A SPECIAL "CASE" INDEED

Another late night filled with crafting. I woke at 12 am and the coughing did not ease enough for me to sleep until 3am, no exaggeration! I am utterly exhausted and to cap it all off, somewhere between Saturday afternoon and the small hours of Sunday I have managed to pick up a cold.


Well that's quite enough of the self pity and on to today's project, hoorah! 


Have you ever made a CD for a friend or loved one? Perhaps you recorded a special message or made a compilation of their favourite songs? I have never done this I must admit, far too complicated. My twin sister on the other hand is forever "burning" a CD or two and has complained before about how dull the case is and how nice it would be if you could get personalised and/or pretty outer covers. 


I came up with this...

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I took the case apart and placed designer series paper inside the back cover.

You'll notice that I have used cardstock and ink from the Earth Elements Colour Family, I think these colours are to die for!

Cardstock: More Mustard and Old Olive, a bit of textured More Mustard for the belly band

Ink: Versa Mark, Chocolate Chip and More Mustard

Stamp Sets: Cheer and Wishes, Circle Circus and Vintage Labels (retired)

Accessories: Silver Elastic cord, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 1/4" circle punch and  Designer series paper, corner rounder

Non Stampin' Up!: CD case

Ta Ta for now
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR.

I almost didn't make it on today folks, I am still quite ill. Break out the violins!


Whilst baby Ava was napping I sat in bed (a total rarity) trawling the many crafty blog's I follow; and was inspired once again by my fellow "Pink Lady" Vicky, I thought I would set to work making a masculine card of my own.


Thank goodness for her hints and tips! I always seem to find cards for men difficult and these seem to have helped me along the way. 

Cardstock: Going Gray, More Mustard, Old Olive (textured) and Kraft

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Stamp Sets: Circle Circus and Fun and Fast Notes (sentiment)

Accessories: Dimensionals and a hole punch

Ta Ta for now


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GOODBYE CIRCLE PUNCH

Well, this project proved to be somewhat stressful. Halfway through my beloved 1 1/4" circle punch gave up the ghost and ended up ripping my cardstock chronically. For some reason it jams whenever I put anything it in! I 


Fear not, Stampin' Up! came to the rescue. After one email from me and a friendly phone call from Chris, all is well in my crafty world once again.

Click on the photos for a closer look.

Cardstock: Whisper White and Basic Black

Ink: Basic Black,StazOn White ink

Stamp Sets: Sincere Salutations and Circle Circus

Accessories: 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch

AN ENVELOPE OR TWO

1:35 AM, no sleep again tonight and so its another late night crafting session for me. I did say I might be back later. Its just as well really, I think I will be busy this week sleeping my days away! Cameron is back at school which means Ava will get her uninterrupted naps again and I can nap with her and try to get myself well.


I have been wanting to do a bit more scrapbooking for a while but wasn't sure how or what I wanted to achieve. Its funny how ideas will just pop into your head when you least expect them. I have a stack of envelopes that no longer have their cards. I was thinking about how I could use them and then the idea came to me....An envelope scrapbook! 


I thought using the envelopes would allow me to create little pockets with a nifty snip or two. I have put inserts in to each one, marked with a page divider-is that what they are called? 


Now, I'm not sure how this will all look in the cold light of day but right now, I a pretty pleased with my efforts. If you look closely in one of the following pictures you will see the absolute carnage that will greet me in the morning...I am a heck of a messy crafter! 

Should have rotated this...

and this.

This too!

Eurgh, if Cameron were not in cute in this picture I would have accidentally lost it.

I was very overweight back then!

Cardstock: All from the Earth Element Colour Family

Ink: More Mustard, Brilliant Blue. 

Stamp Sets: Circle Circus

Accessories: 1 1/4 circle punch, Scallop circle punch, 1/4" Whisper White Grosgain Ribbon, corner rounder

Non Stampin' Up!: Felt tip pens

THINKING OF YOU

I am relatively new to crafting and so I tend to keep things quite save. I began with cards but after finding Stampin' Up! I am making an attempt to venture out of my comfort zone and make things that challenge me and if they go wrong, what do we say? "There are no mistakes in crafting"! LOL!


This evening I thought I would have a go at an explosion card. Not a new idea or my own for that matter but its a classic and I think its great! Its a wonderful way to display photo's (a kind of scrapbook in a box) or add a simple sentiment and turn it into a clever card! 

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White and Basic Black

Ink: Real Red

Stamp Sets: Circle Circus and Sincere Salutations

Accessories: 1/4" Whisper White Grosgrain ribbon, Designer Series Paper

 

THANKS SO MUCH

Its sleepover night for Cameron and his cousin and at 12:15 am I have just sent them off to bed. What is childhood without a few fun, late nights? I have been up, keeping an eye on them and at them same time just itching to get my hands on my new Stampin' Up! pieces that Mr. UPS brought me yesterday.


I may wake up tomorrow and realise that I  have not thought this idea through that well...Very tired right now. But as you will hear me say time and time again, "there are no mistakes in crafting"! You can get away with a heck of a lot with that adage, LOL!


These are thank you notes, placed into a cute little coupon book. Not sure about anyone else but I am always writing little thank you's on Post-its and sticking them here and there for folks.


This idea is a great one (I think) for when there is no time to make a card and its a great way to jazz up plain Post-its.


Now, I don't actually have any Post-its to hand, so I have perforated each page so they can be torn away easily. I used my paper piercing tool to do this, however perhaps a Stampin' Up! cutting tool would have been better as there is a perforating tool on that. 

Right, I am exhausted, so I'll be back on later to tell you what I have used.

Night, night!