Side Book Fold card

 I love learning new techniques and unique ways to create cards. This one is so easy! And it doesn't look like your typical card.

I had fun coming up with different ways to do them! Watch the video here to see a demonstration of how to make this Side Book Fold card.

It can be made as a landscape card like the top three or in portrait style like the red and green Christmas tree card. 

The dimensions for the landscape card are

card base - 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 5 1/2 & 6 3/4

Designer Series Paper cut at 1 x 4 and 4 x 4

The dimensions for the portrait card are

card base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, scored at 4 1/4 & 5 1/2

Designer Series Paper cut at 1 x 5 1/4 and 2 3/4 x 5 1/4

The extra piece of DSP is optional.I used the Stitched So Sweetly dies to cut mine on the two moose cards and the Ornate Layers Dies for the Christmas tree card.

Here's a description of each card.

 

This card uses Crumb Cake card base and Plaid Tidings for the 2 DSP pieces on the front. I stamped the image from the Ornate Style stamp set with Terracotta Tile onto Very Vanilla cardstock. I then used several Fall blends to color the flowers with...light & dark Cajun Craze, light & dark Pumpkin Pie, and light & dark Daffodil Delight. The leaves are light and dark Just Jade. The centers are dark Cinnamon Cider. I then sprayed the whole bouquet with a mixure of rubbing alcohol and Gold shimmer paint in a spritzer to add a sparkle to it. The leaves behind the popped up bouquet are from the Forever Gold Laser Cut Specialty Paper. The ribbon is from a retired combo set.

The portrait card cardbase is Whisper White cardstock and uses the Tis the Season paper set. The Perfectly Plaid stamp set and punch are used for the trees. The trees are stamped in Garden Green and Cherry Cobbler onto Whisper White cardstock, both of which coordinate with the DSP. The piece under the trees is cut from the Ornate Layers die set and makes a beautiful backdrop for the trees. The sentiment is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black. I pulled the strings out of the Whisper White Flax ribbon for the bow. The bottom photo shows how the Side Book Fold card opens.

 The other two cards are demonstrated in the video. Plaid Tidings DSP are used for both. The black and white card has Gray Granite ribbon and the Pretty Peacock card has Mint Macaron ribbon. 

I hope that you will give this card a try! I'd love to see a photo of your card so please post it here in  Comments or on the StampinDeDesDoins FB page.
 

 

 

 

 

Christmas in September

Another workshop is done and the participants went home with 8 beautiful Christmas cards and several new techniques with embossing folders. These are the cards that they made (2 of each design).
The products used for these cards are listed below.

The ribbon on Deck the Halls is the silver metallic edge ribbon, which is whisper white, colored with the Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler Stampin Blend. It's so wonderful that you can color the ribbon to match whatever cardstock you are using.

 The poinsettia petals are the smaller leave from the Rooted in Nature bundle. After using the die to cut them out, I used a stylus and a foam mat to roll out the center. Use the same die for the leaves but they should be left flat. The sentiment is embossed with copper embossing powder.

I am thankful to the artists on Pinterest who inspired these cards.

Rooted in Nature bundle                                           
Beautiful Baubles bundle
Softly Falling Textured Impressions Folder
Swirls and Curls Textured Impressions Folder
Climbing Vine Textured Impressions Folder 
Detailed Trio Punch  
Silver Metallic Edge Ribbon
Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon
Night of Navy Medium Bakers Twine
Silver & Pool Party Bakers Twine
Basic Black Solid Bakers Twine
All is Bright Paper Clips
Whisper White Cardstock
Very Vanilla Cardstock
Pool Party Cardstock
Cherry Cobbler Cardstock
Basic Black Cardstock
Old Olive Cardstock
Joyous Noel DSP
Copper Embossing Powder
Gold Metallic Pearls
Stampin Blends - Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Pool Party Dark & Light, Old Olive Dark & Light
 Ink - Bermuda Bay, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Gray & Daffodil Delight

If you are interested in purchasing any of these Stampin Up products, I'd love to help you do that! Just comment below or e-mail me at suzyzoo@verizon.net.
 
                          
                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                

Memories of 2013

Christmas 2013 is over, the decorations are coming down, and a time for reflection and thankfulness is a good way to end this year. 2013 went by so fast.

MEMORIES OF 2013

January brought the birth of our 3rd granddaughter, the 2nd child of our daughter and son-in-law who live in Rwanda, Africa along with 4 yr. old Will.
February brought the beginning of volunteering at the Food Pantry and time with family and friends.  
March brought our trip to Africa to meet our new granddaughter.
April was highlighted by time spent with friends for 5 days at a scrapbook retreat.  
May brought several family birthdays and a trip to San Antonio to keep 2 yr. old diabetic grandson.  
June saw the beginning of my new card-making venture, Designs by Deanna and the introduction of my cards at a local store. We also enjoyed camping with friends.
July brought celebrating 4th of July with friends and another trip to San Antonio to keep Cade while the rest of the family went to church camp.  
August was filled with Bunco, YaYa's, hosting a baby shower, special time spent with our 2nd oldest granddaughter and saying good-bye to a friend moving away.  
September started with a cherished 4 day visit from our son and his 4 children, more birthday celebrations, and a camping trip that ended early because of the government shutdown.  
October saw the start of a mentoring  Bible Study and my husband agreeing to teach a Life  Group at our church.   
November saw another farewell to a good friend, lots of rehearsals for our church's upcoming Christmas presentation and yet another trip to San Antonio to keep Cade while family  went on a mission trip. Thanksgiving found us driving home and having a wonderful turkey and dressing meal at the famous Mary's in Marble Falls.
December  brought Icepocalypse 2013 (5 days iced in with all events cancelled) , our church's Christmas program, and the days leading up to Christmas spent with final preparations for Christmas. We shared Christmas - the season during which we celebrate the birth of Jesus - with family and friends. We received many material things, but the greatest gift anyone could give us is time spent together. For the most part, the time was filled with joy and peace as we shared meals, gifts, games, puzzles, a special Christmas Eve service, scavenger hunts (a Christmas tradition), s'mores, time on Skype with family far away, a silly string fight (another Christmas tradition), more food, more games, laughter, and then, when it's all over...gratitude for time with family and friends.
We will welcome the New Year tonight with friends, food, games, laughter, and maybe even a few tears as we reflect on the changes that come naturally with the passage of time.



I've made these snowman cards to thank friends and family for the special gifts that we received. I had a box of white  embossed cards that worked perfectly for these cards. The Stamp is from A Day for Daisies and I used my Copic markers and stickles to add color and bling. A little strand of ribbon finished them off just perfectly. These will at least get me started with my 'thank yous'!



Happy New Year!!

Friends That Scrap Challenges

I'm still working on Christmas photos but these are from this year! These two photos show the children listening as their mom reads the Christmas story to them from The Brick Bible story book. We give them a book that tells the Christmas story every year at Christmas. We look for something that will be fun and hold their interest as well as tell them why we celebrate Christmas. This year's book was a lego book - all characters were constructed from Lego blocks. It was very cute! My layout used the Wk. 18 sketch which I rotated and used border punches. My colors are monochromatic, I used sticker letters, and replaced the flowers with strip banners and journaling strips.

I also just completed the card for our weekly card challenge. These were the requirements and the sketch, then my card and what I used.

Use 2: square card, punches, chipboard
Use 3: monochromatic, black and white, an animal, ribbon or twine, bling, 2+ ink colors, something metal

For my card I used:
square card and border punches
black and white, twine and bling

This is a window card so the images are actually on the inside peeping through the window.

O Deer

Here's another Christmas 2010 layout. I'll finish this year eventually! Will is watching his BaBa set up the animated deer in the front yard. He was fascinated when the deer started moving their heads back and forth. We cherished every precious moment with him, knowing that he would soon be leaving for Africa with his parents who would be going to Rwanda on the mission field. After that, we will be lucky to see him once a year.

This layout was submitted in the ACOT January Trends and Techniques Shiny New Year challenge. The requirement was to use anything shiny and blingy on the layout. So the title letters and the Joy tag are both glittered, the deer both have diamond dust stickles on them, and there is bling scattered around the paper on the upper right corner. It was a fun layout to do.

Wk. 15 Layout for FTSSC and other challenges

This layout used the sketch below and the following techniques: fussy cutting, embossing, and distressing. It also used pastel colors, brackets, and a household item.

It has also been entered in the following challenges:
*Word Art Wednesday   "Anything Goes"
*Pink Elephant  "Anything Goes"
*Tuesday Alchemy  "Hopes/Dreams &/or Resolutions"
*Pin and Tack  "Anything Goes"
*Lasting Memories  "Inspired by a book/ quote/ story/etc."
*Colorful Creations "Inspired Challenge"
*Use Your Stuff    "Circle Game"

3rd Colorful Creations Challenge Layout

This layout is for the Colorful Creations Say It With Words Challenge. The word to be used is 'blessed'. The pictures on this layout are of friends and family members who attended our Christmas Celebration pageant. Tori (our daughter) and Teri (our adopted daughter) were both there. Clint's brother James, our nephew Corey and wife Megan and daughter Avery came from Arlington. My friend Rhonda was also in the choir. And our sweet friends The Haynes Sisters were the featured vocalists for the presentation. Our friends and family are such a blessing!

Another Colorful Creations and an ACOT challenge

This layout is for Colorful Creations 'Anything Goes' challenge and uses the Becky Fletch sketch for ACOT's first 2013 sketch challenge.

First layout and first card for 2013!

This double page layout is for the Friends That Scrap FTSSC weekly challenge. We are now on week 14 and 12 of us are still in the challenge. For this challenge, we had to use the sketch below. I used distressing and misting as my techniques. My embellishments include a metal tree charm on the tag, lace, and tags.

I entered the first half of this layout in the Colorful Creations For the Boys challenge. For this one we had to use blue, a star, bling, and 3 brads.

Last, I entered the card below in the Friends that Scrap Card Challenge. It is also week 14 in that challenge and I am 1 of 4 left in that one. The sketch we had to use is below. My one technique is 'black and white'. The 3 embellishments I used arepunches, 3+ patterned paper, and striped paper. This card is also entered in Shelley's Images' Anything Goes challenge. The card shows up with a blue tint, but it truly is black and white!!

Reindeer Poop

I finally finished up my last stocking project. These will go in each stocking Christmas morning!
I cut  the reindeer from the Cricut Christmas Cheer cartridge and found the cute poem on the internet. The poem says, "Christmas is coming and so are the deer. Listen closely and bells you will hear. Along with them come special treats...reindeer droppings for you to eat!"

Reindeer Noses

This year I made a batch of reindeer nose packets to give as gifts and to put in the grandchildren's stockings. I printed a graphic that I got off the internet from www.coolholidaygraphics.com and a poem from http://familyreunionhelper.com/blog/tag/reindeer-noses-printable-poem/ that says

"I wanted the perfect gift for you -
But couldn't decide just what to do.
I almost sent you a dozen roses -
Instead here's a bag of reindeer noses."

I added red stickles to Rudolph's nose and dark chocolate liquid pearl to the other reindeer noses. The candy noses are malted milk balls and a cherry sour. I think these will make such cute little gifts!

Two projects, several challenges!

 For my Friends That Scrap Wk. 10 Challenge, I did the following layout. We were given a sketch and we had to choose one of the following: tearing, chalking, stamping, misting; and 3 from the following list: 5+ buttons, 8+ pattern paper, bling, glitter, 5+ eyelets, rub-ons. On this layout, I misted the two frames and also the flowers. Then I used 5+ buttons, 8+ pattern paper and rub-ons. The family pictured are part of our extended family.

I'm also entering this layout in The Pink Elephant's challenge for this week - a layout featuring something that makes you  happy.

The card I made used the sketch provided  and from these techniques - stamping, coloring, stitching - I chose coloring. We also had to choose two from the following list: 3+ pattern paper, 3+ flowers, an animal, glitter/bling, ribbon/twine. I used coloring, 3+ pattern paper and an animal. I also entered this card in Stampin' Sister's in Christ challenge to make a Christmas card. I'm sad to see that blog go dormant for a time - I've just started participating in their challenges and enjoying their inspiration. But I certainly understand, and feel that when God closes a door, we must be obedient to that. Family is more important than any hobby that we may have! So this will be their last challenge.

Thanks for looking at my creations!

New Challenge card and layout

I love these challenges...they really do motivate me!

Here is the sketch and the card for the Friends That Scrap Card Challenge. Of the required element choices, I used embossing; 3 pp, chipboard (star). I stamped then paper-pieced the Christmas tree.

 

 

Then here is my layout for the Friends That Scrap Scrapbook Challenge. On this I used stamping; bling, glitter, hidden journaling, and a large die cut. The hidden journaling is behind the scalloped circle attached to the flowers. It says, "While dating, Tori & Greg found many opportunities to get all dressed up including a friend's wedding, Father's Day, and the night that Greg asked Tori to marry him!"

Week 5 challenges completed!

I managed to get my FTSSC layout and FTSCC card completed before the deadline again this week.

The card is done on a DCWV designer card base, DCWV paper, prima flowers, ribbon from Specialty Ribbon Designer set, digital image from Free Vintage Digital Stamps, stamped sentiment and liquid pearl.

I also entered this card in Stampin Sisters In Christ current challenge with a theme of 'peace'.

My layout uses Bazzill cardstock, Martha Steward doily punch, ribbon, snowflake buttons, a penguin button with baker's twine, and a penguin and snowman that I paperpieced. The title is Thicker's glitter stickers. I used Glimmer Mist to add snowflakes to the background paper. This is actually a two-page layout with the first side representing the challenge sketch.

FTSSC (using Counterfeit Kit) and FTSCC Wk. 4

I used my Counterfeit Kit for Week Four's Sketch Challenge. Here's the sketch and my layout. Then you'll see my Wk. 4 card sketch and my card.

 I was excited to try the 'window' technique on my card and just love the way it turned out!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas to All!

We leave in the morning to head to San Antonio. We will meet Bob Summers (a very close 'father-figure' friend) in Marble Falls for lunch then on to see the grandkids!! Well, and to see our ds and dil too! We had a sweet time celebrating Christmas with our 'Denton grandkids' - Kaytlyn and Riley (and Darren and Teri)-last night. I think I've recovered from my 'all night scrapping' time Tues. night with Teri and Rhonda so now I'm good to go!! I hope that all of our family and friends will find time to celebrate Jesus' birthday and in that celebration will find the love, joy and peace that He makes available to everyone! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Love you!

Christmas Thoughts

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love winter and the various types of weather that it brings here in Texas. It may be in the 60's one day and snowing the next! You gotta love Texas weather. LOL! I especially love it when the weather is so bad that we HAVE to stay home with a fire burning in the fireplace! I love the clear, blue skies of winter. I love to watch the birds and squirrels as they frequent our feeders, looking for a free meal. I love the lights and decorations that people put out at Christmas. When our daughter, Tori, lived in Dallas, we participated in the Jingle Bell Run a couple of years. It was a 5k run through downtown Dallas at night in early December. People would come dressed up like santas, reindeer, wreaths, anything Christmas!! They'd bring their dogs all dressed up. Some would have baby strollers strung with lights. People of all ages participated. Families did it together. The store windows were all decorated and lit up. Everyone had on bells, so you could hear the runners (walkers in my case!) coming before you could see them. I loved the festive spirit of that event. But in all of this, it is so important to remember that Jesus is the reason for this season in the first place. It is His birth that we celebrate. Yes, we have embraced many traditions to accompany that celebration, but that is where our focus should always be. And I pray that mine is there too. I try to do all of my shopping throughout the year, and be finished before Thanksgiving so that I can really enjoy the month of December. The gifts are an important part of our celebration because God gave us the greatest gift of all. He did this because of His love for us, so we give gifts to others to show our love for them as well. But when it becomes another thing on our 'To Do' list to get out of the way, then it has lost it's meaning. So as I reflect on my favorite time of year, my thoughts always go to 'family'. For us right now, there is a bit of sadness since our family cannot all be together at Christmas. Our daughter and her husband are in Oxford, England as he pursues his education. They are not able to be with us so our family circle is not complete. But we focus on God's sweet blessings and do everything we can to make that distance seem a little less! Last Christmas we called them, put the phone on 'speaker' and set it on the coffe table as we opened gifts! LOL! Not sure how much they were able to really hear what was going on, but at least we felt like they were a part of what we as a family were doing!
My prayer for you is that your Christmas will be filled with many sweet memories as well. God is the giver of all good gifts!