October 2017 - My Paper Oasis

Month: October 2017

29
Oct
2017

CTC 152 – Painted Autumn – Christmas Treat Tube Holders

categories: 3D, 3D; Christmas, Blog Hop, Cards, Challenges, CTC, Facebook Live, Gift Box, Off the Page, Paper Boxes

A big Hello to you all!

I’ve been super busy with Picture to Page and Market Nights the past couple of weeks, so it’s lovely to be back!

Welcome to CTC 152 – Painted Autumn / Spooky Nights on pages 48 – 55 of the Holiday Catalogue.

I don’t really do Halloween, but this fun section has one of my absolutely favourite items! The treat tubes!

I had a team meeting recently and I thought it would be lovely to treat them to a hot chocolate. Not just any hot chocolate, one they could make themselves! Lol

So we made these cute as Christmas Treat Tube Holders all dressed up for Christmas.

One tube holds the Hot Chocolate, the other is filled with mini marshmallows. I found the original idea on split coast stampers HERE from Lisa Somerville. I noticed her double holder was missing one measurement – so here they are:

Take a piece of cardstock 11″ x 5 1/2″ for the Box Base and score on the long side at 1/2″; 1 3/4″; 4 1/4″; 5 1/2″ and 8″. Score each short side at 1 1/4″.

My measurements for the cardstock layers and DSP are:

Top Panel Cherry Cobbler – 2 7/8” x 2 3/4”

Top Panel DSP – 2 3/4” x 2 5/8”

Bottom Panel Cherry Cobbler – 2 7/8” x 2 3/8”

Bottom Panel Whisper White – 2 3/4” x 2 1/4”

The best bit – the Be Merry Designer Series Paper is currently included in the Buy 3 Get 1 Free DSP sale! You could make sooooooo many of these with that great special! But it’s only until October 31st!

Just imaging all the little goodies you could fill these Tubes for Christmas or any other occasion. They could even be used as a little gift and place setting on your Christmas table – just add a name to the bottom panel for a more personal touch.

I just recommend adding the ribbon before filling the tubes! It can be a bit tricky to tie them whilst trying not to spill the contents! Lol.

I hope you have enjoyed this weeks project. It’s now time to hop on over to the lovely Rachel to see what she has created for you all!

Don’t forget to play along with this weeks challenge by creating your own project and uploading to our Facebook Page

Happy Crafting everyone 🙂

Product List

Treat Tubes

[144612]

$9.00

Be Merry Designer Series Paper

[144111]

$19.25

Garden Green A4 Card Stock

[108605]

$14.00

Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

[121681]

$14.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$15.75

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126966]

$11.50

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

[110755]

$7.00

15
Oct
2017

CTC 150 – Favourite Bigshot Project from Holiday Catalogue

categories: 3D, 3D; Christmas, Blog Hop, Cards, Challenges, Christmas, CTC, Off the Page

Welcome to CTC 150 where we are CASEing (Copy and Share Everything) our Favourite Bigshot Project from the Holiday Catalogue!

You may have popped over from Fi or be starting right here, but I encourage you to take the full tour and start getting inspired for Christmas with all the gorgeous projects highlighted!

How difficult a task is choosing your FAVOURITE bigshot project!!!! I mean REALLY!!!! There are so many wonderful bigshot projects in the Holiday Catalogue this season to play with!

For me personally – I was able to narrow it down to my two MOST favourite items – the Trim your Stocking Dies or the Christmas Staircase Dies. The Christmas Staircase dies won and I created my 3D Framed Christmas Tree.

I love this tree and how it can pop right off the card with those brilliant branch framelit pieces.

Projects that pop really appeal to me. The more 3D the better 🙂

So I went a little bit beyond a card this time to create a 3D Framed Christmas Tree for some Christmas Decor this year.

I sourced a small polystyrene cone shape and sliced it in half to create this tree. Of course, you could do a complete one for a decoration or a table centrepiece.

I changed the colour from the card pictured and used regular Whisper White Cardstock and added some smaller branches using our Gold Foil to add a bit of lift and bling. and its a bit hard to see in the photo, but I have also wrapped some Gold Metallic thread around the tree to give the appearance of tinsel.

Once I was done cutting ALL the pieces, Im not sure how many white branches I ended up cutting, but it was a lot, but not enough to drive you nuts! Lol. I layered them on the cone, beginning at the base and working my way up, making sure they overlapped for good coverage. I adhered them only by the top 1/4 of the branch, so I could go back and tuck further branches in as necessary to thicken up the tree.

Once my tree was complete I removed the glass from the frame, cut some Garden Green Paper from the Be Merry Designer Series Paper the same size as the frame, and put it all together. I did hot glue the tree to the DSP to ensure it wouldn’t fall off! I pulled out our retired Stars Framelits to get the right size star for the tree.

What do you think???

Now it’s time to pop on over to the wonderful Bronwyn Eastley and see what she has for you all!

Don’t forget to play along by creating your own project and then pop on over to our Facebook group and upload your work so the design team can be inspired too!

Happy Crafting Everyone!

PS – Don’t forget about our current Designer Series Paper Sale! Its a great way to get all your paper ready to create all your Christmas Cards! Click on the image to see all the great papers on offer!

Product List

Be Merry Designer Series Paper

[144111]

$19.25

Ready For Christmas Photopolymer Bundle

[146056]

$103.50

Christmas Staircase Thinlits Dies

[144679]

$68.00

Ready For Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set

[144823]

$47.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$15.75

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

$7.00

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

$5.25

08
Oct
2017

CTC 149 – Year of Cheer Mini Pizza Box Gift Cards

categories: 3D, 3D; Christmas, Blog Hop, Cards, Challenges, CTC, Gift Box, Gift Cards, Off the Page

It’s Sunday night – so that means it’s time for another CASEing the Catty Challenge, where every week the design team uses images from the current catalogues to Copy and Share with you to help spur your creativity! You may have popped over from Judy or be starting right here, but make sure to take the full tour and see everyones creations!

Challenge 149 is all about the Year of Cheer Section of the Holiday catalogue on Pages 36-47.

The Year of Cheer section has so many sparkly projects to choose from as well as those cute as Mini Pizza Boxes.

So I took inspiration from the Year of Cheer Designer Series Paper and the Mini Pizza Boxes to create Year of Cheer Mini Pizza Box Gift Cards.

I love the elegance of the Year of Cheer DSP and the gorgeous co-ordinating embellishments. They make it very simple to create stunning cards for special occasions.

I teamed mine with Fresh Fig cardstock and some Gold and Silver heat embossing to compliment the foil on the papers. The gift cards are 3″ x 3″ and I have cut the DSP to 2 3/4″ to allow enough of an ‘edge’ to peek through of the base card. I folded the Gold Foil Snowflake concertina style and adhered the centre to the gift card, so it really ‘pops up’. The best part is – you can either gift the box and the cards, or use the cards and then pop a gift in the Mini Pizza Box for someone.

We will be making this gorgeous set at a card class at the end of November. These papers aren’t part of our current Designer Series Paper Sale where you can Buy 3 get 1 FREE – but you could certainly use the ones that are to create your own version!

I hope you like my project. Now its time to hop on over to Monique and see what she has created for you all.

Don’t forget to create your own and pop on over to the Facebook Challenge page and upload your creation!

Happy Crafting!

Click on the links below to take a look at the current sales:

Buy 3 get 1 FREE DSP sale until October 31st.

World Card Making Day 15% discount on selected items – ONLY until October 10th.

Product List

Year Of Cheer Specialty Designer Series Paper

[144640]

$22.75

Year Of Cheer Embellishments

[144643]

$14.00

Year Of Cheer Specialty Washi Tape

[144644]

$15.75

Foil Snowflakes

[144642]

$10.00

Fresh Fig A4 Cardstock

[144248]

$14.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$15.00

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109129]

$8.75

Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109131]

$8.75

03
Oct
2017

Seaside Shore 3D Fish Tank Card

categories: 3D, AddINKtive Design Team, card in a box, Cards, Challenges, Fancy Folds, Paper Boxes

Hi Everyone.

I am so excited to share my Seaside Shore 3D Fish Tank Card with you all, that I honestly couldn’t wait and had to post about it TODAY!

Our Team – Eureka Stampers – has been set a challenge this week from our amazing leader.

She has challenged us to create SOMETHING every day for the first week of October. She sets a specific challenge everyday, and we create something according to tat challenge! You may have already seen one I have shared on my Facebook Page – My Paper Oasis.

Todays challenge was to create something using EVERY SINGLE STAMP in one set! Have you ever thought about such a task. I realised the difficulty I was facing when rummaging through my sets to decide which stamp set to use. So many actually have multiple sentiments that would make them tricky to use for this challenge. The more I looked, the more I realised just how tricky this was going to be!

After LOTS of consideration I decided to choose our Seaside Shore Stamp Set. It only had two sentiments and a host of stamps that coordinate really well together. But I really wanted to do something Fancy! So I started playing around with ideas in my head, and came up with using one of Bronwyn Eastley’s Tutorials for my design team project this month. The tutorial I used to create my fish tank was none other than her Spring Planter Box Card!

Huh? I hear you ask – pop over to her tutorial shop HERE and see her brilliant design for yourself!

I basically used her Box Base to create the base of my Fish Tank. Check it out –

I cannot tell you just how much fun this was to create! The most difficult part was photographing the Fish Tank! But I gave it a good try so you could see all the angles!

The sides:

And from the top :

And you are going to love the next bit … it even folds flat for postage! This one is in a 6″ x 6″ envelope. The top will need adjusting slightly – or you could make your own using our Envelope Punch Board.

Bronwyn’s tutorials really are versatile. I simply added Window Sheets at the same measurements as the box base (although I did have to trim a very small bit off one end for it to fit snuggly) and then filled it up with all the images from the stamp set as per our team challenge!

I truly hope you love it as much as I do! I would love to hear what you think – so feel free to leave me a comment 🙂

Happy Crafting!

Product List

Seaside Shore Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141625]

$37.00

Seaside Shore Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[141622]

$50.00

Window Sheets

[142314]

$8.75

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

[110755]

$7.00

Fast Fuse Adhesive

[129026]

$13.00

01
Oct
2017

CTC 148 – Kits and Memories & More

categories: Blog Hop, Cards, CTC, kit projects

Hi everyone and welcome to this weeks CASEing the Catty Challenge.

CTC 148 is all about Kits and Memories and More – from either the Annual or Holiday catalogues.

I am a big fan of the kits that Stampin’ Up! produces. They come with absolutely everything you need – minus snail adhesive – to create stunning cards. Imagine creating 20 cards with everything at your fingertips – dimensionals, ribbons or twine, embellishments, stamp set, ink spots, even a basic clear block is included in selected kits. They are fully portable and packed in a gorgeous box, so you can even take them on holidays – its like having a travelling card class!

The kits have full colour pictures, easy directions and are perfect for the beginner card maker and the more advanced alike! The bonus for the beginner is that you have everything you need to begin creating right away! No one would ever know you have just started when you produce a card from one of these kits!

They’re also a great springboard to get your creativity flowing and give you ideas for creating more cards.

I decided this week to simply make up one of the kits I had sitting around in my craft room since I purchased it – The Soft Sayings Card Kit. I fell in love with the soft, watery backgrounds and gold embellishments, on page 10 of the Annual Catalogue.

I changed a few of the cards slightly when creating, but I mostly created them as they are supposed to be. Because sometimes even those of design teams like the creating to be done for them! Lol.

It only took 1 hour to create the 20 cards in this kit. Did you know you can even purchase a refill kit to make another 20 cards! I encourage you to give one a try!

Now its time to hop on over to Judy and see what has inspired her this week!

Happy Crafting everyone! Don’t forget to hop on over and join the Challenge! Just click on the link below!

Product List

Soft Sayings Card Kit

[145466]

$61.00

Soft Sayings Card Kit Refill

[145387]

$37.00