I'm giggling because when I set out to do this card, it was to be for a challenge at Joan's Gardens. I finished the pink and white spring card and was ready to post to the challenge when I saw that I'd forgotten that the challenge had called for the use of a lattice of some kind...and also some flowers.
When I told Joan about this goofy mistake, she said she wanted me to post the card anyway! So here it is---Please know that it NOT in the competition for the drawing because it doesn't meet the challenge guidelines at all. Please enjoy the peek for the techniques I tried.
For it I used the Spellbinder's shapeabilities
Les Papillions Two S4-395, cut from shimmery gold velum, the underwings are cut from pearl vellum and bodies created from rhinestones. I used Tim Holtz Alterations, Texture Fades with the Oval Embossing Diffuser also by Tim Holtz. That is surface-rubbed in Inka Gold Metallic Rub. The Sentiment is stamped from a Graphic 45 stampset ICO290 (Sweet Sentiments 1). It reads "The gifts of spring cause much delight, warm sun shines over your pathway bright." This is embossed in gold EP by Stampin Up. Almost all of the materials for this card CAN be purchased at Joan's Gardens.
I followed the tutorial by Monica Gale at Splitcoast Stampers to create this pop-up box card. The papers and elements, I used were designed by Karen Schulz (SnickerdoodleDesignsbyKaren) and found in her adorable St. Patrick's day kits The Laddie and Lassie Collection. I also used stickers and Stickles, some die cut flourishes and leaves, and other items drawn in Photoshop including the back of the card sentiment that says "May each petal of a four leaf clover bring you good health, good luck, love and happiness." A template using the dimensions for creating a pop-up box has been developed by a friend so it is easy to put into the template elements and papers from my digital scrapbooking kits stash.
Front
Inside surprise
Back
Following a tutorial by Sam Donald in the UK, I made some adorable little bag in a box projects to hold Cadbury Creme Easter Eggs. My friend will teach these at the next meeting of our Papers and Pixels Club in Sun City. These are so much fun. You just need an Envelope Punch Board (Mine is from We R Memory Keepers), some tiny punches for flowers, oval punches for the handles, some ribbon and some glue dots. (Plus--of course, the Cabury Eggs) They go together very quickly and are just cute as can be.
This was a mighty fun all day workshop in St. George hosted by Stampin UP Demonstrator Jill Olsen. I went with some friends, and our Sun City Demonstrator, Kathy Legan These are some of the 15 projects that I made, and below are some of the projects shared by others at this workshop.
This is how the workshop for more than 100 people was organized, and how each card preparation area was designated.
This card was inspired by Donna Kowal's tutorial "No Line Piercing" at Splitcoast Stampers. The stamp I used was from a Close to my Heart collection called Happiness (C1310). I used my piercing tool and mat to detail the little flower, then colored it with Tim Holtz Distress Marker watercolors. The punch for the little flower is an SU punch, and the top note (SU) die was used to mat the design. The edge detail on the bottom was die-cut from Romanntic Rectangles (Spellbinders S5-090). Embossed white ink for the get well wishes was from SU Teeny Tiny wishes. The vellum butterflies were cut from SU Embosslits "Beautiful Wings". I finished this card with ribbons and pearls.
I made this thinking of you/feel better/happy birthday easel box with drawer card using Graphics 45 Precious Poesy Little Darlings Collection paper, a clear stamp from a dollar-bin grab, and Cored-in-ations green paper for the base. The adorable digital stamp is from Whimsey Stamps and is Sweet Blossoms designed by Sylvia Zet at Wee Stamps. She's colored with colored pencils and treated with Gamsol. The die cut is Labels 17 by Spellbinders (S5-025) and the basic tutorial was from Digital Delights Tutorials at Louby Lou Designs. There are a number of these box-drawer tutorials on the Internet; this one uses a band rather than box base and was quick and easy to put together. The project was inspired by Feb 24th's idea at Stampelicious Blog
This easel box card below is called Flora Easel Drawer Card and is available from Card Making Downloads.
The Pyramage easel card sits atop a drawer and comes with a matching presentation box. It is embellished with pearls, stickles glitter and SU Perfectly Penned sentiment with Spellbinders Fancy framed Tags Two die.
This beacon of hope card is for a dear friend. The vertical "gate fold" card uses the lighthouse from Close to My Heart stampset C1499 "Perfect Day" is worked in a pale gray (pencil gray) and pencil and charcoal on heavy watercolor paper-- and accented with Stickles Platinum rays. The inside is a lighthouse picture stamped over with the Harriet Beecher Stowe quotation, "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." The scripted paper is by Teresa Collins in her World Traveler paper collection. The way this is folded, when open, it will perch like an easel card on the bottom of the lightouse.
Karen Schulz of Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen, has come out with a STUNNING new kit called "Forever Friends" This kit is packed FULL of the most gorgeous elements, word art, and overlays, and it coordinates with some of her previous kits with mind-boggling possibilities. This card uses the "To have a friend is to have everything" word art Karen has in this kit--- and papers and overlays, text overlay, ribbons, leaves and flowers too. That's all clustered under pink and white mulberry paper flowers. The center die is SU's Top Note. The green borders are cut from a Moroccan Motif's Spellbinders (S5-065) diecut. That's over a pink paper that's embossed with Sizzix 658285 Dots #5 embossing folder.
Below is a photo-card front, that is entirely created in Photoshop and uses Karen's Forever Friends elements. LOOK at the detail! Enjoy the Audrey Hepburn quotation. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm Possible". Wordart on this cardfront is mine.
This top Valentine follows a Splitcoast stamper tutorial written by Laura Lipe. It was so much fun to make with SU's Itty Bitty Banners (126257, and coordinating die), Perfectly You (131877) and SU's Embosslits Fashionable Hearts. I also used Hearts #657561 dies by Sizzix to cut the (fantastic) SU glitter paper. Inside on the pop out are various goodies, including SU's Pretty Petites and Petite Pairs stamps. I used white opaque embossing powder on the stamps and edged the card with Starform Transparent glitter-gold sticker edges. I get most of my stickers from Pop-Ups Etc. Other items are just found things in my stash.
The second card I did uses the Sizzix Framelits #659171 that I got from At Joan's Gardens. This card uses SU's Tags4U on the inside sentiment, SU's embosslits Fashionable Hearts, and the Sizzix hearts die..and some stickers on the front of the card. The embossing folder I used was Diagonals by SU (Sizzix). The designer papers on these are by Doodlebug Designs.
Creating paper Pom Pom Bows will be the project at the next Papers and Pixels Club meeting in Mesquite. It will be taught by our member Clar. This bow was created using decorator (and plain paper) and following a tutorial for creating a Circular Sentiment that is found inside the Digital Scrapper Premier collection of kits and tutorials for February. The Circular Sentiment is made in Photoshop. The flourishes I used for the bow are Madera Corner a Memory Box (98237) die. I will add some hearts and some glitter accents to this bow before it becomes a package topper
This little box is created (easypeasy) with the We R MemoryKeepers Envelope Punch Board. You can run out these little boxes in under a minute! Punch/score fold--glue dots--you're done! The matching teeny box topper paper pom pom bow was fun for this one.
