Karla's Stamp N Scrap

Easter and Sweet Pea Designer Paper

Today I am going to start with a little bit of Easter. I made a little Easter basket using the Big Shot and the Scallop Envelope Die. As a family we have never done a big Easter Basket for the kids, but I do usually do something small with some Easter candy for them. This year I decided to make these little baskets. They are so easy to make!

 

I Cut the envelopes in So Saffron. I then ran each envelope through the polka dot textures plate. Using the side tabs to adhere the box, and the bottom flap of the envelope is the bottom of the box. I like the extra texture that it gave the box. The handles are attached with a brad to the side of the box and covered with the Happy Easter tag. For the handle I cut a 1/2 inch strip of Old Olive card stock and covered the top with Old Olive Satin ribbon.

The next projects that I did were all with Sweet Pea Designer Paper. That pad of paper is such a deal it is only 24.95 for 48 sheets of paper! That is only 50 cents a sheet! It isn't thin bargain paper either it is the quality weight paper that we expect from Stampin' Up! Another great  quality in this paper is the versatility!.You can make great guy projects with some of the papers. The colors and textures are perfect for Fathers Day, birthdays, etc. But also there is the fun designs with the trees, birds, and swirls, and then if you are into flowers and butterflies there is some of that as well. Some of the pages are designed in a way that they make a great scrapbook pages with out adding much of anything else. So like I said this paper totally delivers on versatility. Stampin' Up! did a great job on this pad of paper!

Here are 2 layouts that I did. The first one I used Old Olive card stock for the base and added the print at the bottom. The flower is one of the stripe prints from Sweet Pea cut with the Big Shot and the Daisy die. The center is a button that I made my self. I punched a little swirl from one of the sweet pea papers, and layered 5 So Saffron circles under it. I punched 2 little holes with the crop a dile and added the linen string. This flower would make a great accent on a card as well.The second page is from two sheets of Sweet Pea. The bird and flowers were on another page I cut them out and added them to this page with dimensionals.

Lastly I have a guy card from the Sweet Pea Collection. The medallion is from Vintage Labels in the Sale-a-bration brochure. The background is the Sanded background stamp.

 

I hope you enjoyed these last 3 days of the Blog Tour. Thank you for stopping at my blog, Make sure you visit again!
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Easter Basket

105118  8 1/2 x 11  So Saffron  $5.50

117266   Sweet Pea Stitched Felt  $7.95

112208 Curly Label $15.95

114916 All Holidays  $34.95

113439 Big Shot Die-Cut Machine $99.95

113462 Stampin’ Up!  Scallop Envelope  $21.95

114512 Stampin’ Up! Backgrounds 1    $11.95

Scrapbook Pages

106544  12x12 Old Olive card stock 7.50

117161 Sweet Pea Designer Paper  24.95

114520 Flower, Daisies #2 $19.95

113439 Big Shot Die-Cut Machine $99.95

(button)

105118  8 1/2 x 11  So Saffron  $5.50

104390 1/2" Circle $5.95

108362 Crop-A-Dile™ $29.95

104199   Linen Thread 4.50

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My Digital Studio

The photo is of my two oldest kids. Yes there are moments they like each other! This was taken after one of their choir concerts at school. This is one of my favorite pictures of the two of them. They have gotten very close the last few years and it is fun to watch.

 The photographer was my 7 year old daughter! She takes some of the best pictures. I think the reason is because she is a cute little girl who isn't concerned about perfection of a photo but capturing a memory of people she cares about. Her brother can be really hard to get a "real smile" out of but as you can see here she did it.

I created this page in "My Digital Studio" Using the kit Summer Home It is template pages where all I have to do is drag and drop my photo. I can have this printed as a 5x5 or 12x12 page. It is so easy to do!

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Halloween Scrapbooking Page 2

A quick post today. Here is page 2 of the Halloween double layout. I love the way it turned out. I'll add directions and supply list tomorrow.

A Halloween Scrapbook Page

It was a quiet afternoon and evening here, my husband and teen-agers went to the Iowa vs Michigan game in Lansing.It should be interesting when they get home. My husband is an Iowa fan as that is where he and I grew up. Our daughter however is a huge Michigan State fan, so someone is going to come ecstatic and someone else is going to come home disappointed. It should be interesting. :)

On to my little project...

This is the first page of a double halloween layout that I made using a few more of the pumpkins and some other added guests on the page. I love how the "Happy Halloween" turned out. I used the Naturally Serif Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die making letters in Only Orange and Black and then shadowed the black under the orange. I used a I love how it looks. The other little creatures can be found various places on the web and are easy to make.

 

113453 Naturally Serif $19.95

112082 Wide Oval $15.95

113441 Swirls Scribbles Sizzlits Die $4.95     

112004 1-3/4" Circle Punch 15.95

115370 Teeny Tiny Wishes $36.95

106532 Black Card Stock $7.50

102837 Only Orange $5.50

109030 Pumpkin Pie

$4.95

Punches for Crow

104401 1-3/8" Circle $15.95

112004 1-3/4 " Circle Punch $15.95 

109183 Trio Flower

$15.95

109041 5-Petal Flower

$15.95

104390 1/2" Circle

$5.95

Standard office 1/4 circle punch

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Easter 6 x 6 page

Easter is this Sunday so I thought I would share a 6 x 6 page from last Easter. We have never gotten into the huge Easter baskets or Easter gifts in our home. Last year I decided to have a little fun. I bought just a few things for each of them. It wasn't a lot, but enough to make them feel loved. 

The designer paper is from last years catalog but any paper with spring colors will work.

What do you think of the little chickie? Don't you think he is cute? He was actually created by Heather Summers, I just followed her directions. I love using my punches. There sooo many things you can do with them! What are your favorite punches? I think I just love them all. Many of the Stampin' Up! punches are exclusive to Stampin' Up! and can only be found through them. If you are interested in seeing what more punches can do leave a comment on this post and we will talk more about it.

Christmas...in April

One of my goals is to get my 16 year old daughters pictures scrapbooked. These are some Christmas pictures from several years ago. I made the Christmas ornaments from Christmas paper from the Christmas mini catalog. I punched the circles with my 1 3/4 circle punch. The bows are from silver elastic cord. You could replicate this layout for any holiday. Use hearts for valentines, shamrocks for March, flowers for spring etc.

   

If you want to try this layout order your favorite Designer paper and see what you come up with. Have fun!

Natures Beauty

Last November we took the kids down the road to an abandoned pay loader that was used in the area sandpits. It is big, rusty, and cool looking, there is also lots of weeds and trees etc. The contrast of nature and machine is striking. There is also a lot of weeds and brush that also make a nice background.

I absolutely love the flower cluster in the corner. I actually saw something similar on a card and replicated for a scrapbook embellishment. If you like to stamp in your scrapbooks but can't seem to get the look you want cards can be great inspiration. Instead of putting the "centerpiece of a card on a card put it on your scrapbook.

The flowers were made with the birds and blooms sizzlit set from Stampin' Up!, the five petal punch, and the small oval punch. I cut and punched several flowers in close to cocoa and So Saffron. I layered them for texture. For the leaves I took a strip of Old Olive and scored a 1 1/2 wide strip down the middle and then put it through the crimper. I unfolded it and punched several ovals with the small oval punch. I just played with all of it until I like how it looked and then glued it all down. I did use lots of stampin Dimensions to add to the layer look. 

I love the Thickers Letters Look but like to stick with my Stampin' Up! product. Sooo I make my own "Thickers"Using the serif font long alphabet die I cut each of the letters three times. I glued the individual letters together stacking them on top;of each other. Voila! Thicker Letters! 

 

     

Butterflies and Heat and Stick Powder

 This is another scrap lift. I used different colors and different stamps but the same layout. I love the little butterfly. I stamped him with heat and stick powder and then covered it with purple glitter. I got the glitter on a garage sale last spring and it matches perfect plum very well.  I stamped butterflies in versamark all over the card stock. I cut a top note die in Sahara Sand and stamped it with a stamp from Stem sillouttes. 

Do you want to try the heat and stick powder? It is the neatest stuff. If you want to try it out call me and book a workshop with you and your friends. I'll give you a demonstration and let you give it a try as well.  

A Trophy and a Wheel

 

Another one of Kirk's sports is Go-Carting. Last fall was the go cart banquet where he was awarded 2nd place in his class. He was pretty proud of himself. When scrapping this picture I ran into the same challenge that many moms of boys do-how do I embellish this and keep it from being girly. I decided to try make a Go-Cart wheel. My center got a little off though. I punched a 2 3/4 inch circle from card stock and chipboard for the tire. I glued those together and then used my Crop a dile to put in the large eyelet for the wheel itself.

Next to him is his older but shorter sister and his little sister. What a cute bunch! 

A New Technique

This year was Kirks first year in football. He did such a good job. I wanted to embellish the page but keep it masculine. I took my 1" twill tape. I first printed   "Go Wildcats on a piece of paper. I then taped the twill on top of the print and then ran it through again. It worked like a charm! I now have Wildcat ribbon! I took a football from my sticker stash.

By the way the kids had a great season!