Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!
It is mid-August which means Christmas is ONLY four months away, just thought you needed a heads up, lol. Although I did not make any Holiday projects for this hop, you can easily substitute Holiday paper for the projects.
Our August blog hop is “All About the Paper”. With so many paper designs Stampin’ Up! releases it is very difficult to not become a paper hoarder! Raise your hand if you have stacks and stacks of patterned paper still wrapped tightly in their packaging! Yup, guilty here as well. It is just so pretty that I don’t want to “waste” it! You’ll notice I used similar paper in a previous Blog Hop, that is because I have made it a rule to use what I do have and haven’t purchased to many ‘NEW” papers with this new catalog. This was also a great way to show how versatile our papers are
If you are following along the hop, you have arrived from Steph’s Blog.
Be sure to read through my Blog, comment below and continue to Jo’s Blog. If
you get lost along the way, no worries, you can find a list of Blog Hoppers at
the end of each Blog. ENJOY!
Paper:
CARD: Petal Pink (5 ½” x 8 ¼”), scored at 4 ¼”)(card base)
CARD: Les Shoppes Designer Series Paper (DSP) - (3: 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”); (2: 1 ½” x 1 ½”)
CARD: All Together DSP (retired) (1: 1 ½” x 1 ½”)
ORIGAMI: (7 ½” x 7 ½”)
CARD: Basic White (3 ¾” x 5”); (Scraps for stamping)
CARD: Basic Black (4” x 5 ¼”);
Ink:
Momento Black and Basic Gray
Tools/Accessories: Crafting with you Dies; Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder
INSTRUCTIONS
2. The next layer is a piece of 3 ¾” x 5” piece of basic white cardstock. I stamped the sentimate randomly in momento black ink and then embossed it with Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder.
3. I cut three, 1 ¾” squares out of Les Shoppes DSP paper and three more 1 ½” squares out of a different pattern. I adhered them on top of each other and placed them on the card with dimensionals.
4. To finish off the card, I stamp the image of the Stampin’ Cut & Embossing Machine along with the artist tools on basic white cardstock. I used colored pencil to color them in with. These were die cut out and adhered to the card front.
For my 3D project I made an origami “box” to hold a succulent plant. All you need for this a piece of 7 ½” x 7 ½” piece of DSP. We learned how to make these at my May Day Craft Celebration. After I made the box, I placed a small dessert plate that I found at the Dollar Tree in the center. This way you can water your succulent without ruining your holder. You can find a very helpful video here https://youtu.be/QOBgDGevpos, however below are screen shots from the video that shows how to fold your paper.
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PS: In case you didn't notice, check out the shrinky dink I made to accessories my succulent.
So there you have it, my All About Paper projects! I hope you enjoyed this month’s blog post and maybe you found a new papercraft to pursue!! Comments of any kind (well hopefully nice ones, lol) are greatly appreciated. When you are done be sure to hop on over to the next blogger, Jo on the list!
See you next month!
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