Happy Mother's Day!

Hi there Stampers! Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! Hope your family is treating you right and letting you stamp to your hearts content! ;)
Today I am going to show you a project I made to give my sister and some friends for Mother's day. I learned how to make this at my Woo Hoo Stampers event last month. It's pretty simple and uses one of my favorite dies, the Top Note.

I started out with some Kiwi Kiss cardstock cut to a regular card size (5 1/2" x 8 1/2" folded in half). I also took a single piece of Bella Rose DSP (sooo pretty!)and stacked it on my folded cardstock piece. I layed that down on my Top Note Die with one side just inside the dashed lines and ran it through to cut it. I then took my folded piece and cut it on the fold so I had two partial Top Note pieces in card stock and one in the DSP. I cut them all at the same time so they would match perfectly. I trimmed along the dashed lines of the DSP piece and then adhered it to the top of one of the cardstock pieces to make the top. I used my Crop-A-Dile to set an eyelet in it and then worked on the box part. I took a piece of Ridinghood Red cardstock cut to 5 1/2" x 8" and scored on the long side at 1", 3 1/2", 4 1/2" and 7" then turned it and scored at 1" on the two short sides. I snipped the scored lines from the edge to the 1" scores on the long side and then assembled it into a box using Sticky Strip. Next I added some White Grosgrain Ribbon and the Top Note top and bottom pieces. Last I added a Little Leaves die cut and a Cherry Blossom Embosslit to the top to embellish it. Super cute! I hope my directions are clear-I'm a visual person generally but think you can figure this out. :)

thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Make and Take Project from the Woo Hoo Event

Good Morning stampers! Happy Saturday!
So yesterday was a busy day here in the Fortuna household so I didn't get a chance to stamp anything new to post but I do still have the wonderful projects from last week to show you!
This project is my favorite! It uses our Top Note die, Cherry Blossom Embosslit, and Little Leaves Sizzlit. It's perfect for Mothers' Day or Teacher Appreciation and would be great with a little something in it-can you say CHOCOLATE?!?!
We already had our Top Note pieces cut for us and the Embosslit so it came together pretty quickly. To make our box we took a 8" x 5 1/2" piece of Baja Breeze card stock and scored on the long side at 1", 3 1/2", 4 1/2" and 7". Then we turned our card stock around and scored at 1" on both sides. After scoring, we cut the score lines up to the 1" score mark to make the box flaps. We added sticky strip and put it together. We trimmed the Walk in the Park DSP Top Note on the little score lines so it fit inside the Kiwi Kiss Top Note Piece.
We added our Jumbo Eyelets using our Crop-A-Dile and then adhered the Top Note pieces to the Baja Breeze box using Sticky Strip. We added the Gray Taffeta Ribbon, the Embosslit with the Half Pearl fromt he Pretties Kit and the Kiwi Kiss leaves from the Little Leaves Sizzlit. Super cute!!!

That's it for now. Check back later for some more cute projects!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Top Note Tags

Hi there Stampers! Hope you are having a great Saturday! Sorry for the later than usual post. We went for a drive out to a nearby lake for a change of scenery-it was fun but I forgot to post on my blog before we left!


The new Stampin' Up Exclusive Top Note Bigz Die is one of the most versatile die cuts around. I've seen the Top Note used on cards, as toppers to cello bags, as scrapbook pages, on 3-D items like the purse we made here, and now as a tag. I love it!
If you are interested in ordering the Top Note Die (#113463)you can click to the right on my blog and order 24/7 from my website! If you order starting tomorrow Feb. 1st Stampin' Up will include your very own copy of the 2009 Spring Summer Idea book for FREE! If you order $50 or more you also qualify for FREE items in the Sale-A-Bration catalog! Don't miss out!
Ingredients:
Stamps: Love You Much, Daisy Dash Jumbo Wheel, Classic Stars Jumbo Wheel Paper: Real Red, Pink Pirouette, WW, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive Ink: Old Olive, Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue Accessories: Top Note Bigz Die, Boho Blossoms Punch, Heart to Heart Punch, Small Star Punch, SU and Non-SU Riboon, Making Memories Eyelets, Crop-A-Dile

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Happy Birthday Birdie

Today is my friend Allison's birthday (Hi Allison!) so I am posting her birthday card and gift today since she has already seen it. :) I made her card using the negative of the Top Note Bigz die (#113463). This die is exclusive to Stampin' Up and can be found in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It's one of the most used dies I own. I stamped the card using Season of Friendship (#111776) which is my favorite set for sure and a set called A Little Birdie Told Me. I paper pieced the bird using the Ski Slope DSP in the Holiday Mini.

I've seen these Top Note purses on a few different sites. I believe I saw it first on Angie Juda's site but I followed a tutorial I found at Barbara's site here.>

It was so easy and I think it turned out super cute! I used the A Little Birdie Told Me set on this as well and also paper pieced the bird with Ski Slope DSP. I stamped the flower image randomly on the tissue paper and inside is a gift certificate for SU products thru her favorite Stampin' Up demonstrator-ME! ;)

CARD Ingredients:
Stamps: Season of Friendship, A Little Birdie Told Me Paper: Ski Slope DSP, Baja Breeze, WW Ink: Black, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa, Real Red Accessories: Top Note Bigz Die, Word Window Punch, Dimensionals
PURSE Ingredients:
Stamps: A Little Birdie Told Me Paper: Ski Slope DSP, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla Ink: Black, Baja Breeze Accessories: Wide Oval Punch, Top Note Bigz Die, Baja Breeze Striped Ribbon, Sticky Strip, Dimensionals