…is Captain America! I grew up in the world of Super Friends…Superman, Wonder Woman and, of course, Captain America! We went on Sunday to see the new movie in 3-D.
And I had to make a SMASH page! I forgot to get the ticket stubs from Mom…but never fear…my PTI “Just the Ticket” stamp set and the ticket die arrived the other day!
Some PTI stamp sets have fifty million pieces and are a booger to stamp. 😉 That said, I do like this stamp set and I LOVE the die! I had die cut FAR more tickets than I used…as I said, it was tough stamping straight. And no…didn’t have any margaritas while stamping either. LOL
I went to my “go to” alpha set…Tidy Alphabet for the title.
The stars underneath the title are die cuts I received in a scrapbooking kit.
This is the second 3D movie we’ve seen this year. I think I’m 3D’d out. What good movies have you seen lately?
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This card, I made several years ago. If I’m remembering correctly, it was a case of something Gina K Designs related.
The patterned paper is actually Basic Grey paper – from the Blush collection and it coordinates very well with SU! Real Red and Close to Cocoa. The designer paper covers a piece of chipboard from SU!’s On Board Accents. The animals are from an older SU! set that I no longer have. The animals were colored with markers and the sheep has Tulip White Puffy paint on it. According to the sticky note inside the card, (which, by the way, doesn’t list the SU! set, but lists all the other supplies. LOL) it appears the card used to have a prima flower or two and some fibers…I think it looks fine without ’em. They sure weren’t on there when I pulled the card out of the card drawer.
Thanks for taking a trip down the memory lane with me. It’s fun to look at projects created a while back.
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I researched various quotes on the web. I found five I particularly like. I’m using my stash AND the counterfeit paper & pockets.
My son didn’t ‘get” the bathroom minute. I think he’s spoiled. Me, having grown up in a family of four with ONE bathroom…ahem.
We went to see Captain America in 3D yesterday. Here’s something totally unrelated to creating…but it sure is cute!
Not only does he have on 3D glasses…he has the ear phones, too. LOL. He was out getting in some running time…he greeted us as we arrived home from the moo’vie!
How’s your SMASHbooking coming along? SMASHing? 😉
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Remember the Cow Piles? Here’s one all colored up and pasted in my SMASHing idea book!
I colored the pile of Cow Piles with SU! Watercolor Wonder Crayons and an aquapainter! I was planning to make Cow Appreciation Day cards to take to work. That didn’t happen. Then yesterday, the stars aligned! LOL. A Stampin’ Flybabies stamping challenge to use NINE layers AND an SCS sketch challenge from Wednesday…plus the mollymoo challenge to finish unfinished bizenss…and I just plumb felt up to a challenge or two or three!
Viola!
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| A nine layer cow pile card…and that don’t count the pile of cows! |
Am I going to take the remaining four cow piles and create FOUR more NINE layer cards? I reckon so. I think the key to a great nine layer card is that it doesn’t look like you tried to make a nine layer card. I think I got it!
Have you made a nine layer card? How’d you feel about it?
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Here’s another page I created for my SMASHing idea book using Ruff Day from Stampin’ Up! (retired). I had stamped these and included them in the original sheet protector / three ring binder book I mentioned HERE.
Here they are trimmed out & colored with SU! markers…making their debut in a SMASHing idea book!
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| a SMASHing idea book page for Ruff Day |
Looking at them in the SMASHing idea book gives me more ideas than thinking this is “just a dog set” (stored in drawer method) or the impersonal feel of the images stored in sterile sheet protectors. I see birthday, I see encouragement, I see have a good trip…and that puppy about to pounce is just too darn cute! What other stamps do I have that I can mix & match with this one? Once I make that connection, I will write that down on the page!
Have you been inspired to create your own SMASHing idea book? Remember, it doesn’t have to be perfect…and it’s ALWAYS a work in progress. Enjoy the journey!
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My SMASHing idea book is coming along with each project I create. Sometimes I do make the page before I put away the supplies from my projects, other times it’s all about the page. The sets are in random order, so I have an index…
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| a SMASHing idea book – Index |
…and page numbers…
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| a SMASHing idea book – Page numbers at the bottom of most pages |
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| a SAMSHing idea book – Page numbers at the top of some pages |
My SMASHing idea book is not an alphabetical index of what I HAVE, but rather an idea book of how to use what I have. My goal is to write down ideas before I purchase a set, then when the sets get here, make the SMASH book pages. I’ll eventually have both – a stamp inventory AND an idea of what I wanted to use those sets for. The ultimate goal is to use what I have. Ideally, I won’t be stumped for a crafting idea because I have realized there is no way humanly possible to use every craft product I have. I just have to keep my mojo flowing and if using an idea books on days it’s not flowing freely gets it flowing, then I’m all for it. I have lots of ideas for things but I cannot do them all at once and I cannot use up precious brain cells trying to remember all of them. Brain cells are getting in short supply anyway.
When I started my page numbering, I chose my favorite SU! products.
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| Tidy Numbers (retired) |
Tidy Alphabet and Tidy Numbers is my go to set! Easy to trim and looks good with just about everything!
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| Wild Wasabi ink. |
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| A great way to use up scraps! |
I do a little at a time, so I don’t get bored and so I can use up scraps! Works for me. Have ou given any thought to how you inventory your stamp sets and / or keep up with your ideas for particular stamp sets? How do you do it?
On another note, I still haven’t decoreated the outside of the book yet. LOL.
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Just a quick post to show ya a quick thank you.
I am making thank you cards for ny niece’s baby shower…I already had an idea in my idea book…then I hopped over to Nicole Heady’s blog to check out the Stamp-A-Faire posts…and saw THIS challenge.
Clean, simple & quick! Plenty of space for a personal note to be written inside.
This was NOT my original plan, but did I mention, it was clean, simple & quick. LOL. I’m using supplies on hand – my new PTI Text Style Big & Bold Wishes and my new SU! Nursery Additions.
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Know all those FRNs I’ve been saving by not spending…I gave them to my son for his birthday. LOL. I created a money holder like the ones from the bank to hold the FRN.
I used colors from the color challenge, CC332 – I think it was Pool Party with Wasabi Chips?…that means…Pool Party, Chocolate Chip and Wild Wasabi…all colors I LOVE. Fishing Riley…purchased when the boy was in Scouts…never thought I would use it because he and his Daddy were going fishing at least once a week this month! WOW! Heck…I didn’t think my husband was gonna go fishing. I’m still in shock. But it’s a good shock. LOL
The longer Riley sits there, the better he looks.
I colored him with SU! Markers, I sold my Copics. Michelle Zindorf does a wonderful job showing ways to use the SU! Markers for shading. My marker storage system helps greatly with determining colors to use for shading. I made a note to share that in a future blog post.
One FRN by the name of Benjamin Franklin was inside.
I think this is the first time I’ve used that fishing pole stamp. I purchased it off E-bay in a “lot” of stamps.
HOW TO: I found the tutorial here: Stamp & Scrap with Frenchie. It’s pretty straightforward. Pool Party panel is 8.5 x 6.5; scored at 3.25 & 6.5. The Chocolate Chip panel is 6 5/8 x 3 3/8.
It’s a nice sturdy money holder…Mom suggested I do up some to hold the gift cards at Christmas time.
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| Googlie eyes are not just for Halloween! |
Sunday, I played along with the Creative Crew and with the Featured Stamper Challenges. The Creative Crew is a Stampin’ Up! Only Design Team on SCS. They issue four monthly challenges. This project meets the criteria for the color challenge, which was to showcase some new In-Colors. I used the new SU! Pool Party and Island Indigo. For the Featured Stamper Challenge, we were to CASE a project from teristampsalot’s gallery. I chose this card to CASE.
I did use some retired sets…Tart and Tangy and Tidy Alpha. Tidy Alpha is my “go-to” alpha stamp set. I love it! I use it a bunch! It’s so easy to cut…snip, snip, snip and snip. Done! I wanted to sew the title on…but I had used tape to adhere the Pool Party strip of CS and I didn’t want to gum up my needle…so I used faux stitching.
I had fun with the fruit. I colored the strawberry with markers; stamped and punched the citrus fruit.
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| Citrus Fruit |
I punched them out with the 1 1/4″ punch. The 1″ punch almost took off the rind…so 1 1/4″ it was and then used the matching marker to color the white edge.
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| Aren’t those googlie eyes cute? |
The smiles are hand drawn with a black sharpie marker.
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| Inside of card. |
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| Envelope. |
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| Insde & envelope. |
While I had the stamp sets out, I made the pages for the SMASHing idea book.
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| Tart & Tangy page in SMASHing idea book. |
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| Smile Curve page in SMASHing idea book. |
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| The whole shebang! |
I had fun with this Featured Stamper Challenge. I love Teri’s gallery.
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This is the pocket part. In yesterday’s post, Paper & Pockets, I shared my faux spiral notebook paper. I needed that pocket die so I could slip in the paper. I need another hole in my head, too.
I discovered that library pockets are not hard to make at all. A simple library pocket is all I needed.
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| My finished NON-die cut library / journaling pocket. |
How’d I get there?
Let’s start with my choice of materials. Last week, I got two boxes of letter sized manila file folders at Office Depot…FREE after Rewards. YAY! for free craft stuff!
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Free after rewards!
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Guess I best start cutting these up!
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| Library pocket dimensions, cutting & scoring guidelines. |
Simple cutting, scoring, snipping and taping.
So…put ’em together and whaddaya got?
Bibbity bobbity
Bibbity bobbity
Bibbity bobbity
BOOOOO!
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| Goodness! I love ’em! |
Not boo…I do like Cinderella…who says shoes can’t change ya life!? Anyhoo…yay, for shoes changing your life…and for NON die cut library pockets! I can decorate them and journal…looking forward to using these in my SMASH book and to using the same idea to create journaling cards / pockets for my son’s baby book!
So, in two days, I’ve effectively talked myself out of THREE PTI purchases: (1) the spiral notebook paper die, (2) the library pocket die, (3) and the stamp set that stamps the lines on the paper.
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| Supplies. |
Whacha think?
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