Welcome to the July Control Freaks Tour!
You may have just arrived from Cindy's blog where you saw her unique and wonderful projects. Keep clicking on the link at the bottom of each blog and you'll see all 14 Freaks' awesome ideas!
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First up is a clean and simple wedding or anniversary card:
Black and white is a classy combo and this new Beautifully Baroque stamp on page 113 of the US catalog suits it well. This card is embarassingly easy to make! Just one color of ink - Black!
The pretty scallops on the top and bottom are left-over pieces from another project using the Tasteful Trim die. (Save those scraps!) The 'Forever & Always' greeting is from the Loving Thoughts stamp set. A little 2-way glue & Dazzling Diamonds glitter and rhinestone gems and you're done! A great card to mass produce don't you think?
Next I want to share a gift I made my special downline that attended Convention with me. We get hungry during those general sessions and late nights!
These Tag a Bag Gift Boxes are so amazing! They're on page 158 of the US catalog. They fit a bag of trail mix and 4-6 fun size candy bars. There are so many possiblities here. A few other ideas I had are - colored baby socks, toys, cookies, a manicure kit, travel kit, lotions - the list is endless!
I inked a flower from 'Flower Shop' set in Black Stazon ink to stamp on the acetate sleeve. See how the acetate covers the open box and slides off?
The tags and baker's twine are part of the Tag a Bag Accessory kit on the same page. Get them both in a bundle for 15% savings! The tag stamps are from an exclusive set we received at Convention a few years ago.
And now, how about a little Christmas in July?
I made this card for a shoebox swap at Convention. I really, really love this card!! It's almost a one layer card using our Shimmer White card stock. The die-cut snowflakes are from a brand new stamp set and framelits coming out in our Holiday Catalog in August. It's called Festive Flurry. I adhered two of them together to hang in the window, under the bow and the largest is adhered to the inside of the card.The circle window was cut with the 3" Bigz die.
And do you see the other two new items here? Check out the pretty 1/8" Silver ribbon and the gorgeous Rhinestone-adorned embellishment in the center of the snowflake. These items are going to be hot this year!
I used Midnight Muse ink and another new ink in this catalog - Silver Metallic Encore for the second snowflake. Oh, we're going to have a blast playing with the new product in this Holiday catalog!
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And be sure to click on Justin's blog link to keep on going! There's lots more to see!
LeeAnn, I just had to tell you how much I love your fabulous dangly snowflake card! I pinned it immediately as I knew I'd have to CASE it! I've had to wait a bit to get all the goodies but I'm merrily dangling snowflakes now! Thank you SO much for sharing and for the inspiration!
Ruth x
Posted by: Ruth M | September 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM
This is beautiful!
Posted by: Sara | August 08, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Gorgeous use of Festive Flurry LeeAnn. TFS..:0)
Posted by: Nikki Spencer | August 08, 2013 at 07:01 AM
Lee Ann your Christmas card is amazing!
Posted by: Beth Coburn | August 03, 2013 at 10:50 AM
Wow...wonderful decorated box and fabulous Christmas (or Holiday!) ornament card....really great projects!
Posted by: Carol Carriveau | July 29, 2013 at 09:58 PM
So pretty...love how you stamped on the window sheet around the box. And your hanging snowflake is gorgeous! Great seeing you at Convention and CONGRATULATIONS on Advisory Board!
Posted by: Connie Babbert | July 28, 2013 at 08:30 AM
Your Christmas card is just beautiful! (I think I said "WOW!"out loud when I saw it.) Love it & would love to CASE it.
Posted by: D'Ann | July 28, 2013 at 02:29 AM
LeeAnn all your projects are great but that snowflake card is a wowza! Love it!
Posted by: Sandy M | July 27, 2013 at 08:11 AM
Oh that Christmas card!!! I LOVE it!!!! Think I maybe be casing it as well!!
Posted by: Lauri | July 27, 2013 at 06:39 AM
All of your goodies are great but I will be CASEing that Christmas card for sure!
Posted by: Justin | July 26, 2013 at 09:05 PM