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Sep18

Bon Appetite!

11:37 pm on Sep 18th 2008 Cheryl

Some great demonstrator friends and I got together today to share some ideas and projects. The first project, was my contribution which was a special delivery, loaded pizza pie! The mini pizza box tutorial, by Jen Muro, can be found here on Scor-Pal’s website.

This is my adaptation, using theVoila Stamp Set. I stamped the main image in stazon ink, and highlighted with going gray ink and a blender pen, and real red marker for the scarf. I created the box with Kraft cardstock, because it was the most like a pizza box.

I used our two original oval punches, but trimmed the larger one down to make the crust more anatomically correct. lol. I used a sponge dauber in creamy caramel on both edges of both ovals, which were punched in more mustard cs. I used our 1/4" circle punch for the pepperonis and slivers of the GLORIOUS GREEN cardstock, from the Brights collection! WOW! I can’t believe I used the Brights! I used the same colors real red in 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" and green in 3.5 x 3.5 for mats. Since these are the colors found in the Italian flag, I figured I would pay tribute. I used 4" wide strips of both green and red, but used the scalloped edge punch on the red. Ok, so here’s how the box looks from the side:

And the BEST part is what is inside the box:

It’s a 5-slice piece of fruit gummi pizza, and it got two thumbs up from my 11 year old son!

Ok, so now the 2nd project, presented by my friend Susan, was this cute little box made with Stampin’ Up!’s exclusive die cut, the scalloped edge envelope. You cut four dies at a time in the new in-color, kiwi kiss, cardstock. You use red sticky tape to tape all of the side flaps to the next envelope’s side flap, all the way around. The bottom is already scored by the die, and folds in on all four envelopes, which you can adhere two opposite sides and then two more opposite or you can fold one on top of the next, until you tuck the last corner in (like all boxes with a temporary close). Anyway, then you can decorate the side with a piece of red, pink and white Bella Rose designer series paper. We stamped the larger image from the Dreams du Jour stamp set in chocolate chip and used blender pens in kiwi kiss, riding hood red, and pink piroutte to color it in. We popped up this image with stampin dimensionals onto a die cut flower cut from the brown pattern of Bella Rose,made from the Pennants exclusive die.

Ok, last but not least, we have the cutest little snowman card, made another friend and team member, Robin Satterwhite. We used the Window Dressing, Level 3 FREE Hostess set with qualifying party.

We started with a piece of Baja Breeze for the card base. We used Kiwi Kiss for the larger mat, Pacific Point for the 2nd mat, and then we stamped the snowman image and sentiment on Whisper White. Before we stamped the image and sentiment, we actually sponged Pacific Point ink all over the mat, using a 2" circle punch as a mask. Once the background was sponged, we removed the mask, and stamped the snowman and sentiment. As you can see from my example, this is a good set to use your Stamp-a-ma-jig tool. I thought the circle was from "Seeing Spots" but it’s not, and I know I don’t have this set, so I would have substituted the circle with the one in Priceless. We used the 1/4" circle punch at the edge (centered) of each left and right sides of the whisper white cardstock mat that we sponged, and inserted a brad into the Pacific Point cardstock in that space. We used the 1/16" punch for that.

WHEW! I haven’t posted for a week I think, because I’ve been working on creating classes for the next couple of months, as well as combining all my contacts’ lists into one major list with I-Contact which is Constant Contact’s competitor. It’s a marketing/communication/newsletter tool, so you can be expecting better quality newsletters, and more customizable by me, so I can actually provide a lot more information and pictures that you’ll like to see of projects, classes, and things you can make, on a monthly or semi-monthly basis. Stay tuned.

Thanks for stopping by! I hoped you liked the projects we made as much as we liked making them.