‘Twas My Birthday
Check out these beautiful handmade birthday cards from my dear friends.
Lucille’s was the first one I received in advance of my birthday.
Jo had a very clever little purse which opened and then the inside had a pull tab with an additional wish:
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Joy’s card was a unique circle shape with lots of texture and layers:
Christine used a fun die and paper piecing to create this card:
Lisa’s card was a beautiful teacup filled with flowers and lots of layers on a fun fold. Lisa joined with Sharon to celebrate my birthday with a real tea party! I felt like a queen.
At the tea, Sharon gave me this card and many goodies:
Lucille made me a second card:
Thank you, dear friends, for those beautiful creations!
The family is not into card making, but Amber is a wonderful cook and she, Tyler and Stacia put on a great birthday celebration up at the lake. Amber made brownies and her awesome potato salad and Tyler grilled steaks and grilled corn on the cob with fresh corn Stacia had brought. We were able to get two campsites close together at Willow Creek Reservoir, just minutes from Grandby Lake and Shadow Lake.
Paul, not to be outdone for my birthday, booked us on a hot air balloon ride in Steamboat Springs a couple weeks later. It is quite awesome to have a daughter, Stacia, and son in law, Jonathan, who own a hot air balloon business.
https://wildwestballooning.com/
It was a month of birthday celebrations.
Back to the July 4th week — Jaxson and Emmitt, our two grandsons, were camping with us for the week and we drove from the lake to Steamboat Springs for the 4th of July parade. Jonathan asked Paul to drive the jeep with the float they had made. It looked like a hot air balloon basket with lots of red, white and blue balloons attached above. Stacia and the girls were on this float blowing bubbles at the crowds.
The royal wave!
The boys got to ride with Uncle Jonathan in the ‘real’ hot air balloon basket! You can see the burners on the silver truck behind this picture. Jonathan would do a quick touch of the burners to create the sound you hear as they fly the balloon. They won first prize in the commercial float category. I wonder what they will come up with next year!
Then it was back to the lake!
It was Jaxson’s and Emmitt’s first long camping trip with us. Mom and Dad came up on the 4th and Stacia and the granddaughters came up on the 5th. Emmitt had me pull his first loose tooth. In this picture he is trying to show you the gap in his mouth. Grandma is a doctor who can pull splinters out and now a dentist who can pull a loose tooth, but my favorite role is just being grandma and cuddling these grandchildren before they are grown and gone.
Here’s a picture of Emmitt after he caught his first fish. Jaxson had three fish on his hook that were ‘almost’ a catch.
After the Buchholtz family headed home, we took Stacia and the girls and anchored beside a little island on Shadow Lake for a picnic on the boat.
And Ruger was always with us, of course!
When the Whiteheads went back home, it was time for a little R&R with my beloved:
Thank you everyone for a memorable birthday month!
SAL, Shown A Lot of love for my birthday
Karen
I cannot pick a ‘best’ birthday card so I will show the hot air balloon and link Sal in the computer to their site. The videos are awesome to watch even if you have no desire to fly!
From Jonathan:
Question: What do you call it when the hot air balloon shadow passes over you on the ground?
Answer: A balloonereclipse!
Karen Decker’s June 2024 Shoebox Event- Red, White & Blue
It is time to catch up with my card postings here on the blog. As is now becoming common, I post cards for the holiday or celebration we just had instead of the one coming up. If you are thrilled with the card you can find it on Pinterest or Instagram under Stampalosopher and save its design for next year. Or you can come back to this blog and click the ‘Recipe Box’ tab and scroll to the card and click its thumbnail in the Recipe Box to access the blog post for that card. With that being said, let’s look at cards for the Fourth of July (or perhaps July birthdays)!
I wondered if we had been archived!
No, Sal, I just had a camping trip with the two grandsons, then both families joining us over the 4th for some boating and camping. Later I had the two granddaughters for a week with trips to and from Steamboat to pick them up and take them home. It has been a wonderfully full month!
Recipe for Firework Card:
- Base: Night of Navy, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2): Real Red, 5 1/4 X 4, Emboss with textured embossing folder (just a guess)
- Top Note: White 5 1/4 X 4, die cut once with the top note, then turn 90 degrees and die cut again
- sponge the edge with Night of Navy
- Use Taylored Expressions 6 x 6 ‘Party in the USA’ Stencils to stamp the background
- stencil 1 – Night of Navy stars & stripes
- stencil 2 – Real Red stars & stripes
- stencil 3 – Basic Grey stars & stripes
- Firework strips
- Night of Navy, 4 X 3, score at 2, fold and then cut 12 -1/8 inch strips
- Real Red, 2 1/2 X 3, score at 1 1/4, fold and then cut 12 – 1/8 inch strips
- Put a little bit of glue on each strip on the unscored end and attach it to itself; put another tiny bit of glue on the inside of the blue strip to attach the red strip. Place the strips symmetrically around the fireworks securing them to the Top Note with a 3/4″ punched circle from a double back sheet
- When all are attached to the circle, add tombow glue to the center to reinforce the pieces
- Punch a 3/4″ circle from the Amazon DSP and add to the very center
- Inside Top Layer: White 5 X 3 3/4
- Bottom Strip: Whaline Patriotic Pattern DSP from Amazon, 3 3/4 X 3/4
- Bottom Front Strips: Night of Navy, 3/8 X 4; White 1/8 X 4
- Bottom Greeting: White 3 X 1 1/2, die cut with detailed Bands Die then stamp with ‘Band Together’ stamp set; the little blue stars are from the Hometown Greetings Edgelit Dies
The inside greeting of ‘Celebrate Freedom’ is from the Taylored Expressions ‘Land That I Love’ foil it sheets. The sheet is foiled with blue foil and then cut to size. The inside and the front greeting are lightly sponged on the edges with Night of Navy. I will link Textured Expressions in the computer at the end of the blog.
The next card uses the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ stamp from Taylored Expressions, the ‘Land That I Love’ foil it sheets, and the ‘Hometown Greetings’ edgelit dies from Stampin’ Up!
Recipe for God Bless America card
- Base: Real Red, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2): Night of Navy, 5 1/4 X 4
- Top (X2): White 5 X 3 3/4, Use sticky notes to mask the red for stamping blue and then mask blue to stamp the red of the flag. Use the stamparatus so that you can stamp several times to get a nice dark blue/red
- Church: White textured paper, 3 X 1, cut with Hometown Greetings Edgelit Dies
- Die cut from Night of Navy a second church, 2 3/4X 1, to adhere behind the white and slightly to the side for shadow (next time I would add a blue strip connected to the greeting like the inside has)
- Note: The Foil It Sheet from Taylored Expressions has several greetings on one sheet so it needs to have the greeting cut first and then use a separate set of blue foil sheet for the layer, usually you can cut the blue foil to size and then foil it and use the negative for the layer
- Greeting: Foil God Bless America
- God Bless America, 2 1/2 X 1 1/8
- Blue Foil, 2 3/4 X 1 3/8
- The Foil It Sheet from Taylored Expressions has several greetings on one sheet so it needs to have the greeting cut first and then use a separate set of blue foil sheet for the layer
- Greeting Inside: Land That I Love
- Land That I Love, 1 1/2 X 2
- Blue Foil Layer, 1 3/4 X 2 1/4
- Blue Houses on Inside: Night of Navy, 3 1/2 X 2, die cut with Hometown Greetings Edgelit Dies
- Top Strip on Inside: Amazon Whaline Patriotic DSP, 5 X 7/8
Thanks for visiting!
SAL, Salute A Land we love
Karen
Click to go to Taylored Expressions
Riddle of the day:
Question: How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
Father’s Day with a KraftyKreations Mandala
As a reward for purchasing from the Krafty Kreations booth at the Scrapbook Expo, I received a kit which makes two Mandala cards. I was a bit under the weather so Paul helped me make the two cards so we had Father’s Day Cards for the Son – In – Laws.
And this is how we customized it for Father’s Day. The Happy Father’s Day is from words in Pink & Main foil kits, cut to size, and run through the Mini Minc machine with a pretty foil. Call it ‘Mixed Media’!
I think you are taken with the black sticker technique because you always loved black accents.
So true, Sal, and I love glitter! Combining the two, glitter and black accents, with the ability to color the glitter any color and I am thrilled! Wait until you see the Christmas sets I purchased!
You are thinking Christmas already?
Half the year is almost gone; I had better be getting ready for making Christmas cards!
For the inside I used the Stampin’ Up! stamp set ‘Treasures of Life’:
As with most commercial kits, the inside is just the blank white of the card base. Tranquil Tide card stock was a close to perfect match for the card kit front so I cut a piece the full size of the base – 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 (minus a hair on the the 4 1/4 side to account for the score line down the middle). The black mat is 4 X 5 1/4 and the white top layer is 3 3/4 X 3 5/8.
Back to using the kit – when you peel up the outline sticker, you are left with the other pieces and it looks like this:
Krazy Kreations sells ‘transfer sheets’ but I had no clue at the time what those would be used for. Evidently, you apply the transfer sheet to this left over sheet, burnish real well, and then the transfer sheet will pick up all the little pieces and you can then apply those pieces to another card. I will try Glad Seal and Stick and see if that works. I will edit this post after I do that so you can come back and see if I made it work!
Thanks for joining me today as I delve into different crafting techniques.
SAL, Such A Lot of ways to craft
Karen
Click on little Sal in the computer to go to krazykreations.
Riddle of the day:
Question: A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. What can you put in it for it to weigh 40 pounds.
Answer: A hole.
2024 Scrapbook Expo in Denver
A group of us went to the Scrapbook Expo in Denver, May 17, 2024. It was a fun time, not quite as many vendors as the one I attended several years ago, but certainly enough that I found most things on my list. My favorite vendor that I visited first was Krazy Kreations. I purchased numerous outlines from them years ago but never used them so I wanted to get instructions once again. They had a ‘make and take’ so not only did I receive instructions but I got to use the technique. Sal will link you to their site at the end of the blog post.
The shoes, flowers, greeting and hearts are all glossy stickers. You put the shoe stickers on super fine glitter paper, roll with a brayer tool to set them firmly in the paper and then you color with alcohol markers and then fussy cut the image. I used a light and dark pink to get a little shading. The background is three strips of DSP with a little line sticker on the left side.
I added a happy birthday die cut from pink glitter paper for the inside when I got back home. The line edge is a sticker as well!
It was pretty in real life but the camera didn’t work well with the glitter paper, Sal. I could have used the super fine glitter paper and colored it but I had lots of Stampin’ Up! paper in my stash so I wanted to save the super fine glitter paper I purchased at Krazy Kreations for my Christmas projects when it is my turn for another Shoebox event.
Another vendor I visited and made their make and take was the Spellbinders booth. I have seen the wax kits in advertisements and wanted to try using them. Their card also used a letterpress system to get the tree branch. It has indents and fine details but hard to catch in a photo. The faux strings behind the wax seal are actually from a die. I toyed with buying that die but decided I have a stash of bakers twine so best to save my money – for now!
The next make and take was at the Stampalistic booth, it is a tin box with a top we made from an amazing stamp set that created layers by stamping on different colored papers and then fussy cutting and popping up each layer.
I went back to Krazy Kreations and purchased the borders you see on the bottom of the tin. The flower jewels are from my stash.
I asked if the jewels were Swarovski crystals since they were so bright. She said Swarovski has changed and calls them ‘Illuminations’ so I think the answer was yes, but I am not sure. Anyway they are Illuminations.
And you purchased the stamp so you can make more?
No, Sal. It was a lot of fussy cutting. Now if I had one of those fancy machines that would cut it, I might have. I sold my Brother because I had absolutely no room for it and no time to learn it.
Lastly, we met and compared our treasures. Sharon had found a make and take with a whole kit to take home that makes 8 cards- www.simplestories.com. This was the make and take.
Everything, including the background paper, was a punch out, but a heavy duty punch out, not just a thin sticker. I was impressed. This is something I can do with my grandchildren and they will be able to make a lovely card. They had Christmas card kits but I was hoping for a graduation card kit and birthday kit. I will have to go online for those.
Most of the make and takes were $5 so very reasonable. I had brought cash to make myself keep to a budget and my last purchase of the outline strips from Krazy Kreations, I was counting out my leftover change, but I kept to the budget.
Sharon, Lucille, Terry, myself and Michele!
I headed to the bathroom before we left and when I got back to the group they were yelling “You won”. I won a $20 gift certificate from Acushla Stamps (Acushla is Gaelic for Darling). I chose Petticoat Parlor stamps- a ‘Tea For Two’ stamp set and a ‘Sympathy’ stamp set.
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It was a fun day! I would have come back for the second day but I had a party planned for our little graduating kindergarten grandchild, Emmitt. He wanted a chocolate donut and a cake so our dear friend who does cakes for a living made a large chocolate donut cake! She actually made a chocolate and vanilla which was perfect to have one for Jaxson who doesn’t care for chocolate. Yes, he is my grandson, but he sure didn’t get my love for chocolate!
Thank you, Barbara Lane, for wonderful cakes!
Stay tuned for cards from our next shoebox event which is tomorrow. I am the hostess so I will be posting those cards next.
Thank you for letting us bring a pinch of creativity to spice up your crafting world!
SAL, Sharing A Lot of fun with friends
Karen
(Krazy Kreations is the link for this post)
Riddle of the day:
Question: I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A feather.
Graduation Time!
What a joy to celebrate little five year olds as they graduate from kindergarten, and yet how shocking to get announcements from graduating seniors who you knew when they were little! I had both kindies and seniors this year with two grandchildren graduating from kindergarten and two graduating seniors that were in the neighborhood knitting group that I taught.
For the kindergarteners I bought a digital stamp from Whimsy with a cute little penguin and made a ‘faux shutter’ card, also called a ‘fractured card technique’.
Emmitt’s school colors are blue and yellow;
Having trouble with the lighting again?
Yes, and I didn’t check the picture before I gave Emmitt his card. It was really yellow but now it is a bit washed out after adjusting the light with the computer. I did check Emma’s card though.
Emma’s colors are red and black and they are the Sea Dogs-
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Recipe
- Base: Match the strips, Night of Navy and Real Red, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 , score at 4 1/4
- Layer: DSP, 5 1/4 X 4, Note: do not adhere until you have added the diamond and strips
- If you are using scraps of DSP or don’t want to cut a full layer since you will cover up half of it, cut a layer in the same color as the base then attach the diamond, the strips and then the DSP
- Diamond: Basic White, Stitched Rectangle Die to cut, then color as desired, adhere to middle of DSP
- Strips: Night of Navy/Real Red: 1/4″ X 4, Use scraps for this since some strips can be shorter
- Start at a corner of the diamond and adhere first strip
- Adhere each additional strip at the corner of the diamond flush to the previous strip
- After adhering the strips, turn the DSP layer over and cut off the excess strips
- Coordinating DSP: Adhere this to the DSP by laying a 90 degree corner of the DSP flush to the strips, turn over the layer and cut off the excess DSP
- Now adhere the layer to the base
- Greetings: Night of Navy Ink and Memento Black Ink
- Oh Happy Day – Many Messages and die
- Clouds, Congrats and Sky Is The Limit are in the Sky is the Limit stamp set
- Happy to Share – Many Messages and die
- Copic Markers used on Emma’s card:
- Red R27
- Black C9
- Feet & Beak YR12
- Stem YG17
- Cheeks E00
- For shading of the white diploma and white on penguin, I used light Smoky Slate and then several swipes of the color lifter to soften the shadowing
What do you think about Digital Stamps?
I love that you can size them to what you need and my hp printer will print on the white cardstock so I have quality paper and the image is perfect – no shadows! I don’t like that it uses a whole sheet of cardstock for one or two images but I could probably use a 4 X 6 piece and adjust the printer accordingly if I would take the time to do so.
I will put the Whimsy link with little Sal in the computer down below.
For the graduating seniors I wanted to play with mulberry paper and use a ‘congratulations’ stamp that I purchased some 20 years ago!
You do love scrolly script! Can we see a close up?
Yes and yes!
Once again, I used the computer. I printed the scripture and the greeting on regular printer paper (I didn’t have onion skin paper) and then cut it to size. I couldn’t identify the script in the picture above so I used Edwardian Script – more scrollies.
graduation greeting printable pdf
Recipe
- Base: Glossy White Card Stock, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4, corner round edges
- Greeting: Glossy White Card Stock
- Use embossing buddy to apply powder to your card stock
- Stamp greeting in Versa Mark, apply gold embossing powder and heat
- die cut with Deckled Rectangle Die
- Layer: Mulberry Paper
- Wet the edges of the mulberry paper and then pinch the edges to get the fuzzy look
- Let dry and then adhere to back of the rectangular greeting
- Adhere to base
- Inside layer: Printer paper, 5 1/4 X 8 1/4, lightly scored at 4 1/8 then corner rounded. I applied a thin line of tombow glue right at the score line of the base, folded the inside layer in half and placed it in place on the inside of the base and then closed the base over the layer to apply the glue
- For a money pouch I used the Mini Pocket Envelope Die, Gold Foil paper and a bit more of the mulberry paper. My stash had confetti for graduation so I added that to the front. The silver says ‘Congrats Grad’.
That’s it for graduations this year! Stay tuned for the make and takes from the Scrapbook Expo in Denver.
Not so fast; you have birthdays, an anniversary and a get well to do first.
Sure enough! Good thing it is a cloudy, rainy day and I have fun things to make!
Thanks for joining us as we bring a pinch of creativity to spice up your crafting world.
SAL, Soaring A Long
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: Which vehicle is spelled the same forward and backwards?
Answer: Racecar
Sharon Fincham’s May 2024 Shoebox Event
With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day right around the corner, Sharon designed cards that we could use for both. For Father’s Day she used a Stampin’ Up! set of dies- ‘Trusty Tools’ that cut out tools! She had pieces for a toolbox so we could slide the tools in the box and then glue it to the shiny silver embossed background! Our part was easy in putting everything in place. Her part would have been hard with making the little tools! Thank you, Sharon!
I saved two of the tools Sharon had in our kits for the inside and used ‘Guy Greetings’ for a fun saying. The paint brush swirl and the ‘you are extraordinary’ are in the ‘Beautiful Blizzard’ stamp set from years ago.
Another stamp from the Bake Sale list! You should just delete that tab.
You’re probably right. Or maybe I should make a card with each of the products and offer the product with a card for sale to see if that would market the stamp set.
For the second card, Sharon designed a fun gate fold with a piggly wiggly!!
I colored him too dark at Sharon’s house so when I got home I tried to lighten him with the blender pen but the ink ran outside the lines on the left, so then I had to find more flowers like Sharon had for the crown to hide my goof. We have our ways of fixing mistakes!
I will send it to my daughter with the movie “Charlotte’s Web”.
The heart is from the ‘Pictogram Punches’ stamp set. I loved how it had a heart in the heart which went so well with the greeting which is from the ‘Places In The Heart’ stamp set.
Sharon had a third card for us – peak performer that she is….. with products from Stampin’ Up! The designer series paper is ‘Meandering Meadows’ and the die is ‘Garden Meadows’ die.
The Happy Mother’s Day and little rose bud are in the ‘Tea Together’ stamp set.
They are Swarovski crystals I purchased at the Scrapbook Expo years ago. I save them for very special cards like this one. This year’s expo in Denver is Friday May 17-18th.
Thanks for stopping by!
SAL, Smile A Little – summer is coming!
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: I can only live where there is light but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
Answer: A Shadow!
Card In A Box
Sometimes ‘Thinking of You’ just isn’t quite enough so then you might want a special card like a card in a box.
Not again! Those are stamps you had in the Bake Sale!
Yes, Sal. Sigh….
The box looks cluttered in the picture but in actuality there is a double Z fold piece you add to the box to give you different sections. Let’s look at the box from the bottom. The blue dashes show the inserted piece. I recommend tear and tape on the sides that attach. I used tape runner and it isn’t as good. I used strips of window sheet to attach the images to the sections.
The box still folds to fit in an A2 envelope. The back has one long piece which is good for writing your own personal message.
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These are so fun to make! I made a dinosaur one HERE.
This is a printable pdf of the directions with lots of pictures: Box Card
This picture shows the sections a little better.
Bye for now!
SAL, Let’s be Salt and Light to someone today
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: You go at red, but stop at green. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon. You eat the red part, and you stop eating at the green part.
Triple Pull Out Fun Fold Card
Do you have gorgeous designer series paper that you want to spotlight? This card does that! I was inspired by Rose Ward of Stampersdelight. I changed a few of the dimensions and used different DSP-designer series paper and stamps but the pull out idea is still the same.
. The right hand side has a trifold that pulls up! The left side is popped up so it is the same height as the closed card.
To display the card you would prop it up like this:
. The foil in the flowers really pops! Did you have a die for the flowers?
No, Sal, I fussy cut the flowers on the edge of a small left over piece of DSP that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Recipe
- Base: Just Jade, 5 1/2 X 4 1/4
- Layer: Basic White, 5 1/4 X 3 3/4; layer this on the base then create the pull out section
- Pull Out: Create then adhere
- Just Jade, 12 X 3 3/4, score the long side at 4″ and 8″, burnish well,
- Layers on the Pull Out (X3): Basic White, 3 3/4 X 3 1/2, Be careful when adhering because it is not square
- Top Two Sections of the Pull Out (X2): Designer Series Paper (DSP), 3 1/2 X 3 1/4
- adhere this pull out section 1/8″ over from the right hand side, lining up the white layers top to bottom
- Left side strip: Create then adhere
- Just Jade, 4 X 1 1/8
- Basic White, 3 3/4 X 7/8
- DSP, 3 1/2 X 5/8
- Use adhesive pop up strips to adhere 1/8″ over from the left and line up the white layers top to bottom
- Greetings: Basic White, Scrap to match your stamp. I used greetings from the ‘More Messages’ stamp set with a die that cut out all the images at one time which I then stored for later use.
- Bow: 4″ to wrap the left hand top and then 8″ to make a bow and adhere with a glue dot. If you put a glue dot in the middle of the wrapped section and squish it together before you adhere the bow it will look like you had one long ribbon that you tied in the middle.
Thank you for spending some time with Sal and I!
Be sure and register tomorrow, April 16, for the Scrapbook Expo in Denver.
SAL, See A Lot of crafters at the Expo
Karen
Riddle of the day:
Question: What is more useful when it is broken?
Answer: An egg.
Lisa Christensen April 2024 Shoebox Event
It is always a delight to meet with friends to create beautiful cards. This month Lisa Christensen was our hostess and her cards were lovely. This first one uses the Stampin’ Up! ‘Berry Blessings’ stamp set and the Stampin’ Up! ‘Sweet Strawberry’ stamp set and punch.
. Oooh….can we look at it berry close?
Why sure, Sal!
My flowers were supposed to come off of the branch but the branch reminded me of all the little runners the strawberry plant puts out so I did it a bit different.
This set was available on Ebay if you missed it before it was retired by Stampin’ Up!:
The last cards I made, I didn’t stamp a greeting on the inside so I could write a short letter. I enjoyed having more room for more words.
I do, Sal, and hopefully others like to read them!
Lisa’s second card was an interesting and beautiful Z fold easel card! We could stamp with Happy Birthday or Happy Mother’s Day or….
Lisa used a die from the ‘Hand Penned Petal’ set for the flower and a die from the ‘Delicate Lace Edgelits Dies’ for the bottom. The greeting is a Close To My Heart greeting.
It’s like an upside down easel card.
True, we usually have the stop at the bottom but how wonderfully unique is this?!
Fancy front and room to write on the back (with a cute little fox in the DSP).
Is that one of those double bows you make wrapping it around your fingers?
It is, Sal. Following is a link to the Facebook Live where I showed crafters how to make the bow. I like that both tails come out from the back. Drag the minute line at the bottom to 28:20 to see the instructions.
I assume you have all those sets from your 15 years as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator?!
No, Sal, and that is what makes shoebox events so fun. Everyone has different tastes and different sets for crafting.
Colorado’s Scrapbook Expo is happening next month, May 17 & 18th. Registration begins April 16 at 9:00 a.m.
Have a wonderful day!
SAL, See you At Lunch at the Expo on Friday
Karen
Riddle for the day:
Question: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps!
Easter Basket Card and 3D
In my last post you saw all the cool cards I made with the Divinity Designs Alleluia die and stamp combo. I also purchased from them a basket die set, a pastel egg paper/die duo and a pastel prints 6X6 paper pad. With all these wonderful products I made these cards with different crosses and different eggs:
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And this one:
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With pastels you can even stamp on the paper as I did here for the inside of the cards:
I had Easter baskets sitting out with paper grass so I used that grass in the paper baskets.
A picture of the products might help you save words.
Good idea, Sal! And I will link Divinity Designs down below with little Sal in the computer.
That fourth screen shot is one of the pastel print papers. I used the Stampin’ Up! ‘Cross of Hope’ die and put the heart of the paper right in the middle of the ornate cross die. When I die cut the cross, I left the middle intact and put scotch tape on the back so the pieces wouldn’t come out in hopes the little heart would show. You’ll see more of that cross in the 3D baskets I made for the grandchildren. The greeting on the front comes from:
The layer on the front is the Stampin’ Up! Ornate Layers die and the inside greetings are from Stampin’ Up! ‘His Grace’. Check out my previous post ‘Easter Celebration’ to see the Alleluia die at work. There’s not much you need for a recipe on this card. It uses a standard base and layer. Here is a pdf you can print out with the standard layers.
Standard Layers.pdf printable doc
Let’s look at the little 3D baskets Paul and I made for the grandchildren:
I added a little heart to the middle of these crosses since the paper heart didn’t stand out.
On the opposite side of the baskets I used the dove in ‘HIs Grace’ punched out with a circle punch and layered on a slightly larger circle in the same cardstock as the basket:
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I cut out numerous eggs and glued matching ones back to back and added them to the basket before the candy. The boys baskets were purple and blue:
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3D Basket Recipe
- Base: Cardstock of desired color, 6 X 6
- Score at 2 and 4
- Turn 90 degrees and score at 2 and 4
- Crease all score lines
- Adhere DSP squares to the four corner squares – measurements below
- Cut on the score lines to the middle score line twice on opposite sides
- The middle uncut part is the part to attach the handle
- Fold the sides up to meet each other
- Handle: cardstock of choice, 8 1/2 X 1/2
- Decorative Layer (X4): Divinity Designs Pastel DSP, 1 3/4 X 1 3/4, adhere before gluing basket together
- Ribbon: 12″ tied to handle
- Adhere cross on one side and dove on opposite side- see above for paper used for cross
It was a wonderful Easter with Tyler, Amber and the boys, Jaxson & Emmitt!
The boys had matching shirts!
We died eggs but then made deviled eggs out of them so a bit pointless but tradition is tradition!
The boys hunted Easter eggs in their lovely yard on a wonderful sunny day! (It snowed again on Monday!)
All hostess’ need a hostess gift and I found this cute rabbit holding a carrot around a vase of flowers. I couldn’t resist!
Jonathan & Stacia spent the day on the slopes with Emma, Joey and a friend!
You can’t always have both families and, you know, ski season is almost over!
I know, Sal. At least we got pictures.
Thanks for spending time with me today friends! Hopefully you have ideas for next year’s Easter cards.
SAL, SingALleuia
Karen
Riddle for the day:
Question: What 5 letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
Answer: SWIMS
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