Halloween Paper Bead Bracelet

I have made a paper bead bracelet made from current SU Halloween DSP and made some little charms to go with it. I covered it with crystal effects and also made little charms to go with it.

Fall Tissue Box Cover

I am so excited that I figured out how to make these. Here is a fall one I made last night, just from designer paper and my handmade flowers w/an antique brad.

Christmas items

I was looking for a tissue box cover and found only one but it wasn't exactly what I wanted, so I ended up making my own. I love these because they can be changed out for the different holidays or seasons. The card I made is a combination of two cards I saw, one with a wreath and one with a door. I realize now that the wreath should have been smaller and the door thinner but I will make that change next card I make. That card was all punch art.

Card Holder

I am sorry SU got rid of the Forget Me Not Keepers. But I bought a bunch right before the end so I would have enough for my storage and making fun Card Holders. This is what I made last night using a tutorial I purchased and "To the Nines" retired DSP.  Because most of the stuff is retired and I didn't have it, so I had to improvise. Anyway, here are the pics. I plan on selling this at the fall festival. Each month has a card in it and I am only posting the cards I made last night that go with the holder.

* What to do with file folders

These are retired file folders from Stampin' up, but I imagine you could take regular file folders and cover them with designer paper and do the same thing with them. You can get the instructions from:

barb@barbstamps.com

This is the front of the folder.

This is the inside w/3 cards on each side w/matching pen.

This is the rest of the folder (outside).

This is the inside with a 5x7 ruled paper attached.

My Last Chance Items

This items was made using the now retired DSP paper called the Write Stuff. It is perfect to cover these notebooks.

This set was also used using retired DSP and ribbon, but you could use a different kind from the new catty. The stamps are still current.

Welcome to Racing Towards Creativity Royal Blog Tour

Welcome to my part of the "Pretty In Pink" Princess Tour. I am filling in for someone who had to drop the tour at the last minute. My name is Jennifer Eby. My samples will be on the simple side since I did not have weeks to prepare like the rest did. In fact, I did all my samples in one weekend. I am spotlighting the stamp set called "Leaf Lines." This set has so much potential. There are 5 types if leaves and a saying and I have used each and everyone in my samples you will see below. If you want to know how and what supplies I used, please email me and I will provide you with the directions. I am also offering Blog Candy. What I am giving away and what you must to do to be in the drawing is at the end of my samples.

I have crafted four things for thee to look at on your tour.

This card uses the holly leaves so, of course, I had make it into a Christmas card. I stamped some images on confetti white and on another paper stamped the same image and cut them out. I water colored them and put glitter on the berries. I used the ornament punch for the vase.

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This card used the oak leaves with the acorns and the corresponding DSP paper. I also used the saying that came with this set on this card. The leaf was attached to punched circles and raised up with glue dots.

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This is my favorite card. As you have probably discovered by now, making flowers from punches or stamps is all the rage right now. I used the ginko leaf to make my flower. The center of the flower uses the four leaf clover with a pink rhinestone brad. The leaves are from the big bird punch. The flower was raised up with a glue dot.

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This is my 3D item and it contains tea bags. The front of the container says TEA and it is hard to see in the picture. There are also clear buttons attached to the front. I am not sure what kind of leaves these are but they reminded me of tea leaves, so I used them on this container. The kind of tea that is in this container also includes flowers so I made pansies using our butterfly punch. This is on the back of the container.

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Blog Candy

I am giving away a Stampin' Up Crop -a-Dile and a stamp set called "Sweet Stems" and a hostess set from the mini called "Picture This." They are brand new in the packaging and have never been used. Blog Candy is only offered to non-Stampin' Up! demonstrators for the Royal Blog Tour.


In order to qualify for the Blog Candy I am offering, you must leave a comment about which item you liked the best and why along with your email address and if you become a follower on my blog, you will have two chances to win. Remember the Blog Candy is only for NON STAMPIN' UP DEMONSTRATORS. I will mail to anyone who qualifies and is picked. I will use a random generator to pick the lucky person. You will be notified by email shortly after the tour ends.

Have fun on the tour. Please click your mouse on the shoes to go to the next blog and pay attention to the clues so you can enter to win the grand prizes.

New 3-D items

I have made some flowers from punches and a Garden Giggle Butterfly. The pattern and tutorial for the Butterfly box came from Gretchen Barron. Isn't it so cute. There are more to do, but this is what I did last night.

This next picture show two flowers I have made from various punches.

This flower was made from the ornament punch. It is beautiful but it is large. I attached it to a large paper clip and I am using it now.

This last flower was made with the large bird punch using the actual bird, cutting off his beak and rounding the end. The center is made with the scallop punch. I will probably end up using this on a card.

Awash with Flowers

Here is a new card with the set Awash w/Flowers (2 step stamping) that is listed in the previous post. It also uses a couple of elements from the egg kit (now out of stock so glad I got a few of them) and a carnation I made with the scallop punch. Hope you like it.

Christmas Ornaments

I saw someone make a card like this using the sweet cups as a snow globe and then I started thinking, why not make it into an ornament. Thing how many different designs you can make. I used the circle cutter for the outside border. I think next time I would put a piece of cardboard in between to make the paper more durable and even. Enjoy!

Saturday's Cards

Here are four cards I did today. Actually only 3 I did today. This first one was done some time ago but it has been one of my favorites and only a one layer card that I thought I would share it. The look is done totally with chalk. I keep forgetting about our chalks and then I take this card out and tomorrow I will do some cards with chalk.

This is another like the one I did yesterday but with a different cat image and dsp paper.
I decided to dive and and try the treat cups on the cards. They are a lot easier to use than I thought. I just bought a big bag of M&M's and matched the colors to the season. I used the circle cutter to make the outline of the punched circle that the treat cup fits into. It made the ornament look a lot better.
This, of course, it the halloween one. I used the cut out of the stamped image and a rub on for this card.