Designer Paper Bag Tag and Mini Purse

As I mentioned previously, I was involved with several other demonstrators in doing a retreat last weekend for about fifty-two stampers!  The planning committee (of Leslie Bumgarner, Connie Stewart, Jann McCollom and myself) made several gifts for the participants such as a bag tag, early registration gift, and others which I will post at later times.  Today's projects are the tags we made for the participants bag which held some supplies and also held their projects once they completed them and another gift for those who registered early.

Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper was adhered to a square of the light paperboard in the back of a package of DSP then cut with the Big Shot and the large Scallop Circle Die.  The guests' first initial was diecut from Pacific Point cardstock with the Serif Alphabet Dies then adhered to the tag.  This was tied onto the handle of white paper gift bag for project supplies and completed projects.  Isn't that DSP gorgeous!!


The next project is a mini purse made from the 6 x 6" In Color Designer Paper Pack which is a Level 1 Hostess choice in the current 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog (expires June 30!).

We made around fifty of these little cuties for our guests (and one for each of us, lol!).  This one is shown in a Poppy Parade print; there are several patterns in each color so we combined them for a fun look!  The flowers were punched with the BoHo Blossoms Punch and attached with Silver Mini Brads, as were the handles.  An Oval Punch of Poppy cardstock is the closure under the flower; Velcro holds the purse closed.

Side View

Inside View

Four chocolate candies were wrapped with the same DSP and placed inside for a little treat!

 Here they are, all ready to be given out!  Aren't they colorful?!!

These purses were found on Stampin' Connection, a part of the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website and a wonderful source for sharing and inspiration for demos; they were posted by France Martin and also on her blog; thanks, Frenchie, for the inspiration!

I hope you enjoyed these projects!  Thanks for visiting today! I'll have more projects soon!

Margaret

Retiring Simple Flower Embosslit

Hello again!  I've been to a family reunion and a stampin' retreat since I last posted!  Whew!  I'm still recovering from all the activity!  I was one of the planners for the retreat and spent a lot of time preparing for it beforehand so there hasn't been any stamping that I could post until after it was over.  I'll be posting some of those projects very soon.

Today's card is a very sweet one sent to me by a fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Pam Jones-Litchenburg, who is in the local group with which I meet monthly.  She sent it with a very nice note inside. : )

Pam used the Simple Flower Embosslit to cut and emboss (all at the same time!) these pretty flowers with the Big Shot, then centered each with a self-adhesive Pearl.  The leaves were cut with the Little Leaves Sizzlit, one of my very favorites because it adds so much to a project!  Pam also used a tiny butterfly cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit on a stamped and punched Large Oval.

The Simple Flower Embosslit is being retired but is still available for purchase (#114514,
Simple Flower Embosslits Die, p. 215, $7.17, (40% off!) until June 30!  Shop for retiring products, some discounted, at my online Stampin' Up! store here!  Thanks!

The background is white run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder for interesting texture.  You can see how much Pam made use of her Big Shot to make this card!!  What did we ever do without the Big Shot!!  Love it!  Thank you so much for the lovely card and the sweet note, Pam!

Thanks for coming by!  I will have pictures of retreat to post soon!

Margaret

USA Big Shot Banner

Here's the banner that I sent a Sneak Peek of last week.  I made this for Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and actually anytime!  I love patriotic things!

This is the banner hung on the mantel; I had a hard time photographing it because of the lighting. : (

 

There is a star circle on each end of the garland.  Background circle cut with the new 3 1/2" Circle Die and embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder.  Bigz Large Scallop Die for the red.

The star gets it's "close-up"!  You can see the Silver Chunky Glitter (retiring!) around the Circle, the Dazzling Diamonds around the inner star (cut with the Retiring Star Punch); Star is die cut with Stars#2 Die (retiring, WHY!!!).  BoHo Flowers Punch for star center with Fire Circle Rhinestone Brad.

Letters die cut with the SerifEssentials Alphabet set; butterflies with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit.  Heart punched with Heart to Heart punch.

Riding Hood Red is my red color; I used my much-loved Love Letters DSP (oh how I will miss that paper!) and a retired print from Bella Rose DSP.  Smaller stars from the same Stars #2 Die as the large star on each end.

I used Silver Brads on each letter.  I made Loops of Night of Navy 1/4" grosgrain ribbon to run the 1/8" Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon through and tie to the (retired but on Clearance Rack) Riding Hood Red 1-1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon.  Button from Regals Button Asst. package.  Rhinestone was colored red with a sharpie.

 One last photo taken on a white wall in hopes to get a better photo.

Hope you enjoy this project!  Let me know if you get inspired and make one for yourself!  It was really fun and satisfying to make!  I have had it bouncing around in my head for awhile and just had to get it "worked out", LOL!!

I still have to get my computer worked on but right now I have a temporary work-around.  Thanks for your patience!

Margaret

Computer Issues and Project Teaser

I'm having computer issues & can't get on the Internet (since Tuesday a.m.!)

I have a project ready to post as soon as my computer situation improves. In the meantime, here is a picture taken and posted with my phone.

Thanks for looking! I'll be back ASAP!
Margaret
Sent from my iPhone

Fun Flowers & Vintage Wallpaper: TSSC175

The Fun Flowers Die is one of my favorite (well, they're almost all my favorites, lol!) but this one is so cool and makes the most lovely flowers!!   I took the opportunity to use the Technostamper Sketch Challenge #175 layout plus the SUO Challenge 19 of May Flowers for this card I made for a friend.

I used the Newsprint Designer Series Paper for the background of my layout over layers of Basic Black and Blushing Bride.  Before applying the Newsprint, I first brayered the inside top of my Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder with Basic Black, inserted the piece of Newsprint and ran this through the Big Shot.  This put the ink only on the areas that were not raised.  Fun technique, just  be aware that you'll never get the black off your brayer, even though when thoroughly cleaned you can still use it for any color, even light ones.

On the other end of the layout is Very Vanilla cardstock, embossed with the same Vintage Wallpaper Folder.  A piece of Black cardstock diecut with the Tasteful Trim Die hides the seam and gives a contrasting accent. 




This is the Sketch #175 Mary Jo gave us to use this week.  I tried to use something other than a flower but my thoughts kept going back to SU's great flower dies so I went with this one that I enjoy using so much!  : )

This also fulfilled the SUO Challenge 19 May Flowers are Here this week.

The flower is diecut from Blushing Bride cardstock, then the edges sponged with the same color ink and the petals shaped with the Bone Folder.  I punched out a Black flower (to keep the color scheme focused) with the Five Petal Flower Punch and cut it apart to use for the leaves.

The center of the flower is a 5/8" Neutral Brad (I used Chocolate); I colored it black with a Sharper marker then spread it with Mono Multipurpose Liquid Glue and dipped it into Black coarse glitter from the Chunky Essentials pack (Red, White, Silver and Black... love that stuff!).  After it was dry, I assembled my flower with this as my center.  It really pops on this flower!   The final details are a tag stamped with "friends" from the Tiny Tags set punched out with the Jewelry Tag Punch laid over a wee bit of 1/8" Black Taffeta Ribbon.

Fun Flowers Die

I hope you enjoy my card today; it was fun to do and will also be fun to give to a long-time friend.

Please remember the tornado victims in Joplin, MO, here in Oklahoma and around the country where people are suffering from natural disasters.  I've made a donation to Samaritan's Purse to help these folks.  Would you consider donating to the relief organization of your choice if you can?   Or  perhaps you can donate blood to your local blood bank.  Thank you for your compassion.  Here are two links (among many reputable relief organizations): 
The American Red Cross
Samaritan's Purse

Thank you for visiting!  I hope you have a safe and good weekend and Memorial Day Holiday.  We honor and remember our veterans this weekend also.  We have so much for which to be thankful.

Hugs,
Margaret

Fabulous Florets - CCMC 151

Do you just LOVE the Fabulous Florets set from the 2011 Summer Mini?  Me too!!  It is so pretty and with both line and solid images, it lends itself to some very lovely and fun techniques! 

I really like the color combination of pink, purple and green so for
this card today I keyed my color scheme to the Lap of Luxury Designer Paper and added some Wild Wasabi for accent.  The layout I used today is from Create with Connie and Mary Sketch Challenge#151.   At first this sketch looked a little intimidating but I finally came up with my interpretation this morning.  I didn't get my card finished in time to upload to the sketch challenge website this morning; I had planned to do it yesterday but the nasty tornadoes that came through the plains (including the our area) kept me from focusing on stamping!  My heart and prayers go out to those who have been affected, both here, in Joplin, MO, and around the country.

The focal flower was stamped onto Shimmer White cardstock then carefully colored with a Blender Pen and Pretty in Pink ink.  I punched it out with the XL Scallop Punch and layered that onto a Wild Wasabi 2-1/2" Circle cardstock punchout.

For the other elements of the sketch, I punched out a 1-3/8" Circle and a Postage Stamp from the Lap of Luxury Designer Paper; the third element is the large flower from the Boho Blossoms Punch, clipped and shaped into a flower.  The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes punched out with the Word Window Punch then layered onto Concord Crush punched out with the Modern Label Punch.  Two Rhinestones were colored with a purple Sharpie pen and used for the small flower center and on the left of the sentiment.  A third clear Rhinestone centers the large focal flower.

 

The background collage was stamped with the three flower stamps from the set in Concord Crush, Pretty in Pink and Wild Wasabi.  This was then run through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder; I love doing backgrounds this way!  This was layered onto Concord Crush then the Pretty in Pink card.  For the ribbon across the top in the sketch, I wanted to keep it light as I thought my card already had enough going on;  I came across my new package of White Bakers Twine while looking and decided it would be just the thing!

I hope you enjoyed my card today and are having fun using some of the new products in the Summer Mini!  There really are alot of great products in it!  Hope you have a safe and good day!

Margaret