This fun little candy holder was one of my Stamp-A-Stack projects this past week. Don’t miss my monthly "Stamp a Stack of Stuff"! The inspiration came from a gift card holder that I’ve made in the past (the finished product is only 3 1/4 x 4 1/2). However the unique ‘closure’ uses the ‘Batty for You’ spider adhered with a black brad, allowing the top fold to hold itself closed was a great idea I got from a recent swap (forgot the gal’s name–I can’t find the swap!). Updating it for Halloween, I made the fold over ‘gusseted’ by adding a 1/4 inch wide panel in the middle of the 6 x 4 1/4 inch Mustard fold over. That way it could hold something 3D–in this case the fun 
sized candy! The cover is "Spooky Skyline" rolled in black on Wild Wasabi (green) and the spooky skyline was helped out by tearing and the addition of a torn strip of vellum cardstock. The witch (from ‘Home is Where the Haunt Is’) was stamped on Always Apricot, punched and then sponged again (in Apricot) for the whole "cloudy night sky" effect–I don’t know if you can tell! Oh yeah, I couldn’t resist the great boogly eyes added to the spider–I’m a sucker for that stuff!
Archive for September 2007
Well, I broke down and mailed Stampin’ Up!© three cards (Holy Triptych, Thankful Season card & the ‘Elegant Baroque Motifs’ cards shown in earlier posts), a 3D project (the altered clipboard shown in an earlier post) and the hardest thing–a scrapbook page shown above. I am hoping to be chosen for a display helper for Leadership or Convention so wish me luck. I don’t love this page, but it did look better in person and I am really feeling ‘scrap impaired’ lately.
This 12×12 page is Always Artichoke with the ‘Batty For You’ wheel rolled in Artichoke ink. The Autumn Harvest pumpkin set was stamped in black and colored in with my favorite things–watercolor crayons and the accent color is Pumpkin Pie but it does not photograph the right color and the coloring looks washed out to me, oh well!
The ‘date’ elements are from the ‘It’s a Date’ set, which I absolutely love. One layer is the month, one is the day and one is the year and I circled the days and dates.
The Autumn Harvest set is the stamp set that you will receive at our Team Rubber Stamp Festival… my customers may sign up here. Don’t delay the registration closes in less than a week!
I will be sharing more ideas with this set in the next week or so (I do tend to fixate, don’t I?) If you LOVE this set, remember to support the demo that supports YOU (but tell her when you buy it that she owes me 10% of her commission, LOL!).
Again with the envelopes (and my new favorite set). I want all you ladies out there who are rushing to your demonstrator to purchase this set to let your rep know she can Paypal me 10% of her commission, LOL! The envelopes that I used are the same ones in my last post, they are the Large Open End Envelopes. They come in white and vanilla. I put the link to them because I was getting so many questions about where I got them… duh! Stampin’ Up! Close the envelope (by licking it shut), cut the top 4 inches off and embellish (I do tend to ‘over-do’). Stamp and then corrugate the bottom so that it ends up slightly smaller than the top. You’ll find it now fits in nicely into the top to hold a gift certificate or money. I generally make more of these at the holiday time for Christmas gift certificates and I’ll be sharing my snowman ones soon. I guess I should go to bed now…
This neat little ‘envelope trick’ idea was given to me by my wonderful & talented friend Amanda Coughlin from whom I steal ideas from all the time! She made a card with insert like this last spring for a swap. Of course I run with her great ideas (and then unfortunately I am the one remembered for them not her!). Leave her a sympathy message on her blog, LOL! UPDATED INFO –The envelope is the Stampin’ Up! "Large Open-End Envelope" which is 9 1/2 x 4 1/8 (Order #170285 for Vanilla, but it also comes in white)–END UPDATE. Okay, I have been asked how it is colored: I used watercolor crayons (outlining the detail) and blending it with the Aquapainter, being careful to wipe it off often so that I don’t overrun each color. It is not as tedious as it sounds, really! The leaves, however, were sponged with More Mustard and Always Artichoke with sponge daubers and I did use the Elegant Eggplant crayon in spots around the outer edge and blended it out to make the shadows. Be sure not to overcolor… leave white space and don’t go too heavy on color. The beauty of it is in the artwork of the stamp, the color should complement not overtake it. I have been asked to share a 5 minute Workshop WOW next Saturday at the Philadelphia Regional and I have decided to do what I lovingly refer to as "Cheap Envelope Tricks"… I almost always show cool things you can make with an envelope at workshops. I will be sharing them here as well. To My Customers: ask me about an "All Wrapped Up" workshop showing quick and inexpensive gift and packaging ideas with rubber stamps and decorative papers!
This is a sample from my August Stamp-A-Stack of stuff… and I’m not done with the projects that I am doing with this terrific set, so don’t miss September’s class!
UPDATE: I colored in using the watercolor crayons (almost like outlines) and blending very gently with the Aquapainters, taking care to wipe off excess crayon to leave light and dark spots, the leaves are all sponged in Artichoke & Mustard (with the edges touched up with Eggplant crayon that I watercolored for shading)
I would be doing the happy dance if they ha.d designed a few more stamps for this set, but Shelli hasn’t called me lately for my opinion. And I can’t call her anymore (since that little ‘restraining order’ issue) JUST KIDDING! My point is that give the stamp set designer a BIG RAISE, because this type of artwork is my style. You can view the entire set here.
And believe it or not, I made this card with just the three stamps it came with–the cornucopia, the leaf and the “Thanksgiving Blessings”. Okay, so whoever at SU designed this set, he or she is my artist… I would lock them up and force them to design stamps with this gorgeous detail. Okay, “lock them up” does sound a bit rough (heh, heh, heh….)
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