I was going to add this to the bottom of my Stamp Simply Challenge post, but that got waaayyyy too long this week, so I’ll give this it’s own post — because I want to make sure you all see it — a huge sale at Flourishes, today only, 2/29!!! They have tons on sale, and my most favorite — VELVET RIBBON!!!!! Here’s the flyer I copied from the Flourishes Blog!!!
Have fun shopping!!!!
Challenge #24- Keyword ssnotime24 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all! You can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.
The challenge this week is to either make a purse or use purse images on your project. Yes, a 3-D purse fits the bill perfectly here, but if you aren’t inclined to do a 3-D project then just make a card or any flat project that either contains purse images, which could be stamped, stickers, rub-ons, cut-outs, chipboard, anything at all — as long as there is some purse related feature to your project. And a purse can also be construed as a tote bag, book bag, shopping bag, etc — anything you would carry with you to hold your belongings. Doesn’t this sound like fun!!!! I LOVE purses!!!
Now, if you do a 3-D project – PLEASE — if you can — share your instructions with us. We would all love to try these things out! If you took a template from somewhere on the net, please link it for us in your upload. If you did a super simple project and can talk us through it, that would be great. If you are a Blogger and can show us a photo of your home-made template, that would be great, too. HOWEVER, I don’t want to scare anyone off by making them feel they have to get involved in producing some huge tutorial - that is NOT the point — OK? If you can’t share instructions, that’s OK — please play anyway — but I just KNOW when everyone starts seeing cute purses, questions will arise — as, generally speaking, we are all a very curious bunch! LOL!!!
And remember Julie Koerber from last week — known as outtoimpress at SCS and Out to Impress by Julie in Blogland — well, she’s still with us!!! And that’s a good thing!!! Here is Julie’s SCS upload and here is her Blog post, and oh my goodness!!! It is drop dead gorgeous, you have GOT to go and see it!!!
There are just a ton of purses out there to make, and I could be linking here forever to give you ideas, but what I’ve done is create a link to a search in the SCS galleries for Purse — there are tons!!! Some have instructions, some have links to Blog tutorials, some have links to instructions on the net — if you are stumped, just browse and see what inspires you!!!!
Remember when you upload to use the keyword above, followed by a comma. Please come back here to post (as a comment) that you’ve played, and provide a link so I can check out your card right away. You can find all cards uploaded for this challenge by clicking Gallery Submissions Here.
Some wanting to play said they have never uploaded before. If that’s you and you need help uploading, just go to my Challenge No. 1 here.
OK, here’s my sample — I made a 3-D purse, super simple (tutorial at the end of this post), with 3 coordinating cards to put inside of it — super easy too!!! It holds 4 1/4″ square cards. This truly was very little work. I used the luscious Crush Collection by Crate Paper (and that’s the only paper in this project) and it’s coordinating chipboard letters. My stamped sentiments are from Many Sentiments by Flourishes. They worked perfectly for this fun project!
Here’s the purse front. The green bands were all cut 1″ wide and then pulled through the Key Tag Punch to round the ends. If you don’t know how to do that, you can see my instructions here on this graduation upload. You could also just use a corner rounder. Either works. Measurements are listed below on the photo of the template/tutorial. There are no sides to this purse — it is just an 11 x 4.5″ piece of cardstock, scored and folded. The little straps on the side *make* the sides and hold it in shape – easy!!! The buttons/trim are the Crate chipboard pieces adhered with Zots. The S is also Crate and is attached to a punch-out from the paper pack. The key is vintage and the chain was in my collection of *things I just might need*!!!! The handle is the 5/8″ wide grosgrain ribbon, attached inside with red sticky tape and knotted on top.
Here’s a view of the back.
Here’s a view of the side so you can see what I mean. Can you see the self-adhesive Velcro dot that holds it shut? There are 3 cards inside.
These are the 3 cards inside — can’t get much easier. I used the same Crate paper for these 4 1/4″ square cards and merely stamped my sentiments, from Many Sentiments by Flourishes, but I masked off (taped over) the first letter of each sentiment as I wanted to use these chipboard letters. I like the look!!! I’d like to add that I REALLY like the quality of these Crate chipboard letters — so much better than many others I’ve had!!! Just love them!!!
Here’s the template. Cut the purse 11 x 4.5″ and score as indicated above. If you can’t read my writing, here they are:
Cut all the strap pieces 1″ wide. The center strap can be 6 1/2 or 7 inches. The side straps should be cut 4″ if you are going to run them through the Key Tag Punch. But they can be cut 3 1/2″ if you are just going to corner round them.
I think that should about do it!!! I couldn’t believe I did not have 1 single purse stamp anywhere in this house!!! Must have been in the batch I sold — LOL!!! Anyway, hope you all can get adventurous and try a purse of some sort, or at least a card!!! Hope we see some fun and funky purses!!! Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a great weekend!!! Continue Reading »