Hoppy Easter!

Somehow, even with Easter being late this year, it has caught me off guard again!

So it looks like this will be my lonely offering for you this year.  I finally put ink to the Eggstra Spectacular stamp set, which by way, I am keeping in my stash, even  though it may retire at the end of  May.  Got a lot of good Easter designs in it.  Ok here goes with the project.

I decided to do cute little note cards that I put in our Kraft Gift box that I covered with DSP of each of the colors I used in the cards.  I then sprayed pistachio pudding ink over the natural ribbon.  Also made some cute little envies with the envelope punch board. These were easy to make and assemble and would make a cute gift to give someone.  Below are ingredients.
Hope you enjoy until next time,

Hugs,

Alicia

Stamp set:  Eggstra Spectacular
Cardstock and Ink:   Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Pudding, Primrose Petals, Summer  Starfruit (gonna miss you!),Crisp Cantaloupe
DSP:  all the dsp from the above colors

 

Spring has Sprung!

Even though the temps are still chilly here,at least, the beautiful flowers and trees have finally bloomed!  AND they are really pretty this year.  I got a chance to take a bunch of pictures and thought I would share one with you..  I call it Bumble Bee in the Azaleas in our back yard.  Hope you like.

After taking flower pictures, I was inspired to make some flower themed cards so over the next several days, I will be sharing these with you.  BUT before I do, I made one lonely little Easter project that I will share with you tomorrow.  Until then,

Hugs,

Alicia

Golden Happy Watercolor

Loving the Happy Watercolor Stamp set.  Have had fun making different kinds of cards with this stamp and probably wont be getting rid of it even after it retires!  This is a pretty straight forward card.  It has a smokey slate card base with gold foil on next layer.  The next is whisper white stamped with the flower in stazon ink and 3 smokey slate grunge marks.  The sentiment is stamped in gold encore ink and embossed with gold embossing powder..  Then I stamped the flower with Stazon ink on the gold foil card stock.   Fussy cut it out and stacked it up with dimensionals.  Really classes it up, don't you think?  Had to add a little more bling with the gold sequins.  Hope you enjou.  Until next time,
Hugs,
 Alicia

Golden Gift Box

Continuing onward with my gold kick week, I have a cute gold topped box for you to make.

To make the gold foil box top for the Tag a bag giftbox, cut gold foil 4 5/16 and 6 7/8 and score 1 inch on long side.  Cut a 16 inch of Gold Sequin Trim.  Cut striped vellum square 4 1/2 by 4 1/2. Cut flower with #4 Floral Frames Collection Framelit(I number from smallest to largest).

Cut polka dot vellum square 3 1/2 by 3 1/2.  Then use the #3 framelit to cut flower out.  Punch pansy vellum flower and smaller flower.  Thread some gold bakers twine through holes in the faceted button.  Tie a bow.  Make a tag out of white scrap paper and pin to bakers twine.  Assemble box. Fold belly band, made from Watercolor Wonder DSP, 2 x 10 ".  Then put four dimensionals on top and loop sequins around on dimensionals.  Assemble flower and lay on top of the dimensionals.  Now do I really want to give this away?  Hope you enjoy.

Until next time,

Hugs

Alicia

Gold Favor

This is a cute and really quick little envelope that you can put Ghirardelli Squares in for favors.  All you need to do is make an envelope for a 3x3 envelope on the envelope punch board.  fold on fold lines.  Put candy in and then secure with a glue dot so that it will be disguised under the bow.

For the box punch 3 ovals.  Put mini glue dots on each small end of the two ovals.  Fold gently and adhere ends together to form loops of the bow.  Fold the third oval in half and cut V  in folded edge ti create to the ends of the bow, one for each side.  Attach bow and ends together with glue dots and then attach to front flap.  Viola!  You have a cute gold favor to give to someone special.  Until next time

 Hugs,

Alicia

Gold, Gold Gold!

In this card I used the Fancy Foil Vellum and back it with the gold foil.  Love these two together!  Since I always have some issues with attaching vellum and the card base is made from vellum, I decided to get out my trusty old sewing machine and sew the gold foil to the card base front.  Worked like a charm and solved th problem, plus I got to use my machine which has been terribly neglected lately.  I punched the butterfly out and embossed the thanks in gold embossing powder.  Yummy!  And let's not forget the cute Gold Sequin Trim on the butterfly!

Hope you enjoy until next time,

Hugs, 

Alicia

Gold Week..People like you

Here is a cute box that holds four note cards and would be a really nice gift for someone.  This box really interested  me  because of the way you can sit it up on your desk and have cards really handy to send.  I saw this on pinterest and just had to give it a try.  It really didnt take long to make.  The directions for this and the cards are found at JustFunStamping.com.  Hope you like these.  I am really getting into the gold craze as you will see more of it this week.  Until next time,

Hugs,

Alicia