Easy 3-D Pumpkins

Hi everyone!  This is Kimberly from My Craft Spot here to show you how I made these fun 3D pumpkins!

I wanted all of the circles to be exactly the same size, so I used my Gypsy.  I grabbed circles and ovals from the George cartridge and then used a letter "l" turned sideways to 'cut off' the bottom of the circle.  You will need 8 circles OR ovals for each pumpkin.  Exact measurements are in the video below.



The stamped sentiments are all from the Happy Thanksgiving stamp set.

I tied the tags on with jute string (Bittersweet, Olive, Brown)

This rusty old bell was in my stash.  :)

Here is a video showing how to make these fun pumpkins:

Come join the fun at My Craft Spot!

Happy Birthday Cards

I sure hope you are having a wonderful day! I just had a birthday last month and got all kinds of cards and I just had to share the hand made ones with you! So many awesome cards like the one above from Bobby & Jill of the Cricut Couple just put a smile on my face. Look at the detail in that card isn't it awesome? Sorry but it came after I made the video so you just need to enjoy it here.

When you read and watch this video know that I will be in Portland Main celebrating my 42 wedding anniversary with my handsome hubby!!! So enjoy...

Well I sure hope you enjoyed this video and post today. Thank you for all your sweet words about the cards and little mini album. Have a blessed day.

Wee Birthday

Hello Everyone this is Pam from Papillon Digital Designs and The Bugbytes
Thanks Sheila for having me as a designer and  allow us all to post in your lovely blog.
My son's teacher had a birthday coming up and I thought to use my copic markers and a cute cute digi image from sylvia zett's wee line called Birthday Baby to make her a card. The digi image can be found here - http://www.weestamps.com/?page_id=27
I was wondering what colors to use and was inspired by the scrapbitz copics challenge for this month - bright fun colors. And of course I had to use my new embossing folders - Marianne designables which I got from dutchpapercrafts. They are so lovely to play with.
Here is a card

 

 

The border is using spellbinder mega dies - Parisan Accents. I used the remaining blue paper (mat cardstock) after cutting the border for the inside of the card
 The embossing is using Mariannes designables - DS0916 - Anja's dots. You can see the pictures of all the lovelies here - http://shop.sweetstamps.com/EMBOSS-CUT-FOLDERS_c210.htm.
But I got mine from dutchpapercrafts. It is a cutting and embossing folder as you can see on the pink cardstock in front. But as I didn't want the inside to be cut like that I embossed half the card and then turned it around and embossed the other half. You can see the flowers going the other way.
The sentiment is from Anna Griffin stamps. To put the gift card in I just cut out a cardstock - rectangle with tabs.

 

Hope you liked the bright colored card . Thanks for having me here Sheila. Thank you all for reading.

A CLIPBOARD NOTE HOLDER MAGNET

Hello, everyone!  Hope all's well with everyone!  This is Audrey with another project to share with you this month.  As always, thank you Sheila for having me.

Currently I'm going through a pretty rough time with my kitchen remodel and didn't have time to prepare a tutorial project today, so I'll be sharing a really quick and easy project with a brief explanation of what I did.  I think you'll find it simple enough to copy should you choose to do so.

My project is a clipboard note-holder and magnet (sorry the pictures didn't turn out as clear as I would have liked):

 

The colored cardstock in the middle of the board is an example of a note clipped to the board and in this picture below shows the "note" removed from the clip clearly revealing a notes pad attached (I think I'm going to add a matching pen and present it as a gift set):

 

 

This next picture shows the back of the board where the back of the clip and magnet are attached:

 

 

My clipboard began from a set of discarded cardboard coasters shown below and a large paper clip :

 

 

What I did was painted the board with a cream color acrylic paint, sprayed it with a clear gloss, glued lace around the edges, attached the clip with E6000 glue, and embellished with gold bling ribbon, flowers edged with gold Stickles, and topped it off with a cream bow at the bottom -- SIMPLE!  This will be a quick gift when an occassion arises for one.

 

As always, thanks for stopping by, love you all and...

 

I'll see you next month!

Big Boy Gavin Turns 4

We had such a good time celebrating Gavin's 4th birthday. He wanted a special lasagna dinner. The birthday boy alwasy decides what the menu is for their birthday. So we were invited over to celebrate. He is such a little cutie.
All he wanted for his birthday was Legos, so that is exactly what he got.

I was thrilled to put these two pages together as it didn't take any time at all and they were done using Close To My Heart digital scrapping called Studio J. I just uploaded the photos, picked the layout and paper and then just drug the photo on and it was done! I love that as I am so far behind in scrapping and with all the things happening in my family this was awesome to have it done in just a few minutes.

I love that I was able to use 10 photos on this and the photos are in many different sizes and I didn't have to cut a thing. You too can give this a try with the free digital prgram Studio J if you too need to finish your layouts in a hurry. It only cost $39.95 for a 5 pack and that is a real bargain for the quality of the pages.

I hope you enjoyed today's post, I know I had fun sharing it with you.

Halloween Dangler

Happy October!!!  I am super excited to be here at She's A Sassy Lady today!!  This is Lori from ScrappinMyStressAway and I have this fun 3D Halloween card to share with you.  I saw a birthday card that was similar to this and just had to figure out how to create it!!  Since Halloween is my favorite holiday (not to mention today is October 1st) I just had to Halloween-ify it!

I started with a rectangle with a rectangle window from Gypsy Wandering.  I put two on my mat sized to 5.5 inches.  I welded them together.

  I copied and pasted another set on my mat because I needed three of these pieces to make my card.

I used some K and Company Halloween paper to cut the cards out.

I scored each card at 3.5 inches and creased the fold.

This is a view from the top of the three card pieces scored and folded.

I cut out these phrases from Happy Hauntings in black cardstock.

I adhered one phrase on each side of the card at the bottom.

From the Pumpkin Carving cartridge, I cut out two each of the witch, bats and haunted house out of lime green, purple and black cardstock.

I adhered the pieces together with twine in between.  I used stickles to create eyes for the bats and to color the moon.

I adhered the cards together one side at a time.

This card can also be used as a center piece!

I hope you have a wonderfully spooky Halloween month!!