OSW & Stamp Something

A OSW is a One Sheet Wonder. This is where you can take one sheet of paper (usually double sided) and make all the embellishments for so many card layouts. This one is by VerveGirl at SplitCoastCrafters and it is using a 6X6 sheet of paper to make all the designs on the paper before you put your focal on.

I found this at SCS and used it as a guide for a color challenge by Stamp Something. The Color challenge this week was to use BLUE, YELLOW, and GREEN.

Now, I don't have any DP (design paper) that is two sided, so I used two sheets of single sided DP. For this reason, I ended up with 8 cards instead of just 4, 2 cards for each sketch.

Here is what the 6X6 looks like before you cut it up:
And here are the sketches for each of 4 cards, along with my interpretation of the sketch directly after each sample sketch, along with the color challenge using the green, blue, and yellow:
ONE
These cards used the SU (Stampin Up) stamp set called Year-Round Cheer for the sentiments.
TWOThese cards used the SU sets Merci (the flower) and Be Happy (sentiment Laugh Play Share).
THREE The 3rd chicken from the left is raised on a dimensional. I tried to get a close up, but nothing would cooperate and it was way to blurry to really see what I wanted you to see :(These cards have the Studio G stamp for the Chickens.
FOUR These cards sentiment is from SU's Season of Friendship set.

Verve Stamps Release Party Challenges

Verve Stamps is having another release party on April 18 and so this week they are having challenges so stampers can get in the running for some free Verve Stamps! Some of their contests are very simple, you just go to their website and post a comment by answering a question... Today's question was "What was your favorite song as a kid?" Easy enough. Other contest are more challenging! There is currently 3 Verve Sketches to follow and a color recipe to follow. I did all of these and here they are: (if you would like to see the sketches I had to follow, please go HERE)

VSAPR1
VSAPR2VSAPR3

VSAPR4

These are also posted on the SplitCoastStampers website, so you can click on the Challenge Title and it is a link to that website. It just has the names of the stamps and the ink colors if you are interested in that.

Thanks for looking!

A Little Craftiness

The Young Men in my ward are supposed to be in charge of the Mother's Day Sunday in terms that they are supposed to figure out what to give the mothers at the end of sacrament. Last year they gave out roses, but they were very sad roses and didn't last long enough to make it home to put in water. In my old ward, they always gave away a small flower plant (something the mothers could kill themselves!).The young men, being sneaky as they are! decided that the Young Women made some great cards (I make all the cards that have been given out by the YW so far!) and so they decided they were going to have a mutual night and have the Young Women assist with card making...

Well, like I said SNEAKY... the young men have pretty much pulled out and now the YW are supposed to take care of making like 30 cards. Not that big of deal, but still Sneaky! This mutual, the YW are in charge and our Pres. thought it would be good to have the nursery toys and such scrubbed down (My good friend Lacee, and YW Pres. ~ blog found at right ~ is a bit of a germ freak! and wanted to make sure those toys that are continually put into short peoples dirty hands and mouths were cleans, at least for one day!), but I am thinking that might have to wait until our next mutual and we just might have to bring the YM back into the card making process! I'll see what the Pres. says!

Here are the cards I was playing with trying to figure out a simple way to make 30 cards with the Youth.

I'm thinking I like the above card more. And I have some SU stamps that also say "it's your day" and one that is a flower. I think we could use the 3 different stamps to make up the squares and that way the Youth wouldn't just be trying to have 10 people stamping with the same stamp!

I wasn't too fond of this card. It just didn't have what I was looking for and I couldn't think what to add to it to make it great... Something worthy of Mother's Day.

ON TO MY NEXT IDEA:

Okay, so this wasn't my idea, it is more like my next creation! I got the idea from this website: http://www.thehybridchick.com Who actually got the idea from this website: http://www.kerinstamps.com/. Both of these websites have some really really cute ideas. Kerin Stamps is a SU demonstrator so her site has a lot of inspiration for those who just use SU products.

The top of the box is the TOP NOTE DIE CUT shape that is made by SU, but I don't have that die so on the Hybrid Chick website, there is another link to another site that has the template that can be cut out by hand... After making these boxes, I think if the die cut will work on the machine I have, I will purchase it to make everything go a LOT faster! Here is the link to the TOP NOTE TEMPLATE.

And here are my boxes: This first box I still had some Easter candy left over from my YW PP exercise, so I used them to put into the box.And then I made another box, but I didn't have any candy left over so I didn't make any corresponding candy labels for it. These were very simple to make, and would be even more simple if I could get the SU die cut for the top of the box because I had to cut Designed Paper of the template, then glued it to some thicker card stock or cereal box board and cut that to fit the template, then put that on another designed paper and cut that too. I did that for both the top and bottom of the box and it just took a little work. I didn't want to cut through all of the papers at once because it was a little thick for my ugly scissors and I didn't want to mess it all up!

Mojo 78

Here is my latest entry for Mojo Monday.

Not so wonderful close up!:

Supplies: Stamps ~ Be Happy SU, Year Round Cheer SU
Accessories ~ Cuttlebug folder Traffic Jam, Martha Stewart Boarder punch, Cricut

Taylored Expressions Contest

Just one more contest!

So, here is another card for another contest! I just figured, I already have this card - well it was half way put together - so I finished it and am now posting it for this contest.

Cross your fingers everyone! Here is the website I am submitting to: http://tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com/

Gettin a little post happy! ;)

I found a template and tutorial at http://danniesdesigns.typepad.com/ by Dannie Graves for a stationary box. I thought it really looked cute, so I went ahead and gave it a shot. Here are my results!:



This is the outside of the box with the lid ON!

And then with the lid OFF!

And then this is with the box open.

These are the tags and some of the cards that can be found inside the box: