Tiny Purse for 3x3 Note Cards and Envelopes

How was your weekend, friends?  We took a trip to Hershey, PA to watch the state cross country championship meet.  The boys' team from our daughters' school made it as did one girl from the girls' team.  Caitlin runs for Eden's team and went along as her teammate's roommate.  It was such a fun day!  We had a tailgate lunch after the races in our team tent with lots of photos and celebrating.  Then we walked over to Hershey Chocolate World for a tour and some shopping.  Did you know the streetlights in town are Hershey Kisses?  Even the park where the meet was held smelled like chocolate!  Someone told me the company intentionally pipes the aroma around the area but I have not verified that is true.  Whether true or not, it smelled divine!  Better than the sewage plant that used to sit on the course 😜.

On page 30 of the Annual Catalog is a set of 6 tiny note cards using Itty Bitty Greetings that I've wanted to make, but I wanted to gift them so I searched for a holder.  I found a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers for a cute little tote.  Hold on, because I have lots of photos to show you of this treasure!

Isn't it adorable?  I piled on the layers and added sponging with Soft Suede ink.  The Crumb Cake ribbon is one of two spools in the Come To Gather Ribbon Combo Pack.  I cut a piece in half length-wise to get a frayed look.  That bit of wood embellishment peeking out from behind the ribbon and leaf is a round tree trunk tag from Tags & Feathers Elements.  Did you know you can color on them with Stampin' Blends?  And did you know you can heat emboss them?  Yes!  They are fun to work with!

You can see how it holds 3x3 sized cards and envelopes.  I fit 6 of each in the tote. 

To make the 3"x3" note cards, I began with a 12"x12" sheet of Whisper White cardstock.  3" and 9" are where you'll score and 6" is where you'll cut.  That gives you (2) 6" x 12" pieces which you can then cut at 3", 6", and 9".  That gives you 8 note cards, although I used just 6 of them for this project.

When making projects like these, I love to pile products on my desk and dive in.  It's inspiring to see it in front of me like that, plus it limits my choices which makes it easier to create.

I could hardly stay in my seat while working on this!  It was so exciting to play with the different patterns in the Come To Gather pack and the colors of fall were gorgeous.  Do you know what really made me happy, though?  The sponging on the sentiment dies and the addition of the Basics Holiday Rhinestone Jewels!  That mix of vintage and sparkle makes my heart sing.

Here's the tutorial:

3" x 3" Note Card Tote

Here's what was on my desk to make this:

Come To Gather Bundle (includes bulleted products listed below - bundle is orderable November 11 when ribbon combo pack comes back in stock, or products can be ordered individually) 

• Gather Together stamp set
• Gathered Leaves dies
• Come To Gather designer series paper
• Come To Gather Ribbon Combo pack (back in stock November 11)
• Tags & Feathers Elements

Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set

Stitched Nested Labels Dies

Leaf Punch

Basics Holiday Rhinestones Jewels

Sponges

12"x12" Whisper White cardstock

3"x3" envelopes

Layering Squares dies

Ink Colors: Soft Suede, Merry Merlot, Mint Macaron, Cajun Craze, Pretty Peacock

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Mint Macaron, Cajun Craze, Pear Pizzazz

You can see other projects made with the Gather Together suite here.  

November's Gift (a $15 value)!

Bird Ballad Notecard Set Part 2

I showed you two of the four notecards I had made in this post from Friday.  Now I'll show you the next two!  They use stamped images from Free As A Bird.

Coloring with Stampin' Blends markers means your images will not have marker lines and there will be nice blending of shades.  You can use different colors on the same image and not worry about the colors contaminating each other.  My bird above uses Dark and Light Petal Pink Blends and Light Crumb Cake Blends.  My flowers use Dark and Light Daffodil Delight and the leaves Dark & Light Old Olive.

In this sample, I added a couple cute little flowers colored with a Dark Calypso Coral Blend.  Both of these cards were made with Stampin' Up!'s Whisper White Notecards and Envelopes, which come already cut and scored for you!  

See the other two notecards I made with this product suite in this blog post.

Wouldn't a set of these sweet notecards make a fantastic gift?  Bundle some together with the included envelopes stamped to match and they make a perfect welcome gift for a new neighbor, or for a new mom to write thank yous, or even as a wedding or baby shower game prize.  So many uses!


You Can Make It:

• Bird Ballad Bundle (save 10%!)
• Free As A Bird stamp set
• Stitched Nested Labels Dies
• Bird Ballad DSP
• Crumb Cake cardstock
• Early Espresso ink pad
• Basic Pearls
• Paper Snips
• Scalloped Lace Trim
• Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes

 Click on any of the links above to go to my online store and shop!  I would so appreciate your order!

Bird Ballad Bundle Notecard Set Part 1

I am CRAZY for the Bird Ballad suite!  I can't stop creating with it!  Do you get like that?  Where you just obsessively craft with a specific set of products or even a technique?  I do that and right now I'm doing that with all the Bird Ballad coordinating products - the scalloped lace trim, the trinkets, the DSP, the stamp set, the dies - everything!  

Stampin' Up!'s Whisper White notecards are so convenient for making these pretty cards.  They come cut and scored using our Thick Whisper White cardstock and are 3-1/2" x 5" when folded.  A pack has 20 cards and 20 envelopes.  You can also get them in Very Vanilla.  They are a hidden gem in our catalog and you'll find them on page 168.  

I cut some of the gorgeous Bird Ballad DSP to 3-1/2" x 5" to fully cover the notecard front, then used Crumb Cake cardstock and the Stitched Nested Labels Dies to create panels for my sentiments.  The sentiments come from Free As A Bird stamp set.  A little bit of Scalloped Lace Trim and Basic Pearls and these are done!

 Here's a tip for you: this DSP has beautiful images that work great as focal pieces on notecards.  Use Paper Snips to cut out those images to add to your cards - no stamping required!  In the first sample, my bird was cut from DSP and in the second sample, I cut feathers from the DSP.  

Come back for my next post to see the other two notecards I made using the Bird Ballad suite.  Or you can subscribe to my blog in the right sidebar by typing in your email address and my posts will automatically show up in your email inbox!

You Can Make It:

• Bird Ballad Bundle (save 10%!)
• Free As A Bird stamp set
• Stitched Nested Labels Dies
• Bird Ballad DSP
• Crumb Cake cardstock
• Early Espresso ink pad
• Basic Pearls
• Paper Snips
• Scalloped Lace Trim
• Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes

 Click on any of the links above to go to my online store and shop!  I would so appreciate your order!