My rose garden

I loved the roses so much I made five more! These were for a conference for NEWIM, an organization I love and volunteer for regularly. I made the tags with the Curly Label punch and the Movers & Shapers Curly Label die. I can’t wait to try making other flowers!  

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The owl & the rose – a love story

I love the daffodil flower in the petal cone vase and decided to try a rose, so I went looking for examples. I finally made it to YouTube and a video by Valita in Australia. Who would have thought you could make a rose using the owl punch? I don’t usually use the word awesome [...]

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A fancy flower pin

Last week I needed something red to wear on a blue denim shirt, so I whipped up this cute pin with my Big Shot and the Fancy Flower die. I had some thin organza type fabric I saved from a bouquet of flowers so I used that as layers. The middle brad is non-SU – [...]

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February projects

This month’s workshop projects were a lot of fun – but then I always have fun when I use the Big Shot. The first one is a CASE of Stampin’ Kari’s creation (on splitcoast), which was inspired by Jackie Topa. We all share our ideas and copy everything! I used Whisper White for the vase, [...]

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Wedding box instructions

Here are a little more detailed instructions for the cake explosion box: For the lid, cut a 7×7″ piece of cs or dsp, score at 1-1/2″ on all four sides. Clip along one corner score line in each corner – in other words, don’t cut out the corner square, just clip once in each corner [...]

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Exploding wedding cake!

This is the coolest thing! I checked several blogs for instructions for a cake explosion box and found out it’s very simple – wish it had been my idea! It starts with a 12×12 piece of designer paper, scored at 4″ all around. Cut out the corners and fold. Then you make a cake with [...]

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