Wood Crate Creations - September Bonus Project - Craft Project Central

Hello! Today I'm showing the last of the projects at Craft Project Central for the month of September.

The Wood Crate Creations Bonus project tutorial is designed by Christy Fulk.

Rustic is in, and these projects fit into the rustic-theme perfectly! This tutorial teaches how to make three different projects with the Wood Words Stamp Set and Wood Crate Framelits Dies. The projects are a milk carton crate, a gift card crate card, and a trunk gift box. The projects also feature the wonderful Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack. This would also make a wonderful product-based class.

Bonus projects can be obtained by subscribing to any of the three, six or 12 month subscription packages, that include the month for which they’d like the bonus.  

To get the instructions to Christy's bonus project plus others for the month of September, be sure to sign up for the 3, 6, or 12 month subscription package at Craft Project Central.

Have a great day!

Year of Cheer with an Autumn Twist

Hello! I had the pleasure of posting on Stampin' Up!'s blog last week. In case you didn't see it, here are the projects I made for the post.

Is everyone loving the new Holiday catalog so far?!? I know I am! I’m here today to show you how you can use the Year of Cheer Speciality Designer Series Paper (item 144640) for fall cards as well. Who doesn’t love DSP that can be used for more than just one occasion?

The 2017 Holiday catalog has some great Fall stamp sets. Today I’m using Gourd Goodness (item 144785) and Labels to Love (item 144967).

First up is Gourd Goodness and the pretty leafy DSP from the pack. I started by layering this on Berry Burst cardstock (item 144243). Next, I stamped the bottom layer of the pumpkin in Peekaboo Peach Classic Stampin’ ink (item 141398) onto Shimmer White cardstock (item). The top layer of the pumpkin was stamped with none other than Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin’ ink (item 126945).

I decided to add an additional highlight to the pumpkin by coloring in the white spot with the Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Pad (item 131173) and an Aqua painter (item 103954). After stamping the pumpkin stems with the Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin’ Pad (item 126979), I cut the pumpkins using my Paper Snips (item 103579). Next, I cut out some leaves using the Leaf Punch (item 144667).

I then die cut a circle from Whisper White cardstock  (item 100730) using the Stitched Shape Framelits (item 145372) and layered this onto a Berry Burst cardstock scalloped circle cut from the Layering Circle Framelits Dies (item 141705).

I added my pumpkins to the circle with the leaves surrounding it. A sentiment stamped on Berry Burst cardstock (item 144243) punched with the Classic Label Punch (item 141491) and Calypso Coral 1/4” Ombre ribbon (item 144235) finished off the card.

Now onto a Halloween card. I am using Labels to Love Stamp Set (item 144967) for this fun card. I started with a piece of the Gold plaid paper from the Year of Cheer Speciality Designer Series Paper layered on Basic Black cardstock (item 121045) and Pumpkin Pie Cardstock (item 105117).

On top of that I added a strip of Gold Glimmer Paper (item 133719) accented with Vintage Crochet Trim (item 144611). Just add the trim to the top and bottom of the Glimmer strip using Snail Adhesive (item 104332).

I stamped the sentiment using Versamark ink (item 102283 ) on Elegant Eggplant Cardstock (item 105126) and embossed with White Stampin’ Emboss powder (item 109132). I then punched this out with the new Everyday Label Punch (item 144668). This punch has such a great look! Before I glued the Elegant Eggplant label to the card, I punched Basic Black cardstock with the Starburst punch (item 143717) to layer behind the label.

I also stamped the sentiment three other times on Whisper White cardstock so I could fussy cut those little bats and add them as accents on the card. I added some of the new Black Rhinestone Jewels (item 144639) as well!

For my final card, I used the starburst pattern from the Year of Cheer Speciality Designer Series Paper  along with the Labels to Love stamp set.

I started by coloring the Designer Series Paper with Rich Razzleberry, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight Watercolor Pencils (item 141709). Then I blended the colors with my Aqua painter for a watercolor background. I splattered Fresh Fig Classic Stampin’ ink (item 144082) with my Aqua painter on top of the water coloring. I like how you can see the starbursts popping through the watercolor.

Next I stamped the sentiment and border in Basic Black Archival Stampin’ ink (item 140931) on Crumb Cake Cardstock (item 120953) and punched using the Everyday Label Punch. Behind the label, I die cut a couple of leaves using the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies (item 143751), Old Olive Cardstock (item 100702) and Chocolate Chip Cardstock (item 102128). To finish the card, I added Gold Mini Sequin Trim (item 144128) and gold sequins from the Metallic Sequins Assortment (item 144214).

I hope this inspires you to think of ways to use your Year of Cheer Speciality Designer Series Paper for other occasions.

Jennifer Sootkoos

Artisan Design Team 

Desktop Card Organizer & Notepad Holder - Craft Project Central

Hello! It's time for another fun project at Craft Project Central.

The Desktop Card Organizer & Notepad Holder tutorial is designed by Stephanie Purvis.

As crafters we all probably make a ton of cards. But when it comes to sending out those cards, sometimes we don’t get them out as often as we would like. We have to find the card, an envelope, stamps, address label, and even a pen. Sometimes that simple task takes a lot of effort and causes us to miss sending out a card! Here is a desktop organizer that can hold several types of cards, the envelopes to match them, and a drawer underneath that can contain a pen, stamps and even a few return address labels. This makes it so much more convenient to get those cards out! Everything you need is all in one place – right on top of your desk. This would also make a wonderful gift! Also in this project tutorial is a notepad holder to keep track of birthdays, events, or other notes!

To get the instructions to Stephanie's project plus others for the month of September, get your subscription at Craft Project Central.

Have a great day!

Wedding Invitations

Hello! Today I am going to share some wedding invitations I did months and months ago! I wanted to wait until after the bride sent them out to share them here but then I just got busy and never got around to sharing them. I went to take the invite off of my fridge yesterday and realized I never posted about them. So here they are! I had a lot of fun making these for friends of ours. Some of the paper is not Stampin' Up! but the stamp set is.

She wanted something simple but classy. The flower from Birthday Blooms is my absolute favorite flower ever!! I hope this set never goes away. I stamped the flower twice on the bottom of the invite and then once on the top. I just stamped the top portion of the flower image up top. Then I embossed all of the flowers with gold embossing powder. They were so pretty in real life.

The invite was layered on wine colored cardstock (not SU!)

The rest of the inserts were printed on my computer and I stamped and embossed the smaller flower on the RSVP card.

Here they are with the coordinating envelopes.

Here are all 80 invites packaged up and ready to go. I also made a little thank you card to the bride for choosing me to do her invites. It was a bit of work to get them done but I loved doing it!

Have a great day!

Colorful Seasons Card Set & Gift Box - Craft Project Central

Hello! It's time for another fun project at Craft Project Central.

The Colorful Seasons Card Set & Gift Box tutorial is designed by Monica Davis.

Is your craft room getting full of too many stamp and die sets? Do you find you don’t get enough use out of your products? Here is a card set using the same stamp and die sets, paired with different techniques. The cards can be easily reproduced to make a number of sets. The coordinating box is also very easy to make and can be reused as a small gift bag. This is a fun card set showcasing the beautiful images of Colorful Seasons Stamp Set, the coordinating Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies and the sets versatility.

To get the instructions to Monica's project plus others for the month of September, get your subscription at Craft Project Central.

Have a great day!

Painted Harvest Wreath: Stampin' Up! Artisan Blog Hop

Hello! Welcome to the Stampin' Up! Artisan Blog hop. There are 20 of us from around the world so be sure to follow along to see everyone's projects. You should have just come from Holly's blog.

For our blog hop this month we are featuring the Painted Harvest Bundle. I'm not really sure how we have made it to September and fall things. I feel like it was just spring, I blinked and now here we are in September. Since I still don't want to let summer go, I chose to make a fun green wreath with the bundle. I guess you could say I was inspired by ferns. I feel like the leaves have a fern-ish look to them. Maybe? I don't know, they look like some kind of summer plant.

So I got busy stamping about 20 leaves with Lemon Lime Twist and Old Olive inks. The leaf punch made cutting these out a breeze! Once I was done with the wreath leaves, I used the same leaf stamp to make a flower. I stamped the more solid color stamp with Powder Pink ink and then using my aqua painter and some Berry Burst ink, blended the petals a bit.

I punched the leaf (flower) with the leaf punch, then I cut off the ends and glued them all together with glue dots. The center of the flower is actually the bottom part of the acorn stamp. I stamped that in Berry Burst and added a gold faceted gem to the middle.

Before added the flower to the wreath, I wrapped some Jute twine behind it. The center portion of the card was layered on a piece of the Painted Autumn DSP. I finished off the card with the sentiment, Iridescent sequins and some Gold Mini sequin trim.

I hope you enjoyed today's summery card! :)

Next up is Jessica Winter. Click below to check out her amazing projects!

Here is the link list of the full Artisan Design team for you to browse:

Allison Okamitsu

Aurelie Fabre

Cathy Caines

Dani Dziama

Holly Stene

Jennifer Sootkoos

Jessica Winter

Katy Harrison

Kimberly Van Diepen

Louise Sharp 

Maike Ulbrich

Martha Inchley

Mercedes Weber

Mindy Bingamon 

Miriam van Eyden

Paula Dobson

Rochelle Blok

Shannon Lane

Sylwia Schreck 

Tanya Boser

Product List

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Bundle

[146021]

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101650]

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[144237]

Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper

[144613]

Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad

[144086]

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad

[144084]

Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

[144083]

Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin' Pad

[126979]

Banner Triple Punch

[138292]

Aqua Painters

[103954]

Jute Twine

[144625]

Gold Mini Sequin Trim

[144128]

Iridescent Sequin Assortment

[144212]

Gold Faceted Gems

[144141]

Bike Ride Notecard Set - Craft Project Central

Hello! I am super excited to share the fun project I created for Craft Project Central this month! I fell in love with the cute Bike Ride set and wanted to showcase in a fun way.

Create a fun and whimsical notecard gift set using the Bike Ride Bundle. You will learn how to create four unique notecards using the Bike Ride Stamp Set. You will also learn other ways to use the Striped Treat Bags. This fun set is sure to brighten anyone’s day!

Want to win a free subscription for all of the projects on the site this month??? Head on over to Craft Project Central and leave a comment on my project by September 22 (Feel free to leave comments on the other great projects as well). I will pick a winner from the comments on my project to receive a free subscription. (Only comments from readers on the CPC website will qualify for the free subscription).

To get the instructions to this project plus others for the month of September, get your subscription at Craft Project Central.

Have a great day!

Merry Patterns Holiday Class

Happy Monday! I am still not ready for the fall even though this morning it felt very fall like and I am certainly not ready for Christmas. BUT today I am going to share my Holiday Card Class. It's never to early to get started on your Christmas cards. This class features the Merry Patterns hostess stamp set. This set can be earned for FREE by hosting a $300 workshop. Gather all of your friends for a party so you have this set yourself.

Details: In this class you will make 6 Christmas cards (2 each of 3 designs) using the Merry Patterns hostess set, Be Merry DSP and Coffee Break DSP.

Date: October 5, 2017 7:00
Location: Frenchtown, NJ

Cost: $25

RSVP: September 25, 2017

Contact me to sign up or for more information on hosting your own workshop.

Painted Harvest Home Décor! - Craft Project Central

Hello! It's time for another fun project at Craft Project Central.

The Painted Harvest Home Decor tutorial is designed by Buffy Cooper.

Fall is here, and Stampin’ Up!® has some amazing products to help you create beautiful autumn cards, home décor items, gift packaging and more. In this tutorial, you’ll create a beautiful home décor piece using the Painted Harvest and Gourd Goodness Stamp Sets from the 2017 Stampin’ Up!® Holiday Catalog. You’ll also learn how to create a simple water colored background and discover a new way to use household products with Embossing Paste. This set would make a perfect housewarming or hostess gift, and would be a fun stamp camp project as well.

To get the instructions to Buffy's project plus others for the month of September, get your subscription at Craft Project Central.

Have a great day!

Back to School Pencil Tags

Hello! It's Tuesday and it's my son's first day of Kindergarten! Where has the time gone?? I feel like it was just yesterday that I was dropping him off to daycare. He has been at the same daycare for the past 5 years and that time has gone by in a flash! His last day at daycare was on Friday and he brought his 2 teachers a little gift. Of course I had to dress up the gift! :) If I had more time, I would have done something a little more elaborate but I thought these pencil tags turned out cute.

Mercedes Weber made little pencil boxes using the Home Sweet Home bundle so I just used her idea with a couple of tweaks and made it a tag instead. How cute!! I found it was best to use the die as a guide to help you glue on all of the cardstock first (Powder Pink, Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper, Sahara Sand and Black). Then once all of your cardstock is stamped (Crushed Curry) and glued you will then run it through the big shot several times.

After you run it through the big shot you will need to cut off the excess cardstock. But since you already had all the cardstock glued your pencil tag is just about complete. I used the Labeler Alphabet to add his teachers name to the tag.

I added the tag to the Striped Treat bags (which held a card and a gift card) with one of the Eclectic Shaped paper clips which had a Basic Black Baker's twine bow. These paper clips are so cute! I really need to use them more.

And now here is my little man ready for his first day!

Have a great day!!

Creating Pretty Cards – Card Sketch #75! - Craft Project Central

Hello stampers! Today I'm sharing a great sketch for this month's card challenge. This month's sketch is designed by Michelle Wecksler.

Each month in addition to the great 3D projects that Craft Project Central has for you, they also host a monthly card challenge – Creating Pretty Cards!! To help you recreate the sketch each month, they also provide a free Sketch Mini Tutorial! This mini tutorial has information about how the inspiration card (using the sketch) was created, supplies used, and basic measurements!!  For every ten cards submitted, they’ll pick one winner of a free one month subscription! The winner(s) will get to select the month of their choice! Head over to Craft Project Central to learn more and submit your creation!!

I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with this month. I'll be sharing my card soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Coffee Break Gift Ensemble - Craft Project Central

Happy First of September! Where has the time gone?? This year is flying by! But I'll be sharing some fun posts during the month of September. I've been invited back as a guest designer for Craft Project Central so you'll get to see all of the fun tutorials that will be posted this month.

First up is a Coffee Break Gift Ensemble tutorial by Liz Miller.

Some people firmly believe that coffee is life and whether that's you or not, you certainly know someone who feels that way.  With this tutorial, create a gift that evokes a feeling that is about catching up with good friends or just starting your day off right featuring the Coffee Café Stamp Set.  This would make a quick and easy class project or hostess gift!  Make one to gift to a friend or keep it just for yourself.  So, go and grab a cup of coffee (or water if that's your thing), and start creating.

To get the instructions to Liz's project plus others for the month of September, get your subscription at Craft Project Central.