August Pals Hop

Welcome to the August Pals Hop! This month, we're featuring fun and creative 3-dimensional projects! Enjoy the hop and the amazing creations that the Pals have come up with.

You've likely hopped over from Patti MacLeith http://papercraftsbypatti.blogspot.com/, I'm stop number 8 on the Pals Hop and I'm glad you hopped in! I'll help you "hop along" from blog to blog where you'll find great ideas for 3-D paper projects from the Stampin' Pretty Pals! Should you hop off course, simply click on any of the links in the Pals Hop Line-up below and you'll be back on track!

Hats are super popular, especially this mini top hat.  My daughter Mackie and I first saw the "headband" mini top hats on Glee, then after the royal wedding, hats of all kind are a hit.  I do credit my daughter Mackie for today's hat and the choice of the new SDSP Mocha Morning that was used.  I was a bit stumped on what to do, and I asked her if she had any ideas.  She thought for a while and suggested a hat.

I built the top hat out of plain black cs, the top is a 3 1/2 inch circle and the base is a 5 inch circle.  I embossed both with black embossing powder using the scroll stamp from Baroque Motifs.  After I assembled the hat, I cut a strip of the beautiful black flocked Mocha Morning SDSP and attached it.  Crumb cake seam binding made the trim and a tail was left in the back.

The rich razzleberry flower was made using the pennant punch.  The pennant was crimped, crumpled, separated.  I snipped at the base so I could curl and glue to form each petal.  I assembled the flower on a 3/4 circle and curled the ends under.  I made my own button with a punch of the SDSP layered on black cardstock and punched two button holes with my crop-a-dile.  I then threaded rich razzleberry ribbon and tied a knot, and topped it of with a basic rhinestone.  I thought that the flower needed more, so I frayed and twisted some crumb cake ribbon to get some texture.  Black ribbon and more of the rich razzleberry ribbon was layered behind it all.  We do need to get a black headband, then I will figure out a way to attach it, and Mackie can have fun with it.

I made a matching card, just because I love the paper and color scheme.  I used basic black and embossed it with the stripe EF.  Before I ran it through though, I inked the folder with my versamark pad.  After I embossed it, I put some black embossing powder on it and heat embossed it.  It was not perfect, it would be better to brayer the versamark on after using the stripes folder for a more precise  look.

The sentiment was flag cut and stamped with the cherish stamp, the decorative label with the medallion stamp both are from the Baroque Motifs stamp set.  A bit of crumb cake seam binding ribbon makes the bow.  The itty bitty punch pack was used for the small flowers.  I left the inside blank for now since this can be used for any type of sentiment.

Thanks so much for stopping by, please leave me a comment to know what you think about this project, I love to hear from you.  I hope you were inspired, enjoy!

Hop along for more inspiring ideas from Nina Dee at http://www.deesignsbyninadee.blogspot.com/, stop number 9 on the August PALS HOP! Thanks for "hopping" by!

1. Stephanie Uzee at Stampin' with Suzee
   
2. Nicole Watt at Impressions By Nicole
   
3. Barbara Chatzkel at Take Out Paper Arts
   
4. Jason Casper at Jason's Stampin' Pad
   
5. Melanie Collins at Oops a Daisy Designs
   
6. Carmen Sublasky at The Creative Stamptuary
   
7. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
   
8. Sandie Conner at Pretty Provisions
   
9. Nina Dee at Deesigns by Nina Dee
   
10. Leah O'Brien at My Stampin' Room
    
11. Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
    
12. Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts
    
13. Kylie Nicolsi at Kylie's Crafty Corner
    
14. Pam Giudici at Wacky Whippet Stamper
    
15. Linda Fisher at Linda's Stampin Loft
    
16. Mikki Sarkisyan at Mikki's Creative Corner
    
17. Martha Stewart at Seasons of Stamping
    
18. Mike Funke at Stampin-Style
    
19. Barb Furlong at the Love of Stamping