Libby Fens, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Libby Fens offering original and creative paper crafting projects. I host monthly Card Buffets, specialty classes and weekly inspiration for card making.

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Good Things

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I’ve been sporadic in my posting lately.

My daughter is home from college! Wahoo! And, we’ve been catching up. You know, trash TV, crafts, chillin’……

The other day she asked me how to make paper flowers. I have made several different ones and they are all over my craft room.

Conveniently, my birthday was just last week and I had all this red tissue paper left over. One of THE best things to make full paper flowers with.

We used the Floral Frames Collection Framelits. Next thing you know, we had a dozen flowers made! I was cutting and she was assembling. Now, they just need stems. We will get to that and I’ll show them later when we do.

I made a few smaller flowers using 2 of the dies and 8 layers of tissue each. OMG. So pretty! My issue. What to do with them?

I decided to look at my sketches and make a card. I liked The Paper Players, It’s Hip to be Square challenge.

So, I went with the challenge and created this –

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And, a side view to see the lovely flower –

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A pretty simple card. It is quite stunning in person. Not sure who this lovely will go to??? This should be fun to mail!

I will definitely make more of these. Now to figure out what to do with the other flower……

Go make a card, or buy one if you must, and make someones day! Be a cheerleader to someone who needs it.

Happy Stampin’
Libby

Happy First Day of Spring

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Yep. That’s right. March 20, 2015. Already. First official day of Spring!

So, Happy Spring!

Perfect time to whip up some paper flowers, you think?

I’d been playing around with a ‘tulip’ design for a long time. I’d make one, toss it, and drop the idea. Did this lots and lots of times.

This time, I made one and decided, ‘it’s ok’, but let’s see how another one looks with it. So, I made a few and put them in a little glass jar. Not so bad. I then made a few more in a few other ‘spring’ colors and done!

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These turned out rather well if I do say so myself. They just needed a few more and to be grouped together.

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Close up. No fancy pattern or die. Just an oval punch and a bone folder. And, a glue gun! I did try a few different way of creating these. In the end, no two flowers look alike – so, I’m good here.

When I went to make my tag, I wasn’t sure I even had a stamp set that said ‘spring’. I first looked at one of my Project Life sets. It had a ‘spring’ but nothing else, kind of small too. Then I remembered, Crazy About You. It has tons of words – perfecto! It had the exact words I needed. (One of the best sets in the mini if you ask me! You always need words.)

Hope you like my tulips for spring!

Happy Stampin’
Libby

Fall Flower Fun

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Lovely flowers I’d say!

I’ve been sick for the past few days and haven’t been able to do anything! Puts a damper on a paper crafting blog. I have a few challenges I wanted to play along with but, my stomach had other plans.

I’m back in the game. Sadly, I wasn’t the first to post for Stamping Peaches Paper Challenge. I have been the first the past few weeks – it’s just a quest of mine. They have a color challenge this week, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze and Gumball Green. Wow, what colors to combine. Fall at it’s best.

So, flowers for me I decided. A lovely fall bouquet that will be perfect for my class next weekend. I have several paper flower collections going. I just love flowers. Paper or real. Except that paper last a lot longer. And, you can really customize the colors.

Here, the base flower is Cajun Craze with an Early Espresso (retired) pattern DSP in the center. I made double flowers with some added dimension. The top flower has been notched out and glued over. I used Tombow, but a glue gun would have gone faster. The centers are the newer 7/8 Scallop Circle Punch. They fit nicely into the curved flower. The leaves are (retired) Small Oval Punch scored in the center, folded and secured in between the flower layers.

I was skeptical at first about my creation. Now that I see it in a photo – I love it! It makes feel better, as flowers do!

Go be creative and make your own day or someones else’s!

Happy Stampin’
Libby

 

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In-Color Flowers

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Got any flowers lately?

I just love flowers. I don’t love that they fade and die so quickly though. So, I’ve taken a liking to making paper flowers! And, for my Open House, that was no different. I wanted flowers! I went with paper.

I ran across this blog posting a while back and decided I just had to make these. So I did! They’ve been patiently waiting to be shown off. I used them as table decorations at my Open House. It made the tables fun and festive!

These flowers were very easy to make. Got my glue gun ready and floral stems cut and bent at the end. For a single flower, I punched two flowers from the Fancy Flower Punch. One of the flowers, I cut a niche to remove a section of the petal. I manipulated the petals together, then secured the petals together with the hot glue. I placed that curved flower atop the flat flower. Done. That quick.

After all the flowers were assembled, I added the largest Vintage Faceted Designer Button to the center and attached the stem. (So glad I opted to get all these packs of buttons free during last Sale-a-Bration!) I arranged them in ‘vases’ and just went with it.

For my current display, I just combined the flowers together. Love the full look.

Thanks, Justin for your inspiration. I love them!

Happy Stampin’
Libby

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Happy Wedding Showers

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Today, we are having a shower for 2 of co-workers who are getting married this fall. Since the weddings are close, we decided to get together and throw a party.

I made a card for each of them based on their individual wedding themes. Both are very creative and crafty. I was surprised at how many handmade items they were making for their weddings. Invitations, bouquets, save the dates……..all very nice, very cool ideas.

This is what I made for Gladys –

It was a take on a convention swap that I made. And, these were here colors. So, I could not resist. This is beautifully simple. Very Elegant.

This is what I made for Melissa –

This is a take on a flower I designed for her bouquets. She has made what, about 1000 of these flowers?

I wish them both much happiness with their upcoming marriages!

Happy Stampin’

Libby 

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