I am trying to finish up a basket of goodies for our soon to be new neighbors. They should be arriving this weekend.
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I used a coaster and designer paper I purchased from the craft store. This time I veered from the stamped and embossed butterfly and choose one I stamped with Staz on ink onto the transparency, flipped it over and colored it with a yellow copic marker. I know it looks green in the photo, but that is mostly because of the green paper it is sitting on. I chose to use a binding clip to attach the post it to the front allowing for easy use of the paper underneath.
Please note, if you are going to take the time to do a big project like this one, at least take the time to dress it up a bit. By this I mean, I love Jackie’s blog and instructions, but the box as well as the contents seem a bit flat. Add dimension, color and layers. Don’t forget a bit of glitter and a splash of wimsey.
It took me approximately four hours to complete this box, mostly because I had to wait for stuff to dry!
Most of the stamped images are stamped with memento ink and colored with copic markers, other images use a celebration kaleidoscope ink for those images. I also used a soft blue polk-a-dot ribbon. I have a bunch of new ribbon, if you are local and would like to share, please email me privately!
I hope you will give this project a try, it is not hard, just a bit time consuming!
What a great day today was! I didn’t get anything accomplished around the house, but I sure got some great stamping done.
I went with my dear friend to the local stamp store, click here for her link. She recently moved into a larger location. The store is open and you feel welcome when you enter. The owner Kim is chatty and fun to shop with! She has a nice selection that is growing daily.
I picked up four sets of Stupendous stamps from her today, three of which are the robot type stamps. I created my own creature who had to be colorful (copic’s baby).
I used some glitter to accent the robot and actual nuts and bolts on the card front. These are also embellished with glitter. The finished card measures a nice 6 X 6″ size.
I hope you have enjoyed this project.
Don’t forget, I have started my own yahoo group, so I hope you will join me there. Once we get about a dozen members, I will be starting some contests, prizes and swaps. I’m really looking forward to more of my personal and cyber friends to join me!
Because of a promise made to a friend, I can only briefly describe how I have been surprised and blessed over the last couple of weeks.
I really love when you are able to let something go and allow the Lord to work in your life and thorough your life. I received an email from an old friend and was so glad that she wanted to be part of my life. Don’t you hate when you loose touch?! I am thankful for her loving letter and her friendship!
On to today’s project. I was bored. That was until the toilet went kablowie. You see when the DH used it this morning the plastic part that raises the valve broke off, so he took the top off and later on I went to use it and gently pulled up on the gasket to flush the toilet when the arm to the fill gasket broke. Now mind you, we had talked about replacing the ‘kit’ for a while now, it just seems that today was that day.
So after all the ‘drama’ of going to the local home improvement center the toilet is again working just fine.
I decided to sit down and get creative. The top project is an altered coaster post it note holder. I used my sizzix machine and cut flowers out of felt. I embellished the wires with different ribbons. I used my bind it all machine for the cutting and binding of the holder. The coasters are stamped with brown ink with the Stamping up French Script set and the edges have been sanded and stippled with the same ink.
For the long note holder, I used the Martha Stewart butterfly, stamped it onto a transparency and cut it out, it is actually a pin and is attached to the ribbon on the front cover. I then stamped random pages with butterflies from another stamp set.
Both projects are a bit time consuming, but worth the effort in the end project.
I hope to do a video tutorial this week on how I use my bind it all to do these great projects.
