Last Crafter's Companion Post

Happy New Year's Eve!  

I'm sad to say that this is my last project for the Crafter's Companion design team.  I will not be on the Design Team this next term and I'm going to miss it!!  I've loved every minute of the last several years.  It was fun being a part of their first U.S. design team and helping to get Crafter's Companion established here in the United States. It has been a really fun ride.  Please go over and welcome the new design team members that I'm sure will continue to inspire you at Crafter's Companion.

I have a lovely white on white holiday card to share.  I started with a white pre-scored 8.5 x 5.5" Ultra Smooth Premiun White Card Stock base card.  Next using the Embossalicious 6" x 6" embossing folder - Christmas Patchwork, I embossed a piece of Luxury Centura Pearl paper.  Next I trimmed it down to the size I wanted.  I grabbed some white wired ribbon my my stash.  I adhered it around the card and just taped it to the front in the middle.  It is hidden by the embossed topper that I added next with some pop dots to raise it up off the card and give added dimension.

I LOVE the Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz ink!  I pulled out a sentiment stamp from the Christmas Sentimentals - Christmas Magic stamp set and stamped out "Merry and Bright" onto a scrap piece of Ultra Smooth Premium White Card Stock with this luscious ink.  I trimmed it down into a banner shape and adhered it on top of the embossed topper.  I finished with a bit of ribbon and a white flower from my stash.

I love the simple elegance!  I hope you do too.

Well, thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fun and safe New Years Eve and I will see your next year!!  (tomorrow...hehehe)

Until next time...Happy Scrapping!!!

Stacy

Joy Fold Tutorial

Happy Halloween!!

I'm going to start you off with a couple of kid pics because I just have to do it! ha  Beware though one of them is of scary zombies!  (You can close your eyes and just scroll down a bit if you are scared. ha)

Here is Jesse, my leprechaun.

Here is Georgia the doctor and Riley the Army Commando guy.

I actually changed my mind and I am going to wait until the very end to show the photo of the zombies since it really is kind of scary and I will warn you before in case you want to leave and not see them.

Remember yesterday when I shared a card that I made using my new 6" X 6" Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Ornate Butterflies?  And I mentioned that you might be seeing those butterflies again?  Well, here is your chance to see them again.  I made a Joy Fold card today.  

Have you made a Joy Fold card before?  Let me walk you through it...

First I pulled out a couple of my dies and the paper scraps I had left over yesterday.  I started with the bigger one and die cut the card stock that I had embossed using my 6" X 6" Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Ornate Butterflies.

Then I grabbed my smaller die and the custom butterfly paper I printed yesterday using  my Bebunni Papercrafting Double Disc CD-ROM and die cut that shape on my eBosser too.

Next I cut two pieces of the leftover Kraft paper 4" x 3 1/4.  I pulled out my Ultimate Tool and my Boxer board and embossed all four sides at 1/8th of an inch. (you only need to do this to one of the pieces of Kraft paper because the other one will be covered up.)

I'm not sure why this came out purple but I'm using it anyway because I already glued down the piece to make the card! ha)  

Here's the other die cut piece.

Okay, now if you look at the finished card you will notice that the two die cut pieces will end up being the two sides of your card which open up to show you the inside of the card.  Using your boxer board you need to score down one side of each of these two pieces.  I must admit I'm an eyeballer and I just eyeballed it. hehehe   You want one side to overlap the other.

Here is what it looks like with the die cut pieces glued down.

Now you just adhere them to your not embossed Kraft base by lining the fold up along the edge.  Adhere one to one side and the other to the opposite side.  

Next you glue down the other piece of Kraft paper with the embossed edges on top of the other one.  This will cover up the edges you have glued down.

Now I stamped out a quote from my Stamp-It Australia EZMount Stamp Set 60 - Friendship Sentiments onto a piece of Kraft paper and adhered it with double sided adhesive squares to the front of the smaller die cut piece.  And since I wanted my card to stay closed I glued on a button using a double sided adhesive square too.

I finished out the inside by stamping out a sentiment from the Party Paws - Hugs from Bamboo stamp set onto orange cardstock and then die cut it out with a circle die.  Then I drew some faux stitching around the outer edge and adhered it to the inside of the card.

I think it turned out pretty cute.  You should try it yourself and share on the Crafter's Companion facebook page!  Thanks for visiting today.  If you want to see the zombies scroll down...if not see you next time!  Stacy

Quinn -zombie business man and Olivia - zombie sporty person. (hehehe)

Christmas in July at Crafter's Companion

Hello everyone!  This week Crafter's Companion is "officially" celebrating Christmas in July.  They have opened the doors to their Christmas store and you are seriously going to want to check it out.

I'm pretty happy to have gotten one of the new Die'sire holiday Embossalicious embossing folders - Christmas Patchwork and I used it on the card I am sharing with you today.  Isn't this folder gorgeous!? 



 

I trimmed the base card out of Luxury Centura Pearl Printable Snow White Cardstock.  And then layered some pattern paper and then the embossed paper. 

 

I pulled out some paper from my stash and trimmed out the Christmas ornaments to use as embellishments.  I recently purchased some Bakers Twine from Tim Holtz at my LSS so it was sitting right there on my scrap desk just calling my name. ha 

Have I mentioned lately that I love my Crafter's Companion Ultimate Tool?!  Seriously, I do!  You can do a million things with this beauty but one of the best things about my Ultimate Tool is the bow maker.  And guess what?  This card needs two bows!

 

So of course I grabbed it and got out the pegs from inside of it and set them in the smallest holes since I wanted very small bows. 

 

 

Then I just wrapped the twine around the pegs, slipped one end under the twine in the middle and tied a knot.  

 

 

 

Slide it off the pegs and you have a perfect bow!  And as you can see these would work perfectly on my card. (if I was using green! ha)

 

Crafter's Companion will soon be launching some FANTASTIC holiday sentiment stamps called ironically Sentimentals (hehehe).  I used one on this card by stamping it out with Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black onto a scrap of the patterned paper that had been using and trimmed it into a banner shape. 

 

I added it to the card with double sided adhesive squares and finished it off by making some Pearls  on the sentiment banner with my Viva Pearl Pen.  I also just had to add a bit of this luscious stuff to a couple of snowflakes on the embossed paper to make them stand out.  And since I'm addicted to sparkle I put a little Star Dust Stickles on the ornament embellies. 

 



I like how it turned out.  How about you?  Thanks for stopping and looking today.  For more Christmas inspiration check out the Crafter's Companion Facebook page or website.