Today I started working on my projects for my first workshop….it was fun & a tiny bit stressful at the same time. LOL. I want to keep the projects simple because I will have some new stampers in a few weeks. But “simple” and “I” just don’t go well together in the same sentence. LOL. I just want to faux stitch, poke some holes & Stickle it up! 😉 Both my regular stamping friends and the new group of ladies seemed to like the 6×6 recipe pages, so I designed this recipe page and started working on a card as well. I hope I kept a good balance in level of difficulty and yet still achieve a pleasing design so they have enough time to finish both projects. I have the recipes already printed and the “glasses” traced onto cardstock so that should help. I *really* wanted to use a strawberry stamp on this but it is retired. And as I was searching for a straw to cut and attach to the top of the glass, I realized that I threw all the straws I had away on a “cleaning out” spree a few months ago. 🙁 After I printed off the recipes, I also realized that I hadn’t tried this one before! oops! Let’s just hope it’s a good one! It only has 3 ingredients….how bad can it be? 😉
I started out by playing around on my print program to find an image of a glass. I just use an old program I’ve had called Print Artist. I first tried making the words fit inside the shape but it was just going to be a bit more effort than I was up to. So I decided to size the glass to the measurements I wanted and layer the words over top. The glass was printed out, cut & traced onto heavy cardstock for a pattern and then traced onto Barely Banana cs. I am sorry but I didn’t think to scan the pattern. The words were printed onto vellum and then cut to 4″ x 5″. The Bodacious wheel was inked with Regal Rose and wheeled up the left side. Then I stamped the swirls in Garden Green on the bottom right corner. Next I stamped some flowers in Summer Sun on the top of the glass and glued it to the Regal Rose base. The vellum was just placed overtop (not attached yet). Three flowers and some leaves were stamped, cut out and carefully taped down, slightly overlapping the vellum. (The vellum is now attached to the base by the flowers). I used the Crop-A-Dile to attach 2 black eyelets on the remaining 2 corners that were still loose. To finish it off, I ran a piece of ribbon through the top eyelet & around the side. Whew! This doesn’t look like much but it took quite a bit of time today. I must be a slow stamper. *And I STILL think it needs Stickles! LOL.
stamps- Bodacious Bouquet & Bodacious Jumbo wheel (on the Dormant list)
cs- Regal Rose, Banana, vellum, white
ink- Regal Rose, Summer Sun, Garden Green
access- computer for words, eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, ribbon
cookiestamper ♥
