June Club Project

This was our last club before I took my "baby hiatus", so I decided to go all out!!!  I gave my hostess club members a choice of three different stationary box sets to make:

Choice #1 used the Woodland Walk DSP & Coordinating Colors:

Choice #2 used the Love Letter DSP & Coordinating Colors:

Choice #3 used the Elegant Soiree & Coordinating Colors:

When folded up, the boxes looked like so:

And each box contained 4 different card designs and 4 mini notecards:

Here is a link to the tutorial I put together for the workshop!  

It is very easy to adapt to any other DSP collection!

Everyone did such a wonderful job on their projects... I am going to miss all my lovely stampin' gals while I take my little break!  I'll see all you beauties when we start back up again next year!!! :o)

May Club Project - Father's Day

For my May hostess club, we focused on Father's Day and National Scrapbooking month to make these great accordion-style mini albums!

Here is a great tutorial on how to make the basic album.  What I love about this album, it you can expand it to be as large as you want it to be by simply adding more folded square pieces!

We embellished ours with the following supplies:

Nautical Expedition DSP (Summer Mini) & coordinating Card stock/Ink

The Open Sea Stamp Set (Summer Mini)

Broadsheet Alphabet stamp set

Sympathy Card

I made this card for a very good friend of mine.  It uses two of my favorite punches, Bird Punch and Decorative Label!

The stamp sets used were Thoughts & Prayers and the hostess set, Punch Potpourri from the 2010/11 IB&C.

April Club Projects - Mother's Day

We did some great Mother's Day projects for our May hostess club!

First, we had some fun with acetate and made these awesomely simple pentagon treat tubes!  I absolutely love working with acetate for treat boxes, because it makes choosing the treat for the inside so much fun!

Click here for a tutorial on SCS on how to make these goodies!

Secondly, we made a lovely collapsible card where we utilized the dryer sheet technique on the front:

We used the Word Play stamp set as well as the "Something to Celebrate" hostess set and "Easter Blossoms" stamp set from the Occasions mini.  

I designed the card to write a childhood memory on the middle circle (hence, the "Remember When..." on the front of the card) :o)

March Club Projects

Here are the projects we made in our March hostess club!

We made an awesome Spring-themed card using a patterned paper quilt technique with the Big Shot:

Simply punch out your desired patterned paper pieces with a square punch (we used the 1-1/4" Square punch, which worked perfectly for the 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" card), adhere the pieces to a piece of card stock with matching dimensions for your "quilt" pieces, and then run it through your big shot using an embossing folder or texture plate.  We used the Finial Press Textured Impressions Embossing Folder for our project.

These Easter carrot boxes are made using the Petal Cone Big Shot die and the Perfect Details Texturz Plate for the waffle cone effect:

The "leaves" were made using the Build-a-Blossom stamp set and coordinating Blossom Petals XL Punch.