Sunday, July 26, 2009
OOPS!!
Ok, so the link for the Anyone for Anya button is fixed! I meant to link it to the button on the blog post, and do one for the right panel, but it didn't work out. Now it should work. Enjoy the new challenge blog everyone!!! And I'll talk to you all tomorrow (I hope).
There's a new Challenge Blog in Town
Hey there Friends! I just stumbled upon this new blog that will have challenges all about Anya and her friends at the Greeting Farm! Of course I'm gonna be involved in this; I HAVE to! lol! I'm adding this little button to my right side panel so you all can click on it and check out the details as well. If you love TGF and Anya like I do, give it a go!
I hope you are all having a Stupendous Sunday. I'm off to go pull some weeds out of our driveway... and get a tan while doing it!
Until next post, be blessed!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Mr. Mojo is back!
YUP! I was able to finally sit down and make something, and I actually LIKE what I made, lol! I need to make this quick cuz the whole family is snoozing and I'm about to nod off as well. I combined TWO challenges on one card and just in the nick of time! Here it is:
I combined 2 Sketches 4 You and Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #41 into this card. SCSC's challenge was to use "Spots and Stripes" and of course 2S4Y is the sketch. The sketch actually didn't call for the main image in the middle, or the ribbon on the bottom, but I added those cuz I wanted to ;) Here is a closeup of my coloring on Annika:
The patterned papers are Crate Paper and I colored Annika with my copics. She's actually been colored for awhile and I happened to notice that these papers match her colors just right! Woohoo! Well, I hope you all liked the card for today. I'm hoping to get more posts pre-posted for next week. But I'll work on that tomorrow.
I combined 2 Sketches 4 You and Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #41 into this card. SCSC's challenge was to use "Spots and Stripes" and of course 2S4Y is the sketch. The sketch actually didn't call for the main image in the middle, or the ribbon on the bottom, but I added those cuz I wanted to ;) Here is a closeup of my coloring on Annika:
The patterned papers are Crate Paper and I colored Annika with my copics. She's actually been colored for awhile and I happened to notice that these papers match her colors just right! Woohoo! Well, I hope you all liked the card for today. I'm hoping to get more posts pre-posted for next week. But I'll work on that tomorrow.Until then, I hope you are all BLESSED!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tutorial for Carin
Hey Everyone! Well, my dear friend Mojo is nowhere to be found, but luckily I have some projects already done and ready for posts, so my blog shouldn't suffer. I hope to find Mojo a little later tonight since I REALLY want to participate in the last Farm Fresh Friday challenge. Remember this project from last week?
I was asked by my friend Carin for a template of the box. Well, I ended up doing a tutorial for her and thought I'd share it here for you all to see. In the center of the first picture you'll see the box that holds all these notecards. These notecards are 4.25x5.5 folded in half. That way I was able to get 4 cards out of one sheet of 8.5x11 inch paper. The five notecards you see fit inside snuggly, but 4 will fit very well depending on how much embellishment you add to the cards. Ok, so here's the tutorial. Please be kind since this is only the second time I've ever done something like this! First you need a piece of cardstock that is 6.25x 5.5. 
Score the long side of the cardstock at 3 and 3.5 inches.
Score the short side of the cardstock at .5 and 5 inches. That give your half an inch on each side.
Next you need to cut the little squares made by the scores. Cut only to the half inch score line. Here is a picture to show you what I mean:
Next you should put strong adhesive on two of the long tabs and the two little square tabs. I used sticky strip as you can see here:
Now, since I don't like my tabs to show, this is the order that I put the sides together. First I had the tab with the sticky strip on the inside:
Next I stuck the little tab onto that tab as you can see here:
Finally I closed that side by sticking the last tab to the other two as you can see here:
I did the same thing on the other side of the box and that way the little tabs don't show at all. Next we have to make the box lid! First you need a piece of cardstock that is 5.5x1.5 inches.
This one must be scored just right so that it fits over the bottom of your box without being too snug or loose. First you score one side at 7/16.
Then turn the paper 90 degrees and score at 7/16. Do this for all four sides.
Next you'll want to cut these four lines as I've shown you here:
And put sticky strip on the little tabs like this (pretend the x's are tape;):
And finally you'll want to tape them inside the lid like this:
That way the tabs won't show on the outside of the lid. After that, you're done! All that's left is to embellish your box and lid, oh, and make some notecards to put inside! I hope that made sense and if you try out the tutorial, please let me know, I'd love to see it!!!
Score the long side of the cardstock at 3 and 3.5 inches.
Score the short side of the cardstock at .5 and 5 inches. That give your half an inch on each side.
Next you need to cut the little squares made by the scores. Cut only to the half inch score line. Here is a picture to show you what I mean:
Next you should put strong adhesive on two of the long tabs and the two little square tabs. I used sticky strip as you can see here:
Now, since I don't like my tabs to show, this is the order that I put the sides together. First I had the tab with the sticky strip on the inside:
Next I stuck the little tab onto that tab as you can see here:
Finally I closed that side by sticking the last tab to the other two as you can see here:
I did the same thing on the other side of the box and that way the little tabs don't show at all. Next we have to make the box lid! First you need a piece of cardstock that is 5.5x1.5 inches.
This one must be scored just right so that it fits over the bottom of your box without being too snug or loose. First you score one side at 7/16.
Then turn the paper 90 degrees and score at 7/16. Do this for all four sides.
Next you'll want to cut these four lines as I've shown you here:
And put sticky strip on the little tabs like this (pretend the x's are tape;):
And finally you'll want to tape them inside the lid like this:
That way the tabs won't show on the outside of the lid. After that, you're done! All that's left is to embellish your box and lid, oh, and make some notecards to put inside! I hope that made sense and if you try out the tutorial, please let me know, I'd love to see it!!!
I hope you all have a Mojo-filled Day and until next post, be blessed.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Father's Day Card... Late
Hi all! Happy Monday to you! I know, Father's day was almost a month ago, but I never showed you what I made for my DH. Since tomorrow is his birthday (I won't tell you how young he's turning;) I decided to show you his Father's Day card! Yeah, I know, wierd. Anyway here it is:
I used Stampin' Up Kraft Cardstock and the Symphony jumbo wheel. I colored parts of the images in with pencils. The two brads are from Gina K. Designs and I twisted some twine around them to hold the card closed. Here is the card with the top flap open:
I used the wheel again on Very Vanilla cardstock but used brown ink this time and didn't color it in. The sentiment is from the SU! Music Expressions stamp set and says "Musice Expresses that which cannot be said." -Victor Hugo. Here is the card with the bottom flap folded down:
The middle was left blank so I could write on it and the bottom panel has the main image from the Music Expressions stamp set stamped in brown ink. My husband is a musician, so when I saw this set I knew it would work for a card for him. Even though his brother is the one who plays the bass... Anyway, I hope you liked my LATE Father's Day post, and who knows, maybe I'll actually post my Hubby's Birthday card on tomorrow's post?!? Maybe...
I used Stampin' Up Kraft Cardstock and the Symphony jumbo wheel. I colored parts of the images in with pencils. The two brads are from Gina K. Designs and I twisted some twine around them to hold the card closed. Here is the card with the top flap open:
I used the wheel again on Very Vanilla cardstock but used brown ink this time and didn't color it in. The sentiment is from the SU! Music Expressions stamp set and says "Musice Expresses that which cannot be said." -Victor Hugo. Here is the card with the bottom flap folded down:
The middle was left blank so I could write on it and the bottom panel has the main image from the Music Expressions stamp set stamped in brown ink. My husband is a musician, so when I saw this set I knew it would work for a card for him. Even though his brother is the one who plays the bass... Anyway, I hope you liked my LATE Father's Day post, and who knows, maybe I'll actually post my Hubby's Birthday card on tomorrow's post?!? Maybe...Until then, be blessed!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
A quick Sunday post
Happy Sunday! I just wanted to pop in and say hello and show you this card I made for a One Card Swap I'm in for July. Teri hosts these monthly swaps and it's so fun to make ONE spectacular card for someone and to meet a new friend while doing it. My partner this month is Kim in the UK (no blog that I know of) and while I know she hasn't gotten this yet, I hope she likes it when she does!
I used images Sunny Glen DP from The Greeting Farm since that is my favorites right now. I made a stair step card since I've never done one before and there was a tutorial on Secret Crafter Saturday a couple weeks back. I hope Kim likes the card and I'll be sure to post the card she sent me as soon as I get it! Have a blessed Sunday, bye!
I used images Sunny Glen DP from The Greeting Farm since that is my favorites right now. I made a stair step card since I've never done one before and there was a tutorial on Secret Crafter Saturday a couple weeks back. I hope Kim likes the card and I'll be sure to post the card she sent me as soon as I get it! Have a blessed Sunday, bye!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
A Saturday SheetLoad!
LOL, seriously. It's Saturday and I want to show you my SheetLoad of cards from June! I can't believe I forgot to post this since I had so much fun with all the different embellishments. Well, first let me tell you what a SheetLoad of Cards is. SheetLoad is a wonderful site that posts a monthly SheetLoad of Cards issue. This monthly issue will help increase your card stash, one great layout at a time. For June's issue, I downloaded it, printed it out (because I love having the actual issue in my hands) and followed the simple cutting dimensions and made EIGHT cards! Then I went about assembling them and embellishing them to my heart's content. I had so much fun and discovered some new ways to embellish my cards. Here is my whole SheetLoad (you cna click on the picture to see a closeup): 
AND, I used the stamp (Spring Fever) that I WON from Shirley's 2 Girls Twisted Thursday challenge a month or so ago (click on the button on my sidebar to check out the Twisted Thursday challenges!). I stamped the image and colored it with my copics. I used Cosmo Cricket papers on the cards. Here you can see two of the embellishments that I made:
The white flower button originally came with a yellow center, but I popped that out and put the blue button with twine instead. On the bottom one, I added some red ribbon behind it to look like another layer of petals. Here are a couple more:
On the top you can see that I did the blue button on the white flower button again, but right below that I put a pink heart brad on a white flower button instead. They are both on a ruffled piece of ribbon. At the bottom of the picture you can see that I used white ribbon with a green button to make another type of flower embellishment. That one is my favorite! Here are a couple more:
AND, I used the stamp (Spring Fever) that I WON from Shirley's 2 Girls Twisted Thursday challenge a month or so ago (click on the button on my sidebar to check out the Twisted Thursday challenges!). I stamped the image and colored it with my copics. I used Cosmo Cricket papers on the cards. Here you can see two of the embellishments that I made:
The white flower button originally came with a yellow center, but I popped that out and put the blue button with twine instead. On the bottom one, I added some red ribbon behind it to look like another layer of petals. Here are a couple more:
On the top you can see that I did the blue button on the white flower button again, but right below that I put a pink heart brad on a white flower button instead. They are both on a ruffled piece of ribbon. At the bottom of the picture you can see that I used white ribbon with a green button to make another type of flower embellishment. That one is my favorite! Here are a couple more:
The top blue button was threaded, the green button was threaded and then I used yellow scalloped ribbon to make a flower. The pink button was threaded with yellow floss and glued on top of a yellow flower button. Well, those are all the amazing embellishments for my SheetLoad of Cards. What did you think? If you have any questions on how I made any of them, let me know and I'll do my best to answer. I'm thinking of doing a whole post on making flowers and flower embellishments... I've had so much fun making them lately. OH, and guess what... I WON RUNNER-UP FOR JUNE!!! YEP! You can go HERE and see the blog post announcement. My SheetLoad won Runner-up! I am so excited since it was my first time entering! I'm working on my July SheetLoad. You can play too. Go HERE and check it out!
I hope you all enjoyed my post today and I hope you have a Suberb Saturday. Be blessed, I know I have!
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