CASE-ing and on a roll

I just found out that CASE doesn't stand for showcase but for Copy And Show Everyone - as in when you see a lovely card, gift tag, box or anything and make your own version. I'm very happy to have been inspired by fellow crafters work - its one of the great things about my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators that they are all great at sharing their ideas. So here are three items I have created today based (loosely or closely) on other peoples creations. Once I started I was on a real creative roll.

 

I think this is based on one of Amy Sheridans swaps (organised by my friend Donna Keene). I originally thought it was from Michelle Philips but apparently not! Anyhow - apologies if I am misrepresenting the creator, I've changed the sentiment (love this label punch and all the stamps that work with it!) and swapped the colours round too (Coastal Cabana and Baked Brown Sugar - yumm!) but kept to the mosaic madness embossing folder and punch. Lovely.

 

Now this

 

Now

 Now these three pictures show a kind of box card - not really sure what its called properly! - but I hope you can see that the frog is stamped and then punched out using the postage stamp punch which is also used to make the aperture. The Boho Blossoms do double work on the front and on the inside. Just something a bit different and made following an idea from a swap from a German lady at last years European Stampin' Up! Convention in Mainz.

 

And following those two I started trying some ideas that incorporated bookmarks . This one is really summery and uses stamped vellum to hold the bookmark. So Saffron is such a lovely soft yellow which really tones beautifully with the paper, giving me the urge to read and read all day in the dappled shade beneath a tree, with some kind soul bringing me chilled homemade lemonade and perhaps a little scone with clotted cream and strawberry jam...... Dream on!

If you would like to make any of these items with me, give me a call and we can book you into a class and get you creating and CASE ing.

P.S. I've also just learned that ISO in a post means In Search Of..... Oh well , we all live and learn!

 

Studio News

Well - am I a lucky crafter or what? Not only do I have a cute studio - with air conditioning - but I now have super duper storage for all my stash. Drawers and boxes and shelves all made specially for paper, card, punches and inkpads.

 This is what it looked like "before" - yes I know I'm such a messy crafter!











And this is what one wall looks like now! Can you see that I have each colour of Stampin' Up! cardstock in its own drawer, labelled with a butterfly punched out in the corresponding colour. When I have finished this post I am going to print up the names using safmat to go on each drawer. It makes life so much easier - and no more scraps box(es) because I pop any usable bits back in the right drawer straight away.

 

I also have two walls filled with these Really Useful storage units. A very flexible system which has literally swallowed up my stash of craft materials.

My husband and I put the units together on our Ruby Wedding day so it is fitting that this

is the first creation from my newly organised studio which is Beyond the Greenhouse.