Ok, there is a story here.....ready?? My sister's cottage is under construction on the inside right now, so while I was there last week, there was only one bathroom and it didn't have a door. They had a sheet hanging for privacy (if you want to call it that! LOL) but when you wanted to go in, you had to just say "knock, knock" to see if anyone was in there. So of course, that led to knock, knock jokes....and to be honest with you, I am a terrible joke teller and story teller....so I had a couple reliable ones that I never forgot as a kid, and used those until they got sick of them. Well, my youngest niece Hailey, loved the jokes and wanted more. I kept retelling the same ones..... ugh!!! For the LIFE of me, I couldn't think of any others!! So....on our way home, I planned this book in my mind, to send to them, to hang in their bathroom, so they had a ready supply of Knock, Knock jokes! There were 20 pages, so they have 20 jokes. It was a LOT of work, but well worth it!!
The pages are coasters I "borrowed" from a restaurant (had to cover up the Coors Light logo though), covered them with DP, sanded down all the edges and corners then attached the jokes and stamps. I punched holes in all of them with my Crop-o-dile and used a binder ring to keep them all together. The DP is ALL from the Frutti Fusion pack from The Angel Company - I wanted it to coordinate, but didn't want it too girly or too boyish! I love the bright colours of this paper!
The first page used the Owl set from
Simon Says Stamp (owl & sentiment). The owl is popped up and sitting on a piece of twine.
Here are a few pages to give you the "jist" of the inner pages. I just searched Knock Knock jokes on Google and got THOUSANDS! I used stamps, stickers, die cuts...whatever I could find that sort of corresponded with the joke!
I used my Marvy punches to punch the circles too.
The dragonfly is a punch! Sort of resembles a mosquito! LOl
Here's a few more!
I love this little old lady stamp (Gina K)
This is the last page of their book!
I made another smaller version for my Simon Says Design Team. This one uses just the owls from the Owl Knock Knock set. Same DP (TAC), same idea, fewer pages! These are very time consuming - and it destroyed more than HALF of my SU sanding block...LOL
Heidi, when you get this, and if you decide to photograph it for your gallery, I would like you to keep it for Jaxon ok?? :)
I was tired of losing my "sticky notes" of things I had to do, cards I had to make, swaps I needed to finish, design team stuff to do, etc. so I made a notebook for ME!!! It was fun to finally make something for ME!!! I made all those other ones to sell, but didn't make one for me! So, here it is! I used Soft Sky DP (SU), chocolate chip & soft sky cardstock. I sponged the edges with chocolate chip and paper pieced her dress with the same DP and coloured the rest of her with SU markers. I scrounged in my prima stashes (yes, I said stashes...I have so many primas I have to store them in several different containers...LOL) and found some blue that matched the soft sky and brown flowers to match the chocolate chip. I added the little yellow flower for punch! The brown scallop layer is actually my Giga marvy punch - I punched 6 of them, then pieced them together to make a large rectangle. Why I didn't use my nestabilities.....I'm not so sure!!!
I used my SU round tab punch to make the tabs inside to try to keep it a bit more organized. I wish I had made the pages thicker but that's ok, it will do!!!
