Trombone Notes



When I saw the Brass paper from Moxxie's Musically Inclined paper line, I knew I had to use it in some way for spirit bags for my niece. She is in her high school marching band and will at some point during football season give spirit bags filled with goodies to her squad. Last year she didn't want her mom or I to do anything for her bags. This year she wants something cool. Getting her to tell us what that is is a different story. (She's 15 - that should explain it.) Every idea we throw out to her has gotten shot down. I did get her to agree to a notepad covered with paper. This is what I came up with:

I had these little notepads in my stash.  I cut 2 pieces of chipboard 1/4 inch longer than the length of the pad and 1/2 inch wider than the width. My pads are 3x5.  I covered one side of each chipboard with the Brass paper and used CTMH pepperwood cardstock on the other side.  On the back inside cover, I created a little pocket for the notebook to slide into.  I didn't want this notebook to be a one time use type of thing when all the paper is gone.  I used 3/4 inch wire to bind the book with my Bind-It-All.  The trombone on the front is from the Cricut Quarter Note cartridge (my niece plays trombone).  I cut the trombone from gold cardstock I got from Hollo's Papercrafts and backed it with juniper and pepperwood CTMH cardstock.  The letters from "notes" is cut out using My Favorite Things Die-Namics By The Letters.

I stamped each page of the note pad with the music notes from the Pure Innocence Christmas Caroler stamp set in juniper CTMH ink.  I only had to make four notebooks so it wasn't so bad.

 

My niece seemed to like these.  I hope they make it into the spirit bags.  If you have any other inexpensive ideas (besides candy) that high schoolers would like for their spirit bags, let me know.

 

Supplies

Chipboard

Moxxie Musically Inclined Brass

CTMH cardstock - juniper and pepperwood

notepad

Gold cardstock

Cricut Quarter Note cartridge

MFT By the Letters die

PI Christmas Caroler music notes

Bind-It-All wire

Rhinestones

 

Thanks for looking!

Carol

Poinsettia Tag

I created this tag as a sample for The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique.  It went together very fast.

I used a precut tag and attached the patterned paper.  Went around the paper with chai tea ink.  Used chai tea and vintage cream on the Die-Namics border and desert sand on the Fleur de Lis die.  Stamped the sentiment in vineyard berry ink.

For the poinsettia I cut and embossed two each of the smallest and second smallest poinsettia dies from Hollo's beet paper and one of the second smallest from CTMH ponderosa pine.  I punched seven pine branches.  The pearls I colored with a Copic marker. Before putting together the poinsettia, I turned each piece over and added dimension with an empressor tool.

Supplies

tag

My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas Holly Paper

CTMH Ponderosa Pine Paper

Hollo's beet and cream papers

Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Accents and Layered Poinsettia

Die-Namics Faux Crochet Border

CTMH Vineyard Berry ribbon and ink and desert sand ink

Just Rite Stampers Christmas Trimmings

Papertrey Ink chai blend and vintage cream inks

pearls

Copic marker

Martha Stewart pine branch punch

Thanks for looking!

Carol

Pure Innocence Shadow Box

We created this shadow box as a Christmas gift for one of our friends.  She is a fan of My Favorite Things Pure Innocence stamps (and so are we).  This was a fun project to create.

We started off by painting the shelf with a couple coats of black acrylic paint then spray sealing it when it was dry.  The cardstock squares were then applied with Modge Podge with one coat underneath and two coats on top.

Each girl was stamped on a white square, colored with copic markers then paper-pieced with patterned paper.  They were then glued on to a piece of chipboard and cut out after dried. Foam squares were placed on the back then put into the frames.

The wording was done on the computer (fonts Arial Narrow and Pea Alicia Script) then printed out on cream cardstock. A die was used to cut it out.  A glue pen was used to trace around the edge of the cut out then glitter was adhered.  Foam squares were placed on the back then put into the frame.  The dog has a double layer of foam squares so that it is popped higher than the die.  The crystals were attached with liquid glass.

Supplies:

Shadow box from Dollar Tree

black acrylic paint

spray matte sealer

CTMH paper - crystal blue, sweet leaf, seafoam, cranberry, buttercup, autumn terracotta, indian corn blue, shell pink

Modge Podge - matte

Crystals

Pure Innocence stamps - Being Cute is What I Do, I Get a Kick Out of You, Christmas Stocking Girl, Out on a Limb, Feeling Froggy, Popping By, Christmas Caroler, dog from Snow Adorable

MFT Die-Namics Framed Greetings die

Basic Grey Picadilly 6x6 pad

chipboard

glitter

foam squares

CTMH liquid glass

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