Spinner Card

I watched many Stampin' Up youtube videos and searched the web for 2 days and finally realized how to create one myself.  This is not my original idea.  It is everywhere online, just type in Spinner Card and you will find many pictures, but very few if any, free files for it.  (Stampin' Up has the bundle to make this fun card)

First of all I just cut a regular A2 card.   I took an 8.5 x 11 sheet of whisper white (Stampin' Up) cardstock and cut it in half to make two cards.   I then had a folded card that measured 5.5 x 4.25.  I then cut the mat piece at 5.25 x 4.  At this time I cut the spinners out as well.  I used the spinners in the Pazzles Craft Room but any spinner will work and I have another here that I have shared, in case you are not a member of the craft room.  I attached the mat with my ATG gun.  I then put a piece of cardstock into my printer and typed the sentiment I wanted, set it up with no margins, and tabbed it over twice and then hit the space bar 2 times to get it over to the opposite side of the card where I needed it to be when cut.  I placed the cardstock on the pazzles mat and made sure to line it up exactly at the top of the mat over to the left hand side.  I eyed it all in and cut, it turned out perfect.  It would have been easier maybe had I had a good collection of stamps, or even used the pen tool for my Pazzles but I wanted to try it this way.  I also cut the groove out for the spinner at this time. 

I did get out the stamps I have and used the Gorgeous Grunge Stamp set (Stampin' Up) with the Crisp Cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana Inks (Stampin' Up) to make the splashy look on both cards. 

 I then used a 2 penny sandwich, which I made out of a penny, a dimensional and another penny all stacked on top of each other. 

I stuck a couple mini glue dots (Stampin' Up) on one side of the sandwich and then kind of stuck it behind the topper with the groove and then placed the spinner on top of the groove and connected them together with the grooved topper between the two.  I then put several demensionals on the back of the grooved topper, so that the spinner would have room to move and then stuck the topper onto the card.  WALLA a darling little spinner card!  Tip: Shake the card sideways several times until it gets set in there the way you want it and it spins good.

You could use any sentiment you can think of but I liked the "You Blow Me Away".  Stampin' Up has a stamp set made for the spinner card.  It includes that sentiment.  I came up with the Spinning By To Say Hi, but when I do it again I will drop the G and have Spinnin' By To Say Hi, I just think it looks more fun :)

I hope you enjoy and understand the instructions and if you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comment section and I will check back often.

Frugal Tip

Hello friends. 

My what a beautiful couple of days we have had here in Ohio.   Just so sunny and bright and so much fun to be outside.  I personally can't handle the sun anymore but I remember when I could and I know the kids have been having a great time.

I decided to do a little catching up on supplies I may be low on or out of. 

As I was putting my new tape roll on the ATG gun I of course had to take the old stuff off.  I always get stuck just pulling it off until I end up with large bunch of paper backing.

 I thought to myself that this would make a great bunch of decorative filler.  I then decided to try it out, I stuck it in a very pretty box, cut it up a little and WALLA!  I have a great little gift, so very cute.  I will be saving mine from now on and will use it when I can match it with a project and the best part is that it is shiny, makes it that much more decorative.

I hope you all enjoy this tip and maybe find a way to use it yourself.  I think some of the other brands come in different colors, like maybe white.  This is such a frugal tip and I am so glad I thought of it as I am not the most frugal crafter.

Happy Crafting to all :)

Power Scrappin'

Many moons ago I wrote an article that was published in the online magazine called scrapbooking.com.  I had misplaced the link and forgotten all about it until another lady posted something she had published, so I did a search in the archives and finally found it.  It was published in 2007 but still a great tip :)

Hope you enjoy....


Power Scrappin'

Dress Series

Hi all, so happy to have you visit my blog, as you can see I am just getting started.  I am going to try to have something new at least once a week and will probably announce it through facebook, as it seems these days the whole world is on facebook :)

For those who followed me here today via a picture on facebook this is what the picture is...

Today I want to share with you an album I made many months ago.  I used K&Company paper and Chipboard, my trusty ol' electronic cutter; Pazzles and Aileen's tacky glue (it just can't be beat) I've decided this will be one in a series of Dress Albums I am going to make.  The name of this one is "Esther" named after my beautiful and wonderful Mother.

This is the first page of the album and I really hate the lighting it 

just doesn't do the album justice, but it is the best I have right now so here she be :)

Each page is a different Dress and each page has a pocket in the pentafore for photos and

journaling.  All flowers were handmade to match each dress,  (what fun I have making flowers) 

I hope you enjoy looking and if you have any questions please 

feel free to comment and I will answer asap.