Patchwork Challenge Card.

Well this one took me a little out of my comfort zone.  Not a great lover of patchwork at the best of times, but when I saw a challenge to do a patchwork card for any occasion, I remembered the hexagon punch sat in my craft room that  I had never used.  After a few minutes pondering I came up with the central part of the design the rest seemed to evolve as I went along.

I 'll post a list of products used but I don't think instructions are needed.

Products used on this project are all Stampin' up products.

Hexagon punch,

Circle Circus stamp set....( the centre of the ratttle)

Something Sweet stamp set (rattle handle and scalloped base)

Baby prints Stamp set  (sentiment)

Circle punch 

Bashful blue ink  pad

 Bashful blue DSP

 Versamark ink pad

 Silver embossing powder

Stampin ' up edge dies.

Glue and card stock and a small bow.

A quick update on the challenge....  I was notified yesterday that this card WON the challenge.
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\As you can imagine I was delighted and  very surprised.

Jelly Bean Cone

Here is a little project that made me late for school one day last week.

I woke up with this idea in my head and just had to try it before I forgot it.

I rushed off to my craftroom and began drawing up my cone template. 

Having finished my template and checking it was going work, I realised I had about 2 minutes to get to work. Fortunately I only live a few minutes from where I work so I wasn't that late.

later in the day I cut  loads of cones and began Stampin them with the jelly beans using the jelly bean stamp in the Something Sweet stamp set from S.U.with  Ruby Red, Old Olive,Elegant Eggplant , Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie ink pads.

I started by inking up the stamp in ruby red ink and stamping  the cone three times without

 re inking the stamp, which I think adds more tones and depth to the project.

 I repeated this process with the olive the pumpkin ink.

The yellow I only stamped once as the colour is to pale to  do 2nd generation stamping,  but the purple I stamped  three or four times without re inking and the results were pleasing each time.

Sometimes I stamped onto my work pad  before stamping my project just to get rid of the excess ink from the stamp.

 I glued two layers of tissue paper to the back with a glue stick.

When the glue had dried I applied strong double sided tape along the edge marked score line  matched up the pointed end and stuck the two edges together.

Then trimmed  the tissue paper into shape.

I then made a second white cone , slightly shorter and placed it inside to neaten up the inside.

 I then filled each one with jelly beans, tied each one with a ribbon, labelled them and gave them to the children as an end of year, happy holiday gift.

They loved them.

Jelly bean box

I made a box......and the lid fitted the base. It's not very often that happens.

Remember my jelly bean card ...... Well, because it has a plastic cup on the front it won't fit into a standard envelope. So I thought I would make a box for it. Stampin up do cushioned envelopes for cards using this cups, but I really want to use one