Love Those Boats!

This recipe card was for the August class at The Craft Shack

It was a very simple recipe card using Stampin' Up retired DSP, Whisper White CS & Certainly Celery CS.  The bling was a silver nail head I had in my stash.  The Stamps by Judith's large colander was stamped in Versamark then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  It was fussy cutt out then popped up with dimensionals.  I'm not sure where the tomatoes & zucchini stamps are from but they were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink then colored with Copics R24, R27, YG23, YG63, YG67  then fussy cut out & adhered to the back of the colander before it was added to the card.

TFL!!

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

I'm usually not one for 3D paper craft projects but since it's a Christmas ornament I was in.  I made 12 of them for a Christmas ornament swap at our annual shoebox event.  The theme was Have A Holly Jolly Christmas so this die couldn't have been more perfect!

I started with a 3" wooden hoop & took it apart.  The inside hoop was traced onto the back of the cardstock.  The front of the cardstock has holly leaves & berries.

I fussy cut all the circles but don't ask me why I didn't use my Cricut.

I ran a thin line of adhesive around the edge of the inside hoop & added the card stock over it.  They were then set aside so the adhesive was completely dry.

I trimmed the card stock as close as I could.

I used a file to clean & smooth the edges.  I did this by going down over the edge at an angle.  A dusty job but it's kinda fun!

The edges were inked with frayed burlap then the hoop was reassembled.

I cut 3X3 pieces of SU Real Red cardstock & back it with Stick-it.  This is a double sided adhesive. 

I used my Sidekick to die cut Have A Holly Jolly Christmas by Creative Expressions Festive Craft Dies.

Because the cardstock had Stick-it on the back, I removed the release paper from the die cut to reveal an adhesive backed die cut.

I centered the die cut on the cardstock that had been adhered to the hoop.

I cut out 4 sets of holly leaves & 2 sets of holly berries for each ornament from Tim Holtz Coredinations Kraft Core Seasonal Paper using Tim Holtz Mini Holiday Greens Die Set.

For each side of the ornament, I arranged 2 sprigs of holly leaves & 1 stem of holly berries.  They are adhered them together with mini glue dots.  Isn't that a cute glue dot dispenser?

The holly & berries were then adhered to the top of the hoop with another glue dot.  They are very delicate but can be rearranged a little since the glue dot is flexible.

I cut 9" of 1/8" ribbon, threaded it through the bracket at the top of the hoop & made a loop to hang the ornament.  I then tied another 9" of ribbon around the metal top of the hoop & tied a bow then trimmed the ends.

TFL!