May Make & Take Projects

This past Saturday marked the one year anniversary of our Monthly Make & Take class.  Happy Stampiversary to us!  These are the projects we made.  We found most of our designs from Pinterest, Stampin' Up, and classes we've attended.

Strawberry is made out of the pear from Apple of My Eye set.

What I Love and Hello stamp sets from SAB 2016

All about Everything stamp set from April 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit

This is a gift card holder.  It's hard to tell in the photo,
but there is a pocket in front of the back pocket to put a giftcard in.

Zoo Babies stamp set

This is the same design as the card right above it.
Attendees could choose to do a baby card,
or use the Balloon Celebration stamp set for this card.

A little about us:

Lorinda and I rejoined the Stampin' Up family in March 2015.  We met through Stampin' Up over 10 years ago and were demonstrators together back then.  It was the beginning of a life-long friendship.  She moved away and we both took a break from Stampin' Up for awhile (although we still used the stuff we had collected).  We rejoined last March to take advantage of the great offers for new recruits during Sale-a-bration.  I wasn't planning to do classes or become completely stamping obsessed again...but it happened...and I'm so glad! :)  It was Lorinda's idea to do these classes every month and I am really happy she thought of it.  Although I have always been a social person, I sort of neglected that side of me for awhile in the busyness of raising a family.  I didn't realize how much I was missing it until I started re-connecting with old friends and making new friends through these stamping gatherings.  I have so thoroughly enjoyed connecting with friends and exercising my creativity over the past fourteen months and that is why I call stamping the best "happiness therapy."  I love stamping and I'm so thankful for all the friends who stamp with me.

Marsha & Lorinda at On Stage Local.

Gift Packets

At our last team meeting, we learned how to make these nifty folder/packets out of a 12 x 12 piece of double sided designer paper.  The front of the packet looks like a card, but when you open it up, it has two pockets, one for a note card and another for a gift card.

I really fell in love with these babies and couldn't wait to make more and do a class on them.  We used the Botanicals for You Sale-A-Bration (SAB) stamp set, the new Balloon Celebration stamp set, the Balloon Bouquet Punch, and the fabulous new It's My Party designer paper from the Occasions catalog.  This paper is a must have!  All the class attendees used different designs and they all turned out darling.  We also used the the envelope punch board to make matching envelopes out of the designer paper.  So cute!

Would you like to make these?

Find great instructions on Cindee's blog by clicking HERE.

There is another great video from Patty HERE that shows how to make these folders into 3D packets that will hold 4 notecards and envelopes.  What a great gift!  I think I will make these as teacher gifts at the end of the school year.  I couldn't wait to try it out so I've already made two! :)

The first set uses the same supplies on the folder as the other packets, except I used the Itty Bitty Balloon punch instead of the large one.  I love these colors!  For the cards, I used the "Hello" SAB stamp set.  In order to fit four cards into the pockets, you really need to limit the layers and avoid using dimensionals.

For my second packet , I used the Botanicals For You SAB set again, along with the Wildflower Fields SAB designer paper, and the Flowering Fields SAB stamp set.  I am getting so many miles out of my free SAB sets and I love it!  For some reason, I can't link to these individual products, but you can see the sale-a-bration brochure HERE.

This was such a fun project.  I want to make a wedding and baby version of the gift card holder too!