Angry Birds' Birthday Card

A cute card for our nephew's birthday. This was a case of Mercedes Weber. It uses several Stampin' Up! punches.

Paper: Bashful Blue(105120), Real Red (102482), Whisper White (100730), Basic Black (121045),  Garden Green (102584) Daffodil Delight (119683).

Stamp Set: Itty Bitty Banners (w-126255 and c-126257)

Ink: Basic Black( 126980)

Accessories: Big Shot ( 113439), Bitty Banners Framelits(129267), Cup Cake Builder (121807, 1 3/4" Circle (119850), Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (118309), Boho Blossoms ( 119858), Blossom Petals Builder (121808), 1/16th " Handheld circle (101227), 1/4" Handheld circle (retired), Star(retired)punches.

It worked up quickly and was fun to create!

Have a great weekend!

Sharri

Front Door?

My mother usually spends Christmas with my sister in London, Ont. but this year she stayed home. My sister sent a parcel for her in the mail to my address and I wrapped it for her.
I decided that most of my parcels would be wrapped with the packing paper that comes in my Stampin'Up! boxes, there seems to be a ton of it!

I wrapped this box with the packing paper and sponged (101610) the edges with some soft suede ink (115663). Next I folded 4 rectangles from the same paper and created the panels for the door. I used the Woodgrain background stamp (117100)
to stamp the panels, these were sponged as well.
I used some soft suede card stock (115318) and the 1 3/8" circle punch (119860) as well as some brushed silver card stock (100712) and the 1 1/4" circle punch layered together to make the door knob.
The wreath was created with the snowflake punch (119852) and Garden Green cardstock (102584) the Berries were punched from Red Glimmer Paper (121790) and the circle punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (118309). the tag was punched using the Large Tag (119876) and the Extra Large punch (119866) with some Crumb Cake card stock (120953) and the Soft Suede, this was stamped in Real Red Ink (103133) using the greeting from the Holiday Happiness stamp set (120792) and the holly from the Pines and Poinsettias set (123764) inked with the
Real Red (100052) and Garden Green (100080) Stampin'Write Markers, tied on with some Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine (123125) then a small circle fire rhinestone brad (109110) to dress it up. This is tied onto a bow tied from Real Red 1 1/4" stripped grosgrain ribbon (retired)
This was a fun project and was well received.

Thank you for visitng,

Sharri

Jeffrey's Birthday Card

I created this card using the tutorial over at Paper Punch Addiction. He was just too cute and worked really well for a 7 year old boy. I changed up the paper to use Lucky Limeade and Garden Green. The DSP in the background is from the Just Add Cake collection.
I didn't have the stamp set Kim used for the eyes so I improvised with circle punches. 
Really cute and simple with the correct punches.

Sharri

More Easter goodies....

I am way behind in posting these. I was away to Montreal last week and then to London, ON to visit with my sister for the weekend and seem to have lost track of time. I have a few more Easter treats to show off before I move on to Mother's day etc.

These first little goodies are a direct case from Mary Fish's blog. I loved how these teeny tiny boxes can be decorated using punches and embelishments. The directions are on Mary's blog if you are interested.

These skinny bags are filled with the Easter M&M's and some Citrus Jelly Bellies. The4 central  toppers are cased from  France over at Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie.
Aren't they just the cutest? She used a different base but the fronts are basically the same. My base for them is a 4 3/4 by 1 1/2 inch piece of cardstock that has been scored from each end at 2 inches and then a 3/4inch circle punched in the center of the 3/4 x 1.5 center area/bottom of the cardstock.

This first cutie can be found here. France has direstions and a video so I will not bore you here with the details. I used the ribbon from sale-a-bration on her head.

This little chick can be found here.
I think they are so cute! The eyes are not so great but in real life they really didn't look so scarey.

The bunnies are found here.  As you will notice France used pink and Brown but I was leaning more to the neutrals.

This version was just to simplify the work a bit I used the scallop circle punch in Daffodil Delight and sponged the edges a bit with some Peach Parfait, the beak is a small square of Peach Parfait and the eyes are from the owl punch then a white gel pen pupil was drawn in.

This bunny is just the head from the bunny in the previous post.













 I hope you enjoyed these pop over and check out Frenchie's blog and then come back as I have more to share later this week.

I promise!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

Valentines Card Class

I did the dry run today for my Valentine Cards Class. My daughter-in-law, Jess, came with my 6 yr old grand daughter and 3 teenagers and we made these cards that we will make in my classes being held the next 2 Monday nights. There will be 7 tomorrow and 5 next week. The class went well and we finished in the allotted time so I guess that is a good thing.

I did learn, though, that a 6 yr old is not patient enough to do a class with this many people, or this many projects.

 The first card was a direct case from Jackie Bolhuis;


http://klompenstampers.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-filled-with-tlove_12.html

We used:
Stamp sets: Filled with Love

Paper: Pink Pirouette, Real Red, Whisper White

Ink: Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Basic Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Small Heart and Large Full Heart punches, Basic Jewels Rhinestones, Scalloped Heart of Hearts embosslit

The next card is also a direct case from Glrnda Calkins: http://thestampcamp.com/blog/01/21/inlaid-hearts/
This uses the inlaid technique and everyone loved it.

Stamp Set: Filled with Love

Paper: Regal Rose, Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red

Ink: Rose Red

Accessories: Big Shot, Heart To Heart punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Itty Bitty buttons, Linen Thread

Next is the punch art of Gretchen Barron.
http://gretchenbarron.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/01/why-we-do-what-we-do.html





I don't  have the glimmer paper yet so this is my take on hers.


Stamp set: Bugs and Kisses

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Read Red, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink

Ink: Real Red

Accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, 1 1/4"and 1 3/4" circle, Wide oval, Small heart and Pinking Hearts border punches, Crop-a-dile, Real Red satin ribbon

This was a favorite of everyone. Thanks Gretchen!

 Lastly we used up some of my retired DSP and ran the Candy Wrapper die through the Big Shot.

We embellished it with the new oval punch and a small oval punch from Very Vanilla sponged with Real Red ink. The sentiment is from the All Holidays stamp set.

Next we filled them with....what else but... Hugs and Kisses from Hersheys.


Hope you've had a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by.

Sharri.

Altered Tealight Birthday Cakes

 I have not been really impressed with any of the samples of these that I have seen before yesterday.

I was surfing about and came across this sample.


http://helenmade.blogspot.com/2011/01/altered-tea-lights.html

Boho Blossoms and Trio Flower punches and created my own using the same tutorial that I used to create the long stemmed roses, found here:


http://papercraftsloveaffair.blogspot.com/2010/10/long-stem-roses.html

 Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla, Old Olive

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Boho Blossoms, Trio Flower(retired), Scallop Circle, Large Scallop Circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, Big Shot, Finial Press embossing folder, Piercing tool and foam mat, Basic Jewels Pearls and of course a battery operated tealight. I got mine at the local Dollarama 2 for $1 at least a year or so ago.

 This one is less formal, I used the Lap of Luxury DSP for all parts of this. Punched a border with the Scallop Trim border punch, used the Flower Trio again with some Basic Jewel Rhinestone centers.

I think these would make cute gifts for someone who has everything!

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sharri

The last of Christmas projects.....

 Hi everyone! I've had a crazy busy week...catching up after the holiday I guess. So here are the last of my Christmas projects and then we can move on to other things.

These are gift card/ticket holders that I had to create to accommodate tickets to a theatre show I had purchased for gifts.The conventional gift card holders didn't work; they weren't long enough.

They could be created for any occasion; just switch out the paper and stamps for the appropriate occasion.


Paper: Jolly Holiday DSP from the current IBC, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, .

Stamp Set: Occasional Quotes, Wordplay

Ink: Old Olive Classic

This is the inside, it has a flap on the pocket to hold the ticket.

Accessories: Snowflake, Scallop Circle, Large and Small Tags, Decorative Label, 1 3/4" and 1/2" circle, corner rounder, 1/16" hole punches, 1 1/4 Striped Old Olive Grosgrain ribbon, Linen Thread, Glimmer Brads

Inside of flap with circle punch to make access to the ticket easier

The DSP for this one, Deck the Halls, is now retires from the Holiday mini It was one of my favorites.


I used the Chocolate Chip 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon and Basic Jewels Pearls to accent this one. I loved the look of it.

The inside uses the Decorative label punch and Crumb Cake card stock backed with a Cherry Cobbler Decorative Label Punch.

The last one uses:

Paper: Candy Cane Christmas DSP(retired),Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Real Red, Blushing Bride, Garden Green

Stamp Sets: A Cute Christmas(retired), Tiny Tags,

Ink: Baja Breeze, Real Red, Blushing Bride

Accessories: Real Red 5?8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin'Write Markers, Pinking Hearts Border, Med Tag, Word Window, Modern Label, Designer Label, 1 1/4" circle, Small and Large Oval punches

These were fun to make and really, when I actually sat down to do them, much easier than I expected them to be.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sharri

Thanks so Much!

 This is a tag I made to go on a hostess/thank you gift for my sister-in-law, Lorraine. She had us all (12) for Christmas dinner on Boxing Day; this is when my husband's family has always celebrated the holiday leaving Christmas day for family things etc.

Lorraine dubbed herself "Rainedeer" along time ago so this tag seemed to fit the bill. It's made with punches entirely except for the tag itself which is from the Sizzix Bigz Two Tags die. I cased the basic figure from Kelly Mayou's blog:
http://weekendstamper.blogspot.com/2010/12/and-countdown-begins-5-days-until.html             

The supplies are all SU:

Stamp set: Tiny Tags

Paper: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Very Vanilla

Ink: Whisper White

Accessories: Wide and small Oval, 1 3/8", 1/2" and 1" Circle, Word Window Punches, Two Tags Bigz die, Swirl Scribbles embosslet, 1/8" Early Espresso Taffeta ribbon, white gel pen

This is what the gift was; a set of 12 dessert/appetizer plates with a Reindeer on them...... fitting I thought.

I hope you all had a safe Happy New Year!

Thank you for all your support in the past and I hope you will  keep stopping by in the future.

Sharri

More roses

 I wanted to see how much bigger the roses made with the Island Floral Bigshot die were.
The original post can be found here:

http://papercraftsloveaffair.blogspot.com/2010/10/long-stem-roses.html

Here are the results:

This picture shows the difference in the two sizes.

Hope this inspires you to experiment as well.


Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri