Category: Spring Mini

Soho Babe

Big Shot, Big Shot Pop N Cuts, Birthday, Bring on the Cake, Cards, Creative Elements, Edgelit Dies, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, My Digital Studio, One in a Million, Punch, Sneak Peek, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets
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Some old and some new – a Soho Babe!  The front of this card uses the new In Color – Crisp Cantaloupe and the Soho Subway Designer Series paper along with the lace from the Artisan Kit, natural button and ribbon and a Cute Clip. 

I stamped the sentiment directly onto a piece of the Designer Series paper and added a Scallop border.  Then I used Clockworks to add some dimension to the bottom of the card. 

And here she is – ready to hit the town in her retro style dress. 

My youngest likes these dresses that have the lace at the bottom.  (I always tell her that her slip is showing – “Oh Mom!”)

I added a little banner with the smallest ticket punch and a bit more of the Clockworks stamp.

The collar and ruffle are some tulle, folded and gathered and attached to the back of the form.  Her purse is a 5/8″ punch with some gold thread to make the handle.

The top of the card is the Word Window punch – lined up and cut with the Edgelit.  Just attach them to a skinny strip of cardstock and then die cut.

I attached another little note that I made in My Digital Studio.  The arrow shows on both sides of the card.  Behind her is a crumpled Paper Doily – just add some more texture.

Don’t forget her necklace!

Supplies
Stamp Sets – One in a Million, Clockworks, Bring on the Cake, Creative Elements
Card stock – Crisp Cantaloupe, Soho Subway DSP, First Edition, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Ink – Crisp Cantaloupe, Early Espresso
Etc – Word Window punch, Ticket punch, 5/8 square punch, pearls, Paper Doily, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Linen thread, Artisan Kit, Natural button, Natural Trim, Scallop Edge punch, Cute Clip, Summer Starfruit ribbon, tulle, gold thread

Hope you enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Whirly Twirly

Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Embossing Folder, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Pinwheel Sizzlet, Retiring Lists, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets, Tutorials, Wishes Your Way
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Whirly Twirly seemed like a good title after all the craziness with the Retiring List being released yesterday!  So I decided to do a simple spinner card using Wishes Your Way from the Spring Mini and the cute little pinwheel Sizzlet. 

I always laugh at myself when I use this technique because it’s fun to just sit here and spin the card back and forth  

Supplies
Stamp Set – Wishes Your Way
card stock – Pacific Point, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Sunshine and Sprinkles DSP, Delightful Daffodil
Ink – Jet Black Stazon
Etc – Cloudy Day EF, 1 3/4 circle punch, Pinwheel Sizzlit, Word Window punch

The tutorial for the spinner card can be found here.   Spin on crazy world!  Hugs, Fran

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Special Birthday

Big Shot, Birthday, Bring on the Cake, Cards, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, My Digital Studio, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets, Word Play
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i have several family birthday coming up and need some special cards.  This one uses one of my favorite sets – Word Play.  And this is my favorite sentiment in the set.  The base of this card is the Sizzix Flip Accordion Album die. 

When you open it it swings out like this!  I mixed and matched all kinds of supplies here   I used some Basic Gray polka dot DSP along with More Amore.  I stamped the sentiment on to the paper with Stazon and colored the “world” with a Pool Party Stampin Write Marker.  Then I filled the circle with Crystal Effects.

The arrow is an MDS punch that I used my ecutter to cut out. 

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Bring on the Cake, Word Play
card stock – Basic Gray, Basic Gray DSP, More Amore DSP
Ink – Jet Black Stazon
Etc – Crystal Effects, Pool Party button, MDS, Flip Album die

The retired list comes out tonight at 2 am my time – yawn!  Should I set my alarm?  (and have I doomed Word Play by saying it’s one of my favorites?)  Hugs, Fran

The Case of the Secret Blues

Big Shot, Blessings from Heaven, Cards, Embosslits, Framelit Dies, Mini Catalogs, Secret Garden, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets, Sympathy
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This is a card I cased from Splitcoast by Nichol Tugrul using the Secret Garden set and Honeycomb embossing folder.  This one uses So Saffron, Pool Party and Pink Pirouette. 

Here I did the flowers in blue – Not Quite Navy, Pool Party and Island Indigo.  The sentiment is from Blessing from Heaven and it’s stamped in Not Quite Navy.

You can just glimpse the inside stamping which is from Thoughts and Prayers. 

Supplies
Stamp Set – Secret Garden, Blessings from Heaven (or Teeny Tiny Wishes)
card stock – Pool Party Coordinations, water color paper, Wild Wasabi
Ink – so Saffron, Pool Party, Pink Pirouette OR Not Quite Navy, Island Indigo, Pool Party
Etc – Secret Garden Framelits, Not quite Navy ribbon, white embossing powder, aquapainter, Honey comb embossing folder, sander

So thanks to Nichol for a lovely idea!  Hugs, Fran

Sweet Memories

Blessings from Heaven, Cards, Lacy & Lovely, Mini Catalogs, Punch, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets, Sympathy
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I needed a sympathy card and had no mojo to start from scratch.  So I took this card, change the colors and sentiment and turned it in to a sympathy card.  Problem solved. 

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Blessings From Heaven, Lacy & Lovely
card stock – Whisper White, Basic Black, Sycamore Street DSP
Ink – Sahara Sand, Jet Black Stazon
Etc – small butterfly punch, pearls

I need to sort through my cards and put them in categories so I can find what I need when I need it.  (That’s just one of the things I need to do!)  Hugs, Fran

Pretty Packaging

Big Shot, Big Shot Fancy Favor die, Big Shot Pop N Cuts, Big Shot Tasteful Trim, Birthday, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Special Projects, Spring Mini
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This is another double high Fancy Favor box decorated with the Dress Up Framelit.  I made this one to go with the fun placecard holder.  For this favor box I used some Silver Glimmer paper for the package – everything looks better with bling – and made the balloons from vellum card stock.  Just use your brayer to color it.  Hint – then adhere it color side down to keep it from scratching. 

Here’s the finished sest.

Supplies
Card stock – Pink Pirouette, Pink Pirouette DSP, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer paper, vellum card stock
Etc – Fancy Favor die, Dress Up Framelits, Scallop Circle die, Pink Pirouette taffeta ribbon, Lacy Brocade embossing folder, Tasteful Trim die, Silver thread, pearl

Have a wonderful weekend – Hugs, Fran

Mother’s Dress Up

Big Shot, Cards, Delightful Dozen, Framelit Dies, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Mother's Day, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets
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The first thing I do when I get a papercrafting magazine is scour it for designs to case!  I finally got to sit down with Papercrafts and several ideas jumped out at me.  This is one.  Using the Dress Up Framelits, I cut the dress form from the some Baja Breeze cardstock and used pieces of Floral District Designer Series Paper behind it. 

Supplies
Stamp Set – Delightful Dozen
card stock – Baja Breeze, Floral District DSP
Ink – Jet Black Stazon
Etc – Dress Up Framelits, Baker’s Twine, Tangerine Tango button, Scallop punch

The tragedy in Boston just takes my breath away.  Wishing peace to those affected by this senseless kind of craziness.  Hugs, Fran

Ballerina Party Girl

Big Shot, Birthday, Established Elegance, Framelit Dies, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Special Projects, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets, You Rule
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I redid some Dress Form Ballerina Party Girl stands as place holders for birthday parties.  They are very fun to do – a bit addicting to be honest  

I managed to find some large spools, painted them and added Designer Series Paper.  (no need to add weights to these!)

Using a Sizzix Fancy Frame and the You Rule set from the Spring Mini – I made the birthday girl a special one.  (Aren’t all birthday girls princesses?) 

On the dress form I stamped the floral image in Established Elegance and colored it with Stampin Write Markers.  Then I added two roses from the Artisan Kit. 

Supplies
Stamp Sets – You Rule, Established Elegance
Card stock – Crumb Cake, Pink Pirouette DSP, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Silver Glimmer paper
Ink – Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Etc – Pink Piroutte SWM, Tulle, Artisan Kit, spool, skewer

Just a little note – I have been using about 20 pieces of tulle to get my skirts really fluffy.  The link to video for the skirt is here.

Hugs, Fran

Floating Dress

Artistic Etchings, Big Shot, Big Shot Pop N Cuts, Cards, Framelit Dies, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Mother's Day, Spring Mini, Stamp Sets, Wonderful Mother
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Isn’t this fun?  Karen Burniston designed these framelits for Stampin Up and she shared this idea at UStamp with Dawn and Friends Big Shot Roundup.  I couldn’t wait to try it! 

The dress is suspended from the opening in the card – too cute!  (And hard to photograph!)

I used Wonderful Mother on the inside because I really like the sentiment. 

Here’s a picture of what the dress looks like floating/spinning/hanging from the card.

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Artistic Etchings, Wonderful Mother, Music Notes wheel
card stock – Co’ordinations Pool Party, Midnight Muse, Comfort Cafe DSP
Ink – Pool Party, Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze
Etc – SU Pop N Cut base, Dress Up Framelits, Label Framelits and Floral Framelits, sanding block, Little Leaves Sizzlit

I have created quite a mess this morning and have got to put some things away before I do anything else!  There is not an inch of space left to stamp!  Hugs, Fran

Party Girl and Free Shipping

Big Shot, Big Shot Fancy Favor die, Big Shot Pop N Cuts, Big Shot Tasteful Trim, Birthday, Cards, Framelit Dies, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Special Projects, Spring Mini
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Here’s my other project for UStamp with Dawn and Friends Big Shot Rounds Up.  It’s a party gift bag and invitation featuring the Dress Up Framelits.  Wouldn’t this be a fun party theme for a little (or big) girl?  The colors are Rose Red, Baja Breeze and River Rock. 

Don’t forget that today is the LAST DAY for FREE SHIPPING!  Any size order – so it’s time to stock up!  Hugs, Fran