Hey My fellow bloggin friends….It’s been ahwile, and I apologize, but I have a perfectly good reason!!!!

Yep I have been lapping it up in Palm Cove on the Stampin’Up Incentive Trip! All i can say is that it was totally amazing! We were spoilt rotten, and it was just so wonderful to actually spend some time with some of the most amazing stampers Australia has! Now I will be back with all sorts of goss about it with photos too!

BUT for now, I also have to catch up on last weeks Make it Monday, and then also this weeks.

Last week i got half way through posting it on here, at 12am after doing a workshop, and then couldn’t keep my eyes open so headed to bed with the intentions of having it posted the following day. I just didn’t ancitipate that the day that I was about to have, would deem it impossible!! can’ you visualize the steam coming out my ears??!!

Well i thought to myself, ah well I will take the laptop, and do it whilst in Palm Cove,……another BUT…..the wireless system wouldn’t work on my computer in that resort!!! So i decided that I just had to let it go……..a little hard at first, but totally possible (remind myself to do this often!!!)

 Now today we have headed up to Port Douglas and have I am so stoked that I can have managed to get my laptop to work in this Resort!!! YAY! - I only had 238 emails to go though too!!!

So thanks for your patience, but do get ready for heaps of new updates!!! Now starting with last weeks Make it Monday

Now for last weeks MIM, I put together a CD Gift pouch……what? Well that is a fancy name for a little box you put a CD in if you want to give it as a gift. Comprende?

So here goes for number 6!

Materials Required:

Paper cutter

Bone scorer

Mat pack

Scallop punch

1 1/4 circle punch

1 3/8 circle punch

Stamps

Stamp pads

Wide Ribbon

Twine

Step 1:

Cut a 12 x 12 piece of cardstock at 21cm’s wide

Step 2:

Okay, this is where there is lots of scoring! The first one is on the narrow side, Score in at 7.5cm’s and then one centermetre after that. Do exactly the same at the other end coming in towards the centre of the cardstock. Then on the side panels, score in at 2 cm’s and then another centremetre after that. You should end up with a rectangle in the middle measuring 15 cm x 13.5 cm’s and it will look like this:

Step 3:

Cut the four corners out

Step 4:

Corner round every corner so it will look like this

eeewww….not the flashest photo!

Step 5:

Fold up all the edges along the scored lines

Step 6:

Add tape to one side of the flaps as close to the edge as possible

Step7:

Stick down that tab, to create the pocket

Step 8:

Sheesh…..not the best photo. So here you will want to cut two strip of DS paper 5 x 15cm’s

Step 9:

Paper pierce the DS paper along one side the whole length of the strip of paper

 Step 10:

Tape one strip on top of the other, reducing the size of the strip that you have paper pierced

Step 11:

Tape the strips of paper onto the top flap with the smaller piece at the bottom of the flap

Step 12:

Place a Velcro dot to the underside of the flap so that you can close the pouch shut

Step 13:

Decorate the front with wide ribbon, stamping and a tag. Here i have used the Seasons of Joy stamp set, and the Holiday Harmony DS papers. The tag I created using the for you stamp from Occasional greetings, and tied it off with some twine.

 Other samples:

With this one I have used the Tart and Tangy stamp set, and Summer Picnic DS paper.

And here for this one, I have used Wild wasabi cardstock, Apple Cider DS paper, and Chocolate chip wide grosgrain ribbon.

SO there you have Make it Monday # 6…..stay tuned for more!