Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Candy Treats for Christmas
















I was asked to present a class for Relief Society at Church, and I made up a bunch of little candy carriers that could be given as little gifts. I let the leader decide which one to present as the project for the night and she chose Hershey the Snowman! I promised the ladies that I would post the directions here, so they will follow. I hope you are able to make lots of them for your holiday enjoyment. By the way, the same dimensions work for Santa's belt. Many thanks to all of my blog buddies for the inspiration and outright scraplifting of some of these projects, especially SusieB and her friend Penny. Thanks a million!

Here are the directions for making Hershey the Snowman: * Remember I was teaching this to 45 women at a time, so I was preparing large numbers of pieces of supplies. At home yours might be simpler.
Supply Pieces*
1 6x6 square of white cardstock
1 6x2 black for hat base
1 3 x ½ for hat brim Do NOT Score
1” white circle for eyes – cut off bottom 1/3, then cut in half. Ink to create eyelids.
1 ½ “ orange for nose. Freehand cut carrot shape.
1 x 2” for mouth
Snowflake for hat decoration.
12” ribbon for scarf. Cut in half.
Preparation
Score: White square and Black 6 x 2 at 1 ½”, 1 ¾”, 4 ¼” and 4 1/2”
With a paper punch make six black dots for mouth (use 1 x 2 black piece)
Cut out carrot shaped nose from orange strip of paper
Cut ribbon into two 6 inch pieces
Assembly
Glue black hat base to white “head”. Add hat brim using thin dimensional foam dots.
Glue two blue edged “eye lids” in place, and add two wiggle eyes.
Glue orange carrot nose. It is okay to let the tip hang over the edge.
Starting in the center, add the six black dots creating the snowman’s mouth.
Putting glue ONLY on the outside edges – NOT on the face section – glue one six inch section of ribbon to the lower edge of the white square. Loop the second piece of ribbon through the front section, notching the lower edge, and glue together to secure.
Add a snowflake to the hat, tucking one edge into the hat brim.
Wrap your snowman around a Hershey Bar and glue into place! You can add a piece of tape to hold until it dries, if you wish,
Carefully add glue to the carrot nose, and go to the glitter bowl to add orange glitter.
Then add glue to the snowflake, hat, etc. and go to the glitter bowl to add silver glitter.
Please feel free to post any questions you might have, or send me an email, and I'll try to help you any way I can. Have fun!!!



Cuttlebug Challenge #8


Be sure to check out the website to see what Eva has for us this week!!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Make Your Own Cuttlebug Folder 2


I showed this earlier in my blogging, but wanted to share it again for new readers, and I've made a few changes along the way...This time, instead of three layers of card stock, I cut a 4 inch rose from thin chip board. Using glue dots, I glued the background piece to one side of a piece of folded acrylic.

The carefully laying the rose into the hole, place more glue dots on top of the rose, and close the folder. This way it will be perfectly aligned.

Place your paper into the folder, and run through the Cuttlebug. My "sandwich" consisted of the A plate, a B plate, then the new folder, and a piece of fun foam as a shim, then the second B plate. The thickness of your chipboard or cardstock, plus your acrylic, will determine if you need shims to make it emboss deeply. Try it, and you will see how easy it is! You can do borders or all over designs.




To Love, Honor, and Cherish



Wedding bells rang on Saturday for Danielle and Chris, and this card was made for them. It features D'vine Swirls embossing, Joys of Christmas turtle doves bedecked with Pearl Ex and pearl eyes, and the sentiment is stamped in silver pigment ink, then heat embossed in clear.

You Rock!


Here's a funny one! This is for a friend to send to her teenage niece. She gave me the idea of what she wanted, and the pop star that was supposed to have this kind of style. I laughed, because I wouldn't know the star if she was standing in my kitchen! I'd tell you who she is, but I can't spell her name!!!! Anyway, I hope anyone under the age of 30 will know who I'm talking about!! Mostly, I hope Aubrey likes the card! I know she loves her aunt, and will appreciate the love that it carries.

Cuttlebug Challenge #7











As Guest Designer for Cuttlebug Challenge, it is my honor to enter this week's piece! The challenge is to use any cuttlebug folder on a die cut. I have chosen to create a folded card that has four levels to it, and show that Santa Claus is Coming to Town! I used Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge to cut out a wonderful tree, and cut the tree apart. Each level of the tree was embossed with a different design. The reindeer are chatting with friendly cardinals that are sitting in the tree waiting for Santa to come load the sleigh! The sleigh is decorated with a side panel embossed with the textile cuttlebug folder. The snow is swirled with D'Vine Swirls and everything is shimmering with large flakes of Ice Stickles! Santa WILL be here soon! Why don't you give the challenge a try???

Monday, November 10, 2008

Bob's Bruises ~ Don't peek if you're Squeamish!


Bob had an inflamed bursa sac, and it ruptured. Then he fell down a step at the house, and made it sore. Poor guy!

Vertical All Occasion


Thanks to KWerner for the design idea for this card. It is a vertical layout that could be used to celebrate just about any occasion. Thanks to Tori for the paper, too :-) The top piece is 4.25" x 3.50", the scallop is cut from Plantin Schoolbook at 3/4 of an inch cut. The flowers are from PS, except the little one, which is a punch that I have. The buttons are from my ancient stash!! The sentiment on this one is the upright feature on Opposites Attract, using "Thanks" with the "s" cut off, and "You" as it is already on the cartridge. Nice 'n Easy!

Many Thanks ~ or whatever!



Here's a happy little card that could be made for just about any occasion in any colors. The cut away front is made from a cut file on design studio, and the flowers are but from George at 3/4 inch (I think!) and accented with skittles. The inside posies are from a punch.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Cuttlebug Spot Challenge #6


This card was definitely a work "in progress" today! The challenge was to use a Christmas folder, and a border punch. Okay....then I read SusieB's tutorial on using rubber stripping to emboss only around the edges. I didn't have the rubber, so I wondered if Fun Foam would work,,,,it does!!! Then I tried it with a stamped message in the center, and used MS new star border punch on the edges. After quite a while, the "AH, HA!!!" moment came, and I put scotch tape behind the holes, sprinkled on gold embossing powder, and VOILA!!! beautiful gold stars along the border! Add some sparkling jewels to the snowflakes, clear embossing powder to the lettering, a message inside, and it's finally finished. I certainly learned a lot today!! I hope you did, too.

Cuttlebug Challenge #6



This was such fun! This is the first card I've done as guest designer for http://CuttlebugChallenge.blogspot.com. The sketch was found at ScrapFreak, and this is a different size card for me. I used the Snowflakes folder for the top of the card, and white embossing powder for the snowflakes, and to let the snow "fly" in the background. Santa is a great stamp by Rubber Stampede, and borrowed from my mom's HUGE stash (thanks Mom!) He is colored with watercolor pencils and baby oil gel. The inchies are accented with trees and candycanes cut from Cricut's Christmas Cheer cartridge, and decorated with Ice Stickles for bling! I used the Swiss Dots folder on the green sentiment band, and the little green trees. The message, red paper, and ribbon are all from my bountiful stash. Thanks for checking it out!