomatoes on them! I will have tomatoes coming out of my ears is a couple weeks, lol.

This is just one of dozens of clusters of tomatoes, some much larger already.

They look rather jungle-ish don't they. Quite overflowing the raised beds. The bed on the right is broccoli, then beans, then onions and carrots, then spinach and lettuce, and last is peas. The spinach and lettuce are out of control and need to be pulled out and replanted.

This is what broccoli looks like if you wait too long to harvest it. I should have harvested it before I left for convention but I knew the boys wouldn't eat it. My cauliflower went too long too, bummer!

This is corn, pumpkin, squash, cucumbers, and sunflowers. The squash starts in the left back corner and comes out the right front corner. The pumpkin starts in the right back corner and comes out the left front corner. The cucumber starts in the left side and comes out the right front. It's a good thing the grass around it does not grow very tall!

Back to working on my upcoming deadlines :)