STAR CARD

Well, another late night for me because I just had to make this card.  Happen to run into the Star Card while visiting craft blogs and from there the search was on to find a tutorial.  Found several tutorials and instructions on line but the measurements were in centimeters, ladies with British accents.  Finally ran into  a very sensible woman who figured it out without a lot of measurement...love her!  So here is the card and, while not a fancy tutorial, at least an idea on how I made it.  Play with it...

 Cut 12x12 card stock to measure 10 x11-1/2.  Find center, along the longest measurement and cut from center to each corner as shown above.

  

 You now have a triangle, fold tip of triangle to center bottom of paper, crease and open fold.

 Fold side corner as shown, crease and open fold, do the same with the left corner tip.

You now have a triangle in the center of the paper.

Measure 3/4 inch, as shown, on each triangle.  Score and fold into center triangle, creating the tip of the star.

This is what it will look like when finished.  To create the star, fold left side in, fold right side on top, fold top down and tuck left corner of top into the left corner of the left triangle...as I said play with it until it works out.   Hope the pictures help.  HAVE FUN!!!

While perusing Pinterest this afternoon I ran across a link to this Fancy Fold card and after a couple of trial and errors I achieved a measure of success.  So try it for yourself, here is the link

:http://addinktivedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/07/fancy-folds-blog-hop-jai-74.html

CARD

Here is a card that Christine made and Barry showed her the technique.  I like how the layering creates a sun rays effect.

Paris

In anticipation of a trip to Paris and a future scrapbook, I got some special  Mother's Day surprises from Christine including this beautiful card she created.

 The fabulous stamp is from Impress Rubber Stamps, the adhesive Paper Tape and background card were all purchased at the Impress store.  As you can see from the card the Paper Tape has a transparent quality and it's the perfect embellishment.  I like the packaging too.  I am already picturing a scrapbook page or two. 

Backpack Mini Scrapbook.

A big THANK YOU to Sabine for hosting the Inky Fingers on Sunday, April 15.  The afternoon started with hugs, show and tell of projects we've made, catching up on the "happenings" in our lives and getting the potato bar ready for the delicious lunch. We "oohed and ahhed" over Sabine's beautiful  home, chatted some more, and after eating lunch we were ready to make our Backpack Mini Scrapbooks.  Sabine did all the cutting  we just had to score and assemble.  For a tutorial click on the link below.

http://www.scrapbook-crazy.com/mini-backpack-album.html

This is a nice project to make for a teacher, a grandparent, to mark a special event or just for fun because it is so easy and makes such an impression.    A great Sunday afternoon and we even got to meet Sabine's husband John and their beautiful children Charlotte and Luke. 

A little bird told me....

Christine painted this bird on the napkin holder, all free hand, and I was lucky to get it for my birthday.  Beautiful!  Unfortunately this creative talent skipped my generation, my mom was very good at drawing too.
Thank you again Christine.

Fat Free Cupcakes

Caryl took all the fat out of these cupcakes and loaded them with "cuteness".  Can you guess what they are made of?