Christmas Explosion Box

Hi Everyone,

Well because of the Holidays, I've had a card class almost every 2-3 weeks instead of once a month lol. So I wanted to step outside the "BOX" for my next class and make Explosion boxes. These are so fun to make and much easier to make then they look. You can easily go crazy with all the decorating though. Here is the sample I made for my class. I used Christmas photos from 2009 of my family as an example of what a finished product can look like. The paper is Echo Park "Season's" paper packet which also comes with 2 pages of stickers and tags etc.

Here is the Box when it is closed

 Here is the top of the box. I went to the Dollar Tree and bought the leaves and holly for an added touch.

 Here is the box open! Can you see my 3D tree in the middle.

 Aren't my kids the cutest? They were 2 1/2 and 5 in these pictures

 In this angle you can see the snowmen I paper pieced with Lawn Fawn stamps.

 Here is the bottom layer of the three layers. I added a place for a tag or you can add a gift card here if you were making it as a gift for someone. I didnt embellish the backsides but you can also add paper to the back and add even MORE photos.

 This I think is my favorite picture of the whole thing. I think you can really see how it EXPLODES!

Hope you liked it! If you are interested in taking my class, I will be teaching this at Stamp Fever in Orange on Saturday, December 3rd at 1-3pm and on Thursday, December 8th at 6-8pm. Contact me at Gina@Stuckongluecrafts.com or call Linda at the store directly at (714) 974-9552.

Happy Stamping,

Gina

Girly Birthday Card

Well, as you can tell from a lot of my posts, I am the designated bday card maker for my work. There are only 14 of us but I make all the bday cards. I made this one last night with some new "The Stamps of Life" stamps I picked up at the expo. The background stamp is Hero Arts. I used lots of bling!!

Scrapbook Expo 2011 - Ontario CA November 4th

The Scrapbook Expo was in Ontarion, CA Novemeber 4th and 5th this year. Last year I went with my friend and we shopped and attended the evening crop. Well this year I decided to spend some one on one time with my little lady, my daughter Jordan. I made us matching shirts and we dressed alike as well (which she loved). I kept her out of school, I took a vacation day and off we went. We spent the day at the Expo shopping and enjoying each others company. We did all the cute make n takes and had tons of fun. At 5pm we walked over to the Crop room and started to dig into being creative. Soon after we sat down, out table mate came over and let us know that Jordan had won a door prize at the Expo. So we walked back over to find out what she won. And she was VERY excited to find out she had won a Stampin Up kit to make a gorgous box. We continued on at the crop till... MIDNIGHT!!!  Good thing we also were staying at the hotel next door because Jordan was determined to make it till Midnight and she did. Jordan made 4 scrapbook pages and a card. I made the 3 card samples for my upcoming class. We had a blast and here are the pictures to prove it.

Here is a pic of Jordan's Shirt I made

 Jordan and I with our make n takes at the CTMH booth

 Jordan taking a picture of herself LOL

 Jordan making another make n take

 Jordan and I with our Mak n Take from the Stamps of Life booth

 Here's Jordan with her certificate at the Stampin Up booth to pick up her Door Prize

Close up of my proud girl

 Here is the finished product that was displayed at the booth. We got all the stuff to make it ourselves.

 Close up

 Here's Jordan making her first Scrapbook Page at the Crop. (Her first Crop, 3rd Expo)

 My cutie pie

 Here we are together at MIDNIGHT! I LOVE her to pieces :-)

Here are Jordan's Scrapbook Pages she made all by herself

Cards for Next Card Class Nov 12 & 15

Hi Everyone,

Here are my cards for my next card class at Stamp Fever on Sat. November 12th and Tuesday, November 15th.

Happy Birthday - Movie card

Happy Fridy Everyone,

I was asked by a client to make a Birthday card for her friend. I was told he's a fun guy and was given a list of his likes. From there I choose to use movies, jelly beans and glitter. FUN right. Once I got an idea in my head and went back and asked her for a few pictures. She sent me a hilarious one where he has a wig on. I took that into photoshop and used the "Stamp Filter" to create the picture you see in the film strip. Then I added additional elements like the stars and camera. The camera and sentiment are from Lawn Fawn's Say Cheese too. The stars are older SU wood stamps I had. The flim strip I bought at a scrapbook expo a few years back. I added transparency over the images as well.

 

Here is a close up of the clapboard (I had to look the name up ha-ha). This I made completely by had a pencil, white pen and a ruler. It was pretty fun to make too. I used his birthday information here.

Here is a close up of the film reel. I cut 1/4 in strips of transparency put adhesive on each strip and rolled it around untill it was the thickness I wanted. For the reel itself I punched a 1 in circle then used a 1/4 punch to make the holes around it and in the middle. I then ran a grey copic (W9) all over the showing transparency to give it the film a worn look.

Below that is my box of Jellybeans. I created this by hand as well, drawing everyone of those little jelly beans with different color copic. I hand cut the little box and added transpareny as a little window and then blinged it out.

Here is the inside. This is the original picture I used to create the images on the front.

 And of course I had to make my sticker on the back match so this is what it looks like too :-) 

Cleaning House - Stamps for Sale

Happy Thursday everyone. As you may know I used to be a CTMH consultant a couple years back, and I have a TON of stamps I  haven't ever used or are slightly used and are just taking up space. If you're interested please let me know.

Email me at Gina at stuckongluecraft dot com or post here with your email and I'll respond.

C1221 choo choo train NEW - $6

W191 precious smiles USED - $4
A1079 amore lowercase USED - $4
C1244 glistening snow NEW - $6
C1368 treetops NEW - $6
D1152 follow your dreams NEW - $6
B1167 thinking of you NEW - $6
A1092 simple invites ONE STAMP USED - $5
C1346 family ties adults USED - $4
C1345 family ties children NEW - $6
B1307 whimsical wings NEW - $6
C1243 a friend is NEW - $6
D1422 wonderful friend NEW - $6
A118 hope  NEW - $5
D1366 holiday trinkets ONE STAMP USED - $5
B1328 backwoods NEW - $6

Thanks,
Gina

Baby Shower Robot Card

Hi everyone,

If you're a fan of Lilypad, which I am, then a few months back you saw the video of how to create a Robot using Lawn Fawn's Bake me a Cake stamp set! I loved Vicky's creativity and thought if I ever needed a Robot I'd try it. Well guess what? I needed a Robot. I was requested by a client to make a baby shower card for her friend. The colors were Blue and Brown and the theme was Robots. I had a lot of fun making this card and I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Take a look!

Here is the front of the card. All the papers are from the DCWV Linen Stack. The image is made with Lawn Fawn's "Bake me a Cake" set, the banner is made with "Bannerific", the sentiment is from "Sophie's Sentiments". The distress inks are Weathered Wood and Vintage Photo.

 Here is a side angle to show that the image is popped up. You can also get a peek at the inside.

 And here is the inside. Again I used the same papers as the front but here I used Lawn Fawn's "Plus One" set for the sentiment and added a bow.

Here is the link to the video if you too want to try out this fun Robot idea!

Cards for Stamp Fever Class Oct 29th and Nov. 1st

Hi everyone,

Here are the cards I'll be making for my next card class at Stamp Fever on Saturday, October 29th and Tuesday, November 1st.

The first card we'll be creating a layered base and this adorable Turkey! Gooble Gooble!! Isn't he a cutie.

 The second card is a slightly changed version of the card I made for Lily Pad. Here we use heat embossing on transparency. The picture doesn't do the ornament justice. It's embossed on both sides adding texture and sparkle!

The third card is the one that I made for my Lily Pad designer spot. When I had the idea in my head I knew it would be making this with my class as well. The window is super fun and easy. And this Penny Black set is too cute.

Cards from my Lilypad guest Designer Spot

Hi everyone and welcome to my new followers. If you didn't click through to my Lily Pad Guest Designer spot yesterday, I wanted to post the cards I made for them here. However, if you want the supply list, hop on over to my Lilypad post HERE to get it.

Here is the first card I made using Penny Black's Mimi's Halloween and Lawn Fawn's Happy Hauntings. I used a masking to create the background.

For my second card I used Lawn Fawn's Ornate Ornaments and Hero Arts Wood Grain background. I created the Ornament using transparency and stickles which makes it glassy and see through like a normal ornament would be.

For my third card I wanted to create a window with an indoor and outdoor scene. I used Penny Black's Mimi's Christmas and Hero Arts Starry Night. I used transparency in the window.



Guest Designer on Lilypad Card

Hi everyone,

Today I am featured as a Guest Designer at Lilypad Cards. Hop on over and take a look at the cards I created HERE.

Gina

Lunar Light Birthday Card

I made this card for my friend and co-worker using Lawn Fawn's Lunar Lights stamp set. Her favorite color is purple and she is the BLING queen so I had to make it sparkle. I made the backgroud paper using the smaller lanterns from the set. I stamped them with versamark "Sparkle" and used clear glitter empossing powder. I then distressed the background with Ranger inks (Spun Suger, then Milled Lavendar, then Dusty Concord)

For the main image I stamped the larger Lantern and colored it with Copics. After I colored it, I rubbed the Versamark sparkle all over the image then used the clear glitter embossing powder all over. This gave it that SUPER sparkle look and I didn't have to wait for any glitter glue to dry!! It doesn't look like it here but I then cut the image out and popped it up. I used a super light yellow copic around the edge of the base paper to give it that glow effect. I also used the same copic purples to color the matte paper circle so it would match the image.

No card is complete without a decorated inside!! Here I used another lantern and sentiment from the same set. I also gave this image a little glow as well.

I gave it to her today and she loved it. Hope you do too. Happy Birthday Susan!!

Busy Making Cards....

I'm in full card making mood getting ready for... My Guest Designer spot on Lily Pad Cards. My cards will be posted there on October 13th. Make sure to stop of there and take a look.

I'm also making the card samples for my next Stamp Fever class on October 29th. I'll be making 1 Thanksgiving card and 2 Christmas Cards. I've drawn out my messy little sketches and I'm in the process of making them come to life. I dont use the computer to draw my sketches I just scribble on paper when an idea pops in my head. I think I will post both the cards and the sketches when I'm finished. So stay tuned. I'm very excited to share my newest creations :-)

Second Card Class at Stamp Fever

Happy Monday Everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, I know I sure did.

Since I teach at Stamp Fever every 4th Saturday, my second card class ended up falling on my 6th wedding anniversary. Since I had a good turn out on my first class (10 ladies) my Husband suggested I still teach on Saturday and that we would take an early vacation for our anniversary.  Isn't he the BEST!!!!! So we headed to Palm Springs on Wednesday and were back Friday night just in time for me to get ready for my Saturday class. I had prepared my kits before we left so all I had to do was pack up my supplies.

I had 10 lovely ladies join me for my second class on Saturday. Most of which I hadn't met yet. We started at 10am and just like my first class, four hours later we finished at 2:15! If this continues, we might need to start telling people to pack a lunch :-) I did however bring a few snacks for people to munch on. 

I have another class tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept 27th with another 6 ladies that couldn't make it to Saturday's class and asked if I could do another class with the same cards during the week. Exciting right!

Here are some pictures from my Saturday class thanks to my 7 yr old Daughter Jordan who grabbed my phone and decided to take pictures of everyone :-)

Here is a pic of Tables 1 & 2 working on their Thanksgiving Cards

 Here is Table 3 working on their Halloween Cards. I had 2 little mini crafters join me. Kayli and Piper are 11 years old and had a blast too. Look at all those Lawn Fawn stamps in the background :-)

Her is Piper and Kayli with their completed cards. They did such a great job.

Here are more happy crafters showing off their cards for my daughter :-)

I love how they colored their houses the colors they liked best.

  This is Piper's Thanksgiving card. I love how she added her own touch to the background.

11 year olds are sure creative.  

 Here's Kayli crafting away

We even got Linda in on the FUN!!! Here is Linda making a Thanksgiving card.  

Happy Stamping,
Gina