Eyelet punched flower

I am ready for some flowers aren't you? I saw my little white snowdrops blooming outside and my daffodils and hyacinths are starting to bloom in my back yard.

I am planning a workshop next month I am dubbing Blooming March for all the different flower making technique we will be playing with. This is a card made with a flower making technique that was shown at SU leadership this year that people made at my February workshop.

Base is so saffron- with the fold at the top- embossed with the perfect polka dots embossing folder. Mount a strip of melon mambo and strip of celery on top sentiment stamped with basic gray. The flower is made with 2 strips of 1x 12 inch strips of melon mambo designer paper, border punched with eyelet border punch and crinkled using the crimper to create the gather. Take a small piece of sticky paper and adhere the strips in a gather- non punched end onto the tape- starting at about 1 1/4" size in a circular pattern moving into the center until you run out of paper- it will give you about 3 layers. pierce a hole inthe center and secure a pretty in pink brad in center and layer the whole thing onto the card and you are all done! If you want a smaller flower slide the paper all the way in into the punch- if you want a larger flower like this one shown, slide the paper into the edge of the punch- I hope this makes sense- I can do a tutorial if it does not make sense.

Lynda

Happiness Always- crimped leaf

This is a level 3 hostess set from the 2008-2009 SU Fall Winter Idea Book-
I took a choc chip base CS, layere pink pirouette embossed with CB polka dot folder then layered with while scalloped edged CS with old olive on top pierced to make it look like a flower stem. the Images are 2 step done in pink pirouette base and old olive base then top stamped with choc chip again. The hardest part was trying to get the pink and olive borders to line up around the white CS with stamped image on it. The sentiment was colored using a marker then punched with circle and scallop circle punch. The leaf was a folded old olive scrap folded in half and cut out like a half leaf and run through the crimper at an angle. I wrote this up for the crimper ideas many months ago but forgot to post it so here it is. I want to go see my kids go Easter Egg Hunting today so being a little lazy....

Enjoy your weekend!
Lynda

Santa Pants

This is the how to on the Santa Pants on the right.

I saw something like this at my LSS where they were selling this "kit" and I thought I can figure this out so here is my version. This is using a quarter sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 CS but can be adjusted to any size you need. It is basically your 2-4-6-8 box in a smaller version. It's just that you need 2 of it- one for each leg.




















Take a quarter sheet of paper 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and score at 1/2, 1 3/4, 3, 4 1/4 as shown, the score the bottom across at 1 1/4 inches- Just make the bottom scoring whatever the width of the box would be. Cut the silver marked lines and cut out that little 1/2 x 1 1/4 corner if you wish. You will need 2 of these in real red CS. ( I used white here to better show you the numbers and scoring lines) Fold into 2 boxes.
For the santa's pant cuffs, I thought of using felt and other dimensional fabric but I wanted to keep it totally SU so I did faux suede technique here.

Another crimper use- take a 3/4 " strip of whisper white CS and run it through the crimper a bunch of times until the fibers separate and then peel back to reveal the softer suede like center.


like this. If it separates unevenly, try separating from a different corner.

Tape the faux suede onto the bottom of the pant leg boxes and tape the 2 boxes together to make the actual pants. Try to put the seams on the inside to make it nice and neat.






For the belt I used a 3/4 inch strip of brushed silver CS. I drew 2 horizontal lines about 1/8 inch from the edge then put a line every 1 inch increment to separate out each buckle then put shorter lines about 1/4 inch from the edge. It seems like a lot of work but try to punch out the small slots with a small piece of paper- IMPOSSIBLE! It is much easier to have a long strip you can slide in to punch the holes in the buckle evenly as shown. For the last two left on the striip, punch holes on both sides

before cuttings the two buckles apart. Now you have the buckle.

Take a 8 1/2 inch wide black CS and cut a 3/8 inch black strip. Run the black strip through the belt buckle as shown on the sample and tape down as shown.

take 8 1/2 wide paper and cut 3/8 inch strips in red for the suspenders and place 2 sticky strips on either end as shown.

Tape the red strips in the front on either side of the buckle straight up.

then angle the strip and tape down in the back to create the criss cross in the back as shown.

Finished pants. Fill with Hershey's kisses or other goodies- candy canes, etc. You can use larger paper - half sheet and score at 2-4-6-8 and bottom at 2 inches to make a bigger box or use a whole sheet- score 1/2 inch to tape down- that leaves you 10 1/2 inches, divide by 4 - so 2 5/8 on each side and across the bottom. This makes for a really cute center piece. Finally all my math skills coming in to full glory!

I will do the Missus Santa tutorial tomorrow.

I am too wiped to think....

Santa and Missus side by side from the front.

Santa and the Missus their backsides showing.

Only 10 days until Christmas!

Thanks for looking!

Crimper ice cream cone

Nothing says summer like an ice cream cone and with a crimper the cone is an easy job.

Just put the cardstock in one direction and then run it across in opposite direction to make the waffle pattern.

Take the scallop circle and punch 3 scallops from your favorite flavors- here 2 from chocolate chip and one from pink pirouette.

cut the scallops off the top part of the scallop to make a scoop.

Stamp cupcake wheel in red for subtle background. Tie a ribbon with sentiment from crazy for cupcake dtamped in black around the bottom and apply highlight with a gel pen.

Have fun with your crimper!

Trifold card with Crimped bellyband

Another crimped idea- We made this at my last party for the birthday special- this card is in thanks to one my swap group members- this is the crimper in its more traditional use. Take a real red CS 10 1/2 by 3 1/2 and score at 3 1/2 and 7 to make a trifold. Score the end squares on a diagonal parellel to each other and it will fold into a trifold- attach summer picnic DD paper - 3 1/4 inch square cut on diagonal. Stamp Crazy for cupcakes on a white CS- color with blender pen from lids of inks- old olive, pumpkin and bashful blue then red marker for the cherry- add dazzling diamonds-glitter for the cupcake frosting and crystal effects for the cherry on top. Crimp a 3/4 x 8 1/2 inch orange piece- again alway cut to size after the crimping- attach the cupcake piece with a dimensional after tyiing on a silver cord. Inside has stamped on the center panel in white craft ink " hope yourday is sweetest ever" on the left and balloon on the right side. Emboss with clear EP and heat set.

Crimper Tricks

I have had a crimper since they first came out probably over a decade ago and have used them for various purposes- It's been sitting on my wall forever but I used it recently for a birthday card trifold bellyband and so many people were wow'd by it that I thought I'd make some cards that showed its versatility- I have other crimpers but this straight one is the one that I always come back to. Take a pink pirouette CS 4 1/4 by 5 1/2- quarter sheet- then score and fold down the corners 2 1/8 inch triangles on all 4 sides- run it through the crimper with the folds in place and it gives you opposite direction corrugation as shown. Unfold and trim to size- it bows out and shrinks during the crimping. You always want to start with a larger size than one you really need because of shrinkage. Stamp heart and sentiment from Always in ridinghood red on whisper white CS and cut out and mount on kiwi CS and cut out again. Use stampin' dimensional to attach the heart and the sentiment . Mount the pink crimped paper to white cardbase- I like to use sticky tape for this for that extra hold. Simple but pretty