Cute little purse tutorial

Remember this cute little purse that I showed earlier? I said if you wanted to learn how to make it to let me know. Well, I got enough requests that I made a photo tutorial. I will forwarn you that the pictures aren't the best, but hopefully it will help you see how to make one of these cute little purses. It starts with a 12 x 12 piece of cardstock. Score it at 4" and 8". Turn it and score it again at 4" and 8". You will now have 9 4" squares scored on your paper.
You will need to cut off the 4 corners. To do this I lined my scored lines along my paper cutting edge and then cut.

Hopefully you can tell from this picture what it looks like AFTER I made the cut.

So, now I have all 4 corners trimmed off. On the sides where you trimmed your corners off, you will now need to make a score line in the middle of that space. I hope I'm not confusing when I explain this. In the photo below I have my ruler layed out acorss the middle of the cardstock. If you look closely you will see that two of the scored intersections are lined up with my ruler.

Now take your stylus and run it from the intersection to the end of the paper like below.

Below is a picture of the finished scored line. Right in the middle of that section. You do that for all 4 of the corners that were trimmed.

Now on the four full squares left, you are going to find the middle (which would be 2") If you look real close, you can see I made a little mark at the middle point.

Now from the mark, go up to the corner intersection and score.

Now, do the other side. From the mark, go up to the other intersection and score.

Now do that to the OPPOSITE square as well. These will be your sides. Your paper should look like this now. NOTE: when you are making these score lines, make sure they are exact. If not, your purse won't fold up correctly.

You now need to cut your DSP to decorate the middle. You will need 5 pieces cut at 3 7/8" square. 3 of those will get adhered to the 3 squares in the middle. The 2 remaining squares need to be cut. To do this, I folded it slightly in the middle and made a little mark. If you look closely you can see my mark at the bottom of my DSP.

Now I lined up my mark and one of the corners on my paper cutter, and cut.

Then I flipped it around, and lined up the other corner with the mark and cut it also.

Now you should have a triangle. Do this to both pieces and adhere to the inside triangles of your purse.

Your purse should be looking like this by now.

Now you will need to make the embellishments for the outside. You will need a top note die from cardstock and one from DSP. Trim the DSP on the perforated edge and adhere to the cardstock top not die.

It should now look like this.

Fold this in half the longway.

With your crop a dile, go in as far as you can and punch a hole with the largest hole punch. Do this on both sides.

Take about 9-10 inches of ribbon and pull through the holes like the picture below. Make sure your ribbon isn't twisted, so you have a nice smooth handle. I layed down 3 rows of sticky strip to adhere my ribbon too, because this is also going to hold the pure together so it needs to be secure.

Attach this to the back of your purse with the ribbon being hid by the purse itself. Then I added a piece of velcro to the front of the top note and then shut the purse and it attached the velcro perfectly aligned.

Decorate the front however you like, and you have yourself a cute little purse to hold some yummy treats.

I hope this tutorial was helpful and not confusing. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know if it helped or I needed to clarify anything.

Thanks for peeking in today. I am waiting for my 6th grandbaby to be born here anytime now. Hopefully soon. I will have to interupt this "craft" blog for some "grandma" pictures when it happens.....hahahahahaha

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Our fun Upline meeting ....

Every few months my upline, Lis Ljung, has a meeting for all of her downline. Yesterday was one of those fun meetings. Here is a picture of Lis explaining to us some of the make n takes that we got to make. Here is a very bad picture of the display that Chris and I put together for the Christmas items. It really looked good in real life.
This is a picture of the doorprize that I got to take home. It is a plastic picture frame with some DSP in it with a 3 x 3 notepad covered. Too cute.

Here is a picture of one of the make n takes that we made. It is a tier card with 3 circles that go together and then when you hold it up it falls down as 3 circles. It is really cute. This is a horrible picture of it. I was in too big of a hurry to take the pictures because my battery was on low. That will teach me to keep my battery charged.

This is me and Gloria, my BFF's downline. We were looking at the idea boards together and I was taking pictures of the boards and turned the camera on us and got a picture. She's a sweetheart. I have to say that one of the perks of being a demonstrator is all the fun new friends you make.Gloria was helping Eileen finish up her swaps.

Here is my upline Eva Kailiponi. Another great friendship made because of Stampin Up.

Here is a picture of all the swaps that were made. We lay them out on a table, and then vote on the ones that we like best. We vote for 3, and the top 4 win prizes.....woo hoo....I won #2. Picture coming.....

Here is Rachel. She was showing everyone how much fun it is to make those lollie wreaths that I posted earlier.

Here is Sandy Hancock, she is Lis' upline. She has been with Stampin Up for 22 years. She was giving us a pep talk on trying to earn the Fiji trip next year. If you hit a certain quota, Stampin Up gives their demonstrators a wonderful trip. Next year is is Fiji. WOW!!!!

Here she is showing a cute little gift that she made for Lis.

And here are the 4 winners holding their cards. In first place was Krista with an amazing card, then I'm in second place, and then Nadine in 3rd place, and my BFF Chris in 4th with her cute Christmas card.

I'm sorry these pictures don't give the day justice. One of these days, I'm going to invest in a better camera.

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Have a wonderful day.

I have been a busy girl.....

I have been a busy girl getting ready for today. We had a really super fun upline meeting today, and I was asked to make a display of Christmas things we saw at Convention. So, I have been busy getting ready for that, not to mention that I have gone back to work again. It takes me some time to readjust to being on a schedule and getting up and being somewhere at a certain time again....hahahahaha

So, I have for you today, the detailed pictures of the last blog post.....what was that.... like 2 weeks ago????

The front cover. I decided to make my book a recipe book for Christmas. So, each day in December we can make a new Christmas recipe. I think it will be lots of fun. My girls LOVED this idea, so I just might make them one too. The first day, is just an envelope with the flap cut off. You decorate the front of the envelope any way you would like, then inside slides a 5 1/2"x3 1/2" decorated paper that I will write the recipe on.
Here's a view with the inside pulled out.

Day two is a piece of vellum cut 5 1/2" x 4" and I stamped some snowflakes and embossed them. I added the "two" with some of the glitter paper.

You flip back the vellum piece, and you find a piece of designer series paper with some white on top to write your recipe.

Day 3 is a piece of cardstock cut at 5 1/2" x 9 1/2" scored at 2" and 6 1/2" and it folds to be this cute little booklet thing. It has a cute little closure on the front. You can't see it very well, but it is stamped and embossed on the front too.

Then when you open it up, it looks like this inside. This is the inside of 8 because I forgot to take a picture of #3, but they are the same inside.

Then 4 is another envelope again with the flap cut off.

It also has a little piece that comes out that will have a recipe on it soon.

For day 5, I took apart an envelope and used it as a template to cut an envelope out of DSP. Then I just decorated the front, and added a little piece that will slide out to hold a recipe.

I added that punched out circle and added a button to give me something to grab to pull it out easily.

Then I have added the pictures for 6-10, but you will see that it is just a repeat of 1-5.

And you just keep repeating the steps until you get to 25. It was soooo much fun to make, but I will say that it took some time.

So, now go make one of your own.

I will have some pictures of our fun meeting today for you tomorrow.

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Have a wonderful day.

A sneak peek

I have been working on lots of fun Christmas projects for my up, upline meeting on Sept. 17th. Since I went to convention, my up, upline....or however you would say it....asked me and my BFF if we would make a display table of some of the Christmas projects they showed us at convention. This is one of them....It was a LOT of work, but fun to make too. It is not quite done yet, so this is just a sneak peek.

Here is the front of the project..... ....and a sneak at what the project looks like from the side.
I will be back, most likely, tomorrow with the finished product.

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Upline meeting projects

So, today I thought I would share with you the cute things we made at my upline meeting on Saturday.
This first card uses the new striped embossing folder, along with the Hostess set Array of Sunshine. I don't know if you can tell in the photo, but the flowers are layered. The next card is a cute baby card, too bad it wasn't in blue, since my daughter is due to have a little boy here soon. It's cute how you take the stitched stockings stamp and turn it upside down to make a stick horse.
And we also made this cute little purse using a 12 x 12 sheet of cardstock.

And heres an inside view.

I was lucky enough to receive one of these cute little purses for my birthday with some yummy treats tucked inside. It makes a cute gift holder. I think we just might make this for club this week. Wouldn't it be cute in Halloween paper and some Halloween treats inside?

If anyone is interested in the details on how to make it, just let me know. If I get enough requests, I will post a tutorial.

Thanks for peeking in today. I get the pleasure of escorting my husband to his colonoscopy appointment today. Glad it's him and not me.....

Upline meeting swaps

So Saturday was a fun upline meeting. Ususally there are only 2 or 3 of us, Saturday we were lucky enough to have 5 of us there. It was nice. We made 3 fun items that I will show you tomorrow, but for now, I'm going to share with you the swaps we all got.

The first one is the swap I made. I cased this from someone, but I'm not sure who. When I save a picture I like to my ipad, if it doesn't have a watermark on it, I usually don't remember who I cased. It uses my new favorite snow burst embossing folder. It also uses the new quilted cherry cobbler ribbon. You can't really tell in the picture, but I also embossed the JOY in the new cherry cobbler embossing powder. This next card is from Cindy.
This card is from Sue.

This one if from my BFF Chris. Lots of work on this one.

This card is from Gloria.

And this one is from Eileen.

Lots of cute cards and new ideas. I do have to say, one of the best things about the meeting was I got the names of 3 new people to play "Words with Friends" on my ipad. I LOVE playing that game. If anyone out there reading my blog likes to play words with friends and wants to play me, my name is Pandie143.

I can never have too many games going at once. Bring it!!!!

Thanks for peeking in today. If you live in the US. Have a wonderful Labor Day.