Stampin' Up! Wedding Table decorations

So this is the next bit of my wedding craft extravaganza. This whole process started just after Christmas and continued for a full three months. When I came up with this idea for our table centre decorations I was not really aware what I had let myself in for and towards the end of punching out 4000 Stampin' Up! fancy flower punches I was convinced I had given myself RSI. Well all is well now and my hand needed a bit of a rest before the next process started and that was constructing the flowers. I did this video can be seen here 1000 times in order to make enough for 10 table decorations.
The photos below show just some of the flowers that were made ready for the next stage

If you would like to see the finished product come back tomorrow!!!!

So here follows photos of the next stage

Stampin' Up! Paper flowers

I saw this style of flower done ages ago, so I thought I would give them a go. See my video to see how I made them.

Stampin' Up! Card Base Video Tutorial

As promised the card base tutorial for the base of the cards that I have shown this week.

I had a very useful comment from one of my You Tube viewers. In the first part when I tell you to cut the card by 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" IGNORE ME!! as all you have to do it cut a piece of A4 card stock in half.... was being very thick!!!

Stampin' Up! Ribbon flower

This card was made using the Autumn Splendor  stamps set
1) On Very Vanilla card stock clear emboss some leaves and acorns
2) Sponge dauber Close to Coco in over the whole thing
3) Sponge dauber Champagne mist shimmer paint over the whole thing
4) Rub over with a kitchen towel to shine up the leaves
5) Screw the whole piece of paper up
6) Flatten out
7) Rip at an angle to fit your card
8)Ink ripped edges with old olive
9) Stick to your card base.
10) Stamp Sentiment  ( Say it with Scallops) onto Very Vanilla card stock with close to coco ink
11) Punch out sentiment with square scallop punch
12) Ink edges of sentiment with close to coco ink
See the video below to find out how to make the ribbon flower.
This was not my original idea, I found this idea on You Tube. I think the idea originated from the 2010 US Stampin' Up! convention

Stampin' Up! Treat Box Specialty Paper Bridesmaid

I have had a child free day today so I thought I would share this treat box with you. I made this at a workshop I did last night. 


I love this Specialty Paper Bridesmaid cardstock, the possibilities with it are endless. It is foiled which gives it a fantastic shine, it also provides patten and texture to the paper. It comes in a pack of 10 with two different patterns. The foil  foil imprinting resists the ink leaving striped or filligree paper in any colour you choose.

So here we go the first thing that you will need to do is cut the cardstock at 10cm by 20cm.

Next choose the colour ink you want to transform your paper into, in this case I chose Rose Red.

Ink up your brayer, turn the ink pad sideways, it quicker as it fits the brayer perfectly.

Now you are ready to colour the card stock! You will need to go over it several times to get good coverage.

Clean off the ink that has remained on the foil with a piece of kitchen towel, this will bring up the shine.

Now score at 10cm, mark each end at five and then score from the mark to the 10 cm score line.

You should end up with something that looks like this.

Now bring the box together and punch holes in both sides

Thread ribbon through the holes to close the box

You are done. All you need to do now is fill your treat box with treats!!!

I can not take credit for the box design, I have been making it for a while and I can not remember the original source.

Stampin' Up Round Tab Punch

I have just made this video demonstrating how to get the most out of the Stampin Up round tag punch.