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Good morning! Anyone up for some Cake and Coffee? Well before I serve up the cake and coffee I have to do a bit of complaining 
I’m cooold this morning! It is a rainy dreary day and my furnace seems to have decided that it had a long hard winter and is throwing in the towel! Thank goodness it didn’t decide this a few weeks earlier, or I would really be chattering my teeth! I hate being cold!! Gas Met says they won’t be able to come until tomorrow. Between 7am and 12pm!! Way to narrow it down guys! I only really have to leave the house once tomorrow, to pick up my son from school…so of course, that’s when they’ll come! This is one of my pet peeves. I do not like waiting around for repair people to show up! So, I am now drinking LOTS of HOT coffee and trying to look on the bright side. Really I’m trying.
Cake cheers me up…how about you?
The cake is a case of a Slice of Cake Card by Susan Neal in Paper Crafts magazine. I thought it was such a fun card! It included a pattern, but I did not make this one quite the same way. I made my own template and I took photos of the steps I used to make it, if you want to try one yourself! The coffee mug is my own design/template. You can see that I like big mugs for my coffee! I had previously made a different style mug that I posted on SCS, with the same stir stick sentiment idea. When you pull it out it says …the perfect blend!
Su Paper- fall flowers, Stamps- My Favorite Things- Hot Stuff, SU- Friendship Blooms
Here’s How:
Step 1. Cut a rectangular piece from a chocolate colored card stock measuring 3 1/2″ X 10 1/2″. Score lines at 3 1/2″ and at 7″.
Step 2. Score lengthwise 3/4″ in from side. Only score the outer sections NOT the middle section. So, score from 0 to 3 1/2″ and then from 7″ to 10 1/2″.
Step 3. Cut away the rectangular end pieces created by the scoring.
Step 4. Round the left corner of the raised edge. My corner rounder was too small to use here. To get a nice rounded corner, Use a Toonie or, if you’re not Canadian, try to find a circle a bit larger than a quarter. 
Now cut on an angle using a straight ruler, from the curve to the right to meet the top of scored line. See step 5 photo.
Step 5. Fold left side in first, then right side over to the left. I find folding it this way gives it a nice pointed edge to the slice, with the fatter part of the cake to the left.
Now decorate it in yummy colors and glitter or sparkle and add a candle to the inside panel. I used dp to decorate both folds on the outside. Line the inside panel with a piece of white paper to write your sentiment on. I used a Sakura Stardust pen on the tip of the candle and Stickles for the icing.
Enjoy your cake and coffee!
I made these a while ago, but could not post them until I had given them to my Sis for her birthday! I didn’t want her to see them!
As always, if you have a question or a comment, I’m all ears! (or eyes in this case)
Have a great Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by!
Deena
Last week’s SCS Inkling newsletter had a tutorial by Beate for a Trifold card. I wanted to give it a try, and because I have been seeing a lot of double pocket cards around lately, I gave the trifold a twist and turned it into a double pocket. So, If you have a look at Beate’s wonderful tutorial on SCS HERE, you will be better able to see what I did to get the extra pocket.
Where Beate makes an arc in Step 4 and 5, I also rounded the bottom panel, so that when it is folded upwards, it mimics the rounded arc of the top of the card. Then, as Beate suggests for a variation, I left off the belly band decoration. But instead of folding up the bottom, and then folding in the sides, I did the reverse, folding in the sides and folding up the bottom on top. I taped the two side edges of this bottom panel to form the second pocket.
I made two insert cards and decorated them with coordinating paper (reverse side). I Added some Primas and some tiny flower brads, and stamped the sentiment and a flourish from the Friendship Blooms SU set.
All paper is Crate Sweet Branch Collection
Ink – Lavender Lace and Bashful Blue SU
Hope you enjoy the twist!
If you would like to see other ways of making DOUBLE POCKET CARDS check these out:
Have a great Monday and thanks for stopping by!
Deena
Kiss the stamps you love!
Hello! I’m back from a few days away. Did you miss me?? 
I was visiting my Mom and my Grandma, and then my Sis who lives an hour away from them, in Ontario. I had a good visit with them all! It is my Sister’s birthday today, so I had brought her gift with me…I’m trying to encourage her to stamp, so I gave her some SU stamps, ink and glitter. She has done some scrapbooking and is now trying out a few cards, so she was very happy with the gift. Yay! It would be so fun if she started making cards too! I just wish we lived a bit closer so we could stamp together more often!
So, I did promise you all a card tutorial and that will be up in the next day or two! I have to take the boys to swimming today and get some neglected chores done before the work week starts again, so I don’t have time to post it today. But, I do have another backgrounder challenge card to show you today.
I used the kissing technique to make this one. You didn’t really think that I KISS MY STAMPS did you?
For the main image, the grunged flower was inked in Pretty in Pink and then kissed with the Floral backgrounder in Certainly Celery.
For the background panel, Pretty Patterns backgrounder was inked in Pretty in Pink and kissed with the Canvas bg stamp in Chocolate Chip.
Stamps: CHF -Time to Stamp, Bloom with Abandon grunged flower, Pretty Patterns Backgrounder, Canvas Backgrounder, Floral Backgrounder
Paper: SU Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Bazzill pink
If you have any questions about the technique or the card, just ask! I’ll be happy to answer!
Have a great Sunday everyone!!
Deena
Cornish Heritage Farms is having a week of Backgrounder challenges! I just LOVE their backgrounders! If you have not had a chance to see these beautiful stamps, you really should take a few minutes and head on over to CHF to have a peek!! They are a full 5 3/4″ by 4 1/4″ ! This means you can stamp an entire card front with it! They have 90 to choose from and are adding more every month! They are wonderful for creating your own decorative paper. There are so many ways to use them too, as I am finding out by participating in the Backgrounder Blitz!
They are also giving away a free bg stamp each day to one lucky winner!
All you have to do is try the challenge and link it up with them or post it in your own gallery on their site. You can have a look at mine while your over there checking out the backgrounders!
For the card above, the challenge was to use partial backgrounders. In other words, ink up only part of the stamp and stamp it on the paper, or stamp part of the paper with the stamp. You could also “fade” the stamp by inking part of it a darker color than the rest.
I loved the idea of partial bg stamping so I really wanted to do this one. I also used Monday’s CHF sketch. Yes! They have sketch challenges too!
I used my two brand new backgrounders; Floral and Pretty Pattern for the partial stamping on the background paper which is actually a bit paler in real life and not so orange! There is a close up to show you the Pretty Pattern on the left trailing to the bottom right, and the Floral bg stamped on the top right.
The main circle image is from the Beautiful set from the rummage bin, also found at CHF. It is a partial image as well, stamped on Crate paper dp.
I used Kelly Panacci clear stamps for the faux stitching in the top right corner.
All dp – Crate Paper
Stamps- Beautiful, Pretty Patterns bg, floral bg, Kelly Panacci clear stamps, For the Men (sentiment)
Whisper White Cs for card base
Ink- SU Apricot Appeal, Blue Bayou
Accessories- Ribbon- Crate
I hope you like it! It was a lot of fun to make.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone! I will not be able to post for a day or two, but I will have a new card tutorial for you and a twist on a Trifold pocket card to share with you! Hope you will check back here on Sunday!
Talk to you then!
Deena
This card was inspired by some very pretty fabrics for the inspiration challenge over at SCS. I decided to pleat my paper to make a fabric effect. I also frayed the edges which I think helped it look more like aged fabric too. Aren’t these papers pretty? I love the soft victorian feel of them. They are from the K-ology (K& Company) Verbena Scrap Pad. I used a sentiment from Verve Visual’s Happy Thoughts set.
Guess who this will be for !
Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday!
Deena
I know we all have a lot of these…ribbon spools! When your ribbon is used up what do you do with the empty spool? How many have you thrown away?? Instead of throwing the next one out… try something like this with it!
This is so easy and fun to do, and it makes a perfect little gift box for something special! Or just use it yourself to keep a few special pairs of earrings, or rings…
Supplies you’ll need:
- Empty Ribbon spool
- Toilet paper roll or paper towel roll
- Stamped or decorative papers
- Embellishments for the Lid
- Adhesive
- circle cutter
First I carefully pulled apart the spool. The top round and bottom round pieces pretty easily came away from the middle spool piece. They tore a little, but I was covering it with dp, so no worries!
I then measured the height (depth) of the inner spool cylinder. I cut a piece off the toilet paper roll, a bit narrower than the depth of the spool cylinder.
Using my circle cutter, I cut dp to fit and cover both sides of the top and bottom of the cylinder piece. Then I calculated the circumference of the cylinder (diameter x 3.14) and cut a strip of dp to cover the outside. I did the same for the toilet paper roll piece. I then glued this piece to the top circle to make the lid. It could now snugly insert into the bottom spool area.
When everything was covered with dp I added the beads, gem brad and prima to the top.
I also sponged any raw edges with a bit of Blue Bayou ink.
I used Chrystal Effects as glue! It is very strong and works like a charm on embellishments! It dries quickly too.All the dp used on this project is Stampin’ UP! Porcelain Prints.
OTHER ALTERED RIBBON SPOOL IDEAS:
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Deena
