This was actually the first box I made with the Big Shot and my scallop envelope die. I was practicing and made it without the dsp. I wheeled an image instead, after embossing the tree image on the front. The embossed image resists the wheeled ink.
Here's the first of several boxes I made that I will post over the next few days. They were fairly easy to do and easy to get different looks. You start with four scalloped envelopes (from the Big Shot). I cut off the little tabs on two and added sticky strip to the little tabs on the other two. Then you line them all up side by side and attach them together. Adhere a 2-3/16 x 12" strip of dsp to cover the sides. Add ribbon as desired and a focal image to cover the front portion of the box (because the dsp doesn't quite go all the way around). I also added a square of cs inside the bottom of the box (sometimes in the same color as the box and sometimes in a contrasting color). It's a nice sized box.
This is a card I made for my husband's friend's mother. He attended her 80th b-day party Sat up in Sacramento while I took our son to his soccer tournament. The rose on the front of this card uses a really cool technique that my friend Cheryl and I were trying out the other day. I was trying out some unusual colors and didn't want to use this one for a sample, but didn't want to throw it away either. When our house renovations are done and I can host classes again I will have a class showcasing this technique. It's so awesome! Cheryl already held her class and everyone loved it.
Supplies:
set - fifth avenue floral
cs - shimmery white, nqn
ink - various reinkers, nqn & bemuda bay pads, bermuda bay marker
access - big shot, manhattan flower die, aquapainters, scrap organdy ribbon, dimensionals, paper snips, corner rounder
Happy Stamping! Mary
p.s. Do you see the countertop under the card? That's our new granite
Here are the workers installing granite on the small counter.
Here's our small counter/corkboard wall after the tile was removed and before the wallboard was fixed and the granite installed. Once the granite was installed, it looked beautiful! I didn't get a photo, yet, because. . . . 
This card of Cheryl's uses the Playful Petals set. You won't find it in the catalog, but it is still available; it's on the dormant list. There's a layer of vellum which subdues the background image and really makes the focal image pop! Doesn't it look like it's tie-dyed?
We are getting new granite countertops and new wood floors. When they demolished the tile countertops and pulled the sink, they found that the hotwater pipe was corroded. When they went to fix it the pipes, they found the wallboard was mouldy and wet. When they pulled off the wallboard, some of the floor boards had dryrot. Then they found the floor needed jacking up.
Isn't this pretty? Haha. We have a huge hole in the middle of our kitchen!
Well, they fixed the plumbing and the dryroted beams in the walls last night by 8:30pm. This morning they were here at 7:30 am to jack up the floors and put in new subflooring. They also need to add sheetrock to the walls and put the cabinets back so the granite countertops can be installed this afternoon. Hopefully I'll have a picture of the granite countertops tomorrow!
I love this card by my friend Cheryl because of the texture. She added clear micro beads to the center of the main flower and to the four corners of the diamond layer.
Here's a gorgeous card. It's another Cheryl original. She used the medallion stamp in shades of blue and I just love it!
Here's a fun card my friend Cheryl made using the medallion stamp and the popping pastels technique. I'm showing her cards this week. Aren't they just great?
Here's another beautiful card by my friend Cheryl. I'll be posting her cards all this week as we start our house renovations and bathroom remodel. The butterfly is cut out and layered over the stamped image so that it looks like it will take flight. The border images are masked. Cheryl said it was a lot of work, but the results are worth it, don''t you think? The set is Simple Friendship, $25.95.
Quail Card - Big Shot, Top Note die
Flower Pot card with Always Bird - embossing, tp technique
Pink Birthday Card - coloring with markers directly on stamp
Butterfly card - stamp-a-ma-jig
Peggy's cards - sets: Chic Botique, C is for Cat, A Little Birdie Told Me
This fun Halloween card uses the new sweet treat cups from the mini catalog. My friend Cheryl made this card at a demonstrator event that I missed while I was on vacation. I bought some of these fun cups and can't wait to turn my mental picture into reality. All I'm going to say right now is it involves the bear image from Under the Stars set.
Here's my friend Cheryl's version of the flower pot pocket card. I showed her how to make these last month and we had a lot of fun playing around with them. These cards are great because you can use them for a variety of cards: thank you, get well, anniversary, birthday, etc. You can use punches, the big shot, hand cut flowers, etc. We've mainly used terra cotta colored pots, but you could easily change the color scheme.
Our Club kicked off on Sept. 6th and made these two great cards. The yellow-toned Flight of the Butterfly card uses the fun butterfly punch and the Flower Pot Pocket card uses the smallest butterfly from the Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies die. It's hard to see in the photo, but each of the scallops on the first card is pierced.
This is a tri-shutter card I made for my friend Daria. I started it at the beginning of Aug, but by the time I finished I had to add a belated birthday greeting! Oh well. They actually aren't that hard to make. I think it's a little easier if you use dsp. Would you like a tutorial? I have an idea for another one, so maybe I'll take photos of the step -by-step process. 
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