Butterfly note card trio

Hi everyone!  I have a fun set of note cards to share today.  Each of these uses a butterfly wood veneer and the negative piece from a die cut.  Quick, easy and uses up those die cut scraps that we toss most of the time.

The patterned paper is from the Confectionary Prints pack and will be available from the new catalog on July 1st!  The butterfly wood pieces are a Bloom Benefit from the Spring into Summer catalog, called Summer Wings.  In case you aren't familiar, Bloom Benefits are free when you place an order of $50! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture.

All supplies are Fun Stampers Journey       
Stamps, punches and dies: 

Howdy Notes Stamp Set, for sentiment 
Cardstock and Inks: 
Whip Cream Cardstock
Black Licorice Ink
Star-Dom dies
Treat Label dies
Butterfly Prints dies
Spring Bloom dies 
Journey Circle dies

Accessories:  
Candy Dots
Spring Accent Dots
Twinkle Trim

Wood veneer flower card

Hi everyone!  I have a fun card to share.  I have quite the stash of wood veneer shapes and almost never use them.  It's one of those things where I think they're pretty and just want to save them -kwim?  Anyway, I pulled them out and used 3 on this card.  Woohoo!

The cute circle frame was made by combining the Splendid Circles and Standard Circles dies.  The diagonal strips are the negative pieces from the new Diagonal Chevron die!  (Stay tuned for the card they came from on Saturday).

Here is the Diagonal Chevron die, totally cute, right?!?  I used the top 3 and 4 strips for my card, I die cut that part of the die an extra time for the bottom of my card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture.

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Dies: S4-453 Diagonal Chevron Shapeabilities®; S4-354 Splendid Circles, S4-114 Standard Circles LG Nestabilities®
Stamps: Sentiment from JustRite Papercrafts, Birthday floral Vintage Labels 8 & 9 

Other Supplies: Bazzill Card Shoppe cardstock in Marshmallow; My Mind's Eye Necessities Wood 6x6 pad; Bazzill silver mirror cardstock; Prima Charme Rose in Meadow Lark; Wood veneers from my stash, probably from Prima; Kaisercraft rhinestones in Lilac
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares  
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

1 embossing folder, 2 looks

Hi everyone!  I have a couple of note cards that use either side of the same M-Bossibilities folder.  That's what's unique to Spellbinders' folders, they are double sided!  Yep, you just flip them inside out and there is another pattern.  When I first tried these, I was convinced they would snap apart and tear at the seam, but they don't -honest!!  lol!

My cards use the Simplicity folder which is one of the smaller folders that measures 4.25" x 5.5" and as the name states, has a simple pattern on both the A and B sides.

I lightly inked the folder before embossing my white cardstock.  I could have actually gotten FOUR different looks by inking the other side of the pattern, but alas I had a hair appointment today so I only had time to make two.

My cards measure 5"x3.5" and first up is a card using the "A" side.  I used a mint color ink and embellished with some of my neglected wood veneer stars.  The ink is kind of hard to see in the photo, but it is recessed in the little diamond pattern.

 Next is my card using the B side.  This time I inked it with a pale aqua ink and for this one, I dug deep in my stash and used a couple of stick pins that I seriously haven't used in probably 2 years!  Feels good to use some of these up.  My sentiment "hello" is the leftover piece from yesterday's card where I only used the "friend" portion of the die.  They were doubled up 4 layers deep, giving it some dimension.  Still on the fense about that look, my first card uses only 1 layer and I think I like that better.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:  
Spellbinder dies: IN-037 Celebration Two and S2-082 Sentiments One Shapeabilities®, S4-114 Standard Circles LG and S4-116 Standard Circles SM Nestabilities®, ES-001 Simplicity M-bossibilities® 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow, Black Licorice, Robin's Eggs and Fresh Mints Card Shoppe cardstock 

Ink: Amuse Studios, Bermuda; Avery Elle, Mint To Be 
Embellishments: May Arts Baker's Twine in Seafoam and Celery; MME stick pins; Studio Calico wood veneer stars 

Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. 

CardMaker and We R Memory Keepers blog hop

Hi everyone!  CardMaker Magazine and We R Memory Keepers are teaming up today for a fabulous blog hop! Each of the CardMaker DT was sent one of the new Punch Boards and I was sent the Gift Box Punch Board to work with.  This is a really cool little tool that scores and punches to make gift boxes of all sizes! 

Below are a couple of boxes I made using 6x6 cardstock (which makes a box measuring 2" square) and a couple using 5x5 cardstock (which makes a box measuring 2" square x 1.25" tall).  There are endless ways to decorate your boxes.  With this trio, I decorated them with a piece of washi tape adhered around the box and embellished the top with a wood veneer flower accented with a bright button.  These boxes are the perfect size to hold some little candies!

I wanted to show you the process of making the box and demonstrate how simple it is once you get the hang of where to put your score lines.  This picture shows after the scoring and folding, before any assembling.

 Here it is partially folded up, you can see how the little notches hook into each other.  You can use a glue dot to adhere the "pinched sides" together, but honestly it stays together just fine without any adhesive at all!

 Once it's folded together, I adhered my bow (and flower on top of it) to 1 notched tab only, this allows the box to be easily opened up.

Look how adorable the box is when made with pattern paper!  I'm just thinking of all the left over 6x6 paper pads I have in my stash and I see lots of little boxes in my future!!

The next stop on the hop is the talented Rosemary! 

Just in case you get lost along the way, here is the entire hop list:

CardMaker

Alice Golden

Latisha Yoast

Michelle Woerner -you are here!

Rosemary Dennis

Stacy Morgan

 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the hop!

Supplies used: Gift Box Punch Board from We R Memory Keepers; White cardstock from Gina K. Designs; Wood Veneer flowers from Prima Marketing; Rainbow Washi Tape from Little B; Silver Cord from May Arts; Glue Dots

Smile with wood veneers

Hi everyone!  I have a couple fun happy cards using some of the wood veneers I've been holding on to forever!

This card uses a wood flower veneer from Prima, and you can find the same ones under the Recollections brand at Michaels.  I used the Hearts One die, Charmed I'm Sure and A2 Curved Borders One dies from Spellbinders.  Pattern paper is from Basic Grey, Kneehighs.  This card really makes me smile!

 This one uses alpha and heart veneers from Studio Calico along with 2 of my favorite flower die sets, Jewel Flower and Flourishes and Rose Creations.  The pattern paper is Echo Park, This and That Graceful.

I'll keep it short and sweet today.  We finally have some sunshine and my garden is calling me!!  Thanks for stopping by, here are some close up pictures.

Spellbinder dies and all ribbons can be found at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Ribbons: White wrinkled, teal pleated and 1/8" gray velvet ribbon