Our Project of
the Week will fill you with creative inspiration! Don’t miss the
charming Spring Pockets created by our Associate Editor, Mona Gettman.
Created with stamps from Clearly Impressed, Somerset Artist Papers,
charms, embossing and more, these pockets are ready to be filled with
seeds, soap leaves, candy, jewelry and more. Create your own to give
as a petite gift for a wedding, Easter, or Mother’s Day or use
as a wonderful Spring decoration.
8) Stamp, collage,
and or embellish the pocket, as desired.
9) Fold smaller dimension panels into packets to hold seeds, candy, etc.
or place larger gifts directly into the pocket.
10) Attach the top panel to the pocket for a closure, as desired.
Attach blue and
cream sheets of paper from Lynn
Perrella Artist’s Papers (5SC-50100) back to back. Follow
pocket instructions to fold a pocket using the prepared paper. White-emboss
button and lace borders from Notions
4X (S7114) and Rosette Heart (M4722)
on the pocket, as shown. Apply chalks to the images to give aged effect.
Cut out a flap and the woman from the blue clip-art sheet from Lynn
Perrella Artist’s Papers. Attach the flap and woman to cream
card stock and trim the edges. Attach the woman and letters from Stone Alphabet (5EK-AXAZTS01 - Discontinued) to the flap, as shown. Attach a heart
from Stone Accents Hearts (5EK-AXACS01 - Discontinued)
and a white paper rose from Classic Accent
Kit (5PB-AKCLASS - Discontinued) to the Rosette Heart image on the pocket. Computer-generate
text on vellum and trim into a narrow strip. Glue the strip to the
pocket and accent with two paper roses from Classic Accent Kit. Place
the flap over the pocket. Punch four holes in the flap. Place two
lengths of gingham ribbon from Antique
Ribbon Kit (5MA-23192) through the holes and tie into knots, as
shown. Place a length of the same ribbon through the top holes to
create a handle and tie into a knot. Attach Pewter
Mini Heart Brads (5MA-23548) to the ribbons, as shown.
Follow pocket
instructions to fold a pocket using a transparency sheet. Fill the
pocket with chocolate eggs and iridescent shred. Staple the top edge
of the pocket. Cut out a flap panel according to the pocket instructions
using pastel blue card stock. Sponge green ink on the edges of two
grass die-cuts. Cut out a bunny and several eggs from printed paper.
Glue the cutouts and the grass to the blue flap, as shown. Sponge
violet ink on a quote sticker. Cut out each word from the quote and
attach to the blue flap. Place lengths of green and purple wire from
Dark Matte Wire (5MA-20944)
under the fold of the flap and tie into a knot to form a handle. Attach
a silk flower and leaves to the wire with a green brad. Place the
flap over the prepared pocket. Staple the flap to the pocket using
green and purple staples from Dark
Color Staples (5MA-22828).
Follow pocket
instructions to fold a pocket using a green sheet of paper from Lynn
Perrella Artist’s Papers (5SC-50100). Stamp children and
face from Vintage (J6222) with
green ink on the front panel of the pocket. Stamp clock from Time
(J6223) with green ink on the pocket. Cut out a flap panel according
to pocket directions from green corrugated paper. Swipe green ink
across the panel. Cut out hand clip-art from Lynn Perrella Artist’s
Papers. Computer-generate text on white paper and sponge with green
ink. Cut out each word and glue to the hand cutout, as shown. Attach
a green Watch Face (5SMFACES)
to the hand with a Pewter Mini Heart Brads (5MA-23548).
Apply pink pearl-ex powder to a heart cutout. Attach a paper rose
from Classic Accent Kit (5PB-AKCLASS - Discontinued)
and a piece of printed twill tape to the heart. Mount the heart to
the hand with foam tape. Mount the hand to the green flap panel with
foam tape. Punch two holes in the top edge of the flap panel. Sponge
green ink on a length of printed twill tape. Place the twill tape
through the holes in the flap and knot the ends. Sponge green ink
on two cellophane bags and wipe off excess ink. Place soap petals
in one bag and a scented wax rose in the second bag. Fold two green
panels in half. Using Typewriter Alphabet
Set (J6228), stamp text on the two panels. Stamp circle motif
from Time (J6223) with green ink
on the panels, using second generation inks. Sponge green ink on the
edges of the panels. Place the two panels over the top of the two
bags. Punch two holes in the panels and attach green brads from Brads-Circle-Watercolor
Muted (5MA-22390 - Discontinued) to the panels, as shown. Place the two prepared
bags into the pocket. Place the prepared flap over the top of the
pocket and punch two holes in the flap. Attach two green brads to
the flap.
Attach a trimmed
label panel to a glassine envelope from Glassine
Envelopes Multi-Pack (5CBMULTI) with Karen Foster Jewel Mini Brads (5KF-00121 - Discontinued). Stamp pansy randomly with lavender chalk
ink on the envelope. Heat set the images. Color the images with markers.
Sponge lavender and tan inks on the envelope. Place three peat pellets
into the envelope and tie a lavender ribbon around the envelope.
Seeds
Pocket By Mona Gettmann
Follow pocket
instructions to fold a pocket using a sheet of vellum. Stamp pansy
randomly with lavender chalk ink on the envelope. Using Typewriter
Alphabet Set (J6228), stamp the word seeds with lavender chalk
ink on the pocket. Heat set the images. Color the pansy images with
markers. Sponge lavender and tan inks on the pocket. Attach text strip
stickers to the pocket. Fill the pocket with seeds. Fold down the
top of the pocket and attach a panel of Lavender
Mesh (5MM-LAVEND). Punch two holes in the top of the pocket and
tie a lavender ribbon through the holes and into a bow.
Computer-generate
quote on a transparency sheet and trim into a rectangular panel. Attach
the prepared transparency panel to a pansy panel from Pansy 6x6 Paper Pad (5KC-624078 - Discontinued) with Antique Copper
Mini Square Brads (5MA-23746). Layer the prepared panel with a
Lavender Mesh (5MM-LAVEND) panel
to a flap cut from Garden Collage 6x6 Paper Pad (5KC-624177 - Discontinued), as shown.
Laminate two pansies from Purple/Yellow
Pansy Pressed Flowers (5KAPURPLE) and trim closely. Follow pocket
instructions to fold a pocket using a sheet of floral paper. Highlight
text with a lavender watercolor pencil. Stamp Large
Pansy Painter (G1036) on the pocket. Watercolor the image. Sponge
lavender ink along the edges of the pocket. Glue the prepared flap
to cream card stock and trim. Place the flap over the pocket and punch
two holes in the flap and the two pansies. Place the prepared seed
starter envelope and the seed pocket inside the prepared pocket. Attach
the pansies to the holes in the flap with Antique Copper Mini Square
Brads.
Follow pocket
instructions to fold a pocket using floral paper from Garden Collage 6x6 Paper Pad (5KC-624177 - Discontinued). Sponge lavender ink along
the edges of the pocket. Fill the pocket with postage stamps or a
small gift. Fold down the top edge of the pocket. Attach letters spelling
Dream from Silver Alphabet
Tiles (5ST-AC917S ) to a clip from Can
O’ Clips (5CPCANOCLIPS). Sponge black ink on the letters
to age. Attach the prepared clip and a Heart
Spiral (5SG-8116) to the pocket, as shown.
