Hi!
Well I have been busy preparing for our Annual Spring Fling stamping event that is coming up in February! It has been so fun to get 'inky' and I always love working with my downline Diana when we plan these events for our local teams, my INKin' All Night! girls, my AZ INKers (my group of adoptees), and Di's Country INKers and all the rest of our local teams, sidelines and customers too!
This event will be so fun! The best part is that I have already done all of the 'math', our orders are in, our designs are finalized and sampled up, our supply list has been published (for the items they bring that day, ink, sets, punches...) and so now all that's left is to cut & prep! And our orders should start arriving on Tuesday, so hopefully we can be ready way ahead of time! Yipppppeeeeee! Of course there's more than that to do, but it does feel nice to be ahead!
I have been stamping but I guess I have just been REALLY BAD about blogging. I don't know why I can't seem to do it on a daily basis. I guess it's because I am an all or nothing kind of gal and can't hold back ... so if I made a card a day, that would work out great! But since I hosted my teams swap for the Occasions Mini Catalog and the SAB catalog ... I'd have to show you all 30 ideas on one day and that post and the time it would take to write it just overwhelms me! ~ sad but true!
So my challenge to myself when I started this blog a couple of years ago (if that) was to force myself to just stamp for fun and be creative, then share it here for all of you. Now my challenge is to try to blog daily, weekly a couple of times at worst. No more of this monthly or quarterly crud!
Might as well start tonight, right! I was stamping yesterday and playing around with the new Petal Cone Big Shot Die and thought, there has to be more to do with it, size wise, etc ... and low and behold, what does appear ... a sample of the very thing that was floating around in my head! The darling Mary Brown (stampercamper.com) posted a sample of this cone die reformatted into a basket. She has a free tutorial that you can download for measurements and other details --- thanks Mary!
Here's my take!
This uses Tangerine Tango and Early Espresso and Whisper White with just a touch of Old Olive for the leaves. Lots of Big Shot items - new Petal Cone Die, Perfect Polka Dots and Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, Island Floral Die, Tasteful Trim XL Die. Here are a few more views, click on any picture to enlarge it.
This one shows the details of the Impressions Folders ... dots on the rounded flaps and tied off again in the Island Floral flower petals and the lattice is on the large scallop border from the tasteful trim xl die and on the leaves (5 petal flower punch). the ribbon 'flag' tag is from the petal cone die. One of the Sweet Stitches Tangerine buttons and 1/8" white taffeta ribbon on the flap and carried through on the button.
From here you can see the dimension on the front of the basket. There are dimensionals under the brown scallop that adheres to the box base and then the flower and leaves and ribbon flags are all layered up with double stacks of mini glue dots or dimensionals.
And this last picture shows you the sides ... all of the flaps are embossed with the dots but the sides that get the handles are mounted flush to the box base and then a cardstock handle which is finished off with the zigzag from the tasteful trim xl die as well as some 5/16" brads. The back flap has been embossed with the dots, and the espresso scallop layer mounted and raised with dimensionals under the flap like it was done on the front (but no other decorations).
Well I hope you enjoy! I guess I will have to see what kind of goodies I can tuck in here! Mary had a cupcake in hers but I don't see myself baking! Although I did make the kids brownies and cookies tonight, so hmmm, you never know I guess!
I think these could be very addictive! I can see Valentine's treats, Easter Treats, ... think they have jelly beans out yet!
HAPPY stamping and thanks for stopping by! Leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you!
Hugs
Rhonda
