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Friday Favorites: Schlosser Designs Projects

Erin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:58:04 +0000

Today I’m highlighting some of my favorite projects from the Schlosser Designs Flickr Gallery. Have you added any of your projects lately? I’d love to see them!

Amy T. made this awesome card using the Furnishing Fun set. I love how the chair seat has a different “fabric”!

Amy H. made this awesome card with the Outside the Box set. Love how she cut out the centers and popped them for dimension.

Tracy made this adorable birthday card using the Hey Cupcake set. Love the embossed center and scalloped edges!

Ryann used the vase filler in the Furnishing Fun set in an unconventional way to make a great patterned paper!

Tiff used the awesome hexagons in the Hexagon-A-Thon set to make a killer background for this card!

I love the color palette Laurel chose when she made this card with Boughs and Furnishing Fun.

Belinda made another awesome card with Furnishing Fun. Love the simplicity and color palette of this one too! (It’s Belinda’s birthday today, so be sure to go and give her some birthday love!!)

I love how Lisa added a little bit of light and shadow to the pear from Furnishing Fun and the stitching is fantastic!

I’m putting the finishing touches on a new sewing pattern that will available next week! I’m SO excited about this one too as some of the proceeds will go towards a project that is near and dear to my heart!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Tutorial Tuesday: Holiday Cards plus Giveaway!

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:17:00 +0000

The holidays will be here before we know it, and if you’re like me, you might just wait until the last minute to make those holiday and Christmas cards. Here’s a few ideas I whipped up that look great, but take a minimal amount of supplies and time to create! For all the embossing I used my Cuttlebug. If you don’t have an embosser, try paper that is already embossed, or just a nice pattern will work great also. The sentiment on all say: may every day of this new year bring you a reason to celebrate. I just printed these directly onto the cardstock with my printer. That way, you can create any sentiment you want, and aren’t just limited to what stamps you have on hand already.

Giveaway! It’s been a while since I’ve done one…so here’s the giveaway. Leave me a post and just say hi. Let me know know what you would like to see more of. (Examples include, paper crafting projects, sewing, home decor, gift ideas, or anything else that fancies you) I’ll use the Random Generator to pick from among the comments. Leave a comment by Friday, November 7th. I’ll pick a winner on Saturday. Here’s what you win:

I’ll emboss your choice of colored paper with any of the embossing folders I have and send those to you. This is great if you don’t have a Cuttlebug and want some fun papers! I’ll emboss enough 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ sheets for you to do 25 Holiday cards. I’ll use any of the embossing folders I have and send those out to you. So, just leave me a comment, let me know what you’d like to see more of, and I’ll pick a winner that will get their choice of paper color and embossing! I’ll get the paper, emboss, and ship to the winner! How easy is that?!?

Happy Crafting! I’ll have some more sewing patterns again soon. I’m working out the final touches now! Don’t forget to leave a comment to enter the giveaway! See you soon!

Announcing…

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:36:00 +0000

I am SUPER excited to share with you the talents of:

Kristina Werner!

She is an extrenely talented designer! For the months of August and September she will be showing us some awesome ways to use the Schlosser Designs Stamp Sets. Head on over to her blog and see for yourself the graphic designs of Kristina. You can see one here that she’s already done. Kristina graciously answered a few questions for me. (Hope they weren’t too cheesy, but I can’t claim that I’m a professional journalist by any means!)

Besides making completely awesome cards and paper projects, what do you like to do in your spare time?

I love to read, but mostly silly entertaining things. Nothing too serious. And I also keep up with WAY too many television shows. I suppose you could say that I love anything with a good story, whether it be a good book or a even a television show.

Is there one particular moment that sparked your interest for cards and papercrafting?

Actually, I remember the exact thing I was looking at. Being that I work in the scrapbooking industry as a graphic designer I was pretty familiar with what was out there, but had never felt the urge to create anything myself. Then, I saw something that just made me what to create everything! It was a scrapbooking page by Laura Kurz. I was just so fascinated by it. It was this exact page…
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=616170

Where do you look for your inspiration?

I tend to get inspiration directly from the products. I’ve always loved patterns and colors, so I just try to arrange them in a way that looks cool to me.

What is your favorite quote?

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” -Dr. Seuss

This is one of her projects that she wanted to share:

Outside of Starbook
Starbook when opened

You can find her post about this book here. There’s downloadable instructions at the end of the post. I told you she was awesome! Welcome Kristina!

Post #98

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:44:00 +0000

I’m calling this one a Tent Card. It’s also really easy to make. For the “tent” base cut one piece of paper 4 1/4″ x 4 3/4″. Fold it in half so you get a folded piece that’s 4 3/4″ x 2 1/8″. For the stand up part I cut a piece of paper 4 3/4″ x 3 1/2″. Stamp or embellish whatever you’d like on it. I used the stamp set Hey Cupcake. All the words are separate so you can stack them, put them in a line, or skew them like I did for this card. When you’re done, just adhere the bottom 1/3 of the embellished piece to the folded tent piece and stand up. You can unfold the tent piece and write inside. This would also make great place holders for a wedding party! Or if you’re having a dinner party, try printing out the menu and attaching it to the folded tent piece.

Post #97

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:06:00 +0000

Also super easy! Noticing a theme? I’ve been wanting to try a card with black and gray so this is it. The background is black, with a gray inset. I stamped the Cheers sentiment from the Borders and Corners Set along the top and bottom to make a kind of border. Then I used the scrap from my flower yesterday, trimmed it into a square, rounded two opposite corners, and adhered to the front with foam tape, for extra dimension. I really liked the shape it made by rounding two corners, instead of all four.
Thanks for peeking at the project. Don’t forget to comment some time this week and say Hi!

Post #96

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Super Simple card! For this card I used the Borders and Corners “Thanks” sentiment. I stamped and then used clear embossing powder to make it dimensional. For the background I just cut a piece of the light blue paper that was 4″ x 2 3/4″. (I sketched a diagram of what I did below.) Then just cut it into 4 pieces, similar to the dotted lines on the diagram below. Once you have them cut out, just layout on your card background with a little space between each one and adhere. Add a little flower and silver brad and you’re done. Easy as pie, or cupcakes, depending on which you like most!

Tutorial: Stamping is fun on fabric too!

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:02:00 +0000

Ok, so you remember what happens when I do a tutorial right? I’ll be giving away something that you’ll need to complete the project. And this time you get a choice! The winner will get to choose between a brand new StazOn ink pad, or a set of 4 ready-to-be-stamped-on napkins. So, after the tutorial be sure to follow the directions to enter!

I made a few napkins this weekend. Of course I used the new stamp sets! I wanted some for birthdays or if we have company over for dessert. I used the Hey Cupcake set and the StazOn ink. The StazOn ink is permanent. Then I just embellished the cupcake with french knot “sprinkles”. (Thanks to my friend Celia for showing me how to do a french knot!)

Here is a general one that I did for everyday eating.

Ready for the instructions?

Start with the Bough set, a napkin, StazOn ink, and a water soluble transfer pen. (I love the water soluble transfer pens, you just get them wet and they wash away!)
Mark two dots in the middle of your napkin to help with the stamp placement. (If you click on the picture you’ll be able to see mine.)
Stamp the branch on the napkin.

Then I used the lazy daisy stitch to make some hand embroidered flowers on my branch.

Finish it off with a french knot in the middle of the flower and a herringbone stitch along the bottom.

This is another color combination I did.

Now for the entry rules:
Leave a comment on this post by Friday night, June 28, 2008. In the comment, tell me what other things, besides stamps you’d like to see me carry in my store. Would you like to buy paper kits that I put together with coordinating colors of cardstock? Special types of ink pads? Unique packaging to stamp and embellish for gift giving? Let me know what floats your boat and be entered into the drawing! Thanks so much!

Borders Set…more than just borders!

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Here’s a card I made with the borders set! The shapes in this set are also great for making background designs for paper. See, the same shape that is bordering the “Thanks” is also stamped multiple times to make the background paper. Finished size is 6 1/2″ square.

Tweet Day Gift Bag

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:33:00 +0000

Swap is tonight and the theme was a gift bag. It could be a gift box, bag, or anything else to give a gift in. I bought the craft paper brown bags and embelished them. A little tag. (hint: tag sentiment and border might be images from my new stamps. Do you like them?)

Close up of the birdie. I cut out the shape from the paper and adhered that to the bag. Then I used tacky glue and traced around the bird. I pulled out a skein of yarn that I bought just because I liked it. I outlined the bird with the yarn for a little dimension. I think it turned out nicely.

More Cards

admin — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:22:00 +0000

Well, I said I’d go to bed early tonight but my new stamp sets just came in and I just HAD to try them out. So I told myself I’d make one card and then go to bed….but then I made some more, and then Percy (one of two of our furry babies) decided to try to get inside the printer. It didn’t work to well but it was sure cute. So below are pictures of some more cards I made plus some of Percy trying to infiltrate the printer.

This is one of the first shaker cards I’ve done in a while. There are black and green beads that shake over the froggie picture.

This was a pretty easy card. I used a brown satin ribbon and pleated it. The background paper is actually a picture of a rug that I pulled off of www.rugs-direct.com. The contemporary rugs make great backgrounds!

This is a card using a new stamp set and paper colors that I just got. Fun, but simple…

And here’s one last picture of Percy trying to get inside the printer. Right before this picture was taken his paws were all the way up inside the printer. There’s a little red light in there that he’s always trying to get.