Beautiful Butterfly Shadow Box

I had fun creating this project as  a make n take at our We Stamp Christmas party.  I thought it would be fun playing with the brusho powders. I tried to keep it simple since I had to prep for around 30 make n takes. Even though I cut embossed and scored everything it still ended up being tricky, but fun!

 
I also made a stepped up one in Yellow where I used the marbled background stamp and the petals and more framelits and butterfly framelits.

 

Aren't these boxes just adorable?  I found that my favorite paper so far  to use with the brusho powders in the white shimmer paper. For the box I was inspired by a youtube video made by Blossom Tree Papercraft.

Here's the tutorial.

 

1. Cut a 4 ¼ by 4 ¼ piece of shimmer white cardstock. Stamp and emboss butterfly image from Beautiful Day set in white. Lightly wet image with Aqua Painter filled with water. Sprinkle 6 taps of blue prussian brusho powder for the blue one or 5 taps of yellow and 2 taps of moss green. Keep the powder to the lower 1/2 of butterfly. Using Aqua painter, brush over powder and work your way up for an ombre effect. Let dry.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   2. Cut Whisper White Cardstock to 8 ¼ X 8 ¼. Score at ½,1,1 ½, and 2 inches. Repeat for all 4 sides. Then on 2 opposing sides score to the 2^nd horizontal score line at 2 ½ and 5 ¾ inches.
   
   
   
   
   
    3. Remove intersecting 2 inch squares in each of 4 corners.
   
   
   

4. On opposing 2 ½ and 5 ¾ score lines, cut beveled edges
to look like picture. 

 
5. Then punch 2 1/8^th inch holes in top of beveled edge like photo.using your favorite choice for adhesive- I used fast fuse, adhere Butterfly square to center of shadow box. 



6. Cut 18” ombre ribbon and thread through punched holes.

7.Next burnish all edges. Use tear n tape on top and bottom beveled edges on the side facing table. Fold scored lines and attach to top and bottom of butterfly. Make sure it makes a good square box shape.

8. Next Apply tear n tape to straight sides on the outer most fold and side facing table. Fold in one side at a time and tuck under beveled edges. For better attachment use a little tombow glue or glue dot on straight corner being tucked into beveled edge.



9. Hold corners until glue holds. Add 3 sequins

 

Stampin' Blends 101

I am so excited that Stampin' Up! has just released its new line of Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers and are available to purchase!  I have been having so much fun with these new markers, especially, with the help of my daughter Shayla, who has been using alcohol markers in her artwork for the last several years!  At first I was kind of bored with just coloring with markers until my daughter opened my eyes to some basic art principles and ideas and applying them to my stamped images to give them a more real and life like appearance!  After that I was hooked!  Here are some pictures of flowers that I have stamped with Momento Ink and colored in with the markers to show off all the new Stampin' blend colors.

The two small flowers show case the difference between the Light and Dark Shades of the Marker color. The pansy showcases a blend of the Light and Dark Markers and the largest flower showcases the blends and the addition of other Stampin' Blend colors and how you can use them to make your artwork more vibrant and life-like. The swipes of color with letters like DOO and LCC  represent the initials of other Stampin' Blends like Dark Old Olive and Light Calypso Coral.  For example, with the Daffodil Delight  large flower, we shadowed using Light Rich Razzle berry(which gave the flower an exotic flare), Light Pumpkin Pie, Dark Crumb Cake and Dark Pink Pirouette.  I thought it would be fun to have my daughter do a series of Stampin' Blend videos teaching some art fundamentals and techniques along with how you can also use the Stampin Up Watercolor Pencils for some fun effects.  

Here are the rest of the Stampin Blend color cards I made with the help of my daughter Shayla.

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Happy Halloween Twinkies

Here's a quick and EZPZ idea to dress up the Halloween Twinkies. I volunteered to bring individually  wrapped cakes for the Kindergarteners cake walk at school tomorrow. So here is how I dressed them up a bit.

I just cut a 2x6 strip of Spooky Night dsp and wrapped it around the Twinkies and adhere with fast fuse. Next I wrapped basic black bakers twins around the dsp and tie a bow. Then stamp and punch the label from the scaredy cat stamp set.

Sunflowers and Vintage Leaves

I just love fall!  I really miss fall in Utah but I am slowly adapting to life in Arizona!  I was so excited when my cousin asked me to create a class with a Fall theme and Thanks for her church group.  I created the following cards and had 5 cards in each box.

I just love the look that the dynamic leaves embossing folder made on the Clear acetate boxes that are in SU! holiday catalog. I even got asked to do this same class for my church group in November.

Carols of Christmas Peace Card

I had fun creating this Christmas card for my weSTAMP group swap!  It is such a beautiful set and I just love that little deer!

I thought the Marbled background stamp gave a nice snow swirling effect on the inside of the card.

Stamp sets used: Carols of Christmas, Marbled and Star of Light
Stamp ink:Crumb Cake  and Dapper Denim
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, and Night of Navy
Accessories: Big Shot, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Card Front Builder Framelits, Stitched Framelits, Silver Thread and Silver Metallic Edge ribbon.

Daisy Delight Mini-Bouquet and Cards

I just love Stampin'Up! Daisy Delight bundle.  I always loved seeing those flower pens and thought it would be fun to make them with this bundle.

I made these for my sons Kindergarten teacher. I am so excited for my youngest, Matthew, to attend all day Kindergarten! It was so cute seeing him give his teacher Ms. Costa the bouquet and cards!

The trick with these pens was to figure out how to attach the flower punch to the pen.  Here's how I did it!

First I cut a 1.25"x1.25"square and then wrapped it around the pen top.

Next I used the tombow glue and glued the wrapped shaped square to the back of the punched flower. Then I let dry for awhile.  Then I added a couple of glue dots to the pen top and pushed it in the dry wrapped square.

Then I added some tear n tape around the wrapped square.

Next I added the green floral tape and wrapped from top to bottom.

Then I used tear n tape on some leaves and placed on pen. The leaves are from the May Flower frame-lits set.  Then I wrapped more floral tape on.

You Move Me Thanks

I have a fabulous Aunt who sends my kids and I fun birthday cards, Halloween cards and Valentine's Day cards. I decided that the new You Move Me bundle would make the perfect card to Thank her for her kindness.

I used the colors Night of Navy and Dapper Denim. The hummingbird wings look so cute as they flutter when you slowly pull out the card. The Island Indigo ombre ribbon coordinates well too! I love all of Stamp in' Up's new ombre ribbons!

Floral Thanks

I absolutely love Stampin' Up's new Floral Statements stamp set! It is so fun to color with watercolor pencils and makes a beautiful card!

Aren't these just gorgeous! I used the new Sheet Music background stamp too. I used sponge daubers with versamark ink and dabbed  the ink on around the leaf edges and embossed with gold embossing powder.

High Tide

This past week we had a team color challenge using Island Indigo, Soft Sky, Basic Black and Silver foil. For some strange reason the silver foil icon looked like Sahara Sand to me so I immediately thought the new High Tide stamp set would be perfect!

So as I told my fellow teammates, pretend the sand is silver foil torn up😊 Lol! I used basic black, soft sky, island Indigo and Sahara Sand for the ink. The soft sky was sponged dabbed for the sky and background for the water.  I really like this High Tide stamp set!

Cool Treats Tote

I created these fun totes for a couple of my friends. Since school's  out here in AZ I thought it would be fun to use the Cool Treats Bundle. I was inspired by a tote with cards that Becky Roberts gave me at Inking Idaho on the Road. 

I had so much fun playing and creating with the Cool Treats bundle from the Stampin' Up! Occasions    catalog. Aren't they adorable. I made 4   3x3 cards with envelopes to place in the tote. For the cardstock I used Whisper White, Peek-a-booPeach, and Watermelon Wonder. I'm sad to see Watermelon Wonder go. For the dsp I used the Tasty Treats Specialty paper. In addition to the Cool Treats stamps, I also used sentiments from theA Things Thanks set. These cards look so yummy!

Daisy Delight Bundle

Here's a sneak peek of the Daisy Delight Bundle in the new 2017-2018 annual catalog.  It is such a fun bundle to play with.

I cased this card from our Stampin' Up! Succeed weekly email.  Our team Inking Everything had a weekly challenge using the colors Peek a boo peach, Pool party, Crumb cake and very vanilla. For the  daisy, I stamped and punched 2 of the daisy images and then glued them together. I can't wait to create more with this new bundle.

Teacher Appreciation Week

It's teacher appreciation week and I thought April's Paper Pumpkin would be perfect to use. I loved the watercoloring with the cards and it was very easy to use and create.

 Here are 2 of the cards I made for my son Jaden's teachers. These were made from April's paper pumpkin kit. Aren't they awesome! They work for male and female teachers.

I used the envelope punchboard to create the bigger cucumber crush envelope. I also used the Special Reason stamp set  for the flowers and embossed them with White embossing powder. 

Valentine

I just love Stampin' Up! Sending Love Suite! I made this cute Valentine for our team Inking Everything  Occasions Catalog Swap.

I just love the look of Crumb Cake along with the Real Red and white colors. I am really enjoying the Stitched Framelits too!