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CCMC Saturday Blog Hop – All That Glitters

December 17, 2016 By Connie | 1 Comment

Woohoo, it’s time for the Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop! This week’s theme is All That Glitters! I went with a pretty CAS design on mine with “parts” that I had on my desk! Love when I can use those up! It gave me a challenge, too, because they were pieces that I normally wouldn’t have associated together.

Here are the details:

The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Thick Whisper White cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
The bottom of the 4 x 5-1/4 Sweet Sugarplum cardstock layer is stamped with the greeting from Star of Light in Memento Black Ink.
The Large Layering Oval was cut from Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper and added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The Flower Medallion was punched from Silver Glimmer Paper.
The large star from Starlight Thinlet Dies was cut from Sweet Sugarplum cardstock, then layered on the outline Thinlet cut from Metallic Silver Cardstock. Those were glued to the Flower Medallion Punch with Tombow Multipurpose Glue. (Doesn’t that look COOL behind the star????)
In the center is the smallest star Thinlet cut from Silver Glimmer Paper and added with a Mini Glue Dot.

It is SO hard to see how much this glitters and the Silver Metallic reflects the light! Hope you enjoy it!

Make sure to check out the rest of the Design Team to see what they did with the All That Glitters Blog Hop Challenge this week!

Next up is the Create with Connie and Mary website so you can find out more about our December Mini Session that just opened! Our tutorials are featuring products from the Occasions and Sale-A-Brations catalogs!

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Tin of Tags Snowflake

December 14, 2016 By Connie | 2 Comments

You may recall that I’ve shown several different looks with the Tin of Tags Snowflake over the past couple months. Some times I just like to sit down with a set and play with several colors and layouts! Here’s the last of that series that I’ve made. (You can see the others HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE!) With the fun ribbon on this one, it reminds me of a big present all wrapped up and ready to give away!

Here are the details:

The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Thick Whisper White, scored at 5-1/2 and folded to form base card.
The Warm Wishes greeting from Tin of Tags stamp set is stamped in Real Red Ink at the bottom of the 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Soft Sky.
The 3/4″ Real Red Stitched Ribbon is wrapped around the Soft Sky layer and tied with a knot in the center. The layer was adhered to the base card.
The snowflake from Tin of Tags stamp set is stamped with Real Red Ink on scrap Whisper White, then punched with the Flower Medallion Punch (don’t you love when you find out something works with a punch you already have? I love that the snowflake fits in the punch…Stampin’ Up! doesn’t have it listed that it does!)
In the center of the snowflake is a Silver Metallic Sequin. The snowflake is popped up on the front of the card.

That’s it! Pretty CAS design and probably one that you wouldn’t mail because of the bulky ribbon, but I’d tuck this card into a hand-delivered gift bag for the recipient to enjoy!

Need the supplies? Several items are on sale during our CLOSEOUT SALE! Please feel free to order from my online store…click on the photos below to take you there! Thanks!

Tin Of Tags Photopolymer Stamp Set
$16.80

Flower Medallion Punch
$18.00

Metallics Sequin Assortment
$5.00

Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad
$6.50

Soft Sky 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock
$8.00

Real Red 3/4″ (1.9 Cm) Stitched Edge Ribbon
$5.10

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock
$7.00

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SUOC122 Petal Potpourri

April 28, 2015 By Connie | Leave a Comment

Last time we had some issues with the website for SUO Challenges, so if you tried to view it, you may not have been able while it was off-line. But, it’s time for another SUO Challenge, this time our theme is Mother’s Day! Very timely as I need several for my Mother, Mother-in-law, and two Daughter-in-laws, one who will experience Mother’s Day for the first time! I pulled out my two favorite flower sets in the Occasions Catalog, Petal Potpourri and Mother’s Love!

I have always loved yellow, white and gray combination…one day I will do our bedroom in these colors! So clean and crisp looking! I also pulled out my embossing gun! I love the look of embossing, but I don’t use it as often as I should. White embossed on the yellow just pops! Here are the details:

The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Daffodil Delight, folded in half.
On top is a 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Smoky Slate, stamped with the mom greeting in Mother’s Love in Tuxedo Black ink.
The Petal Potpourri flower was stamped three times with Versamark on Daffodil Delight and embossed with White Embossing Powder, then punched with the Flower Medallion Punch.
One of the other Petal Potpourri flowers was stamped with Versamark and embossed with White Embossing Powder on Smoky Slate cardstock, then punched with the Flower Medallion Punch, too. It was cut up and used as leaves.
The flowers and leaves were arranged on the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

OK…did I say I love this color combination? Make sure to check out the rest of the Design Team over on SUO Challenges this week and play along!

April Blog Tour: Petal Potpourri

April 19, 2015 By Connie | 2 Comments

It’s time for the Control Freaks “Tour de Freaks” Blog Hop! This month’s theme is “Time to Celebrate”! We have lots of things coming up to celebrate…graduations, end of the school year, Mother’s Day, and of course birthdays! You’ve probably just come from Debbie Henderson’s blog, weren’t her projects fun?

Well, I love Petal Potpourri and decided to use it for my projects this month! I made a little favor box and card to match! Here’s the card:

And here is the little favor box made with the Party Pennants Die. I promised the tutorial…here you go:

Petal Potpourri Favor Box Tutorial

Aren’t they SOOOO cute? Love the colors and I’m sad that Crisp Cantaloupe and Pistachio Pudding will be retired soon. The background is stamped tone-on-tone with Crisp Cantaloupe Ink and the outline flower. The Calypso Coral Flower is set off against the Garden Green Flower Medallion punched piece and Gold Soiree Designer Specialty Paper! The center is Pistachio Pudding punched with the 7/8″ Scallop Circle Punch, then the circle stamped with Gold Metallic Ink. Add a little 1/8″ Gold Ribbon for the finishing touch on the card and cello bag holding the candy! The beautiful script greeting is from Stampin’ Up!’s Lovely Amazing You stamp set!

OK…next stop is Justin Krieger and his fabulous projects, then continue around on the tour!