I was having a hard time coming up with a "wow" project for my last stamp camp on how to use the Big Shot machine. My friend and team member, Jen Rios-Raner, came up with a darling Big Shot brag book using the Cottage Wall designer series paper. I decided to CASE her project with a few minor changes. Here's what mine looks like:
I started out by cutting the cover to the book using the Top Note Die and the Big Shot Die Cutting Machine. I cut a piece of Thick Window Sheets, a piece of Long Board chipboard from the On Board Book Basics and a piece of Whisper White card stock. I ran the Thick Window Sheet through the Big Shot by itself, but I was able to cut everything else all together in one "shot"--no pun intended! All of the designer series paper came from the pack called Pink Flamingo. The "things i love . . ." saying came from the Things I Love stamp set and was stamped in Real Read Classic Ink. The flower images is from Simply Said stamp set and were stamped in Summer Sun Classic Ink and Black Staz-On Ink. I found this stamp set coordinated beautifully with the designer paper. Before assembling all the pieces, I wrapped a piece of 1/4" Tempting Turquoise Grosgrain Ribbon with a Flower Ribbon Slide from the Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware set around the center and tucked in the edges. The only thing holding the Window Sheet in place is this ribbon and the ring at the top, but that seemed like enough. I was able to punch through all the layers with the Crop-A-Dile. Would you like to see inside?
There's some tone-on-tone stamping on the Summer Sun card stock using the VersaMark pad and the flower again from the Simply Said stamp set. The right-hand side features a stem from For All You Do stamp set stamped in Whisper White Craft Ink and heat embossed with White Emboss Powder and the Heat Tool. I added 2 Summer Sun flowers punched out with the Trio Flower Punch, then added Real Red Brads from the Bolds Brights Brads pack using my Paper Piercing Tool and Mat Pack. Now on to the next page!
Here I've stamped a different flower image from Simply Said in VersaMark on the Tempting Turquoise card stock. The hearts are also from Simply Said, stamped in Real Red Classic Ink on some Cameo Coral Designer Paper from Pink Flamingo.
Hearts from Simply Said are stamped in Real Red Classic Ink on Real Red card stock on the left. The right-hand page was created using Tempting Turquoise card stock and a piece of polka dot designer paper from Pink Flamingo. I stamped the "Always" image from the stamp set called Always with Real Red Classic Ink, punched it out with a Circle Punch then punched out a slightly larger circle in Summer Sun card stock to back. I tucked in a piece of 3/4" Polka Dot Grosgain Ribbon in Real Red and adhered everything with Dimensionals.
Here's a simple layout--the left side is Cameo Coral card stock stamped with VersaMark and an image from Simply Said. The right side is a terrific piece of designer paper from Pink Flamingo.
This is the back of the book. Again, I cut a piece of Long Board chipboard and used this gorgeous designer paper in Summer Sun from my Pink Flamingo package of paper. This paper worked perfectly for this project! So many choices and so many colors!
The ladies who attended the class just loved this project! They made this in about an hour! The Big Shot makes all your projects just fly! Can't you just see how darling this little book would be filled with all your favorite photos of the things you love?
- Item No. 113439 Big Shot Die-Cut Machine $99.95
- Item No. 113463 Top Note Die $21.95
- Item No. 113976 Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper $9.95
- Item No. 115066 Simply Said stamp set $28.95
- Item No. 113620 Always stamp set $28.95






