Webster's Pages New Year New You November Calendar Pages

These are the November pages for the Webster's Pages® New Year New You calendar class held at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

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We will use "Jetstream" by Bazzill® as our background for the page.  From your SCRAPS of leftover "Doilies" paper, cut out six doilies that measure 2" in diameter and one doily that measures 2.5" in diameter. DO NOT CUT THE DOILIES FROM THE FULL SHEET THAT IS IN YOUR KIT! Adhere pop dots to the backs of the doilies and adhere across the top of the page to make a border.  Apply a pearl to the center of each of the 2" doilies.  Use double-sided tape to adhere the floral cameo with blue border to the 2.5" doily.

Using Anna Griffin's Cricut® Cuttlebug® Cut and Emboss "Flourish Emblem" die, cut out the lace mat from "Pretty in Pink" card stock by Stampin' Up!®.  Apply adhesive to the back and adhere the lace mat in the center of the remainder of the page.  Cut a piece of the cream floral paper 4" wide x 5" high.  Apply pop dots to the back and adhere on top of the lace mat. Cut out a green* frame with the "Top Note" die by Sizzix® for Stampin' Up!®. Apply pop dots and adhere on top of the cream floral rectangle. Cut out the quote: "With hard work you can do and be anything your mind desires. Be your best." Apply pop dots on the back of the quote. Adhere on top of the green* frame. Apply a pearl in each corner of the pink lace mat, as shown.

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We are using the "Doilies" paper as the background for this page.  Cut a 1.75" high by 12" wide strip of "Sweet Summertime" by Crystal Wilkerson for Echo Park®.  Apply adhesive to the back and adhere approximately 2.5" from the top of the page.  Cut out a yellow zig zag frame using the "Top Note" die.  Apply pop dots and adhere in the center of the plaid strip. Mat the November calendar with green* paper. Apply pop dots and adhere on top of yellow zig zag frame.

* I raided my paper stash to find just the right color green card stock to match this line of papers. Unfortunately, I do not know who produced the paper. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Day 311: Sympathy Card

Unfortunately, the mom of one of my daughter's friends died yesterday, so tonight I helped her to make a sympathy card.  I showed her how to use the Cuttlebug embossing folder, how to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to position her stamps where she wanted them, and how to use Copic markers to color the praying hands image (Dollar Tree; all other images and verses shown, card stock:  Stampin' Up!). Inks:  Brown: Memento and Silver: Colorbox. My daughter selected the card stock, embossing folder, and all the stamps and inks used. Hopefully this card will help lift her friend up after the sudden and unexpected death of her mother.

Day 293: Merry Christmas Train Card

Tonight I was looking to make a really quick card and use up some bits and pieces I had.  I cut a card base from Stampin' Up! card stock, and on top of it I layered a piece of upcycled clear packaging that I had embossed with the Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, then I added a bit of Merry Christmas ribbon (Oriental Trading Company), and a train and snowflake from Jolee's.  Does this make a cute card or what?!

Day 290: Reindeer Frame Card

Tonight I was inspired by a Christmas card my Stampin' Up! representative had demo'd for my stamp club.  I die cut a frame from red Stampin' Up! card stock, embossed it in Cuttlebug's snowflake embossing folder,  adhered it to a craft card base (Recollections by Michael's), and then used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to stamp the reindeer inside of the frame. My representative used a felt snowflake from Stampin' Up! at one corner of the frame, but I added my own twist and also used a snowflake brad (Creative Impressions) and a clear die cut snowflake to add more depth and dimension to the card. Clear snowflake from Sizzix die, clear material re-purposed from packaging. I added a little bling by using pearlized white Smooch at the end of the reindeer's antlers and on the center of the white snowflake brad.

Day 246: First Communion Page

For this page about my First Communion, I chose background paper from My Mind's Eye, blue lace trim from Big Lots, and embellishments by Jolee's. I made a label using Stampin' Up! card stock and the Fanciful Labels Embossing Folder from Cuttlebug. I used Stampin' Up pens for my journaling. I wrote the Bible verse Matthew 26: 26-28 around the church.  I want to incorporate Bible verses on each page of my Faithbook, so I have to be creative!

Day 221: Monster Truck Card

 My husband and I are very close with my husband's cousin, and her teenage son has a birthday coming up.  I decided a monster truck card might be considered "cool".

I used "chocolate chip" card stock from Stampin' Up! as the card base.  I ran a piece of brown leather look paper from my scrap folder through Cuttlebug's "tire track" embossing folder.  I stamped the Great Impressions monster truck stamp with Memento Ink on Neenah paper, and colored it with my Copic markers. I cut out the truck and  used pop dots to adhere it to the tire tracks.  I layered that on top of a "sand" paper in my scrap folder.  I used my Crop-A-Dile and added 5 black eyelets across the top and bottom of the card to rev it up a little bit.

Day 186: Wild About You Card

I made this cute card for my nephew using "Safari Kids" prints from DCWV and solid card stock from Stampin' Up!  I ran the green paper through my Sizzix machine in a Cuttlebug embossing folder inked with VersaMark and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder from Stampin' Up!

Day 159: Tractor Card

For Father's Day, I made this tractor card for my husband's grandfather, who was a farmer.  Card stock is from Stampin' Up! The tractor stamp is by Hero Arts.  I stamped the tractor with Memento ink and colored it in with Copic markers.  I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to create the tire track effect on the brown card stock. I had some tractor brads and a green hinge and brads (all from Oriental Trading Company) which I used to accent the main image.  I sponged ink over the tractor image and the card background.

Day 140: Bringing Baby Card in Pink

Today I finished the Bringing Baby cards in pink.

Day 138: Bringing Baby on Tag

Using my Fanciful Labels Embossing Folder Plus from Cuttlebug, I cut out pink and blue tags to use as frames for my Bringing Baby (Stampin' Up!) images. I am showing the blue here:

Day 108: O Little Town of Bethlehem Card

I used the Way to the Manger from Darcie's U-Cuts to make this card. All card stock is from Stampin' Up.  I used my Big Shot machine from Sizzix and Cuttlebug embossing folders to make the dot and snowflake pattern on the white paper.  I used Tempting Turquoise ink from Stampin' Up! to color the snowflakes.  I copied Christmas sheet music onto a piece of vellum, cut a section, crumpled it and inked it with So Saffron ink from Stampin' Up!. The silver photo corners are by Pioneer. I used Gelly Roll Clear Star to add some sparkle to the star in the 3-D ornament.

Day 107: Lovely as a Tree Sympathy Card

Unfortunately, the husband of my friend and Stampin' Up! demonstrator died, so I needed to make her a sympathy card.  One of her favorite Stampin' Up! stamp sets is Lovely as a Tree, so I decided to use one of the images from that stamp set on the front of the card.  I used a paper that gradually changed tones from Anna Griffin as the background for the tree image and for the background for the inside sentiment.  I heat embossed the image of the trees using VersaMark and clear embossing powder from Stampin' Up. The sentiment "Remembering with you the life of someone dear." is from Repeat Impressions, and was stamped with Old Olive ink from Stampin' Up!.  I used one of the labels from Cuttlebug's Fanciful Labels Embossing Folder Plus and my Sizzix Big Shot machine to make the label for the sentiment.  I added gold brads to the label, highlighted the raised parts of the label with Old Olive ink from Stampin' Up!,  and ran a sheer green ribbon behind the label to dress up the front of the card.  I layered the stamped image and the label on top of a striped paper from a Stampin' Up! designer paper collection, and then layered all of that onto a piece of  Stampin' Up! Old Olive card stock. On the inside of the card, I stamped a sentiment from Great Impressions: "What a beautiful difference a single life made." I then die cut and embossed two more labels on Old Olive card stock from Stampin' Up! to frame out the sentiment on the inside of the card.

Day 78: Get Well Card

Tonight I stamped a wishing well (Sweet Impressions) on Neenah paper, then colored with Copic markers and Koh-I-Noor pencils.  The darker wishing well was colored with the Copic markers, the lighter one was colored with the Koh-I-Noor pencils.  I used gelly roll pens by Sakura to add some shine and glitter to the water and the roses on the cards. I used an argyle embossing folder (Cuttlebug) and tried to do the same heat embossing that I learned at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour workshop, but I had trouble getting results I was happy with.  I used the same technique, so either my VersaMark is old, or maybe it is the Cuttlebug embossing folder.  I do recall the instructor saying she found the Sizzix folders a little easier to work with for this technique.  I stamped "Get Well Soon" (Repeat Impressions) on a scrap of yellow paper (all papers by Stampin' Up!), added a couple of eyelets and used foam tape (Scotch) to add dimension to the wishing well and to the sentiment.

Any comments on which wishing well you like better?  I think I prefer the lighter one, which was done with the Koh-I-Noor pencils. The one with the Copic markers is a little dark; however, I don't have all that many Copic markers yet.  Maybe when I get a few lighter colors, I will be able to create lighter images with the Copic markers.

This is not one of my favorite cards I have made...still needs to be tweaked, but I'll get it figured out.

Day 41: Make and Take Alcohol Ink Bookmark

Today I went and delivered all of the notepads and pens I made for the Women's Walk to Emmaus in Peoria.  Then I went to Rubber Rainbows located in Tremont Gallery in Tremont, Illinois.  I have heard lots of great things about this little rubber stamp shop, and I wanted to go and see what it is like.  They have a free Make and Take workshop the second and fourth Fridays of the month.  Today they taught us how to make an alcohol ink bookmark.  We placed three colors of alcohol ink onto a felt pad, added some blending solution, and then dabbed the felt pad onto a piece of metal over and over again. When the metal was dry, we placed it inside of a Cuttlebug embossing folder, ran it through the Cuttlebug machine, and then it was embossed with the design. We then used a sanding block to remove some of the embossing ink off from the raised portions of the metal, only leaving colors in the background. Then we mounted our bookmark onto silver card stock, and then layered the silver card stock onto a piece of blue card stock.  It was fun to learn a new technique; although it didn't really end up being free....of course I had to buy some stuff while I was there, and I will probably sign up for a class or two or three....