MeGa Stampin Studio

We've Moved!!

 

Effective today, we have moved our Freebie Fridays over to Two Paper Divas. (see all the details for the above project on Divas)  You will still see the same great ideas and techniques for free each Friday.  Today will be our last post on Mega Stampin Studio.  The site will remain up indefinitely so that you will still be able to go back to our past posts from the last 2+ years as well as have access to all our patterns, ideas, etc.

We have three blogs and have found that we can't keep all three going up to our standards.  Two Paper Divas will still have all the great things you have loved about Mega but will be combined with our online store.  Please make sure you have subscribed to our Divas' site so that you don't miss any of our future posts. 

We have loved sharing everything with all of you on MeGa and so appreciate your support.  We are committed to keeping up the same quality of projects, cards, etc that you have found here. Don't forget to visit Divas to see instructions on how to creat this project!

 
Have a great weekend!  Melissa & Gayla

Freebie Friday - Cosmo Cricket Circle Flowers

A few weeks ago on our other blog, Paper Fashions, Etc., we shared our Seed Packet digi stamp on 3x3 gift cards that were embellished with these cute, cute flowers.  So today, we are giving you the step-by-step directions on how to create your own.

 
Are you ready?  These are pretty quick and so fun to do!

Gather your supplies: patterned paper, button, adhesive, 1-3/8" circle punch

 
Now, take 6 of the 7 circles you've punched and fold as shown below.

 
Now, attach the six folded circles to the seventh remaining circle.  Adhere these circles side by side working around the circle.

 
Below is the what your flower should look like once you have added all six folded circles.

 
Then add a coordinating button - hopefully not a naked button!

 
Add to your project.  We've attached ours to a 3x3 card.

 

Enjoy!  Melissa & Gayla

Freebie Friday - Pansies & FREE Stamp!

Happy Friday, everyone and welcome to the last week of April and our Freebie Friday post! This post is special because we are not only sharing with you how to make these fun little flowers, but we are also sharing one of our NEW digi stamps that we introduced on our Paper Fashions, Etc. blog earlier this month AND, that's not all.  We are offering a FREE digi download if you visit our new blog, leave us a comment here and tell us what you like best or something you would like to see us add.  Be sure to leave your email in your comment so we can send the FREE digi stamps.  

 

Today, we are going to share with you step-by-step details on how to make these easy peasy pansies!

First gather your supplies:  card stock, Stampin' Up! butterfly punch, ink, sponge daubers, Crystal Effects, brads, black marker

 
Next, punch two butterflies and add yellow to the center of each.

 
Then, sponge around the outside of the butterflies with whatever color you would like.  (For the card, we used Concord Crush.)

 
Once you have sponged these two, lay them on top of each other and add a black brad in the center.  Draw black lines on the "flower" to create the pansy look.  We have done the sample below with long lines and the card above uses smaller lines. We like both so you choose your favorite.

 
Now, add Crystal Effects with a brush lightly.

 
Let dry and add to your card. The Crystal Effects really adds a lot to the flower.  We have also included the previously shown pansy card from earlier.  These are such a fun flower!  Enjoy! 

 
 
Don't forget to visit Paper Fashions Etc. and leave us a comment for your free digi stamp!  If you would like to see the what the free digi stamp is and a small card we made with it, just visit here. Thanks for stopping!  Melissa & Gayla

Freebie Friday - Let's Celebrate Earth Day!

For our Freebie Friday project today, we thought about something that would go hand-in-hand with Earth Day and Good Friday.  So,we decided on these paper mache "re-purposed" sheet music eggs!

 
First, gather your supplies:  paper mache eggs, sheet music (or patterned paper, fabric), Mod Podge, paint brush

 
Once you have cut your sheet music in 1/2" strips, you simply cover the egg with some Mod Podge and add the strips.  Cover the strips with Mod Podge as well.  We found you need to be generous with the Mod Podge.

 
After you have totally covered your egg, put a nice coat of Mod Podge over the entire egg and allow to dry thoroughly before decorating.  Notice that we used two different colors of sheet music - one is much older.

 
To decorate our eggs, we used punches, card stock and pearls.  We used Crumb Cake and Black card stock, 5-petal flower punch and the Trio flower (retired) punch, a pearls.

 
Here are the two finished eggs!

 
Thanks for stopping!  Celebrate Earth Day by creating re-purposed projects!  Melissa and Gayla

Freebie Friday - Colored Easter Eggs

There's still time to make some of these colorful, fun, dyed Easter eggs!

To create these eggs, we used some of our stamping supplies.

First, gather your supplies:  sticker paper (we used Avery labels), punches, dye, eggs

 
Next, simply punch circles for polka dots or small flowers from your sticker paper.  We found that the stickers adhere to room temperature eggs the best.

 
Now, place your eggs in the dye and allow to sit until the desired color is achieved.

 
Pat the egg dry with a paper towel and then peel off stickers.

 
After you peel off all the stickers, you have a fun decorated egg!

 
How fun and easy were these!  You can use any size or shape of punch that you desire! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have fun making your own custom-designed eggs!

Melissa & Gayla

 
 

Freebie Friday - A Fun Way to Recycle!

What a fun way to recycle your water bottles and use them for packaging!  Can you guess how we got all the goodies inside?  Can you guess how to get them out??

 

 Well, here go!  It's as simple as this...using an Exact-o knife, make a slit in the middle of the bottle.

 

Next, slide a pair of scissors in the slit and cut around the entire bottle - cutting the bottle in half.

 

Then, fill your bottle with your goodies.  We used Easter grass and eggs.

 

Next, seal the bottle back with clear packing tape.  Be sure to keep the bottle edges together straight.

 

Now it is time to decorate.  We cut 2 strips of patterned paper and scalloped one of them.  We glued them together.  These two strips are creating the belly band around the bottle.

 

 

 

Next, we stamped, cut out, and sponged a chocolate bunny.  We added a ribbon bow.

 

We decorated the lid by punching a circle from the patterned paper and added ribbon around the edge of the lid.
 

And, like we said, its as simple as that.  Notice, we did add a little extra Easter grass under our bunny.

 
Now, go and pull out all those empty water bottles and get to creating some fun projects.  Recycle, recycle, recycle!!  These make great projects for birthday party favors or how about a scouts' craft project!

Mega Team - Melissa & Gayla

Freebie Friday - Candle Making

Candle making and there is no hot wax involved.  LOL

Today we are going to show you how to make your own paper candles.

 

Gather your supplies:  string, 3x3 patterned paper, skewer (something round), adhesive (we used Mono adhesive)

 

 Then, using the skewer roll the paper around it.  You are doing this to make the paper easier to roll.

 

 Next, run your Mono-Adhesive down the entire end.  Lay your string along this line of adhesive.

 

Keep rolling the entire length.  You will change the look of the candle by how tightly (or loosely) you roll your paper.  Of course, you can also change the look of these candles by changing the size of paper you start with.  You will run a line of Mono-Adhesive down this end as well to hold the candle closed.

 

There you have it....a fun way to create your own candles for any theme or color scheme.

 
 

Check out Two Paper Divas on Tuesday to see this card "dressed up" Divas' style.

Thanks for stopping!  Melissa & Gayla

Freebie Friday - Bunny Easter Egg holders

Today we are going to share a fun way to display your colored Easter eggs.  We are giving you directions and the pattern so you have plenty of time to make these for Easter.

 
 
To create these sweet little bunnies, you will first need to gather your supplies and print "this" patttern.  (We have included the chick holder from Two Paper Divas as well.) 

Supplies include:  White and pink card stock, punches, ribbon, and embroidery floss.

Trace and cut out the bunny on white card stock.(the ears on pink) 

 

We then ran ours through the Big Shot using a polka dot embossing folder.  This creates a fun texture on our bunny.

 

Now put his face on :)  We used the Two-Step Owl punch from SU! to create the eyes.  We found this size worked perfect.  You could use gogglie eyes.  You can go as basic or "over-the-top" as you choose.   We made an eyelid with eyelashes for ours.  (cut the large circle in half and fringe and curl for lashes.)  We used embroidery floss for his whiskers.

We also added ribbon and eyelet around the neck.

 

Add Scor-tape to one end of holder.

 
Wrap around your egg and secure. Add a pom pom or cotton ball for his tail.

 

Now, hop on over to Two Paper Divas and check out the cutest "chick" ever, that we posted yesterday.  Both patterns are available there as well. 

As always, we hope you have enjoyed your visit.  Melissa and Gayla

Freebie Friday - Paper sack purses

Happy Friday...This week's freebie is a fun paper sack purse that would be a great party favor or gift bag.

 

 

Gathering you supplies:

• Card Stock  - Pink Pirouette
• DSP - Ice Cream Parlor
• Lunch size paper sack - cut to 4" high
• Embellishments - buttons, brads, flowers, ribbon etc

 

First, cut your card stock.  One piece is 5-1/2" x 6-1/4", the other is 4-1/4" x 5-1/2".  Score the 5-1/2" x 6-1/4" piece at 2" along the 6-1/4" side.  Using an Exact-o knife, make 2 slits wide enough for your ribbon handles on the scored line.

 

After you have adhered your ribbon, glue the paper sack to this piece making sure to only glue the back of the sack.  (You want to be able to open the paper sack fully to fill it.)

  

Next glue the other piece of card stock (4-1/4" x 5-1/2" to the top of the paper sack.

 

Now, cut your patterned paper for the front, back and purse flap.  You can choose to use all the same paper or stamp on the card stock but here are the measurements we used.  The front and back pieces are 4" x 5-1/4"; the flap is 1-3/4" x 5-1/4".  Glue all these piece to your card stock.

 

 

 

We added a few of the adhesive elements from the paper pack to dress up the front of our purse.
 

We created a closure piece one of the adhesive scallops, a crocheted flower and a fabric brad.  We attached this to the center of the flap, over-hanging slightly.  The velcro piece was then added behind this piece.

 
 
 
There you have it!  Fun, fun, fun.........great for birthdays, party favors, or how about Easter!

Melissa and Gayla

 

Freebie Friday - A 6x6 Origami Fold

For this week's Freebie Friday, we made a fun Origami-folded box.

 
Gathering your supplies:

• 6x6 piece of card stock
• A scoring tool
• stamps, embellishments, etc.

 

First score your 6x6 piece of card stock and 2" increments all the way around.

 
Next you will score the four corners from the outside corner to the inside corner.  Two of the outside center square will be scored as well. (See the diagram.)  We used a foam pad, stylus and ruler.

 
When all your lines are scored your 6x6 card stock should look like this.

 
Now crease all scored lines well.

 
Cut a piece of the same or a coordinating card stock 2x4 and score in half.

 

This will be your closure flap.  Decorate one side, this will be the front cover of your box.  Glue one side to the back of your box and add a piece of velcro to hold closed.  We used the "Got Treats" set from Stampin' Up! and Whisper White card stock to decorate our box.  The twine used is some one of our new embellishments we are carrying. 

 

For the inside of our box, we covered a mint with card stock circles and attached it to a patterned paper scallop circle.

 
 
Fold the box up, with the treat inside, of course, by tucking in all the scored points into one neat little package.  The velcro holds the whole box together.

Here is another example using some of the very popular "Grunge board" from Tim Holtz.

 

 

Thanks for stopping and we hope you have enjoyed this fun box!  Melissa and Gayla