March Scor-Pal challenge

 

Hello crafters and welcome to another monthly challenge from the makers of Scor-Pal.

This month we want to see your “St. Patrick’s Day or Easter” creations.
We will have a theme that the Design Team will follow, and we would love you to follow too, but if you don’t want to you can do an “Anything Goes” creation as long as it follows the general rules
Each month we will have a different theme and you will have a month to create and enter your projects. As well as the theme you will need to make “More Than One Score” and tell us where you used the Scor-Pal on your project. So a single fold card won’t count but an Easel, Gatefold, Stair Step, etc will.   Also we love to see your “Anything But a Card” projects, just as long as you make “More Than One Score”
We have a ton of inspiration on our Projects on the Scor-Pal website and also on our Pinterest Board to get you eager to enter.

You can find the Scor-Pal here and Scor-tape here.

This month I decided to go with a pretty Easter Purse/Box that can hold some yummy Easter treats and decided to include some green patterned paper as a tip of the hat to St. Patrick’s Day.

I started by taking a piece of patterned paper sized 10 x 12 and scoring it on the short side at 2″ and 8″.  On the long side score at 5″ and 7″.

Fold and burnish on all the score lines.

In order to get the side panels, you will need to fold the sides in the center section on the diagonal – see the photos below.

Then place some Scor-tape on those folds to keep them in place.

 

Next is the topper.  I used a piece of coordinating paper sized 6 x 5.5 and scored it in half.  I used a scalloped/stitched edge die on one end.

I thought the topper looked a bit plain, so I added some patterned paper on the back and a paper bow on the front.

To attach the topper I used scor-tape on the back panel only.  For the front I used a velcro dot so that you can open and close the purse box.

The final embellishment is a little tag with a friendly sentiment.  The tag was made using a christmas ornament die and a circle die on top. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts/GIna K collaborative stamp set called Friendship Blooms.

I hope you will try out making this project and that you will check out all this months projects on the Scor-Pal blog here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

a blue barrel of apples

I was so happy when Betty asked me to make one of the samples for today color challenge at SCS!  Color challenge are one of the best ways for stampers to stretch their creative muscles because often it involves working with colors and combinations of colors you normally don’t use. 

The  colors of the challenge are Wild Wasabi, Cherry Cobbler and Marina Mist.   Ok – now the panic sets in because I have none of these colors, until I remember that the colors are reference points and it’s ok to use colors you have  that are closest to these.

So, I took a look at the SU catalog to get an idea of the colors and went to work.  Here is my card.

I started with a cute barrel of apples from a GinaK set and figured why not make the barrel blue?  The deep red and blue color combo works well.  There is just a touch of green on the leaves of the apple.

The image was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with copic markers.    For the apples I used R89, R37 and R0000.  On the barrel I used BG72, B21 and BG0000.  The leaves were colored with VG03 and the shaded area at the bottom with C1.

Both the sentiment and diamond pattern were stamped using Memento Rhubarb Stalk.  The sentiment is from the same GinaK set as the apples, the diamond is from Papertrey.

Finishing everything off is a red/white gingham ribbon from JoAnns,  a cuttlebug swiss dot folder, nestabilities scallop oval and black pearls from Kaiser.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have some time to participate in this weeks color challenge.

Make a Wish

Today’s post is to give support to GinaK and her new “stamps for a cause” stamp for the Make a Wish Foundation. GinaK will give $7.00 of each set sold to this wonderful organization. We here at Flourishes take today to offer our support to Gina in her efforts to give back to the community. I’ve found stampers overall to be extremely generous and giving people and Gina epitomizes this character and generosity. Thanks Gina, for all your wonderful work.

Please click on over to Gina’s site, make a purchase for this great organization and tell her the ladies at Flourishes sent you.

This card was made combining the Make a Wish Set and the Flourishes Cake Decorating set to create one cake image. The cake and pedestal are from Flourishes, the shooting star, star background and sentiment are from GinaK. The colors were pulled from the colors found on the Basic Grey designer paper.