Some More SAB Calendar Gifts

Hi!

I'm back, as promised, with the other three calendars I made as gifts for my family.

To make construction of the five calendars a bit quicker and easier I did it in a bit of a production line.  First I chose and cut the DSP I wanted to use from the Sycamore Street DSP pack. I then chose the cardstock colours to coordinate.  I stuck to three colours to simplify the process a little - Island Indigo, Pool Party and Rich Razzleberry.

Once I'd cut all the pieces, including the Scallop Square Bigz Clear die cut on the Big Shot, I started assembling each calendar.

Finally came the embellishing - the punches, stamping and bling.  Best part? They all fold down flat for convenient mailing!

Bye for now,

Tina

Some SAB Calendar Gifts

Hi!

Every second Christmas I travel home to see my family for the holidays.  I love going to catch up with my mum and sisters and their families.  When I returned this year I decided to make each of them a small gift to thank them for their hospitality.  I had some calendars left over from my calendar class last year, so I decided to make them an easel calendar each.

I used the gorgeous Sale-A-Bration exclusive Sycamore Street DSP. It's lovely and bright - perfect for cheerful projects.

The colours I chose to use - Rich Razzleberry and Pool Party - are from the DSP colour palette.

I also used the SAB stamp set Bloomin' Marvelous for the sentiment and the rest of the stamping on the Decorative Label punchie.

I used the same colours on the second calendar, I just switched the DSP to a different pattern. Easy peasy!

I'll be back soon with more of the calendars I made.

Bye for now,

Tina

Just Add Ink #150: Sketch Challenge

Hi!

It's Friday again, and nice to get back into the routine of a Design Team post on a Friday. This week at Just Add Ink Mae has given us a fantastic sketch to play with.

Isn't it a great sketch? You can interpret it any way you'd like.  I substituted the flag ends for the wavy lines.  What will you do?

I decided to use one of the larger frames from the Peekaboo Frames Bigz L die to create the focal panel of my card. The sentiment is from the Sweet Essentials Stamp set.

I used the smaller scallop punch from the Holiday Catalogue to create the scrunched flower on the front of the card. They are really easy to make - just punch about 5-8 scallop circles, pop a brad through the middle and then scrunch them up one layer at a time.  You then just open it out again to achieve your desired look.

Here's what's under the flap. The sentiment is from Perfect Punches and the flower is from one of the new Sale-A-Bration sets, Bloomin' Marvelous.

I deliberately left the inside blank (except for the flags of course!) as I don't know what I'll use this card for yet.  I'll stamp it when I know!

I hope to see you over on the Just Add Ink blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

Stampin' Cookies

Hi!

Apologies for the late post today.  The kids and I have been enjoying the last few days of the summer holidays. I also got a Thermomix recently and was keen to try out a few recipes.  We're all big fans of ginger bread biscuits so we decided to give them a whirl in the Thermomix.

 

Oooh yum! We baked them this morning, and now it's nearly 5pm and the batch is all gone! Well, except for the ones I kept aside to give to Poppy for his birthday today. Definitely a winner, and the process was made lots of fun for the kids with Stampin' Up!'s Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. So quick and easy for the kids to do - just roll the dough into a ball, stamp down and bake. I rolled one ball first so they could see the size they needed to make theirs (you can see it at the front) and then I just left them to it.

 

You don't need a Thermomix to make these biscuits, but you definitely need some of Stampin' Up!'s Cookie Stamps!

 

Bye for now,

 

Tina

A Bloomin' Marvelous Sneak Peek

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The biggest promotion of the Stampin' Up! year starts tomorrow.  Sale-A-Bration is nearly here! As usual Stampin' Up! Demonstrators have the opportunity to get their hands on some of the SAB products before the promotion starts and have fun creating some projects.  One of the first things I ordered was the SAB stamp set Bloomin' Marvelous which has 4 images and 4 sentiments.  Here's a birthday card I made with the set.

 

The card started off as a CASE of one by Mary Fish. I ended up changing it quite a bit though. The colours I used were Island Indigo, Sahara Sand and Summer Starfruit.

 

 

I stamped the envelope to match. I'm going to try hard to stamp the envelopes this year - one of my New Year's Stampin' Resolutions!

 

 

Here's the inside of the card. I used the Memorable Moments stamp set for the inside sentiment.

 

Can't wait to play some more with this set!

 

Bye for now,

 

Tina

Just Add Ink #149: Big Shot Blog Hop

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It's Friday and it's time for the Just Add Ink Challenges to kick of for another year of fun and creativity!

 

We thought we'd start the year with a blog hop with a focus on the Big Shot, so the challenge for you this week is to make a creation using the Big Shot, or other die cutting machine. The blog before mine on the hop is the very talented Christine's, just keep on hopping round 'til you get back to where you started.

 

I thought I'd show you the gift card holders I made for gifts this past Christmas using the Two Tags Die.

 

 

Here's a little tutorial on how I made them.

 

 

After cutting the tag from cardstock you need to score along half an inch from the bottom and fold the flap upwards.

 

 

Apply your choice of adhesive to the flap you just created.

 

 

Cut a strip of DSP to 6 inches by 2 inches and apply adhesive to one end as shown. I used DSP from the Merry Moments Simply Scrappin' Kit.

 

 

You then wrap the DSP around the tag, adhering at the flap and centre back as you go. 

 

 

Now you just decorate as you desire. Easy! I also added some Seam Binding Ribbon so I could hang it from the Christmas Tree.

 

 

I hope you've found this tutorial useful, don't forget to link your Big Shot creations at the Just Add Ink blog for us all to see.

 

Now you are hopping over to Chantell's blog for some more beautiful Big Shot happiness. If you get lost along the way just pop back to the Just Add Ink blog for the links.

 

Bye for now,

 

Tina

Some More Gift Boxes

Hi!

On Monday I showed you the gift boxes I had made for Christmas Gifts.  Today I have more boxes, but these ones were thank you gifts for two special ladies.

 

I wanted to thank Lia and Isabel, the two creative genius minds behind Camera Creche. They had most generously given me a spot in their photography course and I had had a fabulous time learning how to use my DSLR in Manual Mode.

 

 

While I made these boxes, the design is not my own. They are based on the boxes we made as Make and Takes at Convention in 2012.

 

 

The ladies loved them!

 

Bye for now,

 

Tina