Paper Pumpkin Small Tote Bag

Happy Summer, one and all!  This was one of the projects at my June Stamp Club. The Ladies loved them. I was inspired from one I saw on Pinterest, but unfortunately I didn't get the designers name.

As a subscriber to My Paper Pumpkin (Click Here) I am able to also purchase extra refill kits which is what I did here. I loved the 5 x 8 inch heavy duty kraft tote bag with the white ribbon handles so I customized it for my Stamp Club Ladies as a way to carry their cards home this month.  I used the following supplies:

*  Whatever Designer Series Paper you may have on hand. I used some retired paper from Sale-A-Bration. Any combination looks fabulous!  Also select matching cardstock o fyour choice for the Deco Labels layer.

  Top Note Bigz Die  113463   $21.95

  1/2" Circle Punch 119869  $5.95
Since the 1/2" punch fits over the grommet perfectly, just punch one circle in one of your ovals in the bottom half and use that piece as a pattern for the other 3 ovals so they all match!

Extra-Large Oval Punch  119859  $16.95

Tea Lace Paper Doilies  129399  $2.95

Deco Labels Framelits Die  130102  $24.95

From My Heart Clear Stamp Set   126557   $28.95

                                                  (Fuzzy cut with the paper snips)

 Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments   119247  $4.95



Mini Metallic Clothespins   133320  $3.95    or any plain mini wooden clothespins to may have on hand

Stampin' Dimensionals  104430  $3.95

Liquid Multipurpose Glue  110755  $3.95

(Of the adhesives I owned this one held the DSP the best on the kraft bag, snail and fast fuse both wouldn't stick long term.)

Hope you like this cute bag, you could really customize most any gift bag! Have fun!

Recording My Recipe

Based on Roald Dahl's book The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), I made "frobscottle" and "snozzcumbers" for my 5th grade class. Frobscottle is 50% vanilla cream soda and 50% raspberry soda (from Walmart) colored with green food dye. Snozzcumbers were regular and cocoa mixed rice krispy treats formed into "cucumbers" (half of a 9x13 pan cut lengthwise) then frosted with vanilla icing for a crumb coat,  wrapped in black fondant, sprinkled with powdered sugar. They can be chilled or served at room temperature. The snozzcumbers were sliced into 3/4" slices and served. My students absolutely LOVED this treat to celebrate our reading of this wonderful piece of children's literature.

New Annual Catalog has Arrived!

 

Go to my Demonstrator Website:

 

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Click on the word "SHOP" and you'll be able to go through the new catalog, or download your own pdf file to browse through at your leisure.  My next Stamp Clubs are June 14 and 15 and you'll be able to get your new catalog for FREE from me at that time. Enjoy - there are many great and wonderful items to add to your stamping collection. My wish list is growing daily!

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Stamp Club Cards for May

This collection of four cards were our May Stamp Club projects. I wanted something cheerful and fun to create!

 

 

This half easel card is a direct CASE from Sharon Burkert of As the Ink Dries. I just loved everything about it. The color scheme of Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe and Very Vanilla, with a hint of white using the Shimmery White paper to watercolor on. Peaceful Petals is the flower stamp set stamped with Black Stazon ink. Beautiful Wings Embosslit for the small butterflies. Very Vanilla Seam Binding for the bow.

 

 

This is an Artisan Team CASE from Constantly Stamping, Connie Collins. Mine on the left, hers on the right. So it is easy to see how I changed it up. I just loved all the mini banners hanging and I loved her bright color choices of Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Melon Mambo and Pacific Point. I also switched up the card base combo - Modern Medley DSP and Very Vanilla. I do have the say punching all those banners with the Banner Punch was time consuming!!!

 

This is my own original design for a graduation card using our local High School's colors of Cherry Cobbler (maroon) and Crushed Curry (gold) with Basic Black. Using the Alphabet Press Embossing Folder you can either use it with Co'ordinations Cherry Cobbler Paper and sand it or just use plain Cherry Cobbler cardstock. Either way it is a nice result.  The award "metal" is made from  5/8" Black Satin Ribbon, Apothecary Accents framelit, Label Bracket Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Window Punch with your choice of "congratulations" heat embossed with gold embossing powder for "pop!"  This card can be easily changed to match any school's colors.

 

 

This Mother's Day card can be made with any combination of colors and DSP that you have. I had been seeing this combination of Basic Gray and Summer Starfruit and I had to try it, since the Sweet Sorbet DSP from Sale-a-bration was so appealing. The only thing I would do differently than this sample is to stamp the Chalk Talk tag with Black Stazon instead of the Summer Starfruit ink for more contrast. I fussy cut the sentiment so it would have a border on the Extra Large Oval Punch. On the inside of the card I used Delightful Dozen for the mother greeting placed on top of more of the DSP punched with the Scallop Edge punch.  My ribbon accent was a Gray 5/8" Satin Ribbon with the Summer Starfruit Stitched Ribbon glued on top to become one unit for easier tying.

 

Thanks for reading my blog. Happy Stamping!

More Cards from April's Stamp Club Group

Here's the rest of the cards we made at April's Stamp Club. They were all CASEd but tweaked a little bit. Enjoy!

 

Inspired by Vicki Burdick's design. Stamp Set was Simply Sketched, the verse is from Hostess set Express Yourself.  Color Scheme is Very Vanilla, Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, and Real Red. My tweak was fussy cutting and moving the bird to perch on the flower stem. I just love to watercolor on real watercolor paper using the aqua painter and our SU inks.

 

 

Inspired by Leena Girsa's design. Stamp Set was You're Amazing. Color Scheme is So Saffron, Basic Black, along with retired Designer Series Paper. Do you notice the hot air balloons stamped with So Saffron ink on the card base and tag? I hand cut the Basic Black background to the Apothecary Accents framelit. I love how we could punch out the mini tickets from the DSP with the ticket punch and clip them to the corner.

 

Inspired by Mary Brown's Masculine Card design using the Gorgeous Grunge set. Colors are Sahara Sand, Soft Suede, Night of Navy and Whisper White.  My tweak was moving the Night of Navy blotches up higher on the card.  All my stamping ladies said if I'd used Real Red ink, we could have had a "Dexter" card! I said, "No Way! Not my style!"

 

This color scheme was inspired by several cards on Pinterest. The Pool Party, Whisper White and Basic Black color scheme is just so refreshing. I dug out my "old" decorative edge scissors to get the postage stamp look around the Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper. Petite Petal Punch  and Decorative Dots embossing folder also used.

 

This card was inspired by Kylie Bertucci. I just love the Real Red, Basic Black, Basic Gray, and Whisper White color scheme. The stamp set is called Petal Parade that was available during Stampin ' Up!s Sale-a-bration period this spring. The Decorative Dots embossing folder was also a SAB offering. You can add your choice of sentiment with the Decorative Label punch. How I got the Basic Black around the label was I cut the paper in an "X" and spread it equally behind the Whisper White piece.

 

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Cute Bunny Easter Card

I had so much fun designing this Easter card for my April Stamp Club. The idea came together thanks to the Woodgrain stamp sliced into fence pieces and the punch art bunny complete with folded ear!

The color scheme is Pink Pirouette (card base), Pistachio Pudding (behind fence), Baked Brown Sugar (fence), Whisper White (bunny), Melon Mambo (Bunny and sign), Gumball Green (petite petal punched leaves trimmed), and Smokey Slate (sponge technique). The punches you'll need are Petite Petal, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Small Oval (cut in half for paws), Large Oval, Extra Large Oval, 7/8" scallop circle, scallop oval, and small heart. The bunny body is made from half of the second to the largest oval framelit. Thanks to Catherine Pooler's video to show how to tie the one-sided  Melon Mambo Scalloped edged grosgrain ribbon  (retired) so the design still shows. Flowers are finished off with Candy Dots. Face is hand drawn with Basic Black Stampin' Write marker and Uni-ball Signo Gel Pen for eyes, whiskers, and cheeks and ears are sponge daubered with Pink Pirouette. Bunny is layered with Stampin' Dimensionals and Glue Dots. 

Hope this little bunny hops into your heart and wishes you a Happy Easter! Thanks for visiting.

Sparkly Easter Banner Idea

Here's a fun Easter Banner that I designed using complimentary papers and inks (Tangerine Tango, Perfect Plum, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Melon Mambo and Gumball Green.) I used some remaining canvas banner flags that I had. Sponge with daubers a polka dot design using the bright inks on each one using a polka dot stencil. I found a commercial rabbit cut-out that I used to trace for the ears in silver glimmer paper. Then I made rosettes from an assortment of bright colored paper. After scoring the fold lines of the rosettes I added sticky tape to the edge and sprinkled silver glitter glass on the edge, pushing the glitter down into the tape. Then the rosette was folded carefully and hot glued into its circular shape.  The word "Easter" or you could use "Spring" was die cut letters using the silver glimmer paper glued to a matching 1-3/4" punched circle on top of a 2" silver paper scallop circle punch. 1/2" natural cotton twill tape was threaded to assemble the banner. This banner just says happy to me!