Stamp Club lovelies

I had another wonderful evening at Stamp Club this past Thursday night. I can always count on Julie to provide us with some really innovative projects. This time we made some flowers out of paper and it was really fun! The flower below is made using an eyelit punch along strips of white paper and then running them through the paper crimper a few times. This makes the paper really flexible, almost like fabric. Next you take a piece of double stick paper and coil the strips around while sticking the flower to the sticky paper. We put a big button brad in the center and then cut the leaves out by hand, running them diagonally through the paper crimper to give the leaves the appearance having veins. Lastly we made a little basket to put a cello bag with candy or a small candy bar or treat. I love these flowers and plan on making smaller ones for scrap book pages and cards.

Here is another fun flower we made. This time we took card stock and punched out flowers (big fancy flower punch in current Stampin Up! mini catalog) We then took a spray bottle of water and wet each flower. After wetting the flowers we scrunched them up and then opened to reveal a wrinkled flower. Next, we stacked the flowers on top of each other and secured with a brad. Lastly we brought each flower layer up to meet each other and then fanned out. I plan on doing a picture tutorial on these flowers soon. The picture does not begin to show how CUTE these flowers are. I love them! We also scored paper and made the little box that we adheared the flower to.

Above is a card that we stamped. We have used this new clear stamp set before. Below is the card I made

for our swap. It says "Things I love" SHOPPING, CHOCOLATE, NEW SHOES. Then inside the sentiment is BUT MOST OF ALL...YOU! I just love this stamp set!