More Hats

Here are more hats that we made at our Downline meeting on Sunday. We used an old Candy Cookbook from 1970 to make the flowers. (I figured if I had had it for 40 years and never used it, I could safely punch it up for decorations for our hats!) We sponged the color on with sponges. The flowers were punched with our new flower punch. The eye for the bird was the stone pried out of one of our rhinestone brads! The buttons used to hold the flower together is one of our small pink corduroy buttons. We used the sponge and our choice of ink to make the button match the flower! That was one of those happy accidents that I made when I was creating my first hat for a challenge for the Remarkable Stampers--I was just trying to add a little more color to the inside of the top petal of my flower
Don't you love it when an accident actually turns out well? lol

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Easter Basket

Here is another goodie from our downline meeting this month. Bev brought this for show and tell. Isn't it awesome??? I am so lucky to have such talented people with me. I am not sure if it is cased or not, but how springy!!! I love it! The designer paper is Tea Party (#113992). She used the Party Favor Die with the Big Shot to create the basket and the desgin on the butterfly wings was created using a stamp from With All My Heart stamp set. The body of the butterfly was created with the slot punch and stamen from the Pretties Kit.

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Packing Tape Technique

Hello! Here are the pictures that I promised you from the Downline meeting on Sunday. My friend, Monta, brought us the card with the clear butterfly on it as her card trade. Isn't it awesome? I have also included a closseup of the butterfly and also of another card with the same technique using the heart punch. This is a technique she created using clear packing tape!

To create the heart card, she layered 2 pieces of clear packing tape and placed them behinda a piece of red cardstock, with the heart punched out. Then she put Glossy Glaze Enamel (#100477) on top of the tape. she used a brush to clear off any excess that went on the cardstock. Then she gently heated the glaze with the heat gun. Caution: You can't heat it too much, or the tape melts! Just enough to melt the embossing powder. I love the icy look it creates! She not only brought the card to share with us, but taught us the technique as well! What fun we had! Thanks for stopping by!

Downline Meeting

Today was our downline meeting and we had such fun! We took turns sharing different techniques hat we had found this week on line. Bev showed us how to make paper roses, from the new flower punch. I showed how to make the roses from an old cookbook and the new flower punch as demonstrated by Lee Bradford on her blog. And Monta demonstrated a new technique that she came up with this week, using the heart and the Butterfly punch. I will show you a picture of that technique tomorrow, as I forgot to take a picture of it today. Fortunately for us, our snow didn't materialize! Yeah! I have truly enjoyed all of the insidious white stuff that I can stand! Definitely ready for spring here in WV! And we haven't gotten near the snow that my friend further north in WV has gotten. Thanks for stopping by!

Valentine ScrapBook Pages

These are the 2 pages that my Scrapbook class made this week. We had such a good time making them. We used the Big Shot to make the Letters, the scalloped frame, and the embossed hearts that are on the page. We also learned how to use our papercutters to make frames for our pictures. By using the little pointy part of the orange cutting blade, you can use the ruler on your cutter to make any thickness of frame that you want. For this one we used 3/4" frame, and stamped the white layer with the little heart from our I Heart Heart stamp set. The ribbon is the white taffeta ribbon. We used the 1 1/4" Square punch to make the larger square on the right. The smaller square is the 3/4" square punch and the little pink heart in the center of the smaller square is made with our new small heart punch. Next month we are either going to make Spring Pages, or Easter Pages. Whichever theme we don't make in March, we will make in April. Thanks for stopping by!

Anyone who would like to join my team, email me at HalfwittStamps@aol.com. Would love to have more team members!

Blog Tour House and Cards Class

Just wanted to share with you the house and cards that we will be making in class on

Saturday. I used the Cottage Wall Designer Paper as the basis for the house and cards. I combined it with Old Olive, Sahara Sand and Rich Razzleberry card stocks. The stamp set that I used was Happy Moments, one of the free sets that you can receive during Sale-a-bration with a $50 merchandise purchase. I really want to express my appreciation to fellow Remarkable Stamper, Jill Hilliard for designing these cards for our Blog Tour earlier this month! Made my job really easy--all I had to do was cut the cardstock for the class! Thank you Jill! I have spent a good part of the last 2 weeks "watching" the Olympics and stamping! My husband has worked a lot of overtime, so at least I have had something really entertaining to watch while I stamped.

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Use It Up

Today's card is a blend of old and new. I have been going through my excess stamping supplies and trying to use them up, in one way or another. (I was raised by depression era parent whose motto was, "Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make Do, or Do Without"!) I took a piece of discontinued designer paper which I really liked, and added pretty in pink, and bashful blue to it. Used the new scallop border trim punch to create the scalloped trim edging on the card. I love the look of the flowers made with the Vintage Vogue stamp set that is found in the Occasions Mini Catalog. The background is stamped on Bashful Blue using one of the Itty Bitty Background stamps. I also used markers to obtain the two-toned look on the flowers. I have been using some of my older supplies to make birthday cards to send to my friends. It makes me feel so good to finally use up some of my treasured pieces of Designer paper. I am really bad to hoarde it! Because after all, if I use it up, it will be gone, and then I won't have anymore of it! lol Nevermind that my stamping area is groaning with all the DSP that I have - both old and new! I made calendar covers earlier to use up some of my excess. Turns out it is just like fabric - you can never use it all up! Seems like the more you cut it the more it multiplies! lol

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