The Polka Cabana

When is a circle not a circle?

polkacabana — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:52:03 +0000

Do you like that title? When is a circle not a circle? When it is a square!!!

The reason that’s my title is because the main part of this card is made out of the

I wanted to point out a couple of things about the REFLECTIONS DIES.

They are very versatile, you can mix and match the sets, you can use them for cards, scrapbook pages and even sentiments and tags.

This card not only uses the Scalloped Circle Reflections set, but also the Mini Pearl French Flair set.

On the dark blue base you can see how elegant the Mini Pearl French Flair is.

I also used the Mini Pearl French Flair to create all my sentiment tags.

The tags were then embellished with rub-ons, Flourish Leaf Strip, Pretty Petal and mini pearls.

Here you can see how this unique card opens up.

You can see how the card is created with the 4 circles.

It is opened and closed the same way you open and close a packing type box.

Here is the inside all decorated also.

I just love this type of card!

I hope you can see just how much fun you can have with our Reflections Dies. The possibilities are endless. It is like buying 3 types of dies all in one shot. Scrapbooking, card making and tag/sentiment dies all in one!

Have you been over to our challenge blog?

Our new theme is FOR THE GRAD.

Be sure to head on over there and check out the inspiration that our DT has for you.

Join in the fun for a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree at Cherry Lynn Dies.

This has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

Wednesday Wowzer

polkacabana — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:42:39 +0000

It has been a whirlwind of a week for me and things have calmed slightly enough for me to create for today’s post.

Today I am using one of my favorite {ippity} sets called:

Flowers + Friends = Priceless

I made this card to go along with the challenge over on the

Get Hippity with Ippity site

Challenge 21 called Flower & Leaf.

I call this card a 4 square card.

By no means did I make the card up, but the directions I had from a well published book were so lousy,

I had yo recreate the card by sheer luck.

It gathers and closes and opens like a box lid. Here is what it looks like on the inside opened up.

You can put what ever kind of sentiment or note you want to on the inside.

On the front you have 4 mini panels to decorate.

You can use it as a large panel or break it down into 4 small ones like I have.

What do you think?

Isn’t this a cute card and pattern? And those flower stamps?? Get OUT!! They are the best!!

Gotta love {ippity}!

I also want to point out the delectable goodies from these other companies I am using with this project.

All embossing powders are by Wow Embossing Powders. Love the glitter ones especially!!

All paper is from Momenta. Kaleidascope

Square die and floral embossing plate by Cheery Lynn Designs.

This has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

Camellia Botanical “Faux” Print

polkacabana — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:56:40 +0000

I have always loved the Antique Botanical Prints, such as the one below that I found on

http://www.greyparrotgallery.com/.

My project today was based on these types of prints.

I made this on a piece of 6 x 12 MDF board.

I used antique sheet music, decorative paper, paint and rub-ons for the base.

To create my Camellias, I used the following dies:

Build a Flower #1, Fanciful Flourish, Scalloped Circle Reflections Dies and Stacker Flower #6.

For the wording “camellia” and the letter “c” I used the following dies:

Scalloped Square, Lowercase Lace Script and Optimistic Font.

Camellias are one of my favorite flowers, ever and since my camellia has recently died, this was a labor of love for me.

Even thought Cheery Lynn Designs does not have a Camellia Die, I bet you wouldn’t know it by looking at my flowers, agree?

It is so much fun to dream up your own patterns and ideas.

With Cherry Lynn Designs many different floral dies, you can almost make any flower you can dream up!

Be sure and see all our new release dies. They are on the shopping website now. You can find that link HERE.

Also be sure to get in on our new challenge on the challenge blog. This weeks category is:

BLING IT UP.

I hope you have enjoyed my post today.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

Wednesday Wowzer Banner

polkacabana — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:01:02 +0000

Today I am using the {ippity} set called New Season, New Wonder.

I am using these mini gift card sized bags from CANVAS CORP as my base.

I thought this would be so cute using nice bright summer colors.

Using powders from WOW EMBOSSING POWDERS was the perfect touch since I had some vibrant colored powders to choose from.

I embellished a little with some puffy stickers I had from MOMENTA.

The puffy fruit stickers were the perfect finishing touch.

These bags are the perfect size to create a banner that is not overwhelming in size.

I hope you have enjoyed this idea of mine!

Do you love banners like I do?

Now…where should I hang this?? hmmm??

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

Cheery Lynn Designs May 2012 New Release Dies

polkacabana — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:35:11 +0000

Well, it is time again to shout to the world that Cheery Lynn Designs has another set of incredibly tempting dies that are being released to the public today!

We have lace and fairies and alphabets and fish and flowers and leaves and so much more!

For the card below, I am using the following new dies:

KOI FISH and LOWERCASE LACE SCRIPT.

I have also used ECCENTRIC CIRCLES EMBOSSING PLATE and WITTLE WEAVERS.

I used a play on the word KOI with my card.

The front reads “Let’s be KOI”

This is the inside, a quote that a friend had sent me and it worked perfectly for the inside of my card.

One last look.

For this card, I am using the fabulous new release die called: WINDOW C.

I had so much fun with this die.

My scene is peaking through the window, as you can see.

A closer look at the beach scene.

Instead of just using this as a window, I created a door/shutter effect by opening up the window down the middle.

When the front is opened it reveals the whole scene and the phrase.

I used the AT THE BEACH die for the inside of the card.

Here it is all tied up again.

This last project is made with a CHUNKY CANVAS from no other than the divine CANVAS CORP.

The new release dies I have used are: ONE FREE WISH and FLOURISH LEAF STRIP.

The other dies I used are : WITTLE WEAVERS and MEDIUM ROSE.

I just love this. It is not my normal color scheme, but it is one of my favorite things I have made.

As always, I drew inspiration from the little image in the bottom right by Mary Engelbreit.

I did lots of paper piecing on the ONE FREE WISH to create a truly one of a kind image.

Now I am just giving you a sampling of the new dies. To see the whole New Release, be sure to head on over to Cheery Lynn Designs.com.

I would love for you to see what other things our Design Team has come up with, so be sure to go check out the inspiration from our blog.

Have a great day and thank you for stopping by, get on over and see the fun stuff in the store and on the blog!

Summer Fun Banner

polkacabana — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:30:07 +0000

Today I have such a fun project for you to try!

I love using the Reflections Dies in their full size, but they are tons of fun when you just use the halves too!

I am using the Scalloped Oval set on this banner.

I used my digital papers from Echo Park, and created lots of bright and colorful layers as my banner base.

The top tiered portion of the banner is made with the Pennant die.

On the individual banner pieces I embellished each letter with the following dies:

Flip Flops, At the Beach and Little Pink Bicycle.

For the letters I used the Optimistic Font on top of layers of Scalloped Circles.

I love all the bright and cheery colors in this!

It is always fun for me to think of new ways to use supplies and I am very happy with how this turned out.

Now, moving on, have you checked out our new challenge on the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge Blog?

The Challenge this week is Shades of Purple.

I came across and adorable, simple card design and wanted to make this design to show you all.

Here is the card original.

Here is my PURPLE version of the same design.

For this card I used the following dies:

Scalloped Rectangles for the card mats, Black Eyed Susans and Wood Grain Embossing Plates.

Also I used the Pennant die again because I love that die!

Lots of purple:)

What do you think you can come up with for our challenge?

We’d love to see you link up with us. Remember there is a $20.00 gift certificate to the lucky winner of the challenge!

I hope you have enjoyed my post today, this has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana, have a great Friday.

Mary Engelbreit meets {ippity}, Polka style!!

polkacabana — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:04:24 +0000

For those of you who know my tastes and styles a little, it should come as no surprise how much I over the top, totally and forever LOVE MARY ENGELBREIT, right?

Well today I am using a card pattern I have from one of her books.

It is a tri-fold card.

Here is the front of the card.

I am using the set called Something Groovy.

One of my favorite things to do is to use my Mary Engelbreit calendars for my cards and things

I was not quite sure if I could find a picture that went along with this 70′s inspired Something Groovy stamp set…but I did! (I think the girl is PERFECT for this card!)

The center portion of the card is a pocket.

All my bright and fun paper is from

MOMENTA PAPER, from the Kaleidoscope line.

This is the saying that was on the calendar page I used, it goes perfect with the theme of the card.

Here is the card all laid open.

Here it is folded back up.

Standing up, so you can get an idea of how it is made.

This was such a fun project to make!

I hope you have enjoyed this card!

This has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

Criss Cross Bliss Card

polkacabana — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:42:32 +0000

I came across an awesome tutorial for this Criss Cross card.

You can find the link HERE.

I do have to warn you, I don’t think the directions are very accurate.

After a few revisions, I came up with this lovely card to share today.

This card is one of those things that after I am done, I could kick myself for not writing down the dies I used as I was going along.

I will try my best to let you know all of the dies I used. On the card base I used:

ZIG ZAG RIC RAC, SWEDISH SPRING OVAL AND QUEEN ANNE’S LACE.

For the band around the card I used FRANCESCA BORDER, TIFFANY BORDER AND BORDER CARNIVALE.

The sentiment focal point attached to the band, I used the following dies:

SCALLOPED OVAL, MINI FLOURISH ONE, BUTTONS 1, BLACK EYED SUSANS EMBOSSING PLATE, MEDIUM ROSE AND MINIATURE ROSE.

Here is the card with the band removed, you can see the Criss Cross Base in back.

All the paper is the brand new line from Authentique Paper called:

CAREFREE

I love the way this turned out and I think it would make a perfect Mother’s Day card.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today.

Have you visited our Challenge blog? Enter the challenge for a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs.

Our current theme is FLOWERS.

I think I did pretty good for the theme this week;)

Hope you have a great weekend.

This has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

Manly Word Games Card

polkacabana — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:10:48 +0000

Today I am using a set I just received called: Where You Should Be

I wanted to be part of 2 different challenges with this. One challenge is for the Unity Opportunity Blog.

It is their NOTHING GIRLY challenge.

The other challenge is over on Practical Scrappers. The Challenge is called WORD GAMES.

It was quite a challenge not to incorporate Nothing Girly on here, but I think I did alright!

The WORD GAME challenge was a fun one to follow to.

So there you have it, my Wednesday Wowzer. I just love working with {ippity} stamps, if you have not had a chance, you are really missing out!

This has been Jeannie DeGruccio from The Polka Cabana with today’s post.

My last Gel A Tins post

polkacabana — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:30:23 +0000

This is a bittersweet post. My term is up this month with Gel A Tins stamps and I completely missed the Team Call for the next term

I have had a ton of fun creating with these adorable stamps.

I have to say my favorite thing about Gel A Tins is the fact they come in this wonderful Tin.

Storage is pretty easy when your stamps come in their own storage system.

Today I am using the set called Sugar & Spice.

I am also using the Mojo Monday Sketch # 238.

Here is my card for today:)

I looked at the sketch and knew that I wanted to try using my Mini Polaroid die for this card.

It a very simple color scheme and I think it is a fun variation of the Mojo Monday sketch.

Just using white embossing powder, I was able to keep the black and white theme for the card.

But there is never a problem with a splash of pink, right?

So there you have it: My last card for the wonderful and generous people over at Gel A Tins stamps.

I have had a lot of fun here and hope that you have enjoyed the things I have shared.

This has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today’s post.