Stampin' & Scrappin' Momma

Le Jardin Gift Bag

This adorable gift bag was another project that I made for Fall Fest.  I think this is the simplest one that I completed.

I think it took me all of 10 minutes.  Here it is:

All products are SU! unless otherwise noted.

I started out with a SU! gift sack.  I used a piece of 8 1/2"x11 Soft sky paper and wheeled Always Artichoke using the Baroque Border wheel.    I then cut a piece of the beautiful Le Jardin paper and mounted to the Soft sky.  I cut a strip of Alway Artichoke and used my corner rounder (without the guide) to make the scallop.  I then used a stripped piece behind the vellum in which I stamped Happy Birthday from Happy Everything and embossed it with Black embossing powder.  I attached it to the bag using the square Ice brads.

I then used a piece of chipboard from the new On Board Trimmings (Holiday Mini Catalog) and covered it in Le Jardin paper and backed it vellum.  I punched a hole with my Crop-a-dile and tied it with Always Artichoke.  That's it viola.  TFL!

Halloween Decor

Here is another project that I made for Fall Fest.  It's a cheapie picture frame from Michael's ($1). 

All supplies are SU! unless otherwise noted.

I started out by painting the frame with Making Memories paints and sponging the edges with Creamy Caramel ink.  I stamped the "Happy Halloween" and embossed it with black embossing powder.   I cut a circle (So Saffron)out using my CM system.  I then sponged the edges in More Mustard.  I stamped the bat in Basic Black and added a couple of layers of Crystal Effects.

I cut a couple of rectangles out of the new Basic Gray paper and used my corner rounder punch and corner ticket punch to create the tomb stones.  I then sponged the edges in black.  I cut 2 strips of Wild Wasabi and snipped the tops to create grass.  I made a quick photo corner out of the Creepy Crawly DSP.  ***This is a picture of my 3 munchkins.  I know it isn't a Halloween picture, but hopefully I will get a better Halloween picture than last year, lol***  TFL!

School Days Lunch Box

I think this has to be my favorite project.  It started out as a simple altered lunch box but morphed into something so much more practical.

I decided to add dividers for each MONTH of the school year, plus the 1st day of school.  On the front of each divider I added little index cards so that you could "journal" what happened each month.  At the end of the school year you could pull out your "School Lunch Box" and have the entire year of pictures categorized and "journal-ed".

I'm going to try my first tutorial so please be kind, lol.

For this project you will need the following:

1 lunch tin (available at your local Michael's)

2 sheets of coordinating Designer Series Paper (I used the Simply Scrappin' Kit Primary Colors)

1 piece of coordinating ribbon

3 sheets of Whisper White CS

1 sheet each of Wild Wasabi, Bordering Blue,

  Real Red and So Saffron CS

Paper Cutter

Tab punch

Real Red & Bordering Blue Marker

ruler

Short order alphabet

First you want to cut 2- 3"x12" pieces of paper to be used for the top portion of your lunch tin.

Next you need 2- 1 3/4"x12 for the bottom half.

Now I have seen a lot of tutorials that use Modge Podge to adhere the paper to the tin but I used Sticky Strip which I thought worked a whole lot better.

Apply a couple of pieces of sticky strip to the strips of paper and attach them to the tin. (start the strip in the middle of the side of the tin and it will end at the middle of the other side of the tin (when you apply both pieces they will overlap)

I used a 32" piece of 5/8" ribbon in Real Red to cover up the seam between the two pieces of paper.

I stamped the word "school" using my Big Deal Alphabet in corresponding colors and cut them out. 

Cover the top with a piece of corresponding paper and embellish it how ever you would like.  I used the self adhesive die cuts from the simply scrappin' kit.

Now for the fun part... I cut Whisper white card stock in 4"x6" pieces to use as the dividers.  I printed out the months of the school year from my computer and punched them out using my tab punch.

For the accents under the tabs, I punched out 1/2 tabs in the colored cardstock and adhered it under the tab.

Cut WW CS in pieces 4 1/4" x 2 3/4".  Punch the short edge with your spiral punch.  Take your Real Red and Bordering Blue markers and make lines to simulate ruled paper. (I used the lines of my grid paper as a guide)

And there you have it...I hope that I made it easy to follow.  If you have any questions, please either leave me a comment of email me.  TFL!

Fall Fest - WOW!!!

Fall Fest was FANTASTIC!  As I had mentioned Rhonda Wade #1 DEMONSTRATOR OF THE YEAR spoke to us and it was amazing.  I hung on every word!  Everything she said made complete sense in regards to running a business.  She gave us such great business advice.

Anyway as I promised (I know a couple of days late) here are some of the projects & their directions that I made for Fall Fest.  In addition I'm also go to post some of the Make and Takes that we completed at Fall Fest.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  Also if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.  TFL!

It's Frapp-a-licious

Well I've altered lunch tins, paper boxes, pop-top cans, you name it I've tried it...but this was new for me.  These are the little glass bottles that Starbuck's Frappacino's come it (too cute).  I finally broke down and bought "crack in a bottle" (which it is, I don't drink coffee but I seem to have at least one of these a day.) I'm addicted!!!

These bottles scream to be altered.  They are very easy and I think they came out really cute.  Let me know what you think.  TFL!

All products are SU! unless otherwise noted.  Like I said I started out with the Starbuck's Frappacino bottles.  I cut a piece of the Fall Flowers Designer Paper (about 2 1/2" wide") and adhered it the the bottle with sticky strip.  I then ran a piece of 5/8" ribbon through my Xyron machine to make it into a "sticker".  I then attached it to the middle of the DSP.  I really wanted to use the set called Party Punch (hostess set) only because "I had to have it" and since I received that set I "had" to have the ticket punch, hehe!  Anyway, I stamped the Happy Birthday with Old Olive ink onto Soft Sky CS.  I again stamped it onto WW.  I punched the white circle out and attached it to the Soft Sky piece.  I then punched out the whole thing with the ticket punch.  I attached a 1 3/8" WW circle behind the Soft Sky ticket.  I attached the whole ticket to the ribbon using mini glue dots. I then used my Pixie Pink and Old Olive markers to color in the stamp from Tagger's Dozen.  I stamped that on WW.  I then punched it out with the small tag punch.  I also punched out a piece of Old Olive with the larger tag punch.  I used the silver cord (retired, but we now have the elastic silver cord, which is awesome) and tied it around the bottle for both the ticket and tags. 

I decided that I didn't like the color of the caps so I ran a piece of the Double Stitched Soft Sky ribbon through my Xyron (again to make it a "sticker") and attached it to the outer rim of the cap. (if you click on the pic you will get a better view)  I punched a scalloped circle (love this new punch) from the Designer Paper and Old Olive CS and layered them.  I used one of the medium sized flowers from the pretties kit and a blender pen to color it River Rock.  I attached it to the scallop circles using an Ice Rhinestone brad and then to the cap using sticky strip.  Let me know what you think.  TFL!