Bottle Tags ~ Post 1

I am going to split-up my post of my bottle tags to Seasonal first and Everyday the next time.  I call them bottle tags because they can be used for much more than wine.  Vinegar and oil are very popular right now.  We have 2 stores in Overland Park that specialize in just vinegar and oil!  These tags are primarily made with Papertrey Ink dies.  The tag being the main item.  The poinsettias are cut with a PTI die using wool felt and and PTI Wonderful Words Holiday.  The Star of David is an old Stampin Up stamp heat embossed and cut by hand.  The Just For You is from 2011 Holiday Tags.  The FABULOUS Snowflakes are Dawn McVeys Damask Snowflake Die Collection.  They are GORGEOUS!!!  I coat them with glitter and they sparkle and shine!  Lastly the Christmas Tree is from last year and is not the one from the set this year.  I like it better.  It is stamped with Tree Trimming Trio and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  LOVE IT! 

Lots of seam binding and heat embossed sentiments. 

I will show you the everyday ones next.

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Susan

Thanksgiving Pouches

These pouches are based on an idea from Michele Wooderson at Mish Mash .  She sells the flat paper bags you need to make these adorable pouches, although she does not have any in stock right now.  You can find them elsewhere on the Internet.  The bags are 5x7 1/2.  They are folded and the edges zig zaged to form a second pouch.  There are lots of embellishments, ribbons and fun additions.  I use 2 pieces of Ghirardelli chocolate and a bag of cider or cocoa.  Sometimes I use a 4 1/4x5 1/2 folded card.  These have a 4x5 1/2 flat card.  I use hand dyed seam binding and purchased embellishments, when I can, to save time.  I sold 80+ of these for Thanksgiving.  I am working on ones for Christmas now.  I will post those soon.

Ask if you have questions, please.

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Susan 

Jayhawk Notebook

Sorry I have been MIA,  A trip back to NYC for my husband, decorating my house, selling TONS of thanksgiving pouches (I will post a picture, soon) and getting ready for Thanksgiving...... Whew! 

My sister Pat, *Hi Pat!* asked me to make a notebook with a Jayhawk theme.  Anyone who is a Jayhawk fan, and if you are not, what is wrong with you?, would love this!  I am pleased how it turned out.  The pennant is a cupcake pick.  I used my handy dandy Tim Holtz scissors and trimmed the pick part off and put two pop dots on the top and one on the bottom edge.  Cute, huh!  The basketball on the clothes pin is a button with the shank trimmed off.

So, posts will be sporadic throughout the holidays but I will post when I can.

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Susan

Tag Sale Card

I really like this card!  I like it because I love PTI"s butterfly dies.  This 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock base card has a panel of pale green cardstock cut at 4x5 3/8" and embossed with Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder.  The tag is PTI Tag Sale #3 die.  It was used to cut a Forest Green cardstock.  A medium, white, trimmed shipping tag was stamped with Tim Holtz French Connection stamp.  The large Signature Series PTI Butterfly die was used to cut purple cardstock and the pink one, to be honest, I am not sure where it came from.  Most likely a Cricut cartridge.  It was in my "cuts" drawer.  The butterflies were also stamped with the Tim Holtz stamp to give the some texture, then were layered and a Marquis shaped pearl was adhered to the body.  Organza ribbon was tied in a knot at the tag hole. 3 rhinestones were glued to a tiny clothespin.  Bling was placed on the shipping tag hole and a small rectangle of white cardstock was stamped with the sentiment.  The tag was adhered to the card front with pop dots.

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Susan

Scrap card

You know I cannot stand to waste paper I love.  This card is made with the last scraps of that brown damask  Lost and Found.  It is pieced with brown cardstock on a 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock base.  Creamy Shimmer dyed seam binding a button tied at the seam, a handmade stick pin, a Prima flower mounted on a "doily" from PTI Love Lives Here die and brown cardstock, and a PTI Tiny Tag.

A pretty, scrappy card!

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Susan

Blue Monday cards

I am not blue but these cards are.  These cards are ones that showcase the paper.  Really the only embellishments are the ribbon that is tied in a knot and PTI Fillable Frames #10.  I cut that frames out of a section of the paper that was solid blue and used a 2 3/4 oval cut with George and Basic Shapes.  The stamp in PTI Signature Greetings. 

Actually, it is kinda blue here.  Friday night our High School soccer team, that a lot of Colin's friends play on, lost to a team of little jerks from Wichita.  Saturday Kansas lost by a field goal.  Sunday the Chiefs got blown out by the winless Dolphins and Sporting Kansas City lost to Houston in the MLS finals!  Oh well, Kansas plays tomorrow in basketball ~ we should win that game!  And.... don't even get me started on Missouri leaving the Big 12!!!!

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Susan

Simple card

This 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock base couldn't be more simple.  The patterned paper is from a pack & I cannot remember what it is.  My sister Pat *Hi Pat!* gave it to me.  The panel is 4 x 5 3/8.  There was a sheet of tags and I really didn't know what to do with them so this is what I did.  I took one of my trusty 2 3/4 white cardstock ovals cut with George & Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge, stamped it with A Hero Arts sentiment and layered it on the tag.  I put bards in the holes of the tag.  I dyed seam binding pale green and tied it in a bow around the bottom 1/3 of the panel before adhering it to the card base.  I cut a "doily" from Love Lives Here PTI die with the patterned paper & layered Prima E series flowers on top of it.  I used a plain brad and used Glossy Accents to glue a rhinestone on top of the brad.  Easy Peasy!

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Susan

Cosmo Cricket Everafter: Something Blue Card ~ Again!

One more card made with the Cosmo Cricket paper.  I thought I had them all in the same file from my Photoshop edits but I found this one by itself.  It is too pretty not to share.  The base is 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  The mat is 4x5 1/4.  Shimmery Cream hand dyed seam binding is tied in a triple bow near the center.  A reddish-orange button is tied with button twine at the knot of the bow.  Reddish-orange cardstock was used to cut a PTI Doily Details doily and a Tiny Tag.  PTI Signature Flower die was used to cut 2 Aqua Mist flowers that were inked on the edges.  The flowers were stacked and sewed together with button twine and the same color button as on the ribbon.  The flower was adhered to the doily and the doily was adhered with pop dots above the bow.  The tiny tag was stamped in Fresh Snow ink.  

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Susan

Larger 5x7 Greeting Cards of previous posts

I have shown you these cards before.  The previous post HERE is 4 1/4x5 1/2 note card sized.  I really prefer to send 5x7 cards for Birthday cards.  I use note cards for Thank You notes.  That is just me, my preference.  I don't think most card makers agree, but that is OK!  So, for me, this size is better for a Birthday card or like the 2 I posted here, an Anniversary card.  The drill is as usual, a 5x7 white cardstock base with the elements added.  You can see the previous post for sizes and elements.

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Susan

Straight From the Nest Cricut Cartridge Cards

These are a couple of cards I made a while back.  They are 5x7 white cardstock, greeting card sized.  The top paper is from a DCWV stack and the bottom one is American Crafts.  The cut is from the Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge.  There are LOTS of layers on the second card.  There is a solid mat 4 3/4x 6 3/4, pattern paper mat 4 1/2x6 3/4.  then a solid mat 4 1/4x 5 1/2 and patterned paper 4x5 1/4.  The image from page 43 of the handbook is a corner cut at 5 1/2 with solid paper shift and the and the regular cut.  The smaller mat was mounted on pop dots as was the corner piece.  The sentiment is stamped on PTI Double Ended banner die from white cardstock.  This one is sort of time consuming but VERY pretty and interesting.  The top one was cut from a scrap.  The corners of the cut were missing, so I cut 2 flowers from the same page and covered the mistake.  Voila, an intentional mistake!  My husband calls those things "features"!

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Susan 

Cosmo Cricket Card

HI!  This is a quick post.  I found this card that should  have been posted with other cards made with this paper.  It was hiding in my Adobe Photoshop file! ;)  I won't go into too much detail  The Paper is Social Club.  The Mats are Papertrey Ink, Mat Stack #4 & Fillable Frames #8.  I made the stick pin with an extra long straight pin and beads.  Very simple card

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Susan

Cosmo Cricket Everafter: Something Blue Card

This pretty Cosmo Cricket paper was used on a post, HERE .  I thought it was from one of their Christmas lines.  It was not.  There is paper I have from Mitten Weather that looks a lot like it.  This card has a base of 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  The panel has Creamy Shimmer hand dyed seam binding tied in a triple bow at the seam.  A button is tied with button twine on the knot.  A PTI Doily Detail orange/red cut, the same color as the solid part of the panel is layered with a Aqua Mist circle punch.  On top of that is all 3 PTI butterflies and some from the Martha Stewart punch.  The largest butterfly has inked edges to make it more the color of the paper.  The large butterfly has Michael's Recollections pearls layered on it.  The sentiment is stamped on PTI Jar Labels 2 that also has inked edges.  This is a very soft, pretty card.  That Cosmo Cricket paper is so pretty.

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Susan 

Brown Damask = LOVE!

I have shown you this card before on this post, HERE .  I won't give directions again, they are identical.  The paper is My Minds Eye ~ Lost and Found 2 » sunshine » two of us.  I told you before I am so into Damask and I LOVE this paper!  It makes such pretty cards.  The flowers from the Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge are great flowers.  There are lots to choose from including some rolled ones.  I like my Rolled Roses die flower better, I bet you didn't know that!  The advantage of the Cricut cartridge is if you are making more than 1 card, you can batch cut these flowers and it saves a ton of time.

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Susan

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Pearl Lace Trim Card

This card is a little different for me.  I am not to Girly so you don't usually see fancy trims on my cards very often.  I got this pretty trim at Hobby Lobby, it is probably meant for weddings.  The card is 4 1/4x5 1/2 side fold, white cardstock.  The patterned paper is a Cosmo Cricket piece that I think is from last years Mitten Weather Christmas paper.  It is not Christmas'y at all!  The ribbon is hand dyed seam binding with an aqua button tied with button twine on the knot.  PTI Fillable Frame #10 was stamped with the coordinating stamp & Signature Greetings in Aqua Mist ink.  All 3 PTI Butterfly dies were used to make the embellishment. 

It is a pretty card, even for a non-Girly Girl like me!

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Susan

Another Cosmo Cricket Social Club Card

Like the previous Social Club paper cards, this one has a base of 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  I had the paper pack sitting on my work space so I chose several pages to make cards from.  The orange color is from a different paper in the pack. A PTI Doily Detail die was used to cut white cardstock.  The flower is one I made from the little flower petals sold in boxes at Michael's and most everywhere, in the bridal section.  I get those when they are on clearance.  I hand cut circles of the satin & tulle petals, stack them together, and sew them with a WalMart pearl.  PTI Fillable Frames #10, one of my favorites, was layered with one of the oval cardstock pieces I cut in bulk.  That was stamped with Terracotta Tile ink.  Both the doily and the sentiment were mounted on pop dots.

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Susan

Cosmo Cricket Social Club Card ~ part 2

This card is just like the one on the last post.  I usually post all of the cards made with different paper at the same time, but I failed to see this card in my Photo Shop file.  I won't bore you with the details, they are just below.  I did realize however, that I didn't tell you I inked the flower after assembly, just to give it some additional texture.  It also softens the solid color to more match the color in the patterned paper.  I also used the star tag from Tiny Tags & a Dew Drop. 

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Susan

Cosmo Cricket Social Club Card

This 4 1/4x5 1/2 top fold card is made from paper from the 6x6 Cosmo Cricket Social Club pack I have been using lately.  I really love this color combo.  Blue and Green, how can you go wrong.  The mat is

4x5 3/8.  A soft blue hand dyed seam binding ribbon is tied just under the center of the card.  PTI Mat Stack #4 was used to cut Spring Moss cardstock.  A Doily Details die was used to cut Vintage Cream cardstock.  2 passes of Bloom Builders #3 was used to cut Spring Rain cardstock.  The 10 layers were stacked and sewn together with a Spring Rain button and button thread.  The stack of elements were mounted on pop dots.  A Spring Rain button was threaded on the knot of the bow and a Tiny Tag was stamped and added to the card.  The card is so soft and pretty.  LOVE those colors!

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Susan

S-Fold Cards & Blog Break

This is a quick post.  I am leaving today with my husband to go to New York.  My husband has his annual appointments with his specialists in New York City. He will have the usual tests and we will be home on Thursday!

These are s-fold cards.  I have posted those before, HERE .  I won't go into any directions for lack of time.  The paper on the last 2 is from the Cosmo Cricket Social Club 6x6 pad.  The Isaiah verse is PTI, the Proverbs is Stampendous.  The sentiment frame on the top card is Cricut Cartridge  Storybook ~ Wishes Come True page 70

                   Shift Accent Blackout ~ 4” solid cardstock

                      Shift Accent Blackout ~ 3 ½” white cardstock x2

The bottom card uses PTI Mat Stack #1 and the Layerz Mat as well.

Have a great week and I will see you when I get back.

Thank you for looking at my blog!

Susan