So it wasn’t exactly the next day… April 26, 2008

I really wanted to post the next day after my last entry, but it was beautiful here.  The kind of beautiful that you wish you had in the middle of winter, so I decided to sit on my back porch and enjoy it rather than staying inside.  Now it’s humid.  I wish it would just rain and get it over with, but I digress.

Here is the promised sample of the card I was toiling on recently:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was relatively easy to make. 

1.  I simply cut a normal 4 1/2″ x 5″ card out of Chocolate Chip paper by Stampin’ Up! 

2.  I then made a second cut in the fold so that I had two 4 1/2″ x 5″ pieces of paper. 

3.  I took one of them, and used my corner rounder punch, again from Stampin’ Up! and rounded all four corners.

4.  On the second piece, I cut a section off (longway) that was approximately 1 1/2″ wide.

5.  I rounded only two of the corners of the larger piece of cardstock.

6.  I then adhered the ribbon on the 1 1/2″ wide peice of cardstock and then adhered that to the previous peice.

7. Then I adhered the outer edges of that smaller peice with the 1 1/2″ peice on the front to create the pocket.  *A tip:  line up your rounded edges so that you get a smooth look.

8.  Then I puched out a daisy punch from Stampin’ Up!’s Tempting Turquoise.  I adhered that to the ribbon with a glue dot.

9.  Next, I found a botton that matched the Chocolate Chip resonably well; and added it to the front of the daisy.

10.  Finally, I added the sentiment on a pre-made tag from a big-box store, matted that on Tempting Turquoise, and colored in the open space on the sentiment.

Voila!  A beautiful card that anyone would love to receive…it took no more than 10 minutes; other than my design time.  You could easily embellish it with giltter on the tag or more stamping or stickers on the front of the pocket; but I didn’t feel it was necessary for my purposes.

Let me know what you think!

Just a quick note… April 21, 2008

I’m sending out swaps tomorrow and am going to post a pic of them along with a brief overview of how I made them.

I think this is going to be my attempt to be published as well.  I’m going to send the card off to a few magazines and *crosses fingers* hope that it is accepted to some magazine.  Wish me luck!

Gift Wrapping a la hardware store! April 13, 2008

Wanted to share a recent package and and idea that I came across while watching a home improvement show.

The package was wrapped with a piece of leftover tissue paper from a visit at a big box store.  The paper is Stampin’ Up! Elegant Eggplant.  The silver detail is actually silver pipe tape that you can get at most hardware stores.  It’s adhesive; so it’s wonderful for any project.  I’ve used it with punches, I’ve dry embossed on it…the possibilities are limited only by imagination.

My tag was made using a Hero Arts stamp on Stampin’ Up! paper again.  I rounded the edges with a corner rounder punch and layered that on Elegant Eggplant paper again.

The ribbon is from a big box store again, I’ve found it in several places and at different prices.  It just depends where you are and when you look.

Not much crafty has been going on here..unfortunately.  I’ve had a couple of days off of work and have done a lot of cleaning around the house.  It’s felt really great to be caught up, but I’m hoping to spend some time in the stamping room tomorrow to catch up on some swaps and do some general crafting.