Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day! 

Here is another fun and exciting folded card that I tried out.  I've done side step cards before, but this time I decided to go big!  I found this tutorial on Pinterest.

 My sister and I went to the Scrapbook Expo a few ago and I picked up a few new Paper Nest Stamps.   This one is Cupcake Avery.  I colored her with Copic markers.  The flowers and the heart border were cut with Papertrey Ink dies.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Paper Nest-Cupcake Avery and Stampendous-Happy Mother's Day

Ink:  Versafine and Momento

Paper:   Recollections, Bazzill, Bo Bunny

Misc:  ScorPal, pop up dots, Nestabilities, buttons, wire, Copics, dies

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Bugs & Hisses!

I had these spider tea light holders packed in my Halloween decorations.  I decided to transform into some fun candy holders

I wrapped a strip of black cardstock around where the tea light is supposed to go, forming a tube.  The tube was stuffed with some green paper shred.  I filled a pretzel bag, half way, with some candy corn, and inserted it in the tube.  After I tied a bow around the top of the candy bag (and trimmed off the excess), I made a tag using the Bugs and Hisses stamp from Stampendous.  The little witches hat is from a  Quickutz die.

The spider's face/head was made using Nestabilities, and paper punches.



Supplies:

Stamps:  Stampendous-Bugs and Hisses

Ink:  Versafine

Paper:  Recollections, DCWV, Papertrey Ink

Misc:  Nestabilities, Witch Hat Quickutz, paper shred, pretzel bag, spider tea light holder, paper punches, pop up dots, white gel pen

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Holiday Wishes Card

I saw this great tag on Splitcoast made by Lynn Miller. I decided to make it into a card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink-Vintage Picnic, Stampendous-Winter Family
Ink: Memento, CTMH
Paper: Bazzill
Misc: Nestabilities, copics, brads, ribbon, pop up dots

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Beth

Candy Bar Gift Boxes

My Dad's favorite candy bar is the Mars Bar. We couldn't find them for years. Then, one day at Walmart, there they were at a register. I think I screamed out loud. Now, every time I go to Walmart, I grab a bunch to save for him. My cats like to give him a Father's Day gift every year, they are very thoughtful that way! So, I came up with a idea to package them up. Somebody somewhere probably already thought of it, but I think it's a pretty nifty idea.

I took two clear card boxes and filled them with five candy bars each. They fit perfectly, who'da thunk it?! I found the Fluffles stamp on a clearance rack at Jo-Ann's. I stamped it twice, colored it to look like my fur babies, and then popped it up. I paper pieced the present. Using my nestabilities, I created the round tag and then finished it off with a belly band. My Dad will probably see this post before Father's Day, but I know he will act surprised.

Supplies:
Stamp: Stampendous-Fluffles
Paper: Papertrey Ink, The Paper Company
Ink: Memento
Misc: Clear card boxes, nestabilities, sharpie pen, copics, ribbon, pop up dots, white gel pen, candy bars

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Beth

NOMAR!

A card that Nikki Estes made with Papertrey Ink's, Blooming Button Bits, helped me decide to buy that set. That very card was the inspiration for this card. Instead of using buttons for the flower centers, I just punched small circles out and popped them up. I used a dauber to sponge the white ink on the paper to make the clouds. I love this little gnome, he's actually for a holiday card, but I thought he would be perfect for it. I call him Nomar, after Nomar Garciaparra, a Red Sox Player, of course! (For all you women's olympic soccer fans, he's married to Mia Hamm). If you watch old SNL, there was a skit with Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch where they were from Boston and their "accents" were perfect. It's totally wicked pissah! But, they used to always yell out, "Nomar!". Sorry, I got off the subject.

Back to my card, sometimes I don't think what I'm doing and I stamped the sentiment last, and of course, it smudged a little. Dang it. I actually said much worse, but my 12 year old niece and my Dad reads this, so this is the PG-13 rated version. Just pretend that you don't notice it. Nomar's beard is made with liquid applique and I put diamond glaze on his hat.

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampendous, Papertrey Ink
Paper: Papertrey Ink, Recollections
Ink: Memento, Versafine, CTMH
Misc: Punch, pop up dots, liquid applique, copics, diamond glaze, dauber

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Beth