Blog Hop Follow Up

I hope you enjoyed the blog hop this past weekend! There were some FABULOUS ideas and now I NEED so many more goodies! I don't think that my husband will like that too much. I just love how much everyone is willing to share their ideas and creations.

Now I know that I said I'd be back on Monday and then I let you down! Well, I took another part-time job and I started this job on Monday. I now have 4 jobs! That on top of my 4 kids and all the other activities that I'm involved in. Time just gets away from me.

Anyway, I promised that I would give you the recipes for my cards from the blog hop as well as the directions for the box in a bag. So here goes!

Here's the first card. I got lots of compliments on this little beauty! I stamped En Francis on Very Vanilla  with Sahara Sand ink. The frame was stamped with Early Espresso right on top. The words were stamped on a separate piece of cardstock and punched with the curly label punch and then placed in the frame with dimensionals.

Stamps: Elementary Elegance, En Francis

Cardstock: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze

Ink: Sahara Sand, Early Espresso

Accessories: Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon, Curly Label

punch, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, pearls, dimensionals

This next card was one that I did because I really wanted to use different colors than what is in the Everyday Enchantment. I pulled out Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray and Rose Red. The 3 colors were run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka dot embossing folder and then I took the ink pads and run them over the dots to highlight the dots. I did fussy cut the frame. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it might. 

Stamps: Elementary Elegance

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Rose Red, Daffodil Delight

Ink: Basic Gray, Rose Red, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, sponges, Rose

Red grosgrain ribbon, rhinestones, dimensionals

I think this is my favorite card that I made for the hop. I really love the color purple so this was lots of fun to make. I used the center piece from the frame to create the images on this one.

 Stamps: Elementary Elegance

Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Perfect Plum, Rich Razzleberry, Elegant Eggplant, Concord Crush

Cardstock: Concord Crush, Whisper White

Accessories: Wisteria Wonder ribbon

The last project was my box in a bag. These have been around for a while and I'm not sure who first created them. You can find lots of directions on the Internet for them. I cut a piece of cardstock to 4 1/2" square and scored it on all sides at 1". Cut the tabs and then adhere the tabs to the sides to create a box. Cut your DSP to 5 1/2" by 11". Place sticky strip on one of the long sides and one of the short sides. Remove the red liner from the sticky strip on the long edge.  Roll the box along the sticky strip to adhere the DSP to the box, starting in the middle of one of the sides of the box. When you get almost to the end, remove the red liner from the short side and adhere the short side to the other side of the DSP.

Clear as mud, right? Just ask your questions! I'm happy to answer. There are also several videos on You Tube that show you the step by step of this box in a bag!

Stamps: Elementary Elegance

Ink: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Island Indigo

Cardstock: Island Indigo, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White

Accessories: Twitterpated DSP, Scallop border punch, corner rounder, Round tab punch, Whisper White grosgrain ribbon, Whisper White baker's twine, Crop-a-dile, dimensionals, Simply Scored

Thanks again for taking a look at the hop and my projects. 

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Sale-a-bration Blog Hop: Elementary Elegance

Welcome to Stampin' Addicts Sale-a-bration blog hop! If you are hopping in order, you have just come from Katherine's blog, My Magical Inky Tour and seen what she did with the Designer Frames Embossing folders! Didn't she do a FABULOUS job? 

If you aren't hopping in order, that's OK! You are welcomed to start anywhere along the hop! The hop is all linked together in a great big circle so starting here is OK!

If you have gotten lost along the way, you can always go HERE to see a list of all the participants and links to each blog.

I chose the stamp set called Elementary Elegance! I have to admit that I LOVED this stamp set in the catalog and then struggled to use it! After I just sat down and started working, it came pretty easy! I think some of my trouble was that I have seen this set used the the fantastically, marvelous Everyday Enchantment DSP and I really wanted to do something different. So I had a self imposed challenge with this set. I am confident that I have succeed  in this challenge! 

For my first project I created a birthday card. I used this card with my club last week and they really enjoyed it!

When you get this stamp set, the inside of the frame has a piece of rubber that you remove so you don't get any extra marks where you don't want them. KEEP THAT PIECE OF RUBBER!!! This card was created with that piece of rubber. I stamped with all the purples that Stampin' Up! sells. I love purple so this was made for me!

My next card I really stepped out on the colors but I LOVE the way this one turned out! Very unusual from what I've seen done with this set! (Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places! :) )

My last project is a Box in a Bag. These have been around for a while but I had never made one before so I thought this was a great time to give it a whirl! It was so much fun, I will be making these again!

I will be posting all the recipes and directions on Monday, so come on back, ya hear! 

Thanks for taking the time to see what I have created. Now you are off to Kim's blog: Stitchin' n Stampin' to see what she has done with this same stamp set! Even more ideas! Yeah! Or you can go to Katherine's blog and see what she created with the Designer Frames embossing folders.

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley