A Fun Way to Capture Letters to Santa

This post was originally part of a blog tour for the online Stampin' Up! Demonstrators group, SUDSOL. 
You may still participate in the tour using the links at the bottom of this post.  Lots of great holiday projects – and you don't have to be Demonstrator to enjoy it!

Aloha, all!

     There are so many wonderful products in this year's Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog that I haven't been able even to start to use them all.  One that I finally decided I had to use (because I have grandchildren who are young enough to still believe in Santa) was the stamp set, Dear Santa.  I actually bought the set because I just had to have the "To:  From", Holly, and Snowflake stamps in the set.  I wasn't so sure about the "Dear Santa," but now I've figured out how to put even that stamp to good use.

     These are two "Letters to Santa" books that I've made for two of my grandchildren (would you guess that their names are Morgan and Kiara?).  These books are made from the 5" x 5" On Board Journal sold by Stampin' Up!  I covered them with paper from the Designer Series Paper Set, Holly Berry Bouquet and decorated the front with the Dear Santa Stamp Set.  

     Inside each journal, I decorated pages on which the girls could write their letters to Santa – or this could be their Christmas Scrapbook!  Most of the pages are decorated with either the snowflake or the holly sprig from the Dear Santa Stamp Set.  But other pages I decorated with some of the stockings from the Stitched Stocking Stamp Set (also – you guessed it! – from the Holiday Mini Catalog!).

     I actually got the girls to help me out with this.  Last month, when I was visiting them, I asked if they'd each write a short letter to Santa so that I could use it when I was blogging about this project.  They jumped right into it – and they both wanted a puppy!  It was so touching, as they'd lost their last dog to an illness this summer, and you could tell right away that this was to be THE thing for this Christmas!

     For the very young people in your life, they wouldn't even have to write in the book!  Think about having them draw pictures of what they'd like, as Morgan drew a picture of the puppy she'd like.  Or have them cut or tear pictures out of catalogs and paste them onto the pages.  Hmmm, I might just have to cut some pictures out of the Stampin' Up! catalog to show Santa what I'D like this year!

     Finally, you could use the pages that are the journal as the basis for a Christmas Scrapbook.  You could make this into a fun 6" x 6" Scrapbook or even put the pages on a large 12" x 12" scrap layout.  This is a hybrid project – the background and lettering is done with My Digital Studio and the rest is the "real" stuff.  The stocking uses the Stocking Builder Punch and the candy cane is from the Sizzix Stocking Accents Die (both in the Holiday mini, of course!

     And as for that puppy that my granddaughters had asked for for Christmas this year?  It turns out that this year Christmas came two and a half months early.  Their new puppy arrived three weeks ago and the whole family is absolutely thrilled. 

          I hope you've enjoyed reading about my idea for the Dear Santa Stamp Set!  I had a lot of fun with it and I'm sure that you will, too. 

If you're a member of the SUDSOL online Stampin' Up! Demonstrators group, click here find in the patterns section of the website a set of instructions for you to use as a tutorial or class handout, including a template to use to cut the holes through which the binding wires go and the measurements for the paper to use for the cover.  Demonstrators who are NOT a member of SUDSOL can access the instructions, too – with a FREE two-week trial membership to the group!  Why not try it out TODAY!!

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A Busy Day in the Craft Room!

Aloha, all!

     This week is just another that is packed full of places I have to be and meetings I have to attend.  Yesterday was no exception, but I didn't have to get out of the house until 3 pm.  So I worked my best at getting as many projects as possible done before then.  I had four cards that I HAD to make – three for my husband to use for some of his correspondence and one for a customer who needed a wedding card as soon as possible.  Besides that, I am in the middle of trying to get ready for a blog hop (this weekend – don't miss it!), I needed to make a card for a challenge, and I had to get a bunch of swap projects done (swaps as in I have to make 5 or 10 of each project and I swap with an equal number of people so we each have a variety of projects to show off in our respective craft rooms).  Whew!  But that means I'll have lots to share with you as the month goes on!

     The first card I'll share took care of two projects – my husband needed a Get Well Card and I wanted to participate in this week's Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition Color Challenge.  Not only that, as I was looking for ideas, I remembered that one of my online groups had a sketch challenge last week, and that's where I got the idea for this layout.  Nice when I can kill three birds with one stone (sorry birds – I need to update that platitude, don't I?!)

     The Create with Connie and Mary Challenge (CCMC-SUM03) asked that we use the Stampin' Up! colors Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi.  Nice challenge because one of the sets of Designer Series Papers in the Stampin' Up! 2011 Summer Mini Catalog – Beyond the Garden - includes just these colors (and a few more, too).  But this sheet just has the colors in the challenge.  For the layout, I made three equal size squares, and put the greeting on the topmost of the squares.  The sentiment is from the old but goodie (and still alive in the new catalog!) stamp set, Sincere Salutations.  The little flower that I used to accent it is from the Summer Mini Catalog Hostess set, Love & Care.  The printed paper on the square to the left is also from the Beyond the Garden paper set, and the ribbon that ties it all together is Daffodil Delight 5/8" Satin Ribbon.  Unfortunately this ribbon will be retiring with the new catalog.  So if you want to have some for your stash, be sure to order it now!  When retiring accessories are gone, that's it! 

     Here's the sketch for this card.  I have to tell you that, even though I was under the gun, so to speak, with all these projects, I really did have a lot of fun with them all!  I hope that, no matter how busy you get, you can still have lots of fun with your own paper crafting projects!

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Punches Make It So Easy!

Aloha, all!

     I finally have my craft room all in order!  And I'm so happy to be making a mess with three projects going on at once because it will be SOOO much easier to pick up afterwards.  Everything has its place!

     One of the projects on which I'm working today is for a swap in which I'm participating with one of my online Demonstrator groups, SUDSOL (if you're a demonstrator and interested in trying it out for free, just click here).  Anyway, the swap is for products that are featured in the brand new Stampin' Up! 2011 Summer Mini Catalog.  This catalog is a bit smaller than most of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogs – but that's because there will be a whole brand new catalog right in the middle of this mini's promotional period.  So that will get LOTS of attention from those of us who love to use Stampin' Up! products!

     This particular card uses two products from the new mini – the stamp set and the colored Stampin' Emboss Powder.  The stamp set is Flower Fest, and coordinates with a whole bunch of Stampin' Up!'s punches.  This flower is the same size as the 1-1/4" Circle Punch.  You might notice that the mini says the 1-3/8" circle punch.  But if you use the 1-1/4" punch, you cut right up to the stamped lines (in this case the embossed lines) of the flower.  Punch and then just clip those four little indentations between the petals and you have a perfectly cut out flower!  Both the flowers and the leaves, as well as the greeting in the punched oval shape, use one of Stampin' Up!'s newest products, Custom Colored Stampin' Emboss Powder.  The flowers and greeting use the Tangerine Tango powder, and the leaves use the Pear Pizzazz powder.  The other green accents on this card, including the 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, are Old Olive.  When I embossed the leaves on that Tangerine Tango Card Stock, they seemed closer in color to the Old Olive.  The color matches the Pear Pizzazz card stock perfectly when it's used on Whisper White, so it must just be the way that it interacts with my eye next to the orange (color has a habit of doing that!).

     I stamped the flowers on a piece of Designer Series Paper from the paper set, Pawsitively Prints II (one of the Build A Bear Workshop products in the Stampin' Up! catalog).  I just love the white polka dots on the So Saffron background!  And so I used the Perfect Polka Dots Sizzix Embossing Folder on the So Saffron Card Stock layer to help highlight the polka dots.  To set the flowers off nicely, I adhered them to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals.  Nice card, I think!  I hope the rest of the swappers will like it! 

     Here's the sketch for today's card – not too complicated at all, but I know it helps to have those measurements right out front when it's time to make duplicates (that's what happens with swaps!)

I hope you have a great week stamping!  Whatever you do, have fun with it!

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The Occasion is Valentine’s Day!

Aloha, all!

     And welcome to the SUDSOL Blog Tour!  SUDSOL is an online group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators to which I belong and it's one of the best groups for Stampin' Up! demonstrators on the web right now.  I don't have an active upline for my demonstratorship, and SUDSOL has become my 24/7 upline (one of their tag lines, and it's well deserved!)

     Today's Blog Tour features many, many members of SUDSOL, all of whom are showing off projects that we've made with products from Stampin' Up!'s 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog, which runs through April 30th of this year, or the Sale-A-Bration catalog, which runs through the end of March.  I really wish I could show off ALL of the products in these catalog because they're some of the best ever minis!  But instead, I'm going to focus on one of the "occasions" featured in the Occasions mini, and that's Valentine's Day.  In particular, I'm going to show off the Specialty Designer Series Paper set, Love Impressions, along with a few other items from the mini.

     Two of the projects I'm featuring today are mini photo albums, that can also be decorated and sent out in standard A2 size envelopes as Valentine Cards for someone special.  The patterns for both of these albums are available on the SUDSOL website, which is available only for SUDSOL members (or those who choose to sign up for a Two-Week FREE trial membership!). The third project is unabashedly a greeting card, and I had a lot of fun figuring out the design for it.

     Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Ann Clemmer, demonstrated the first project as a presenter at a Stampin' Up! regional seminar.  It is a mini book that is so easy and so economical to make!  The inside of the book uses just one piece of card stock or designer paper, and you can decorate it with scraps from other projects – just as I did! 

I decorated the front of this little book with one of the designs from the Love Impressions Designer Paper Set, and layered on a stamped definition of Valentine that's found in the brand new stamp set, Valentine Defined (who would have figured that?!)  To give the front just a bit of pizzazz, I added Whisper White Brads, that are part of the Neutrals Brad set in the annual Stampin' Up! catalog.  The cover of the book is a piece of Textured Real Red Card Stock that was a scrap from an earlier project.  I NEVER throw any kind of leftovers away!  The book is tied closed with a piece of Real Red 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon.  I like how the white edge of this ribbon "ties" in with the rest of the decor.

     Inside there are enough pages to hold 6 photos and 6 pages of journaling – journaling is SO important in any kind of a memory book, no matter how small!

     The second project I'm sharing with you is also a photo album or greeting card, but it's a bit more labor intensive.  Nonetheless, it calls for only one piece of 12" square card stock and one piece of 12" square Designer Series Paper (guess which Designer Series Paper I used!)

Now I know it doesn't look much different on the front from the first album, except for the decorations.  But it's just slightly larger (this is a 4" square album, and the mini book is a 3" square album).  What's really different is what's inside.

But let's just take a quick look at the front before we look inside.  The heart in the center of the front is punched with Stampin' Up!'s Full Heart Punch, using the brand new Red Glimmer Paper from the Occasions Mini.  I matted it with a piece of Whisper White card stock cut with the Stampin' Up! exclusive Sizzix Embosslit, Scalloped Heart of Hearts.  What's really fun about this album front is the full border using the Scallop Trim Border and Scallop Trim Corner punches.  To find the right measurement to make the corner and border punches work perfectly together, I just headed for the SUDSOL files and there it was!  Oh, and that paper with the embossed hearts?  It's one of the "Specialty" papers in the designer series paper set!  Just gorgeous paper!  And everything's tied together with some Whisper White 5/8" Satin Ribbon.

     OK, now let's look at the inside of this album.

     Look at all those folds!  And you wouldn't believe how simple it is to make.  I know because I wrote my own version of the instructions for this album and then followed them and it took no time to get the basic album put together.  Now figuring out just the right paper for each page, and the right stamps for my journaling blocks – I did pray over that a bit.  But it was fun (I try not to do things that aren't fun!).  The stamps are also from the Valentine Defined Stamp Set, so you can see I've been making good use of that set!  And about that set of instructions – here it is! 

     And finally here's a greeting card using the other one of the "Specialty" sheets from the Love Impressions Specialty Designer Series Paper set.  The letters of the alphabet cover this sheet of paper, with the letters L, O, V, and E, highlighted in Whisper White on one side.  Unfortunately, you can't just cut that section out and put it on a 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" greeting card (portrait OR landscape).  But I really did want to use them on a card.  So I cut them out individually!  Here I punched them with the Small Tag Punch, matted them with some Pretty in Pink Card Stock, some of it punched with the Pinking Hearts Border Punch.  I "tied" the tags on with some Pretty in Pink 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon onto the other paper from the Love Impressions set, and tied the whole card front together with Pretty in Pink 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon.  The final touch was the "U" cut out of the designer paper.

     These were all SOOO much fun to make.  And I still have a big stack of paper left over from the Designer Series Paper Set!  More fun for February! If you don't have some of this fun paper, you can just order it online right now – and then go have some fun with it yourself!

     You can find these projects and many, many, many more in my very own gallery on the SUDSOL Website!  Just click here for a two-week FREE TRIAL!

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It’s a Blue (and Very Vanilla) Christmas!

Aloha, all!

     That's "blue" as in that wonderful new Stampin' Up! color, Marina Mist, and the fantastic Designer Series Papers included with the Simply Scrappin' Kit, Christmas Cheer.   NOTE:  This post was originally part of the November 2010 SUDSOL blog tour.  For more information about this online group for Stampin' Up! demonstrators only, click here!

     One theme that you'll find in many of my 2010 Holiday Season greeting card projects is that I like them to have some kind of gift or keepsake as part of the project.  Part of today's card is a bookmark.  No, there's not a bookmark enclosed – a bookmark is actually part of the card!  Do you see that knot at the top of the ribbon?  It's "knot" tied to the card front – it's tied to the top of a third section of the card that can be detached and used as a bookmark!

     As with most of my projects like this, I have written a one-page tutorial to show you just how to cut, fold and perforate this card and get that ribbon positioned perfectly for both the card front and the bookmark.  BUT – this is a special blog post, and there are special ways to get this tutorial!  If you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, you can find the tutorial on the SUDSOL website by clicking here.  Even if you're not a member of SUDSOL, you can sign up for a free two-week membership that will give you plenty of time to learn all about us and starting enjoying our great group, as well as all the other patterns and projects on file in the SUDSOL Collection – including 245 of my own cards, gifts, sketches, scrap layouts and much much more!.  My other blog readers can receive a copy of this tutorial as part of my December Newsletter by subscribing to my e-mail Newsletter – just enter your e-mail address in the box just beneath the SUDSOL icon at the upper left. 

     Now a little about the colors and embellishments that are on this card.  I have to tell you that my focus is more on making cards and gifts than on making scrapbooks right now.  So I was reluctant to purchase the Simply Scrappin' Kit.  But that wonderful Marina Mist Designer Series Paper in the kit just kept calling to me.  So I gave in and bought the kit and used some of Marina Mist/ Very Vanilla sheet for this card.  Now that I see the other sheets in that set, I am so glad I bought it.  And of course there's plenty of beautiful textured 12" x 12" card stock:  Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla and Marina Mist.  The self-adhesive die cuts will also not go to waste as I will be taking them with me to a visit with my gorgeous little granddaughters – that's where we'll do some scrapbooking!

     The little snowflakes are new this season!  They are all from the Sizzix Decorative Strip Die Northern Frost from the Stampin' Up! 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog.  My first thought was to add Basic Pearls or Basic Rhinestones to them; but then I decided I really wanted to keep to the Marina Mist/Very Vanilla color theme.  The 5/16" Very Vanilla Jumbo Brads fit that bill perfectly!  The ribbon is the luscious Marina Mist 5/8" Satin Ribbon – it's really hard for me to keep my hands off that stuff!

     I decorated the bookmark itself as I did the card front.  But I tucked some of the edges of the little snowflakes behind the sentiment layer to protect them a bit.  I also used Sticky Strip on the bookmark layer throughout as I hope it will be getting a lot more use than the card!

     Have fun with your holiday paper crafting!

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Not Just For Babies!

Aloha, all! 

     "Not Just For Babies" refers to one of Stampin' Up!'s newest set of Designer Series Specialty Papers, Nursery Suite.  As I have no new babies in my family or circles of friends at the moment, and none on the way, my eyes just skipped right over this set while I was first looking through Stampin' Up! newest Idea Book and Catalog. 

     Then I remembered an article in an issue of Stampin' Up!'s demonstrator magazine, Stampin' Success, that had used this set to mimic Bargello stitching.  So I went back and looked a little bit more closely at the paper set AND decided to buy it.  So there I was with this big package of papers and I had to figure out what to do with it!  AND - I wanted to prove to myself – and to you! – that this set of papers is Not Just For Babies!  Thus my first card, using one of the die cut sheets from the set, some coordinating Pear Pizzazz Stitched-Poly Ribbon, and one of our brand new stamp sets, For Everything.  The colors featured in this card are Pretty in Pink, Pear Pizzazz, and Baja Breeze.  Accented with a Flower Brad and a greeting motif using the Scallop Oval Punch matted with a scallop oval cut with the Sizzix Movers and Shapers die, this is a nicely pastel card – and Not Just for Babies!

     While I had the Pear Pizzazz Stitched-Poly Ribbon out, I went for a different piece of paper from the set, this time featuring more of the Baja Breeze and Pear Pizzazz, without any of the Pretty in Pink.  For this card, I used another new type of product featured in the newest catalog, the Quick Accents Self-Adhesive Die Cuts (stickers to the rest of the world) that goes with the paper set.  Stampin' Up! has fewer Simply Scrappin' sets this year, but has added some of the self-adhesive die cut sets which you may purchase to accent some of your Designer Series Paper sets.  The strip of scalloped Pear Pizzazz is from the Quick Accents set, and it matches up perfectly with Stampin' Up!'s Scallop Edge Punch.  Nice touch!  The accent color for this card is Chocolate Chip, and the mat behind the "Get Well Wishes" (from the Stamp Set Teeny Tiny Wishes) also comes form the Quick Accents pack.  To finish the card off, I added some of Stampin' Up!'s newest Designer Buttons, tied with a bit of white embroidery floss.  A comforting Get Well card – and Not Just for Babies!

     Remember that I said that Stampin' Up! featured a bargello-themed card in a recent issue of its magazine.  This card is totally copied from that sample.  It also highlights one of the other colors featured in the Nursery Suite papers, So Saffron.  I still had those buttons out, so accented the greeting made from the Brand New Stamp Set, Fabulous Phrases, and tied on a piece of 5/8" Very Vanilla Grosgrain Ribbon.  Stampin' Up! designs nice cards!  And even they know this set is Not Just For Babies!

     But YOU might want to see how this set can be used to make a quick and easy Baby Card!  This is about as quick and easy as it gets.  Just cut some paper and ribbon, layer it up, and add a pre-made greeting from the Quick Accents set!!  No stampin' at all!  And those little bunnies are as cute as a, well, bunny.

     For this last card, I used the other die cut paper in the Nursery Suite set of papers, and accented it with TWO of the sticker strips from the Quick Accent set.  It's all on a card made of Pretty in Pink and tied together with some 5/8" Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon, with a Thank You from the For Everything Stamp Set!  Definitely Not Just for Babies!

     This Blog Post was originally a part of the SUDSOL (Simply Unique Demonstrators Sharing Online) second Blog Tour.  I had so much fun creating the post with all these various designs!  But, to keep things simple, I did not include the card layouts for these cards.  As the month of August goes on, I'll try to revisit some of these designs and provide some layouts.

     For now – just remember that Nursery Suite Designer Series Papers and Quick Accents are NOT JUST FOR BABIES!!

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A Workshop for Wendy

Aloha, all!

I originally posted these projects as part of a blog tour.  What fun that was!  The tour group was made up of demonstrators who belong to the group, SUDSOL, which is for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators exclusively.  Great group!  And I provide a free 3-month membership to the group for anyone who joins my Stampin' Up! team.  For more information, just e-mail me.

     Now for my creative projects for the day.  My first workshop using the Stampin' Up! 2010 Summer Mini Catalog was with my new friend, Wendy, and lots of her friends.  After much discussion about how the workshop would be organized, we decided on three Make and Takes, with some of the luscious new Designer Series Paper set, Island Oasis, the Stamp Set, Tropical Party, and (of course) the Sizzix Big Shot.

     For our first project, we made a Favor Bag with the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Sizzix Bigz XL Die, Fancy Favor.  Wow has this been popular with my friends here in Hawaii, who love to give parties with lots of, well, fancy favors!  You've already seen some of my designs using the stamp set, Tropical Party, and I'm just not even close to getting tired of stamping the coconut cup.  Here on the Big Island, this cup is most likely to to have been purchased at one of the local farmers markets and contain coconut "milk."  We rarely see the little umbrella at the markets, but it sure is cute anyway.

     The accents on the Fancy Favor bag coordinate with my favorite colors in the paper I used for this sample:  Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, and Old Olive.  This bag does well with or without a handle, but I decided to use some of the Pumpkin Pie 1/2" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, which I tacked down on the sides with a couple of Turquoise Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads.   I added  a Turquoise Brad from the Bold Brights brad collection.  (I'm really hoping that we'll continue to see the Turquoise Brads, even though I fully expect to the set to retire as two of the colors in that set will retire at the end of June.  Lots of new products this year for sure!)

     The two flowers that accent the upper right corner of the bag front are also stamped with the Tropical Party stamp set.  I stamped on Tempting Turquoise card stock with Tempting Turquoise Classic Ink, and on Pumpkin Pie with Pumpkin Pie Classic Ink.  I then trimmed close to the stamped image and popped them on with some adhesive.  I got the idea for using these flowers from fellow SUDSOL member, Gretchen Barron, who used them in a sample for a recent Stamping 411 challenge.

     Project Number Two was a Tea Bag Holder made with (what else?) Tea Party Designer Paper.  Fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Maria Matonti, introduced me to the basic project four or five years ago.  I frequently make it as a "get well" card as tea always seems to sound good to me when I'm under the weather.  

     The stamped saying is what connects this project to the Stampin' Up! 2010 Summer Mini Catalog.  I have to confess that I have altered my stamp a bit by removing Eleanor Roosevelt's name from it.  It just wasn't going to work with this particular design.  But isn't the saying perfect for this kind of project???!!! 

     Finally, here's what the inside of the project looks like with the two tea bags nestled into their little pockets.  Here are complete instructions on making the Tea Bag Holder and the Punch Art Teacup.

     The Third and Final Project for the workshop was a greeting card.  There I was back at the Stamping 411 blog, looking for this week's challenge project and I stumbled on the layout for this card.  Here is another use of the Island Oasis Designer Series Paper – there are actually 4 of the papers represented here!  For the greeting, the wonderful old fall-back Stamp Set, Sincere Salutations  seemed to be perfect.  The measurements for this card aren't really important.  What's important is that you scrounge around and find scraps to use to make your own unique card front!  Any set of Designer Series Paper – or even combinations of paper sets – works wonderfully.

I hope you enjoyed this brief look at Wendy's Workshop!  If you're on Hawaii's Big Island and would be interested in your own workshop, I'd love to talk with you!  Just call or e-mail me any time!

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My Own Take on My Own Challenge

Aloha, all!

Today I was a host of a "Chat and Challenge" on SUDSOL (a group for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators).  OK–the Saturday after Thanksgiving, everyone’s stuffed and sick of shopping, right?  Wrong!  We just had a small group.  But what fun we had with my sketch!  It’s a bit different from the sketches I usually make or use.  But I just felt as if I had to do something a bit different.

Here’s the Challenge Sketch.  I’d been looking at some pinwheel cards, and this just popped into my mind.  Of course I made the sketch using My Digital Studio.  I didn’t have to waste a scrap of paper in the making of it!!

And here’s my own take on it as a greeting card.  I’m definitely back into my Green and Red phase of Christmas Cards.  But what struck me most was, as I looked at the photo I’d taken of my card, that I realized it looked just like a CD or DVD.  Now I have this idea in my head that I’m going to use a disk as the background for a card.  Hope I can get it out of my system before I ruin too many blank CDs!!

I used the stamp set, Four the Holidays, just inking up the word "Merry" in "Merry Christmas" in Versamark then applying Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat embossing it on each rectangle.  The background papers are all from the Designer Series Paper set, Merry Moments.

The center piece is a Very Vanilla Jumbo Grommet, with Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon.

I made the circle of Designer Series Paper, with the Garden Green mat behind it, with the Circle Scissors Plus.  I’m really starting to get the hang of the Circle Scissors!  In another couple of months I’m going to be an expert and ready to start teaching others how to use it!!!  One of the problems I have here in East Hawaii is that paper is so often just so saturated with moisture that it’s hard to get a good clean cut.  So I try to find the time of day when things seem driest to go playing with it.  Had a good stretch of dry time when I made this!

Why don’t you try this sketch out for yourself!  I’ll send off some Designer Series Paper samples (four 4" x 5-1/4" pieces) to anyone who e-mails me a link to a card they’ve made with this layout!  Deadline for this "offer" is Saturday, December 5th.  Have fun!!!

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