VC Rocks! Blog Hop - ABC - Anything But a Card

This VC Rocks! Blog Hop is about Anything but a Card, ABC.  This week in class we made a purse to hold cards.  I have seen several purses out there to buy, but I always try to find free.  This purse template I found on Bridget Louw's website, but it was only large enough to hold 3x3 cards.  I wanted a purse that would hold A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) cards. So after fussing around for several hours I can up with this:

Paisley Petals Purse

This purse can hold eight A2 cards.  I used glimmer paper for the buckles on the purse.  Love it!  I know that this is ABC, but I had to show you the cards we made to go into the purse, thanks to Margaret Moody for her inspiration for these.

Purse with Card

 

 I made a second purse with the class and I love this one even more:

White Paisley Petals Purse

Buckle

 I have been wanting to make one of the following projects for over a year and this hop gave me the opportunity to finally make one.  The instructions for the tissue box cover can be found here: Split Coast Stampers-Tissue Box Cover and a big thank you to Cindy for suggesting that I use my new Sunflower Background Stamp(just came in tonight's UPS box) to decorate it with.

Sunflower Tissue Box Cover

I received my first box of goodies tonight from the new Idea Book and Catalog.  I fell in love with the new Beau Chateau DSP and here is a sneak look at the Side Notes that you can buy to go along with the DSP.  There are two of each die-cuts included and it is on beautiful watercolor paper.  I can't wait to make an album from this paper.  So here they are:

Won't they be so cool on a scrapbook page or on a card front?  I have added at the top right column a button to get emails when I post new blog pages, sign up if you would like to follow me.  Now on to the next blog.  Have a great day!

The talented stampers and scrappers of VC Rocks have tackled the theme of Anything But a Card.   So grab your favorite beverage and a snack and enjoy our hop.   The hop officially kicks off at 10AM Eastern/9AM Central, 8AM Mountain, 7AM Pacific on Saturday and will run through the weekend.

00-START VC Rocks Home Blog art by Debbie Petersen
01 Holly & The Dog InkPaperStamps
02 Elizabeth Kratzer Elizabeth's Stamp Room
03 Elizabeth M. Harris Love 2 Stamp
04 Jackie Watson Creative Designs by Jackie
05 Marisol Gutierrez A Touch of SOL
06 Stace Coombs Stampin' Stace
07 Jane Hignite Stamp With Jane
08 Barb Furlong The Love of Stamping
09 Kim Abbott Stamping Fun with Kim
10 Angela Walters Life with a Wiener Dog
11 Dawn Hoffman Stampin' At Dawn
12 Sharon Field Created By You
13 Shirley Northey Stamper Shirley
14 Angela Khan Scrappin' For Sanity
15 Veronica Miller Bluegrass Stamper Studio
16 Mary Jo Price-Williams Technostamper
17 Carolyn Sharkas InkingTheNightAway
18 Jamie Adcock Wanna Be Creative
19 Nancy Keithley Scrapbook Kits and more
20 Patrice Herrera My Little Patch of Dirt
21 Elaine Wright I Reckon I'll Stamp
22 Brenda Hugar Brenda's Stamping Corner
23 Kris Sobolik Maddiebug Designs
24 Kristi Jaenisch Stamping in the Moonlight
25 Eileen LeFevre Stampin' Fevre
26 Kym Schwinkendorf Artful Imagination
27 Linda Rodenberg Nichole's Stampin' Corner
29 You are here: Debbie Martin Clever and Cute
30 Mary Campbell Mimi To Jett

31Shari Dudek Shari's Stamp Pad
32 Carey Rogers Pedstamper's Stamping Tree House
33Ellen Kemper Blinkin' Thinkin' & Inkin'
34 Karen Gibson Krafting With Karen
35-LAST Loni Holt Loni's Life

Card Buffet

I am so sad to be leaving my favorite Designer Series Papers behind and some of my favorite stamp sets, but so excited that the new catalog goes live tomorrow!  The last two months I have started having card buffets.  We are having so much fun at these classes.  I have been using retiring paper and falling in love with them and today is the last day to order them.  I found my mojo yesterday and I have been designing cards like crazy.  Here are the cards for our next buffet:

Sail Away Scrapbook Page

This scrapbook page was part of the Soul Scrappers SSQ8 challenge.  They sent me an envelope of embellishments and I had to use all of them on the page.  Several items on this page are retiring on June 30th, so you still have an opportunity to purchase them before they are gone.  For instance, I used the Presto Patterns Specialty paper as my background page.  I used the Direct to Paper Technique for this page.  The Presto Patterns comes white with an embossed image on it.  I added ink by taking the ink pad and rubbing it all over the paper and the white lines were reveled.  I cut out old blue jeans with the Top Note Die.  Isn't it cool how the Top Note fits into the Presto Patterns?  The other tools that will be retiring are the Cogs Extra-Large Double punch and the Star Extra-Large Punch.
There are also two preview items from the new 2011-2012  Idea Book and Catalog.  See the banner?  It was made with the new Petite Pennants Builder Punch, isn't it too cute?  See the two circles under the globe?  They were made with the new Perfect Pennants Bigz L Die.
If you don't have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator of your own, please consider letting me be yours.  Drop me a note and I'll explain my online club to you.

Sail Away Scrapbook Page

Details

Details

Recipe:

Stamp:  The Open Sea

Paper:  Presto Patterns Specialty DSP(Retiring 6/30), Nautical Expedition DSP, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand and Soft Suede Card Stock

Ink:  Soft Suede, Basic Grey, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories:  2 1/2" Circle Punch, Cogs Extra-Large Double punch, Star Extra-Large Punch, Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Stars #2 Originals Die, Big Shot, Retired Brads, tag, metal circle tag(Retired), Timeless Type Junior Alphabet, Top Note, Blue Jeans, Petite Pennants Builder Punch, Perfect Pennants Bigz L Die

VC Rocks! Blog Hop - Big Shot Madness

 

This hop is all about the Big Shot!  I decided my theme would be Recycle on the Big Shot.  I have three projects for this hop and the first project came about with the left overs from my upcoming Build a Blossom Scrapbook Pages.  I had all of the lovely negatives left from using the Swirly Sizzlit Decorative Strip Die(which retires at the end of June).  So here is the card that I designed for using that negative image:

Swirly Fabulous Florets

Recipe:

Stamp:  Fabulous Florets

Ink:

Always Artichoke, So Saffron, Cajun Craze

Paper:

Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Whisper White

Accessories:

Big Shot, Swirly Sizzlit Decorative Strip, Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die, White Baker's Twine

Fun Flowers 

Side View

This cute pin was designed by Annette E. Martin and I had found it over on our demonstrator board.  I fell in love with it, so I found a pair of the DH old blue jeans and made this pin, isn't it too cute?

Recipe:

Accessories:  Big Shot, Bigz L Fun Flowers Die, Pin, Very Worn Blue Jeans

Butterfly Heaven

Side View

Well, I started using a different kind of dryer sheet and noticed how thick they were and thought, a flower!  The flower was made by cutting seven dryer sheets doubled on a Flowers #3 Die(Retired), then sprayed with my own home-made Rose Red Shimmer Spray(come back next week and I will have a tutorial on how to make this spray).  I was so pleased with how it turned out.  The large butterfly was made using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die and three different papers.  I colored some of our Basic Rhinestones with a permanent ink marker and added Dazzling Diamonds around the edge.  I was very pleased with how this one came out.  I will be teaching this card in July at our technique class.

Recipe:

Stamp:  Swirls & Curls Verses(Summer Mini Hostess)

Paper:

Confetti White(I love to use this for a card base because it is so heavy), Peach Parfait, Blushing Bride, Beyond the Garden DSP, Presto Patterns Specialty DSP(I inked this up using the Direct to Paper technique), Vellum Card Stock

Ink:  Certainly Celery, Rose Red

Accessories:  Big Shot, Flowers #3 Die(Retired), Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, Circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, Basic Rhinestones, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Two Way Glue Pen, White Baker's Twine

Now you are on your way to the next blog listed below.  Have fun and stop by again.

00-START	VC Rocks Home Blog	VC Rocks	http://vcrocks.blogspot.com/
01	Jane Hignite	Stamp With Jane	www.stampwithjane.com
02	Eileen LeFevre	Stampin' Fevre	www.elefevre.blogspot.com
03	Jayne Stenstrom	Jayne Stamps	http://jaynestamps.blogspot.com
04	Elaine Wright	I Reckon I'll Stamp	http://www.stampinreckon.blogspot.com
05	Kristi Jaenisch	Stamping in the Moonlight	www.stampinginthemoonlight.blogspot.com
06	Cindy Lubbert	Sew Much Fun with Cindy	www.cindylubbert.blogspot.com
07	Barb Furlong	The Love of Stamping	http://www.theloveofstamping.com
08	Shari Dudek	Shari's Stamp Pad	http://sharisstamppad.blogspot.com
09	Dawn Dickinson	Inkspiration by Dawn	http://dawndstamps.blogspot.com
10	Robin Messenheimer	Robins Craft Room	http://www.robinscraftroom.com
11	Tammy Q Howell	Tarheel Stamper	www.tarheelstamper.blogspot.com
12	Veronica Miller	Bluegrass Stamper Studio	http://bluegrassstamperstudio.blogspot.com/
13	Tessa Boulter	Tessa's Finds & Stamped Creations	www.tessaboulter.stampinup.net/blog
14	Debbie Martin	Clever and Cute	http://www.cleverandcute.blogspot.com/
15	Kim Abbott	Stamping Fun with Kim	http://stampingfunwithkim.blogspot.com
16	Nancy Keithley	Scrapbook Kits and more	http://fancynancykay.blogspot.com/
17	Kim Overholt	Crafting with Kim	http://craftingwithkim.blogspot.com
18	Stace Coombs	Stampin Stace	www.stampinstace.blogspot.com
19	Pam Staples	Sunny Girl Scraps	https://www.sunnygirlscraps.com
20	Marisol Gutierrez	A Touch of SOL	www.atouchofsol.blogspot.com
21	Holly (& The Dog)	InkPaperStamps	InkPaperStamps.com
22	Jackie Watson	Creative Designs by Jackie	http://jackielwatson.blogspot.com/
23	Kym Schwinkendorf	Artful Imagination	www.artfulimagination.blogspot.com
24	Heather schlagel	Stamp with me	www.stampinschlagel.blogspot.com
25	Mary Jo Price-Williams	Technostamper	http://technostamper.blogspot.com
26	Heidi Sorg	Cheekies Ink Pad	cheekiesinkpad.blogspot.com
27	Angela Walters	Life with a Wiener Dog	www.lifewithawienerdog.com
28	Shirley Northey	Stamper Shirley	http://stampershirley.blogspot.com
29	carolyn sharkas	inkingthenightaway	www.inkingthenightaway.blogspot.com
30	Diane Clark-Sutton	Stampin Ldygflr62	http://www.stampinldyglfr62.blogspot.com/
31	Mary Campbell	Mimi To Jett	http://mimitojett.blogspot.com
32	Brenda Hugar	Brenda's Stamping Corner	http://brendasstampingcorner.blogspot.com
33-LAST	Loni Holt	Loni's Life	www.loniholt.blogspot.com