Face Off Friday - Brag Book a la Roxy

Friday is the day I usually challenge myself to do one of the blog challenges - or so that was my plan for regular blog posts.

But that plan fell off the rails today - I'm combining posts and I'm challenging myself to make something for a door prize for my purse class tomorrow and because I'm feeling uncreative I'm actually CASEing this project.

Staying up until 2 am helping a 15 year old with homework will do that to a person! Yikes!

So here it is - A Holiday Brag Book as CASED by the wonderfully creative Roxy Somerville (aka Corinne Somerville).

To see her tutorial on how to make one of these for yourself click HERE.

Twin Tuesday - A CASE of Andrea Walford

Today I am twins with Andrea Walford - don't I wish!

Andrea is a very talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and you will find all kinds of projects to CASE on her blog.  Her talented sister Sophia Landry partners up with her on many posts.

What a talented pair!

Click HERE to see Andrea's card.

Here's mine:

I made a couple like Andrea's and played around with the Antique brad and ribbon.

Then I made another version using a different stamp and ribbon.

Where did the greetings come from? 

Well Andrea used a PaperTrey Ink greeting for her card but since I don't have that one or an appropriate Stampin' Up! greeting I simply typed it up with a typewriter style font in MS Word.

Not to waste paper I used a post card template (made my own) and now I print 4 at a time or just use 1/4 of a sheet of paper.

To get it to print out matchy-matchy with my card stock I changed the RBG codes to Chocolate Chip.

Twin Tuesday - Wedding Card from Kerin Sylvester

I just loved this card when I saw it on Kerin's blog and I knew that I would have to CASE it at some point.

Well today's the day!

Here's my version:

I used the scalloped oval to mat and moved the greeting to the lower right fo rmy version.

Twin Tuesday - Christmas Purse from Becky Roberts

Today I'm "twins" with Becky Roberts - don't I wish! 

Actually I CASED her idea of making the Tres Chic Purse with Christmas paper and using the new Stampin' Up! Glimmer Brads (available Sept 1 in the Holiday Mini) for the clasp.

Click HERE to see the post with her Glimmer Brad Christmas purse.

Check out mine below.

Here's a close up of the clasp made with Glimmer Brads.

A CASE of a Card!

I CASED a card from Mary Brown.

Instead of the dark gray accents that Mary used in her card I went with Chocolate Chip. 

 I didn't have the same greeting so I stamped this one from the Afterthoughts stamp set from Stampin' Up!

Check out this bow!  If you know me you know that I am a knot girl - I cannot (well could not) tie a bow if my life depended on it.

Can you believe that I actually tied this one myself?  Isn't it beautiful???

I followed THIS TUTORIAL from Ilina Crouse but I didn't have a cute husband on hand this morning to help me. 

Let me tell you it was quite a challenge and I could NOT do it with my own fingers. 

So I took out some recycled plastic (this is an old notebook cover) and made myself a template of my own two index fingers!

Check this out!

You can stop laughting now - I know it looks weird - it works and it's FREE!

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