Flowerbug's Inkspot

Prom SB Layout

Here is the other layout we made at April's scrapbook club & class.

My son Isaac and his girlfriend are on the left and the other couples including two of his good friends are on the right.  The boys had a good time at their senior Prom.  Where have the years gone! He's my third and last child at home.....

Wasn't I lucky the girls dresses coordinated?  That sure made my decision on colors easy!

I sure love this layout!!.  It would work for any event.  I used many colors of our Designer Series Paper stacks in 4" wide strips, cutting pennant shapes at the bottom.  Heads up - these patterned paper stacks are on the discontinued list!

Besides the 12" White card stock for the base pages and Black for the photo mats I used the Top Note die, Typeset Alphabet Bigz dies and rhinestones.  That's it!  This is my kind of scrapbooking - fast and fabulous!   

Congrats Grad!

After I designed this card for my April Card Clubs I liked it so much I cut out 26 more for the Demo swap this week in Fiji.  I hope you like it too!

Isn't it pretty?!  I have always loved Red, White and Black and I found out that Cherry Cobbler, White and Black is also a hit.  Here I included a bit of Basic Gray to soften it.

This is the inside of the card - the Scallop Envelope die is perfect for either a gift card or $$.

Supplies:

• Stamps – Pure Gumption, Blue Ribbon
• Card stock – White, Black, Basic Gray, Real Red or Cherry Cobbler, patterned prints designer series paper
• Ink – Basic Gray, Black
• Accessories – Big Shot, Honeycomb, Square Lattice embossing folders, dimentionals, 1 ¼” & 1 3/8” circle, large oval, 2 2/3” scallop circle punches, Baker’s Twine, Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die, Scallop envelope Bigz die, Brads, piercing tool and ma, markers

Measurements – Basic Gray – 5 ½” X 8 ½” scored in half, Black – 4 X 5 ¼”, Gray strip – 5” X 1 ½”, Cherry or Red rectangle – 2 ½” X 3 ½”, inside White layer – 4” X 5 ¼”

Best of Flowers.....

Inspired by Pinterest once again!

I try not to spend too much time on Pinterest but now and then it's relaxing to browse and spend an hour to see what's out there.  I especially enjoy looking at recipes, home decorating and crafts.

Sometimes a mostly White card strikes me as simply beautiful - pure and serene. I could have added a layer of color but I left it as is.....

Supplies:

• Stamps - Best of Flowers, Blooming with Kindness
• Ink - Wisteria Wonder, markers - Wisteria and Wild Wasabi
• Card stock - Whisper White!
• Accessories - Fancy Fan embossing folder, Delicate Doilies Sizzlits, Big Shot, White taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, 2 1/2" circle punch

Rainbow Birthday Card

Look at this bright & colorful Birthday card.

I saw a similar card on Pinterest and loved the rainbow effect. (Added later - I found the person I cased here.)  If you want to make easy Pinwheels, get the Pinwheel Sizzlit!  It cut's the shape out with holes for the center brad all at the same time.

You may wonder how I got the white dotted clouds on my Pacific Point card stock.  I inked my Cloudy Day folder with my brayer and Whisper White craft ink before running it through my Big Shot.  

Supplies:

• Stamps - Make a Wish
• Ink - White craft, markers - Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo
• Card stock - Lucky Limeade, Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Sunshine & Sprinkles designer series paper
• Accessories - Cloudy Day embossing folder, brayer, Pinwheel Sizzlits S Die, Designer printed brads, piercing tool, glue dots, toothpick colored with Daffodil marker, 3/8" Striped Organdy ribbon

The Freaks Birthday Bash

It's another Control Freaks blog hop - this time featuring Birthdays!

Whether you've just arrived or traveled from Dannie's blog you can continue on to see tons of birthday ideas!  Just click on the icon at the bottom of this page to see them all.

We made this card at my friend Clarisse's workshop last week.  Her favorite technique is embossing and everyone loved the card.  I worried it was a bit much for the beginners but they were wow'd by their first time of heat embossing!  It's great to have newbies fall in love with this hobby!

The gorgeous Swallowtail stamp was inked with Versamark & heat embossed using clear embossing powder on the large Soft Suede card stock. Don't you love the Soft Suede and Pool Party combination?!  

Supplies:

• Stamps - Swallowtail (Spring catalog), Papaya Collage, Papillon Potpourri, Friendly Phrases
• Ink- Versmark
• Card stock - Pool Party, Soft Suede
• Accessories - embossing buddy, heat gun, Clear embossing powder, Pool Party seam binding ribbon, dimensionals, Pearls jewels

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Next - I always have an excess of cards and non-stampers love to get them too! It's the perfect gift for those who have everything.  I'm always looking for a cute bag or container to put them in and found this homemade card box!

I made it from one sheet of Island Indigo card stock and a few extras to pretty it up a bit like our 5/8" crochet trim, Natural Composition Specialty paper and wood buttons.  *I am going to add a magnetic closure I found at a hobby store when I can find my stash of them! 

It can fit at least 10 cards and envelopes inside.  Love this nice, deep box!  Here's the template I used:

Start out with a 11" square of card stock.  You will need to use the SU Diagonal Simply Scored plate to complete this.  On two sides score at 3 1/2 & 5 1/2".  On the other two sides score at 4 1/2" & 6 1/2".  Cut off the little side triangles as shown here and cut into and up to the middle most score line to form your flaps.  Easy!

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And lastly is a card we're making for Melissa's workshop tonight!

I saw a similar card on Pinterest and knew it would work for Melissa.  She loves bright, happy cards.

First punch out a Blossom from your White card stock, then texture the large piece with the Perfect Polka dots embossing folder.  Adhere it with dimensionals to a slightly larger piece (4" X 5 1/4") of Summer Smooches designer series paper.  I added one of the new Designer Builder Brads on page 12 of your Spring catalog. They are fun!

Here's the inside view:

I had that leftover Blossom punch from the card front sitting on my desk and decided to use it inside the card.  And I also had these 3/4" strips of dsp left over from the card front too.  I love finding new ways to use up my leftovers.  I embellished the white Blossom with the new Spring Surprise products - the 7/8" scallop circle punch and coordinating 'A Round Array' stamp set. 

Supplies:

• Stamps - Bring on the Cake, Itty Bitty Bits, A Round Array
• Ink - Real Red, Tempting Turquoise
• Card stock - Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Whisper White, Summer Smooches dsp
• Accessories - Blossom punch, 7/8" and  1/4" scallop circle, 1" circle, Boho Blossoms punch, Itty Bitty punch pack, Designer Builder brads, dimensionals,
  

Now you're off to see what Justin has to share with you.  Enjoy the tour!

Happy Times Layout

Here's what we are making today at Scrapbook Class.

My inspiration was a sketch I found online.  Do you love sketches too?  They are a great starting point for scrapbooking or card making.

I used the Summer Smooches designer series paper pack as my starting point for colors.  Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry and Island Indigo.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Feel Goods, Morning Post Alphabet, Perfectly Penned
• Ink - Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry marker
• Card stock - Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Summer Smooches dsp
• Accessories - 2 1/2" circle, Large Oval, scalloped oval punches, Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die, In Color polka dot brads, piercing tool and mat, Hearts framelits, SAB buttons

Petal Cone Lolipop holder

We made this cute lollipop treat holder a few weeks ago at my Big Shot class.

Basically it's one die-cut from the Petal Cone die, folded in half and secured at the side seam.  the cute Tangerine half scallop is also one of the die-cuts on this die.  This project also fits a small scissors!  You can cut it from fabric, even fleece, and just use fabric glue to hold the seam.  A great gift idea.

Do you see how the button looks like it's sewed on?  I just used my White gel pen on it!  Love that!

The dsp, button and ribbon I used here are from the Sale a Bration Sycamore Street flyer, now over.  I hope you got some when it was available!  Love the colors! 

Doily Wedding Dress Tutorial

Check this out! 

We made these cards at my Card Clubs in March.  Sooo pretty! They may look complicated but they're really quite easy! 

I designed this card using the All Dressed Up Pop 'n Cuts die and coordinating framelits.  Love the Pool Party, White and Black combo. 

Here are the steps for the skirt using our beautiful doilies (24 for $2.95 in the Spring Catalog).

First fold a doily like above; not quite in half.

Now fold one side over like this.  You'll see three curves or swoops on this side now; two at an angle on the top and one complete on the bottom.

Next fold over about 1/2" of the top tip to the back side.  This flat area will be the waist of your skirt.

Here it shows the back side after you've folded over the tip. 

Next I'll show you how I made the bodice of the dress.

I adhered a full doily to a piece of White card stock using a very little bit of Tombo multipurpose glue. Then cut this doily piece into quarters.  Each quarter will give you one bodice. 

The main reason you do this layering step is so when you punch it out you have something substantial to punch.  Most punches do not like thin paper. 

Now you'll use your Full Heart punch on the above piece. 

Cut off slivers from the side of this heart piece as shown above. 

Adhere the bodice to the skirt.

This shows the back side of the complete dress.

Now you'll wrap a piece of ribbon around the waist and secure it in the back with glue dots.

I slipped in a longer piece of ribbon through the waist band securing it with glue dots and adding a pearl.

Of course you'll want to embellish with more pearls or even rhinestones.  So pretty!!

*****WOW!*****  

See more Dress-Up Cards on Pinterest here!

Supplies:

• Stamps – One in a Million, Best of Love
• Card stock – Shimmer White, Black Pool Party,
• Ink – Pool Party, Black
• Accessories – Big Shot, Fancy Fan or Lacy Brocade embossing folder, Dress Form Pop ‘n Cuts die, Dress Up Framelits dies, Doilies, Apothecary Accents and Labels Collection framelits, Pearls jewels, dimentionals, Full Heart punch, Pool Party satin ribbon (Sale a  Bration)

 Measurements – Shimmer White – 4 ¼” X 11”, scored at 5 ½”, Pool Party die layer – 4” X 5 ¼”, Black strip ½” X 4 ¼”

Peek-a-Boo Treat

We made this at a recent Big Shot class:

I cannot remember where I found these little candies, but I know I bought them because I loved the colors! 

We die-cut two Calypso Coral flowers from one of my favorite flower dies - Fun Flowers Bigz L.  The filled 1 X 8" cello bags are sealed and sandwiched between the two flowers. Did you know these bags come in packs of 50 for just $2.50?!

We then cut out one Turquoise peekaboo frame from the 'Peekaboo Bigz L die and placed a stamped greeting underneath it.  The 1 1/4" circle punch fits under it perfectly. 

I'm so glad Calypso Coral made it into the next catalog!  I've always loved the Coral colors.

Vacation Scrapbook Layout

Here is one of the layouts we made at March's Scrapbook Class:

I love these eye catching colors!  Cherry Cobbler, Midnight Muse, More Mustard, Always Artichoke on Sahara Sand base pages. 

There's quite a bit of heat embossing here using Versamark and clear embossing powder - the Midnight Muse strips were wheeled with a Versamark ink cartridge (homemade) and the Alhambra jumbo wheel.  The swirl from Everything Eleanor is also clear embossed.

The title is done with the Broadsheet Alphabet.  They're stamped with MIdnight Muse ink, punched out with a 1 1/4" circle punch and layered with 1 3/8" Cherry Cobbler punched circles.

The journalling tag on the left is cut out with the Two Tags Bigz die, then inserted in the More Mustard pocket. The large ribbon-like rick-rack in Cherry was cut out with my favorite Bigz XL die - Tasteful Trim.

Double-Time Embossing

I promised you I'd post a tutorial for this technique last week and I totally forgot!  So sorry!!

So here goes!

First you will need to create your card board shims.  I used thin card board like the White board included in the back of our Designer Series Paper packages.  I adhered to layers together.  They measure 2" X 4" and 1" X 4".  *In hindsight I would probably make them 4 1/2" across to accomodate our new, wider embossing folders.

Insert your card stock inside the embossing folder you're using.  I started with the Perfect Polka dots folder.  Then lay the card board shim on top of the embossing folder where you want the embossing to show.  Tip: I added a bit of adhesive to keep the shim in place.

***You can see that I am using all tabs on my Multipurpose Platform but no acryllic plate underneath the folder.  I did add one acryllic plate over this before rolling it thru my Big Shot.

This is what you'll get after that step.  The shim you added is the only place there was enough contact to emboss as it was run through. 

Next you'll use a different embossing folder.  I chose the Framed Tulips folder.  (Our Delicate Designs or Adorning Accents folders would work here.)

Place your card stock inside the Tulips folder so the line of tulips starts just where the polka dots stop.  Close the folder and place it on your Multipurpose Platform with all tabs down as before.  Lay the 1" card board shim over the tulips area.  Add a clear acryllic plate and run it through the Big Shot.

This is what you'll get - a fantastic embossed border! 

Now, do the same thing on the other side of the polka dot embossing.

This is your last step!  After you run this one through you'll have a tulip border framing your polka dots in the middle. 

Thanks for stopping in.  I hope you'll try this technique!  I am excited to try this with lots of different embossing folders. 

Dress Up Pop 'n Cuts

Today's the last day of the discount to become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator!  Remember you can join Stampin' Up! for just $99 and get $156 in product!  Even the shipping is free - just pay tax.  If you have a long wish list, I honestly think it's the best deal for your money!  It's up to you whether you run a business or just get a discount for awhile!  

We made this card at last week's Big Shot class: 

I saw a similar card online and knew it would be the perfect thing for my class.  I used Raspberry Ripple, White and Sahara Sand card stock. 

Lots of details here!  Here they are, step by step with the items from the Spring Catalog marked in Red:

1. Run the Sahara Sand layer (4 X 5 1/2") through the Big Shot using the Framed Tulips folder.
2. Run a small piece of Raspberry Ripple card stock through the Big Shot using the Dress Up Framelits. 
3. Use the Delicate Designs embossing folder to add the scalloped embossed trim on the bottom of the dress.  Make sure you get a full scallop in the center of the dress! Now do the same on a small piece of White card stock. 
4. Then use the Large Scallop Edgelit to create the coordinating scallop cut on the bottom of your embossed area. 
5. Adhere the Raspberry dress over your White embossed piece and use a scissors to trim it to match the outer curve. 
6. Wrap a piece of White taffeta ribbon around the waist and secure in the back.
7. Sponge a flower trim rose with ink and adhere to the dress with a glue dot.
8. Create the purse by embossing a piece of White card stock with the Delicate Designed folder and then punch a 1 1/4" circle from it, straightening the sides if desired.  For the clasp add a 3/4" partial circle from Raspberry Ripple card stock.  Rhinestone accent.

Here's the inside!

I used the Card Base and Dress Form Pop 'n Cuts die on a 4 1/4" X 11" piece of White card stock and my Big Shot. This creates the pop-up window. I LOVE the shape of the curved card here!  

I cut off the top of the dress form and added a layered greeting instead.  I used the Feel Goods stamp set on a 2 1/2" circle punch.  It's layered on the scallop circle cut from the Perfect Pennants Bigz die. 

Spring Banner

Here is the banner Lorisa made at our last downline shoebox swap:

So cute!  She gave us a choice of words we could spell out and had everything ready for us. All we had to do was to adhere the letters.  What a time saver!  It looks so good in my studio too!

Here's a close up:

She used Twitterpated designer series paper, the Perfect Pennants Bigz die and the Typeset Alphabet.

Thanks for a great project Lorisa!   

 

Need for Speed?

Do you need card ideas for your special men?  We made this card at my Card Clubs this month:

It was a big hit with my gals; especially the embossed faux metal technique.  You may think it's aluminum foil but it's not!  I used sticky back tape commonly used on forced air metal duct work.  It's found on a roll at your hardware store for less than $10. 

As I've said before you could use aluminum foil but you'd best adhere it to a piece of card stock very well before embossing it.  The problem with foil is that is loses it's texture very easily.  Each time you touch it, or press it to adhere it loses the texture. 

Here we heat embossed the car from the Need for Speed stamp set with Silver embossing powder.  The greeting could be a little tease or play on words for some men who can only 'wish' for a sports car or fun 4 wheeler like these! 

Here's another version with the 4 wheeler included in this stamp set. And here is the simple way we stamped the inside of the card.

Supplies:

• Stamps – Need for Speed, Bring on the Cake, Delightful Dozen   
• Card stock – Black, Pacific Point 
• Ink – Black Stazon, Versamark,
• Accessories – Chevron embossing folder, Big Shot, Paper piercing tool, mat and Essentials piercing pack, silver metal duct tape, silver brads, dimensionals

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Contact me or go here to order!

Control Freaks Spring Hop

It's time again for another blog hop with the Freaks!  This month's theme is Spring or Easter. 

Finally I can start playing with flowers again!  I love stamping for Christmas  and other occasions but flowers are my first love.

You may have arrived from my friend Barb's blog.  Weren't her projects great? 

First up I have a spring-like card featuring a fun punch trick.  Gotta love those punches! 

I called this technique 'dropped circles' on a previous card.  But these strips are horizontal so that doesn't quite work here.... 

I cut 5 strips of pastel colored card stock - So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Wisteria Wonder and Bashful Blue.  I made sure these measured slightly less than 1 1/4" in width.  You'll see why next.

I inserted a piece of card stock (Marina Mist here) in the punch where you'd usually put it.  This piece helps for the next step.  Now put your 1 1/4" card stock strip (pink here) in through the back of the punch, not where you usually put it though!  See how only half of the strip will be cut in a half circle?  The blue card stock helps you insert it easily and not get caught on the inner metal parts of the punch. 

I used the Spring Sampler stamp set in the Spring catalog, stamping them in coordinating ink color on Whisper White card stock and punching them out with a 1" circle punch.

The greeting verse is from the 'Rain or Shine' stamp set and stamped onto a White die-cut from the Lots of Tags Sizzlits.

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Next is a pretty flower I saw on Pinterest:

I made a flower from our Blossom punch.  I used just 5 Raspberry Ripple Blossom punched pieces to get this beautiful flower. 

The box is one of our Kraft boxes on page 161 of the main catalog.  I covered it with pieces of our More Amore Specialty dsp and added an embossed tag from the Pop-Up Posies kit on page 18 of the Spring catalog.  The 'just for you' stamp is also from the same Posies kit. 

****I'll be posting a step-by-step tutorial to create this flower next week.  

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The next card is one we made at a recent workshop.  

This simple yet pretty card was cased from my talented friend Susie Wood.  It's so easy too!

We stamped the single 'Easter Blessings' stamp first using Lucky Limeade ink and then die-cut it with the new Oval framelits.  It's added to a Pretty in Pink labels framelit piece and then to one of our pretty doilies.  The patterned paper pennant is cut from Sunshine & Sprinkles designer paper in the Spring catalog. 

It's finished off with a little butterfly stamped with the Sale a Bration stamp set 'Bloomin' Marvelous' and then punched with the Itty Bitty Butterfly punch.  Remember, the Sale a Bration promotion is over in just a few days!

And now you're off to see the beautiful cards Yvette has to share with you.  Enjoy the tour!