CASED: Vertical Sticky Note Pad & Pen Holder

Earlier this month I went to a crafting Play Date held by the lady that runs the monthly Stampin Up class I go to, and we played with the new Peaceful Poppies suite. I was in a bit of a daze and only really did some stamping and die cutting whilst everyone else was making full cards. partly due to the fact that I'd forgotten to take card blanks with me and my watercolour pencils doh!

I bought a selection of the 6" x 6" papers from the collection to bring home to play with, and brought home the bits I stamped and cut and over the past week I've been playing with them to make cards.

I was browsing Pinterest looking for some ideas at the weekend and this lovely project popped up by Rachel Tessman of Stamp Your Art Out using the SU Peaceful Poppies papers, I decided to have a go at creating one. The first one didn't turn out so well because I did the measurements wrong and the resulting project was slightly narrower than it should be, luckily it still allowed the post it notes and pen to fit in so I used it anyway.

All the measurements and info can be found on Rachel's blog post for the Vertical Sticky Note Pad & Pen Holder and in the video below. I've ordered some fun mini pens in a variety of colours off Ebay for making more and some more post it note pads as well. These can be made in all colours and for lots of different occasions.

A point to note though, in the video Rachel uses sheets of card that are US sized 8½" X 11" and she gets both panels needed from her sheet. However if you are in the UK and buy your card stock from a UK SU demonstrator (or use any UK A4 card for your holders) your sheets will be A4 (8.3" × 11.7") so not long enough width ways for the job. You would need to use two sheets of card stock and cut it lengthways to get the same length that Rachel uses.

You can get round this by cutting your panels at 8.3" (which is almost 8¼) and for the back piece cut at 8" all the other measurements are the same. The amended measurements for UK A4 card stock are as follows: -

• Front Piece that forms the pocket and front of the holder: 5½” x 8.3" scored parallel to short end at 2¼” and 2¾” and scored parallel to long end on each side at ⅜″ and ⅞″
• Back Piece that forms the back and stand 3½″ x 8″ scored parallel to short end at ½″, 1½″ and 2½″

All the other measurements are the same, what you will end up with is holders that are approx 8¼" high instead of 8½".

As well as the holders I did make some cards this week using the stamped panels I made and papers I bought at the Play date.

This first set were really simple to make, I just cut a sheet of 6" x 6" Peaceful Poppies paper up and added the larger section to a card blank I made from Rich Razzleberry cardstock and stamped a simple sentiment on it.

The remaining piece I used to make a bookmark and trimmed it with some wool scraps, again a stamped sentiment and the finished bookmark is good to go. Both were very, very quick makes and perfect for when you have flagging mojo.

I stamped one of the poppy images several time, coloured with SU watercolour pencils, the top one is stamped direct to the card panel, I added a sentiment and matted the panel on to black and then a silver card base then added a few black iridescent gems to the centre.

The second card I stamped the leaves in water based dye ink and then used a water brush to pull the green out from the edges to colour the leaf. I stamped the other poppies on a separate piece of card, coloured them and then fussy cut them out.
I made a card blank from Old Olive card stock and added a mat of black card and I stuck the leaf panel to the top of both.

I then adhered the sentiment panel to the card and added the fussy cut poppies to the card, again adding some black gems to the centre. I really love this poppy collection, its so versatile, when I first saw the dies I thought I wouldn't want all of them, but now I've had a chance to use them I can see that I do, I'm looking forward to next months play date already and craft class this week :)