and I was NOT happy! Ugh, it is way too early for snow! My friend Sarah said they got about an inch down in St. Paul, so I guess we are lucky if you can call it that.
Another scrapbooking page. Thanks for your patience as life has been getting in the way of stamping lately!
This month's WICKED stamper is the fabulous Lyssa Zwolanek. Like me, she is a big Gone with the Wind fan, and I got to meet her in April 2008 in Milwaukee.
We drove through Custer State Park, and the animals were amazing! Look at how close the bison is to that car. I took the photo from the car window!
This cute little flower is made using the Sweet Centers stamp set and cups from the Holiday Mini. To give you an idea of the size, the flower center is 1 3/4" and is filled with M&M Minis. The stem is a craft spoon (like what you ate ice cream with when you were a kid). For the flower, I cut a 2 3/4" circle and punched out the center with the 1 3/4" circle punch. I adhered the cup to it using mini glue dots. I stamped 8 flower petals in Crushed Curry and cut them out. I adhered them at north, south, east and west and then filled in with the remaining 4. For the back, I cut out a whisper white 2 3/4" circle and made a big X on it with the perforating blade from the cutter kit so it would be easy to get the candy out. I filled the cup with candy and then adhered the white circle to the back. I colored the craft spoon with Certainly Celery craft ink and the "leaves" are Mistletoe Ribbon Originals, also from the Holiday Mini. I adhered the spoon to the back of the flower using Mono Multi liquid glue.
Friday night was craft night, and despite my slow start, I got 3 2-page layouts and the final page done. Whoohoo! I have to say that 6X6 is great for small projects because the pages go together quickly, and the Simply Scrappin' kit made it so easy! The only extras I used were a couple of punches and a marker.
For this week's workshop wow challenge, I made a free standing pop up card. I first made one of these a couple of years ago. They are so cool and much easier to make than you would think. Here is a link to a document with the instructions and a link to the original thread on SCS.
The base is scored in several places and then folded to make a collapsible base. There is a card that pops up through a slit cut in the center. You can see on my base here that I adhered the pop-up to one end and added sticky strip to the other end. This is a case where sticky strip is definitely good to use so the card will hold up well.
