Left By Design: September 2014

Sunday, September 28, 2014

CURVY KEEPSAKE BOX

Hi gang!

I am having so much fun making little boxes with our new "Curvy Keepsake Box"

It is a Thinlits Dies from our Holiday Catalog,

page 11, #135853 $32.95

Thanks to Sandi Maclver who shared that you can make one Curvy Keepsake Box with a 6" x 8 1/2" piece of cardstock. Watch her video here to see how she does it.

So here we go!

Check out what I've made (so far)

Penguins!!

I totally cased this idea from

Kristin Kortonick. Check out her blog here.

Here I used retired DSP. I still need to decorate it, but the options are endless. The framelit also comes with 3 tags.

Penguin!

Pumpkin!

Saturday, September 13, 2014

IS IT FALL YET?

I sure am glad summer is over!

As I was going through Pinterest, I found a great tutorial on how to make these cards. So I headed to my craft room and gave it a try and liked it so much I made 3 of them.

I used a variety of colors:

Pumpkin Pie

Hello Honey (in color)

Mossy Meadow (in color)

Cherry Cobbler

Cajun Craze

I also used the following stamp sets:
Truly Grateful
Autumn Days (Retired)

The above card was made with Hello Honey (new In-Color) cardstock and ribbon.

The above card was made with Cherry Cobbler cardstock and ribbon.

The above card was made wtih Pumpkin Pie Ribbon and Mossy Meadow cardstock (new In-Color) (almost called it Mellow Moss)

All cards were CASED from Deb Valder, go visit her website to see how she made them.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

ONE MORE CARD!!

Well I'm in love with this set, Four feathers!!

I went for the Peacock colors and I think I hit it!

Enjoy

FOUR FEATHERS

Have you seen the new Holiday Catalog???

click here to see it!

On page 42 you will find this great Stamp Set called

Four Feathers! It also has matching framelits as well and there is a 15% discount if you purchase them together.

Here I used another trio of colors! What do you think?

STAMPING WITH THE SENIORS

Every month the ladies from our women's group, G.F.W.C., gather at our local senior home and make crafts with them.

The first item I CASED from:

Michelle Mills - Stampin' Up! demonstrator Brisbane, Australia

I actually made these longer so they could write their name on the bottom. And we added ribbon to the top.

The next item is a door hanger! They love hanging things on their doors.

I stamped the sunflower with versamark ink, then added white embossing powder and heated. Then they sponged ink over it and voila! There ya go! I stamped the center sentiment with matching cardstock and punched them out so the ladies could adhere to the card. We also put dimensionals on the back ahead of time. They also stamped the little bees. When we were finished everyone had ink on their fingers and were very happy. We added yarn through the top so they could hang it. Can't wait till next month!