National Scrapbooking Day Contest

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Recycled Art for Earth Day

We had an art contest at work and I made this. It is done on a secondhand canvas and the mosaic is done with magazines pieces and other scraps of paper. It is my version of a piece of art by Sandhi Schimmel. It is hard to photograph because of the shine of the magazine pages.  I won first place! She is pretty striking. Maybe even a little eerie.

I entered into a challenge at http://doodleartifacts.blogspot.com/ with it.  Check it out!

Punch Art Sheep holder

I made a whole herd of sheep this week.. I also taught this in a recent card class.  Here are some of my cute sheep treat holders.

I found this here: http://www.frenchiestamps.com/2011/04/little-lamb-to-hold-hersheys-nuggets.html
I made 37 last night. I did 15 last weekend and more before the class I taught. LOTS of sheep!! They hold a mini Hershey bar.

This is made with several Stampin Up punches, a Stampin Up die, a hole punch, embossing folder and wiggly eyes. 

Die: Two Tag Die

Punches:  Scallop , Window, Small Oval, and Boho

Happy Easter

Fancy Folder Card and Tag Caddy

A friend of mine who sells Stampin Up, showed me a card holder she had made several years ago. I wasn't able to find anything like it online so I used some of the measurements off hers and designed this.  I taught it in my card class. It took a couple sessions to get all the cards and tags made. There are lots of pictures here to try and show it. I probably should have just made a video but here it is.

Here is the front of it closed. There is a little piece of Velcro to hold the flap shut. 

And here is a close up of the flap. I used Stampin Up Mixed Bunch stamp set on these and the matching Blossom punch They are a couple of my favorites right now. 

Here is a side view of the caddy. It holds full size cards, gift cards and tags. 

Here is a picture of it opened up.  I think it is sooo fun. And one you have it down, it isn't too hard to create either

Here are the cards we did for it. Very simple card done with a One sheet wonder. If you don't know about  One Sheet Wonders, it is where you stamp a sheet of paper ( or use printed paper) and cut it up in a way that you use all of it up in a series of cards. I will post the cards individually in another post with a close up of the gift cards. 

And here are the gift cards. They are little 3 by 3 cards. Still using the same set of stamps and punch.

I need to do a few more tags. This was a sample of different ideas for the class. 

I designed patterns for the caddy and the one sheet wonder. I will post it in a future post with more pictures

Set of cards I am donating

This is another quick set of cards. I did them tonight to donate to a raffle. There is a woman at work that has been in and out of the hospital for several months and accumulated a large amount of medical bills. There is a group of people organizing a raffle to help her.

I used patterened paper I got at Tuesday Morning. The border is from EK punches and the flower is from Stampin Up. 

4 quick cards

These cards were done quickly with a single sheet of paper as the inspiration.

This one used the new Tim Holtz die I got. Just love this clock. 

This one was done with some preprinted pieces that matched perfectly.

The tag and flower were also from the same preprinted stuff as above and a fancy purple brad.

The dragonfly and flower are printed chipboard stickers.
I thought it was great fun to get several cards done quickly and still have some pretty cards!

Tri Shutter Bird card

I am still having card classes. The last few have been held in a dance studio so we would have more room but she is being forced to move and we will be back to meeting at my house. Here is a card we did a few weeks ago.

The dies used are all from Spellbinders. It is a fairly easy card for how hard it looks.