Ruffles......and a very late shout out to Cher B!!!

First of all I would like to say what an AMAZING job CHER did on her Tuesday Treats project!! I was totally blown away and I feel so awful that I didn't get a chance to comment on her adorable bags!! CHER they are the BEST!!! do you hear me?? the BEST!!!! :):)

Second of all.....I left this project to the absolute LAST minute...and I mean LAST....as I type this blog post it is 11:55pm on a Monday evening and I should be in bed :) That being said I still wanted to try and get this out somewhat on time.....sorry for the delay!!!! This working for a living thing....geez......

My mission....should I choose to accept it is to create a purse from page 116 from Tags Bags Boxes and More.  I'm so glad I did!!  I DID NOT know this purse had the cutest little strap on it to do it up :)  how sweet is that!?

Here's what I came up with folks :)

Oh don't you just LOVE ruffles????  Here is how I did it:

Now to put this cute little purse together.....

Start by laying out all your paper on your cutting mat - for those of you that are new:  Remember to count how many squares your image takes up on your Gypsy screen as this corresponds to the squares on your cutting mat.  You will get correct paper placement every time if you follow that tip :)

Next you will cut it either page 1 or page 2 - you can only cut 1 page at a time with this file.

Then go ahead and cut the second page once you get your paper on :)

Once you have everything cut out you can either start with scoring your purse, or you can assemble your little butterfly shaker.  I decided to start scoring my purse.

When scoring....take your time to do this as accurately as you can.  A well scored purse will result in a purse or box that assembles nicely, all edges line up properly and there aren't any smushed pieces of paper anywhere :)

And here she is all ready for assembly....

As you can see from the picture all the lines have been scored and the purse is starting to take shape.  So BEFORE I glue the purse together I decided to start 'threading' my ribbon through my slots.  I just went back out one side and brought the ribbon back in through the SAME slot to get a ruffle on the outside.  Then I just moved up to the next slot with my ribbon from the INSIDE of the purse.  Just work your way up and take the time to try and keep your ruffles even....this part takes patience :)

But if you do it right ~ you end up with this :     :) :)

also if you look closely you can see that I just brought my ribbon right around to the other side on the bottom.  It looks very pretty and you don't have to glue anything down.

Once you have your ribbon threaded, just get out your trusty WACKY TACKY TAPE and glue down those folds on the inside of your purse.  Now I haven't found anything better than this stuff to hold purses together....so if you have something that you absolutely SWEAR by - please let me know :)

Once your purse is together you can move on to making your butterfly shaker and the front of the purse.

Remember that piece of purse that we pushed off the mat just to get the front piece?  Go and grab that and get your exacto knife out too :)  Using your ruler (cause I know my hand is NOT steady at all) and trim off all the excess pieces of the purse.  That would be the tabs and the little pieces right at the bottom.

Just set the patterned paper aside for a little bit and grab your 3 butterfly cutouts and your clear transparency sheet (yay I still remembered what it's called!).  Take 1 at a time and glue them on top of eachother.  Your making a butterfly sandwich :)  Once you have them all glued together stick down your transparency sheet on top (this is going to be the top of your shaker and also the side you glue your patterned paper onto.

Be sure to do a good job gluing all around the edges....you don't want any little beads getting out!!!  They are a pain!

Here is the back of the shaker piece.  As you can see I've glued it to the patterned paper and have added a clear window on the back too.  I decided this was necessary after I had designed it on my G - I will add the extra piece in the file.  I also went ahead and cut out a rectangle in white cardstock and ran it through the cuttlebug.

I thought this would look a lot nicer than just a boring orange background behind the beads.  I used my all time fav- swiss dots for the embossing.....I just might have to buy another one it is so well used! lol!

That's it!  Once you have the front all glued together and it's dry - go ahead and glue it to the front of your purse.  You can take a hole punch and punch a much smaller hole (than what the cartridge had on it) for your brad to fit through.  Just use the hole that is on the inside of the purse as a guide.  Insert your brad and TA DA!!  Finished!!!  Not as hard as it looks eh????

Now go and find your FAV gems and glitter and pearls...whatever is your go to embelly and get to work dressing up that gorgeous butterfly :)

Love this pic....it really shows how well the cuttlebugging adds to the background of the shaker.  Gotta love that BLING too ;)

oooohhhhhh RUFFLES!!!

Well, there you have it.....my take on page 116 of Tags Bags Boxes and More.....what do you think?

A hit or miss?

As soon as I get home from work tonight I will upload the gypsy file so you can all download it and take a look at the measurements.  I figured I didn't need to add it in the post :)

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!  KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED I FINISH WORK ON TIME TONIGHT! LOL!!! :) :)

Wild Card Wednesday- Let's Shake things up!!

Hello everyone!! Welcome to Wild Card Wednesday - this is the day that I get to make any style of card I choose. I decided to go with a GET WELL SOON theme and I also included a fun little shaker embellishment on the front of the card :) I LOVE cards that do things, make noise or feel great in your hands....I tried to do all three with this one.

As I am using Gypsy Wanderings and Wild Card cartridges all week this project again will involve my gypsy- tomorrow's project could be done without using a gypsy or DS. I also used ProvoCraft's 12x24 paper in todays project simply due to the way I designed it.

This is what my gypsy screen looked like with all of my images placed on my mat ready for cutting page 1, page 2 has the base of the card and the sentiment for the inside of the card. You can only cut 1 page at a time, when page 1 is done, simply touch on the number 1 and it will change to page 2:

This is how I laid out my paper to cut for page 1:

Page 2 paper layout:


For the base of the card I chose a tag from Gypsy Wanderings and added it to my mat. Then sized it to 4.75W x 6.25H. Next you will select the Marquis shape on Gypsy Wanderings and size it to .55W x 3.99H. These images can be found here on the gypsy: .

Now move your Marquis shape and place it over the hole on your tag as I've done in this picture:

After you have placed your images, you will group the marquis shape and tag. Once they are grouped press copy 2 times for a total of 3 tags. Select 1 tag and using the FLIP button flip this tag Horizontally. Next align the 2 tags and overlap slightly so they look like this:

Group your items and select weld. Everything that will cut is in RED, anything that will NOT cut is in GRAY:

When you cut out your images you will score down the spine and fold it in half:



At this point I chose to run it through my cuttlebug-used the swiss dots folder. Then will apply adhesive to the middle of the spine and press together so your left edge is glued shut (you will be tying a TON of ribbon around this and need it to be sturdy).

I then searched through the all the phrases on Gypsy Wanderings and Wild Card and chose 'Thinking of You' for the front of my card.

Size this to 3.99W x 2.98H. You will also select the shadow for this phrase by touching the shift button and then size the shadow to 4.13W x 3.16H. Once the phrases were cut I decided I needed to ink these too, and a little doodling all over :)

Next a rounded square was selected from Gypsy Wanderings, added to the mat and sized to 4.57W x 3.67H. This square is going to be used as the mat on the inside of the card. Once cut out you can ink the edges to give it a more finished look and apply it to the inside of the card leaving a little more white space on the bottom than the top. Ink all edges with your favourite ink colour.

I found the most adorable little border of flowers on the GW cart and decided I would use these on the inside of the card.
Size the flower border to 4.90W x 1.36H. Once you have added this to your mat you will need to copy it 4 more times for a total of 5 flower borders on your mat. I wanted to be able to have each flower a different colour, so you will be cutting a flower out of each strip to use on the inside of the card:
Once you have 5 each in a different colour you can run them through your cuttlebug for a little more texture and interest. You can also add a rhinestone or two for a little something shiny :)

I had a hard time choosing the sentiment for the inside of the card- Wild card has so many great choices!!! In the end I chose 'Get Better' from Gypsy Wanderings simply because I like the font. I ended up inking the edges on this too. When inking smaller cuts I really like to use a Q-tip. I try to get the Q-tips from the dollar store as they have less fuzz on them, which means less fuzz on your project LOL!!

For the shaker embelly I was looking for an image that had a cutout, AND could take the place of my letter O on the front of the card. I found one on GW sized it to 1.53W x 1.53H.
Once it was on my mat I copied it for a total of 9 cutout flowers on the mat. I went back to the cut out flower in my cart and pushed the shift button to get the solid circle that is used as the backing for this cutout. I copied this circle twice, 1 circle will be for cardstock, the second circle for a transparency sheet.

To assemble your shaker you will line up your cutouts, then glue them on top of each other sandwich style leaving 1 cutout aside and unglued.
Take your solid circle that was cut out of transparency and glue it to the underneath of the flower cutout you left aside. This will be the top for your shaker flower. Find your solid circle cut out of cardstock and glue it to the bottom of your stack of cutout flowers. Now go find some mini beads...glitter, coloured sand....what ever little bits that will fit. Glue your lid on top and shaker flower is all ready shake it's stuff!!

Take your phrase Thinking of you and carefully cut out the O off of the letter f. This will allow you to place your shaker where the letter O was without any patterned paper peeking out beneath

Now go and get that huge stash of ribbon that is in a box somewhere and all tied up in knots and pick out co-ordinating colours, and feel free to mix up the textures- the more the merrier!! Don't be afraid to tie and squish as many pieces of ribbon onto the 'handle' as you can!!!
Grab some more sparkly bits and find fun places to put them....gotta love a little bling ;)






I hope you enjoyed my project for Wild Card Wednesday, be sure to go back to the top of my blog and download the gypsy file :)

Tomorrow is Scrapbook Layout Thursday!!!! Hmmmm, I hope you are all with me on this one.....this should be VERY interesting- this is my very FIRST paper layout I have ever made. And you are all going to get to see it........gulp! :)

Looking forward to tomorrow everyone ~ HAVE A GREAT WEDNESDAY!!!!