My Favorite Detailed Lace Project

In my previous post, I shared some fun sheets in various colors that I made from using spritzers with our lace overlays as stencils.  Here's the wonderful project I made using a spritzed lace sheet as my background.  I love it!  I must give credit to this wonderful artist for the inspiration.  Here's my version of her project.

I spent a long time on this project and loved every minute of the creative process.

Remember this sheet (below)?  This is what was under the layer I used for today's project.  I will still have this sheet to make some coordinating cards --- or another project:)

Love it!  This fits into a 12 X 12" frame.  I chose a white frame because it seemed to best compliment my project.  The color story is Granny Apple Green, Coastal Cabana and Night of Navy.

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Detailed Lace Magic

Making magic, using our Detailed Lace CS?  Who knew!  Gather some 12 X 12" CS, a package of our Detailed Lace --- actually called Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper --- a few favorite colors of reinkers mixed with alcohol in our spritzers, and let the magic begin.  Here are some of the results from my efforts. 

1.  Berry Burst project:
Here is the lace overlay that I spritzed.

Here is the Whisper White CS that was under the lace when I spritzed it with Berry Burst.  It's so pretty!

2.  Here is the Whisper White CS that I placed under another lace overlay.  
I'll share what I did with the lace piece in another post.  It's pretty amazing, if I say so myself.

This is a color story using 2 colors --- Coastal Cabana and Granny Apple Green.  I love how it turned out and can't wait to share the project I made with the lace.  Keep checking back so you don't miss it. 

3.  Coastal Cabana project:

Here is the Whisper White CS that was under it when I spritzed it.  

4.  Granny Apple Green project:

I love how this one turned out, too.  I intentionally left the color a little more uneven, to give more interest.

Now ... I have a lot of cutting apart of all these sheets to do.  Check back for some future posts to see what I make with all the pieces.

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A Great Party!

What a great Winter Open House Party we had yesterday afternoon!  I tried to take photos to post, but there were so many people stamping together that I never got a good angle for a shot.  Trust me, I had a full house, a wonderful, wonderful group and the party actually went until 6:00.

I wanted to share my cute little money bags with you today.  I started a new 'program' where you can earn Stampin' Tokens, 1 per each $50. or more order, and when you collect 10, you get to choose a free stamp set.  I couldn't just let people collect their tokens without giving them a money bag in which to keep them, so I used our cute little Mini Muslin bags to create a money bag for each person.  Here they are:

Each person who earned a 'money bag' got to choose what color they'd like.  My choices were Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana.  Here are the tokens:

Super news:
Every time you come for an event, you get to enter your name into my monthly drawing jar.  If you bring a 'Show and Tell' to share with everyone, you get to enter your name 2 times and every time you place an order, you get to enter your name 3 times.
Please note:
I leave it up to you to enter your name whenever you attend and event.  However, I want you to know that, any time you place an order through email or online through my website, I keep track of it all and save up any tokens you may earn to give you, as well as placing your entries into the monthly drawing jar.  You won't miss out!
Pssst:
It's getting close to the end of the month.  That means that very soon Toby Joe will help me choose a winner for this month.

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Punched Filter Paper Flower Tutorial

Happy March!  Let's begin the new month with a touch of Spring --- a punched filter paper flower and card, AND tutorial.

Here's the card I made with my flower:

Here's how you do it:

Gather together 3 scallop circle punches:

• 1 1/4" Scallop Circle Punch
• 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punch
• 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch

Your filter paper package contains flat papers and circles.  I used the flat papers for this project.

Punch 4-5 circles for each size.  (I used 5 for my flowers.)

Important Tip:
When you punch out a circle from the filter paper, sometimes it gets almost stuck in your punch and the edges come out a little fuzzy.
If this happens to you, place a piece of scrap paper over the filter paper and punch both layers together.  It comes out crisp and clean every time.

Stack up all your layers together, lay them on your piercing mat and pierce a hole through all the layers.
Tip:
Insert your brad and push it gently into the mat.  Now you can pick up all the layers of your flower in one piece.
Bend the prongs back to hold your brad in place.

Fluff, fluff, fluff, fluff, fluff...  The more you do it, the better your flower looks.

Now you can decide if you want to leave your flower white or spritz it with some reinker in your Stampin' Spritzer.  I decided to go with a Calypso Coral, to go with the card I had in mind for this project.

Here's another view of my card, using the punched filter paper flower.  I have added DSP (Tea for Two) to the envelope flap so it will coordinate with my card.

So now it's time for you to gather up your punches and filter paper and get to work.  What will you create today?  Will you leave your flower white or choose a color?

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Floral Frames Framelits / Tutorial

Who wouldn't want to receive a cute little gift box like this one?  The gorgeous flower is amazingly simple (and fun) to create!  It's done with the help of our Floral Frames Framelits and Filter Paper.  Say that 3 times!

Our Floral Frames Framelits can be used for a lot of super fun projects.  Using our filter paper, I made this beautiful flower.  I've dyed it, using one of our Stampin' Spritzers.  As with all the dyeing tips I've given you, the more reinker you add, the deeper the color.  You can go back and add highlights of more color by spritzing again or highlighting with a Stampin' Write Marker.  Here's how you create the beautiful flower.

I hope you've enjoyed today's post and been inspired to try a project like this one.  Leave a comment and let me know how it turned out for you.  Did you try any different colors?  I'd love to hear about them.  Have a good day!