New scrappy discovery

I made a new scrappy discovery last night. Look what I made with my Sizzix Big Shot! Guess what I used to make these?? You know all those annoying credit cards offers you get in the mail, I used the plastic fake credit cards. I ran them through my Sizzix and they cut out perfectly. I just sandwiched the credit card in the machine like I would paper and viola I got a nice little plastic embellishment that looks a little funky and fun. It also worked on used gift cards too. I like different textures on my projects and excited about this new discovery, and its good recycling…gotta love that!

Here’s some other fun things you can cut in the Sizzix

• Flattened cereal boxes - great way to make your own chipboard pieces
• Thin metal & foil
• Wall paper
• Cork board
• Craft foam
• Felt
• Fabric - add paper behind the fabric to help get a clean cut
• Magnet sheets
• Shrink plastic - great for making tiny charms!
• Vellum
• Clear acetate sheets
• Sticky tape sheets - I like this for making glittery letters or shapes
• Plastic page protectors
• File folders
• Thin rubber sheets - make your own stamps!

I’d love to hear about any tricks or interesting things you do with the Sizzix. XOOXO ~ MamaSheg

Show & Tell - Cheryl’s mini album

I made this cute little mini album for my sister’s birthday. She loves black and white so I used this fold-over mini album from Sweetwater Scrapbooking’s October 2007 kit. It was super easy and fast. The album is all chipboard, I just had to punch it out, fold it up and embellish. I added a velcro closure and some embellishments from my own stash. I like how it came out and I think she will like it a lot.

Happy Birthday little sister!! I {heart} you. XOOXO

Friday Freebie - Easter kit, doodle brushes & more!!

Hello my crafty friends! You’ll find a lovely Easter kit, doodle brushes and more from Simply Clean Digi Scraps, Melany Violette. Her work is gorgeous! Melany has currently taken a break from designing new products. However, she has generously put most of her work on sale at 50% off and also moved a lot of kits to the {free scraps} section of her shop. Lots of BIG beautiful kits at crazy prices. Pick up some freebies and head over to the shop for more goodness.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find in the freebies section.

Here’s a peek at the freebies from the {free scraps} section of the shop.

Get the Friday Freebie

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by my blog today! XOOXO ~ MamaSheg

Show & Tell - Mini cards in a box

I love this project from stamp camp! What a great little gift this is, inside the box there are {5} 3×3 mini cards and envelopes. I was a little intimidated by this project when I first saw what we were creating but it was much easier than I thought it would be. The most difficult part for me was tying on the tiny little tags to the cards!!

Stampin Up products used

• One smart cookie stamp set
• Real red, pumpkin pie, creamy caramel, old olive, bashful blue & whisper white cardstocks
• Summer picnic paper
• Chocolate chip, real red, pumpkin pie & old olive classic ink pads
• Old olive & real red markers
• Chocolate chip poly twill
• 1/2″ & 3/4″ circle punches
• Linen thread
• 5/8″ old olive grosgrain ribbon

Show & Tell - Gift card pocket

Here’s another project that I made while attending Stamp Camp. This is a cute way to dress up a gift card. The gift card just slides out of the pocket. Check out this tutorial from Lauren Meader she shows how to make a really cute gift card wallet.

Stampin Up products used

• Sweet serendipity stamps
• Real red & pink passion cardstocks
• Old olive prints paper
• Whisper white ink pad
• Red striped ribbon
• Jumbo eyelets
• Dimensionals
• Flower fusion felt flower
• Silver hodgepodge hardware
• White gel pen
• Diecut blooms
• Olive poly twill
• A perfect day rub-ons
• Ginormous pieces chipboard
• Slit punch

$100 FREE Gymbucks!!

Hey Gymboree fans…it’s Gymbucks time again! This time I have {2} $50 Gymbucks coupons to give away. Leave a comment on this post and I will draw 2 winners on April 5th. The Gymbucks are good for purchases from April 10 - 20th. I will either email the coupon code or mail the Gymbucks coupon whichever you prefer.

Show & Tell - {h} card

I just sent this card off to my sister today for her birthday. It incorporates several of my favorite crafty things…ribbon, glitter and felt flowers. This was another Stampin Up creation from Stamp Camp.

Stampin Up products used

• It’s your birthday stamp set
• Purely pomegranate & taken with teal cardstocks
• Bali breeze paper
• whisper white ink pad
• Cosmo fine glitter
• Circle ice brad
• Sticky letters
• Flower fusion felt flowers
• Pumpkin pie, tempting turquoise & always artichoke grosgrain ribbons

Click here and scroll down to see other projects from the Stampin Up Stamp Camp that I attended.

Show & Tell - the Z-fold card

Here’s another card made from Stamp Camp. This is a z-fold card and very easy to make. Scrap Time has a great video tutorial on how to make these.

Stampin Up Products used

• So many scallops & Lots of thoughts stamps
• Tempting turquoise, certainly celery & whisper white cardstocks
• Flowers for you paper
• Tempting turquoise & certainly celery classic ink pads
• Styled silver hodgepodge brads
• Scallop punch
• 1″ circle punch
• 1/8″ circle punch
• ticket corner punch

Nika’s Easter

Hope everyone had a fun Easter weekend. Despite both Nika and I having colds, Nika had a great Easter. She got 2 Easter baskets filled with goodies. She really enjoyed finding all the eggs hidden around the house. She spent the whole day playing with all the eggs, her baskets and new toys. One of her favorite things was to wear her Easter basket on her head. It was too cute!!

Friday Freebie - kits, papers, & doodly brushes!

Today’s freebie was a last-minute find. I actually had a different one picked out and then stumbled upon ScrapArtist.com. Just take a look at all these awesome kit downloads. You’ll also want to check out and grab some of these finds too.

• Kits
• Paper
• Cool calendar template
• Super cute doodly brushes

Here’s a sampling of some of the many cool free downloads I found on this site.

Happy Friday my friends!! XOOXO ~ MamaSheg

Show & Tell - Embrace life card

This was the first project I did at stamp camp at is was super easy and fast. I also got to play around with a blender pen which I’d been wanting to try for a while. The coloring of the image was done by dabbing a blender pen into the lid of an ink pad, there was a pool of ink in the lid. This can be done by smooshing the lids together or you can take a re-inker and put a few drops on a plastic tray. It was really cool and I like the watercolor-type effect of the coloring method.

Stampin Up products used

• Embrace life stamp & rough texture jumbo wheel
• Chocolate chip, apricot appeal & shimmery white cardstocks
• Basic brown, always artichoke, apricot appeal classic ink pads
• Chocolate chip jumbo ink cartridge
• Always artichoke marker
• Chocolate poly twill ribbon
• Spritzer tool
• White bead {Pretties kit}
• Word window punch
• Blender pen

Show & Tell - Priceless card

I love all things pink and brown and this card is another of my favorites we made at stamp camp. The hat pin is a cool idea for a quick little gift and a neat embellishment to add to a card. I Love it!!

Products used

• Priceless & Boho background stamps
• Berry bliss paper
• Chocolate chip, pretty in pink & purely pomegranate cardstocks
• Close to cocoa, purely pomegranate & whisper white ink pads
• Boho flower punch
• Scallop punch
• Pretties kit {Hat pin & beads}
• Cutter kit
• Sponges
• Chocolate chip ribbon

Show & Tell - Double pocket gift bag

Here’s another project from Stamp Camp. This is a really unique gift bag. There are two separate pockets inside. This would be really cute to put a card in one pocket and a gift in the other pocket. I’m so glad we got to tryout so many different papers from Stampin Up. This Bali Breeze paper is really pretty. Here’s a great tutorial at Split Coast Stampers on how to make one.

Stampin Up products used

• Sweet serendipity stamp
• Bali breeze paper
• Shimmery white cardstock
• Taken with teal & old olive markers
• sticky strip tape
• Beads duo {green}
• Styled silver hodgepodge hardware set
• Paper piercer
• Label punch
• Crop-a-dile
• Jumbo pewter eyelets
• Tidy tray
• Soft sky ribbon

Show & Tell - Elephant gift bag

Here’s another project from stamp camp. This super cute gift bag was surprisingly easy to make. It was made from a white paper lunch bag. I’m a big fan of lunch bag paper crafting and will be making more of these!

Stampin Up products used

• Have a heart stamp set
• Spring fling paper
• Basic gray, certainly celery, pretty in pink & whisper white cardstocks
• Basic black classic ink pad
• Pretty in pink & certainly celery markers
• Pink pastel chalk
• Pretty in pink ribbon
• Horizontal slot punch
• Slit punch {used to make the scallop on the pink cardstock}
• Build-a-brad
• Versamarker
• 1/2″ circle punch
• Slot punch
• Soft subtles colored brads

Show & Tell - Flower card

I attended my first stamp camp on Sunday and it was so fun! The stamp camp was a local event held in Sammamish Washington at my Stampin Up demonstrator’s house. I made twelve projects in 5 hours. All the products used were from Stampin Up. I’ll try and post a project or two per day. I love this flower card, probably one of my favorite cards we did. The colors are great!

Stampin Up products used

• Summer picnic paper
• Real Red, bashful blue & old olive cardstocks
• Real red & bashful blue classic ink pads
• Build-a-brad
• Real red striped ribbon
• Die cut blooms
• Bold brights, earth elements, soft subtles brads
• Pretties kit white flower