Sites of the week

Welcome to another edition of ABC {Anything But A Card} Friday! Today I am showing you a frame that I made the day before I left to come to San Diego. This is actually a 4-section shallow tray from Glue. I am pretty sure that these are about the greatest trays/frames around to make personal gifts. I think that this is the 4th one that I have made…and I rarely do something more than once, which is really more of a time constraint thing rather than a personal choice.

I started with the plain unfinished tray and painted it white. The squares are layered with Papertrey Dark Chocolate, Sweet Blush and Stamper’s Select White. The top square is cut out with scallop square Nestabilities and then embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder for Cuttlebug. It is also mounted on dimensional glue dots for added depth. The swirls are cut from Prism Intense Kiwi cardstock with the Basics 3 Slice cartridge. I added Prima flowers, acrylic accents and brads as the finishing touches to the squares.

Along the outer edges of the frame, I applied a scalloped scalloped {yes, I said that twice on purpose} edge. This is a fun new punch from EK Success that creates a scalloped edge, but the scallops actually have scallops on them, too! Very fun! The bird in the center is a Jenni Bowlin chipboard piece that I covered with American Crafts cardstock. The wing is the same Prism Intense Kiwi as that swirls in the squares. I also ran it through the Swiss Dots embossing folder to coincide with the texture inside the squares. The sentiment is from PSX {”retired”} and is topped off with another Prima, and button like the ones that I applied to the four outer corners.

I hope you enjoyed this ABC Friday as much as me! See you tomorrow for another Sketch For You To Try!

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More blog tarts on this weeks Sketch For You To Try post HERE.

LOOKIE LOOKIE…Check out the boxes below this post. Those are my recent posts and there is now a thumbnail instead of just words. YAY!!

Hey everyone! It’s ABC Friday and I am showing you a card file from GLUE that I have altered. GLUE has 3 sizes of card files and this is the standard size, holding cards measuring 3 x 5. I found some really fun flocked paper at Hobby Lobby and knew that it would be perfect to use on this. One sheet of 12 x 12 paper was enough to cover the card file and create 4 cards in the file. You can make more cards if you don’t cover the bottom, but I was lazy and just wrapped the whole thing.

Detail shot of the front with K & Co. butterflies and Swarovski crystals…

Detail of the tabs that have a Cuttlebugg’d panel, Prima flower, Alpha button and Swarovski crystal…

While I chose to go with the traditional “addresses” way to use this file, it can be used for all sorts of things. My good friend, Susan {or SusSus as Ellie calls her} did a recipe file. You can check that out HERE.

See you tomorrow for another Sketch For You To Try and the winner of last week’s blog tart {there is still time to enter!}.

YAY! It’s Friday, which means I get to show off an “Anything But A Card” project to you. This week, I’m also throwing in a card to this post. You’ll see why later

My bud, Susan, and I went to the Great American Scrapbook Convention last month. While we were at the Glue booth, we decided to duel. Okay, not really. We picked out a couple products to challenge each other with. {Note, these are not yet up on the Glue site}. I came up with a little project for Ellie’s room with pictures of Tony’s side of the family. Susan is still working on hers at this very moment, but she promises a very cute project to be completed later today. Be sure to check it out HERE.

First, here is the inspiration for this piece. It’s the bedding that I hope to get for Ellie’s room. Cute, huh?

It started out as a plain piece of wood. I added the paint, paper, ribbon and all the other embellishments that you see. The photos are on this do-dads, which I painted, covered in paper and then threaded ribbon through…

Here are some detail shots…

This part was created with a circle coaster covered in the orange polka dot paper. I then used the “negative” portion of a Bazzill chipboard flower that I have had forever and covered in with the green paper and dew drops. It is mounted on dimensional glue dots on top of the circle coaster.

So, it’s Anything BUT a Card Friday usually. Today it’s Anything AND a Card Friday. I am a little behind on challenges and such. Today is Julee’s {creative genius that IS Verve Stamps} birthday and I wanted to incorporate some of challenges that I have been “missing.” This card incorporates three challenges…

1. It’s Julee’s sketch for Mojo Monday #47
2. Laurie’s “Got Vellum?” Dare To Get Dirty challenge. I used the new Papertrey vellum cardstock here. YUM-O…I likeee!
3. Susan’s “Button, Button, Who’s Got The Button?” verve challenge

Shannan has a thread going in the Verve forum on SCS telling Julee HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Be sure to stop by {HERE}.

See you manana!

Happy Hump Day! Today is the first day of Ellie’s Wiggles and Tunes class. I am totally looking forward to it! One of her little friends is going to be in there, too. I am going to try to take pics, but it’s a Mommy and Me class, so I’m not sure how that is going to work. LOL!

I guess everyone is liking my sketches! Today I checked the sketch challenge on SCS and there was one of the sketches I did in April. You can see my post HERE. It’s fun to see everyone’s take on it. I hope to get to play again a little later today….Laundry, what laundry!??!

Also, have you picked up the latest Take Ten issue? The “We Challenge You” sketch is also one of my cards/sketches {page 26}. Let me know if you send in a submission to them. I can’t wait to see everyone’s cards in print!!!

As you may know, My Favorite Things is releasing several new stamp sets tonight! Be sure to join us HERE for the release party from 9-11 EST. It is a very exciting release for MFT, as we are presenting a new line of stamps. Here is a message from MFT…

My Favorite Things is pleased and proud to introduce you to our brand-spankin’ new line, My Favorite Things Presents! My Favorite Things Presents opens the door for us to work with new Illustrators and continue to offer images that are “Fresh, Fun and Completely Distinctive!” This spin-off brand will begin by offering images from artist Annie LaPointe, being introduced over the next few months. Other Illustrators, as *need* arises, will be added as we find artists and styles we feel would translate well into the stamp world and as we see a niche we can uniquely fill. My Favorite Things original brand will continue to be drawn by the irreplaceable Christy Beckwith, whose style has so completely captured our hearts.

Here a couple creations using this GORGEOUS new line…

This uses a tray from GLUE. I love how these turn into home decor so quickly and easily!

Here are a couple projects using the Congrats all Around set. I’m such a sucker for baby projects!! The tag was made by taking 2 scallop circle punches and adhering them together after scoring the back piece about 1/2″ in. I used the SU! Word Window punch to create a loop to string the ball/chain thread through.

Up close on the tag…

Here’s the card. I did not finish the inside, but I think that it would make a great shower, new baby or announcement.

Again, I hope that you will join us at the release party tonight! It’s a lot of fun and everyone is welcome. There will be more projects to see, some announcements and a few challenges. Have a great day!!

When I first got the blank necklace stand from GLUE, I knew that it wasn’t going to be a necklace stand when I got done with it. First, I am not a jewelery person. Never have been, and most likely never will be, so I don’t have a lot of necklaces to display on this. However, I do have about 5,000 {give or take a few} pictures of Ellie that I could put on here. So, there was my inspiration…pics of Ellie. Last November we went to Arizona to visit my parents and I go several pics of Ellie watering the flowers {something that she became quickly obsessed with}. I took out my Basic Gray chipboard letters and fiddled until I came up with something that both fit the picture and fit inside my work space. Viola, this is what I came up with…

The flowers were created with coaster cut with a Cuttlebug die and covered in DP. The chipboard at the top is not from Basic Gray, but rather something that I picked up at JoAnn’s on sale and I can’t remember the brand {sorry!}.
I must admit that this actually wasn’t the first {or only} idea that I had for this stand. Here are a few more things that you could do with it that I came up with…
1. Decorate and use as a necklace stand {who woulda thunk?}
2. Use it as a recipe holder. The phrase “Kiss The Cook” comes to mind.
3. Cover it with chalkboard paint and use it as a message board.
4. Mod Podge some pretty paper on it and criss-cross some ribbons to make it place to put notes and pictures.
5. Make it a clock.
6. Decorate with a mirror for a make-up table.
…get my point? You could do just about anything!

Some of the Glue DT members got this stand to work with this month, and others got a cute 3×3 stand. Be sure to check out the eye candy that they have for you on their blogs.

See ya’ll tomorrow with another Sketch For You To Try! You’ll have to be sure to check up on Shannan to make sure that she does this one right.