Valentine's Treat Basket

I am continuing to have fun with the Marbled Elegance DSP from Stampin' Up. I created this treat basket to demo the technique at the recent Ready Set Crop Winter Wonderland retreat during the Friday night "Scrap Chats". I found the technique on YouTube. I usually make treat bags or boxes during the year for my co-workers so this will be the one for this year. Shhhh if you work with me!

The basket is made from 1 6"x6" piece of DSP. The handle is a 1"x8 1/2" piece of cardstock. To create this score the DSP on all sides at 2". Fold along the score lines and then cut in along the score lines on 2 opposite sides - do not cut on all 3 sides. Flip over and apply Tear Tape to the back as well as the ends of the handle.

I like to hide and straps or handles when I make treat bags or baskets so when I assembled this I adhered the handle to the outside of the center tab first before bringing the other tabs in to meet at the points.

I added some sentiment strips using the Hearts of Elegance stamp set, some die cut hearts, and pearls to embellish the treat basket. I filled a small cello bag with candy and tied with some ribbon to finish the treat.

I hope you like this treat basket. Thanks for stopping by!

2024 NYC Weekend Love This View Layout

One of our first places to visit while in New York City was the Empire State Building. It had been many years since the last time we went there. The difference inside was amazing - the information and pictures you see as you work your way through the entrance before taking the elevator up was pretty cool to check out. We went to the 80th floor first to look around then walked the remaining 6 flights up to the observation level. It was a cold and windy but sunny day so we really got to enjoy the view!

The inspiration for this layout came from this layout from Rochelle Spears. You can see this sketch along with others here.

The sketch was converted from 12" x 12" to 8 1/2" x 11" and I modified the photo sizes to work with the new layout size. I am continuing to work with the Season of Green and Gold DSP for the layouts from this weekend. I die cut some leaves from the Graceful Greenery Vellum and Gold Foil Sheets using the Golden Greenery Dies. The title was die cut using an alphabet die set from my stash and I added some small square letter stickers as well. The journaling box with brackets was done using a stamp set from my stash.

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I hope you like this layout. Thanks for stopping by!

Nests of Winter Scrapbook Workshop

This Nests of Winter Scrapbook Workshop is the companion workshop to the Nests of Winter One Sheet Wonder Card Workshop I have already shared. Both workshops are part of my Nests of Winter Craft Your Choice Workshops.

These Craft Your Choice workshops are meant to help you stretch your paper crafting supplies by creating a set of cards and several scrapbook layouts with 1 package of Double-Sided Designer Series paper. Using this paper along with coordinating cardstock, the stamp and die set(s), and embellishments that are part of the Suite of products you will have options to your crafting!

At the bottom of this post you will find a link to purchase the digital files for the workshop, as well as a supply list for what you will need to complete these layouts.

This scrapbook workshop helps you make 4 2-page layouts that are perfect for the memories of this season. These layouts use the same stamp set and dies as the card workshop and the remainder of the DSP from making the cards.

If you are interested in creating this workshop (or the Card Workshop or Both) for yourself or with your customers, there are 3 ways to get the files:

1. Place a $50 or more purchase from my Stampin' Up website (before taxes and shipping). You must email me with the name of the workshop files you wish to receive.

2. Purchase the workshop digital files directly (no qualifying website purchase needed). The files are $12.00 USD for the Cardmaking Workhop, $15.00 USD for the Scrapbook Workshop, or $25.00 USD for both. Follow the "Buy It Now" link at the bottom of this post.

3. Join my Stampin' Up team, all team members have access to my workshop files FREE.

Other demonstrators are also welcome to order these files in support of their own business. You can use these files to host your own events as long as you follow the terms and conditions listed in the Demonstrator Release included in the  workshop files.

Here is what you will receive with the workshop files:

• Welcome Page 
• Cutting Guide with directions for cutting the papers needed
• Card Guide and/or Layout Guide with diagrams and color photos of the completed projects.
• Demonstrator Release
• Social Media image for you to use in promoting the workshop(s) for your customers

I hope you enjoy creating these projects just as much as I did creating them!

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Nests of Winter One Sheet Wonder Card Workshop

I had so much fun working with the Nests of Winter Suite for my next Craft Your Choice Workshops. I enjoyed crafting these workshops with the Nests of Winter Suite there are so many options to working with these papers and stamps. I am sharing the Card Workshop with this post. Make sure to check back for the Scrapbook Workshop.

These Craft Your Choice workshops are meant to help you stretch your paper crafting supplies by creating a set of cards and several scrapbook layouts with 1 package of Double-Sided Designer Series paper. Using this paper along with coordinating cardstock, the stamp and die set(s), and embellishments that are part of the Suite of products you will have options to your crafting!

The Nests of Winter One Sheet Wonder Card Workshop helps you make 14 cards out of 1 12"x12" piece of Designer Series Paper. These cards are perfect for this season and can be changed up however you want!

At the bottom of this post you will find a link to purchase the digital files for this workshop along with a supply list for what you will need to create the cards.

The following diagram are what I used to cut the DSP for these cards.

Here are the cards you will be able to make with this workshop.

If you are interested in creating this workshop (or the Scrapbook Workshop or Both) for yourself or with your customers, there are 3 ways to get the files:

1. Place a $50 or more purchase from my Stampin' Up website (before taxes and shipping). You must email me with the name of the workshop files you wish to receive.

2. Purchase the workshop digital files directly (no qualifying website purchase needed). The files are $12.0 USD for the Cardmaking Workhop, $15.00 USD for the Scrapbook Workshop, or $25.00 USD for both. Follow the "Buy It Now" link at the bottom of this post.

3. Join my Stampin' Up team, all team members have access to my workshop files FREE.

Other demonstrators are also welcome to order these files in support of their own business. You can use these files to host your own events as long as you follow the terms and conditions listed in the Demonstrator Release included in the  workshop files.

Here is what you will receive with the workshop files:

• Welcome Page 
• Cutting Guide with directions for cutting the papers needed
• Card Guide and/or Layout Guide with diagrams and color photos of the completed projects.
• Demonstrator Release
• Social Media image for you to use in promoting the workshop(s) for your customers

I hope you enjoy creating these projects just as much as I did creating them!

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Valentine's Day Cards

The second class I taught this weekend at the Ready Set Crop Winter Wonderland Retreat is a Valentine's Day card class featuring the Marbled Elegance Double Sided Specialty Paper and Hearts of Elegance Stamp set from Stampin' Up. 

This card class featured a technique called "Stack, Cut and Shuffle" that I found through Pinterest and YouTube. For this technique you use 4 pieces of DSP and/or cardstock that are 4" x 5 1/4" in size. You stack the pieces one on top of the other and then make 2 cuts to the stack - I cut first from the top left to 2/3 down on the right, I then took the larger remaining stack and cut again from the center of the long side to the bottom left corner. This gives 3 stacks with 4 pieces in each. You then shuffle the pieces around and put back together like a puzzle on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card front. 

For these cards I used 3 patterns from the Marbled Elegance DSP and 1 piece of cardstock that I embossed using the Eyelet 3-D Embossing Folder.

To embellish I die cut some hearts of different sizes, added a sentiment banner along with some pearls to finish each card. The hearts and stamped sentiment were done using the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set and Die Set.

We did 2 sets of this technique in the class to make 8 cards total.

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I hope you like this layout. Thanks for stopping by!

Snow Day Layout

I am spending this weekend as a vendor at the Ready Set Crop Winter Wonderland Scrapbook Retreat. One of the fun things I enjoy during this weekend is a chance to teach some classes. The first class I taught was a scrapbook layout class featuring the Snowy Scenes Double Sided Patterned Paper and Snow Day Stamp Set.

I got some inspiration for this layout from Pinterest plus I wanted to be able to show a couple of techniques to the class participants. Each person got 1/4" of a pack of the DSP - 6 12"x6" pieces of paper plus 4 sheets of Basic White 12"x12" cardstock, 2 sheets of Garden Green 12"x12" cardstock and 1 sheet of Pool Party 12"x12" cardstock.

We started by cutting the strips of the stripe and snowflake patterns then "fussy cutting" the village pattern paper. We took 2 of the Basic White sheets and tore them into strips and inked the edges with Pool Party ink. The layout was first built on the other 2 sheets of Basic White which were cut down to 11"x11". The torn and inked white strips were layered over each other to create the snowy background. Once this was done these pieces were adhered to the Garden Green base cardstock. We fussy cut some snowmen, penguins and trees from the other sheets of paper to make the embellishments and then stamped the title on Basic White using Garden Green ink and the Snow Day stamp set.

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I hope you like this layout. Thanks for stopping by!

October Paper Pumpkin and Alternatives

I know I am a little late in posting this but I still wanted to share this with you. In case you are not familiar with Paper Pumpkin from Stampin' Up it is a monthly subscription box that typically contains card projects but will sometimes also contain other paper crafting and stamping projects. This October's Paper Pumpkin Kit gave all that was needed to make 10 cards - 5 each of 2 designs. I played with the contents and made 10 cards of differing designs plus a scrapbook layout. I wanted to showcase how you can change up the results from a kit.

This is the contents of the kit that I worked from. To create what I did I added some Basic White for some card bases, window sheets for the shaker cards as well as Night of Navy and Shaded Spruce for the layout.

First off is the layout I created. 

I have been working with 8 1/2" x 11" for my layouts this year so I kept to this size for this. I cut apart 2 of the card bases and then cut 2" trips from them. The "seam" for joining the strips is hidden behind the strip of Night of Navy. I used some of the die cuts and sentiment banners for this as well.

Next are the cards. Cards 1 and 2 are the cards meant to be created with the kit. For the remaining cards I cut apart the bases and built each on a Basic White card base.  I created some as shaker cards and others as regular cards.

One thing I do really enjoy with the Paper Pumpkin Kits is having some materials leftover when complete. These are the pieces I have leftover after creating the layout and the cards shown. I plan on making some Christmas present tags from what remains.

For more information on a Paper Pumpkin subscription or to sign up follow this link here.

I hope you liked the layout and cards! Thanks for stopping by!