Monday, December 28, 2020

Beary Comforting: Paper Pumpkin Alternative

Oh my gosh!  This Paper Pumpkin is so adorable!  The stamp set is so cute!  I used the sweet Bear and one of the sayings to create this lovely Magic Card.


A Magic Card is one where it appears that it's not colored in and when you pull it up, then bam...magic...it's all shaded and beautiful.


To create a sliding magic card, you will have a peek area.  To find where that is, you will score your card base (5 1/4in x 11in) at 3 7/8in and 4in.  Then turn it around and score at 1 7/8in and 2in.  The middle panel will be your peek panel.  Here I used the stitched rectangle dies to cut that out.


One you have the peek area, we need to add a panel to hide the magic.  This piece will be white (typically) and measures 4in x 5in.  You will adhere this with foam strips.  And you will alternate the pieces on each side of the divider.  Line up between the score marks.  Then gently fold over your "back" pieces and use strong tape to keep them together. 


The "magic" part comes in when you have a clear overlay and then pull it up over the white...to show the colored image.  Here you can see the acetate image is stamped in Staz On and then the colored image on white is in Memento Black and colored with Stampin' Blends.  I align them and used the circle punch to keep them together.




Finishing touches include ribbon on the circle to create a pull.  I stapled it together to help keep the two pieces together as well.  Also some heart dies on the bottom. 

I used only 3 colors on this card:  Basic Black, Rococo Rose, and Crumb Cake.  I wanted to keep it simple even though it's complicated!  :)

I hope you enjoyed my Paper Pumpkin alternate idea.

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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Berry Thankful Box: Share It Sunday Blog Hop


For today's Share it Sunday, I created this cute easy box to show thanks.  With the new easy- no adhesive required- Love You Always Treat Boxes, this project was completed in no time.


When you order the Love You Always Treat Boxes, you get 10 boxes which assemble without any use of adhesive.  So simple and easy.  The treat boxes have an outside cover and then you slide the box out to fill with your treats.  

First step was to assemble the box and add a cardstock wrap around.  I used Blackberry Bliss cardstock (3.75in x 10in).  I simply adhered the cardstock to the top of the box and wrapped it around and taped it to the bottom.  Easy peasy, no scoring or anything!


The colors I picked for this project are from the Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper.  Check out those colors!  This paper and the stamp set I'm using, Berry Blessings Stamp Set, are FREE with a $100 purchase during Jan-Feb Sale-A-Bration.  I used just a 3in x 10in strip and wrapped it over the Blackberry Bliss cardstock.


And in usual style, I love to create the perfect colored embellishment by using my Stampin' Blends alcohol marker to make this light purple Pastel Pearl a nice Blackberry Bliss color.

I added some amazing Blackberry Bliss Striped Ribbon and then my saying and a couple banners.  The Pacific Point cardstock, 3.5in x 1.5in, was punched using the Banner Punch.  Then layered with Rich Razzleberry cardstock, 3.75in x .75in, 


I added a few treats!  The treat size 3Muskateers were perfect and they had cute little sayings on them too!

Since many of the supplies are new products that aren't "for sale" yet, I can't tag all of them.  But here's the products I used that are available right now.
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Friday, December 18, 2020

Updates and Information :)

It's time!  It's time! It's time!
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Email me as soon as possible if you're interested and also let me know what package you'd like!  I plan on ordering the first batch on January 5th.

Please let me know if  you have any questions on these!

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

National Bacon Day: Winter Holidays Blog Hop


 Whew!  We've made it to December!  And this month is when we think of "the holidays."  This blog hop is to showcase the not so common/everyday thing you think of when you hear "Happy Holidays."   Check out what I'm celebrating at the end of the month!

National Bacon Day:  December 30th

You read that right...bacon.  If you don't know...I LOVE BACON!


Check out that BACON!  I made it out of Cajun Craze paper and some ink.   I drew it out and hand cut it.  Then used the outline left and the sponge daubers to create the stripes in the bacon.  After adding some color, I used the fine tip glue pen to add some shiny "grease" to the cardstock.


This was also the first time I used the foam adhesive sheets.  These are great!  BOTH sides of this foam is sticky!  So you can peel back the one side, add your cardstock/dsp and then you cut out your letters.  When you're ready to place the letters onto your project, then you peel off the other side to adhere it down!  Easy peasy!

To add a little "shiny" metal pan texture to this, I also heat embossed the sayings.

Seriously, BACON, you made my day!  (Bacon does really make everything better!)

Let me know what your favorite bacon dish is!  I can always use more ;)



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