Father's Day Card 2019

Here is the Father's day card I created this last year for my dad.  I think it turned out pretty snazzy.

I took various elements and attached them to the card front, like metal paperclips, cardboard letters, cardboard cutouts, buttons, etc.  I then covered the entire front with metal sticky tape and carefully embossed around the images with a bone folder.  I then painted the entire front with black ink and waited for it to dry.  I then took a sanding block and sanded off the raised images to show the silver once again.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Spotlight Christmas Cards

Made some more cute christmas cards - I have a bunch of gift cards to send out, so I needed more cards to send them in...these are pretty simple, just added some pops of color by coloring the blocks with my acrylic pens.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Gnomes in the Woods cards

Made these cute little cards - I stamped some cute "Aspen trees" (Clubscrap kit) on watercolor paper, colored them with Weathered wood distressed ink and matted on colored cardstock.  Stamped "gnome" & "conversation bubble" along with various sentiments on separate piece of cardstock, cut out.  I colored gone with green and red acrylic pens.  Adhered cutout pieces to card front.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Christmas Card Exchange

Christmas Card Exchange

I am involved in an card exchange with a group of ladies online and here is a bunch of the cards I made for the exchange:

I chose 4 colors of paper and cut to size for the card fronts, then cut all 4 card fronts all identical patterns and mix up the colors.  Find different stamps to stamp on each panel - on the black panels I embossed white images with heat gun.  I inked all the edges with red ink before adhering to card backs.  Embellish card front images with stickles.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

I'm Nuts & Bolts about you!!! V-day ideas

Is Valentine's day coming again already?

Here is a Valentine's day "Monster" box my kiddo and I worked up:

Here is some cute "robots" for giving as Valentine's at school for his classmates:

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Loopy Christmas Ornament

Here is a pretty simple ornament that the boys and I made up this year. I used some red patterned and green patterned papers from previous years retreat kits from ClubScrap.

Very simple project but be sure and have some paper clips handy to hold pieces together while the glue is drying.

Instructions:

Cut green pieces 5.5 in long and 1 inch wide. Red ones can be shorter, like maybe 4 inches. This doesn't have to be precise. Our ornament turned out fairly large, so if you want it smaller, cut your pieces shorter.

Fold a loop into each of the green pieces and adhere the two ends together. Now you could use roller

adhesive if you like, but i wanted to ensure it didn't fall apart in storage, so I used liquid adhesive for mine. In my case I used small clips to hold them together while drying.

Once you have all the green ones folded and adhered, and dried - then fold the red ones, put adhesive on both sides of the ends of both red flaps and adhere in between two green ones, again hold with a clip. Once those - sets of green/red/green dry - adhere all the sets together.

You can add an additional extra long folded piece for the 'hanger'. I cut mine about 8 inches long and 1/2in wide. I then cut and matted a circular photo in the center of the ornament.


The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

2 Tiered Beaded Ornamant

Here is a real quick easy ornament - it turns out pretty small - perfect for hanging on a tree! or you could even make these as attachments to your gifts as a small embellishment!

Instructions:

Cut (6) Red patterned pieces 3 in long and 1/2 in wide.

Cut (6) Green patterned paper pieces 3 in long and 1/2 in wide.

Cut (4) Red patterned pieces 2 in long and 1/2 in wide.

Cut (4) Green patterned paper pieces 2 in long and 1/2 in wide.

Once cut - poke or punch a small hole in each end, centering the hole about 1/4th in from each end. Use a bone folder to sort of train the paper into a bended crescent or "moon" shape (see photo). Take a 2 in head pin and feed all 12 of the 3 inch pieces onto it. make sure you go red/green/red/green and keep the pattern of the paper facing down as you add them. Now carefully - take the bottom (first one) paper and fold up, insert opposite ends hole onto the head pin. Repeat with the next piece of cardstock and the next until you have a complete "ball" created.

Repeat the same process with all of the 2 in pieces, creating another smaller 'ball'. Use a pair of jewelry pliers to finish off the 2 in head pin with a loop. From here you can add some beads to dangle from the ornament. From the other end of the headpin, add a piece of ribbon to use as a hanger.

Finished ornament is about 2in x 3in.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Project - Cupcake boxes (kids' birthday)

Well my kiddo wanted to have his birthday party at "The Zone" and he only wanted 3 friends to join him. When I asked about whether or not I could bring in cupcakes - didn't figure I needed a whole cake for 5 kids - they said NO due to some law...so I decided to make the cupcakes and send them home with the kids in their goodie bags, so they weren't *eating* them at the facility. So I found a pattern for a box at donteatthepaste.com site. Their pattern was for printing out, cut and fold, but I wanted my own patterned paper (from ClubScrap Matrix kit) - I cut a hole in the top of each box and glued in some acetate, so that you could 'see' the cupcake in there. I think they turned out pretty nice.




The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Project - Valentine's day suitcase

So I wanted to make a box to hold a couple of different valentine's for a friend of mine.

So for this little project, I altered a cereal box. I first taped the box closed and then cut the front panel so it would open up.

I then took pink cardstock and used all sorts of stamps (from the ClubScrap FIZZ kit) to decorate it. I then modge podged all of the stamped cardstock onto the box.

I then cut some strips of purple cardstock to wrap about the box. In addition I used my nestibilities dies to cut corner pieces, hopefully giving it more of an old fashion look.

I also cut some pink nestibilies and created the 'buckles' on the front.

For the closure, I just punched two circles, attached to the case with brads, and used string (that I inked purple) to wrap around the fastners.

Thanks for stopping by...



The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Project - "IPOD" Valentine's day gift exchange

Ok so this is what we settled on for the boys to give to their classmates this Valentine's day. We got 'sweet hearts' and wrapped them in various shades of colors (I used all sorts of pieces of card stock from my Pounds of Paper packs from ClubScrap for this).

Supplies needed:
Cardstock
String
Candy (rolos, mini reeses, hershey kisses)
aluminum foil
printed front pieces

optional
Clear plastic bags

Instructions:

1. Start by cutting approx 12 in pieces of sting for the ear buds and adhere to the box at one end.

2. Then wrap your box with the cardstock.

3. I printed out the template for the front of the ipod from here. Trim out the pieces and adhere to the front of the cardstock.

4. Cut a circular piece of aluminum foil about 3 inches wide, place the piece of candy (can be mini reese peanut butter cup, candy kiss, or rolo) and the end of the ear bud string in the center and wrap. This will hold the candy onto the string creating the illusion of an earbud. Repeat for other one.

I picked up some packs of clear plastic valentine's bags from the $1 spot at Target (20 bags per pack). I put the ipod and earbuds in the bag, rolled over the top edge and stapled a folded piece of cardstock at the top. I then printed out a "Because you rock..." sentiment and added to label. Also found a nice heart shape made out of little IPOD photos for putting on the label. I figured if I left them all in one big bag - they were going to be a tangled mess by the time the kiddos handed them out, so putting them into individual bags is a nicer option for us.

Now we have one kiddo in one of the kids' class that is allergic to peanuts - so instead of sweet hearts - we did a huge box of skittles (movie theatre size), wrapped it just like the rest (just lots larger), and instead of reeses for the ear buds - we used heart shaped erasers.

Ok well there you have it. Thanks for stopping by.





The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin