Card Organizer #1

I hope you all got a chance to visit my blog yesterday for the last installment of Christmas All Year Long Blog Hop for 2010. I love creating with Tilda and Edwin.  I find it very relaxing.
Anyways, today I begin my series of Card Organizers I made for an upcoming Craft Sale.  Here is the first one ... ... ...

As these are for a craft fair, I used some retired Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper and some retired Stampin' Up! cardstocks.  I used my Bind It All to bind the whole thing together.  I used the SCS tutorial for making the inside pages.  But I used DSP instead of cardstock to make the pages. I used Nestabilities Label 5 and hand cut some of the flowers from the Island Oasis DSP.  For the black pieces I used my Fancy Favour Box die and just cut a strip along the fancy top part of the die.  It turned out great.  I hope you enjoy my next few posts of Card Organizers.
Thanks, hope you are staying warm and not snowed in.  I have had to shovel twice this week as my DH is out of town again.  I did enjoy the shovelling tho, because a couple of years ago DH bought a snow scoop and it makes shovelling so much easier on the back.  No visits to the chiropractor in my near future!
Here is a picture of our snow .....

Bye for now ... ... ...  Glenda Mollet

Stampin' Up! Bat Punch Scallop Edge

On my last card HERE I used the new Stampin' Up! Bat Punch to create the scalloped edge at the bottom of the Early Espresso layer.  Here is a tutorial on how I did that ... ... ...

Cut your cardstock to 1-1/2 inches wide by the lenth required (I used 1-1/2 x 4-1/4) ... ... ...

 Then mark the center of your cardstock ... ... ...

 Line up the center you marked between the feet of the bat like so ... ... ...

Punch out your first image ... ... ...

It should look like this ... ... ...

Then move the punch to the end of the first punched out section and align the curve of one wing with the curve of the one to be punched out ... ... ...

They should line up like this ... ... ...

When punched you will get this ... ... ...

Continue punching in the same manner on both sides of the first punch out ... ... ...

You will end up with an edge like this (this is the back side)  ... ... ...

This is the right side ... ... ...

Ta-Da! You are done, and its ready for your card.  Because the inside of the punch is flat, just make sure you push your cardstock all the way down inside the punch and you will get a nice even and straight edge.  I just used this and cut another piece of cardstock to finish matting my main image and it worked like a charm.  Because the cardstock is so dark, you cannot even see the line where they meet..

Thanks for visiting, hope your weekend was an awesome one.  Ours was great, Happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians... ... ... ... ... ... ... Glenda Mollet