How Sweet

Greetings once again!

I have had a wonderful, productive crafting day, and I am very pleased with my accomplishments!

At the Quarterly Training a few weeks ago, I made 30-something swaps using the new Baby Prints set, and ended up with a few left over. They have been floating around here ever since, and I keep swearing to myself that I'm going to do something with them. After all, there's no point in letting them go to waste, and it's a good exercise for challenging creativity when you force yourself to use the same piece in several different ways.

The first card I made with that swap was the one I took with me to display at the quarterly, and I thought it was really classy. Now I look at it and wonder why I didn't do something fancier!

Using it as inspiration, I gave the boy's card a try. The only real difference is that the white frame is now speckled with Bashful Blue and I've spelled "congrats!" at the bottom using the Just Perfect alphabet stamps. I got the exclamation point by colouring in just the centre part of the "i" stamp. I was desperately trying to add another colour to this card, such as green, but for the life of me it just wasn't working out!

At this point, I wanted to veer away from the scored frame look, and try something new and different. From a recent promotion, I got a free pack of Designer Series Paper, called Nursery Nest. It is so cute, and one of the papers is in Blushing Bride, which is exactly what I needed! I wanted to make a different sized card this time with a matching envelope. I  chose a rectangular size that was long and skinny. I have kept myself from making cards this size before, as I didn't want to have to put them in regular security envelope, but since I have an amazing tool to help me make envelopes, I can now do this whenever I want!

I just loved adding the Baker's Twine here. It looks so cute, and really gives the card a whole new dimension.

I would have made another card with the last swap which was in Blushing Bride, only my baby boy suddenly thought it was his toy and completely dismantled it! Oh, well.

The leftover DSP from the envelope was now sitting around in odd triangle shapes, so I decided to put some through the blossom punch and make a few interesting blossoms. One thing led to another and....

I mady a candy wrapper with Simply Scored! Yesterday, I bought long rolls of candy such as chewy mints and chocolate caramel things, with the intention of wrapping them up all nice and pretty. Thinking about Simply Scored, I decided to try to make a long candy wrapper with it! I looked at the dimensions from the BigShot candy wrapper die, and simply reproduced them, while altering the length to fit a long roll of candy. I decorated it with all kinds of things from the Summer Mini: Sweet Cake stamp set, Sweet Shop DSP, Blossom punch and of course, Simply Scored!



There was so much room in it that I was able to stuff in some butter toffee sweets as well.

I think I shall go through the recieved swaps periodically and challenge myself to use them, today's results were very satisfying!

What do you want to see made with Simply Scored? What would you like to wrap up?

Thanks for reading, and Happy Crafting!