Simple & Clean Card: Fresh Vintage

This Fresh Vintage A2 card focuses on a column of little flowers and a limited color scheme: pool party, calypso coral and whisper white. The Everyday Enchantment brads add a nice, dimensional touch. If I were to create this with the stamp set and Stampin' Up! supplies, I would heat emboss the flowers with white embossing powder, cut them out and adhere them to the card with dimensionals to "pop" up.

Fresh Vintage Card

Pool party is definitely one of my favorite 2011-2012 In Colors. It can be used on bright, playful cards with cheerful colors, such as poppy parade, calypso coral and lucky limeade... and it is versatile enough to be placed with subtle, quiet colors like whisper white and basic grey.

The A2 card shown above feels "asian inspired" because I could imagine the patterns from the strips of Everyday Enchantment DSP on washi (Japanese paper). There is not much layering, just the relatively clean layout with straight lines and touches of color. The focal image is from the Fresh Vintage stamp set. A slight "dusting" or sponging effect was made around the edges with Soft Suede.

Fresh Vintage Magnetic Bookmark - MDS

Here is a fairly easy project to create: a magnetic bookmark. You can personalize it or reproduce several for party favors, gifts or special occasions. It is slim enough to be placed in a handmade greeting card for a birthday, Mother's Day or the holidays!

The final size is 1 1/2" wide by 7" long (3 1/2" folded in half). I thought it would be great to include a DSP pattern on the interior, for added pizzazz and color. To make the bookmark ends stick together, just use 1" wide thin magnetic strips on each end (interior).

This is how the bookmark appears (folded):

Full Outer Design:

Interior of Bookmark:

Mixed Bunch Easel Card

The second card I created for the Occasions Mini swap is an "easel card" which is great for displaying on a table. It has a special fold, a layer of cardstock and a little embellishment to allow it to stand on its own. Stay tuned for some Sale-a-Bration 2012 card swap samples!

Mini Box (Created with the Petal Card Double Punch)

Here is a little idea for a cute stocking stuffer, birthday present, tooth fairy box, or gift box.

Take four punched pieces using the Petal Card Double Punch, and glue each of the side flaps together. The side flaps should be folded toward the interior of the box. (If you prefer the inside of the box to be as flat as possible, you may want to snip off one petal flap from each punched piece and glue side flaps to interior sides of the box.)

To close the bottom of the mini box, fold each consecutive petal flap down, tucking part of the last flap beneath the first to hold it in place. Repeat this to close the top of the box. (You can also glue the bottom flaps, if you like.)

The finished box will be approximately 1" length x 1" width x 1" height. You can fit a bracelet, necklace, earrings, simply adorned creation, a Hershey's "hug" and "kiss", a tooth for the tooth fairy, a folded dollar bill, tiny candies, a mini book, a keychain, a magnet, a rolled up message, or anything small that you can think of!

This box was made with riding hood red, daffodil delight and whisper white cardstock, Greenhouse Gala designer series paper, Cute by the Inch hostess stamp set, riding hood red, old olive and early espresso markers, beautiful wings embosslits die and basic pearl. A lady at Convention 2010 swapped a simply adorned insert for one of my 3D items and I thought it would be great to use the same color scheme for this box.

The more punched petal cards you adhere together, the larger the box can become. My next project may be a flower-shaped box created with the punch. Stay tuned!