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Scallop tag topper punch wine bottle tag

08 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by Carolyn in 1 1/4 inch circle, 3D projects, Framelits, Gift card holders, Gift tags & wrapping, Labels collection, Punches, Scallop Tag Topper, Using up scraps

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Hello

Today I wanted to show you a wine bottle tag I made to give to a good friend for his birthday.

Scallop tag topper wine bottle gift tag

I used an off-cut of Not Quite Navy card stock I had lying in a scrap pile, and cut the end with the scallop tag topper punch.   I used my 1 3/4 inch circle punch to make a hole for the bottle neck to go through, then scored to make the fold for the wine bottle cover.

Scallop tag topper wine bottle gift tag

The card stock was too wide to fit in the slot in the tag topper punch so I slid it over the plastic part of the punch, and then under the metal cutting part to make it work – leave me a comment below if that doesn’t make sense and I’ll try and explain better!   I then just cut diagonally from the edge of the scallop to the edge of the card stock to make the pointed shape.   This picture may give you a better idea:

Scallop tag topper wine bottle gift tag

And isn’t it perfect how one of the smaller dies from the labels framelits fits so perfectly inside the scallop topper tag punch?

Labels framelits inside the scallop tag topper punch

The image here is from the Simply Sketched stamp set (a 2013-14 Stampin’ Up! hostess gift)

This gift coordinated nicely with one of the cards I made and showed you a few months ago:

Simply Sketched simple bird cardNow that I know how easy it is to make a wine topper using the scallop tag punch, I think there may be a few more gifts like this in my future!

Thanks for reading.

Caro

 

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Sweet Sorbet and Scallop Tag Topper punch gift wrapping

18 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in 1 inch circle, Big Shot, Blossom, Circle Thinlits, Dies, Gift tags & wrapping, Scallop Tag Topper, Using up scraps

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Hello

Yesterday I showed you a card I made for my Mum’s birthday using the Circle Thinlits die and the Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper (DSP).

Sweet Sorbet Circle Thinlits 'flip' cardToday I want to show you how I wrapped her gift.    I first wrapped it in ordinary brown paper, then stuck a leftover piece of Sweet Sorbet DSP on the top.

Sweet Sorbet DSP gift wrappingI made a gift tag from the Stampin’ Up! Scallop Tag Topper punch (Pistachio Pudding) – using the same Mixed Bunch embellishment as the birthday card.

Scallop Tag Topper punch, Mixed Bunch flower, with Blossom and 1" circle punch

(Looking at that now, I think next time I’d round the two bottom corners?)

A little Crisp Cantaloupe ribbon and the present was done!

Sweet Sorbet gift wrapping with Scallop Tag Topper gift tag

The gift and card looked really beautiful together 🙂

Sweet Sorbet card and matching gift wrap and gift tag

I hope Mum enjoys her present even half as much as I enjoyed wrapping it!

Thanks for reading

Caro x

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Blossom punch gift cards

09 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Blossom, Cards, General occasion, Gift tags & wrapping, Love notes, Using up scraps

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blossom punch, cards, DSP, Garden Party, gift cards, Stampin Up

Hi

The other day I had an idea for a gift card set which is just a little bit genius (if I do say so myself!!!).   I’ll show you that idea tomorrow.

But first I needed some gift cards …  so, it was off to my craft desk to make some!    I have been wanting to use my pack of Garden Party DSP from the current Stampin’ UP! catalogue for months so I started with that for inspiration.   I pulled out my Blossom Punch and some buttons, and voila!!  Here are some of the cards I made:

Blossom punch Garden Party gift cardBlossom punch Garden Party gift cardBlossom punch Garden Party gift cardBlossom punch Garden Party gift cardThey looked so cute all lined up together!

Blossom Punch gift card setBlossom Punch gift card setCome back tomorrow and I’ll show you my clever idea for packaging them up 🙂

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

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Pretty-ing up the ordinary

08 Saturday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Home decorating, Thoughts and comments, Using up scraps

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decorating jars, DSP notepads, Home decorating, using up scraps

Hello – thanks for visiting Caro’s Pretty Things!

In keeping with the name of this blog, I quite like taking ordinary things and making them a bit prettier.  For example, I can’t just take a normal note pad along to meetings, conferences etc, I need to have it look pretty!

Decorated note pads

See – much less boring!

It is amazing how ordinary, everyday things can be transformed with just a teeny bit of paper, glue and ribbon.   For example, who would want to keep rubber bands in a boring old jar when an old vitamin container with some DSP and some ribbon looks sooooo much nicer?!?

DSP decorated vitamin container

Why don’t you have a look around at home and see what stuff you have that could be given a new lease of life?

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

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“Scribble scrabble” butterflies

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Beautiful Butterflies, Big Shot, Bitty Butterfly, Butterfly (retired), Dies, Elegant Butterly, Kids craft ideas, Punches, Using up scraps

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Hello

One of the things that my little boy loves to do is make a “scribble scrabble” – a piece of paper where you scribble colours all over it to make a pretty picture.

Scribble scrabbleHe loves making them, and sometimes we use them as wrapping paper or the background for a card.

The other day it occurred to me that they would make gorgeous butterflies, so I got out my Beautiful Butterflies die and the Big Shot, as well as my butterfly punches and set him loose.   He adores being allowed to play with “Mummy’s precious toy” (AKA my Big Shot!).

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Scribble scrabble butterfly

Beautiful butterflies

 

This next photo shows you how to make the largest butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies die – fold a piece of paper in half and line the fold up along the edge of the ‘half’ butterflies on the die.  This way you get 6 butterflies out of one run through the Big Shot.

Beautiful Butterflies negative image

 

This is his ‘art work’ after spending a happy half hour with his butterflies and a glue stick.

Scribble scrabble butterfly artYou could use the same technique to make gorgeous butterflies for grown up cards and decorations.

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

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Fish tank craft

28 Friday Feb 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Kids craft ideas, Using up scraps

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hello 🙂

Today I wanted to show you something that has nothing at all to do with card making, but still a fun little bit of paper craft I did with my son recently.

We had been out for dinner to a restaurant where he was mesmerised by a beautiful fish tank full of the most beautiful tropical fish.    So we decided to make our own!

Kids paper craft fish tankThe background is a blue piece of A4 paper.   The sand is torn from yellow A4 paper and the seaweed is made from strips of green paper stuck on top of each other to give depth.   We didn’t stick them all the way down so the seaweed looks a bit like it’s moving in the water.

And then the fish!   Let a 4 year old loose with a roll of fish stickers from a $2 shop and you end up with a beautiful tropical aquarium!   You could equally draw your own fish and cut them out.

Thanks for reading!

Caro x

 

 

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Ben’s birthday card

16 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 circle, Cards, Kids cards, Punches, Star, Using up scraps

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5th birthday, 5th birthday card, Birthday card, Kids cards, name card

Hello!

Today we had a 5th birthday party for a little boy called Ben.   Here’s the birthday card we made this morning:

letter, circle and star kid's birthday card

 

The colours are Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight and Poppy Parade (now retired, but Real Red would look just as good)

I used the 1 3/4 inch circle punch and a star punch as well as using my Big Shot and an alphabet die set to die cut the letters.

My son – and creative director! – insisted Ben needed ‘jewels’ on the card – so he stuck on 5, for a 5th birthday.  I’m actually quite impressed – he stuck them on really quite straight!

The little birthday boy seemed very chuffed with his card – so job done!   I was actually really pleased with how it turned out – sometimes the simplest cards are the most effective I think?

Thanks for reading.

Caro

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Making pretty paper from offcuts

08 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in Thoughts and comments, Using up scraps

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Hi

Have you ever finished making something and had a whole heap of small pieces of pretty paper left over?  Me too, so I thought I would show you what I did with a recent pile of left over strips of designer series paper (DSP) from Stampin’ Up!

I made new pretty paper!

I got a piece of white paper the size of a card front and glued the leftover strips of DSP to it.  I then trimmed off the edge so I had a gorgeous patch work style front for a card.

Using offcuts of DSP to make pretty paper

 

I had enough pieces to make two.

IMAG0191Now I just need to figure out what to do with them – I’ll show you when I figure it out.

This would be a great thing to do with kids too – even with torn up strips from old magazines or catalogues.

Enjoy!

Caro x

 

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Using my colouring in … Part 2

02 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Cards, Cupcakes and other tasty treats, General occasion, Kids cards, Using up scraps

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Hello – thanks for reading Caro’s Pretty Things 🙂

Today I wanted to show you some more of the cards I made using up my (ridiculously large!) stash of coloured-in stamped images.   Today I’m going to show you some cupcakes.  Again, these are mostly using up scraps of paper and card stock I had lying around.  Believe it or not I have finally completely emptied one of my boxes of paper ‘I might need just in case’!!

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IMAG0167I hope you enjoyed looking at some of these pictures.

Thanks for reading my blog x

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Using my colouring in … Part 1

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Cards, Using up scraps

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Hello!

Yesterday I showed you just some of the ridiculous number of pages of coloured-in stamped images I had lying around my office from a time when I was unwell earlier in the year.    In the next few blog posts, I’ll show you what I did with them all!

I figured while I was using up my colouring-in, I should probably use up some of my giant stash of retired Stampin’ Up! designer series paper (DSP) as well as various packets of card stock, corrugated cardboard etc I’ve been hoarding since one of my many visits to a local $2 shop!

I probably had almost a whole watercolour sheet of Stampin’ Up’s Two by Two stamp.

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My Mum’s op shop got a donation of a very large number of these cards!

IMAG0099I must have made about 30 of them!

I also coloured in sheets of the pram image from the (now, sadly, retired set Baby Bundle):

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Here are some of the cards I made:

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IMAG0184Again, hopefully they will all find happy homes via the local op shop (and contribute to a good cause as well!)

Thanks for reading

Caro x

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