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Remember when I wrote the take out box tutorial?

Diana Crick asked me to write it for the Scor-Pal magazine. This is the sample  I made for it.

I used different measurements and made the Scor-Pal box smaller then the one featured on my blog.  And since I was addicted to Fun Pun at the time, that’s what I used. LOL

Stamps: Pun Fun, Boho Background
Ink: Black Stazon, Classic Inks: Bashful Blue and Groovy Guava
Paper: Groovy Guava, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi and Shimmery White cardstock
Acc.: Aqua Painter, Blue Taffeta and Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon, 1 1/4″, 1 3/8″ and scallop circle punches, Fire Rhinestone brad, Word Window Punch, silver cord

Personal Note:
I didn’t get to create much this week. I am sorry about that. I hope I will be able to participate in challenges again next week and post cards made for those challenges.
I am  already dreading the long summer without new Stampin’ Up! images. Stampin’ Up! demonstrators were able to order the mini catalog sets in February. We won’t get new sets until August. That’s just too long.
I usually try to keep my blog mostly Stampin’ Up! I love the company and am proud to be one of their demonstrators. But during the long absence of new rubber, I can’t help but stray a bit!

I will keep this post a short! I stayed in bed reading a book for most of the morning. I love Saturdays. Now I promised Rebecca another trip to PF Chang. That’s our thing. We go there a lot! Girl time. The boys are usually too busy with their friends Plus Austin is so picky, he doesn’t eat anything they offer. Crazy…I know.

I haven’t been stamping that much new stuff this week. I had a workshop Monday night, then stamped cards for downline and customer on Tuesday, wrote a tutorial on Wednesday ….I don’t really know where the rest of the week went. LOL

Anyway….I made these cards for Sunday’s Featured Stamper Challenge. I needed some cards to give as hostess gifts (and an easy make and take), so I chose to case 3×3 cards. I love making those tiny cards.

Like I said, I am trying to keep this short.

 My tummy is rumbling and Rebecca is waiting.

The stamps I used were Carte Postale, the Designer Paper Le Jardin, the ribbon is Vanilla Tafetta ribbon.

I think two years ago Pam Downs gave me a cute little note holder made out of a business size envelope. Pam always has wonderful ideas and projects!!! I never made one until now. I love the look of it though. It’s easy peasy. Take a business size envelope, seal, fold in half and cut off edges. I used the corner rounder to make a scalloped edge (I know…another addiction of mine).

Here is the front of the folder.

I am not sure about the measurements anymore, but I think it was a 4 1/4″ x 11″ strip of Mellow Moss cardstock, scored at 4 1/2″ and 9″.

The flap was cut with my Coluzzle.

The front was stamped with Carte Postale and mellow moss ink.

The focal point was stamped with Carte Postale and Elegant Cheer on Shimmery White cardstock, that was layered first on Mellow Moss, then on a scalloped Chocolate Chip rectangle cut with Nestabilities (don’t resist…you NEED those!). It is attached to the flap with dimensionals.

The flap is held down by tugging the rectangle under the tied 5/8″ wide Brocade grosgrain ribbon.

Here is a shot of the inside.

It held three 3×3 cards as well as three envelopes well.

If you tie the ribbon vertically instead of  horizontally, you can fit four cards in comfortably.

Have a wonderful day!!! I know I will have a great time with my girl!

Update: We just got back. We had a blast. After Chang’s spicy Chicken and trying to eat the Great Wall of China (OHHHHH…..so good. 2/3 of it is now sitting on my kitchen table. Definitely a family dessert!) we went to Sketchers, where we both got a great pair of shoes. Then we stopped at The Children’s Place again for another dress and some cute leggings. Great girl bonding time!

Vickie Maduzia came up with a super cute and easy treat holder last year. It is today’s tutorial on splitcoast.

They are super easy and fast to make!

Here is the recipe for my sample:

Stamps: A good Egg, So Many Scallops and Fast Flower wheel

Ink: Brown Stazon; Classic inks: So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Pumpkin Pie and Wild Wasabi

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron and Shimmery White

Acc.: Corner rounder, Chocolate Poly-Twill Ribbon, Aqua Painter, 1 1/4″, 1 3/8″ and scallop circle punches, dimensionals, small chocolate

I love how the chocolate peeks out!

Vickie always has great ideas!

Try it out! These cuties don’t take long to make.

Add a link in the comment section if you make one so I can check it out!

I would loved to see your version!

I have lots of errands to run today. Let’s hope that migraine doesn’t come back. Rebecca still has a slight fever, but wants to go to school. I gave her medicine and will check temperature again before it’s time for school. If the fever is gone by then, I will let her go. Thank you all for your well wishes! You are the best!

Hugs and smiles

Cambria Turnbow is a sweet friend of mine. She is an amazing artist and comes up with the cutest projects. For one of those project she wrote the tutorial on SCS today. I had to try my hand on this adorable little basket myself.

This basket comes together in a matter of minutes.  For real!!!

I think even with the scallop patties, the entire project took me 30 minutes.

You got to love fast, cute projects like that.

For tha patty covers, I stamped four images from Pun Fun in Black Stazon on Shimmery White cardstock. They were colored with Aqua Painter and Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi and Groovy Guava ink.

The patties were from some Easter Candy. I don’t like Peppermint and chocolate together. I am a picky eater. But everyone loves regular chocolate, right?

The patterned paper is from the Jersey Shore Designer Paper pack. The basket base is plain old Whisper White cardstock.

The edges were scalloped with the corner rounder and the handle is Double Stitched Wild Wasabi Ribbon. The ribbon was threaded through holes I made with the horizontal Slit Punch and is held together by Bashful Blue Brads.

I didn’t add a sentiment just yet. This can be for a birthday party for a little one as well as a little Welcome baby gift. Aren’t those Pun Fun image super cute even punched out with the circle punches???? I just love that set (Just in case you haven’t noticed yet. I promise I will use other sets soon!).

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

Oh…and if you decide to make one of those darling baskets, link to this post so I can check them out! I tell you…they are super fast and absolutely adorable!

Today is stamp camp day! Most of the ladies from last weeks workshop are coming and they picked the projects.

One of them was the treat slider. I showed them the one I had made for the tutorial, but I wanted to make one for Easter. Here is what I came up with. I apologize for the bad picture. It was raining like crazy all day yesterday and it never really got light out.

I started out with a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Pretty in Pink cardstock.

It was scored at 2 1/2″ and 5″  and that wheeled with the Fast Flowers wheel.

The Wild Wasabi strip measures 2″ x 5 1/2″ and again was scored at 2 1/2″ and 5″.

The designer paper is from the Spring Fling pack.

I tied Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon around the treat holder.

For the main image I stamped the chick from A Good Egg on Shimmery White cardstock and punched it’s sweet little head out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch. It was colored with Aqua Painter and classic inks and layered first on a 1 3/8″ Pretty in Pink circle, then on a Chocolate Chip Scallop punch. I saw this on a card made by the fantastic Cambria Turnbow and new I had to case it.

I attached the image with dimensionals and added a Fusion flower with a vintage brad on the top right.

 Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

My sweet neighbor Cheryl is hosting a workshop for me this morning. All of her friends are new to stamping, so I kept the projects easy. I still wanted the projects to wow them.

My 3D project for today is a covered lunchbag, aka. geniebag.

I have little mini kraft lunchbags (4″ width) I got years ago from Debbie Fisher.

She in turn got it from her pharmacy.

I cut them down to a 4″ square.

4 1/4″ Old Olive squares were taped to the front and back of the bag with Sticky Strip.

Next I cut two 8″ strips of 5/8″ Chocolate grosgrain ribbon and stapled them to the bag and Old Olive layer.

I stamped the swirl stamp from Friendship Blooms in Soft Sky on the upper half of two 3 3/4″  Soft Sky cardstock squares and sponged the edges.

Next I scalloped a 1″ x 3 3/4″ strip of Whisper White cardstock and adhered it under a 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ strip of Old Olive Prints Designer Paper. A piece of Chocolate Taffeta ribbon was tied around the top of the designer paper and the big flower from the Pretties kit was adhered to the right of the square with a big glue dot. I stamped the sentiment from Friendship Blooms in Chocolate Chip on the right side of the designer paper.

For the center of the flower I stamped the thank you stamp from Perfect Timing in Chocolate Chip on Chocolate Cardstock, punched it out with the 1″ circle punch and sponged and paper pierced the edges.

I taped the Soft Sky square to a 1/4″ bigger Chocolate chip square and paper pierced the top corners. Last I attached those layers to the Old Olive square.

I hope they like it! Have a great day! Hugs and smiles

Here is the Take out Box tutorial I promised:

I made this one with 2 1/2″ sides, but you can change that up really easy.

To see the tutorial, click on more.

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Ever since I got the Spring Summer Preview brochure from Stampin’ Up!, I wanted to make one of those adorable little boxes. Well…yesterday I tried it out for the first time.

I will change the box up a bit (make it slightly bigger) and write a tutorial soon. Today it’s very dark and windy.  My prayers goes out to everyone touched by these horrible tornados last night!

The little box’s sides measure 2″ each.

It is basically an explosion box, but with extra flaps on the four sides.

The box is made with Pretty in Pink cardstock. I stamped the Boho Background stamp with Purely Pomegranate on it.

Scallops were added to the flaps with the corner punch.

I stamped the medallion twice on Whisper White cardstock in Purely Pomegranate and once on Pretty in pink with the same color to make my layered medallion. I added a pink Ice circle Rhinestone brad in the center.

The box is held together by Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon. The sentiment is from the Boho Background as well.

Austin saw this little box after I was done and wanted to steal all those kisses out of it. I hadn’t even taken a picture yet. LOL No Hershey is safe from him!

Today’s tutorial on Splitcoast is for Sour Cream Container. I thought it would be another great little container to show before Valentine. They are super quick and very easy to make.

I made this sample when I wrote the tutorial.

I used a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Le Jardin Designer Paper.

The centerpiece is stamped with stamps from the Carte Postale stamp set.

I also made a clear sour cream container out of a 1/4″ sheet of acetate and the Happy Heart Day stamp set to show off a slight variation.

 Additional info: I used Sticky Strip to tape my Acetate sour cream container. BUT….after 1 1/2 weeks (yesterday) it popped apart. If you want your sour cream container to hold longer then that, use eyelets or brads additionally on the short ends.

Last week I showed you a close up from this Pull Treat Pouch:

Today you can see the tutorial for this Pouch on splitcoaststampers.

They are an easy and cute way to give away your treats.

Pull on the ribbon on top and a big Hershey bar will appear.

You can use it for all kinds of flat treats.

Stamps: It’s Beautiful Jumbo Wheel, Always

Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip

Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip and Confetti White

Acc.: Clear embossing powder, sponge daubers, Chocolate and Pomegranate satin ribbon, Sticky Strip, small oval punch, 1″ and 1 1/4″ circle punches, vintag brad, horizontal slot punch

Check here for a close up of the heart and more information about how it was colored.