I’ve tagged the tutorials I’ve posted here – and I hope to be creating more of them in the future! If you have something you would like a tutorial on, especially something on my daily blog posts, please leave comments to let me know.
If you use one of these tutorials, I’d love credit – and a link back here. Let me know what you’ve createad, I’d love to see.
Thanks!
May Arts Ribbon Organization Bloghop!
If you’re a follower of the May Arts blog, you’ll know this week is all about ORGANIZING! And I got my room done *just* in the nick of time to be able to join in the fun! Here’s a snapshot, and just below is a video showing how I laid out the colors to get them on the spools in this pretty rainbow!
I hope you take some time to go visit all the ribbonistas and their storage ideas – lots of FAB ways to organize yourself! And go leave comments all over – you could win 3 spools of your choice!!!!
- Candy at Candy Scraps
- Charlene at Paper And Ink Playground
- DeeDee at UmWow
- Emily at Create Serendipity
- Erika at Taylord Concepts
- Erin at Homemade Cards by Erin
- Gini at Beadz
- Jen at Jen Shears Designs
- Jenifer at Scrapbooking and more
- Karen at The Bald Dragonfly
- Kendra at Scrappin Cricut
- Lalo at Crafting in LaLa Land
- Leah at Alabaster Owl
- Virginia at Fynes Designs
And a bonus…the full-on tour of my entire room is HERE!
Ribbon Threader Dies
Today’s renovation update was shot last night…a little vlog for ya! Tonight I may try to do OWHtv from the demolished room if it’s in any condition to do so…stay tuned!
And go check out my new Spellbinders….cardmaker style! Go check it out on my post on the May Arts blog!
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Hello and happy Groundhog’s Day! I’m hoping to just keep reliving today like Bill Murray did in the movie…it’s a Saturday and the only thing I have planned is sleeping in, crafty time, and a visit from a friend with her baby and her dog – that’s a day Ciara and I could go for again and again!
I’ve got one of my Oozak tutorials for you, with a darling little Nom Nom Monster by Little Miss Muffett Stamps – how cute is he?
I had a special treat when making this card – I hadn’t picked out papers or embellies yet, and a very sweet cardmaker for OWH sent me a valentine pack of goodies – and it included this paper pack (6×6) from Authentique that I’d been coveting, some Candi and Candi Fix (it’s tiny /thin foam tab adhesive that works great under the candis), along with some other treats. Perfect contrast for the bright crazy colors in the image. Thank you Lilly for the goodies!!
The video is just a wee bit long, I didn’t do any editing of the actual coloring – so you get to hear me vamping a while in the voiceover! The ending is fun – let me know if you know who the guest star is doing the voiceover at that point!
Well I hope you got a kick out of that…and that you have a GREAT Groundhog Day! Don’t forget to go visit OWH – there’s a BlogSkip going on today, and the focus is cards with CRITTERS on them. Lots of fun inspiration! Plus there’s another challenge sponsored by Our Daily Bread Designs – FRUIT!
May Arts/CardMaker Magazine bloghop!
Welcome to my little stop on the bloghop! I’m so excited that these two great companies are pairing up for this hop.
If you’ve not visited me before, I’m Sandy Allnock, not only lucky to be a ribbonista for May Arts, but also blessed to be the president of Operation Write Home. CardMaker Magazine has done stories on OWH periodically (my chance to publicly say thank you!!!), and we do get cards with notes on the packing slips that they’re readers of CM. We love it! And I hope if you haven’t heard of OWH or visited the site please do – there’s lots of resources there for you!
My card actually uses the sketch posted this week on the Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps blog - with of course some additions, you know me! There wasn’t a “spot” designated for any ribbon so I added my own. 
Check out the video I made for this bloghop to see how I made the cute little ribbon embellishment:
PRIZE!
Of course it wouldn’t be a May Arts bloghop without goodies! So….one lucky winner commenting on any blog in the hop will win FOUR SPOOLS OF THEIR CHOICE! You’ll want to go hop hop hop til you drop drop drop – then if you win, you can have the same angast as me trying to pick out your ribbon. LOL!
And now….get back to the hop and comment away!
- Brooke Smith / Cardmaker Magazine
- Ashley N Newell
- Candy Rosenberg
- Charlene Driggs
- AJ Otto
- Sandy Allnock*** you’re here!
- Christine Okken
- DeeDee Catron
- Emily Lanham
- Erin Thiem
- Glenda J. Wyatt
- Ivanka Lentle
- Gini Williams Cagle
- Jen Shears
- Jenifer Cowles
- Jennie Harper
- Melanie Muenchinger
- Monica Edwards
- Jingle
- Karen Baker
- Lalo IK
- Marie Otake
- Susan Lui
- Vera Yates
- Virginia Fynes
Your next stop is the fabulous
Christine Okken at Christine Creations!
Don’t miss it, Christine is UBER talented!
Bloghop: May Arts, meet Scrap Wrangler!
Merry Christmas everyone! And welcome to my little spot on the May Arts Ribbonista Bloghop! We’re actually sharing on our blogs this week, so I really hope you go to the May Arts blog every day and check out the links to the other ribbonistas. It’s one amazingly talented group of ladies, and you won’t want to miss the holiday inspiration! The bloggers for today are:
- Nicole at I’m Just a Simple Gal
- ME! You’re already here
- Virginia at Fynes Designs (an OWHer!)
- Erin at Homemade Cards by Erin
- Jenifer at Scrapbooking n More
Today’s question: Are you all done with your holiday prep yet!?!?
Well, when you get those cards and crafty projects done – don’t lose those scraps! I’ve got a little project for you that’ll use up all your holiday paper and ribbon. “Use it up?” you wonder…”Why do that?” Well, I just discovered something wonderful:
Every year – companies make new paper and ribbon.
GASP!
I know, I know. Nobody told you either!?!? Let me be the first to break it to you! You can use up the items you have now and then have no guilt in buying the new lines next year, how cool is THAT! If you’re anything like me you always say you’ll use up last year’s first….well do it now, don’t wait til next year. Okay, okay, on to my project!
I call this project a table wreath; depending on the amount of paper, ribbon, and embellishments you have leftover, you can make something smaller like this “wreath” to use on a table, or if you have a lot of goodies, make a garland for your front room bay window! I simply took all my leftovers, (okay some were 12x12s but I wasn’t going to make more cards with them!), tore them into approximately 4x4ish shapes, and threaded them and anything else that wasn’t nailed down onto a piece of wire. I’ve got beads, bells, spools, snippets of faux berries, diecuts, ornaments – all kinds of fun things in here. Remember if you have heavy items, or if you’ll make a large project, use a heavyduty wire. Be sure it won’t break on you! Watch my quick little video (and wave to Punch when he prances through!) – then tell me what YOUR scrap pile looks like!
And if you have more scraps of other sorts than you know what to do with of a non-holiday kind – go check out the Scrap Wrangler video, that ought to get you in shape!
So tell me…how’s your scrap pile looking? Merry Christmas!!!
TriFold Shutter Card Tutorial – new! With room to write!
I’m stoked to bring you another Oozak tutorial today! They also have a new challenge up on the blog for December – and it’s Anything Goes with RED! How easy is that, you’re all doing valentines! Hope you go play along
The tutorial is for an adaptation of the TriFold Shutter card that is 1) easier and 2) leaves room for a message on the back panel! here are two samples of the new format. This first one has the poppy die from Memory Box – absolutely darling! And polkadot papers from BoBunny, which I just {puffy heart love}.
And the other is a Christmas card featuring Elf Marci, also available at Oozak…and more BoBunny dots! And STICKERS! Yeah! I got the Echo Park sticker set in my May Arts bundle of goodness from their partners, and these are some pretty nice – and useable- stickers.
I saw a card or two with this format on the web, but I could never find a tutorial with measurements…which drove me nuts. So I just started cutting, scoring, and folding til I came up with a set of measurements that would work. The card base starts with a 12″ long piece, that’s the secret – and it’s also only 4″ when closed, rather than 4.25″. I think the full panel of writing space certainly makes it worth sacrificing a quarter of an inch!
So of course here is the video! Ciara played my stunt double; I totally forgot that Dec 1 was around the corner and needed to get this edited, so she took my place…I had a bad hair day, and she rarely has one, so she got to be on camera instead!
This photo shows the view from above, so you can see the comparison between the simplification of the folds:
Remember that for OWH, dimension is an issue, so don’t popdot things on a card that folds this way; but now this format will be better for our heroes since they can write more than three words in the tiny panel available!
Click here to download the PDF template for BOTH the old and new TriFold Shutter Cards.
Do me a favor and share YOUR version of this new card format! I’d love to see what you come up with. This tut will eventually be reposted on the OWH blog, and when it does, I’d love to feature one of your cards as the sample, so the blog team will pick out their fave….do nice work! *grin*
Tutorial: Make an advent calendar
Okay, so that title’s a bit of a misnomer. My tutorial isn’t here, it’s over on the May Arts blog. ***ETA 11am, the post is there now!*** Click the picture to go see! (Then come back here and scroll down for the news about the test StageIt show on Friday!)
Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed that lil project…I had such fun making it! Non-cards are a little out of character for me, but I do like doing something a little different from time to time.
Friday Test Webcast on StageIt
I’ll be testing out the platform with the first ever “I Can’t Stop Embellishing Webcast”on Friday afternoon; they appear to have 2 cameras, however it seems like poor resolution in the “soundcheck” mode….so it could be a bust! But it’ll only cost a buck to see the train wreck…OR only a buck to be in on the ground floor of something cool and new! Ha. No refunds, so be sure you’re willing to part with your sawbuck
They’re only giving me a half hour show to start, so we’ll do that and see how it goes. What’s on deck, you ask?
- A sketch! Bring pencil and paper, so you can write down details. This webcast won’t “save” like OWHtv.
- Samples with the sketch, showing new papers from Bazzill and why I pick which papers.
- A recording of a voicemail that a HERO left on my phone, all the way from Afghanistan! I hope my phone is picked up on the broadcast, it’s a nice message.
- Viewer’s choice: Stump Sandy OR previews of some YouTube project “reject” cards. Yeah, I make blooper cards! No one but our heroes will see them if you choose Stump Sandy (and that’s ok with me!)
That ought to be plenty to keep us occupied for just half an hour; I think it cuts off at 30min, so we shouldn’t be running overtime. And – if you are NOT able to make it, don’t worry; you won’t miss any OWH-crucial news. This is more about just crafting, and won’t have announcement-type stuff except me blathering personally. Any webcasts that have an associated fee are bonus material, not critical for OWHers. (‘cept you might like to be “in the know”!)
How do you get a ticket? Click HERE!
Hero Arts tutorial – Copic Resist
I’m not sure if I invented something or not. Probably not, because when I played around with it, this was really a no-brainer. LOL. Someone else must have done this before!
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Oh, you’d like to know how I made that wicked cool background? Click on the image below to go see the technique on the Hero Arts blog and YT channel today!! YES the Hero Arts site!! – and please don’t forget to do the likey clickety clack thing and leave comments on YT! You know how much I like that
GOOGLIES!
I don’t usually do non-card projects…. and especially not for halloween. But today’s is a noncard project over on May Arts, and has a spooky video with it! When I figured out how to use googlies on this, I couldn’t resist. Click on the image to go see, and be sure to go leave comments!!
Have a FANTASTIC weekend, everyone!
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