Pistachio, OMG, Day 3

Hello!

Thanks for coming back, I really appreciate it!  I hope you enjoy today's creation that doesn't end ... it seems like it kept going and going and going!  My sweet friend Becky Roberts  and Sarah S (one of SU!'s Artisan Award Winners) and Michelle Wooderson are all amazing artists and create masterpieces!  This one was inspired by all of them!!

This continues with the same Pistachio Ensemble of supplies that I've been showing you and today this one adds in the new Polka Dot Tag a Bag Gift Bags (p201, $3.95/10).

 Here's a look from the top down, to see the pockets and how things are in it.

 The actual bag opening holds a 4x6 note card that you can write on and then there are 4 gift tags (any occasion) tucked in behind the candies which are in the front pocket.

And can you see that I actually USED my lil' sewing machine that I bought awhile ago (ashamed to say how long I have been afraid to bust it out)!  This was really fun and came together so quickly, if you consider how much I made in one "hot Friday night date night".  The funny thing when I showed Dave what I'd been doing, he was like "hey, I like everything, wait, are those my Andes mints?"

That's the end of that, it was yummy Pistachio Pudding alright but I wonder what is next.  Stop by to check it out!  What was your favorite piece of the ensemble?  leave me a comment!

Thanks,
Rhonda

Pistachio Ensemble, day 2

Hello again,

Thanks for returning for more!  Since I was really in the groove that night, I moved on to page 14, top left corner sample!  We have an amazing catalog and artists and design teams at the home office.  They spend hours and hours upon hours creating samples to inspire us, so what better place to CASE than from our own catalog!!

CASEng is a great way to get started, it gives you a starting point and then you jump in and begin and before you know it you're doing your own thing!  If you were to take a survey of demonstrators, I'm pretty sure 95% would say they CASE often or at least frequently!  Whether it is straight up a sample, or from a sketch layout, or from a magazine for color inspiration ... nothing wrong with it!  I hope you don't mind me sharing my CASEs!!

For today, I kept with the same series of supplies that are splattered across my studio and this also uses one of the Tag A Bag Gift Boxes on pg 201 ($6.95 for 8 boxes/sleeves) and a bit of the Thick Bakers Twine in Baked Brown Sugar to coordinate with introducing the Kraft color too!

  and adding in the other pieces of the Pistachio Ensemble ... here we are so FAR!!

Of course, yes you need to come back!
Rhonda

Pistachio Pudding please!

Hi!

I hope you are enjoying my posts, I will be trying to schedule my time to include taking the pictures and editing and uploading so that I can be more regular in my blogging.  It's not that I don't have something to share, it's that I don't always take the pictures and do what's needed to get them up here for you!  So it's a new SU Catalog year for us, so I am setting new goals and Blogging is one of them!  And you can find me on facebook too, INKin' All Night! with Rhonda (like my page and get other updates there too!)

Here's a bit more CASEing that happened last Friday night!  Yep, Dave was exhausted from a rough week and both girls were out, so we ordered take out and then each relaxed doing our own thing, hot Friday date night!

This time I started out to case the French Fry Box on pg 20.  Here's what happened!  I started with Pistachio Pudding cardstock and In Color Designer Series Paper and then ...

So I cut the front panel of the DSP for this box which meant the other half was waiting to be used because we can't throw anything out, that would be wasteful!  And you can see that I strayed from the catalog sample because I decided to use my Label Something stamp set since it has hardly seen ink (another goal, get my sets inky!).

So this one used the larger portion of the die and it was applied to give it a pretty inside liner.  I decided to keep to the same supplies and create a bit of an ensemble ... since by this time my mind was racing with additional ideas too!

Here they are together!  These are an adorable size and I can think of so many uses for them!  I just haven't left the house in order to buy any goodies to fill them up with, so shreddy it is!  ;)

Supplies used on these were the French Fry Box Die, Pistachio Pudding (cardstock and ink), In Color DSP Stack, Label Something stamp set, Hexagon punch, Ticket Duo punch, Modern Label punch, 7/8" Scallop Circle punch, Tea Lace Doilies, Pearl Jewels, Basic Hodgepodge Clips, new Thick Bakers Twine, 5/8" Organza Ribbon, new Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack.

Yep, you're gonna wanna come back for more!

Hugs
Rhonda