Gift Jar

I love saving glass jars to decorate and use as gifts.  I washed out this artichoke jar and wrapped some Sweet Always DSP and chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon around it.  I added some more ribbon around the lid and topped the lid with a scallop circle cut with a sizzix die and some more layers of Sweet Always, a scallop and the flower from the Always stamp set.  To complete the gift, I filled it with some yummy chocolate!  So, start saving those glass jars!

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Top Note Purse Box

Here is the project that we made last night at my first stamp club meeting.  A Top Note Purse!  The idea for this purse came from Kimberly and the directions are here on her blog.  I added a little ribbon strap to the top to make it into a purse.

We used the Always stamp set with the Always in Bloom wheel and Sweet Always DSP.  I cut out all the tags from the Lots of Tags Sizzlits.  I love how the tag on the card on the left perfectly coordinates with the Wide Oval punch.  We layered another one of the tags on top and stamped "Everything" on it.  The middle card also uses the Oval tag with the Wide Oval punch and the small long tag as well.  For the third card, we stamped the "a" on some whisper white and mounted it to the chocolate chip "bubble" tag.  Then we added a build a brad to the middle of the "a."  It makes a fun little card holder or gift bag!

A Sketch Challenge

Two posts in one day, it's incredible!  I decided to try another sketch challenge on SplitCoast and here is what I came up with.  I used Sweet Always DSP as my color inspiration.  So I had to use the coordinating Always set.  

Mmm, I have this funny craving for chocolate now.  I wonder where that came from?   Off to hunt for some chocolate.  

What inspires you? Sketch Challenge 192

I am really enjoying these sketch challenges. They inspire me to try new layouts and help me with creating new cards. When I just start from scratch I have a hard time deciding on the layout, so this has been a wonderful way to get my creative juices flowing!

For this sketch I used the Always stamp set. It's so pretty. I stamped the bird in pacific point and cut it out and mounted it with dimensionals. I stamped the heart in baja breeze and then rocked and rolled it in pacific point and trimmed it out and mounted it on dimensionals as well. I originally had a strip of kiwi kiss but it didn't looks right so I used some always artichoke. I think it compliments the blues a bit better. I added some of the new kiwi kiss/very vanilla satin ribbon around the side as well.

So what inspires you to get your creative juices flowing?

Friend & Always Card

We had our monthly demonstrator meeting at my upline, Dannie's house Saturday. She had so many great things to show us from swaps that she's participated in! I can't wait to make some of the cute projects that I saw!

This is the card I made for our swap. I used Friendly Flowers from the new Occasions Mini Catalog. I used my brocade blue, certainly celery, and real red markers to color in the stamps. Then I used the Lots of Dots jumbo wheel on the certainly celery and added some wide brocade blue grosgrain ribbon.

This is the card that I made for our project. I've been wanting to try this double slider card for a long time, so I finally decided to try it out. I got the directions from splitcoast (of course!) here. I used the Always set with chocolate chip, bordering blue, and sage shadow.

Surprise! Here it is with the tab pulled up! It's such a fun card to make and not as difficult as it looks! I will post the other project we did tomorrow!