Saturday, February 27, 2010

Happy Easter Basket

I created this cute little Easter Basket using THIS tutorial by Lena Katrine. It uses Designer Paper to create the box, then cardstock to add the embellishments and the handle. Here' s my version of this awesome basket.......
A close up of the Bunny........


And one of the handle detail............
The theme for my classes next month is going to be Easter. My Monthly Punchie class has a cute little Easter Box using a punched Bunny. So I thought I would add the same Bunny onto this basket, and make a class out of it as well. I made the main basket out of Shades Of Spring DSP (sponged first with Pretty In Pink ink). Around the top of the basket I put a piece of Pretty In Pink cardstock, punched with the Pinking Hearts Border Punch and sponged in Regal Rose. Over top of that I put some Pretty In Pink Striped Grosgrain Ribbon. The Handle is Whisper White cardstock punched on both sides with the Scallop Trim Border Punch. Then I used the new Small Heart Punch and punched alternating hearts all around the handle. The handle is sponged in Pretty In Pink as well, and has a strip of Regal Rose cardstock under it so it shows through the hearts. Then I punched some hearts out using the smallest heart on the Heart To Heart punch, sponged them with Pretty In Pink and glued them inside the alternating hearts on the handle. The handle is attached to the basket first with some strong tape, then I put two of the new Pretty In Pink Epoxy Brads through the basket and handle. I cut a strip of Whisper White cardstock and punched it with the Pinking Heart Border Punch and put it at the top inside the basket to cover the back side of the brads. The Bunny punchie is popped up on a Whisper White (sponged with Pretty In Pink) and Regal Rose (sponged with Regal Rose) nestability. I cut out two Decorative Accent #2 die cuts with the Big Shot and put them together to resemble a heart frame and put them in behind the Bunny detail. I punched 4 MS branches from Old Olive cardstock and put them between the accent die cuts and the Regal Rose nestability for some contrast. I punched 2 hearts from Regal Rose using the new Small Heart punch, and two in Whisper White from the smallest heart on the Heart To Heart punch, layered them and put them on the Bunny's right ear! Then I took my Stickles and added them to the scalloped nestie, the hearts on the ears, on the accent dies, on each of the hearts on the handle, and rubbed some inside his ears. There is a Bunny detail on both sides of the basket.
I think this basket tutorial is awesome and so easy to do, give it a try! Now I need to create one in blue for our little Pumpkinator, James! So much fun, and I did it over a month in advance, how awesome is that!!!
Thanks for taking the time to visit, ........... Glenda Mollet

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Skating Edwin and Tilda - Magnolia card

UPDATE:
Welcome to February's Christmas All Year Long Blog Hop by Magnolia-licioius! If you arrived here from Deb's blog, you are on the right track. If not HERE is the start of the hop.
This is my original post for my entry.........

Another Magnolia card for you today. This card was a challenge to do. I coloured the images, then set to work to create the card. But the colours and papers I had planned to use just were not working. So I just walked away from it overnight and thought about reconstruction. This morning I hit my craft room with a completely different image in my head. New colours and a new layout! Ah Ha!!

Here is the result:


I used the retired Stampin' Up! designer paper - Soft Sky. I love this colour and have been "hoarding" it since it retired. It was perfect for the soft look I was going for. When I coloured Edwin and Tilda I did an experiment. I am still trying to decide between colouring light to dark or dark to light. So Edwin's pants are coloured light to dark, and Tilda's coat is coloured dark to light. I can't see any difference at all in the technique. Here is an up close picture of the two skaters:


I used the Pond/Park background stamp in behind them, cut with the coluzzle. Then I cut the biggest oval on the coluzzle out of Whisper White and distressed it and put it behind the pond oval. I painted some Crystal Effects on the pond part of the background stamp with a paint brush, then added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter while it was wet. The snowflakes are from the Stampin' Up! Jumbo Snowflake punch with some snowflake brads and a tree in the middle. I added 1/4" circles punched and some Baby Blue Stickles in the middle of each snowflake brad to jazz them up a bit. I ran a strip of Whisper White Organza ribbon around the middle. The sentiment is on a piece of glimmery dark blue paper (source unknown) punched with the Designer Label punch with Whisper White punched with the Large Oval punch on top. The inside is very plain compared to most of the Magnolia cards out there, but I don't like my insides too decorated (yet!! haha). Here's the inside:


Here is a list of the Copic colours I used:
Edwin and Tilda:
Blues: B91, B95, B97, and B24 on the mittens only
Yellows: Y11, Y13, Y15
Fur parts: C1, C3, B97 for some blue highlights
Hair: Y11, Y21, E97, E99
Skin: E00, E000, E0000
Cheeks: R20, R21, R30
Park/Pond:
Snow: C1, C3, B91
Trees: YG63, YG67
Lightstand: C1, C3, B97 Light: Y17
Bench Frame: c1, c3
Bench Slats: E11, E33, E35, E37
Path: W3, E35, E37
I am very limited in the range of colours I have, I would liked to have had a darker gray and darker brown, but not this time.
Thanks so much for looking, I am off now to clean up my craft room and start the next project.
Oops I got the wrong next step in the blog hop, sorry, HERE is the correct link to the next blog in the hop, Jenn Koss!!
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Glenda Mollet

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ruby Red I {heart} Hearts card

This one was inspired and partly cased from Carol'Anne a truly amazing stamper. She shares the most amazing tutorials almost every day. Anyways, here's my card:

I used a non SU embossing folder to texturize the Ruby Red layer. You can't see it, but there is actually a piece of Basic Black Satin ribbon running along the black border piece over top of the Ruby Red section. I wanted to showcase some of the new SAB and Mini Catalogue items and this is the second card for my Stamp-Of-The-Month club. My SOTM for February is the I{heart} Heart set. Stampin' Up! is donating $2.00 from each stamp set sold to the Haitian Relief Fund. So I decided, I would donate 10% of the stamps price to the Haitian Relief Fund (Canadian Red Cross) for each of these stamp sets I sold this month. I am also having a FREE class for anyone who purchased this stamp set from me.
I used:
Stamps: I {heart} Hearts, Whimsical Words
Ink: Basic Black, Ruby Red
Cardstock: Basic Black, Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red
Other: Scallop Trim Border and Corner punches, Heart To Heart punch, Full Heart punch, Small Heart punch, non SU embossing folder, Basic Black satin ribbon
I wanted the medium stamped hearts to stand out a bit on the creamy caramel piece so I ran the basic gray marker around the outside of both of the hearts after they were punched out. It worked! I was so pleased. The small ruby red heart (from the Heart To Heart punch) is layered on a black heart punched from the Small Heart punch and they are popped up ontop of the fancy heart with a dimensional.
Off now to bed for the night. Tomorrow is my Monthly Punchie Class, the Baby Bunting and the Mermaid. Should be a fun filled day of Stampin', Chocolate, Laughter and Friendship. Ah what a wonderful life!!!! Glenda Mollet

Monday, February 22, 2010

Cottage Wall Friend Card

Sometimes I feel like the rabbit in Alice In Wonderland, always late and rushing to catch up! Ah, but don't you just love it when you get a project or two done on time? My day was fabulous, and I hope yours was as well. We had our 8th straight day of sunshine in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. If any of you have ever been to our part of the world in the winter, you will know what an absolute rarity this is for us. From the beginning of November to the end of March each year we usually get fog, fog and more fog between the rain storms. This year is phenomenally different! I love the sunshine, and each day we get it is a gift from above.
Today I was prepping and creating for classes. This is one of the cards I came up with. The other one will be posted tomorrow (it is a cased one). This one, as far as I know, is an original.

I used Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper mainly to create this card, with a few embellies and some cardstock. No techniques or anything too difficult. Just a quick, easy, fun card to make. Here's a list of supplies I used:
Stamps: Sweetheart, I {heart} Hearts
Ink: Old Olive, Orchid Opulence
Paper: Cottage Wall DSP
Cardstock: Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence, Whisper White
Other: Chocolate Chip Sending Love Brad, Daisies Die, Circles #2 Die, Whisper White Satin ribbon
Come back tomorrow for my second card using I {heart} Heart stamp set..............
................ Glenda Mollet

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Chalkboard Technique With A Twist

The other day I was blog hopping and discovered Karen Barber's blog with an awesome twist on the Black Magic Technique. I made a couple of the Black Magic pieces then wondered what it would do for the Chalkboard Technique. I am doing that technique with my Wednesday morning ladies in a couple of weeks, so I have been working on some samples. I added Karen's hint of using a white signo pen to highlight parts of the chalked image. Wow does it ever pop out the image! I really like how it looks. Here is an up close picture of the stamped image (from the now retired Beautiful Borders set). I stamped the image in Whisper White craft ink on Basic Black cardstock. Then I used non SU shimmer chalks to colour the image. (I used these because my Wed a.m. group like these particular chalks). Then I let loose with the white pen.


When it turned out looking great, I thought I should just go ahead and create a card to showcase it. So I used Groom Specialty DSP and turned it into a Sympathy card. I do not like the words that include Sympathy, so that is why mine says Think of You..... and inside it says Please Know That I Care. Here's the card:


Here's the recipe for the card:
Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers (sentiment), Beautiful Borders (retired)
Ink: Whisper White Craft
Paper: Groom Specialty DSP
Cardstock: Basic Black, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum
Other: Scallop Oval punch, Movers and Shapers Scallop Oval die, Black Jumbo Grommet, 5/8" Basic Black GG Ribbon (my satin has not arrived yet, but will probably change the bow to satin when it comes), Scallop Trim Border punch, Sharpie White pen
This technique is so much fun, you should go and give it a try. Adding the white pen just pops and finishes the image perfectly.
TTFN and TFLooking........... Glenda Mollet

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Extreme Snowboarder

As promised, here is the birthday card I created for our niece. She loves to snowboard and ski. Recently I asked her and she said she prefers snowboarding. When Stampin' Up! came out with these awesome stamps, I knew this one was destined for Lisiane and her next birthday card. The "splat" from the Extreme Elements set is so versatile. I just love using it for backgrounds behind strong images and have used it quite a bit, although this is the first Extreme Sport type of card I've made. I think my next project will be to use this image using the Chalkboard Technique.............. hmmmmm. Anyways, here is the card:

I made it a Joy Fold card, here it is partially open:

I wanted the splat to be Bordering Blue and I wanted to use Perfect Plum. River Rock just seemed to be the perfect base colour to use with this combination. I did not want any designer paper, as my colour combination was so strange I knew I would not find a suitable paper. So I used the other stamps in the Extreme Elements set to create patterns on the paper. On the left hand flap, I stamped the dots in VersaMark, then the stars in River Rock. There is not enough contrast in the two inks to make the stars stand out more than the dots, as I wanted. But it looks ok anyways. I stamped two of the sentiments in Basic Black ontop of the stamped images. Inside I stamped a piece of the Perfect Plum paper with the stars using Perfect Plum ink for the base of the inside and daubed some Perfect Plum ink around the outside. Then the sentiment flap is just Whisper White on top of Perfect Plum. I really like making this kind of card and thought it would be a bit different. I left the end of the inside sentiment flap with no adhesive on it so we can slip the "gift" under the flap and use it as a gift card / money holder.
Here is a list of the ingredients:
Stamps: Extreme Snowborder, Extreme Elements, Family Phrases
Ink: Basic Black, Bordering Blue, River Rock, VersaMark, Perfect Plum
Markers: Basic Black, Perfect Plum (for the sentiment inside)
Cardstock: River Rock, Perfect Plum, Whisper White
Other: Pinking Hearts Border Punch
Thanks again for taking time out of your busy day to visit my blog.
....................... Glenda Mollet

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I Stink You're Sweet

I made this super cute little skunk Valentine's Day card for our Grandson, James. It is a direct case from Cindy Lawrence. Cindy did hers in pink, so I just changed the colour to Bashful Blue, Kraft, Basic Black with a touch of pink for the hearts. It's so "stinkin' cute"!

This will be one of the projects at a Monthly Punchie Class in the near future.

Bye for now, I am off for a nice long walk........

Glenda Mollet

Monday, February 15, 2010

Molly Mermaid Punchie Card

This is the second punchie and card for my Monthly Punchie Class. This is another one of Nancy Dawson's creations (sorry no link to her post this time, I forgot to save the link). I also wanted to use the Folded Paper Frame technique from Splitcoast Stampers, so this is what I came up with:

I made the punchie and added some texture to her tail with a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. Then I used a lot of Stickles - on her hair, on her flowers, and on the tail. I put an Ice Circle Rhinestone Brad in the flower in her hair. The face is hand drawn, I put some rosy cheeks on her and added a dot with the white signo pen to draw your eye to her face. The folded paper frame is on a piece of basic black cardstock that has been punched with the new Scallop Trim Corner and Border punches. The Basic Black Grosgrain ribbon has a Very Vanilla ribbon slider on it. I also texturized the Bermuda Bay cardstock with the SU Perfect Details Texturz Plate. Here is a list of what I used:
Stamps: Well Scripted
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Kaleidoscope DSP
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black
Other: Mermaid punchie, stickles, Ice Circle Rhinestone brad, Big Shot, Perfect Details Texturz Plate, Scallop Trim Corner and Border punches, Wide Oval punch, Very Vanilla ribbon slider, Basic Black 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon
These punchies are so much fun to do. I am so thankful to all the creative people out there who share their creations with the rest of us.
Have a super day! * * * * * Glenda Mollet

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Baby Face card.....

The last Tuesday of each month is our Punchie Class. This month we are doing this Baby Face card, and the Mermaid I will post tomorrow.
This card was from Nancy Dawson's post HERE. I saved this from way back in April 2009. I love this baby face and new I had to share it with my stampers. Here is the picture of mine:
I used So Saffron as my colour scheme and put a small rhinestone brad in her mouth for a soother. The bottom DSP is the new Good Neighbour DSP free in the Sale-A-Bration brochure (with minimum order). The upper DSP is the now retired Walk In The Park. I was lucky enough to get an extra pack of this paper and I have been trying to use up my old stuff. Here is what else I used:
Stamps: Short and Sweet
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Walk In The Park and Good Neighbor DSP
Cardstock: Whisper White, So Saffron
Other: Baby Face punchie including a rhinestone brad and Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, dimensionals, Eyelette Border punch.
Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments you have been leaving. I truly appreciate it. Tomorrow I have to create a birthday card for my neice who is turning 12. How can that be???? Where does the time go. Anyways, she is a snowboarder so I have the perfect stamp for her. I will post it when it is done.
Bye for now and have a Happy Valentine's Day!! ....Glenda Mollet

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Valentine's Goodies

This post has pictures of the Valentine's Day goodies I made for our children and their families. The idea for the first one came through Patty Bennett and it uses the Fancy Favor Die. It is supposed to use the Heart Shaped Sweet Treat Cups, but the chocolate Lindt hearts don't fit in the heart shaped ones, so I had to use the round ones.



The first set uses Sending Love Specialty DSP, the second set uses Flock Together DSP. I just love the new satin ribbons from the Occasions Mini catalogue. This one uses the Real Red ribbon. Of course I did not find out that the chocolate hearts don't fit into the heart sweet treat cups until after I punched the holes in the pouch, so I had to fit some circles around the round treat cups to hide the little bits of the punched heart that was left after I punched the 1-3/4" circle over top. Oh well, they turned out ok! I used some non SU brads from my stash.

This is the box of treats I made for the most important little boy in the world, our Grandson, James! We had the blessing to have him for the day on Friday. He is at that cheeky impish almost 2 yr old stage. He loves to tease, play hide-and-seek and tromping through mud puddles (which there was a plethora of yesterday, let me tell you!). Oh what a treasure he is, we had such a fabulous time with him. This box uses the Box#2 die for the Big Shot. I decorated it simply with some punched out hearts. The embellishment on the right hand side is a piece of leftover Sending Love Sp. DSP I cut out, then I added some punched hearts using the new Small Heart punch and some paper from Welcome Neighbour DSP from the SAB brochure. I added a non SU flocked heart brad in the middle. Its simple, but he is more interested in what is inside, than outside!!! The cardstock is Real Red.



Thanks for looking, have a great day!........... Glenda Mollet

Friday, February 12, 2010

Love You Garden card

I have been busy stamping but have not had time to post any of them yet. So over the next couple of days I will post most of what I made.
I made two versions of this card. The first one - seen here............

is a "mostly" direct CASE from Jackie Topia. If you don't know her work, go visit her blog. Oh My Goodness, her stuff is truly inspiring. I did not put the butterflies on mine, and I added some more sponging including some Cameo Coral sponged on the swirl from Vintage Vogue to look like more blossoms on the stems. I added a couple of punched branches from a MS punch and some punches from the Little Leaves die along the fence.
This next one..............
I left off the fence and the curling branches on it. I added more blossoms, and used the MS punch again. I stamped the swirls from Vintage Vogue in VersaMark then embossed them with white embossing powder. Sponging in Old Olive and Cameo Coral was added over the swirls, and bashful blue was lightly sponged in the middle.
Here is what I used for my version of this card:
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Grateful Greetings
Ink: VersaMark, Old Olive, Cameo Coral, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Other: White Embossing Powder, Sponges, MS punch
I hope you are enjoying your Friday night. Right now the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is happening. Boy is it ever fantastic. Unfortunately, the ceremonies have been saddened by the death of a Georgian athlete on the Luge track this morning. My heart goes out to his family, and his fellow visiting athletes.........
............ Glenda Mollet

Monday, February 8, 2010

Sunny Upsy Daisy

Yesterday I had an Open House for the new Occasions Mini catalogue and Sale-A-Bration. The ladies made 2 make-n-takes (Valentines related) and I shared how to make flowers from the Trio Flower punch. There was laughing, stamping, and chocolate. What an awesome way to spend a cloudy day.
Then last night I needed to pray to the sunshine God for a break in the "valley cloud" as they now call it. Huh! I still call it FOG. We get a lot of fog in the winter and sometimes it gets to the point where we go "over the hump" to the other side of Vancouver Island to find some sunshine. So I made this card that I cased from someone long ago - I think it was Lee Conrey.

The original card uses Tangerine Tango, so that tells you how long ago I saved the picture. I used the following in my rendition:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Only Orange, Yoyo Yellow
Markers: Always Artichoke, Dusty Durango
Cardstock: Whisper White, Only Orange, Yoyo Yellow
Other: Crimper, 1" circle punch, sponge dauber, dimensionals
The original card also uses orange and yellow ribbon around the front, but I did not have any that went with the colours I used. So I used a piece of Only Orange cardstock (3/4" wide) first, then took a 3/8" piece of Yoyo Yellow, ran it through the crimper, and put it on top of the orange piece. It ads some texture to the card. The yellow sun has been daubed on with a dauber, yoyo yellow ink, and a mask made with the 1" circle punch. I first inked up the stamp with Only Orange (did not want to use my marker as it was too much area to do), then I used Always Artichoke marker for the stems which turned them brown when mixed with the orange. At the tips of most of the flowers I added some Dusty Durango for contrast.
I left this one blank so I can customize it when I need to share it with someone. It would even make a good sympathy card I think.
Hope you have sunshine in your part of the world today. My prayers, and card, worked. We have sunshine today!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you God of the Sunshine. I truly appreciate it!
Bye for now, off to have some Grandson time........... Glenda Mollet

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Passionate Valentines Card

Ever since Ilina posted her card (link HERE) with this technique, I knew I was destined to make a card along these lines. This is my version of that card. The front and the inside:


This card is easy and fun to make. I used the Heart-To-Heart punch and punched the Basic Black card twice on the front. Then I used the new Small Heart punch and added a few extra hearts. Then I used my White Signo Gel pen to put dots around one of the punched out hearts. A pice of Pink Passion cardstock was put behind the punched out section. I ran a piece of Pink Passion cardstock thru my Big Shot using a non SU embossing folder, then punched that out with the Full Heart Punch. One of the black punched out hearts was popped up on one side of that heart then the whole thing was popped up on the card front. a Wide Oval Very Vanilla piece was stamped with the "love you much" sentiment from Well Scripted.
Inside I punched a piece of Pink Passion cardstock with the new Pinking Hearts border punch. The Very Vanilla piece inside is first punched with the Heart-to-Heart punch, then layered onto the Pink Passion piece. I added 3 of the punched out black hearts from the front and stamped the sentiment (from Happy Together set) in Basic Black and coloured the heart with my Pink Passion Stampin' Write marker. I also ran the envelope through with the same non SU embossing folder, then added some more of the black punched out hearts onto it.
Well, there you go. Quick and easy. I think this one took me about 10 minutes to make, start to finish.
Off now to get ready for my class this afternoon. Oh yeah! Forgot to tell you...... Our local cable television station is coming this afternoon to do a profile on me, tape some of my class, and interview some of my stampers! How cool is that!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bye for now, Glenda Mollet

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