Karen Decker’s December 2024 Shoebox Event
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My prayers go out to all those suffering from the LA wildfires and a special prayer for the firefighters and first responders who brave it all to protect others from losing it all.
Our last and final Shoebox Event was hosted by me with a Christmas luncheon, snowman gift exchange game, and a couple rounds of bunco for laughs! Card making of course started the day and I used the unique Krazy Kreations stickers to create one Christmas card and one friend card.
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I created a way to bring the celebration of the birth of Jesus with the music notes and Stampin’ Up! stamps.
The dancing deer do look like they are celebrating.
That, Sal, is Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up! as is the red and black plaid I used for accents.
So the outline of the deer is actually a sticker?
Yes, Sal. So are the music notes on the outside, the little bird and the greeting, bell and holly up top. The little bird is from the ‘Hello Winter’ sticker bundle, and the green boughs and greeting are also stickers. Here are steps for creating with a Krazy Kreation’s sticker when adding to glitter paper:
- Burnish a piece of KrazyKreations fine glitter paper.
- Carefully peal off the stickers that you want to be glittery, place on the glitter paper.
- Burnish the sticker. I used our ink roller.
- Color the image using ALCOHOL markers.
- Fussy cut the image.
- Use the edge of a black marker to have a definitive black edge on the cut out sticker.
- Apply to your project.
Woah – that is not as easy as stamping!
Just different, Sal. It is always fun to learn new things at any age.
Recipe
- Base: Sahara Sand, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4
- Layer 1 (X2): Basic Black, 5 3/8 X4 1/8
- Layer 2: Red & Black plaid DSP, 5 1/4 X 4
- Layer 3: Basic Black, 4 X 3 1/2
- Layer 4: Sahara Sand DSP with deer, 3 3/4 X 3 1/4
- Inside: Sahara Sand DSP with deer, 5 1/4 X 4
- Inside Strip: Red & Black plaid DSP, 3/4 X 4
Inside Music Notes: Stampin’ Up! ‘Music From The Heart’
Heaven & Nature Sing: Stampin’ Up! ‘Nature Sings’
For Unto You… and Wishing You Every Blessing…: Stampin’ Up! ‘Every Blessing’
Alcohol Markers Used:
- Bronze with the Color Lifter for the deer; Add color to the edge then pull it in with the Color Lifter
- Lt Granny Apple Green for the holly leaves
- Dk Real Red for the bow on bell, the holly berries and the belt circles and the bird’s hat
- Basic Black for the belt the hooves, the nose and the edging
- Lt Smoky Slate for the bell
- Dk Smoky Slate for the bird with the Color Lifter to blend color
The downside of using Krazy Kreations stickers is using them up and not having any more for future cards. However, they are still available in the store so I could purchase more. I will link the Krazy Kreations store in the computer below.
How often do you go back and make the same card?
Good point, Sal! I always want to try something new.
For the Snow Friend card I went through my stash of DSP-designer series paper, and found two sheets with a watercolor look that worked well together:
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I am using the Krazy Kreations Snow Friends Sticker Bundle. Everything you see is from that bundle, even the stars on the dividing strip in the middle. I made some kits with a strip of 11 stars and some kits with 10 stars and two red jewels.
Recipe
- Base: Coastal Cabana, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4
- Layer 1 (X2): Basic Black, 5 1/4 X 4
- Layer 2 at the top: DSP with snowflakes, 2 1/8 X 3 7/8
- Layer 2 at the bottom: DSP watercolor look, 3 X 3 7/8
- Inside top layer: 5 1/8 X 3 7/8
- Fine Glitter Paper: 3 X 3 for stickers, 3 7/8 X 3/8 for the strip separating the two DSPs on front
Alcohol Markers Used:
- Dk Real Red for the bird, the hat and the inside of the heart star
- Lt Balmy Blue for the outline on the bear with the color lifter for blending
- Dk Basic Black for the edging
Thank you for stopping by today to see a new way of creating greeting cards!
SAL, Sharing A Love of Learning
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: “What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down and can still be read from left to right?”
Answer: “NOON”
Jo Brooks November 2024 Shoebox Event
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Happy New Year everyone!! May the Lord bless you and keep you this 2025 year and may He make His face to shine upon you … and give you peace! Let’s pray the same for our country as the election results are certified this January 6, 2025. May the Lord bless and keep our country and its leaders and may He make His face shine upon the USA ….. and give us peace. That is a rephrasing and shortening of the benediction in Numbers 6:24-26.
Jo Brooks was our Shoebox Event Hostess in November and had delightful Thanksgiving cards for us to make. Remember- with a shoebox, Jo is the designer and makes card kits for each of us to recreate the cards she designed. The cards you see here were put together by me but designed by Jo so mine may not look quite as good as the originals that Jo created.
This first card uses the silhouette technique and her embellishments were feathers! So creative!
The second card Jo had for us uses buttons! That was inspiring since I have a huge collection of buttons and haven’t used them very often. With metallic leaves and pumpkin vines it is quite striking; and who doesn’t love a bundle of wheat, a fence and a wheelbarrow! Truly “Autumn beauty everywhere” as the inside greeting states.
The embossed sky looks like wind blowing the clouds around.
It does, Sal, and added another creative touch to the card.
Thank you, Jo!
SAL, Shoebox A Lot of ideas
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A Bank.
Sympathy Cards
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The last quarter of 2024 was harsh for many of us. There were four of us stampers who lost our mothers and one of my Bible study friends lost his father. The old saying that deaths come in threes didn’t prove true this year.
Stamps: Stampin’ Up! ‘Love & Sympathy’, and Acushla Stamp by Petticoat Parlor- I will link Petticoat Parlor in the computer below.
That second one is the stamp you won at the Scrapbook Fair!
Yes, Sal, and I stored it in the ‘Love & Sympathy’ stamp case to remember that I have it.
Dies: The BigZ Lattice Die, the Window Frames Framelits Dies, Cherry Blossom Dies, Cross of Hope Die, Forever Flourishing greenery die
Recipe
- Base: Basic Gray, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, scored @ 4 1/4
- Layer 1: Basic White, 5 1/4 X 4, die cut with Window Frames Framelits Dies
- stamp Love & Sympathy in lower right corner
- use the cut out for the greeting on the inside
- Lattice under the Layer: Basic White, 4 X 4 1/4, die cut with BigZ lattice Die
- Bouquet: Flowers from the Cherry Blossom Dies
- Flirty Flamingo cut outs with Petal Pink centers; 2 large & two small flowers, (one for the inside), glue the flower on top of the Petal Pink for centers
- Mint Macaron stems using Forever Flourishing dies, 5 outside and 1 inside die cut
- Cross: Silver Foil cut with Cross of Hope Framelits
- Embellishments: Pearls on the lattice
While I had all the dies out I made a Thank You card with the same design and a butterfly in the middle.
I used the Love and Sympathy stamp set a little differently for this sympathy card:
Thanks for stopping by!
SAL, Sailing ALong into the new year
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: Kids can make it, but never hold it or see it. What is it?
Answer: Noise.
Birthday Pop Up Card
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A milestone birthday needs a special birthday card!
You are back! I thought maybe your computer had crashed- which means I crash, too!
No, Sal, the last quarter of 2024 was tough and I can’t seem to manage my time very well with all that has happened. I will do better in 2025! Starting today I will begin catching up my journaling of cards and shoebox events, one at a time, and even make a thank you card.
To create this card, I pulled out the Pop-Up dies from Dare 2B ArtZy, which I purchased from Teaspoon of Fun,
Click HERE to see the pop-up cards I made for Valentines Day with these dies and with examples of ones that we made in previous classes manually without dies. There is also a video on that blog post showing the construction by Deb Valder with the die set.
It would be pretty time consuming to make all those cuts and scores manually.
We love a challenge, Sal, but if you can purchase a die set you certainly get a card done more efficiently with less mistakes winding up in the trash. Divinity Designs even has dies for purchase that will perfectly cut out bases and layers if you have trouble measuring and cutting just right. https://divinitydesignsllc.com/a2-landscape-card-base-with-layer-die/
I used the ‘Happy Birthday To You’ Stampin’ Up retired stamp set and ‘Birthday’ dies for the cake. I made a mirror image of the cake, die cut them, and glued them back to back so the back would look nice when popped up. To create a mirror image you stamp your image 2 or 3 times on a Silicone Craft Sheet using the Stamparatus. You then place your white cardstock on the silicone sheet and rub-rub-rub. You place your die under the image and face up to die cut it correctly.
The greetings are in the ‘Birthday Blooms’ Stampin’ Up! stamp set.
I used Evening Evergreen cardstock for the base with a Soft Succulent layer and DSP- designer series paper- with floral images which incorporate both those colors. I wanted the cake to ‘pop’ so I used Rich Razzleberry for the main color.
With the dies, I found the pop up didn’t stay up very well so I added a rectangle of DSP, using another of the dies in the set, and mounted it on the pull out layer under the greeting so it hooks on the edge of the layers and stays up. That worked well.
For the numbers I used the ‘Playful Alphabet’ dies.
I linked the Teaspoon Of Fun dies in the computer with little Sal.
SAL, Share A Love
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?
Answer: His horse’s name is Friday.
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