Eggcelent Box & Chick Cards

This is the perfect gift to give anyone, big or small, for Easter!
This would also be a great gift for someone who just had a baby. You could add pink bows for a girl or blue bow ties for a boy!
The egg box flips up to open and fits three chick cards with 3” x 3” envelopes or more.
You do not need 12” x 12” paper for this project, only 8 ½” x 11”!

CLICK HERE to get the directions for this project!

Heart Flower Valentine Diabetes Tutorial

Here is my Heart Flower Valentine Tutorial!
This tutorial is only $1 and ALL of the proceeds from this tutorial will go towards our Downhill for Diabetes ski and snowboard event to help find a cure for diabetes!
I used the Heart Framelits for the Big Shot, and the Loved Ones and Take it to Heart stamp sets from the 2012 Occasions Mini catalog for this project. I also used the Everyday Enchantment DSP from the 2012 Sale-a-Bration catalog that you can get for free with a $50 purchase! You can easily change out any of the items that you don't have.

(See the Sale-a-Bration catalog here.)


Thank you for your wonderful contribution to help find a cure for diabetes. If you would like to see more details or join us at our event, Feb. 26th 2012 at Pico Mountain Resort, see our website for more information!
http://www.donationsfordiabetes.org/

Tasteful Trim Paper Roses Mini Tutorial - FREE!

Here is my Tasteful Trim Paper Roses Mini Tutorial! I saw a picture of flowers somewhere a long time ago made this way, and bought this die to make them. I never got around to it then, and when I sat down to do it, I couldn't find the other picture! So, I have come up with my own way to do this. I'm not sure if it is the same way as in the photo I saw a long time ago, but if it was you who came up with this idea, let me know and I will link you!
These are so simple to make using the Tasteful Trim die! You can get the FREE tutorial below!
I did not have floral tape for the stems, but I think that would make them look better and make it easier to keep the leaves on.

CLICK HERE

to get the FREE tutorial!

These would be the perfect gift for Valentine's Day for a loved one! I thought they would also make great wedding or prom corsages or boutonnieres. Then you will have them forever!

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cards & Box

Here is my Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cards & Box Project. You can make strawberry cards or paper strawberries* to put in your box!
This would be a great gift for Valentine’s Day, a wedding or for someone special any time of the year!
This box is similar to the box shown on page 9 of the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog. It would go great with the P.S. I Love You stamp set, however you do not need it to make this project.

*The paper strawberries are not my original design. I have seen them many places and thought they would look cute with the box and cards. The directions for them are included in the tutorial for fun.

CLICK HERE
to see more details or to get the tutorial for this project!

Apothecary Labels Cards & Box

Here is my Apothecary Labels Cards, Envelopes and Box Project!
It includes three differently styled cards that all open up their own way with envelopes that match. The box fits at least two of each card style and six envelopes (or less if you would like). This project uses many items from the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog, however you can change up the colors and stamps and make these cards any way you would like! Enjoy them! These cards would be great for any occasion!
Cards are approximately 5-1/2" x 4-3/4". You do NOT need 12" paper for this project.

CLICK HERE
to see more details or to get the tutorial for this project!

Valentines Framelits Cards and Box

Here is my Valentines Framelits Cards, Envelopes and Box Project!
It includes three differently styled heart cards that all open up their own way with envelopes that match. The box fits at least two of each card style and six envelopes (or less if you would like). This project uses many items from the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog, however you can change up the colors and stamps and make these cards any way you would like! Enjoy them!
These would also be great for a wedding gift or for a loved one any time of the year!
Cards are approximately 5-1/2" square. You do NOT need 12" paper for this project.

CLICK HERE
to see more details or get the tutorial for this project!

Teacher Gifts 2011- Part 1

This year I had a lot of fun making the Holiday Gifts for the kids teachers. We are truly blessed with an amazing school and wonderful teachers. I really can not say enough about them. We do gifts for the kids main teachers as well as the school nurse (my hero), the two ladies who run the front desk, Ashley's reading teacher and the principal.

About two weeks ago I taught myself how to knit and crochet so most of the gifts are done that way. I will link directions I found for them, however I am better at making things up on my own instead of actually following directions, so these patterns are not exactly what I made, just what I used to go by.

Here is the link for the Crochet Nurse mini doll. I did shorten the hair and make her body and dress a little bit longer. This one I followed pretty good since I am still just learning. I also attached a string to the top of her hat to hang her by and make her an ornament.

Keep checking back for the rest of the gifts!

Enchantment Purse, Envelopes & Cards Set

Here is my Enchantment Purse, Envelopes & Cards Set. This project uses some of the great new products from the 2012 Occasions Mini and the 2012 Sale-a-Bration catalogs.
If you are a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, then you got the chance to pre-order these products and may have them already!! Here is a great project to showcase these great new materials to your stampers. If you are not a Demonstrator, then you will get the chance to order these products in January, and this is a sneak peak for you!
You can also make this project with any colored card stock and DSP that you would like. Make it out of Christmas colors for a great holiday gift!
The purse and envelopes are made with the Framelits Labels Collection. The purse is approximately 5-1/2" x 4".

CLICK HERE
to see more details or get the tutorial!

Envelope Pull-Out Tab Album

Here is my Envelope Pull-Out Tab Album!

This project uses large and small square envelopes to make a great album for photos or journaling or many other uses! CD's will also fit into the large envelopes to make a great DVD, music or photo CD gift!
I have 24 photos in this album, and that is without using the small pull out tabs at all, with plenty of room left over for journaling! This is the perfect album to use when you just have way too many good photos of an occasion to fit on a scrapbook layout. It's also the perfect thing to give as a gift, especially with Christmas coming up!
You can add on as many extra pages as you want, if you want your album to be larger or smaller then the one shown. I have used Spice Cake DSP but you can easily use any pattern you would like. Album is approximately 5-1/2" square.

CLICK HERE
to see more details or get the tutorial!

Lattice Fold Ornament

I saw the Fleur de Lis ornament tutorial on Splitcoast by Becca Feeken and just had to change it around to work with the Lattice Die. I will show you a few steps below to make it work with the Lattice shape, but the rest you can get from the original tutorial for more help. This one took a little while to finish with all the scoring on the Simply Scored, but was really simple to do.
It is stunning in person!

Here is how to make one:

Using the Lattice Die on the Big Shot, you will need to cut out four shapes. Each one will be scored and folded the same way. Score like shown below. Cut to the center on the bottom side. Fold them up like shown on the right. The red lines are folded to the top.












Using the Two-way glue pen, stick together the center ovals like shown on the left. Then just stick your next one right to the edge oval and keep going with all four. I used the 2-1/2" Circle punch for the red circle in the back. This helps add some stability to it.












I used the Lace Ribbon and Striped Grosgrain for the back, and then just used Sticky Strip to add another circle to the back of that so you don't see it all glued together. Add a string and your ornament in finished!

I love this one! Hope you guys have the Lattice Die, because I have some more too! Check back soon.

Double Lattice Ornament

After I did my other Lattice Die ornament, I looked through Splitcoast for more ornament ideas. I not only found that someone else had already done the same thing I did, but I saw a great new way to layer the lattice shapes on the Sunshine, Smiles & Stamps blog. This made me think how nice it would look to combine these two ideas, and this ornament was the result!

I love it! The pictures really do not do this justice, it is gorgeous in person, especially when it spins.

Here is how you can make it:

Using the Big Shot, cut out your Lattice in two different colors. You are going to use the Two-Way glue pen and stick them on top of each other like shown. Then using the Simply Scored, you are going to score right down the middle in one direction and fold it in half.

Then you are going to glue them back to back just like you did for my Lattice Die ornament. I made eight of these total for the entire ornament.

Here it is with a red background so you can see the white better.