Easter Criss-Cross Basket

Hello everyone~

At my Stamper's 8 meeting this month, I taught my customers how to make this adorable little basket! I love the chickie from A Good Egg stamp set! I also used the wheel Egg Hunt from the 2009 Spring Occasions Mini Catalog. It is the perfect size to give one Peep! I'll post the instructions after the pictures.

Materials Needed
6” x 6” piece of Certainly Celery Cardstock
¾” x 8” piece of Certainly Celery Cardstock (handle)
Scoring Blade/Scissors
Whisper White/Bashful Blue/Certainly Celery/So Saffron Cardstock
Delicate Dots DSP (SALE-A-BRATION)
A Good Egg Stamp Set
Egg Hunt Wheel (NEW/AVAILABLE – IN MINI!!)
VersaMark Inkpad/Gold Glory EP/Heat Gun/Embossing Buddy
Certainly Celery Ink Cartridge/Wheel Handle
Various Markers – I used So Saffron and Apricot Appeal
Big Shot and Pennant Die and Extended Cutting Piece
1 ¾” Circle/1/16” Hole (NLA)/Boho Blossoms Punches
Soft Subtles Brad
Sticky Strip/Stampin’ Dimensionals/SNAIL Monoadhesive
Basket Fillers – Grass, Peeps, Jelly Beans, Trinkets

Instructions
Wheel 6” x 6” piece of CC Cardstock; wheel handle piece if desired.
Score 6” x 6” piece at 2” and 4”; turn cardstock and repeat.
Using a paper cutter, cut off top triangle of each corner.
Cut into the score lines on the square on one side of the basket.
Cut into the score lines on the opposite side of the basket.
Fold triangle pieces back on one side, trim off square to ¾”.
Fold triangle pieces back on the other side, trim off square to ¾”.
Adhere Sticky Strip to wheeled rectangle sides – leave some room at top. Do not take redline tape off yet.
Flip over to unstamped side and adhere one piece of Sticky Strip to either both right-side triangle flaps or both left-side triangle flaps. Do not take Redline tape off yet.
Adhere Sticky Strip to the ends of the handle on the same side.
Take off Sticky Strip and put together basket. Set aside.
Emboss (2) chick images with Gold Glory on Whisper White.
Punch out with 1 ¾” Circle Punch.
Color in chicks with markers.
Using premade embossed chicks in the Delicate Dots DSP, cut out 2 bottom sections and adhere to Whisper White Pieces.
Use Big Shot and Pennant Die (ask for help if you need it) for 2 scallop pieces.
Adhere pieces with Snail Monoadhesive.
Punch out flower with So Saffron and Certainly Celery Scraps.
Insert brad with 1/16” punch. Pop up with Stampin’ Dimensional.

Fill basket!

Enjoy!!!

Sock Monkey Birthday Blowout Card

I held my Birthday Blowout Stamp-A-Stack last week, and one of the cards I showcased was this Sock Monkey card. Perfect for a kid card, my stampers had fun creating this one especially. One of the reasons is that they didn't have to color in the whole monkey! I offered several coloring methods, and most of my stampers preferred the markering method. This card also used some Sale-A-Bration items - the ribbon and the Designer Series Paper.

Sock Monkey Birthday Card

Hi everyone~

I went to a birthday party this weekend for my niece. I created this card for her using Sock Monkey and some Sale-A-Bration items (the So Saffron grosgrain ribbon and the Delicate Dots DSP). I also used my Big Shot and the dotted Texturz plate. Did you notice the new scallop oval punch? LOVE IT!!!

The technique I used in this card was paper piecing - perfect to fill large spaces (like Sock Monkey's body) when you don't want to color in!

Hope you enjoy it - watch my blog for more posts this week. I've been doing lots of workshops and stamping events lately and have finally had a chance to take pics of the projects!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Hello everyone~

Have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day! Here is a cute little leprechaun I made using various Stampin' Up! punches:

In honor of St. Patrick's day, everything on my www.stampwithjane.com garage sale is 17% off. Go check out my items!

Spring Occasions Mini Catalog Sneak Peek

Stampin' Up! announced today that some of the new stamp sets in the upcoming Spring Occasions Mini Catalog (April 1st - June 30th) will be available to our customers TODAY! Yeah - there are some wonderfully fun Spring-themed stamp sets, so this is great news!

Just click on the Spring Mini picture on the left bar, and you will see the stamp sets that are available on March 1st.

Technique Tuesday - Aged Tiles Technique

At last month's Technique Tuesday class, I taught the Aged Tiles technique. This is a really fun and easy technique. My customers loved it! For this card, I used Upsy Daisy and the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Congratulations.

February Card Kit - Loads of Love

Many of my wonderful customers are not able to attend my stamp camps and classes I hold in my home. I wanted to find a way to keep their stamped card stash filled, so I created Card Kits.

My February Card Kit features the fun stamp set Loads of Love. Many of my customers own this set which is one of the reasons this is a great kit! Here is the card:

Contact me to order my February 2009 Loads of Love Card Kit. Each kit will provide the supplies to make 12 cards including all the pre-cut card stock, embellishments, envelopes, and step-by-step instructions. The monthly card kit is $15. Shipping is $5.00.

Items you will need to complete the card kit:

Loads of Love Stamp Set
AquaPainter
Chocolate Chip/Bashful Blue/Creamy Caramel inkpads
1/16" Handheld Punch
Ticket Corner Punch

Email me at stampwithjane@charter.net if you would like to order this kit!

Fellow Demonstrators - you can purchase the kit instructions without the supplies for only $5.00!

Branch Out Stairstep Card

Branch Out is one of the new stamp sets from the 2009 Spring/Summer Catalog - and I am having so much fun creating samples with this set! I'm using some different colors too!

These stairstep cards are so fun to make! I demonstrated this format to my Stamper's 8 group this month.

The supplies and card format instructions for this card are as follows:

SUPPLIES
Branch Out/Heard From the Heart Stamp Set
SAB DSP/SAB Ribbon
Scoring Blade/Pencil/SU Grid Paper
Very Vanilla/So Saffron/Bashful Blue/Certainly Celery CS
Bashful Blue Inkpad and Marker/So Saffron & Sahara Sand Inkpad
Sponge
Gold Brads/Flower Brads and 1/16” and 1/8” Hole Punch
Corner Punch/Boho Blossoms/Large Oval and Wide Oval Punch/Eyelet Border Punch
Rubber Scraps/Sticky Strip/Monoadhesive

CARDBASE
5 ½” x 11 piece of CS
Score as follows:
1 ½”; 3”; 5”; 7”; 9”
Fold on the score lines like an accordion.
5 ½” x 4 ¼” piece of CS for back base.
Attach back base to front of last “mountain”.
Stamp, punch, and/or cut images and attach to “mountains”.
Adhere pieces.


Welcome, Spring!

14 Days of Love Projects - #14 Branch Out Popcorn Slider

The last 14 Days of Love project is a popcorn slider! I used the Bella Rose Designer Series Paper and the Branch Out and Happy Heart Day stamp sets as well as the Heart to Heart punch. Stinking cute!

I hope you have all enjoyed these projects...now to clear off my stamp table of reds and pinks and bring on some spring colors and projects!!!!!

14 Days of Love Projects - #13 Loads of Love Card

This was one of the projects at my All About Men Stamp Camp last week. Loads of Love is such a fun stamp set to use! The road can be made by tearing the cardstock. The new neutral brads are great for so many projects!