Monday, March 22, 2010

Spring Scrapbook Page


This was the last project for my scrapbook club. After all the snow, I was in the mood for spring but didn't have any good spring photos so I made an empty page.

We used Certainly Celery for the base with Old Olive Designer Series Paper along the bottom. The flowers were created by paper piecing with a variety of punches and strips of cardstock using Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Basic Black, and some random printed paper retrieved from the recycle bin. This spread is green in more than one way! We also used an assortment of silver brads from the Styled Silver Hodgepodge and the Circle Brads collection, clear buttons, black buttons, and green buttons. I encouraged the club members to make each flower unique from their neighbors and mine... some double punched from the Extra Large Fancy Flower (117191) punch and each with a different arrangement of circle punches and button in the center. The leaves were punched from Old Olive using the large oval punch twice on each leaf.

I punched my title with the Stampin' Up! Simple Letters (115960) dies out of Old Olive card stock, but since I'm not positive what I'll want my title to be until I decide on my photos, I attached the letters to a strip of card stock and attached it temporarily.


Friday, March 19, 2010

Gift Card Holder


I've been taking lots of photos, but none of them have been of my stamping projects. Today I decided to get a project or two photographed for my club members who weren't able to make the meeting and this is one of those. This is a easy gift card holder:

1. Use a 4 1/4" by 7 3/4" piece of cardstock
2. Score at 2 1/2" from one end and 2 1/4" from the other (this will leave you a 3" center panel)
3. Punch the center of each flap with the slit punch from Stampin' Up!
4. Cut the tab part from the middle of the punch on the 2 1/4" flap
5. Measure 1/4" in from the edge on each side of the center panel
6. Use these marks to punch slits to hold the gift card.
7. Decorate as desired

This card was decorated by using a piece of Sticky Pages adhered to Tempting Turquoise card stock and punched with the Extra Large Fancy Flower punch (118073). Then I added the aqua glitter from the Fine Supernova glitter collection. The brad is one of the Circle brads (112571). The leaf and and circle were both punched from Old Olive.