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The Paperie | January Card Kit (part 2)

09 Friday Jan 2015

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Apparently, I loved the January Card kit:

leftovers

Yup. That and two envelopes are all I have left. Garbage scraps, nothing more.

Gabe and I sat down because he wanted to make something for The Paperie. I hadn’t used the wood veneer ribbons or the envelopes so I snagged a pink envelope and I gave him what I had left. Gabe wanted to make an envelope and bookmark for some one special. 🙂

i love you front

He had fun with the stamps – the flower he coloured in with markers and he fell in love with the Gold Delicata ink when he stamped the chevrons. Which meant he needed to use it again for the speech balloon:

i love you back

He insisted on a pretty bookmark so used the small Prima Valentine’s girl from my stash for it:

bookmark front

And he signed and stamped the back:

bookmark back

My creation is completely boring in comparison:

valentine envelope front

I plan to pop a special note in here for Molly and maybe a gift card for us to go do something together. I added a speech balloon to the flap for easy opening:

valentine envelope back

And that’s it, no more January card kit shares – there simply isn’t enough product left to play with! I think there are more at the store to buy so make sure you give them a call and snag one while you can!

Cheers!

Sara

P.S. The other projects I made from the kit can be found here and here!

The Paperie | January Card Kit

06 Tuesday Jan 2015

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It’s back to the daily grind my friends! I took a couple of weeks off over Christmas and although it was busy, as Christmas always is, it was also relaxing and fun. I’m sad it’s over but excited to get into the new year and new classes – there are some awesome ones lined up at The Paperie!

To start things off with a bang, here are some of the last projects I made with the January Card Kit – I was so productive that I couldn’t get everything made in time for my deadline! To see everything else I made, you can check out this post or pop into the Paperie for the real items. Like what you see? You can call them to get one held for you and then you can show me how you worked with it!

First, a small lunchbox note:

the best

I heat embossed the flower from the included stamp set using Stampendous Aged Silver Embossing Enamel – I love the black bits!

Next up, a small tag to hang on a birthday gift. I used a Darcie’s Stamp Set I gave Gabe for Christmas and paper pieced a fun knight (sorry for the wonky exclamation mark and blurry photo, getting decent light here lately has been a challenge!):

hb2u

To add a bit of shine, I coloured parts of the suit with my Uniball Silver Gel Pen (The Paperie also carries Gold!):

hb2u shine

Finally, another stamp Gabe got for Christmas, the Toby stamp from Prima by Julie Nutting:

happy day

This is a full length tag made from paper in the kit. We usually use these instead of cards on birthday gifts and tell the recipient to use it as a bookmark!

And that’s it – I pretty much only have scraps left! That’s what I love best about Card Kits; they’re smaller than regular page kits so you can bring one to a crop, make a bunch of stuff, and be done with it – hardly any leftovers to worry about!

I’ll be back here again tomorrow with some new Simple Scrapper LO’s and news so make sure you stop back.

Cheers!

S.

Christmas Card kit – Special Guest Designers!

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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The Paperie has a brand new card kit out and it’s geared towards kids! To be honest though, I love it and had a ton of fun creating with it so trust me, it’s also adult friendly!

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The best thing about this card kit? My kiddies were “guest designers” for it and they were thrilled!

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Since I wrote a couple of blog posts for The Paperie showcasing all the projects we made, I’ll send you over there to check it all out – enjoy!

Molly & Gabe’s Creations

Sara’s Creations

Like what you see? They’re for sale now and they can also ship if you’re not in the area!

Cheers!

S.

June Card Kit – Sara’s take

06 Friday Jun 2014

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I’ve got a blog post up for The Paperie today with the work I did for the June Card Kit so make sure you go take a look. Also, for all the pics, check out my flickr account!

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Paperie Card Kit – March 2014: Part 3 – Assemblage Clock

28 Friday Mar 2014

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So, it’s been a bit longer than anticipated but I’m finally back with the last piece I made for the March Paperie Card kit.

When Tim Holtz debuted his Assemblage Clock I fell in love and snatched it up. Then, it just sat there. A case of must have, don’t know what to do. Until this kit!

I admit I was totally inspired by the gold rubons – one of which was “I love you to the moon & back.” Molly and I say that to each other every night, it had to used!

I printed one of my favourite pics of Molly when she was a teeny tiny and added that to the inside of the clock after I had painted everything with Silks Acrylic Glaze:

assemblage clock outside

I punched some hearts out of patterned paper, painted them, added some more rubons:

assemblage clock inside

And then put it all back together again!

assemblage clock

I love how it turned out – holding onto that clock was well worth the wait!

S.

Paperie Card Kit | March 2014: Part 2 – Cards

20 Thursday Mar 2014

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Sorry for the delay but I’m finally back with more of the Paperie’s March Card Kit and today it’s all about the cards!

I don’t consider myself a card maker and generally I don’t make many of them but the Avery Elle stamp set that was included in the kit made me want to make some.

First up, a fun one:

happy birthday outside

It’s a little deceptive though because the funnest surprise is on the inside:

happy birthday inside

It’s a great way to use up scraps of patterned paper that you can’t bring yourself to throw out!

I also made a little gift box:

card box

And filled it with easy cards:

card box set

I used a lot of repetitive stamping for these:

card 3

And added fabulous Studio Calico gold star rub-ons:

card 5

Finally, my favourite go-to card for kids birthdays – they always love it and it’s so easy to change up for a boy or girl or you can make a bunch a unisex ones:

boyo monsters

To see the rest of the cards in the gift box, or to check out the layouts I made, you can go view my Paperie set at Flickr or head into the Paperie itself to see them all in person!

Back tomorrow with the final project from the kit – my personal fave!

S.

 

 

 

Paperie Card Kit | March 2014: Part 1 – Layouts

14 Friday Mar 2014

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Today over on the Paperie blog are all the projects I made with the March card kit – I got a lot of mileage out of this one! To make it easier and much shorter for you here, today will just be all about the layouts.

birthday girlI had fun stamping and heat embossing the balloons for this one – with a couple of layers of UTEE they look like real shiny balloons! I also stamped the stars in silver ink for a bit of subtle shimmer:

birthday girl silver stamping

Finally, I did some hidden jounalling – of course – and doodled the edges.

This next one is one of my fave pics of Molly – love how she got all dressed up for the backyard!

fashion star

I mounted the photo on a base of silver crackle paste over a stencil:

fashion star croco

And finally, I punched the alpha stickers with a 1/4″ square punch since I didn’t want the circle ones for this LO. It worked perfectly!

The last LO was totally fun to do:

moon&stars

I used Pearl Modeling Creme over a stencil, sprinkled it with glitter gold embossing powder, and then heated to set the powder and bubble the paste. It was all kinds of awesome. 🙂

I added lots of paper layers, made some epoxy stars with the Epiphany tool, and added my title with the gold rub-ons in the kit:

moon&stars rubon title

Go check out my Flickr gallery to see more pics and a few more details. I’ll be back later with another post today (!!!) and next week I’ll share the rest of my Card Kit projects!

S.

 

A bit of this, a bit of that….

30 Thursday Jan 2014

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I know I’ve been pretty quiet around here but I’ve been a busy bee behind the scenes designing and making and playing! My goal for this year is to have classes, kits, and creative team work designed, prepped, and ready in advance – and not to be doing it at the last second. That being said though, I seem to work well under deadline pressure!

Right now I’m getting ready to post my work using the February Simple Scrapper Members templates:

love you to jupiter texture

and story starters:

how do i love thee doilyPlus I’m working my way through The Paperie‘s March Card kit:

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And I just finished designing the canvas for The Paperie’s first ever Canvas Class: Junior Edition!

superstar title

I’m so excited to see what all the kids do with the instructions – I know none of their canvases are going to look even remotely like mine and that’s the really awesome part of this class!

On top of that I’m mulling ideas for the new Yearlong Album class while waiting for my supplies to come in and I’m trying out things for my Seasonal Canvas: Winter class. Here’s the Spring canvas from last year’s retreat class, no peeks available yet for Winter though!

spring canvasAnd that’s it – for now! I still have more card kit projects to do and a little something fun for Scrapbook Steals so there will be lots more eye candy soon.

S.

Paperie Card Kit | January 2014: Part 2

16 Thursday Jan 2014

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I’m back to show you the rest of my projects from the Paperie’s January Card Kit (see the others here and here).

First up is a card that would hold a gift card. I used the 7 Gypsies tag included in the kit for the focal point – I think t his would make an awesome gift for those people you’re a little stumped about when it comes to gift giving times, like the postal carrier, or garbage man.

happy card

I simply folded one of the 6×6 pieces of patterned paper in half, keeping the top strip attached. This gave me a half circle on one side so I punched another on the other side and had a perfect place to rest my ribbon.

I then cut another piece of patterned paper to fit inside, cut a couple of notches for a gift card, and stamped a sentiment. Easy, quick, and done!

happy card - openAnother quick project were the lunch box notes. I just cut small pieces of patterned paper, folded them to resemble a matchbook, and stapled the bottom to keep the flap tucked in.

lunchbox notes

A fun heat embossed stamp inside and they’re perfect for Molly’s lunch!

lunchbox notes - open

Finally, my favourite, a canvas.

to the moon

As I mentioned before, I love the stamp set that came with the kit and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make this canvas. Pretty much everything came from the kit except the basics – the canvas, multimedium, paint, mist, and vintage book paper. I love the shine from the mix of gold, silver, and gold glitter embossing paper:

to the moon - shine

And of course, the title rocks!

to the moon - title

And that’s it – lots of projects and I still have lots of product left to play with! There may still be one or two kits left if you want to pick one up, just give the Paperie a call to reserve it!

S.

Paperie Card Kit | January 2014: Part 1

10 Friday Jan 2014

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Ok, go get a coffee, or tea, or hot chocolate, or something – this post is full to the brim with pics so you may need sustenance to get through it! 🙂

                                                                                                  

It’s Card Kit release time at the Paperie again and Wendy has already shown the beautiful cards she designed with the kit.

I know I say it every time, but this might be my favourite kit yet! It definitely netted the most projects and it contains one of my favourite stamp sets ever! To give you an idea of how good this kit is, I made 4 – 8.5×11 LO’s, a card, a mini album, some lunchbox notes, and a canvas. I’d say that’s pretty good value for a $24.99 kit!

I did give you a sneak peek a few days ago with my Simple Scrapper LO’s so today I’m going to show you the other 2 LO’s and the mini album. I’ll be back soon with the rest but if you want to check it all out now go to the Paperie to see it in person or online at their blog.

The mini album was the first thing I made – as soon as I saw the metallic envelopes I knew I had to use and highlight them!

all you need is love

I did pull out some washi tape from a previous kit, and used a stencil with mist for the cover, but everything else is from the current kit, including the sequins, ribbon, and stamp for the album title:

all you need is love - shine

A fun note about the stamp – I heat embossed using a mixture of gold, silver, and glitter gold powder. The look in real life is very cool!

I kept it pretty simple with just a few words and washi, and the envelope pockets leave lots of room for extra Christmas pictures. I think this would be an awesome gift for a grandparent – small and easy to store with lots of photos!

all you need is love - joyFor this first LO I knew I had to use this out-take picture of Molly during our Christmas Card photo shoot. She’s so funny when she has to get her picture taken and it’s always a negotiation: “I’ll be good for two pictures if you’ll take this one.” And then she makes a crazy face or pose.

smilesI heat embossed the title again, printed the journaling on some of the included patterned paper, and scattered some sequins and doodles throughout:

smiles - titleThe only thing I added from outside the kit were those Basic Grey glitter enamel dots – I love them!

I did a little cluster at the top of the page with some more pieces I fussy cut:

smiles - topThe last LO I made was a bit outside the box – literally!

helloTo fit this in my regular album I’ll simply cut down a 12×12 page protector and sew it shut with the same metallic thread I used to adhere the flags:

hello - flagsSince this was my idea of an abstract tree, I didn’t want to add journaling to the “trunk” so I simply added the title to a circle with the small Studio Calico alphas and journaled around that:

hello - titleAnd that’s it – finally! 🙂 I hope you enjoyed and got a few ideas for yourself and I really recommend you call in to get this kit. Truly, even after all the projects I did, I still have enough paper to make more cards and LO’s! It’s really chock full this month.

See you soon with the rest!

S.