Blending Tool Holder

Wanted to share with you the blending tool holder my husband made for me for my birthday.  I'm totally in love with it -- he's definitely a "keeper"!!!

Embossing Folder organizer

I'm slowly trying to "organize" my scrapbook room and decided to start with my embossing folders.  I've tried several ways to get these little buggers organized so I would know what I have and where they are located.  Everything I've tried just hasn't seemed to work -- until now!!!!  

I can't take the credit for this system as I saw this idea on Pinterest, but it was using a 7 Gypsies photo carousel. Unfortunately, 7 Gypsies no longer makes this item so I needed to come up with something similar.  since I am converting my room over to a "steampunk" theme, I came up with this design and my very talented husband made this for me.

This is nothing more than a "roladex system".  I used 4x5 cards and embossed the cards with my embossing folders.  I used a "color code" system for each brand of folder: green - Anna Griffin; brown - Tim Holtz; white - Spellbinders, etc.  Turns out, I have more Anna Griffin folders than I thought I had....

The base of the unit is a gear from some farm equipment with a pipe and a couple of elbow joints and a sprinkler head for the top.

A "Non-Steampunk" version is in the works and will be available for sale by 2 Frugal Fools in the near future.  If you'd like to own one - just let me know.

Card Challenge

I gave my sister a "CARD CHALLENGE" and here's the results!

This is how it worked - I made a card and then sent her all the pieces I used but didn't send her a picture of the card I made or any instructions and told her she needed to create a card using ALL the pieces I sent. She could cut any of the pieces, but she had to use them all and couldn't add any additional pieces.

Here's the card I made.

Here is the front of the card my sister made 

She got creative and did the inside too...

Two completely different cards but both using the same exact pieces.

I think she's pretty creative and needs to make MORE cards!!!!!

Christmas Card

We've been VERY busy buying and selling which hasn't given me much time to "play"!!!! I did manage to get into my room and make 2 Christmas cards and I'm hoping to spend  alot more time in my room creating!!!!

This was pretty simple and no techniques were really used.  I used an old piece of sheet music as my background and just tore the edges and then inked them with Tim Holtz "Festive Berries" distress ink.  I die cut 2 lady carolers and attached them together with pop dots and only cut 1 of the man caroler.  I stamped a Christmas tree in the center with embossing ink and used clear embossing powder and then added silver glitter to the tree ornaments.

For the label, I used a Sue Wilson die and painted the edges with silver smooch and then stamped the sentiment and took my glue pen and applied it to the "swirl" and then added glitter and 3 holly leaves at the top left.

For this card I used an ANNA GRIFFIN embossing folder and after embossing the cardstock, I cut out the NOEL portion and used a gold metallic pen to outline the letters of NOELwhich were de-bossed.

I attached a glitter swirl sticker and then attached the NOEL on top of that.  I added two 3-D Anna Griffin poinsettia stickers and a green bow.

Birthday Card

Here's a birthday card for anyone who loves shoes (and what woman doesn't?)

On an off white sheet of card stock I stamped the image of the shoe with flowers and colored it with markers.  I stamped the image again on another sheet of off white card stock, colored it and cut out only the shoe.  Then I attached the cut out of the shoe on top the original shoe with pop dots.  

On the flowers, leaves and ruffle on the shoe - I added glossy accents.

Then I took my ink distressing tool and inked all around the card.

Next, I stamped the flourish and used my trusty "quickie glue" pen to trace the image.  After the glue completely dried, I applied copper glitter.

I then added a green strip of ribbon to the bottom and attached the panel to the card base.

Stamped the birthday sentiment on a scrap of white card stock, cut it out and attached it and added a small green bow.

Get Well Card

This was a fun (and easy) card to make and hopefully would cheer up anyone who is sick.

First I cut a sheet of 12x12 card stock in half to end up with a 12x6 sheet.  Fold that in half and then fold the top portion in half.

Next I cut 2 panels of printed paper into 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 panels and attach those to the front of the card.

Since my "Nurse Ratchet" stamp was smaller than I wanted, I stamped her onto a sheet of paper and scanned her into my computer,re-sized her to the size I wanted and did a print and cut on my Silhoutte machine.  Then I did an "outline" of her and cut that out on green card stock.  After coloring Nurse Ratchet with pencils, I attached that to the green outline and then attached that to the front of the card (ONLY using adhesive on the bottom of her)

I stamped the "feeling icky" with brown ink and used a die cut to cut it out and attached that with pop dots.

For the inside of the card I lined it with the same printed paper.

I used a Spellbinders die to cut and emboss the label and then painted around the edge with gold "smooch" (one of my all time favorite things to use). Stamped the needle and feel better soon and after figuring out where to attach the label so when the card is opened it would stand up properly, I attached it with pop dots.

See.....I told you it was a fun and easy card to make!  

Hope you'll make one of these stand up cards and e-mail me a photo of what you made. 

Thank You Card

Here's a quick and easy THANK YOU card.

I attached a black sheet of card stock to the base of my card leaving just a slight border.

Stamped the "postcard" image in cream card stock and tore the edges.  Then I used Tim Holtz distressing ink and distressed the entire image and then attached it to the black card stock.

Then I stamped the label and die cut it and stamped the THANK YOU and attached that to the card.

I then stamped the ink bottle, cut it out and poked a small hole at the top with a needle and inserted a feather.  Then I used a pop dot to attach it to the card.