Faux Leather Gum Holder

Faux Leather Gum Holder

Supplies

- Basic Gray 8 1/2 x 11" Card Stock, page 155, $7.50

- Chocolate Chip 8 1/2 x 11" Card Stock, page 156, $5.50

- Old Olive 8 1/2 x 11" Card Stock, page 156, $5.50

- VersaMark Pad, page 190, $7.50

- Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder, page 188, $4.75

- Powder Pals, page 188, $19.95

- Bone Folder, page 188, $6.95

- Heat Tool, page 188, $29.95

- Paper-Piercing Tool, page 191, $3.50

- Mat Pack, page 191, $9.95

- Flower Fusion Accents & Elements, page 180, $14.95

- Fleurettes II Accents & Elements, page 180, $9.95

- Sweet Pea Stitched Felt, page 32 of Occasions Mini, $7.95

- Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads, page 179, $10.95

- Soft Subtles Brads, page 179, $8.95

- Earth Elements Brads, page 179, $8.95

- Sticky Strip, page 192, $6.95

- adhesive

- scissors

- pencil, pen, or Marker

- self-adhesive Velcro

- gum packets (I used Orbit)

Directions

1) Open one of the gum packets and remove the gum. Set it aside for now.

2) Tear the cardboard holder apart and flatten it out to make a pattern. I did cut off the little tab at the top of their package since I'd be closing mine with Velcro.

3) Lay the pattern on a piece of card stock and trace with a pencil, pen, or Marker.

4) Cut out the traced card stock.

5) Using the pattern as a guide, score where needed.

6) Lay the cut out, scored card stock on your work surface so the trace marks are facing up.

7) Press the VersaMark Pad all over the card stock surface until it is completely inked up.

8) Lay the inked up card stock in the Powder Pal inked side up. Sprinkle on Clear Embossing Powder. Tap off excess powder into the tray.

9) Lay the powdered card stock on your work surface so the powdered side is up.

10) Use a Bone Folder to draw random lines all over the surface of the powdered card stock by dragging the tip of the Bone Folder through the powder.

11) Tap the loose embossing powder into the garbage. Do NOT reuse it!

12) Heat the card stock with the Heat Tool until all the powder is melted and shiny.

13) Fold on your score lines and place with the embossed side down on your work surface.

14) Lay the gum inside the holder.

15) Lightly adhere the side flaps to the gum. Also fold the tiny tabs at the bottom in and secure them with adhesive.

16) Put small strips of Sticky Strip on the side flaps as shown.

17) Remove the protective backing (red) from the Sticky Strip pieces and fold the bottom flap up and secure in place.

18) Flip the wallet over so the embossed side is face up and lay the top flap on the mats from the Mat Pack. Place an embellishment flower of your choice on top of the flap so it overlaps the bottom edge by just a tiny bit. Use the Paper-Piercing Tool to poke a hole through the center of the flower and card stock. Insert a brad of choice and secure on back side.

19) Flip the wallet back over and put one side of a Velcro piece over the prongs of the brad. Put the other side of the Velcro piece on the first Velcro piece and remove the protective backing. Close the flap of the wallet and press hard to secure the Velcro piece on the other side exactly where you want it.

Tips

You can use any color of card stock and any type of embellishment on the flap that you'd like.

Make sure your VersaMark Pad is well inked so that the embossing powder will stick to the card stock easily.

By embossing on the traced side of the card stock, you'll hide any trace marks that weren't cut off.

You may have noticed that I did not emboss some of the side flaps. I deliberately left the parts that would be covered by the bottom flap of the wallet un-embossed since the Sticky Strip sticks better on plain card stock.

Just draw random, squiggly lines with the Bone Folder through the embossing powder. Let some of the lines cross. You are trying to make it look like a piece of leather!

Do NOT reuse the powder that you pull up with the Bone Folder when drawing your lines. It's already saturated with VersaMark and will not work well if you try to reuse it. Just tap it off into the garbage.

You can refill your wallet with gum at any time!

Make a slightly larger wallet and it will hold business cards. Or, make an even bigger one to hold feminine hygiene products in style!

http://www.inspirationink.typepad.com/inspiration-ink/page/2/

Clear Round Cup With Slide

Cat in the Fish Bowl Card

I got this adorable idea from someone else and just added my own little twists. Enjoy!

Uses Something Sweet Set and Woodgrain background stamp plus More Mustard Card Stock, Ballet Blue Card Stock, Regal Rose Card Stock, Whisper White Card Stock, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack, Regal Rose Classic Ink Pad, More Mustard Classic Ink Pad, Pumpkin Pie Classic Ink Pad, More Mustard Stampin' Write Marker, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Large Oval Punch, 5-Petal Flower Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Tag Corner Punch, Round Tab Punch, Earth Elements Brads, Paper-Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Linen Thread, Sweet Treat Cups, Sticky Strip, and Stampin' Dimensionals.

Here's a peek at the inside of the card so you can see how the recipient can get to the goldfish cracker treats.

I did decorate the front of the pull-out tag a bit too so that even after the crackers are gone it looks like the cat is reaching into the fish bowl to help himself to some fish! The crackers have already gotten some grease stains on the card stock, sorry!

http://www.inspirationink.typepad.com/

Carrot Boxes

My upline recently challenged us to take the pattern for a "carrot box" and create a fun little box. Here's what I created and filled with gourmet jelly beans to give to my Hostesses at Workshops this weekend as a Hostess Gift. Enjoy!

Uses Tiny Tags Clear-Mount Set plus Clear-Mount Block A, Confetti White Card Stock, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack, Old Olive Classic Ink Pad, Flower Fusion Accents & Elements, Gold Brads, Paper-Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Medium Jewelry Tag Punch, Horizontal Slot Punch, Old Olive 5/8" Satin Ribbon, Linen Thread, and Sticky Strip.

If you would like the pattern, please click here Download Carrotbox.

Tissue Box to Treasure Box with Stampin’ Up! Products by Becky Jensen

Tissue Box to Treasure Box with Stampin’ Up! Products

by Becky Jensen on March 6, 2010

Is it really the last day of the blog tour? I have so much more trash waiting to become treasures! Today we’re turning to the tissue box. Now to be truthful, this is the not exact tissue box I worked with, I was so anxious to get working on it that I didn’t take a picture before beginning. The one I changed was striped.

Vintage Vogue Stamp Set

Here’s the treasure I made! This seemed like a good chance to try out one of these special roses I’ve been seeing and of course use one of my favorite stamp sets, Vintage Vogue.

Pretty in Pink Grosgrain Ribbon

The colors I used for the box are Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Whisper White and Pretty in Pink. I did also use some Chocolate Chip ink to sponge onto the Bravo Burgundy but you’re not going to be able to tell that very well in the pictures.

Ornament Punch

The flower is made out of Whisper White cardstock and the Ornament Punch. I used a sponge and some Pretty in Pink classic ink to tint the petals.

Inside the box

Would you believe, I was just crazy enough to cover the whole box, inside and out. By doing so the box is pleasant to look at from any angle but it is also much sturdier. Now there are at least three layers over every inch of the box so it’s going to be able to withstand much more weight than a regular tissue box.

Clear block storage

There are so many things that can be stored in this special little box. In the first picture I had a bunch of handmade cards in there, they fit perfectly. Here you can see that I have our new clear blocks in there. The entire set fits with a little more room left for extras even.

Beautiful Wings Birthday Card

I decided to design a card that would work well inside the box and be fairly easy to duplicate. Now I didn’t get enough of these made to fill the box, it’s just an idea. This is a card we’re going to be making at my card class on Monday evening.

Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set

To make this card I used the Bella Toile and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp sets, Very Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware, Chocolate Chip Satin ribbon, one of the Stampin’ Up! Backgrounds I texturz Plates, Little Leaves sizzlet die and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die.

http://www.stampthat.com/blog/tissue-box-to-treasure-box-with-stampin-up-products/

Make A Rose From The Ornament Punch

Ornament Punch Rose Tutorial

by Becky Jensen on March 10, 2010

Vintage Vogue Stamp Set

This is a remake of a tissue box that I showed you last week. I promised you a tutorial for the rose and it’s time!

Stampin' Up! Ornament Punch

I started with 25 ornament punches in Whisper White. The more punches you have the fuller your rose will be. The ornament punch was offered by Stampin’ Up! in the Holiday Mini Catalog but I have good news for you! The punch is not pictured in any of the current catalogs, however, it is still available! The item number is 116794 and it costs $15.95.

Sponging with Pretty in Pink

I want the rose to have two tones so I am sponging the edges of the punches with Pretty in Pink Classic ink.

Embossing Stylus

I used a stylus to curl the edges of each ornament punch (petal). You want about 1/3 of the petals to be curled slightly, 1/3 curled so they look like a U when you look from a side view, 1/3 curled considerably and 1 totally curled. Is that as clear as vellum for you? Let me give you a picture that will hopefully define that better.

Ornament Punch Rose Petals

I hope that makes more sense now. For the tighter curls I grabbed a thin paint brushed to wrap the punches around.

1 3/4" Circle Punch

Punch a 1 3/4″ Circle and then start working around the circle to adhere the petals. Begin with the least curled petals. I am using Sticky Strip because I want to make sure once all the weight of the flower is added it’s going to stay in place.

Work in a circle

Continue working around the circle to attach the petals. Use up all of the least curled petals and then work to the next level saving the most curled for the end.

Ornament Punch Rose Coming into Shape

As you get closer to the center of the flower you’ll want to make the edges of your petals overlap more, this will help to lift them up and give the flower shape.

Paper Rose

There is just one more piece to insert, the most curled petal. You will know when it’s time to put in the last petal, it’ll be the last one you can possibly fit in there. I started with 25 petals and used 23 of them.

Paper Rose

The rose looks great but it is no complete without some leaves to frame it.

Ornament Punch Leaves

I punched out three of the ornament punches from Mellow Moss and then used an Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write marker to draw in the vein lines.

Creating a paper leaf

I sponged on some Always Artichoke Classic ink and then used paper snips to cut a zig zag edge on of the leaves.

Bottom of the flower

Tuck the leaves behind the flower. (This a view of the bottom of the finished project.)

Paper Rose made from the Stampin' Up! Ornament Punch

And here we are! What do you think? I know the tutorial is long and may seem like it would take a long time to make one of these but I can tell you that it really doesn’t take all that long. I spent way more time typing this tutorial than it takes to make one of these flowers!

Now obviously with all these layers you’re not going to be able to put this flower on a card and mail it. A rose like this one is meant for a good size 3-D project or at least a card you’re planning to hand deliver! I have seen some other versions of this flower, some of them with fewer petals making it less bulky. You may wish to check them out, the ladies offering them are: Chera Wiest (who originally inspired me), Shawna MacKenzie,and Rhea Anderson.

REFILLING ATG TAPE GUN VIDEO

And another video just like the first...

Swing (or Flip) Card Instructions and Video

Swing Cards

I have a fun project to share with you today, Swing Cards. These cards are almost as fun to make as they are to receive. Here is the how-to video.



Here is a guide with the measurements (start with a 5" x 7" piece of cardstock.) Just click on any of the photos below for a closer look.



And here are photos of the cards I showed in the video.









If you are interested in learning how to make the background I made in the card above here is the direct link to the tutorial on my blog. It is called Faux Marble with Metallic Markers.

Rag Quilt Purse Instructions

This rag quilt purse is created using the Big Shot die-cutting machine.

Faux Sea Glass by Suze

"Mending" an ailing Vanilla Craft Pad

The following tip was given by one of the SU Demonstrator Support folks, and I read about it in an email from Selene, on a Yahoo group.

"I pulled out my craft vanilla pad, and it wasn't working too well for me. I had a problem with this last week. I called Stampin' Up! to see if they had any idea on what I can do, and they suggested "priming" my craft pad. Apparently over time, the craft pad settles and separates if you don't use it all the time.

You can "prime" your pad, by taking a blunt object, I used the back of a Tombo adhesive pen.

Just apply firm pressure and swirl your pad around to get the elements in the pad to mix again. My pad worked great after that for my background, which I used Clear embossing powder on for a more subdued look.

Matching Card and Envelope

Dawn is keeping me SO busy, copying her videos to my blog. Thanks Dawn! This is a wonderful video of Dawn making a matching set - card and envelope. It's a great watch.

Sunset Card By Dawn

Creating cards using a brayer technique is all the rage right now. Dawn does it beautifully in the following video. Thank you Dawn. You really are quite amazing!

Faux Metal Embossing With Dawn

Just a piece of cardstock, embossing ink pad, embossing powder, a rubber stamp, and a heat gun is all you need to make a faux metal tag.

Thank you Dawn!

Dawn's Rock-N-Roll Technique, Along with how to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Using the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig






Rock-N-Roll Technique

Separating Stampin' Up! Stamps For Versatility AND Making a Gift Bag

Dawn shows us how to make some of our stamps more versatile, by cutting parts out and placing them on different sides of the wood block.













Gift Bag Video by Dawn





The size of my bag is

7" X 3 5/8"

2 pieces of designer paper

(1) cut at

6 7/8 X 3 5/8 ( front )

( 1) cut at

9 1/2 X 3 5/8

scored at 2 1/2"( back )

More Videos by Dawn

Money Holder Card










You will need a piece of card stock ( She is using Pink Pirouette ) cut at 7 1/2" X 7 1/8"

Whisper white for the belly band cut at 1" X 7"

Bella Rose DSP I cut that at 2" X 7 1/4"

Punches: 1", 1 1/4", and 1 3/8" circles AND scallop







Cute Punched Sheep Card









Scallop punch ( whisper white Card stock )

5 Petal flower punch ( Black card stock )

Bashful blue card stock ( cut at 4 1/4 X 11 scored at 5 1/2")

Certainly celery card stock ( cut at 1 3/4" X 41/4")

Pretty in ink card stock cut at ( 1 1/2" X 4 1/4")

I will be using Bashful blue in the video for the strip on top of the pretty in pink this is cut at 1/2" X 4 1/4" BUT on my sample card posted here I used certainly celery card stock

Apricot appeal cut at 2 1/4" X 2 1/4"

Crop-a-dile ( for embossing circles )

Stem = A

Flat = 3

white gel pen

Also used my Paper piercer tool and mat to the sides of the apricot appeal






Triangle Tri-Fold Card












Cutter,

Scoring tool ( bone folder )

Piece of card stock (Chocolate chip) cut at 3 1/2" X 10 1/2"

Piece of Designer paper ( Berry Bliss) 3 1/4" X 3 1/4"

and some ribbon ( Chocolate Taffeta )





Pin Wheel




1 piece of DS paper cut at 5"x 5"

1 Pixie stix

1 Brad

1 Button

Cutter, Scoring tool, Scissors, and Adhesive

Frankenstein Card - Video by Dawn of Dawn's Thoughts

ScorIt 101 Video

Masking Video, from Hero Arts

Using Heat and Stick Powder

Using the Stamp-A-Majig

Mirror Image Stamping

Fresh Cut Notes

Sugar Coated Brads

Scalloped Edge Using The Corner Rounder Punch

Faux Shaving Cream Technique

Black Magic Technique

Amazing to me, I just learned about the "Black Magic Technique". I'm adding a YouTube video of it here, which I know I'll be referring back to later. Hope you enjoy.








It's a very easy technique and a great way to use your solid stamps : stamp your solid image using white Craft ink onto black card. Dry with your heat gun. Now use your SU Pure coloring pencils to color the white parts .

Now for the 'Magic' bit..... Highlight the lines of the image with a white Gel pen which really makes it pop! Also, try using a Sakura Stardust pen instead. They come in lots of colors and work on dark as well as light paper.

Video of SCRAPARATUS

Here is HSN's video on using the Scraparatus, which is a punch and eyelet setter.

Dream Big - music video

"Dream Big" by Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband

Another Bow Making Tutorial Video - Totally different from all others



Loud Music Warning

Gift Box Tutorial - Video

You will need:

- 11-1/2" x 11-1/2" piece of patterned paper (this will be the top of the box)
- 11" x 11" piece of patterned paper (the bottom of the box)
- 2" x 11" piece of card stock (scored at 1-1/4", 3-5/16", 7-1/2", and 9-5/8") for the belly band
- 2 pieces of ribbon cut to approx. 12"

Now, on to the video instructions:

Video on How to Tie A Bow