Double Pocket Card

Today's SCS challenge was to make a double pocket card. Boy was this fun! The directions can be found here. I got stuck for a minute on the sixth picture, but I finally got it and when that step was figured out, the card just seem to come together magically! It really is easy to do. I suggest you try it!

I started with this Petals and Paisleys double-sided paper (a necessity for this type of card) because I have so much of it and I chose one that I thought was my least favorite. I didn't think I was going to like this card, so I was stingy with my favorite papers! Well, as it turns out, I really like this! I had these Primas that matched and also used the olive felt SU flower. This is the first time using the Hodgpodge Hardware in the Styled Silver, and boy is it shiny! It's so pretty IRL! I stamped the sentiment from Warm Words in olive on softy sky paper. I only made one tag using old olive, cool carribbean, and whisper white because I thought I may put a gift card in the other pocket. The sentiment on the tag is from Hero Arts and reads "Wishing you a day of smiles and laughter". This was a perfect stamp because it is written vertically, one word per line. At the bottom I stamped a butterfy in cool carribbean. Try doing this card, I guarantee you'll be amazed at how easy and fun it is to do! Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps: Hero Arts, SU: Warm Words

Paper: SU Petals & Paisleys, Soft Sky, Cool Carribbean, Old Olive, Whisper White

Ink: Old Olive, Cool Carribbean

Accessories: Prima flowers, SU felt flowers, HPH in Styled Silver, ribbon, small round punch, Designer Label punch

I'm All Mixed Up!

Well, not really! This was the title of today's Technique Lovers Challenge TLC157. We were supposed to *mix it up* with different patterned papers that we wouldn't normally put together. So, I came up with this dizzy card! I started with Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday sketch #26. I really liked this sketch today, but it took a lot of time figuring out the measurements for this! (Thank goodness one of the subjects I teach is math, with fractions being a big part of that!) I think Julee's sketch was for a square card, but I got it to work just fine. Once I decided on a sketch, I looked for paper. Not a difficult task, you may say, but when you have the stash of paper I have (and I'm sure you have it, too), that is a difficult task! I settled on SU's Ginger Blossom and chose the floral, dotted, and striped papers. The base of the card is river rock, then ruby red on top of that. The rectangles I believe are 1 5/8" x 2 1/2". The squares are 1 1/8". I used Oh So Lovely because I needed a long, thin image. This worked perfectly! When I punched the circles and layered them, they looked too bare. Out came the paper piercer. The circle still looked bare, so out came PTI's Mixed Messages because I needed a sentiment. There are a TON of small sentiments in that one! I was hoping to find a birthday one in there as this is going to my Aunt Vi for her 80-something birthday this weekend. Lo and behold, there was one in there that fit perfectly on that circle! Once I put it all together, the squares needed something, so I punched four flowers from Three For You, put a brad in the middle, and place it on the card with a tiny dimensional. Now I needed something to balance out the other side of the card, so I punched the smaller photo corner in the striped paper. That seemed to do the trick for me. There is glitter on the image to pretty it up a bit! I think I mixed it up pretty good, don't you? Well, thanks for looking and have a great evening!

Recipe
Stamps: Oh So Lovely, PTI Mixed Messages
Paper: River rock, ruby red, very vanilla, Ginger Blossom dp
Ink: Black, mellow moss, ruby red
Accessories: Punches: circles, Three for You, photo corner; brads; paper piercer; dimensionals; glitter

Envelope Pouch

I don't know who comes up with these things, but they are pretty cute! This is for today's Technique Lovers Challenge TLC156. This is actually an envelope and the large tag punch was used to create the handle. Seemed simple enough, only this took me a long time because of those brads! There are brads behind the bow...the ribbon is threaded through them. The only problem is that the paper is too thin to keep them in place properly! They kept falling out! I wasted about three of them!

I used Hand Stitched (retired) background stamped in Regal Rose. I thought it looked like a basket weave. The image is from Spring Gifts (also retired) and is colored with Prismacolor pencils. I used the nestabilities to frame them. I think this is one I won't keep. I'll just salvage the image! Thanks for stopping by! Scroll down to see the other post for today.

Recipe

Stamps: Spring Gifts, Handstitched

Paper: Regal rose, gable green, very vanilla

Ink: Regal rose

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, nestabilities, eyelets, cropadile, ribbon, large tag punch, large oval punch, vanilla envelope