Beachy Box

Good Morning! Danielle here, with this great box that can be used for many occasions. Today I decorated it in a sea-theme because we put seashells inside as a gift to someone. The gable box was really easy to put together.

Treasured Memories!

Today I'm sharing something I made for my daughter - a sweet little Tiffany Purse (using a die cut from Creative Cuts and More). Pull up a chair...it's story time!

We spent her spring break in Corolla, NC, and every day we went for a walk to look for shells. Some days it was the whole family, some days she went with her grandparents, and one day it was just the two of us (on the beach, anyway - she and I took several walks out on the sound, to bird watch and see sunsets). She and I went for a sunrise walk one morning, and found a few great shells. She brought an amazing collection home. Before I made this little purse, she and I spent about an hour looking through the shells, talking about where she found them and why she picked them to bring home. I asked her to pick out a few of her small favorites so I could make her a surprise. I colored the image and put the shells inside the purse. I threaded ribbon through the slots in the back, under the purse, and back over the top, looping them around a button I added. It closes just fine without the ribbon - you really don't need to do it the way I did. I just loved the way the white satin ribbon looked with it!

Much to my satisfaction, she was thrilled when I gave this to her! It's been given a place of honor on her nightstand, where she can get out her favorite shells and look at them anytime she wants :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Life's Treasures Sophia (Paper Pretties)

Card Stock: Bazzill Swimming Pool

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Coloring Medium: Copics

Accessories: Cosmo Cricket Button, Twinery Twine

Misc: Tiffany Purse from Creative Cuts and More

It's Grillin' Time!

Hi all, Becky from The Scrap-a-Teeny Girls here!
Sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, summertime!! Summertime!
Sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, summertime!! Summertime!
Sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, summertime!! Summertime!
The best part about summer-time to me is all the BBQ-ing going on! I love the smell of the grill! I have even joked with my husband when he steps in from the grill that he's wearing my favorite cologne! I JUST LOVE that charcoaly-smokey aroma stuck to his skin & clothes!!! Or simply stepping outside on a hot summer day to smell a grill working somewhere in the neighborhood! Ahhhhhh! Sum, sum, sum, sum, sum, summertime!! Summertime! Ok, I'll stop all that!

So, when I saw this die-cut, I knew I had to make a little "Q" card with it for my first post after the Patriotic Blog Hop! I may just have to do a little "Ode to the Q" on my personal blog soon too! It's pretty simple & I hope ya like it!

I used a CC&M A7 card in Bazzill Blue Canvas Textured cardstock.

I applied embossing ink & red embossing powder to parts of the Barbecue Grill #01-Small, but then I turned the grill over & "flicked" some of the crystals off the front. This allowed for only some of the areas on the grill to be shiny from embossing! When the diecut cooled off from embossing, I rubbed some "Tea dye" Distress Ink over the embossed areas to give it a more dirty-grilly-gritty look.

Once the grill was attached to the card, I ran a few light lines of "Star Dust" Stickles up to the corner of the card. Then, I punched some 1" stars (Fiskars) out of BoBunny's "Block Party Chill" patterned paper & scattered them over the Stickles with Glue Dots. Finally, I added the "BBQ" label & arrow from the BoBunny "All About the Family" collection.

That's it!

See you soon!

Summer Picnic Waterfall Card

What comes to mind when you think about a summer picnic? I always think of watermelon and cheap plastic red gingham tablecloths and a BBQ grill. It was fun to pull out a stamp set that had these picnic images and put them together for a special card. I used this exclusive Waterfall Card Set from Creative Cuts and More and let me tell you - it was SO easy to put this together.

I really don't like numbers and measuring and cutting and scoring. CC&M made this so easy because everything is already cut to the perfect size and all the parts are scored just right. I don't have to think if this is too big or that score line is 1/8" off. It's great to have all that taken care of so I don't give myself a headache. :-)

To put this waterfall card together, I followed the tutorial on their website HERE. That tutorial really helped me understand what goes where, and all I had to do was stamp and color my images for the four panels.

I had stamped the red gingham "tablecloth" directly on the waterfall card mechanism, and then I smudged and made a big boo-boo. Grrrrrrrrrr. So I stamped it again on a sheet of white paper, and then cut it to size to cover up my boo-boo. It's a quick and easy fix for those inevitable boo-boo's that we always seem to make at just the wrong moment. LOL











Are you itching to make your own Waterfall Card now? Head on over to Creative Cuts and More and order yours today. :-)


Die Cut:
Waterfall Card Set from Creative Cuts and More
--- card is Blackberry Swirl Bazzill Smoothies cardstock
--- waterfall mechanism is White Bazzill Smoothies cardstock


Stamps:
Summer Trees (Kim Hughes) from Cornish Heritage Farms
Fine Gingham backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:
Tuxedo Black Memento
Satin Red Versafine
Citrus Adirondack dye

Other:
Killer Red Tacky Tape from Creative Cuts and More
Copic markers
red eyelet
red gingham ribbon - Offray