Hi friends! Happy Halloween. Today I’m sharing the envelope treat pockets I created for my boys this year. They both love the Hershey’s Special Dark XL bars, so I wanted to make something to gift one in.
I started with some slimline envelopes I had in my stash. I sealed them up, then cut at around 6.25 inches. I then cut papers to decorate the two pockets. I used a circle punch to make a thumb notch in both pockets, then glued the smaller pocket to the larger pocket. The eat if you dare sentiment on the first one is from Claire Brennan’s (formerly Waltzingmouse) Haunted Halloween stamp set.
I finished decorating with stickers and cut outs from the Photoplay Creepin’ It Real collection I used for the papers. I tucked the XL bars in the large pocket, then added a couple lollipops to the front pocket.
The boys were super excited to find these on their placemats when they got up this morning. Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a fab-boo-lous Halloween.
Hi friends, today I'm sharing a little winter wonderland shaker card I created with the new Festive Christmas quarterly release and EZ Wonder dies from Not 2 Shabby. I just love these gingerbread houses and knew I wanted to make a shaker with one as the center piece.
After cutting the square with the round circle cut out from the Festive Christmas Paper Pad, I then found some scallop circle dies in my stash to create a little frame for my shaker hole. I created the shaker with acetate and then tucked the Gingerbread House ephemera on top of the acetate before adhering so it sits on top and the snowflake sequins fall behind. I used a few photo corner dies to dress up the corners and add to the country charm of the main image.
The sentiment is from the Mini Messages set in the Festive Christmas I Want it All Bundle and I die cut it with the EZ Wonder #1 Add Ons and matted with one of the banners from the EZ Wonder #1 Die. I added a couple stripes of thin ribbon, then accented with a fussy cut bow from the Ephemera Pack to finish things off.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous weekend!
Hi friends! Today I'm popping in with a quick little gift card pocket mini slimline card. Now there's a mouthful to say! LOL Basically, it's a card with a front pocket and a removable gift card holder element.
I used the Pink Christmas papers in this month's Not 2 Shabby October Paper Pad Club. This snowman ephemera from the Pink Christmas Ephemera pack is so cute!I had to add him to the front and tuck in some little gift ephemera to create the scene.
The gift card insert uses a gift card die which I cut from patterned paper, then matted with gold foil cardstock. I tucked in the gift card and then tied a string and a little tag around it to give it the look of a present. The tag uses one of the sentiments from the Mini Messages stamp set that just released as part of the Festive Christmas I Want it All Bundle.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous day!
Hi friends! Today I'm popping in to change up the scenery from all the Christmas going on lately. That's probably one of my least favorite part about designing for the craft industry is creating holiday cards out of season. Every once in a while I have to just take a break from team assignments and pop in something seasonally appropriate! {grin} My boys have decided not to dress up this year and just stay home and watch a family movie and pass out candy. Kind of a little sad, since they've so enjoyed trick or treating every single year to this point.
When I saw these cute ghosties from Jaded Blossom I just had to have them. I envisioned having a lot more time to create for Halloween, but at least I'm squeezing in a card with them before the holiday has passed!
I had fun dressing up the Gnome Friends: Ghost Dies in colors to match the Doodlebug papers I also HAD to have. {grin} For the ghostess on the right I used the coordinating Ghost Faces set. For the one on the left, I used the dies and then drew in the eyelashes and nose.
They're backdrop is the fun Photo Frame Die cut from black cardstock and then embossed in white with a sentiment from the Ghostly Greetings stamp set. I finished off with some doodlebug stickers.
Well, that's all for today. I'll be back tomorrow with a bit more Crafty Christmas in October.
Hi friends! Today I'm sharing a card I made on world card making day following the LVHandcrafted Mystery Craft Along tutorial for a hidden message card. Fun fold/interactive cards are definitely not in my wheelhouse, but I had a lot of fun trying to figure this one out.
The first part of the process is pretty straightforward, creating a gatefold card with a belly band. Then things get a bit squirrely, cutting slits in your card base and weaving papers in so that you can flip the inside to show a hidden panel. Quite fun, but it took this old brain quite a bit of time to figure out how to actually pull the papers to get to the flipped side! LOL What was that 80's show... Kidd Video, I think? Where they always said, "I'm taking you to the flip side" when they switched from live action to cartoon? That's been going through my head since I made this card!
For the card, I used the new Festive Christmas papers and Gingerbread Houses Ephemera. I love the farmhouse vibe to this paper pad, and that there are some really fun wood grain panels to go with the Christmas-y prints.
When you open up the gatefold you have a lot of panels you can decorate. I added several small ephemera pieces, some heart die cuts and sentiments from the new Mini Messages stamp set. I also included an extra long panel of white cardstock that I could write a short note to the recipient on.
Okay... now I'm taking you to the flip side... bwahahahahahaha. LOL
For this section, I used another gingerbread house ephemera, then grabbed a couple of gold snowflakes from the Pink Christmas ephemera pack and a gold foil sentiment from my stash of Christmas past.
I had a lot of fun creating this card and would definitely recommend giving the LVHandcrafted tutorial a try.
Hi friends! Today I'm dropping in with a bit of inspiration featuring the Vintage Santa October Stamp of the Month from Not 2 Shabby. This set includes two fun Santa images, as well as several fun sentiments, and works perfectly whether you love to color or not. I typically am all about coloring images, but this Santa just looks so jolly all dressed up in red embossing, don't you think? Easy peasy!
After heat embossing the image and cutting with the coordinating Vintage Santa Dies, I pulled out a sheet of paper from the new Festive Christmas paper pad that was mostly red, cut it down to card size and then dry embossed with a snowflake embossing folder. I then lightly sanded the embossed areas to make the snowflakes show. I had a scrap of kraft cardstock that was stenciled with the Striped Honeycomb Background Stencil on my desk and thought it looked great with the snowflakes. So I distressed the edges, then layered the stamped image, a flower and a gold foil leaf de cut over a bit of lace. I finished off with the Santa surveillance sentiment embossed onto a die cut tag and hung with a bit of gold cording.
For my next card, I pulled out my Copic markers and started coloring dear old Santa. The red for the Santa hat, as well as the holly branch are solid, so to add some color, I painted on some gloss Pops of Color in red and green. The card layout uses EZ Wonder Die #1 cut from some Festive Christmas Paper. I cut the circle die cut in half to create a little interest, then inked up the edges and layered onto a panel of white embossed with a snowflake embossing folder. The sentiment is from the Mini Messages stamp set included in the Festive Christmas I Want it All Bundle. I finished with a small bow up top and some Vintage Christmas Charm Sparkling Enamel Dots.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderfully creative day!
Hi friends! The Not 2 Shabby quarterly release is available in the shop today! You can purchase all the new goodies in the Festive Christmas I Want it All Bundle to save a little, or most of the items are available to order individually.
This release includes the Festive Christmas Paper Pad, Gingerbread Houses Ephemera, Christmas Shops Ephemera, Vintage Christmas Charm Enamel Dots, and Mini Messages Stamp Set. Today I'm sharing a couple of projects with the sweet Gingerbread Houses Ephemera and the Mini Messages Stamp Set.
Do you ever have those days when you just have a color in mind and want to create with it? When I saw these houses my mind kept coming back to mint macaron and regal rose. I haven't used my Stampin' Up cardstock in a while because I have a rolling cart in front of the file cabinet it's stored in. But I pulled some out just for this crafty session and think I will find a way to get it back on a shelf I can reach for the future. There are so many good colors.
My card starts with the Gingerbread Houses ephemera as my focal point. I layered some of the candy canes and candy swirls on either side to create a scene and then added a bunch of accents with glossy glaze and a sprinkling of glitter. I just love the way this dresses up a piece of ephemera.
The background for the card, as well as for the tag I'm sharing next use the Striped Honeycomb Stencil. Here I used wheat ink on wheat cardstock, then added to a scallop rectangle mat from Sage Shadow. The sentiment is from the new Mini Messages Stamp Set and cut with one of the dies from the EZ Wonder #1 Add Ons. These sentiments were intended to be used with your EZ Wonder Dies and I know this set will be WELL loved!
I finished with a chipboard snowflake from my stash, a couple of sparkling enamel dots on the candy swirls and some Doodlebug heart stickers on the sentiment banner.
Next up I created a tag with a gift card holder pocket on the back. I started by die cutting the tag shape and then stenciling with the Striped Honeycomb Stencil and roughing up the edges. I then took a little gander through my shabby chic supplies and found some leaves, a flower and some lace that I thought would go with the Gingerbread Houses Ephemera that I had chosen. I collaged everything together, adding another Mini Messages sentiment on a banner. A little gold ribbon at the top finishes things off.
I forgot to photograph the back side, but I did cut a gift card pocket from patterned paper and adhered to the back for gift giving.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I have lots more to share with these products, so be sure to check back soon.
Hi friends! It's the 10th of the month and time for the Not 2 Shabby design team to share inspiration with our October subscription products. Hop along on YouTube and enter for a chance to win a gift code to the Not 2 Shabby shop.
They say a picture's worth a 1,000 words but sometimes a video captures even more. Today for my video I'm just doing a project share of the ensemble of cards and gift card holders I made with the elegant Christmas in Gold papers in the October Paper Pad Club. You can watch it below or on my YouTube channel.
I really love this gorgeous paper pad, but a lot of the patterns are busier than I typically reach for. So I challenged myself to use the patterned paper in several different ways, and here's the ensemble of cards, gift card holders and coordinating envelopes I created.
Ways I used patterned paper on these projects:
1. Fussy cut pieces from the paper to use as images on your card. I did that here with the beautiful flowers, arranging them in a lovely spray to accent the sticker sentiment I chose as my focal point. A little gold foil matting between each layer is a great way to add a touch of elegance. I finished with some sparkling enamel dots to accent the flowers.
2. Create a shape out of your patterned paper to use as a focal point. Here I layered two strips of patterned papers together then accented with pin stripe stickers and washi tape. I used a corner punch to create a ticket/label shape. I added a doily behind, then accented with a wooden deer shape and a sentiment from the Deer Friends stamp set.
3. Use strips of paper to create a focal panel. Here I cut strips out of my scraps and glued them to thin white cardstock, alternating the strips. I then die cut with a rectangle die for a fun panel. I finished the cards with a sentiment from the Elegant Christmas stamp set and another wooden shape from my stash.
4. If you're paper isn't the right size or direction, glue pieces together to create what you need. For this gift card holder I wanted to use a scrap of paper with the deer design. However, it's a directional print and didn't fit the top fold version of the gift card holder. So I decided to make a side fold version and glued a 2" strip of the deer design to a 6" strip of the floral design and then covered the seams with a pin stripe sticker. The inside is covered up with a piece of cardstock to write a note to the recipient. And if you didn't like the idea of fussy cutting on the first card, you can also just die cut a portion of the paper, like I did here with the deer to use as a focal point on the front of the gift card holder..
5. When you have a big piece of paper with a large design or scene, it's okay to cut it up. Even if it cuts off an image, it can make some beautiful patterns you might not have noticed in the larger scene. Here the tops of the trees make such an interesting piece for the inside of this gift card holder.
My final gift card holder doesn't use a unique technique per se, but I did choose the pattern knowing that the back was the large scene paper and this would be a great way to use it up. It gives a great border around the inside of the gift card holder and you'd never guess there's a huge deer behind there.
I fussy cut a couple more flowers and inked the edges with black ink. The sentiment is from the October Stamp of the Month, Vintage Santa and cut with the coordinating die set.
The gift card envelopes are made with the Envelope Punch Board with the measurements for a full sheet of 6 x 6 paper. Makes it so nice and easy to coordinate your gift.
If you're still reading, high five! That was a long one! Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you have a super creative day.
Hi friends! Today I'm popping in to share a little bit of inspiration with the new October Not 2 Shabby Paper Pad Club and Stamp & Die of the Month. I love these soft pink patterns and the Pink Christmas ephemera to match the Pink Christmas pad is simply fabulous.
For my cards I went with a similar layout for both. I cut the designer paper at 3.75" horizontally and at 5" vertically. This gives you a 3.75" x 1" piece that you can use for the horizontal panel, and then a 2" x 6" strip you can use for another project.
I let these fun snowflake patterns do most of the background work so that the focus could be on the beautiful ephemera pieces. I added a square of another pattern for a little contrast, matting everything with either silver or rose gold foil cardstock. The sentiments are from the October Stamp/Die of the Month and I embossed them onto circles, then added a few accents with snowflake sequins, pearls, glossy accents, nuvo drops and some glitter.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to check out all the new Not 2 Shabby products in the shop.
