Fun Folds with The Open Sea

Are you or your customers bored with standard opening cards? If you are, then this is the perfect class for you!

All of these cards have fun ways that they open! This is my Fun Folds Three Card & Matching Box Class using The Open Sea stamp set. You can also easily change these cards, by mixing up the colors or using a different stamp set.
This would be the perfect card set as a gift for Father's Day!

To see more details or get the tutorial
CLICK HERE!

School Nurse Gift

Here is the gift that we gave our School nurse for Nurses day yesterday! The mini cards are from my Nurses Box and 3x3 Cards set. The large card is from my Doctors Bag and Scrub Shirt set.

Here is a close up of the cards.

Ultimate Glider Card

Here is my new Ultimate Glider Card! This card pulls out and then opens up to reveal a hidden page with a gift card holder. You can see the video below so you can get the full effect of how it opens!
You can change around the colors and stamp used to make this for any occasion or to put anything in the hidden pocket!

Here is the video showing how the card opens:

CLICK HERE
to see more details or get the tutorial!

Loads of Love Truck Book

Here is my Loads of Love Truck Book that I made for my four year old son. Needless to say, he loves it! This is really simple to do and I will show you all the pictures in it below. All I used is the Loads of Love truck stamp and a marker to make the additions. I colored them in with lots of different colored stamp pads and the Blender Pen to give it that watercolored look.

First, just stamp the Loads of Love truck on a small piece of white card stock or watercolor paper. I used just plain white card stock. All of these trucks have the full truck stamp stamped, and then the additions were made. The book is just Pumpkin Pie card stock stapled together and then the ribbon put on over the binding.

Then, for example with the fire truck, I just used a black marker to add the ladder on the back and the light on the top. (Later I also added a horn on the front, but not in this picture.)

Here are all of the colored pages below. You can see how I added everything on top of the fully stamped truck image. I think they came out so cute! (Some are a little bit of a stretch, but Timmy enjoyed them anyway.)

Fire Truck & Crazy Tractor(this is the one that's a stretch!)

Plow & Cement Mixer
Dump Truck & Cherry Picker

Police Car and Semi Truck

Jeep & Ambulance
Tow Truck (or Mater!) & Oil Truck
Farm Truck & Dump TruckHope you enjoyed all of my little trucks. If anyone comes up with anymore, please send me a photo! I would love to see them!

2011 Convention 3-D Tutorial Swap

I am going to Convention this year and I have decided to organize a swap!

It will be a 3-D swap with a twist. You will only have to make one of your project and bring it to convention. Then you will write a tutorial, just like I do on my site, and then you will be swapping the printed tutorial only. That way you do not have to carry a bunch of 3-D items in your suitcase, but you will have the directions to make them all!
If you have never written a tutorial before, no worries! It is very simple and will not take very long. These do not have to be professionally written, just enough to show how to make your project.

This swap will be on Thursday at 11:45 Outside of Momento Mall. I will have a sign for it.

Here are the details:
-I will provide a template to write the tutorial and it will have to be written in this format so everyone will be able to read it. It will be written in Microsoft Word.
-You will have to take step by step pictures of the steps of the project as you make it. Each step should have written steps to go along with it in the tutorial. Keep in mind it is easier to take photos on a light colored background (just white scrap paper under) so when you print your tutorial you will not use all of your ink.
-Please use current Stampin' Up products only so people can re-create these projects for classes and business purposes. Keep in mind that the retired list comes out June 1st. You might want to wait to do your final project until then to make sure everything is current.
-You will have to have a nice photo of your finished project.
-You can print out as many tutorials as you would like to exchange and get back. They can be printed in black and white to keep printing/copying costs down as long as you can still see the images clearly. I will update this post as time goes on to see how many people are doing the swap, and then you can decide how many to print out as it gets closer.
-If you write a tutorial, please have it be your own work. If you copied something from somewhere else, please give the name of the person and the url of the blog or site where you found it. If you have a blog, feel free to list your blog too!
-The project can be a 3-D item or a 3-D card (needs to have a pop-out feature or special fold), but please make sure it is a quality item that would really need a tutorial to figure it out. Please only sign up for this swap if you plan to come up with something great that others would be thrilled to have a tutorial for.
-If your project needs a template, please have this as one of the pages printed at the correct scale.
- You will have to list all of the materials and colors that you used, especially if you have printed the tutorial out in black and white.
-If you have another swap at the same time as this one, but still want to participate, you can have someone else come and do the physical swap for you.
-After participating in this swap, if you remake one of the projects and post it somewhere, you need to give the credit to the person you got it from!

I will post this swap on Splitcoast and Stampin' Connection.
Please only sign up in one place!
**I will update the list of people participating at the link below only**
http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/p/2011-convention-3-d-tutorial-swap.html

You can comment on this post, Splitcoast, Stampin' Connection, or email me (pratt.lynn@gmail.com) to sign up.
Please tell me your name, email address and the type of project that you would like to do. If you do not know what you want to make yet, just write undecided.

Your email address will not be shared, it's just for me to contact you to send you the blank tutorial and tell you how many people have signed up by the end.

This swap will be on Thursday at 11:45 outside of Momento Mall. I will have a sign for it.

I think this will be fun, hope you will join me!

Nurse's Box & 3" x 3" Cards

Tomorrow, Friday May 6th, kicks off National Nurses Week!
School Nurses Day is next Wednesday May 11th. I thought this would be a great project to honor those nurse's who make a difference in our lives! Those of you who frequent my blog know of our wonderful school nurse, Mandy Mayer, who has been instrumental in our lives dealing with Ashley's diabetes. We could not do it without her!
You can also change the colors of the scrub shirt and make them into little doctor shirts! This is the perfect gift for anyone in the medical field!
The box is approximately 3 3/4" square and easily fits 15 or more cards and envelopes!

CLICK HERE
to see more details or get the tutorial!

Bounce House Birthday Invitations - FREE Template

The inside

My Sister-in-law is doing a Bounce House birthday party for my nephews, and this is the card that we came up with!

Since it's a joint birthday party, we put two frogs bouncing in the bounce house.

CLICK HERE to get the FREE template!



To make the little frog:
The head is the 3/4" circle punch trimmed a little on the bottom, and the body is the 1/2" circle. The legs are the small heart from the Three Heart Punch and the eyes are using the Owl Punch.

Nurses Day!

May 6th is National Nurses Day and starts nurses week!
School Nurse Day is Wednesday, May 11th of next week. As some of you know from my blog, the nurse at my kids school, Mandy Mayer, is phenomenal. I don't know how we would get through Ashley's diabetes without her. I am working on some things for next week, but here are some projects from the past that would be great if you need something now!
Click on the titles or photos below for more details!

Here is my Doctors Bag and Nurse Card.

Here is my band-aid card

Keep checking back for more to come!

Easter Eggs - A New Way to Decorate!

Here is a new twist on decorating Easter eggs! We did this with Timmy and Dylan(my nephew in middle) who are three and Ashley who is five. They had a blast! Above they are having their bees fly around. Below we have our pigs, owl, skunk and cat!
It's just cut pieces of scrap paper stuck on with craft glue. The rest is a permanent black marker.

Race Car Box!

Here is my Race Car Box!
After making the Castle Frame for my daughter, I had to do something fun for my son too!
I have two versions of this race car box, but you can easily make this into any kind of race car you would like! Change up the colors or decorations to make it look however you would like. This is the perfect box to give a present in, or to give to a child to play with. It stores matchbox cars perfectly!
Also great to give a present in for Father's Day as a NASCAR car!

The box is approximately 8-1/2” x 3” x 3”.

To see more details or get this tutorial
CLICK HERE!

Castle Frame

After my trip to Disney World I was inspired to make this frame for my daughters photos!
The full frame size is approximately 16" x 19" and holds 11 photos! You can hang this on a wall as it is, or you can put the entire thing into a glass frame.

You can also change the colors of the castle so it won't look like the Disney castle for whatever type of frame you want!
This would be perfect for any little girls room! Print the templates smaller and it would perfect for a scrapbook page!
You do not need 12" x 12" paper to make this, only 8-1/2" x 11".

To see more details or get this tutorial
CLICK HERE!

Back from Disney World!

We just got back from five days at Disney World!
We went with the four of us, plus Brads parents and my parents. We all stayed together in a four bedroom condo that was bigger than my house! Two master bedrooms, both with huge jacuzzi tubs in the rooms!
I will post some pictures from our great trip soon, but I just wanted to let you guys know.... anyone that emailed me while I was away, if I have not gotten back to you yet, please try and be patient! I have about two days of emails to go through and reply to!
I will post more soon...

March GMS Meeting part3

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Below are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

Make-n-take

Swap by Shanti McKenna


Swap by Marti Jurnak

Below is one of the make-n-takes we did. The main envelope is 7-1/2" square, folded in half, then half again. Then just cut the bottom two squares on a diagonal and you have your card holder!