Notepad Bag Tutorial

I wanted something different for one of our Team swaps and came up with this to dress up an A7 note pad.

I used an A4 sheet of Pretty in Pink paper.  I cut 2 x Top Note dies then used the largest Window Frames Collection Framelits dies to cut the shape (bottom right)
I cut three flowers from Boho Blossom punch
I used Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch to cut the length seen on the top of the sheet.
I then cut a 55mm x 70mm rectangle

I scored two vertical lines, seen below at either side of the top and bottom points.  I then cut off these points as seen in the following picture

I then embossed the central scored area and the right hand side using perfect polkadots folder.  Take care not to line up the dots on the score lines as this tends to damage the paper

I trimmed off the top edge of the Top Notes Dies shapes (marked in pencil below)

This left hand image shows where to emboss and the right hand image shows the Hearts folder from Adorning Accents folders in place and ready to emboss.  Note that only one of these shapes was embossed - this is the front of the bag.

The rectangle was scored as below to form the hinge.  I then fancied up one of the long sides using Scallop Trim Border Punch

Heres the dimensions of an A7 notepad

The spine and hinge are on the Left (for right handed people).  I glued where the hatching is and attached to the back of the notepad

The plain Top Note shape was then glued to the back of the notepad.  The Frame shape was then glued as shown with the hatching (the area not embossed) and attached to the back of the Top Note Die.  The second Top Note shape with the embossing was then glued to the hinge

The handle was then adhered with red tape as a continuous circle under and the flap of the handbag lid. This makes it look really neat and tidy. (Thanks for the tip Chris!) The two smaller flowers were fixed to the front of the bag with a mini brad to hold the lid down.  The larger flower is then glued to cover the back of the brad

Heres the note pad open

Another Team Birthday Card

Excuse the quality of the pic.  It was taken with my phone camera

As you can guess, this was for a significant birthday for one of our team.

The background is Pretty in Pink paper embossed with Lacy Brocade folder

The DSP is from Tea For Two and Ive cut along some of the lines

Frame is embossed using Designer Frames folder using Crumb Cake paper (doesnt look like Crumb Cake in the pic though)

The 50 is stamped using Pretty in Pink paper and ink using Number It stamps

The leavers are lucky limeade and Little Leaves Die.  The larger flowers are Boho Blossom and the smaller are Itty Bitty Flowers punches.  Flowers are cut from Calypso Coral paper with a basic pearl centre

The ribbon is retired Calypso Coral

Team Birthday Cards

Here are a couple of birthday cards that I made for some of the ladies from our Stampin Up! team

The band and centre of the frame are from Birds of a Feather DSP
The frame is made using Designer Frames embossing folder, daubed with Crumb Cake ink

The bird and branch are stamped from the Language of Friendship on Crumb Cake paper and punched using Bird Builder

The flowers are punched using Itty Bitty Shapes

The ribbon on the band is Crumb Cake