Carolina's Creative Pad

Easter Card and Hybrid Treat Gift Set

Happy Monday! I have a fun Easter set to share with you - a card and a carrot box. Both items feature Gina K. Designs stamps - the card is based on a sketch and the carrot box is a hybrid template. This is what the set looks like.

As I mentioned the card is based on a sketch, this week's Spotlight Sketch which looks like this.

Here's a close-up of my card.

Here are the steps to put it together:

1. Cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of patterned paper at a diagonal both ways and adhere the pieces to a standard size card stock made out of Pure Luxury Kraft card stock.
2. Use Spellbinders Classic Ovals Scalloped dies to cut and emboss a large oval out of Pure Luxury Grass Green card stock and out Bazzill Basics Tangerine card stock.
3. Stamp the bunny and sentiment from the Chocolate Bunnies set on Pure Luxury White card stock.
4. Color bunny with Copics add some grass towards the bottom of the bunny, and use Spellbinders Classic Ovals Scalloped dies to cut him out. On a scarp piece of orange card stock, draw out a carrot, add some details and attach it to bunny.
5. Stamp bunny's hands on Pure Luxury White card stock, cut them out, and adhere them on top of the carrot. Add the carrot's top by curling some strips of Pure Luxury Grass Green card stock and adhere it all to card front.
6. Use Spellbinders Fancy Tags die to cut out a tag out of orange card stock.
7. Punch out sentiment with an oval punch and adhere it on top of tag. Add some pearls on either end, adhere it to the card front with pop dots, and with that you are done!

Stamps: Gina K. Stamps: Chocolate Bunnies by Asela Hopkins
Paper: Gina K. Designs: Pure Luxury Grass Green, Kraft, and White card stock; Bazzill Basics: Tangerine; October Afternoon: Modern Homemaker
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa ink
Accessories: Spellbinders: Classic Ovals Scalloped dies and Fancy Tags; Martha Stewart Grass punch; Oval Punch; Pearls; PopDots

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Next up is a close-up of the basket.

On the basket I used the Square Pegs set by Melanie Muenchinger. To put the carrots together, I used a hybrid template called Carrot Box Template Set by Kelleigh Ratzlaff. You can find a step-by-step tutorial over at the Hybrid Chic blog on this post, A Carrot Treat.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Gina K. Designs Sneak Peek Day 1: Where Your Heart Is & Ready, Set, Snow!

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and welcome to day 1 of sneak peeks for Gina K. Designs January Release. I am so tickled pink about this release. It really has everything you need to kick off your creativity into high gear. We will be sharing sneak peeks starting today through Thursday and hope you'll be able to join us Thursday evening (7-10 pm CST), for the release party over at StampTV.

Make sure to leave a comment on each blog while you are blog hopping today. Gina is giving away FOUR of these sets and will announce the winners tomorrow on THIS blog entry just before preview day 2. Each blog you comment on will count as an entry so you will have lots of chances if you comment on all of the blogs!

Today we will sharing some sneak peeks of Where Your Heart Is and Ready, Set, Snow! I'm going to start with Where Your Heart is Designed by Melanie Muenchinger.

 

I put this treat bag together using the main image and one of many, many sentiments included in this set. The inspiration behind this set is beyond amazing and when you get to Melanie's blog, you'll understands what I mean.

The image can be colored in or embossed as I did here. The paper flowers are something that I thought went well with the message behind the image and is perfectly paired with the sentiment.

I also went ahead and put a quick step-by-step tutorial on how to make one of these treat holders, which consists of three envelopes, some embellishments, some treats, and image/sentiment from this set.

Here's a photo of it opened.

You can find the tutorial here:

Glassine Bags Purse (Treat Holder) Tutorial

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Next up is the sample I put together for the Ready, Set, Snow.

This set is full of fun, winter-type images and sentiments. Fell in love with this bunny scene image and just had to ink it up first. I added some tiny cotton balls on their tails for a bit of fun. The snow is made up of some inking, liquid applique and micro beads. I cut the image out and framed it using Spellbinder's Labels Fourteen dies and the sentiment with one of the tags from the Ribbon Tags set. 

The paper is from Webster's Pages Waiting for Santa & Sweet Season combo pack (thanks Linda for sending this my way). I sewed it onto a piece of Pure Luxury White card stock, added some ribbon and pearls and with that I was done. 

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I hope you're ready for some serious inspiration! Below is the list and links to the rest of design team...have fun!:

• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting ~ you are here
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Gina K
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger ~ illustrator of Where Your Heart Is
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Latisha Yoast - Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Great Things Come in Small Packages

Happy Wednesday! Wanted to pop in here before I take off to run some errands and share with you a fun little packaging idea and tutorial I put together over at the Hybrid Chick blog. I have a couple of friends celebrating birthdays in January and thought it would be nice to make some boxes/bags ahead of time instead of scrambling at the last minute.

Here's a photo of the purse.

The template for the box is called Soap Box Template Set designed by Kelleigh Ratzlaff. It's a box which I turned into a little purse by just adding a strip of ribbon and the closure for the purse, the silk flower. The stamp set is from Gina K. Designs Retro Boutique designed by Rupa Shevde.

I show you step-by-step how to put the box and flower together - HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

What's Cooking?

Happy Wednesday! Quite a busy day we have ahead of us...my nephew Gaven is graduating from pre~K and heading off to kinder. Where does the time go? I'm going to try to put a scrap page with one of his graduation photos soon to share with all of you. Today I have a project and a card to share with you. In continuing in my think green theme I've had as of late, here's one more.

A menu planner is one of those items that not only saves you time but also takes the guessing out of what's for dinner. I put a quick step~by~step tutorial over at the Hybrid Chick blog on how to make this reusable and decorative menu planner.

The shopping list and menu planner,which are from Mari Koehlenberg called What's Cooking? The Collection,  are both covered with self~adhesive vinyl decorative covering so that you can write on it with a dry eraser marker, erase when done, and reuse it week after week. I used the newly released WTG Goes Green by My Favorite Things to finish it off. Here's a close up of the paper pieced image and sentiment.

The sentiment and the paper bags I paper pieced where actually stamped on some grocery bags I had set aside to use later...I thought this gave it more of that recycle use.

Samps: My Favorite Things: WTG Goes Green
Paper:Gina K. Designs Ivory Card Stock; Paper Bag;  October Afternoon: Fly a Kite
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Staz-On Ink
Accessories:What's Cooking? The Collecton by Mari Koegelenberg; Clear Magic Cover Self~Adhesive Vinyl Decorative Coverings; Dry Erase Board; Dry Eraser Pen/Eraser; Ribbon; Copic Markers; Magnet Tape; Brayer, Nail, Hemp

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I have a friend who is actually good about planning her meals every week so I'm going to be giving her this along with other goodies I put together for her birthday. Since I made a her a birthday card already, I thought I would put together a fun card to go with this board. Using this week's SCS Sketch Challenge (SCS284) and Kim's Wednesday Stamp Clug Challenge (MFTWSC06092010) this is what I came up with.

I stamped the image with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink and Colored it with Copics. I then cut it out with Spellbinders Oval Scallop die, added some dashes and st it aside. I used of My Favorite Things Cork and Die-animics Jumbo Scallop Die to cut out a strip and set that aside. The last thing I cut out was the grass out Felt using the Die-animics Fresh Cut Grass Die which I adhered to a piece of patterned paper from October Afternoon's Fly a Kite pad.

The last element I worked on before assembling the card was the bow and buttons. I layered three buttons (small, medium and large) and tied them all together with some hemp and them to a piece of twill which I tied in a bow. I used double-sided tape to adhere the buttons to the twill and the twill to the card front as well as on the cork.

This was a fun project and a great sketch to design with...hope you give both a try!

Stamps: My Favorite Things: WTG Goes Green
Paper:Gina K. Designs Ivory Card Stock; Paper Bag;  October Afternoon: Fly a Kite
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Tuxedo Black ink;
Accessories:My Favorite Things: Twill, Cork Sheets, Die-namics Jumbo Scallop Die,  Felt; Spellbinders Scallop Oval Die; Marker; Buttons; Hemp; Copics; Double-sided Tape

Thanks so much for stopping by!