Appreciation Badges - Imaginisce i-Top Inspriration

Its i-Top week at Imaginisce. With the school year winding down I wanted to make something for the teachers and other volunteers who give up their free time for our youth; Scout leaders, coaches, religious education teachers, booster club organizers, etc...
THANK YOU for all you do!!  I have organized many volunteer appreciations through the years (for my Girl Scout leaders). These badges would be perfect to pin on the honorees.

Here is how you can print on the badges...
Create your text in a word processing program. Use a bold font so that it shows up better.
Print the text on a sheet of computer paper.
Punch out the badge top from your pattern paper.

Apply some removable glue tabs to the back of the pattern paper and adhere over your text.
If you hold the paper up to the light (looking at the backside) you'll be able to see to center it over the text.

Now run it through the printer again.

Supplies:

Imaginisce: Love You More: Patterned Paper, Childhood Memories: Pattern Paper; I-Top, Large Badge Daddies

Scorepal; Quick Quotes Powderpuff chalk ink in Blue Moon; lace, Helmar 450 Quick drying glue


I have an exciting announcement to make too. I have been asked to join the first ever Scraptown Lady design team!!! 

 

I will soon be posting projects using the pretty papers and dies from the ScrapTown Lady Store. 

New product lines and items are being added to the store each day! You will find papers, stamps,  embellishments, ribbons, dies, etc!

Please visit the ScrapTown Lady Blog and become a follower.

You can also find ScrapTown Lady here:

            

Thanks for stopping by today - I can't wait to get started creating with my ScrapTown Lady products!

 

~Marcia

Happy Mother's Day Imaginisce Style + a Tutorial

Happy Monday friends! I have yet another Mother's Day card to share with you. This time using the Imaginisce Love You More collection. I so <3 this collection!

I love how this butterfly turned out. He is a Cheery Lynn die cut.

Supplies:
Imaginisce: Love You More: Patterned Paper, Buttons, Washi Tape; I-Rock tool; Hot Rocks Hearts;
Bazzill cardstock in white; Martha Stewart punch around the page Cherish; The Twinery: Stone bakers twine; Quick Quotes Powderpuff chalk ink in Coal Miner; Cheery Lynn Fancy Butterfly; Silhoutte Cameo die cut machine; Fonts: Rockwell Extra Bold, Lavanderia.

So do you want to know a trick for creating washi tape banners?
Fold the washi tape back so that the sticky sides are stuck together....

Insert into a square punch (turned upside down so you can see what you are doing).

With the tape folded over, it won't stick in your punch.   Then gently peel off the back .

Hope you give this a try!
~Marcia
 
 

State Fair Mini - Quick Quotes inspiration

Hello Quick Quotes friends! Marcia here today with an awesome Be Bold mini album to share with you. Quick Quotes has the most amazing albums that coordinate with the new paper collections! That's right, the inside pages coordinate with the collections. Making a mini can be as easy as just adding your photos or getting  more elaborate and piling on the embellishments! The Be Bold collection is perfect for ALL of those summer pictures, not just the beach! Take a peek at my State Fair mini...

I strategically covered up the surfboard on the cover with pattern paper to make it appropriate for my state fair photos.The inside front and back covers also had surfboards that I covered up.

 

Marcia's photography tip:  Be sure to pass your camera around, so there are pictures of you too!

Quick Quotes Supplies:
Be Bold Mini Album
Be Bold 6x6 Paper Pad
Be Bold 12x12 700
Be Bold stickers
Powderpuff inks in  Midnight Confessions, Lemonade, and Green with Envy, Coconut, Red Hot, and Blue Hawaiian

Other Supplies:
Kiwi Lane Cascade Trails templates
Bazzill: cardstock
GCD Studios adhesive pearls
Studio Calico wood veneers
Alpha stickers: October Afternoon, Echo Park, Webster's Pages, and Simple Stories
Spellbinders Edgabilities Scallop die cut
EK Success scallop punch
Creative Memories square punch
My Mind's Eye acrylic stamps (Dilly Dally collection)
Studio Calico polaroids
Adhesive: Xyron Mega Runner, Scotch 3M fast drying glue, Imaginisce foam tape

Check out these Quick Quotes mini albums. They are so amazing!
~Marcia

Mother's Day - Practical Scrappers

Happy Monday! It was so hard to go back to work today after a gorgeous weekend here in Minnesota. I have a couple of Mother's Day cards that I made with the Basic Grey Lucille collection. I think its perfect for those Mom's that sew like mine and my Mother-in-Law....

Check back this weekend to see a mini I did for Quick Quotes :)
Have a great week!
~Marcia

A Sweet Hello - The Twinery blog hop

Happy Friday my friends!

Imaginisce and the Twinery are having a blog hop!! The nice folks at the Twinery sent me loads of bakers twine. I am in heaven! They have every color you can imagine. I wanted to showcase as much of it as I could, so I decided to make a card and fill some negative space with rows of twine...

Supplies: Imaginisce: Endless Summer papers, acrylic stamp; Imaginisce: Childhood Memories alpha stickers; Ranger VersaMark ink; Recollections detail embossing powder in black; Derwent water color pencils, H2O pen; Fancy Pants button; The Twinery: bakers twine in Maraschino, Cantaloupe, Buttercream, Caribbean, and Denim; font: Rockwell Extra Bold

This card will be perfect for sending my college kids some sweet $$ this summer. This is our first summer as empty nesters. Usually my college kids came home for the summer at least, but they are keeping their current jobs so staying where they are. I hope we at least get to see them on some weekends.

Be sure to check out what the other designers have made...

Imaginisce

Aimee Kidd

Marcia Dehn-Nix

Cari Locken

 

The Twinery
Jamie Cripps
Kathy Skou
Monika Wright

 

 

Imaginisce is giving away an Endless Summer collection and an i-Rock!!! The Twinery has some awesome prizes too, so be sure to leave a comment!

 

Live Out Loud - Quick Quotes Inspiration

Hello Quick Quotes friends!
I have a bright, happy layout to share with you that I created with the 6x6 Be Bold paper pad. I thought the colors and chipboard accents were perfect for this layout of my son. This picture was taken of him last year for the High School Musical where he played his drum set in the pit orchestra. I love that he is holding his drum sticks. I usually see him with a pair of drum sticks; tapping out a rhythm while watching TV, or studying, or stuck in his back pocket. Life is never quiet with a drummer in the house :) I miss the noise now that he is away at college.

I took the journal pages from the 6x6 Be Bold paper pad and cut them into strips to make my border. I wanted the bright colors but didn't want you to think tropical since this is neither a summer or vacation layout. The inside edges of the border are distress and then inked to add color. The outside edges and other paper edges  were inked in black. It seems to make the color pop more. Here is a close up...

I love that LIVE OUT LOUD chipboard piece!

Quick Quotes Supplies:
BeBold 6x6 Paper Pad
BeBold 12x12 700
Be Bold stickers
Be Bold chipboard
Powderpuff inks in  Midnight Confessions, Lemonade, and Green with Envy, and Blue Hawaiian

Other Supplies:
Bazzill: cardstock (white)
GCD Studios adhesive pearls
Studio Calico wood veneers
Tattered Angels Glimmer mist in yellow, and blue skies.
Adhesive: Xyron Mega Runner, Scotch 3M fast drying glue, Imaginisce foam tape
Coats and Clark: thread

Check out these new 6x6 paper pads, they are not just for cards!
~Marcia

April Showers?

This is the weirdest April ever in Minnesota! More snow yesterday which turned to rain! I am sure my commute to work this morning will be hell.
Anyway, I have a card to share that I made for Practical Scrappers for their cloud/umbrellas/rain feature.

I saw this cute chick in the Silhouette store and had to buy it. It makes for one adorable shower invite!
I created a baby banner with the Epiphany Crafts pennant tool, using an alpha sticker and cardstock. Those raindrops are from Imaginisce and were applied with my i-Rock. (Been wanting to use those for a while now!)

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week. I am off to work.
~Marcia

For the Grad - i-Bond Candy Bouquet

Another busy blogging day.... scroll down to see my Quick Quotes card.

Hello my friends. I made an awesome candy bouquet with my  Imaginisce i-Bond!

I made my first candy bouquet last year for my son's graduation party. It was a huge hit! So now that my nephew is graduating I needed to make another one. I used packaging tape on the first. From the front it looked great. From the back it looked a tad tacky. I thought the i-Bond could much improve that. It worked great to glue my candy to the sticks as well as that 3D grad cap. I know what you are thinking, won't the hot glue melt the chocolate? No, the i-Bond is a low temp glue gun. I applied the glue to my stick first and then to the candy. So much nicer from the back than the packaging tape, see!

 and another plus, there is no cord to get in the way. The i-Bond is cordless!
Candy bouquets are great for teacher gifts, as fundraisers for school boosters, get well gifts, and so much more!

Supplies:
Imaginisce: i-Bond glue gun, glue sticks;
Core-dinations: black, white, and purple cardstock; Svgcuts: Graduation cap; DMC floss in white; Provo Craft: Cricut cartridges George and Basic Shapes, and Everyday Pop-up Cards; Assorted candy bars; tin bucket (handle removed); Ephiphany Crafts: star punch; tissue paper; dowel rods; floral foam square; Scotch 3M quick drying glue.

Have a great weekend!
~Marcia

Hold Tight To Your Memories - Quick Quotes Inspiration

Hello Quick Quotes friends! Wahooo it's Friday.
Marcia here to host the blog today. I have another card to share that I made with the 6x6 Cracklin Rose paper pad. I wanted to try out some new shabby techniques and thought a card would be a better means of experimenting versus a layout. This one is a sympathy card and will soon be on its way to a dear aunt unfortunately. I like having an extra sympathy card on hand just in case so maybe I'll have to make a few more. The Cracklin Rose papers were perfect, with their muted colors.

The quote "Hold tight to your Memories" is on a journal spot in the Cracklin Rose 6x6 paper pad. Perfect for my sympathy card :)

Quick Quotes Supplies:
Cracklin Rose 6x6 Paper Pad
Cracklin Rose 12x12 200 
Powderpuff inks in  Java, Green Tea, and Amaretto

Other Supplies:
Core'dinations: cardstock (green)
Maya Road (brown felt pearl posies)
Petaloo: Color me Crazy flower
Martha Stewart : Arch Lattice edge punch
Cheery Lynn:  small Fanciful Flourish, Window C
Adhesive: Xyron Mega Runner, Scotch 3M fast drying glue, Imaginisce foam tape
Coats and Clark: thread

Are you going to be making some cards this weekend? Check out these new 6x6 paper pads!
~Marcia

Good Morning America Deal - Today Only!!!

Busy day on the blog! Scroll down for my Quick Quotes post, and then scroll a little further to see my Imaginisce post for today :)

Sweet Deal from Imaginisce TODAY ONLY!!

Good Morning!! :) 

Today and today only Imaginisce has a sweet deal going on at Good Morning America!

Here is Deal #1...

And Deal #2...

Be sure to go to the Imaginisce website to get all the details!!