I seem to be on a kick making things out of scraps.  This is a little silly since I have about 400 full size sheets of paper that I still need to use (and I keep buying more - as though I might run out soon).  I found this card on another SU! demo's website and knew I had to make it.  Check our her blog for a video on how to do the pinwheel.  You're just layering the pieces on top of each other, but I'm too lazy to type it all out when you can read about it on her site.

I wasn't crazy about the plain background of the original card, so I pulled out En Francais (it never fails to impress me with its beauty).  I stamped the entire image with Riding Hood Red, and then took Cherry Cobbler and patted it around a little, finishing with a few pats of Early Espresso.  I love the way the colours blend together and flow like the script.

Paper:  Early Espresso, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Holly Berry Bouquet, Glimmer paper
Ink:  Early Espresso, Riding Hood Red, Cherry Cobbler
Stamps:  Teeny Tiny Wishes, En Francais
Extras:  Bird punch, Modern label punch, Word Window punch

STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING TO DO THIS!!!

Oh sweet Lord do I have a treat for you!  Remember on yesterday's post how I was talking about how much I love meeting people at the Farmer's Market?  Well, yesterday this lovely lady Sandie came to my booth and we got to talking about crafting - I know, how strange? :)  Anyways, she was telling me about this amazing blog that she looks at and how she learned how to make her own embossing folders.  What?  Yes, she makes her own embossing folders.  So she emailed me the link to this amazing blog. 

Mel Stampz 

Holy cannoli is this girl amazing!  I spent my two coffee drinking hours looking through all of the outrageously crafty things she's got on there.  Once I finally picked up jaw up off the floor, I remembered the reason I was on her site.  Making custom embossing folders.

Here's what it looks like.

I went out to the porch and dug around in the recycling for an old cereal box which I then punched the heck out of to get all of these little leaves. 

Using the tan rubber mat and some layers of card stock I ran this sucker through my Big Shot and WOW!  It really works!  I jumped the gun a little and skipped the modgepodge stage since I don't have any right now and am FAR too impatient to wait to try this until I get some.  I think it would probably be a little crisper because it will be harder, but you get the point.

EEE!!!  Custom embossed paper!  (If you know me, I am doing an arm spazz right now!!)  I just can't get over how cool this is.

As amazing as this is, I can take zero credit on it.  Totally got the idea from Mel.  Here's the link to the page that describes how to do it.

Awesome Custom Embossing Goodness 

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you Mel for sharing!!!

Punch Bunch (Workshop)

During this workshop you will make three different cards: 1 birthday, 1 thank you, and 1 general occasion (you choose the sentiment).  The focus of this workshop is using a few of Stampin' Up's great punches, making a series of fun cards for your stash, ready to give out to your favourite people.

Stamps: Pennant Parade, Bring on the Cake
Ink:  Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue
Paper: Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Extras: Petite Pennants Punch

Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Word Play
Ink:  Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue
Paper: Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Extras: Butterfly Punch, Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, Perfect Polka dots embossing folder

Stamps: Curly Cute, A to Z
Ink:  Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue
Paper: Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso
Extras: Owl Punch, Bird Punch

 

Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Bold Blossom

Ink:  Pool Party, Versamark

Paper:  Pool Party, Poppy Parade, So Saffron, Very Vanilla

Extras:  Bird Punch, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Scallop Oval Punch