Dec 24, 2013 | Christmas, My Digital Studio, Weekly Deals |
Merry Christmas everyone!
I hope you have a happy holiday with family and friends. I probably won’t be posting anything for a few days.
As for Tell Me Tuesday – There should be new weekly deals – I haven’t had a chance to check them out. There are new My Digital Studio downloads and there will be new items posting in a few days to the Clearance Rack. If you want to look at them now check out my online store – SHOP HERE.
I’ll give you the details after Christmas – nothing urgent to look at for the next couple of days. Enjoy time with your family.
Dec 23, 2013 | Christmas, Tags |
Are you finishing your Christmas wrapping or are you already done? If you are working on yours (like I am) here is an idea for some gift tags for you. I used the Pop & Place Holiday Gift Tag bundle for this project. I added a couple of other things to complete this project – a half-size wood mount stamp case, a piece of Season of Style Designer Series paper, some card stock and some Baker’s Twine. The project is a box packed full of gift tags….
I used a half-sized wood mount stamp case – insert a piece of the Season of Style Designer Series paper into the cover. The front is decorated with 1/2 of a top note tag that came in the Pop & Place Gift Tag booklet. I cut the letters TAGS with the Big Shot from Cherry Cobbler card stock and also stamped a couple of the images to add to the front.
Inside the case you’ll find a whole bunch of tags.
I used the tags in the Pop & Place booklet and the matching Photopolymer stamp set. Out of one booklet I was able to create 4 sets of the tags shown here.
- I added some Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler card stock and Baker’s Twine.
- The Crumb Cake tags are corner rounded with the Envelope Punch Board.
- The Cherry Cobbler tags are cut with the Chalk Talk Framelits.
Today I took Ryan to get his wisdom teeth out. He did good in the surgery, not quite so good once we got in the car – let’s just say I turned the car around and back into the parking space – ran inside for paper towels and the nurses came back out and took him back inside. I tried to do some cleaning – ended up getting a large garbage bag, many paper towels and some disinfectant for the smell. Finally we headed back home, got him settled on the couch and he slept with ice packs on his face. Later Greg took my car and had it cleaned – inside and outside! I guess that’s an early Christmas present from Ryan to me.
Off to see what else I need to do for Christmas – wrapping presents and adding my gift tags is one! And I’m finishing laundry…..
Planning to be back tomorrow with another post. See you then!
Dec 20, 2013 | Christmas, Envelope Punch Board, Holiday Catalog 2013 |
I love my Envelope Punch Board from Stampin’ Up! Not only can you make envelopes with it but look at this cute box that you can make!
Our double-sided Designer Series Paper is perfect for this project. I used a 6″ x 6″ piece of paper so that means you can get 4 boxes from each sheet of Designer Series paper. Here is how I made it –
- Start with a 6″ x 6″ piece of Designer Series Paper.
- Line it up at the 2″ mark on the Envelope Punch Board and punch and then score it.
- Slide it over to the 4″ mark and punch and score again.
- Turn the paper and repeat on the next side. Do it again on the other two sides. Now your paper has two diagonal scores lines on each side.
- Now use the corner rounder and round all four corners.
- It should look like this (I marked the score lines on this sample with a black sharpie so you could see them)
- Next you need to fold on all the score lines.
- Now you are going to fold in the corners of the box by taking the rectangle sections and bringing them together so that it creates a fold in the little triangle between each pair of punches. I added the sharpie here on this picture so you can see where those are.
- Punch holes in each of the corners so that you can pull your ribbon through to tie the box shut.
- On my example I used the Natural Ribbon to tie the box shut
- Add a tag – this one is from the Perfectly You Hostess stamp set in the Holiday Catalog.
Fill the box with a little treat before you close it up. Some candy canes or chocolates.
Well it may be late in the day but I got a second post done after my shopping today. I am almost done with all the Christmas shopping.
Dec 20, 2013 | Banner Kit, Christmas, Holiday Catalog 2013 |
Being sick just before Christmas was not good. I’ve neglected to do many things. Posting to my blog has been one of those things. I do have Christmas projects to share – but getting them photographed, edited and posted here on my blog has just not been happening. ugh! And now Christmas is almost here. I still have shopping to do to. So I’m going to write this quick post and then go out and try to get that done. And maybe I’ll write a second post tonight when I get home and share another project with you.
HO, HO, HO!! I love this pouch made with the Simply Created Banner Kit.
I got this idea from Patty Bennett and her Halloween pouches that she made a couple of months ago. I used the Simply Created Banner Kit and the Santa’s List stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog.
Here are some tips –
- I use Washi Tape to hold the stencils in place over my canvas banner piece. And then use a Sponge Dauber with the ink pad to stencil the pattern.
- Use Gumball Green ink for the chevron stencil
- Use Cherry Cobbler ink for the letter stencils
- I used and Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker to create faux stitching around the edges.
- Cut a piece of card stock the same width as the banner piece. Add Sticky Strip to the sides and bottom of the back side of the banner. Then adhere that to the card stock piece. After it was attached I trimmed the bottom of the card stock to match the banner.
- Add ribbon through the grommets in the banner.
- Stamp the Santa image, punch out, mat on Cherry Cobbler, color in a touch and attach to the banner with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Stamp the Ho Ho Ho image (from Oh, Goodie stamp set) and punch out with the bitty label punch and add it to the Santa circle.
Fill the pouch with something fun. In the picture there are just a few candy canes in there but something more will fit in there – I just didn’t have anything on hand. Hang it on a doorknob to leave a little surprise for some one. It could be a secret Santa surprise for you neighbor or co-worker. Enjoy!
Dec 16, 2013 | Christmas, class, Holiday Catalog 2013 |
This really doesn’t have anything to do with the 7 dwarfs – but that is what keeps going through my head – Sleepy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Weepy – but that is how i have been feeling the last few days and I need to find Doc so I can be Happy – well I sort of made up Weepy – #7 is really Bashful which just didn’t fit into my feelings right now. Anyway I’m sick. My best friend right now is a box of tissues – well several – one in every room. And I have been very unproductive! Which is not good right now since there is much still to do before Christmas gets here. Ugh….
Here is a project for you. On Friday morning I did have my Tags & Treats class which was a lot of fun. And I wasn’t feeling to terribly bad at that point. This is one of the projects we made – it’s the Festive Flurry Ornament Kit – the kit comes with everything you need except a hot glue gun to make 10 of these beautiful snowflakes. I used one as a tag on a white gift bag – it was perfect!
the pieces in the kit are already printed, die-cut and scored. Even the Silver Glitter piece is pre-scored. So you just do all the folding and put it together with a hot glue gun and your good to go. If you didn’t want to order the kit you could create the same thing using the Festive Flurry Stamp set and Framelit bundle – it would just take you much longer to get it all stamped, cut, scored and folded but it can be done.
Have a nice day and I hope all the dwarf thoughts leave my head by tomorrow.
Dec 12, 2013 | Christmas, Demonstrator, Holiday Catalog 2013, Tags |
Did you see the Stamp A Tag Kit in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalog?
It has everything you need to make a pile of tags for your Holiday Gifts.
I decided to use the kit in my Team Meeting this past weekend. So I added a few things so that I would have enough for everyone that attended. Basically each box was shared by 2 people. But I still wanted them to have something cute to put their tags in. This is what I came up with –
Here are the details:
- I pulled out some little square window tins that I had in my craft closet
- Cut a 1″ strip of Season of Style Designer Paper – wrapped it around the base of the tin and secured it with sticky strip.
- On the lid wrap a piece of Brown Sugar Ruffled ribbon. It’s just tied in a knot on the front. and also secured with some sticky strip.
- for the tags – I alternated the stamp images in Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive
- to step up the tags I pulled out the Mini Merrys Punch Set and punch from coordinating card stock the star and the tree and added them to each tag with a bit of Stampin’ Dimensional. A very simple addition to these fun little tags.
I hope you like this fun take on the Stamp a Tag Kit.
