Frosted Designs Twine and Ribbon Challenge

Paint Splattered On Textured Honey Cardstock

Thank you for visiting today!  Frosted Designs has a fun challenge beginning today using twine and/or ribbon.  Please join us by making a card, layout or off the page project and link it up here.

Dresses Cut From Cricut Artiste Cartridge

On this layout, I used white baker's twine to string a clothesline. I love these cute little clothespins! It was nice to finally be able to use them, after having stored them for years.  Yellow baker's twine was wrapped around the bottom of the picture with a piece of yellow hemp.  I used three different alphabets for the title.  A little bit of journaling is on the half-circle/wheel.

CTMH Ready to Color Canvas "4" and SEI Corrugated Letters

There is a new post today for Faithbooking Friday on my other blog.  Please check it out at Faithbooking For All.

Have a fabulous day!
Beverly

Supplies:
Cardstock: CTMH
Patterned Paper: CTMH Stella
Baker's Twine: CTMH
Yellow Hemp: SU!
Alphabet Stickers: CTMH Keepsake Felt, CTMH Canvas, SEI Corrugated
Journaling Shape: SEI
Paint: Mister Huey's and Perfect Pearls
Tiny Clothespins from Stash
CTMH Cricut Artiste Cartridge

A Note For You Card With SEI 6 x 6 Paper Stack

Fiskars Threading Water and EK Success Scrolls and Dots Edge Punches Add Detail

Maybe I should call this "Edge Punch Week" as everyday, so far, the cards have been made using different punches!  This is a simple card with baker's twine and another piece of fiber to offer some additional texture.  There is a scrap of linen behind the sentiment, which is from CTMH's Just For You set.

I love the embossed telephone/chair paper in this stack from SEI.  The striped paper came from the same pad.  It is from the Promise Me collection.

Just a quick post today.  I hope you are having a fabulous day!
Thank you for visiting!
Beverly

Frosted Designs Card Sketch Challenge #18 - Double Slider Card

Edited on 6/21/2012 - Reposted after having been removed for publication.

Slider Card

Happy Tuesday!  Welcome to another Frosted Designs Card Sketch Challenge!  Ann's sketch is posted below.  This week, I am making a masculine-ish card for Father's Day. I love to see how everyone's paper selection gives the card a particular kind of feel or theme. Please check out the other designers' cards at Frosted Designs.  You can link up your card there and be eligible for a prize!

Card Sketch by Ann Bacon for Frosted Designs

I thought it would be fun to make a slider card for the front middle square element.  This was easy to make and the only odd-ish thing that is used, which may not be in your craft supplies, is a piece of plastic.  This could be cut from a plastic shopping bag.

Double Slider Card "Pull" Tab

I checked out a couple of tutorials online and none of them are exactly the way I made mine.  There are so many ways to do things.  It seems that I do better with figuring things out on my own, but then it isn't always easy to explain how to do it!  This video tutorial that I found, by doing a Google search, is a good one to watch to get an idea as to how the slider works.  Lesley Oman (from the video) made an entire card as the slider base and it is so cute!  She used a ribbon as the "pull" for her friend.  With my dh, I need to have the actual word "Pull" on the card or he won't know that it is an interactive element.

Double Slider Panel in the Open/Pulled Position

Supplies:

Paper: Cardstock is from CTMH, Patterned Paper is from SEI

Stamps: CTMH

Ink: CTMH

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Beverly

Happy Quotes Mini Paperbag Book # 2

Yesterday, I posted here the first of two mini books that are filled with quotes and lyrics of an uplifting nature. This is the second presentation, using many of the same papers for tags and pages.  Paperbag books are so much fun to make because there is a sense of freedom in putting things together.  Anything goes!

SEI Promise Me Paper Collection

To find quotes, I did a few internet searches and came up with hundreds of potential candidates for the book.  It would be easy to make a dozen or so mini-books with happy feeling quotes and lyrics!

Click on photographs to read quotes

I did not check for accuracy whether the quotes were accurately attributed to the authors which are listed on my pages.  Just so you know.  In case you use one for a public speech or something that might need to be fact checked. :-)

One of the six tags in the book

The bags can accommodate more than just one tag.  I may add some additional tags because I still have so many wonderful quotes that I'd like to include. Yes, even with TWO books!

Reverse side of tag pictured above

The tags were cut at 6" by about 3".  Some were a little narrower because I wanted to have a bit of variety in the sizes.  The tags were topped with ribbons or diecuts used as pull-tabs.

CTMH Bohemian Alphabet Spells 'happy' on Cover

Supplies:

Papers: SEI, CTMH, SU!

Stamps: CTMH

Inks and Mists: CTMH, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Tattered Angels, Perfect Pearls

Embellishments: CTMH, Heidi Swapp, May Arts, Queen and Co., Zva, Prima, SU!, Webster's Pages

Bags are "Mini-Sacks" made by Bag of Chips for Hobby Lobby.

Thank you for visiting!
Have a great day!
Beverly

Happy Thoughts Paperbag Mini Book

Mini Book Filled With Positive Quotes

 I love to make mini books.  About half of the ones I make don't have photographs in them.  Sometimes, I make journals and other times I have made reference-type books, like a color index for inks and markers.  The idea of a "happy thoughts" type book has been bouncing around in my head for many, many months.  It was time to finally doing something about it!

Back Cover with Quote from FDR

 The book is made with 6 paper bags that measure 3 1/4" wide by 6 1/2" long from a package of 12 bags that I purchased at Hobby Lobby last October.  The book has a chipboard binding with chipboard covers.  I will post a video in the next few days that shows how I made the binding and assembled the book.

Inside Pages Each Have a Tag Inserted In Them

 Some of the quotes or song lyrics are stamped images from CTMH or Technique Tuesday.  The rest were all printed on cardstock.  I random stamped some of the cardstock with flowers and swirls to make the print a little more interesting.

SEI Pattern Paper Adhered to Bags to Make Book Pages

 I had recently finished some other projects and had some scraps of paper sitting on my desk, so I decided to use those.  The rest of the papers came from my stash.  Some are retired SU! and CTMH papers that coordinated with the new SEI papers.

Quotes Inside Book - Click on Photo to See/Read

 Inspiring quotes are really uplifting to me, so I ended up making TWO books.  I will post pictures of the second one tomorrow.  Thank you for stopping by today!
Beverly

Front of Happy Mini Paper Bag Book