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Matchbook Folds — I’m on a fold kick latey, and today it is a matchbook fold.  With this fold you have one small fold and one large fold so it kind of looks like and opens like a matchbook.  Check out all the DT samples today for some fun ideas and great inspiration with this fun fold!

Keyword ssnotime113 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Bethany, November Guest Designer
• Janine   
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy 
• Deb  
• Barbara
• Jenny
• Barb Schram  - project will post at 12 noon on Friday

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night.  Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

You may see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here’s my matchbook creation for this week,

I haven’t done a matchbook fold in years and forgot how FUN they were.  I kept it simple, using Raspberry Tart DP and Cameo Coral (SU) for my color and some of the NEW product by JustRite for my Miss You Sentiment from JUST A NOTE  and my 2″ WIDE Border — links at end of post.  I have a piece of 3/8″ Black Velvet glued onto the bottom portion, and it’s just cut on the ends. (NOTE:  3 new types of Velvet are being added to the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store this weekend!)

Here’s the open view so you can see how it functions.  The top flap slides under the bottom flap, just like a matchbook.  I have the very bottom portion of the small flap glued down, way inside the fold, allowing room for the top flap to enter.  (When you click on Bethany’s link above, she shows a photo of exactly what I did — she did it just the same.)  My sentiment is attached to the bottom flap with SU Dimensionals.  It is cut with my Petite Circle Nesties and decorated with Kaiser Pearls in Snow.  Here’s the how-to:

• Cut your paper the long way, to 11 x 4 25.

• Score in 1.25″ from one short edge, score again 5.25″ down from your first score.

Two NEW sets available on preorder were used to make this sentiment.  JUST A NOTE BORDER AND CENTERS to fit the 1 5/8 and 2″ Stampers was used for the sentiment and the 2″ ROUND WIDE BORDERS was used for my pretty, wide border.

If you scroll to the bottom of this post you can see some of the NEW product and click on links to take you to the other sets in the November Release lineup. 

The above link also provides you with a comprehensive list and links to all items currently sale priced at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store – briefly:

Ribbon Spools (15% off) (not cut yardage)

Scor-It Full Sized and Scor-It Mini (20% off)

JustRite Christmas Sets (20% off)

JustRite Monogram Sets (30% off)

Buttons reduced

Check out the BIGGER BOW EASY here.

I am still accepting preorders on the NEW JustRite Product, due to arrive soon!  Email me at ssj@up.net to reserve your favorite sets!

Also my 6 x 6 Pads of Kaiser Paper have shipped so I should have them next week!

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Thanks much for stopping in to check out our challenge!  I can’t wait to see what the DT girls have done and I hope you can give a matchbook fold a try as well!!! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.  Hope to see you soon! 

At customer request I’ve decided to offer Gift Certificates to the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. What a SIMPLY wonderful gift to give!  They will be available in any amount you choose - $25, $50, $75, $100 -or whatever amount suits your occasion.  And they’re easy to both purchase and give.  I’ll tell you how below, but first take a look:

A simple and pretty little index card style certificate in whatever amount you so choose.  To purchase a Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Gift Certificate, just email me at ssj@up.net, tell me the amount you’d like and the name and email address of your recipient.  Once paid, there are 2 ways you may receive your certificate:

1)  I can email your certificate to you, similar to the above photo, with your correct $ amount on the focal image.  You may then email it to your recipient.  Gift given, quick and simple!  Your recipient then contacts me to place her order, telling me who gave the gift to her.  I then mail out her package.

2) Option 2 is in the event you actually want to HAVE the certificate to wrap and present to your friend.  In this case, I’ll mail a certificate to you, similar to the above.  You can write your greeting on the reverse side.  It will be in a crystal clear box, ready to wrap.  There will be an additional charge of $7.50 to receive the certificate in the mail in a crystal clear box.  That $7.50 does include the shipping charges to you.

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If you like the design above and would like to recreate a card using any of the fun JustRite images, here’s the recipe and shopping list:

SU Products Used:  White, Cameo Coral, Kiwi Kiss and Raspberry Tart DP; Corner Rounder and Rounded Tab Punch.

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items used on this project:

2″ Stamper with 15 pt. Font and Center, along with the Times New Roman Font available in the Damask Monogram Kit, all by JustRite

Celery 1.25″  and 1/4″ Silk Ribbon by May Arts

Petite Circle Nestabilites by Spellbinders, Bow Easy and Kaiser Pearls (pearls not yet listed in store but they are available, just ask)

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Thank you so much for stopping in today.  Truly do enjoy your visits — thank you so much!!!  I have many more posts to share this week, so hope you can return!  See you soon!!!

Hi everyone!  GLAD to be back connected to the world.  2 days without internet access is a little frustrating!!!  I came home from our usual Sunday activities to find service, and I’m one happy camper!!!  I’ll get to all my emails throughout the evening - thank you for your patience!

I have  a simple CAS remake to share with you this evening.  DS#2 needed a birthday card for 6 year old Emily - like NOW!  Well, nothing in this house ready to go for little girls, so I did some scrambling.  Does anyone remember this card?  Well, I thought that just might do for a 6 year old if I switched out the sentiments.  So, off came Summer and on went her name, Emily, plus a button for good measure.  Here’s the remake:

Please see original post for specific details.  Image is by Cornish Heritage Farms, Copic colored.  I created Emily’s name using font by JustRite — Times New Roman, both Uppercase and Lowercase, used on a Harmony Rectangle Stamper.  And please remember, all the font is still on sale at JustRite Stampers through Sept. 24.  Be sure to check it out!

You’ll also note if you compare the two that I added Flower Soft in Nut Brown to the flower center on Emily’s remake.  Sure adds a lot of interest IRL — I love the addition.

Please note I have a good supply of JustRite Products shown on Page 3 of my store.  Also just want to let you know that I have some FUN new RIBBONS in, as well as a few other little items  – I’ll get them photoed and up on the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store hopefully tomorrow (Monday) sometime!  So stay tuned — I’ll post here when the new ribbons are all listed.

Thanks much for stopping in and for your patience with me while I was out of service.  Keeping my fingers crossed that doesn’t happen again anytime real soon!!!  Have a wonderful week, everyone.  I’ll be back as soon as I can!

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Editing to Add:  In reading comments, it has reminded me that not everyone understands all the lingo we use when writing posts.  I think there has been some confusion on the meanings of CAS and CASE, though similar in appearance, very different in meaning.  Let me explain:

CAS means Clean and Simple, as in style of card.

CASE is a term people use, “to case a card”.  Some people refer to is as to *Copy and Share Everything*.  Others refer to it as meaning to *Copy and Steal Everything*.  In either situation, when you CASE a card, you are copying someone else’s work.

 Hope that helps!

A good friend, Barb Schram, sent me the sweetest little hand made gift in the mail.  Now, if you aren’t familiar with Barb, let me tell you, she is one of the most creative people I know.  She comes up with THE most darling little 3-D projects, food treats and gift items, etc.  And she does so on an ongoing basis — it’s just her thing and she does it extremely well!   Here’s what I got in the mail from Barb:

Isn’t it fun!  Thank you, Barb!!!!  She makes these fun little fabric, hand-sewn yo-yo’s (I think that’s what they’re called) and embellishes them up for use on craft projects.  They have an SU Dimensional on the back, so they are ready to use.  She sent me these 2 in a cello bag with a monogram on top.  (Note one pearl slipped off the button center in shipping — I fixed it upon opening the bag.)  Well, of course I had to use something from this lovely gift.  My time was limited today, so I decided to do something I haven’t done in ages — I made a fun 3 x 3 card — perfect to use as a little gift enclosure, and I just happen to have friends with S as their initial!  I’ll use the yo-yo’s on another project.  Here’s my 3 x 3:

To create this darling, tiny monogram, Barb used the 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 60 Pt Font and 3 Damask Borders by JustRite.  Barb used punches for the solid circles, 3/4″ and 1 1/4″, and a Petite Circle Nestabilites die for the scallop.  I used a Label 1 Nestabilites die for the framing.  Some pretty Raspberry Tart DP by SU adds the color, and done before you know it!

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store  carries both the 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper with 60 pt Font and Damask Borders by JustRite, as well as the full set of Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

As a special treat this week, Barb is Guest Blogging over at the JustRite Blog.  Be sure to check out her FAB creations there as well as at her own Blog,  Explore. Dream. Discover.

And remember, Thursday begins the Mega JustRite Blog Hop.  Don’t miss it!  I, along with a ton of other designers, will be playing — stay tuned for inspiration galore!

Thanks much for stopping in today — I surely do appreciate all the time you take to check in on what I’ve been up to.  It means the world to me — THANK YOU!!!!   And hope to see you again real soon!

…of JustRite.  Clean and simple, fresh and fun.  IF you want it to be — and today, I did!  This doesn’t get much more clean and simple, and it fit my mood perfectly today!

After making Tanya’s card the other day with this same image, I had a few of these stamped and laying around my kitchen, so I colored this up quickly today while making dinner.  I do find if I leave stamped images and my Copics in the kitchen, that I color much more frequently than if they are all in my stamp room — so in the kitchen they now reside — whatever works!

Paper is SU Textured Almost Amethyst.  My image was colored, then cut out and mounted onto the circle with SU Dimensionals.  And don’t ask me WHY I had to cut it out — just remember, I WAS making dinner at the same time — LOL!!!  Take it from there!!!  See the little white flower centers?  Such a little thing, but adding them makes SUCH a difference.  They were done with a Signo White Gel Pen.  LOVE this image from the Friendship Set by JustRite.

My favorite bow treatment of recent, using Celery Silk Ribbon and the Bow Easy.  You can read this post to see how I do this.  The bow is glued on with Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue — REALLY lovin’ that stuff — it holds tight, the nozzle doesn’t plug, and it’s at Wal-Mart for very little money.  You can see some glue on my bow.  It will dry clear, I was just too impatient to wait.

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My Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items to make this card:

Friendship Set used on a 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper, by JustRite.

Celery 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts and the Bow Easy.

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

Scor-It Score Board

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STAMP SIMPLY RIBBON STORE ANNOUNCEMENT

As many of you know, I have been out of the Celery and Pink Silk Ribbon in 1.25″ width for a few weeks.  May Arts has been out of these colors for a few months and their shipment FINALLY arrived — I am doing the happy dance, for sure!  Mine will arrive on Friday of this week, so I can ship out on Saturday.  Those of you on a Wait List or a Backorder List will be contacted.  Anyone else, feel free to place your orders.  I will process them and ship out as soon as it arrives (Saturday, 9/12 is my anticipated ship date).  Thank You!!!  I so appreciate all of your orders — you keep me hoppin’ and I LOVE it!!!

That’s it for tonight!  Have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend everyone!  See you real soon!!!

This card was an absolute pleasure to make for 2 reasons:  1) it was a special request from DS#2, and 2) he made all the decisions, so all I had to do was execute them!  So WHO gets the credit here, him or me???  LOL!!!  Seriously, all my boys usually ask me for are thank you notes, with instructions that they be kept very simple, so today’s request was surely a change of pace.  He picked out the focal image, the border sentiment, said he wanted Tanya’s name on it, that it had to be pink and white with ribbons and bows.  Well now, a boy after my own heart — I figured I JUST might be able to do this — LOL!!!  Here’s the result:

He did pretty good, didn’t he — LOL!!!!  I met all of his criteria — even Tanya’s name on the little hanging tag.  Adding the Cuttlebug die cut in the upper corner was my contribution!  I am having so much fun with this set, I may just have to declare this my latest favorite JR set — it’s The Friendship Set to fit the 3 1/4″ Round Wood Stamper.  It’s large, and I love it!  But the focal images are a wonderful size, perfectly suitable for using alone as well, which I will, another day.

Just a closer look.  Image colored with Copics and flower centers highlighted with a Signo White Gel Pen.  My Petite Circle Nestabilities were used to cut and mat the image.  And my Pink Silk Bow is double, done on the Bow Easy.  To write Tanya, I used my 15 pt font that came with the 2″ Round Wood Stamper with Bonus Center and 15 Pt Font.  I just popped my letters into the nearest stamper, which was a 1 5/8″ Round Wood Stamper, stamped them and cut with my Spellbinders Tags Trio die, ran a 1/4″ silk ribbon through the hole and tied it on!  Fun touch!  It is supported and help in place with 1 SU Dimensional.  I used SU’s Textured Pretty in Pink, SU Tea Party DP and PTI  White.

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The following items to make this card can be purchased at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Friendship Set, used on 3 1/4″ Wood Stamper,  2″ Wood Stamper with 15 pt Font and Bonus Center, 1 5/8″ Wood Stamper, all by JustRite

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink (used for Sentiment)

1.25″ and 1/4″ 100% Pink Silk Ribbon by May Arts and Bow Easy

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Scor-It

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That’s it for tonight — just a quick post!  Hope you enjoyed the card!  I’ll be back on Thursday evening with our Friday Stamp Simply Challenge.  Thanks for stopping in today and hope to see you again real soon! 

Let’s Leave our Comfort Zone — OK, we all know we have one and most of us don’t like to leave it, at least not for very long.  But today, that is just what we are going to do - we are going to leave our stamping style comfort zone and do a card or project in a style TOTALLY unlike what we normally do.  For example, if you always are drawn to doing cutesy things — go elegant, or masculine, or anything OTHER than cutesy.  Get the drift?  Do something that does NOT come natural to you.  THEN in your post, make sure you tell us what your usual style is and WHY this is different.  This will be fun!!!!

Keyword ssnotime102 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Pat Adam, August Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night.  Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

You may see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here’s what I created for today:

This is my attempt at creating a cutesy card!  Cutesy I am NOT!  So I used this adorably CUTE ladybug image from a set by Our Craft Lounge called Just Bugz! Is she cute, or what!!!  I really do love this clean and simple card, and what a FUN set to play with (more on that in a minute), but I do feel I rather failed at meeting the requirements of this challenge — so sorry.  I tried very hard to make this cutesy and *different* than my norm, but I think it looks pretty much like what I always do — LOL!!!!  I guess you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?   But I tried, and I had fun, so that’s what counts!

And how did I get my hands on this set?  Well, I had a visitor — an online friend all the way from Florida, and she brought a few fun sets with her for us to play with — how SWEET!!!  So WHO was here — a current SCS Dirty Girl, DebDeb, Deb Felts!  We had so much fun!  It was just a short visit one afternoon earlier this week, with a couple others,  No time to dig in and stamp, but we did Copic color for a bit and that was fun!   So glad you came, Deb!!!  Thanks!!!

Image is Copic colored, cut and matted with Classic Rectangle Nesties.  And doesn’t she look like she’s just looking at you saying “What’s New?” — LOL!!!  That sentiment is included in the Tiny Words Set by JustRite.  Again, just because the stamp is round and used on a round stamper, doesn’t mean you are tied to a round sentiment - oval suited me better today — so oval it was!  Cut with my Petite Oval Nesties.  And the 1.5″ wide Gingham Ribbon is simply knotted.  I wanted to use wide ribbon, but a bow would have overpowered this card, so a simple knot did the trick! 

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The following items used to make this card are available at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

Tiny Words Set used on the 1 3/16 Round Stamper, both by JustRite

Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink for sentiment

1.5″ Gingham Ribbon by May Arts

Petite Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders 

Scor-It

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Thanks so much for stopping in — hope you get time to try to leave your comfort zone, too!  Would love to see where you head!  And I do have another post popping up in the morning where I’m allowed to do my normal thing — so normal it will be, early tomorrow morning!  Hope you can stop back in and see what I have to share then!  Thanks everyone!  See you soon!

It’s a Birthday Party! — Yes, today is Stamp Simply’s 100th Challenge, so that’s good enough reason to celebrate for me!!!  Thank you ALL for coming to read our challenges, check out our projects and play along with us over the last 100 weeks — we’ve loved every minute of it!!!  So, it only follows that today’s challenge is to make a birthday card — that’s it — how simple and how fun!!! 
 
And going beyond the challenge, we at Stamp Simply ARE having a Birthday Party, and YOU are invited!!!  Today many of the designers who have worked with us in the past in any capacity — Retired Designer, Guest Designer, Party Participant — have been invited to join in our celebration to bring some fun projects and ideas to YOU!!!  We have a wide variety of things going on.  Read the links below to find out what is happening at each blog, then I hope you can find some time to sit down with a nice cup of coffee or tea and start cruising to see what you can find — have fun everyone — and THANKS for coming!!! 

Keyword ssnotime100 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

1. Pat Adam - Christmas Gift Tags with BLOG CANDY

2. AJ - 1 Card Done 3 Ways

3. Janine - A Stress Free Summer Menu with BLOG CANDY 

4. Tammy - Birthday Reminder Book with BLOG CANDY

5. Jennifer - Birthday Card with BLOG CANDY

6. Julie - Card Set in Tote with Directions 

7. Barbara-  Birthday Card with BLOG CANDY

8. Deb- Tutorial on Dying Silk Ribbon Using Copics and Refills

9. Jenny- Birthday Card with BLOG CANDY

10. Jerri - Birthday Card and Tutorial on Hand Embossing with Light Box

11. Joan- Birthday Card and Etched Glass with BLOG CANDY

12. LeAnne - Birthday Card with Glitter

13. Barb- Birthday Cake 3-D Gift Item with BLOG CANDY

14. Darlene - Birthday Card with Special Recipe

15. Rose Ann- Birthday Card with BLOG CANDY

16. Leslie - Gift Tin of Soaps with Coordinating Card

17. Heather - Birthday Card

18. Sabrina- Birthday Card with BLOG CANDY

19. Sharon- THAT’S ME!  Monogrammed Birthday Gift Set with BLOG CANDY

Please bear with us as we are all uploading and linking on Thursday night. Everyone should be uploaded by Friday morning.  Thanks, girls!

You can see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And my creation for today is not a birthday card, but a GIFT that could be given as a birthday present — a simple trio of monogrammed cards — who doesn’t LOVE monograms!  Take a look:

Aren’t they pretty and fun, using some new SU DP I got — Cottage Wall.  My Moss Silk Ribbon went perfectly with this DP and the fun prints just screamed for a girly monogram, so I chose to use my FAV monogram border, Damask, and I used the Curlz Font for the initial in keeping with the light-hearted feel of this paper.  I’m happy with the results!!!  SU cardstock used is Whisper White, Orchid Opulence and Old Olive.  SU ink used is Rich Razzleberry.   Also used the SU Corner Rounder and Dimensionals.

Here’s a better look at the monogram. Easy to do — all stamped in one color ink, cut and matted with my Petite Circle Nestabilites, embellished with Kaiser Rhinestones and crowned on top with a Moss 100% Silk Ribbon Bow made with the Bow Easy.

This was a super easy and quick ribbon treatment — and I think it is SO flirty and fun!!!  I adhered my length of ribbon with heavy double sided tape under the monogram, ran it up and over the panel top, adhering on the back of the panel.  And see how it is then shirred at the bottom, just above the monogram?  I did that by running a piece of the same colored silk in 1/4″ under the ribbon, then drew up the tails and tied it tightly to shir the ribbon.  I then turned that 1/4″ ribbon so my knot ended up under the 1.25″ piece.  Then, after making my bow on the Bow Easy, I glued it into place using Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue and I was DONE!!!

Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items used to make this trio of cards:

Curlz Deluxe Monogram Kit (for font) and the Damask 1 Letter Borders (for the border), OR any of the Monogram Kits work for this type of card, all by JustRite

Moss 100% Silk Ribbon in 1.25″ and 1/4″ widths, by May Arts

Bow Easy

Hope you liked my trio of monograms!

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Now, since this IS a PARTY, we’ll move on to the BLOG CANDY I am offering.

The Blog Candy winner will be drawn at 6:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, August 18.  I am offering the winner $20 of ribbon, their choice, from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.  To enter, merely leave a comment below, telling me which type of ribbon either IS your favorite, or what type of ribbon you are looking for but can never find.

Here’s how it’ll work as we will have people commenting to be entered for the Blog Candy, plus people will be commenting to provide the link for their card — and that’s OK — both types of comments are welcome.  ONLY 1 comment trying for Blog Candy, BUT if you also play the challenge and link your card, THEN you get to make a 2nd comment, providing us your link.  SO, that means if you make a card or project for the challenge, you get to comment twice, giving you DOUBLE the chances to win!!!  How’s that for incentive to play — no cheating — only double comments allowed from challenge players.

OK, I guess that’s it — NOW, on to all those links above — you will see some DYNAMITE projects!  Thanks everyone, SO MUCH, for coming!!!  What’s a party without friends — so glad you stopped in to celebrate with us!!!

And remember, JustRite releases all the new Christmas sets next Monday.  Be sure to check back in for the JustRite Christmas Blog Hop on Monday.  I’ll be playing, for sure!!! You can follow all the fun at the JustRite Blog this week as they sneak peek and offer Blog Candy as well.  The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store will have Christmas sets available for purchase next week — fun stuff!!  Can’t wait!!!

This is the card that Deb and I did jointly as a demo/project for all in attendance at the 2nd Annual Stampin’ in the UP event about a week ago.  6 x 6 sheets of designer paper were used on each card — all were either Basic Grey or Memory Box.  The card packets were passed out in the morning, and then Deb worked one on one with each girl to Copic color their image, coordinating it with the designer papers they had in their packet.

I came home from the event with no finished card and no image — wouldn’t you know!  So Deb kindly colored up this image and got it to me so I could do this post.  Each girl made a similar card, but all had different DP’s and Silk Ribbon colors — they were SO gorgeous!!!

Here’s a closeup of Deb’s colored image, Happy Birthday by Our Daily Bread Designs.  The girls all loved this image and had SO much fun learning to Copic color it!

After their image was colored, I took them in small groups and showed them my favorite, QUICK way to put a card together, using minimal layers, minimal cuts, Silk Ribbon and the Bow Easy.  Following this method you can use your card either vertically or horizontally.  We all used 6 x 6 DP sheets, and they work GREAT for this method, but any paper will do.  But for my measurements below, just realize we are working with 6 x 6 sheets, so all lengths are 6″ long.  The card is a standard A2 - 5.5 x 4.25″.

• Start with 2 sheets of 6 x 6 DP — one Solid (or small print) and one Printed (medium print).
• Cut your Solid Sheet so you have two strips — one 1.5″ wide and one 3/4″ wide.
• Cut your Printed Sheet so you have a 4″ wide piece.

2nd photo:

• Take the 3/4″ strip of Solid and turn it upside down so the white side is up.
• As shown in photo, adhere the 1.5″ Strip to the 3/4″ Strip, white side up, forming what I call a little *piping*.

• Apply adhesive around all 4 edges of your card front and adhere your 4″ Printed piece to the card front, as shown, lining up top and right edges  – YES, it is hanging off the edge by nearly 2″.

2nd photo:

• Now take your Solid strip with piping and attach to card front, lining up top and left edges.  It will overlap the Printed sheet just a bit.

• Now, go to your paper cutter, open the card up and insert so the card inside is facing up towards you.  Line up the edge of the card with the cutting blade and cut.  You are cutting off that excess DP.
• 2nd photo shows the card with the excess DP cut off.  This is just SO much quicker than trying to cut the DP exactly to fit.  I do this ALL the time — I always cut larger and then cut off.

• Now it’s time to apply the ribbon and image.   Wrap the ribbon around the card front, securing with heavy double sided tape under the area where the image will be placed, and then adhere the image. 
• You’ll note on this card we did not mat the image.  The paper was a crisp white and all DP’s had a lot of interest and offered contrast, so the image could stand alone and pop off the DP just on it’s white base — just another step saved!

2nd photo:

• Using your Bow Easy, make a bow.   The one in this photo is a double bow.  See  links below if you don’t know what a Bow Easy is.
• Using 1/4″ Silk Ribbon in a color to match your bow, run the ribbon under the wide ribbon, as shown.  Then lay your bow on top of the wide ribbon and over the narrow ribbon.  Now you can draw up those narrow ribbon tails and tie them in a snug knot to hold the bow in place, then using your fingers or a tweezers, pick up the knot and run it under the bow so it is out of sight.  You can clip the 1/4″ tails to make them look like a part of the bow.  Clip the longer tails as well to a proper length.

And here again is the completed card — quick, easy and pretty!  My absolute MOST favorite way to throw together a quick card!

Refer to this post if you aren’t familiar with a Bow Easy. 

Refer to this post if you’d like to read a Bow Easy Tutorial. 

Refer to this store page if you’d like to purchase a Bow Easy.

Refer to this store page if you’d like to purchase ribbon.

Thanks for stopping in!  Hope this little photo tutorial of our demo project was of benefit to someone!!! Have a wonderful remainder of the weekend and we’ll see you soon!!!

Today’s challenge is simple — make a card for a friend, for ANY occasion, just make sure the word *friend* appears somewhere on the card front.  There are so many fun friend sentiments out there — these will be fun cards to check out!  If you don’t happen to have any friend sentiments, you could even hand write friend on a little tag to hang — whatever works — let’s just get very *friendly* today — LOL!!!  Have fun with this!

Keyword ssnotime99 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Today brings a new month of challenges and that means we have to say goodbye to Rose Ann Reynolds, Paper Delightz,  our July Guest Designer.  It’s been so fun having you, Rose Ann!  We have all LOVED your creations as well as your company.  But what tells me you just may be back next week?????  Stay tuned folks — yes, Rose Ann just MAY be back next week!

And with the new month of August unfolding before us, we welcome probably our FUNNIEST Guest Designer ever!  And I say that with total adoration for Pat Adam, The Rubber Maid.  I love her beautiful creations and I know you will, too, BUT I must tell you — if you are one to look at pictures and not read text, you will be missing a TON of fun over at The Rubber Maid with each and every post.  Take a moment to read, and you’ll surely leave smiling!!! And, for those of you who may not know, Pat is Julie’s Mom!  What a duo!  Welcome, Pat!!!

The Stamp Simply Challenge turns 100 next week, so you know what we all like to do when there is cause to celebrate — WE CELEBRATE!!!!  Be sure to tune in next week for ssnotime100 and LOTS OF FUN!!!

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Pat Adam, August Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us as we are all uploading and linking on Thursday night. Everyone should be uploaded by Friday morning.  Thanks, girls!

You can see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here is my friendly creation for today:

Simple, fun!  I have been totally smitten with cards I’ve been seeing in galleries and on blogs of late done with a new set by Papertrey Ink called Everyday Button Bits.  Totally CUTE set!!! Well, I don’t have the set, but I wanted the look, so figured I could do something similar with what I had on hand, and Tart and Tangy by SU immediately came to mind.  And I’m sure we all have many sets we could use in a similar fashion.  I went for a clean and simple look so my button cherries could take center stage.

My buttons are from the Button Bottles I carry in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store (cute bottles!) and they are sewn onto the white panel.   I lay my buttons where I want them and then punch holes with a piercer through the button holes.  They then sew on like a breeze.  I colored the stem only on the rubber with an SU marker.  Friends was cut with a Tag Nestability.  My ribbon on the tag is tied at the base with red Jute String I also carry in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

This is a simple and fun ribbon treatment.  I just adhered the wide gingham on the back of the black panel with a heavy double sided tape.  I then ran the narrower gingham under the wide, pulled it up and tied into a little bow.  I then stuck a glue dot under the bow so it would stay to the side where I wanted it.  To me gingham says “summer” — summer, cherries and friends — what could be better!

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Stamps: Tart and Tangy by SU, First Fruits by Papertrey Ink

Paper: Black and White

Ink: Versa Fine Onyx Black, SU Always Artichoke Marker

Accessories: MayArts Gingham Ribbons, 100% Jute String, Rusty Pickle Button Bottles, Classic Rectangle and Tag Trio Nestabilities by Spellbinders, SU Dimensionals, Carpet Tape, Scor-It.

Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store  carries the 1.25″ and 3/8″ Gingham Ribbons and 100% Jute String all by May Arts, Button Bottles by Rusty Pickle, Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink, Scor-It.

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Thanks so much for checking in today.  Truly do appreciate your visits.  Looks like it’ll be a nice weekend here — wishing you the same!!!   We do have out of town company arriving soon, but I have some fun posts that will be preset to pop up.  I DID finally get the watering can image all the girls did at our Stampin’ in the UP event last weekend, so the demo card that Deb and I did jointly will be coming real soon!  Thanks — have a great weekend!