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PoTD :: A post but no pictures!

Hi Frog-Followers, or Frog-Fans

Many of you probably know by now that Banana Frog will be closing the doors to the lilypad at the end of January. I have really enjoyed my 3 years on the Design Team - 3 years!! Time really does fly when you're having fun!
I'd like to thank Bev (Leader of the Lilypad!)(Top Froglette) for inviting me onto the DT, for being a great designer of stamps, and for generally being a bit of a superstar! lol
And thanks to all you Frog-Followers for stopping by and looking at all the DT's projects, I hope you've been inspired to go and stamp on anything and everything :o)

I'm sorry but I'm still unable to post to the blog which is a shame as this may be my last PoTD but if you head (or hop!) over to my blog (www.jofy.co.uk) you can see my post.

Take care

Jo

Project Of The Day–So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Hi Froggy people
This is my last Banana Frog post
and I wanted to show you some of my favourite creations while I have been apart of the design team.

This layout from Christmas last year

and this Christmas banner

this layout

these cards

and finally the book I have been making with the kids at school

I’d like to thank Bev for the opportunity to create for Banana Frog
and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a safe and wonderful New Year.
take care

Sharmaine

POTD - Have yourself a {black &} White Christmas

Hi all and welcome to my little corner of the Lily pad once again. Today I’d like to share a simple but stylish black and white Christmas.

In the form of these easy peasy black and white stamped cards.

The ingredients: Banana Frog stamp sets; It’s Christmas Deer, Winter Wonderland and Retro Christmas. I also used white card stock, coloured card blanks, Black archival ink, Stickles and some bright festive ribbon.

For each card I cut a white square to fit on the front of each card blank and distressed the edges to add interest. I stamped the main image in the centre with black ink and then stamped a random pattern around the edges with the same stamp.

On some more white card I stamped my sentiments and cut them out, mounting them on the same coloured card as the relevant card blank. I added a strip of festive ribbon across the card and then added the sentiment on top of it with a foam pad for a little added dimension.

And finally I picked out a few little details on each central image with some stickles, well you can’t have Christmas without a bit of glitter!

And that’s it some super simple and speedy black and white cards that have a stylish modern twist!

Well it’s time for this froglet to hop off the lily pad I’m afraid. After much soul searching and juggling of time I have decided with great sadness it is time for me to step down from the Banana Frog DT. I have had an amazing 2 and ½ years with the lovely Bev and all the other froglets and have loved sharing with all of you many stampy projects and thank you all for your lovely comments over my time on the lily pad. I’ve had a blast and I hope to continue seeing you all in cyber space.

Much love MJM x

Project of the Day :: Its a wrap

I have been unable to post my project here today (a problem with Typepad), so if you would like to see my project you can find it HERE

I hope you can take a look - don't forget to go and check out the Banana Frog shop - lots of lovey new stuff has been added!

Jo  x

Christmas Cards–Project Of The Day

‘tis that season again
The season of Christmas card making
I’m slowly making a few and today I wanted to show you this one

I love the layers
Super Stars stamps I stamped straight on to the card as well as 2 that I stamped on to plain white cardstock and I then used some foam tape to give 2 stars some height and dimension
Retro Christmas stamp “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” I heat embossed in white
So as you can see I am off to a slow start
But it’s a start
How about you?
Have you made a start on making some Christmas cards??

Sharmaine

POTD - Lost in space

Hi all, it’s my turn on the Lilly pad today and I’d like to share with you this fun little project

It is a box you’ll see the sides further down. Unfortunately the naughty technical gremlins ate the rest of my photos so I’m afraid for this post I don’t have any step by steps but I know you clever crafters out there will work it out! All you will need is the retro space stamp set, some card, a star shaped box (I made my own from blue card) coloured markers, distress ink, silver pen, dark blue embossing powder, coloured ribbons and a permanent ink pad.

I created a star shaped box and before I assembled it I did some stamping on the top and around the sides while it was flat. I used some distress ink to add some depth of colour and stamped the different sized stars with the same ink to create a background pattern. I then created all the embellishments on scraps of card using the embossing powder for the planet and space ship outlines, coloured everything in and then cut them out.

I assembled the box, decorated the top and then stamped some ribbon with one of the sentiments using permanent ink to trim the sides.

And that’s it a funky gift box that’s out of this world! (see what I did there LOL) Go grab some BF stamps now, there’s a crazy sale on, and get creating!

Thanks for hopping by and until soon, as ever, Happy Stamping

Love MJM x

Project Of The Day : Journal

Hi Sharmaine here
I’ve been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to do some scrapbooking with the Grade 6 kids at our school
We’ve been working on some journals

we have been filling them with all sorts of things
memories, events, goals

For my “things I did'” page I included some Super Stars
in the way of the very cool scribble stars

Love the effect they give

Till next time, stay happy and stay scrappy
Sharmaine

POTD - A spooky twist

Hi all, it’s my turn to share a project of the day with you and I cannot believe it’s October already! As we’re coming up to that spooky time of year I thought I would do a spooky twist on this project that I did way back last summer.

 
I’ve only used one stamp set for this project, Fairytale Princess with some coloured card, co-ordinating distress inks, pro-markers and a photocopier!

 
I stamped the castle image onto some white card with black ink and then took the image to a photocopier, enlarging it by 175%. I printed this into some green card 4 times and when I cut the images out made sure I added tabs to the bottom edge of all 4 and to the two sides of two of them so I can join them together as a square.

 
I also printed an enlarged image onto some white paper a couple of times so I had a template for embellishing the castle. I cut out the sections and cut out 4 of the larger arched windows to make green ones to cover the central heart window (not very spooky!) I also picked out some details with pro markers and coloured in the windows (you could of course cut them out)

 
I joined all the sides together and then cut a base out of green card to add to the bottom. Using my paper templates I built up sections on the castle in different coloured cardstock, using distress ink around the edges to add definition and also added them on foam pads to add dimension.

 
And that’s it a cute spooky castle! This would make a great little table decoration filled with Halloween goodies for a grown up party or why not add a handle and give it out to special trick or treaters. Whatever you choose to do I hope you feel inspired to look at your Banana Frog stamps with a new eye, maybe not seeing the obvious, and get creative?

Thanks for hopping by and until soon Happy Crafting

Love MJM x

 

Project of the day: stamp - cut - create

Hi everyone,

It's Lory here and I miss Banana Frog blog from a while but I am here now with a new cool article to share with you all! A lot of things happened in my life lately but I couldn't wait to restart to blog here!

For this article I dedicated a day to make cards, relaxing and having fun! So close your eyes, forget your bad thoughts and let's be guided from your immagination.

Materials you need:

• Banana Frog build a cupcake stamps set, cake and words (all the stamps used in my cards are from BF, I am completely addicted!)
• punches of your choise
• pink and brown cardstock 
• patterned papers
• your favourite embellishments
• scissor
• 3d double side tape
• double side taper
• ribbons or baker's twines
• buttons
• watercolor pencils
• inks

Let's start I want to show you 4 cards, keep in mind that the point is havng fun using stamps with different tecniques.

Use two different color inks to create a cupcake, stamp on two different cardstock, pink and brown. one for the top, the other for the bottom.

You have two cupcakes, one pink and the other brown.

Cut from the the pink the top and stick it on the brown cupcake using 3d double tape.

Finish the cupcake using brads or button to embellish;)

I want to show you my cards :)

Thank to the fun stamps by BF I discovered to love the cardmaking! Give it a try!

Have a wonderful week.

Love Lory

Project of the Day: Something Fun

Hi Everyone, welcome to my project of the day.  I hope you like what I've done this month, it's been a really fun project to do, using just one set of stamps, Steelfish Outline.  And without further ado, here it is.....

A cute set of alphabet fridge magnets and this is how you make them.  First stamp your letters on plain white card, you may want to think beforehand about what letters you want, I did the whole alphabet but you may want to do extra vowels, certain letters to spell out your family's names or anything you fancy.  I used black Stazon.

Colour in the letters, using whatever colours you want.

Next mount them onto funky foam, I used the stuff that is magnet backed.

You then need to cut the letters out, the great thing about these stamps is that they are pretty easy to cut out, no little fiddly bits!

If you haven't used magnetic foam you will need to add your own magnets at this point.  I also gave mine a quick coat of mod podge to make them a little more robust.  And that's it...simple!!

They will brighten up your fridge....but please, no rude words!!!

xxxx