Hiya, peeps! It's another week week with The Paper Players and our fabulous hostess Jaydee has a twist on this month's sketch challenge....our sketch is a SHAPE!
For this challenge, all I had to do was make a card with any shape EXCEPT the traditional rectangle or square. I surveyed my dies and framelits and decided on the shape of a snowglobe:
The basic shape of this card was easy to make with a circle framelit and some extra cardstock. I started with a piece of Smoky Slate cardstock folded in half. I ran the folded cardstock through the Big Shot with a circle Framelit making sure to place the fold just below the top of the die. When cut, you are left with a folded circle!
A small piece of cardstock attached to the bottom makes the perfect stand for my snowglobe. I used the Word Window punch to add some detail to the bottom. The "stand" need a little something else and the Adorning Accents embossing folder seemed perfect...especially after I added some rhinestones!
I love the look of embossing on Silver Foil sheets and with the coordinating Festive Flurry stamp set and Framelits, you have a beautiful centerpiece in no time!
While I had everything out, I decided to make a second snowglobe card with more paper from the Winter Frost DSP stack. This time using the colors of Smoky Slate and Pool Party. Side by side they make a lovely pair don'tcha think?!
Wait until you see the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team--it's sure to knock your socks off! Do check them out and then come on back to play along with us at The Paper Players before our challenge ends on Friday, November 29th at Noon (PST).
Supplies
Stamps: Festive Flurry, That's the Ticket, Magical Season
Ink: Island Indigo, Coastal Cabana, Smoky Slate & Versamark
Paper: Smoky Slate, Island Indigo, Pool Party & Whisper White CS; Silver Foil Sheets
Xtras: Festive Flurry Framelits; Ticket punch; Word Window punch; Adorning Accents embossing folder; Basic Rhinestones; Silver 1/8" ribbon; Large Rhinestones
The title says it all--Happy Halloween! I hope you've got a day of Halloween fun planned today. I've been home sick from work all week so it was only yesterday when I had enough energy to act on the inspiration from my friend and fellow Paper Pal, Sandy's adorable Halloween S'mores kit. I loved them the moment I saw her post and knew I would make them for DD to take to school...little did I know that it would be 5pm on Halloween eve when I would be making them...
But I finished them--all 44, ha! Enough for classmates, teachers and favorite people at school. Coz once you get on a roll what's a few more turns of the Big Shot, right? LOL.
Because you know kids are going to rip right into them, I used up some retired Halloween paper from my stash and kept the embellishments to a minimum. And to make it even easier, I printed out a full page of the images from Spooky Bingo Bits using My Digital Studio and then punched them out with a 1.25" circle punch. MDS makes it real easy to line up a full sheet of images.
I open a full 8.5x11 page in MDS and color the background a light color, then add a series of 1.25" circle "punches" to the page, lining them up in rows. This allows me to space and size the Spooky Bingo Bits images to the exact size I need. You can see the first row here shows the punch. Before I print, I remove the punch images and change the background to white and the images are sized and ready for my paper punch!
The toppers were made with two nested sizes of the Labels Collection Framelits, scored and folded on the long side. The 1.75" scallop circle backed the Spooky Bingo Bits images and a few tickets made with That's the Ticket stamp set and coordinating Ticket Punch finished it off! Big shout-out to Sandy for the inspiration--her project is adorable!
Today is the final Thank You Thursday special of the month--check out the details over on the Get Inspired Stampin' Up blog. And the Weekly Deals continue in my online store--this week's sale continues through 11/4/13:
Have some spooky fun today...Happy Halloween, peeps!
Hi, everyone. Today I am delighted to help my friends over at Freshly Made Sketches celebrate their 100th sketch--woohoo!! The fabulous gals on the DT invited previous Guest Designers to the party and we were asked to play along with this sketch which happens to be the first-ever sketch--what fun!
So, if you follow my blog you may know that tilted panels always throw me for a loop-do-loop! This time, I thought it would be fun to do a mix of designer papers from the current Seasonal Catalog along with some other new seasonal toys I hadn't played with yet. With that in mind, I was able to embrace the tilt, lol!
I had the idea to try heat embossing on the new Silver Foil Sheets and WOW did it ever turn out lovely! I stamped the Festive Flurry snowflakes in Versamark directly on the Silver Foil sheets, sprinkled with Pool Party embossing powder and heat set for a beautiful SHINY finish! This embellishment didn't need much more than a Neutral Glimmer Brad and some Silver 1/8" ribbon to finish it off.
Did I mention that the snowflakes have coordinating Festive Flurry Framelit Dies that make cutting these snowflakes easy as one, two, three! Bundle the stamps and dies for a 15% savings!
Have you seen the sentiments in the Christmas Messages set? So many great ones! We've needed an update to our holiday sentiments and I love that this one includes sentiments appropriate for the inside too! What a great set.
I'd like to give a big shout-out to the Freshly Made Sketches gals who provide us with fabulous inspiration and sketches each week. Not only are they incredibly talented but loads of fun too! Congratulations, DT--here's to 100 more! Be sure to hop over to the Freshly Made Sketches blog for a list of all the participating designers as well as prizes that challenge participants can win. You do love eye candy AND prizes, right? Sure you do! :-)
Supplies
Stamps: Christmas Messages, Festive Flurry, That's the Ticket
Ink: Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Bermuda Bay, Versamark
Paper: Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Pool Party CS; Winter Frost DSP stack
Extras: Festive Flurry Framelit dies; Silver 1/8" Ribbon; Neutral Glimmer Brads; Ticket Duo Punch; Basic Rhinestones
