Pop-up Halloween Card

This is a Halloween card Rita taught us how to make when we were at the cottage a few weeks ago. We all got some practice with some folds and our Copic markers. I love how the shadows on the dirt came out on this card.

This card uses The Angel Company's Spooktacular and Glitter Goblins stamp sets.

Front of card:



Opened card:



A little better picture of the inside of the card:



Special thanks to my husband who stopped watching Monday Night Countdown and practicing guitar for his official band practice tonight to hold the card open for me.

DIA Project #4 - Geri's Kaleidoscope Card

This was another neat project our DIA group did in July. Geri brought us this cool kaleidoscope card that has lots of depth to it. It's very similar to a star book where you open it up and the tension from several slightly shorter layers makes you look into the center of the card. In other words, it has a telescopic effect. The sun is a bit strong in these pictures, so some of the detail is washed out. But hopefully you get the idea.

This is the front of the card:



and this is the inside:



Hopefully some of the others will post their pictures today too.

Rita
Pat
Dawnmarie

DIA Project #3 - Rita's Card Folio

It's time for a look at another awesome project from the DIA girls. This week's edition is a note card folio created by Rita. We did these neat little note card holders, complete with dividers, from green and beige paper, and scraps from the Angelee collection. We also made some little note cards to fit inside. (My note cards are not my best work, but you get the idea)









To see other versions of the same project, check out the other DIA girls' blogs.

Rita
Pat
Dawnmarie

DIA Project #2 - Teri's Purse Scrapbook

Here is another project I did with the DIA girls. It's a purse scrapbook that Teri put together for us.



Mine uses The Angel Company's Willoughby paper collection, but some of the other ladies used a different collection.

Here's the inside of the purse with the slide out circle tags shown to the side:



And here's some of the stitching detail we freehanded on:







For those of you in the Chicago area, I'll be hosting a class on this sometime in the future, so be on the lookout.

If you want to check out some other versions of this project, take a look at the following blogs, and hopefully the rest of the team will have posted theirs today too. I know some of them have been having computer trouble.

Rita
Pat
Dawnmarie

Diamond Island Angels 2008 Project 1

O.K. I promised some projects from my DIA trip, and here is the first one. This was a special date book that Dawnmarie put together for us. The paper is The Angel Company's new Angelee paper collection. A collection you'll probably see a lot of on my blog in the coming weeks because Angelee is the paper collection I've chosen for my board for the upcoming St. Charles Expo.

This book is made with an accordion pleat in the center holding pink library pockets. To make the accordion pleat, you take a piece of 12 inch x whatever height your covers will be (slightly larger than the library pockets you choose). Score the entire 12 inch length of the paper every 7/8 inch and accordion fold. When you're finished, you should have 6 mountain folds when the end flaps are facing up. Then you would attach the end flaps to a piece of covered chipboard, covering the flaps and ribbon to tie the book closed, with a piece of cardstock. Adhere the library pockets back to back on each mountain fold so that you have a pocket for each month. Print the date/occasion cards on the computer, place them inside the pockets and embellish.

I embellished the front of my book with the Flourish Bet Level D Hostess Set from the current catalogue and some of the tags from the Angelee collection, stamped with a flower from Spring Dream.



The inside pages are decorated with the Swirly Gigs stamp, colored in with the Stardust Glittering Gel pens, and the Date Disks and Mini Occasions stamp sets.





I'm hoping that this little date book will help me stay organized when it comes to the cards I should be sending out every month.

Our plan was to have everyone from the cottage that has a blog, post their projects at the same time so you can see different versions of the same project. So check out the following blogs (and hopefully everyone's on board).

Rita: http://ritasangels.blogspot.com/
Dawnmarie: http://monkeybusinesswithdawnmarie.blogspot.com/

Back from my D.I.A. trip

Well, I'm back from my trip with the DIA. We had an awesome time being together, bonding, and inspiring each other with projects and ideas. Rita taught us all to make card candy and it's addicting! Best of all, since it's for embellishing cards and scrapbook pages, it doesn't increase your wasitline. Although we had plenty of wonderful meals that did that too.

I've come home with 8 different projects and will begin posting those in a little while. But for right now, I'd like to thank Debbie, Rita, Pat, Heidi, Dawnmarie and Teri for an awesome trip. You ladies are the best!