Supplies: Rose Red, Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, White CS. Laser Printer for Digi Image, Copics. KC&Company Baubles, Sizzix Card Making set (sentiment), SU 3/4" and 1" circle punch. Cuttlebug EF.
Halloween Colored Glitter or Bling, link it to the Belli Blog, and post it to your favorite gallery using keyword CBC#75!! And be sure to go by Shirley's 2 Girls website to see lots more digi images, fun digi designer paper, and stamps!!
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Supplies Used: Verve "Wishing You" stampset. White, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip CS. Chocolate Chip Craft Ink. SU Top Note die, Sizzlet Cresent Tag die. SU Soft Sky DS ribbon. Assorted misc jewels. Big Shot, Floss Threader, clear stretchy wire.
While I was working on the bow, I decided I wanted "tails" on it. You know, the two hangy-downy ribbon pieces that fall under the bow? I had used the original tails to wrap around the card layer so there were none left to hang down; all you saw were a couple of loops across the ribbon. (See the "tail-less" bow in this shot.)
To add the tails, I pulled out a floss threader so I could pull another piece of ribbon through the bow's knot. (I swear I don't know the real use for these threader things, but I use them to thread ribbon through small holes!)
Push the end of the threader through the knot of the bow, but don't pull it all the way through. Stop at about the point where you have the end of the threader through the knot and the loop of the threader still sticking out.
Now you want to take your piece of ribbon and put it through the loop hole, about half ways through the loop.
Now you grasp the end of the threader and start to pull on it so the ribbon piece follows the same path the threader is going -- through the knot. Sometimes it can be a struggle, depending on how tight the space, but if you tug it, sort of back and forth, it comes through without damaging either the bow or the ribbon piece you're pulling through.
And there you have it! The ribbon has come through the bow knot without having to untie or redo the bow!
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Hi All,
Get excited and clear your calendars!! Next Saturday, Oct. 3, is World Card Making day!!
Crafting Companies will be celebrating it all over the blog world!! I'm joining in the Verve Challenge over on SCS for sure, and also the Paper Crafts Magazine celebration so I'll be posting all day!
To find out more about the Paper Crafts Magazine celebration, check out their website and link your blog to play along too!
This was made for Charlene's (aka Where M&Ms Gather) challenge to the Doubledog Dare gals to create a card using the Crayon Resist technique! A great, but left behind, technique!!
I stamped my image in Momento Tuxedo Black onto glossy paper, used sponging to add the color, and a little bit of Copics to fill in the detail color. The sentiment is a SU Chit Chat rub on.
Super easy!! Give it a try!! Upload your card using "DDC" to play along!!
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Congrats to Heather - this weeks Featured Stamper!! A fantastic gallery with so much inspiration and creativity. You have to check it out here!!
I chose a cute holiday card from her gallery: Hoppy Holidays. I used my little pig by TAC instead of a frog, an Eyelete Outlet Santa Hat brad, a bit of ribbon and some DP from last year's Christmas stash that I recently pulled out again.
Congratulations to Heather!!
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My sister Judy has been Tweeting about a bully hummingbird hanging around her feeder all week long. She made me laugh so when I got home yesterday I made this hummingbird card for her.
This is made using SU Exclusive Flower Folds Bigz die, the Birds and Blooms Sizzlets set, and the center stamens are the Sparkle Sizzlet! The flower was embossed with SU Finial Press and a Cuttlebug EF for texture.
Stamped the background with the tree top stamp from SUs Trendy Trees set. Assembled the whole thing with scraps sitting on my table from my last project and it was done!!
Die cutting images make these projects super easy!!
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Supplies: All die cuts by Creative Cuts and More. See individual panel descriptions below
For my project, I chose an Accordion Mini tin that comes with perfectly sized, accordion die-cut insert layers in your color choices (I chose Yellow and Green). I also chose a set of die cut leaves to use as part of this project! This was a blast, and so easy -- just decorate any way you want, all the measuring is already done!!
The outside is wrapped in ribbon by RibbonFX from Michael's $1.00 bin, bling leaves from Michael's $1.00 bin, and a Clear Mini Stamp from Michael's $1.00 bin! I distressed a scrap piece of a shopping bag that I cut into a label of sorts and wrote "Give Thanks" on it.
The inside of the lid is covered with Daisy D's DP, sunflowers that I made with SU Daisy punch and 3/4" circle punch, an EK Success leaf punch, and I created a tag that unfolds to read Happy Thanksgiving (sentiment by Inkadinkado).
Here, the sentiment I used is SU! Short and Sweet stamp, Nestibility Ovals, mini leaf punch and Creative Cuts and More Oak Leaf.
Image from SU Times and Seasons colored with Copics, Nestibilities Scalloped Squares. The leaves are more die cuts from Creative Cuts and More!!
This panel was created using 1-1/4", 1" and 3/4" circle punches, some anonymous "foam" leaf stamps, and SU Short and Sweet Sentiments. Orange mini brads by QueenKat.
This last panel is a SU Sizzix leaf die cut, some decorative 
buttons from Mike's, a tag made with Martha Stewart punch, and rub-ons from SU Chit Chat (these are awesome!!). The fan is made with Daisy D paper, scored every 1/4" on my table top Cutterbee trimmer with a stylus pen.
What do you think? Please check out the rest of the Design Teams awesome creations using products from Creative Cuts and More!! Play along by uploading using Keyword CBC74 and linking your creation to the Belli Blog!!
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Supplies: Inkadinkado Birds Galore. Rose Red, White CS. Painterly Petals Urban Prima flower, Eyelette Outlet brad.
Used chalk inks for the image in similar colors and layered it basically the same way, but I added one more Rose Red layer and my flower embellishment and brad are different.
Congratulations Shannon!!
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First, this is an exploding type flower card. I just cut one of each size of the flowers from the XL Sizzix die and layered them onto each other. Here I used SU's Parisian Breeze DP.
I stamped a sentiment from the Riveting set in Chocolate chip, punched it out and layered it onto a larger punched circle of Chocolate Chip CS. Adhered it to the center of the flower.
Next, laid a wide ribbon on top of my card base.
Then folded each petal, one on top of the other. The outermost flower should have the last petal align with the direction of the ribbon so it holds everything closed when its tied up.
Hold the flower closed with your finger and knot your ribbon around the folded up petals.
Next card is this Tent Topper card that I made after seeing today's SCS Weekly Inkling #175 (seriously, there are one-hundred and seventy-five newsletters already!!).
My "topper" is another series of graduated, layered die cut flowers made with the Bigz XL Flower Folds die using SU Thorougly Modern DP. This flower does not use the largest flower on the die like the first card I made, and this flower is intended to stay open.
The center is a beautifully crocheted flower handmade by my friend Anne Harmon (aka Inking in Red), and the brad in the center is from a KC&Company from their K Sera Sera collection.
The bottom panel is texturized with the Herringbone Cuttlebug folder on Chocolate Chip.
I made a bow with the Bow Easy (which, really, isn't all that easy folks, but it makes awesome bows!!) using "Celebrate It" 5/8" Basic-Basic ribbon from Mike's.
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Supplies: Basic Grey Infuse DP, SU Scallop Punch, SU Sizzlet Swirls Scribbles die, Cuttlebug die (sentiment), misc. buttons
Our fabulous FRAN aka Fancie's Fancy (dontcha LOVE that blog name??!!) hosted the DDC this week. She challenged us to make a card with at least one button. My card has three sizes of buttons and I got to use this perfectly crocheted flower that the supremely talented Anne Harmon (aka Inking in Red) made and sent me (I got a whole baggy, folks, who's the man???!!! WOOT)! I love my little flowers....but alas, I digress...
I die cut the sentiment from a Cuttlebug die, and I apologize that I do not know the name of it, but it came with my Butterflies EF set from Cuttlebug. (Can you tell it's the first time I've used it!?)
