Pocket Calendar

Hello!  Sorry I've been absent for a few days.  The last few days have just wiped me out!  I have been able to get in a little crafting, but it's been quick, late, and I didn't have time to post about it.  I made a pocket calendar for a friend of mine as a Christmas gift.  When I first made the calendar, I was happy with the end result, but now that I look at it, I've come up with a thing or two more that I can add to it.  Once I do those extra things, I'll be sure to take a picture of it again and share it with you.  In the meantime, here's what it looks like right now:

This is using the new paper Sweet Sorbet from the Sale-A-Bration catalog that is available January 28.  The stamp is from the set Six Sided Sampler, stamped in Costal Cabana.  I added my friend's name in Crumb Cake, and stamped a heart in Crushed Curry from the set Another Thank You Photopolymer stamp set, I cut that out by hand and mounted it on a Crushed Curry hexagon punched out with the Hexagon punch.  The ribbon is old Pool Party ribbon from Sale-A-Bration last year.  That's my project in a nutshell.   Like I mentioned earlier, I have a few ideas on things to add to step up my project before I give it to my friend, and I'll share that after I add them.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll see you tomorrow!

Gently Falling Card #4

Hello!  Today's card is the last one of the set that I made to go inside the card holder I posted a few days back.  This card is neat because of the technique it uses.  I'm not sure what the exact name of the technique is, but you cut a piece of card stock (for this card, I used a 3 1/4'' x 4 1/2'' piece), stamp your images on the piece of card stock, and then cut it into three equal pieces and adhere it to your card, leaving an 1/8'' of an inch between each strip.  Or, you can cut three equal strips instead of one piece, to avoid having to cut it up again when you finish stamping.  (You'll just have to line all three strips up when stamping to make sure your images line up.  But remember, if you mess up, you can flip your paper over and use the back!  If you are using my measurements, then each strip would be 1 1/2 x 3 1/4''.)  Once I had all my images stamped, I glued a small strip of early espresso card stock to the very bottom strip, added two brads to the top right of my top strip, popped the three strips up using Stampin' Dimensionals, and stuck it to my embossed piece of card stock.

I love the subtlety of the metallic gold encore ink pad.  It adds a lot to the card, in my opinion.  The gold was stamped with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, the leaves are stamped with the stamp set Gently Falling, and the Thank You is stamped with the Lacy & Lovely stamp set.  The colors used on the card are pool party, very vanilla, early espresso, tangerine tango, and metallic gold.  I love this card. I hope you do too!  See you tomorrow for some Christmas card ideas!  Thanks for stopping by!

Gently Falling Card Holder

Hello!  Over the next five days, I'm going to be showing you a card holder I made with my friend Mayra.  She comes up with the greatest ideas!  I saw the card holder and the cards that go inside it, and loved them all immediately.  You'll want to check back everyday to see all the cards!  Here's the card holder for today.

The holder is made with a single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11'' card stock, and then tied off with some soft suede taffeta ribbon.  I stamped everything in the card holder with the stamp set Gently Falling.  It's a great fall set.  I absolutely love it!  Each year I tell myself that I don't need a new fall leaves set, because I already have this one, but now I want this one too!  I comes with 12 stamps: 6 solid images, and then 6 outlines to stamp over the image if you would like to step up your stamping.  The colors I used were pool party, early espresso, very vanilla, tangerine tango, crushed curry, and papers from the Sweater Weather Designer series paper pack, and also paper from the Thankful tablescape place settings kit.

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow to see more of the contents of the card holder!