Paper Flower Tutorial

Good morning all! Remember the altered bottle I posted last week? Well, I have a tutorial for it this week over at the Chicas Gettin Crafty blog.

Check it out!

I'm a Winner!

Woo Hoo! I won the Twine blog candy over at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge ! I cannot wait to use it on one of my next projects!

Allison and Caroline host two challenges a week, with guest designers one weekend of each month. Come check it out, and become a follower. The challenges are always just for fun. And we have a great group over there. Hope to see you soon!

Altered Bottle

Here's my project for today's Chicas Getting Crafty Blog post. This was my "anything goes" project. Check out the link for more information!

Paper Craft Weekend Challenges-Chipboard and Bakers Twine

This weekend at the Paper Craft Weekend Challenge blog, Allison's challenge was to choose chipboard, and Caroline's was to use baker's twine. Since I did not have the time to participate in both challenges, I combined them. Here is my result:

Materials Used:
Chipboard flower, DCWV mat stacks (The Fall Glitter Matstack and Harvest Gathering Matstack), Stampin Up supplies-Very vanilla and chocolate chip cardstock, chocolate chip scalloped edge ribbon, Vintage Labels stamp set, Fabulous Phrases stamp set, chocolate chip ink spot, chocolate chip marker, crushed curry marker (used to color chipboard daisy), really rust button, Daisies # 2 Die, Vintage label punch, Mini word punch; and Martha Stewart Twine.

Card size is A2. Matstack cardstock was cut to create a two patterned card front. Stamped and punched "Smile" label. Threaded ribbon through label and tape to back of cardfront. Chipboard flower colored with Crushed Curry marker and center was sponged with Chocolate chip ink. Leave about 4 inch tail of twine at front of chipboard flower and wrap twine through petal openings going around petal until each opening has twine wraped through twice. You should end with two pieces of twine facing each other. Cut twine so there is now two 4" tails. Thread each piece of twine through button and tie into a bow. Run Chocolate Chip cardstock through die cut machine with Daisies #2 Die. Glue chipboard flower on top of Daisy, making sure you can see the daisy under the chipboard flower. Set aside. Using Chocolate chip marker make stitches around bottom half of card front. Adhere flower to cardfront as show. Adhere completed card front to Very Vanilla card.

Please Call Card

Hello, my friends. Today this card I made is featured on The BugBytes Blog. Please check it out over there for directions and additional snapshots.

Call someone you love today....
Carole

Paper Craft Weekend Challenges-Pt 2

Second challenge of the weekend is from Caroline. She's the glitter girl! Her challenges always involve sparkly things. And if not for that "requirement" my tag probably wouldn't have any sparkle to it. I am not a tag maker, but due to the tag theme we had our monthly crop this month, I decided I would do tags for this week's challenges. I have a friend who's birthday gift will have this tag as an adornment. Everything but the Stickles, the twine,  and the tag base is from Stampin Up.

Particulars: Paper is Nursery Nest (I will never use this paper for anything baby related. It's adorable for lots of things), Penant Punch, Pennant Parade stamp set, Pear Pizzazz cardstock, Marina Mist Satin Ribbon, all mounted on an Avery tag purchased from Office Max.

Paper Craft Weekend Challenges

My good friends Caroline and Allison kicked off their new blog Paper Craft Weekend Challenge this weekend and I decided I needed to participate in their awesome challenges. Here's my first entry:

Allison gave us two sketches for her challenge. The first was a layout (Gosh I wish I had the time to get back into scrapbooking) the second was a card. Since I had to make Christmas tags for the church crop I co-hosted with my good friend Maggie on Saturday, I decided to use the card sketch challenge to make a tag.
All the materials I used for this tag came from a $5 Christmas kit I bought from Big Lots. The "for you" stamps were from the Fabulous Phrases Stamp set from Stampin Up. I made the flower using the Stampin Up 5 Petal Flower punch (punched 3 time). The leaves were also made from the 5 petal punch.  I will have a tutorial on this flower making technique as a Technique Tuesday later in September.

Press Release-Come Join the fun!!!

Allison (from Goody Bag Diva) and Caroline (from Caroline’s Craftography) are thrilled to announce their new challenge blog – Paper Craft Weekend Challenge!  You can expect a challenge with a project to inspire you every Friday and Sunday. The only rule they expect you to stick to is having fun! The challenges won’t be limited to one type of machine or project – so get your materials and get ready to use your stuff.  There will be some tutorials along the way – and it wouldn’t be any fun if there weren’t friends occasionally stopping by – so please come join them and get ready to get your craft on!

These ladies had the best Circle Member sponsored events on the Circle Board until recently. Well, now they're taking it to the masses. Please stop in, say hi, and participate in a challenge when you can. These ladies, and their followers, are a lot of fun! Come see for yourself. I know I'll be hanging out over there whenever I can. 

Come join me.

Carole