A Perfect Place for Post It's!

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you are having a marvelous day so far! Aymee Gandy from 'A Scraphappy Southernbelle' here to share a crafty project with you. I apologize for starting today's post a little late. I was experiencing some problems with blogger and uploading pix to my post. I was about ready to pull my hair out, but I finally got it to work. Before I start, let me back up a bit and tell you the inspiration for this project. My Mom is a 5th grade teacher and is a big scrapper like me. Well, she always likes to do nice little things for her fellow educators. This week they are going through their yearly testing with the students and she wanted to do a little something for them. So I came up with this simple take on 'Post It' note holders in treat bags. These 'Post It' note holders hold 2 of the 'Post It' note pads. They come in a pack of 6 for a little over $5 at Wal Mart, so you can make 3 of these treat bags out of one pack. These were so simple and fast to do! Here is what they look like once finished:

To begin, I chose a double sided piece of patterned paper. I love the K&Company paper for this. I cut the paper to 10 1/2" x 3 1/2".

Next, you will want to score at the 3 1/2", 4 1/4", 7 3/4", and 8 1/2" marks as shown below. This is the perfect time to pull out those Scor-Pal's and put them to good use. But if you are like me and are not fortunate enough to own one of these baby's (yet...LOL), you can use a bone folder and the groove in your paper trimmer. It worked just as well for me.

Once scored, your paper should fold up like this. As you can see, it creates a nice little compartment for your 'Post It' notes to fit into.

After some basic matting and embellishing, I stacked 2 of the note pads on top of each other for each one. To do this, I took the backing off of the top one and aligned it with the bottom one and pressed down. They stuck together quite well. I love the 'Post It' brand for these because they are 'super sticky' and stick well to one another. I then used some craft glue to glue these onto the inside (in the middle) of my compartment.

I chose to use some velcro fasteners on the flap of each of my note holders to keep them closed when not in use. I chose the 'Scotch' brand for this. They are super strong and I know will hold up well. I think magnets would work well here as well. Or you may skip this step if you prefer.

I chose to put the last initial of each of the recipients on these to personalize them. I chose a font from the Cricut 'Storybook' cartridge. This letter is on the 'shorty holes' creative feature. I also blinged it up a tad by adding in pearls and/or rhinestones. I put an initial on the back of the note holder as well as on the inside.

Once opened, your note holder should look something like this. As you can see, the double sided paper is great for this. That way you have coordinating patterns and your project looks colorful on the outside and on the inside.

My Mom and I were able to complete 14 of these for her fellow educators. I created 7. Once we had finished each of these, we decided to put them into little clear, plastic treat baggies that we purchased at JoAnn. These baggies were 4" x 9" and we cut them down to 7" for our purposes. We placed the note holders inside of the baggies and then created a coordinating top. For the top, we cut a square parenthesis shape using our SCAL software at a 5". We scored this shape in the middle and folded it in half to create the topper. We then stapled this to the top of our bag (as seen below). They really helped to finish off the project and we were so pleased with the way these turned out. I hope everyone will like them and get a lot of use out of them. Here are the 7 I created:

I also wanted to show what we did on the back of these. On the tops of the baggies, we glued our business card to the back. This was Mom's idea and I just love it! My Mom and I do little crafty things on the side for a little extra $ and I thought this was a great way to get more people to visit our blog. My Mom is a crafty one, I tell ya! LOL. We always work great together because she thinks of stuff I never would and vice versa.

I hope you have enjoyed this project today and that you will give it a try! I promise you these are so easy, fast, and fun! And affordable! They make great gifts or how about making one for your own home? I know I am contemplating doing one for my scrappy desk and a masculine one for my hubby. :)

Have a fabulous week and Happy Scrappin'!!!

ATC Cards Collected In Dallas

I am so excited to share these wonderful wonderful cards that I collected in Dallas. They are just awesome and these ladies put a lot of work into their cards and so much talent. I know as I made 150 to take and it took forever!
I did 3 videos and went through every card I recieved telling you each of their message board names and the blog address if they have one. And if you are like me you won't want to miss any of these talented ladies blogs so I even typed their address for you.
Pay close attention to them as I am sure you will want to make some cards for your self to trade at your area swarms and crops. But more improtantly I know you will want to join us next year for all the fun!

Note I mention in this video that somethings I recieved didn't make it.... they will eventually as my cousin Bonnie is so kind to ship 3 boxes to me as my bags were over weight with all the goodies we received.

I thought I would make life a little easier and typed the blog addresses for you! Be sure to check these blogs out as I am sure you will enjoy and learn something from these talented ladies.

Melissa at http://melissamade2.blogspot.com/
Pam at http://thebugbytes.com/
Janet at http://thecraftymermaid.blogspot.com/
Sharon at http://sharonh.myctmh.com/
Cassie at http://scrappycassie.blogspot/
Cindy at http://inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/
Karen at http://karenskreativetreasures.blogspot.com/
Dona at http://donnastanco.stampinup.net/
Elizabeth at http://217creations.blogspot.com/
Keri at http://keris-kreativity.blogspot.com/
Maria at http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com/
Roberta at http://txscrappermom.blogspot.com/
Robin at http://scrappindeltadiva.blogspot.com/
Tina at http://tiggersscrapplace.blogspot.com/
Velma at http://n2scrapn4fun.blogspot.com/
Linda at http://thetulipcollector.blogspot.com/
Renee at http://icameisawicreated.blogspot.com/
Vanessa at http://countrychickcreations.blogspot.com/
Pam at http://crop-tastic.blogspot.com/
Laurie at http://laurieisjustscrappin.blogspot.com/
Kristen at http://kristenlong.stampinup.net/
Beth at http://seaswancreations.blogspot.com/
Kim at http://mythirtyone.com/35383
Rechelle at http://the-football-mom.blogspot.com/
Jenny at http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/
Carolyn at http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/
Julene (Softbrn) at http://softbrn.blogspot.com/
Tracy at http://craftjunkietoo.com/
Carolyn at http://carolynscreation.net/
Kathy at http://poems-prayers-and-photographs.blogspot.com/

If any of you are interested in one of my cards I have 23 left from the Texas Stampede I would be happy to mail 1 to you if you too are a ATC card collector. Just email me at ShesASassyLady@hotmail.com and will mail until I run out of cards.
I sure hope you enjoyed todays post and will come back soon as we have new designs daily. Thank you for your sweet sweet words of encouragement. Your comments continue to inspire me.

Happy Saturday!

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday. I know I am. Beth here from thunderbirdlindybydesign. Saturday is not my usual day to post on Shesasassylady, I was due to post on Wednesday of this week, but the project I was working on Monday night ended up going into the trash. So Sheila covered for me on Weds and let me have Saturday. Thank you Sheila for helping me out. Today I wanted to share with you a project I made, inspired by the Accucut Craft website. Gasp I know, not a Cricut/Gypsy Product to be found there, or is there?? I love Accucut's dies they have, but I don't have any of their stuff, but I do have my Gypsy, so............, once again I used George, Plantin, and 2 other cartridges to create my own Shadow Box Portrait die cut.

You will need several sheets of 12x12 pattern paper that coordinates(I used DCWV Mademoiselle)
fedex envelopes or similar chipboard
Assorted embelishments, I used Basic Grey Curio chipboard adhesive backed pieces
Glue/tape runner/double sided tape(you choice)
Tim Holtz Distress ink Vintage Photo


This is the back of the picture frame, cut one from thin chipboard, I used Fed Ex envelopes. one from black cardstock(this is attached to the back to cover the ugly chipboard), and one from a piece of pattern paper for the front(Not shown yet).

 

chipboard

black cardstock

Glue all 3 piece together making a chipboard sandwich.  Black on back, chipboard in between, and Patterned Cardstock on the front.  I held it together with Tim Holtz binder clips until dry.  Make sure you glue edges and in the middle of the chipboard because you will score and fold slightly and you don't want your chipboard to pull away from either piece of cardstock(like mine did).  After the glue has dried, I scored the piece as shown in the above pic. You can also see the score lines by looking at the Gypsy Screen.

  The below screen is the cut file for the front that pops out.  You will see what I mean later in the post.

(this pic shows side already scored and folded in, and the large double scalloped piece with the bottom cut off)

Cut one from Chipboard, one from black cardstock,and one from a coordinating pattern paper that goes with the one you glued on the front of the back part of the frame.  Make a chipboard sandwich using lots of adhesive and score the sides.  You can see the lines by looking at the screen you just cut with your Gypsy.

Here it is assembled. You can see what I mean by the facing of the frame that pops out at you.

This pic is just of some addnl cuts I did of coordinating pattern paper to embelish my frame with.

And here is the finished project.  Don't forget to ink your edges of all of the pieces while you are assembling them.

The picture in the frame is a scanned copy of  my dad when he was 11 and his little brother Matthew.  Matthew passed away within a year after this pic was taken.  My dad told me he had one of the first diagnosed cases of Luekemia in Indiana, the doctors didn't know what it was.  This pic is special to my dad so I am giving him this as a small gift.

Thanks everyone for sharing their Saturday with me, and thanks Sheila for having me as a guest designer.

Beth

Flower Necklace

Hi all,

It's Kelly from www.kamscraftyplace.blogspot.com. I would like to say thank you to Sheila for having me back again. Now, if you remember last time I said I would share with you a flower necklace if it worked. Well it worked I'm pleased to tell you. Here are the steps on what I did.

First I got out my Cuttlebug and my Tim Holtz Tattered Roses Die. I love my Expression, but sometimes I don't want to wait for it to cut etc.

I used these papers Ella Blue. I love these papers and have been using them alot.

I used two B plates with this die as it's quite thick.

I used a paintbrush to curl the petals of the flower.

I then stuck the flowers together. As you can see I did do two, just in case the first one didn't work.

I then got out my melting pot. I had seen a tutorial on You Tube on Glass flowers and these are the steps I followed. First I put my UTEE in my melting pot.

I put the lid on as it helps it to melt faster.

Here is the UTEE. It's extra thick embossing powder. I used the clear, but it does come in lots of different colours.

These are the tools I used. I wiped the tools over my old versafine inkpad as this helps the embossing powder to slip off the tools.

Here is the powder beginning to dissolve.

I then placed my flower in the melting pot. I used my tweezers to turn the flower. I made sure it had all been covered.

Here is the flower once it's cooled down.

You will find that on the edges you'll find some little lumps. I just cut them off with my scissors. If you have any bubbles (luckily I didn't) you can heat them up with your embossing gun/tool and the embossing will melt and the bubble will melt away.

I then punched a hole through one of the petals with my crop a dile. This was a little bit tricky as the petals etc are now fairly rigid and I didn't want to snap the petal off.

I then used a eyelet. I know white isn't the best colour, but you don't see as the petal is curled over.

I then put a jump ring through the eyelet.

Here is the finished necklace once I threaded it onto one of my necklaces. I quite like it. It does mean I can make all different types of flowers and in lots of different sizes. My Gypsy flower file will be useful to make a few flowers also. I was pleasantly surprised that it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will have a go at making your own jewellery.

Kelly

Have a Great Day

Good Morning everyone, this is Leah from Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry! I hope that you all are doing well today! I know I am because right now, I'm on vacation! =o) But before I left I made this neat little card that I'd like to share with you all today.

This is the finished project but let me walk you through the (many) steps that got me here..

First on your work surface (I am using a mat but glass is great as well) press your ink, preferably Distress Inks for this, directly onto the mat.

You will then mist with water, using something like Mini Mister works the best because they give a small amount of water unlike most regular sized water misters. Then take any embossing folder and walk the folder around the wet ink. Taking care to rotate and move the folder so it will pick up all the colors. This is were you will want to do a test piece, because each time it will look different and depending on what side of the embossing folder you use, will be different as well. So try a couple things, and remember, save those samples for another project!

Its hard to tell here what the embossing looks like but you can see the color picked up into my canvas. Now this did not turn out perfectly, I should have used more color and moved it around the colors more. But the reason I want to show you my not perfect version is to see that we all try things and they don't always work out just as we want..but still do-able!

I then chose 2 more colors of Distress Ink to color the top portion of the embossing which brings that out more! So there is color in the debossed area as well as the embossed.

At this step you will want to choose a stamp that has some open background. This is hard to explain but seeing the stamp inked below will give you a better idea. See where there is detail but the majority is black or solid.

Here is the stamp now stamped directly onto the canvas.

And then the stamp, with left over ink, stamped onto card stock. I did NOT reink. By stamping first onto the canvas, it left this neatest texture on the solid part of the stamp. This is also referred to as a "kissing" technique in stamping but instead of 2 stamps, I used canvas to get that texture.

Next step I did the same thing as I did in the very beginning. I pressed Distress Inks onto my mat, spritzed with water and then I used them like watercolor. ( Distress Ink colors: Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters, Broken China, Spun Sugar and Dusty Concord)

And lastly...putting together the card!

I decided I would use the canvas as an accent piece on the card, and of course I saved the left overs after hand cutting leaves (which I then pulled at the edges to get that great texture from the canvas). I backed the canvas piece with black card stock to bring it out a bit more, added a black Prima and some gems. I also used my scoring board to score lines around the white of the card for some small added detail.

Thank you so much for coming by today! I really hope you enjoyed this and hope it will spark some ideas for you. I find these kinds of projects so fun to do because its a bit more play then some of the organizing and work it takes to do some other larger projects. Well thanks again!

~Leah