Sketch Challenge 275

This card was made using the SCS Sketch challenge 275 layout. I cuttlebugged the white panels. I stamped a green flourish for the vine. I added pearls, my paper roses and paper leaves, a bow and a Layers of Color Butterfly. This is also for the Stampin Sister's in Christ Challenge.

April's Box

April 5th is my sister April's birthday. I made this box for her. It has 4 drawers and has an easel card on top. I used 1 John 4:7 as a reminder of God's love for us. I cuttlebugged the base of the easel card. I added some of my hand made paper roses. I added a Layers of Color butterfly. I filled each drawer with chocolate. I got the directions from Chris on her blog. I didn't have the same boxes, so I made origami boxes and made sleeves for them to make them like her matchboxes. The drawer pulls on my drawers are a simple little paper fastener. I wanted them to look fancy, so I painted them with pearl fingernail polish. I added some of my faux hot glue pearls. I felt like one of those Priceless commercials. I was calculating the cost to make the box including the chocolate and it was probably about $.75. Mailing it cost a bit more. I guess I'm just cheap. Maybe frugal is a better word. This was also for the Stampin Sister's in Christ Challenge to make love the theme of our projects.

Love accordian Book

My mom sent me this little card this week. I loved it so much that I just had to repurpose it. I cut it apart to make the little accordian books that were the free for all challenge at SCS. I added some paper roses, some quilled tendrils, and some hot glue pearls. I think it is going to go back to my mom for Mother's day.

Paper Roses Tutorial Update

I love making 3-dimensional items for my cards. I especially love making quilled roses. I have used them on the cards that I have posted this week. I decided to make a tutorial for how I make them. It has been a process. I started quilling some time ago. I found it to be interesting that exactly a year ago today, my friend Dawn, posted my tutorial on her blog, because I hadn't started blogging yet. Here is that tutorial. While I still like those roses, I think the ones that have evolved over the year are more realistic.

I start with these basic supplies. Aleene's Tacky Glue,

a regular office hole punch, scissors,

a scrap of cardstock, my quilling tool,

and my ek success flower punch.

I punch out 3 flowers and 1 partial flower. I call it the "B" shaped piece

Using the office hole punch, I punch holes in the centers
of 2 of the punched flowers.



Using my scissors, I cut from one edge of the flower to the center.

The punched out flower that wasn't punched, I make little

cuts between all the petals. This will be the Base of the rose.

I use the end of my quilling tool to press into the center

of the base. It makes it look kinda like a little bowl.

This is a quilling tool. You can see the slot at the top.

I insert the quilling tool into the center of the flower and slide

the edge that was cut into the slot of the quilling tool.

I slowly roll the flower around the quilling tool.

I roll both of the double punched flowers using the quilling tool.

I open one of the double punched flowers just a little bit.

I put the second double punched flower over the slightly opened

one and I rotate them so that the overlap eachother.

I put the "B" shaped piece into the quilling tool with

the rounded edges facing down.

I roll it all the way up.

While the "B" shaped piece is still rolled up, I slide it into the

centers of the double stacked, double punched flowers.

This shows the "B" piece coming out the back side of the double

stacked, double punched flowers.

I add a drop of glue to the center of the base.

With the other parts still on the quilling tool, I place them

into the glue that is on the base.

This is what it looks like with all the pieces glued together. You could

leave the rose like this and it would look pretty, but there is more

that you can do that makes it look more realistic.

After the glue dries, which takes about 10 mins., I take my

quilling tool and starting at the bottom layers, I curl each petal outward.

The finished rose.

Joy is not...

This was for the SCS sketch challenge. It was also for Monday's Technique lovers challenge to decorate the inside of the card. This is a reminder to me to be content. JOY is not in things... is one of my favorite sentiment stamps. I paired it with 1Timothy 6:6-7 that says... "But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. "

Paper Roses

This is my CASE of Queen Pat's roses card. It is also for the CAS challenge for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge. It looks simple, but the fact that I made each and every rose didn't make the card simple at all. It took me about 2 hrs to make the roses. I wish I had the leaf punch like my friend Pat, but I don't. It is on my wish list, but with my washing machine breaking this last week, a paper punch isn't high on the list of needs for my family. I used instead my snowflake punch. Now I know there are a lot worse things than having a broken washing machine. My sister found out today that her mother in law has breast cancer. So all my stamping sisters, I'm asking if you will pray with me for healing, and for peace for Lisa. I hope that this roses card will lift her spirits and encourage her.