Stampin Friends April Blog Hop - All about Flowers and Mom

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!

This month’s theme is All About Flowers and Mom's of course! If you are following along the hop, you have arrived from Teri's blog. Be sure to read through my blog, comment below and continue to Kim Q's blog. If you get lost along the way, you can find a list of Blog Hoppers at the end of each Blog. 

This month we are preparing for a wonderful Holiday here in the US that occurs next month, Mothers Day.  Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.  It is only fitting that I would use our blog hop theme to celebrate Mom. 

I am very fascinated in anything made with paper, so you can bet I was extremely excited when I found a way to make butterflies and flowers out of paper. Actually, if you search Pinterest or the Web you will find a ton of paper flower tutorials, however the flower I made is fairly easy to do.  Let’s get to the card and project.

 

The card has a very delicate look which Stampin’ Up! made very easy to do with their Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards.  I layered a piece of Petal Pink cardstock behind the laser cut front panel.

I then die cut the 2” wide Nestled Labels Die out of Very Vanilla card stock and snailed it in the center of the card.

From the stamp set Forever Blossoms, I stamped the large flower image, small flower and double leaf image.  I colored them using Stampin’ Up!’s water color pencils and blended them with blender pens.  I die cut these images using the coordinating dies from the Cherry Blossoms die set. The large flower image is adhered with dimensionals while the smaller flower image is snailed.

Lastly, I pulled out an old Paper Pumpkin kit for the Happy Mother’s Day sentiment.  The kit is April’s 2019 Sentimental Rose.  I stamped the sentiment on a piece of Sahara Sand card stock in Momento Black ink and then die cut it out using the larger label die from Painted Labels Dies.

Quick Glance Supply List

·      Forever Blossoms Stamp Set

·      April 2019 Sentimental Rose Paper Pumpkin Stamp set

·      Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin

·      Petal Pink Card Stock

·      Very Vanilla Card Stock

·      Sahara Sand Card Stock

·      Whisper White Card Stock

·      Cherry Blossoms Die Set

·      Nestled Labels Die Set

·      Painted Labels Die Set

·      Dimensionals

·      Snail

·      Momento Black Ink

·      Stampin’ Up! Water Color Pencils

·      Blender Pens

I don’t know about your Mom, but my Mom has everything you think of.  The best gift for her is usually some flowers and scratch tickets.  Yes, my Mom loves scratch tickets.  However, I am not a fan of giving flowers.  They just cost way to much for their limited life span.  However, I am one that will make them out of paper and they will last forever.  Trust me, if you gift someone paper flowers they will be in awe.  In addition to paper flowers, I also found a video on how to make origami butterflies.  No adhesive is needed to put these together, but I used just a little bit to hold the point down since I was putting them on wire.  

Let’s get to the project. I could try to type up instructions for the flowers and butterflies, but that would take me weeks or months to do, lol. So instead I will direct you to a couple of links that are very easy to follow.     

I found the butterfly here:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/62980094776981109/

It’s super easy to put together.  I got it on the first try and I never get anything on the first try!

I found the flower here:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/62980094763941869/

I’ll admit, this wasn’t super easy to put together.  However, once you get the hang of it, they come together very easily.

What I will tell you about flowers and butterflies that I made is the following.

  

Butterflies:

The smaller one I used a 4 ½”x 4 ½” piece of origami paper and for the larger one I used a piece of 6”x6” piece of origami paper.  You can use any paper you like, I think they would look really neat with pretty designer series paper.

Flowers:

The smaller one, each petal is made with a piece of 3”x3” piece of paper.  You can’t tell what type of paper I used here, but this is another reason why I love making paper flowers.  I used an old Idea Book and Catalog from Stampin’ Up!, time to up-cycle! Each flower takes five petals. 

The larger flower I used pages from the book the The Tao of Pooh.  I am a Winnie the Pooh fan and believe it or not, I

have about five copies of this book.  So the older paperback went into making flowers!

To finish off the flowers I die cut some leaves from Stampin’ Up!’s Leaflets Framelets and Rose Garden Thinlits.  The top of the smaller flowers have ½” circle punched out of Calypso Coral card stock and an embellishment (yikes I don’t remember where I got that from, but any will do).  The top of the larger flower has a ¾” circle punched out of Calypso Coral card stock and a retired Stampin’ Up! embellishment.  Like stated earlier any embellishment will work, even a large pearl or rhinestone. 

Lastly, I decorated the vase with some ribbon and a tag.

Tag:

The tag base is a piece of 1¾”x3” Very Vanilla card stock. The next layer is a piece of 1½”x2¾” Petal Pink card stock.  For both pieces I used the tag corner punch from Stampin’ Up! (retired). 

Then from the Forever Blossoms stamp set, I stamped two of the smaller flower stamp and two of the double leaf stamp.  Again, I colored these using Stampin’ Up!’s Water Color pencils and blended them with Stampin’ Up!’s blender pens.  I die cut these out using the coordinating dies from the Cherry Blossoms Die set.

The sentiment also came from April’s 2019 Paper Pumpkin kit Sentimental Rose.  I stamped the words in Momento black ink onto Sahara Sand card stock.  This was then punched out using Stampin’ Up!’s Classic Label Punch.

I punched a hole in the top and ran some twine through the hole.  I then attached this to the vase using a piece of Peekaboo Peach ruched ribbon.

Quick Glance Supply List

·      Forever Blossoms Stamp Set

·      April 2019 Sentimental Rose Paper Pumpkin Stamp set

·      Petal Pink Card Stock

·      Very Vanilla Card Stock

·      Sahara Sand Card Stock

·      Whisper White Card Stock

·      Calypso Coral

·      Origami Paper

·      Cherry Blossoms Die Set

·      Classic Label Punch

·      Tag Corner Punch

·      ½” Circle Punch

·      ¾” Circle Punch

·      Peekaboo Peach Ruched Ribbon

·      Twine

·      Dimensionals

·      Snail

·      Momento Black Ink

·      Stampin’ Up! Water Color Pencils

·      Blender Pens

Phew, well that was a lot to take in.  Hope you like my card and project for this month.  If you have any questions on anything you’ve seen here, please let me know.  I know there is a lot of information to take in, lol.

So without further ado…please visit the other bloggers in this awesome Blog Hop featuring flowers and Moms.  There are lots of very creative people in this hop, so enjoy!

Stephanie Jandrow

Jo Blackman

Jean Bolen Beaulieu

Teri Pocock

Tiziana Milano - You are here

Kim Quade

Heidi Collins

Katja Ettig

Rachael Rife USA

Maureen Rauchfuss USA

Kim Lamos

Barbara Welch

Anne Marie Hile

Melissa Thomas

Stampin' Friends Blog Hop - Babies!

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!

This month’s theme is Congrats, Grads, Brides & Babies! If you are following along the hop, you have arrived from Barbara Welch's blog. Be sure to read through my blog, comment below and continue to Rachel Rife's blog. If you get lost along the way, you can find a list of Blog Hoppers at the end of each Blog. 

Now for my projects, this month I choose to focus on babies.  I've been meaning to try my hand at making a teepee which I had found on Pinterest quite some time ago.  And what a better way to do this, than to make it as a party favor for a baby shower!


Here are my projects:

I used Stampin' Up!'s stamp set A Little Wild, aren't these just the cutest!  The following is the recipes and some instructions of how they came together.

 

GREETING CARD

SUPPLIES

Stamp Set: A Little Wild

Paper: Whisper White, Soft Seafoam, and Twinkle, Twinkle Designer Series Paper

Ink/Coloring Medium: Momento Black, Crushed Curry and colored pencils

Accessories: Little Loves Framelits, Circles Collection Framelits and Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Card base is 11" x 8 1/2" Soft Seafoam card stock.
2. The next layer is a piece of Whisper White card stock, 4 1/8"x5 3/8".  I then used the circle framelit sized 3 5/8" and die cut out 3/4 of the circle towards the right hand side.  This then gets passed through the Big Shot with the Pinewood 3D Embossing folder.
3. Cut a piece of the Twinkle Twinkle DSP to cover up the circle I cut.
4. On a piece of scrap Whisper White card stock I stamped the bear (both front and back), bee hive and some flowers.  I colored them in with pencils and die cut them out to decorate the circle.
5. On a piece of 7/8"x2 1/2" Whisper White card stock, I stamped the words and some bees.  To give is some contrast, I sponged the edges with Crushed Curry Ink.
6. Also, I used snail for everything except the words and the bear, they are attached with dimensionals.

Now how could I make a card with the "A Little Wild" stamp set and not use both sides.  So, as you can see in the photo, I mimicked the outside of the card on the inside of the card, so I could put the "butt" view of the bear.  That will be quite a surprise for the person receiving this card, don't you think.

For my other project other than a card, I tried my hand at a cute teepee that can be used as a party favor for a baby shower or a first birthday!

TEEPEE FAVOR BOX

SUPPLIES

Stamp Set: A Little Wild

Paper: Grey Granite, Whisper White and Twinkle, Twinkle Designer Series Paper

Ink/Coloring Medium: Momento Black and colored pencils

Accessories: Little Loves Framelits, Pyramid Pals Thinlits and large toothpicks

INSTRUCTIONS

1. I die cut out two pieces of the Pyramid Pals out of Twinkle, Twinkle DSP to create the pyramid box.  
2. Before assembling, I did the following...
3. I trimmed the point at the top of the pyramid so that the tooth picks had enough space to stick out the top.
4. On one of the triangles I cut a slit about an inch from the top all the way to the bottom. And I also cut the bottom to the corners so that I could fold back the pieces to make the opening.  I lined the opening with a piece of Grey Granite card stock.
5. I then glued the toothpicks at each angle of the triangle.  
6. Lastly, I glued it all together to make the triangle box.
7. To decorate the teepee, I stamped one bear and a bee hive and snailed it to front of the teepee in front of the entrance.

If you are going to fill these with candy, I would use repositionable tape to glue the back panel, opposite the door of the teepee.


Well there you have it, my Baby project ideas!  Thanks for stopping by, oh and any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated, since this is my first blog hop!

Don't forget to hop around the other blogs and see what everyone else is making for their, "Congrats, Grads, Brides and Babies" theme - there are lots of very creative people in this hop so enjoy!

Rachel Rife

Teri Pocock

Ketja Ettig

Jean Beaulieu

Kim Quade

Maureen Rauchfuss

Ann Marie Hile

Steph Jandrow

Barbara Welch

Tiziana Milano - you are here!

Scrapbook 101 - February 2020

Hello fellow stampers and crafters.  Just doing some catching up on my blog.  At the end of February I hosted my Scrapbook 101 Class.  We made a mini folio which could be used for just about any occasion.  I pretty much copied Candace's Canvases Mini Album.  Here is a link to her video https://youtu.be/7b9aUuTAmwU.  I couldn't believe how quick and easy it was to put together. 

The book consists of six 6"x13" designer series paper or any patterned paper you have for the inside pages. Scored at 1", 6" and 11".

The cover is a 6"x12" piece of card stock. Scored at 5", 6" and 7".

The spine is a piece of 2"x6". This is scored at 1".

The inside pages get folded in half and glued just at the bottom to the score line.  This creates a pockets so we can add inserts (yay, room for more pictures and memories).

Then you gather all the inside pages (trim about 1/8" of the open side of the folded pages) and tuck the side with the score fold inside the cover.  So once secured in the cover they all become pockets.

I adhered the spine to the cover and held all the pages together and punched three holes on the spine.  Then I fed some ribbon through and tied a bow to hold the pages in.

Then this is where YOUR creativity takes place.  The inserts I made for the pockets are 4.5"x5.5" or 9"x5.5" and scored at 4.5" to create a folded insert (more space for pictures!).

Other than that, just make more pockets where you want them to add inserts.  Or if you glue a picture on a blank page, you can always turn that into a pocket by not gluing either the top or one of the sides.

If you watch Candace's video right to the end, you can see how she finished it.

The ladies in my class where going to use this for all kinds of things.  One put all her favorite pictures in it, another will use it for memorizing her bridal shower and I may use them to house pictures of my nephews. One young lady had brought pictures to add as she was going along!  They all came out awesome! 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my project!


    

    

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Blog Hop!

This month’s theme is Favorites! If you are following along the hop, you have arrived from Katja Ettig blog. 
Be sure to read through my blog, comment below and continue to Kim Quades blog. 
If you get lost along the way, you can find a list of Blog Hoppers at the end of each Blog. 

Here are the projects I created for this month’s hop, since the hop is all about favorites I thought I would showcase my Favorite from Stampin' Up!, Magnolia Lane Suite!  I used this suite for all the things needed for my Wedding: Invitations, Favors, Centerpieces and a 12x12 Scrapbook spread.  

So let's get started!


Here is my Wedding Invitation:

• Card Base: I used the Magnolia Lane Large Specialty Memories & More Cards & Envelopes for the base. This made prepping so much easier.
• Stamp Sets: Magnolia Blooms Stamp Set and Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set
• Ink: Momento Black/Colored Pencils
• Stock: Whisper White, Vellum
• Accessories: Magnolia Memory Dies, Heart Punch, Silver Metallic Thread, Sequins

Here is a view of the inside of the card.

I actually had two favors, one for the men and one for the women.  Here's the one for the women.  A mini calendar that can be hung any where in the home or office.

• The base is a wooden cut out 3.25" x 5".  I drilled two holes in the top corners so I could string some hemp twine to create a loop.
• I covered it with a piece of Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper.  
• Then I made a paper magnolia flower using the Magnolia Memories Die Set.  
• And the phrase comes from Good Morning Magnolia.

Lastly, I made a 12"x12" Scrapbook Spread to add to my Wedding Scrapbook Album.

Here's the recipe for the pages:

1.  Spread Base: Whisper White
2.  Patterned paper is the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper.
3.  All the flowers were stamped and colored and either die cut out or fussy cut.  The images came from Magnolia Blooms Stamp Set and Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set.
4.  The Card with the phrase "You & Me" came from the Magnolia Lane Memories & More Card Pack
5.  Picture mats are Mossy Meadow
6.  The accessories came from Magnolia Lane Cork Embellishments, Butterfly & Heart Wood Elements, Antique Buttons and Pearl basic Jewels.

 Well there you have it, can you see why Magnolia Lane Suite from Stampin' Up! is my "Favorites"  It was the perfect suite for all of my Wedding decor needs!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Oh and any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated seeing as this is my first blog hop.  

Don't forget to hop around the other blogs and see what everyone else is making for their "Favorites" - there are lots of very creative people in this hop! 

Rachael Rife

Jo Blackman (UK)

Teri Pocock

Jean Bolen Beaulieu

Stephanie Jandrow

Katja Ettig

Tiziana Milano **you are here**
Kim Quade

Kim Lamos

Anne Marie Hile

Cheryl Taylor (UK)

Heidi Collins

Barbara Welch
Maureen Rauchfuss