Snowflake by Penny Ward

 

Happy New Years Eve!!!! 

Penny here with a very simple yet stylish Thank You card. With Christmas behind us for another year, it is time to write Thank You cards to friends, family and coworkers. This creation of mine really stands out using only White and Kraft cardstocks. Do parents still teach their children to write Thank You notes? My kids are in their late 20's and I taught them long before I started making cards. You can't hold a tweet or Facebook post in your hand, or slip it into a shoe box to bring out later to admire. 

I do love sending real cards because I like receiving them also. How about You?

 

Let's do this:

 

Start with a White cardstock base measuring 4.25 x 5.50 inches. Round the corners.

 

 

Cut a piece of Kraft cardstock 3.75 x 5 inches, round the corners and ink the edges with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo. Adhere to card front.

 

 

Die cut Chancery Snowflake Outline with White cardstock and die cut Chancery Snowflake with White Glitter cardstock. Adhere together, then to the center of the card front.

Stamp and heat emboss greeting from the Sentimental Iris stamp set.

Add Natural Jute as shown.

 

Pretty Easy Peasy Mr. Sneezy!!!!

 

Hope you have the most wonderful and crafty 2018,

 

Supplies

 

CL5202 Snetimental Iris clear stamp set

99806 Chancery Snowflake

99802 Chancery Snowflake Outline

Snow Bunny Becomes a Friendly Puppy On Stitched Curves by Jean Okimoto

 

The Deep Edge Snow Bunny die set creates a sweet bunny and - with a bit of creativity - a friendly little puppy too!  Hi everyone - Jean Okimoto here, on the last weekend of a very busy year.  I love using Memory Box dies in unique ways - and this may be an extreme makeover - but I think he looks quite spiffy.  Hope you agree!

Cut the head and midsection from kraft cardstock.  Cut three paws from dark kraft cardstock - one will be his mouth.

Cut his arms from dark kraft cardstock - they'll be his back paws.  Hind paws?

Cut two midsections from printed paper and fold them to form floppy ears.  I've used this great print from Shizen Designs - Impress can order it for you.  It's item #HP1172.  Love how the lines converge and curve to add dimension.

Cut the body and the angled scarf section from printed paper.  The scarf section will be a tail.

Cut the straight scarf section from red felt attached to adhesive label paper for stability.  That's his collar!

Cut eyes and a nose from black cardstock.  Cut the nose from pink cardstock for a tongue.

Assemble the bunny-turned-into-a-puppy.  Use foam dots for the ears and head

Cut two layers of Stitched Curves from textured natural cardstock.  Glue them together, then trim them with the long edge of the 4" x 5-¼" Rectangle Basics die.  Borders a bit shorter than the card create neat edges that don't look bulky.  

Stamp the greeting - from the Sentimental Iris Clear Stamps Set - on a 5-½" square card of textured natural cardstock with Lightning Black Brilliance.  Dry the ink and attach the pup.  Add a red glittered heart sticker and gold gem stickers.

Square and thick cards require extra postage - but I think this little guy and his kind message will brighten someone's day.  

Thanks very much for visiting our blog, for liking us on Facebook - and for all of your thoughtful comments throughout the year!  We have a huge collection of new designs coming next week and can't wait to share our ideas and designs with you.

I look forward to sharing more ideas with you here and in classes in 2018.  Here's a preview of my classes at Impress - hope to see you soon!

    Winter and Early Spring Classes at Impress in Tukwila, Washington - Phone 206 901.9101

                Love is Sweet - January 6

                So Many Hearts - January 13

                NEW from Memory Box - January 20

                Cakes, Candles and Birthday Wishes - February 10 and 19 (Presidents Day)

                Simply Asian - February 24

                Springtime Greetings - March 10

                Paper and InKollage - March 24

Hope you'll be back for Penny's great project tomorrow.  

Wishing you a safe and very Happy New Year!

 

 

Supplies

 

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

99842 Stitched Curves

CL5202 Snetimental Iris clear stamp set

30097 Snow Bunny craft die

Happy New Year by Donna Sledzik

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Next up is New Years, and I hope it is a happy and healthy one for all of you!

For my New Year's card I die cut the Woodland Oval from black cardstock and embossed it with aged black embossing powder from Stampendous.  It gives the die cut a nice shimmer and texture.

To create the background for the card I sponged Broken China Distress Oxide Ink over a white cardstock layer, using masks for the moon and the hills.  

Remove the masks and use the circle that the mask was cut from as a stencil and ink the moon with Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink.  I used the reverse mask and inked the hills with the same ink.

I spattered the background with white acrylic paint.  Once the paint was dry I glued my die cut to the background.  

I sponged Broken China Distress Oxide ink onto a white cardstock strip and stamped the saying with black ink.  Using foam adhesive I adhered  the sentiment to the card front.

To finish the card I glued the card front to a white card base and embellished the card with some sequins.

Thanks for stopping by today!

99185 Woodland Oval

Happy New Year 2018 by Jenny Griffiths

Welcome Memory Box Friends and Happy New Year 2018

  Another year has whizzed by and in this time, Memory Box has brought us so many fresh and exciting dies and stamps to inspire our creations.  I planned to name my favorites here but my list grew and I realized there were too many to recap...and there are so many more on the way.  Can't wait for you to see what is coming soon.   2018 is going to be a stellar year!

Looking back over my Memory Box stamps and dies I selected a few favorites --some new, some older and some in-beween.  You may just have these in your stash already so here's a suggestion to create a New Year's card...quick, it's almost here!  

 The Pinpoint Double Frame is a two-parter.  The inner rectangle cuts out completely and will fit snugly back in place but I wanted a little black background to peek through so I ever-so-slightly trimmed the inner rectangle piece smaller.  After piecing the sentiment together to read, "wishing you a happy" I stamped it on the trimmed rectangular panel and added the gold mirror numbers 2018.  

 

The white panel (minus the center) was covered with foam mounting tape for a little "lift" and adhered to the black layer.

Next, the shiny Tall Pine and Small Quite Deer silhouette were added on the right side.

I can truthfully say the most difficult part of this card was photographing it without catching my own reflection in that shiny gold paper!  (My husband was laughing at me and my acrobatics as I was photographing the card--glad I could amuse you Sweetie.)

 Thank you for stopping by today!

 May you have a truly wonderful year-end season and look forward to 2018 with peace, hope and creativity in your heart.

 

 

Supplies

 

99848 Tall Pine

CL5196 So Many Things to Love clear stamp set

98362 Classic Numbers

99523 Small Quiet Deer

99765 Pinpoint Double Frame

Bubble Burst and Cocktail Hour New Year Wishes by Jean Okimoto

 

 

Celebrate the arrival of 2018 with a splashy Bubble Burst and tiny Cocktail Hour glasses - very glittered, of course!  Hello, Jean Okimoto here,  with a New Year card featuring some of my favorite Memory Box dies.  

Cut white cardstock with the 2" x 3-¼ Rectrangle Basics die.  Cut it with a portion of the Bubble Burst die.  Attach a slightly smaller rectangle of double-stick tape or laminating film behind the diecut.  Brush ultra-fine gold glitter onto the adhesive in the open areas.  

Cut pale coral cardstock with the  2-¼" x 3-½" Rectangle Basics die.  Attach it behind the glittered Bubble Burst.

Cut three ¾" wide accent strips - 4-¾" long of gray cardstock, 3-½"  long of pale pink glittered cardstock and 2-½" long of pale coral cardstock.  

Cut the larger cocktail glasses from light gold, gold and coral glittered cardstock.  Cut six more cocktail glasses from cardboard scraps and attach two behind each glittered glass for dimension.

Attach the diecuts to a top-folded 5-½" square card of textured white cardstock.  Attach a mini-calendar.  Add silver gem stickers.  These little calendars are from Impress.  

Looking for a few more Christmas designs from Memory Box and Poppystamps to add to your collection?   Impress is having a a special sale right now  - 40% off the price of their Christmas merchandise through this Sunday, December 31st.  Shop soon - these great dies and stamps sell quickly at Impress!

Thanks for visiting - see you again on Saturday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

99353 Cocktail Hour

99771 Bubble Burst

After Christmas Sales

Greetings friends.  We wanted to share some deals with our sister sites...Poppystamps and Birch Press Design.    Both are having wonderful after-holiday sales starting today and running through December 31st.  Save while you can!

Poppystamps has really fun stamp and die sets.

As for Birch Press, they have paper and embellishments as well as beautiful dies.

Happy holidays everyone!

Merry Christmas Eve by Penny Ward

 

Merry Christmas Eve. 

Penny here with one last holiday card from me to you.  All around the world, Christmas Eve is an exciting day, but for the Ward family it is extra special as our grandson is having a birthday today. 

I hope your holiday card making is done, but just in case, this is a really quick one to put together.

 

Here we go:

 

As always ...start with a White card base.  

 

 

Trim a piece of Kraft cardstock 4 x 5.50 inches. Die cut the snowflake from Snowflake Joy three times and adhere to bottom of Kraft panel as shown.

 

 

Die cut Brush Merry Christmas from White cardstock and adhere to top portion of the Kraft panel.

Wrap pretty Red Ribbon above the snowflakes, add a bow and adhere panel to base card.

 

I just love 10 minute cards!!!

 

From all of us at Memory Box, we are wishing you the most wonderful Christmas. 

Many happy blessings,

 

 

Supplies

99596 Snowflake Joy

99832 Brush Merry Christmas

Merry, Light and Bright…Tisdale Snowflake Collage, Starlight Snowflake Collage and Piccolo Snowflakes by Jean Okimoto

 

The Tisdale Snowflake Collage and Starlight Snowflake Collage dies are perfect for super-fast projects on this eve of Christmas eve.  Simple vellum candle sleeves take just a few minutes and add another reason to have these beautiful contemporary dies in your personal Memory Box Collection.    Hello, Jean Okimoto here tonight with a quick project for your dining table, mantle or windowsill.  

Cut a sheet of white vellum sized to fit around big and little battery-operated candles with a ½" overlap.  Diecut the large piece three times with the Tisdale Snowflake Collage placed slightly diagonally.  Cut the three  uncut areas with the Starlight Snowflake Collage.  Wrap the vellum around the candle.

Oops...you'll probably notice that the curvature of the candle pushes the center portion of one of the large Tisdale snowflakes out like little spikes.  Attach Scor-Tape behind a scrap of white vellum and cut the smallest Piccolo Snowflake three times.   Carefully attach these self-adhesive Piccolo snowflakes over the center of the defiant Tisdale snowflake points to secure the little pieces.  They're the center top and bottom snowflakes in the picture above.  The delicate Piccolo snowflake not only controls the little pokies - it also adds a bit of dimension to the collage.

Cut the small strips of vellum with the Starlight Snowflake Collage.  Wrap the vellum around the candles.

That's it...done!

Thanks very much for stopping by on this busy weekend.  Be sure to visit Impress during the holidays to complete your collection of Memory Box and Poppystamps dies and stamps.  They're making room for our January Release too - so it's a good time to shop for some of the current designs on your wishlist before they go away!

Please join us again for Penny's Christmas Eve project tomorrow.

Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating on Monday!

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

99883 Starlight Snowflake Collage craft die

99827 Tisdale Snowflake Collage

99850 Piccolo Snowflakes

2017 Holiday Look Book

Looking for a bit of just-in-time inspiration?  Here's our 2017 Holiday Look Book of designs for ornaments, gifts, sewing and cards.  Enjoy!

 

Tiny Tree Triplet, Sketchbook Joy, Starlit Breeze and Rectangle Basics by Jean Okimoto

Six little trees -  from the new Tiny Tree Triplet set - create a quick and easy last-minute holiday greeting.  Glittery gold stars and a matching Sketchbook Joy add the finishing touch.  Hi - Jean Okimoto here - with my final card of the season for you today.

Cut smooth white cardstock with the 1-½" x 2-¾" Rectangle Basics die.  Cut it with the 6-trees die.  Cut turquoise, red and green cardstock with the 1-¼" x 2-½" Rectangle Basics die.  This great rectangles set eliminates the guesswork, measuring - and hoping the colored rectangles won't show along the edges of the white rectangle.  Christmas is just four days away - this will be quick!

Cut the turquoise rectangles with the 5-trees die.  Cut the red rectangle with the 3-trees die.  Layer the turquoise, red and green rectangles behind the white piece.  

Cut Sketchbook Joy from green glittered cardstock - it'll be easy to remove the delicate diecut if you place a layer of medium-weight plastic (like a shopping bag) between the die and the cardstock.  Save the little dot that goes above the "j."  The plastic-covered diecut will slip right out of the die.  Just peel the plastic off, then wiggle the negative sections away from the "joy" instead of vice-versa.  It works, trust me!

Cut ¾" x 4-½"  and ¾" x 3-¾"" accent strips of turquoise and red cardstock.

Cut gold glittered cardstock stars with the Starlit Breeze die.

Attach everything to a top-folded A-2 card of textured white cardstock.

Big thanks to everyone from last weeks WINTER BLISS class at Impress - and extra-big thanks to everyone who joined us for classes throughout 2017.   A total of 34 classes, including the repeats!  Thank you very much for taking the time and traveling from near and far to mix, match, layer, stamp, fold and attach - and laugh and chat - while we made cards, calendars, tags and treat wrappers.  Special thanks to everyone at Impress too - for all of your help!  

2018's classes begin on January 6th with my LOVE IS SWEET Valentine class.  More techniques, zingy colors, glitter and another candy-card for your special sweeties.

Thanks for stopping by - see you soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

99814 Tiny Tree Triplet

99242 Sketchbook Joy

99398 Starlit Breeze