Scrappin Madge Birthday Blog Hop

September 17, 2014 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADGE!!! Hello Everyone.  I'm so excited to be a part of this great hop and helping Madge celebrate her birthday.   She has gathered a great group of friends to be apart of her birthday celebration.  So make sure you start at the beginning and giver her some Birthday Wishes.    I will be giving out my own form of a Birthday Gift to help the Celebration.  There will be a drawing with random.org to pick a winner of a $10 gift certificate to Scrappin Madge's Close to My Heart store.   All you need to do is leave a comment below to be entered to win. If you are already following the hop along, you should have just left the very talented Melissa at From The Heart blog.  I have to start by saying that this month has the most birthdays for our family so I have been in mass production card making mode.  

I have to also admit that many nights I sit on the couch with my bag of Copic markers and a stack of random printed or stamped images.  So I took a look at some of the images I'd already colored and decided that I could make use of them to help along the card making.  I went real old school on these two cards.  I used two Close to My Heart stamp sets.  The first one was Banner Wishes (B1438).  I stamped the banner, but I didn't really like how the happy birthday fit in it.  So I picked up a discontinued CTMH stamp set with a sentiment that I thought fit better. Then fussy cut out the banner.  Looking back I wish I would have stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored them a real light yellow and pink.  

Now the fun was going to be finding paper to match my already randomly colored images.  Well, being a craft supply hoarder, it didn't take long to find some great pattern and solid paper and some matching enamel dots. 

I'm still thinking I need to add some ribbon or twine on them somewhere.

And the insides with a nice place to add my special messages.  

                                                         

I hope you have enjoyed visiting with all of us today in Celebrating Scrappin Madge's Birthday.  Your next stop in our hop is  the very talented Jessica Kephart.  

 Remember to leave a comment below to be entered to win. A $10 CTMH Gift Certificate to Scrappin Madge's shop.  

I know how easy it is to get detracted with all the great projects so here's a complete hop list.  

Start: Scrappin Madge: www.thescrappinlounge.com

Rhonda M. Bewley Ratliff: www.flowersbyrhonda.blogspot.com

Jessica Douglass Wilson: www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com

Jennifer Gallacher: http://jengallacher.blogspot.com/

An'Jenic Gibson: http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

Linsey Rickett: http://linseyrickett.blogspot.com

Jenny Johnson: http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Angela Corcoran:  www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com

Sarah Biswabic  www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com

Rhonda Helm: http://craftingwithblue.blogspot.com/

Bev Code: http://beeceecreativity.blogspot.com/2014/09/scrappin-madges-birthday-celebration.html

Dawn Marie: http://kraftychick.blogspot.com

Amy E.  http://www.scrapthissavethat.com/

Rhonda Emery: http://www.scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com

Melissa Fromm: www.frommtheheart.blogspot.com

Tammy Smith: http://lifeupdownandsideways.blogspot.com/  <<<< You are here.>>>>

Jessica Kephart:  http://homespunelegance.blogspot.com/  <<<Go Here Next>>>

C&S Pocket Page Thursday - Graduation

 

 Pocket Page Thursday

Graduation Day

Hello Everyone.   Not so long ago I was at a crop with a friend and we started talking about her son graduating from high school this year.  I just so happen to be trying to think of what to do for this pocket post and paper and decided that I was going to create this layout and give it to her.  So I started asking about Senior pictures of her son.   She was at a complete loss as to what I was asking for.  She had no idea that many schools do a special session of pictures for senior.  

So I asked for just some pictures of her son that I could use and she handed me a couple of his senior prom pictures.  

So this is what I was able to design using Doodlebugs The Graduate paper line and the Paper Smooches Seeing Stars stamp set.  

So I have this idea that I could create some pockets to hold a few of the things that Seniors collect.  The first being the extra name cards that kids swap after all the invitations are sent out.  I used the tabs from the Frills sticker sheet to label the pockets.

The pockets are the perfect size for a mini-deploma that is offered in many of the graduation kits from Jostens.  

In the top corner I cut out some of the books in the paper and used it as corner holders for the picture.  In the bottom corner, I stamped some stars, backed them with black paper and only adhered the two corners.  So a picture can be slipped in and out.  

Down the center of the other page, I put boxes that will allow for Journling or wallet size pictures of friends.  The flag and books were off the sticker sheet.  I added 2014 in tiny gold foil numbers.

 The glittery cap and GRAD are leftover cupcake toppers from years ago. 

Here's a full view of the second layout.  The two fill in cards are from the Simply Put Album Inserts and then I created two larger photo mats.  

Thanks for check out our great Graduation Inspirations.  The products used in today's featured creations can be purchased in the Cuttin' and Stampin' Scrappy Supplies store.  

You can go to the Challenge blog site to enter your own creations.

C&S Step by Step 1-22-14

January 22, 2014

I just love it when things come together and I can take care of two projects at once.  Today I will be creating a 3x4 card that can be attached to a card front or used as a pocket page filler card.  I'm follow another blog Project Life Card Swap, where we swap 3x4 and 4x6 cards.  I picket the Love theme this month which works really well with this weeks featured paper Love Notes from Crate Paper and the Paper Smooches Love Struck stamp set.  

I knew I needed to make 10 cards for trading so I started with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card die and used it to cut two cards at a time.  This is actually the fist time I've cut more than one piece of paper at a time and I was really surprised how well it did.  I just folded my 8 1/2 x 11 paper in half and the die fit perfectly.  I was able to cut 6 from each sheet of paper. 

 I then took the Paper Smooches Love die and cut it out of the flying hearts paper.  I don't know what I was thinking, because you really can't see the hearts on it.  Then I took the die and traced the outline of it and cut it out with scissors.  I needed to create a shadow for my die cut and this is the easiest way I've found to do that.  

 I took the Love Struck stamp set and stamped and then used the metal die cut for the arrow.   I cut out the heart with the Spellbinders heat die and covered it with Glossy Accents.  After looking at it, the arrow seemed real plain so I colored it with some Wink of Stella silver and pink.

Then I did was something I don't normally recommend, but I have been know to do it a few times.  That is cut my stamp in half.  This way I can use the part of the stamp I need.  With the clear stamps it's very easy to place them back together and stamp with them as a whole unit later on. 

I used the Struck part of the stamp.  Using Versamark ink and white embossing powder really helps the word stand out.  I then took my Uni-ball white gel pen and traced along the outside of the stamp where the stitching marks from the die are. 

One down, nine more to go.  

The anything goes with an arrow challenge ends on Monday.  Be sure to stop by the challenge blog and get your creation entered.  We would love to see what you create. 

Until next time.

C&S Weekly Challenge - Arrows

January 21 - 27, 2014

Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes with Arrows

There are SO many wonderful paper lines and projects created using arrows.  The Cuttin' and Stampin' design team wanted to play with arrows too.  I got to play with the Crate Paper Love Note paper line and the Love Struck Paper Smooches stamp set.  

I used A Muse Mermaid paper for my base and all of the pattern paper was from the Love Notes paper collection.   I stamped and then cut out the arrows wit the matching Paper Smooches dies.  I then used the Copic Glitter pens to color in the arrows.

 

We hope you enjoy this challenge as much as we have.  You have until January 27th to enter your projects HERE. 

C&S Pocket Thursday - Winter Wonderland

January 16, 2014

 

Hello, Hello.  Hope everyone is having a fine week.  Today is Pocket Thursday at Cuttin' and Stampin' and I want to show you what I've created using the Bo Bunny Winter Wonderland binder contents collection and the Captured Moments stamp set from Paper Smooches.  

I wanted to add just a little bit of damnation to the words I added to this card so I took some 1/8 foam and stuck it to the back of my A Muse Studio Seattle Paper. Then I ran it through the die cut machine.  As you can see I run it through the first time and then couldn't figure out how to add the foam tape to it.

 I cut down all of the cards by 1/8" on each side so that I could back them with the solid cardstock.  I used A Muse Studio Navy and Seattle.  I stamped a few of the cards with sentiments from the Paper Smooches Captured Moments stamp set. 

In all the places I plan on putting a picture, I cut the corners of the paper with a Fiskars decorative corner punch. 

After filling these two pages, I sill have quite a bit left to create another set of pages or place inserts into a mini album.

Here's the two pages up close. 

 

 I have three 4x6 picture spots on the first page with two large journal spots. 

 

This second page has two 3x4 in the middle and two large journal sport.  I was thinking of adding 2014 in the upper right hand corner above the winter.  

My picture of the two sheets together have a real bad glare and are hard to see, but I think this will be a great layout for my nieces book showing off the her four boys.  

This week's challenge to create something about winter is still going on and you can enter your own great project.  We would love to see what you create and you can enter HERE.

 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

 

 

C&S Step by Step 1-8-14

Wednesday, January 8, 2014.

WOW!! Another change on the Cuttin' and Stampin' Blog.  We will be featuring a project each Wednesday with a picture tutorial showing the different step we've taken to create the project.  

This week we are working with Christmas paper and creating a Non-Christmas item.  I  have to tell you that the Bazzill Believe paper line was really great to work with.   I started with a Buttermint card base cut at 4 1/4" x 11" and created a top folding A2 card. My second layer cut out of Chili was 4" x 5 1/2".   The Woodgrain paper was cut at 3 3/4" x 4"  and a strip at 1".

I took the 1" strip of woodgrain paper and stamped it with the sentiment from Paper Smooches Salutation in Versamark ink and then used black embossing powder.

Then I used a heart die cut from spellbinders to create the cut in my larger woodgrain piece.

Once the first heart was cut, I left the die in place and removed the cut piece.  I made sure the die stayed in place and the cut line stayed lined up with the opening.  

I then put it on top of the Chili paper piece and used my craft knife to cut out around the inside of the die.  I wanted a little bit of the red to show through before you see the off white card base. 

I went back to my black embossing powder and the Paper Smooches We Connect stamp set to add the Mr. and Mrs. to the front of the card.

The final few steps was to stamp the ampersand in the middle of the heart.  Then I used one layer of foam tape on the back of the Chilli card stock and attached it to the card base.  I then added a layer of foam tape to the back of my fist sentiment piece, cut the end off into a flag shape and attached it.

So here's my final card.  A little different than what I first envisioned, but not to bad.  I keep thinking I need to add something to it, but the baker's twine hasn't been uncovered yet and I didn't want to add flowers.  I'm sure the new couple will enjoy it just the way it is.

I hope you enjoyed this photo tutorial on how I created this card.  We will be featuring a tutorial every Wednesday.  If there's something you would like to learn about, leave me a note and I'll see what we can do to help you out.

If you feel inspired to create something using Christmas paper in a Non-Christmas fashion, you have until Monday January 13, 2014 to enter your project.  Just go HERE to check out the details.