Kylie Bertucci's August International Highlights

Hi there

Wow, I can't believe another month has flown by, where does the time go!

This month the theme is 'teacher's gifts'.  I thought it would be fun to make a notebook holder out of Stampin' Up's large plastic wood mount stamp case (full), which you can buy empty, they sell them in packets of four.

  

I cut a piece of the new Painted Autumn DSP, which will be available from 1st September from the new holiday catalogue and slipped it in to the plastic sleeve as the main cover, then I decorated the front with banners, leaves and flowers from the Banners for You stamp set and two die cut birds from the Birds and Blooms Thinlits that also team up with the Best of Birds stamp set, which I didn't use as I die cut the birds in watercolour paper and painted them with an aqua painter brush.  The branch is die cut from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits that co-ordinates with Colour Seasons stamp set.

On the inside I decorated a notebook and adhered it to the right-hand, inside back section.  On the left-hand side I made a gusseted pocket out of DSP also from Painted Autumn DSP and a flap as a lid which closes with a magnet to keep paper clips or any other small items :) The pen is held in place with a small round strip of old olive card stock.

While I was playing with this gorgeous DSP I also made a card for the holiday season featuring some lovely pumpkins, what lush colours. The sentiment is from the new 'Count my Blessings' stamp set also available from 1st September, along with the label punch.  My... I have used a lot of exciting new products, not long now until you can get your hands on them too :)

Please do hop on over to Kylie's blog to see all the other gorgeous ideas for this theme, you can vote for 5 fabulous projects (even mine! LOL) :)

Take care and have fun getting inky.

Crafty hugs, Anne :)