Define Your Life

Hi reader!  Here's my last graduation card for the school year (hopefully!).  This one is extra special because it's for my goddaughter who just very recently graduated from high school. She lives in New York, and I hope for us to see each other either here in Michigan or in NY.  Time sure flies, because it seems only yesterday when she was a little kid.

I touched up the stamped image with rhinestones and Stickles:

The black die cuts hold the monetary bill:

I also made a matching envelope, using leftover dp.

Materials used:

cardstock/dp:  Me and My Big Ideas, @theoffice, Wassau, leftovers

image/sentiment:  Stampin' Up, K&Co.

ink:  Tsukineko

tools:  Spellbinders, EK Success edge punch, heat gun

embellishments:  Stickles, rhinestones, ribbon, brads

misc.:  Ranger embossing powder

adhesive:  Scotch, Zots, Glossy Inkssentials, mounting tape

'Til next blog!

Quick Card

Happy Monday, reader!  Here's a quick card I made for another senior from our school who graduated this year.  I was kinda tired of using our red school color, so I used the senior class' color purple instead.

Materials used:

cardstock/dp:  Wassau, leftovers

image/sentiment:  Inkadinkado, Stampin' Up

ink:  Stampin' Up, Tsukineko

tools:  Spellbinders, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Martha Stewart edge punch, heat gun

embellishments:  Robin's Nest, ribbon

adhesive:  Scotch, Zots, mounting tape

'Til next blog!

Happy Freakin' Birthday

The birthday card I'm showing you today is a collaboration with my DH.... somehow.  I made him pick the sentiments to use for the card, since it's for his baby sister.  Yeah, that's DH's share in making the card.  I would consider that a huge step.  Hehe.

As usual, it was hard to pick the colors to use.  Because of my card orientation, I had to make a matching envelope.  And the dp I used for the envelope became my basis for the colors of the card.

You know what my favorite part of the card is?  It's the zig zag stitching in the bottom.

Materials used:

cardstock:  Wassau, DCWV, leftovers

image/sentiment:  Creative Vision

ink:  Tsukineko, Ranger

tools:  Spellbinders, embossing folder (Cuttlebug, Quickutz), heat gun, piercing tool, Kreate-A-Lope, Bazzil In Stitch'z

embellishments:  rhinestones, ribbon

misc.:  Ranger embossing powder, yarn

adhesive:  Scotch, mounting tape

Hope DSIL likes it.

'Til next blog!

Before and After Part Deux

Hello crafty reader!  It was three years ago when I bought my first batch of Copic markers during my last visit in Japan (way lot cheaper over there).  And in June of the same year, I made a couple of pop-up cards, using these markers.  I find it funny that I kept those two pop-up cards all these years.  I have "revived" the first card a couple of months ago (click here to see).  And yesterday, I got the chance to give the second card a better look.

This is how it looked like before:

And this is how it looks like now:

I'm really glad I took that Copic Certification Class last year... lol!

'Til next blog!

Goodie Bag with Tutorial

Yesterday, I posted a tutorial of my Goodie Basket.  There is a twist to that design, gearing more towards male recipients.  Originally, I made the Goodie Basket to for our teachers at school, but I thought the design is too girlish.  So I tried to make a different design that can be decent to give to the male teachers. 

So here's what I came up with:

I'm sure with a different color of cardstock/dp, this goodie bag can be suited to give to females as well.

Let me tell you a secret.  The only difference between this design and the Goodie Basket's is half inch.  The Goodie Basket is scored at 3 inches on both sides, while this design is scored at 2.5 inches.

Taking it from the top, all you need is an 8.5 x 5.5 cardstock, scored at these measurements:

Fold along the score lines, like so:

Here's a pic showing the fold on the opposite side:

Make the upper corners and bottom corners meet as shown below.  You know you did it right when the top rim forms a bend, making the opening hexagon-ish (pardon my French).

There are several ways you can secure the goodie bag.  The easiest way would be staples.  In the sample above, I used eyelets.  For this tutorial, I used brads.  In this picture, you can see that I punched a hole for my brads.

Top view.  See the hexagon-ish opening?

View from another angle:

You can use this design as is, but I think it looks better when you put the goodies in tissue paper first, just like the example I showed earlier.  You can also use a piece of net or tulle.

Hope you like this tutorial.  I'd love to know what you think, and please link back to Tinker Planet when you give it a shot.

'Til next blog!