Dec 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Christmas, Punch Art |
Have you made your list? Have you checked it twice?
I don’t know about you but I am a list person. I like to make lists – grocery lists, things to do lists, and right now I have Christmas lists, and lists for what to get from the new mini catalog and for Sale-a-bration. Lists need to be kept in a notebook and not just any notebook but a really cute one. And there is no better way to make a cute notebook then to decorate it with your Stampin’ Up! Supplies. I saw this cute idea on one of my yahoo groups – it was shared by Cindee Wilkinson – and she said she got the idea from Kelly Mayou. So thank you ladies for a cute little project and place to keep my holiday lists!
It is a Santa Notebook. I just bought some notebooks from the local store. I used Stampin’ Up! card stock, punches and my Big Shot to dress it up using the ideas that Cindee and Kelly had shared.
Starting with his beard – it is Whisper White card stock that I ran through the Big Shot with the Swirly Texturz Plate. I sponged the edges of all the white pieces with Bashful Blue ink.
His face is Blushing Bride card stock. That was sponged with Blushing Bride ink – and I rubbed real hard where I wanted the cheeks to be. For the rest of his face I used punches. Eyes – Whisper White, Marina Mist, Basic Black and a white gel pen highlight. Mustache is Whisper White – the 1-3/4″ circle cut in half – I probably should have textured that piece too but I didn’t. The nose is Blushing Bride and the tongue is Real Red.
The Hat is Real Red – the triangle piece was run through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry Textured Impressions folder. The edges are sponged with Early Espresso. I also added some Whisper White punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch and tucked it under the face. The Pompom is Whisper White piece that I put in the Northern Flurry Textured Impressions folder and then punched out.
It’s a pretty quick and easy project and the perfect home for all of your Holiday Lists.
Happy Holidays!
Dec 15, 2010 | Big Shot, Christmas, Scrapbook Pages |
I have another fun Christmas Scrapbook Layout to show you today. This was the second layout for my scrapbook class earlier this month.
This is my Gingerbread House layout. You could use other titles on this – Gingerbread Boy, Gingerbread Cookies, Holiday Sweets, Cookie Exchange, etc. My other thought was to take the white gel pen and right above where it says “Gingerbread” and write “The story of the…..”
I haven’t decided for sure which pictures I’m putting on this page – either pictures from one Christmas of one Gingerbread house or pictures of our Gingerbread houses from several years. If I do that I’ll add another ‘s” to the end of house. I remember growing up and every December we had Gingerbread houses all over our house – why you might ask? My dad is a baker (retired now) and had a German bakery near our house. In December he made and sold lots of Gingerbread houses – my mom decorated them at our house and then they took them back to the bakery for everyone that placed orders. I’ll have to ask him how many houses he used to make each year. I wonder if we have pictures from back then of the Gingerbread houses all over our house.
This layout also came from a sketch that I saw in a scrapbook magazine. The base is Chocolate Chip. I started by adding the Real Red piece which has the white gel pen stitching on one side. Next to it I added a piece of Wild Wasabi that was wheeled with the Retro Remix Stampin’ Around Wheel and Wild Wasabi ink.
I cut two Top Notes using the Big Shot and Crumb Cake card stock – each one was cut in half. The edges were sponged with Chocolate Chip ink and then I added some doodling with the white gel pen. Three of these were tucked just under the edge of the Real Red card stock. On the center one is the saying from the Sweet Season stamp set – colored with Stampin’ Write markers on Whisper White card stock and punched out with the Decorative Label punch.
The title is Crumb Cake card stock cut with the GoGo Boots Alphabet Sizzlits die set and the Big Shot. These are also lightly sponged with Chocolate Chip ink (you have to be gentle so you don’t tear them) and the I added some highlights with the white gel pen.
The Chocolate Chip strip has the Gingerbread Man accent – he is from the Got Treats? stamp set. The punches are 2-1/2″ Circle in Wild Wasabi, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle in Chocolate Chip, 1-3/4″ Circle in Real Red, and 1-3/8″ Circle punch in Whisper White. The Gingerbread Man is stamped with Chocolate Chip ink and then I punched tiny buttons using the Crop-a-Dile – one in each color and glued them on. There is stitching and doodling with the white gel pen. And Got Merry? punched with the Word Window punch.
The right page mimics the left side except over here I have a smaller strip of the Wild Wasabi and one giant Top Note.
Create a template by taking a Top Note and enlarging it on a copy machine to fit on an 8-1/2 x 11 piece of paper. Cut that out and transfer the design to a piece of card board – I use the pieces that come in my Designer Series Paper packs. Cut that out and then you have it for tracing on your card stock and it last for you to use over and over again. I traced it on a piece of Crumb Cake card stock and cut it out, sponged the edges and added the white gel pen stitching.
Then to finish it I punched two holes with the crop-a-dile and pulled through a piece of the wide striped Real Red ribbon. If you start by pulling both ends through from the front to the back – then cross them and pull each end back from the back to the front. Adjust it and trim the ends and it looks like a piece of wrapped peppermint candy.
I hope you like it. I thought it was a fun layout for the holidays!
So I have a few quick family updates on the boys in case you are interested….from youngest to oldest…
Ryan – he found out this week that his braces are ready to come off – he only got them on in January this year – unfortunately he has finals this week and we could not work out his schedule with their schedule so he will get them off as soon as they get back to work in January.
Tyler – he found out that he was accepted at Kennesaw State University – I may have already told you that it was a couple of weeks ago. So number two will be in college this fall.
Kyle – he found out that he got a job as a teaching assistant for one of the computer science classes at Ga Tech for next semester. Very exciting since he is my quiet child and he just told us that he applied for the job when I took him back to school after Thanksgiving. There were 51 applicants for 7 slots. He’ll be home from college this Friday.
We have ice here tonight (Wednesday night) – the boys are waiting to hear if school is canceled for tomorrow – not sure what they will do about finals – I guess have all of them on Friday which is the last day of this semester and the last day before break. I’m off to wrap some more presents.
Dec 13, 2010 | Big Shot, Christmas, class, Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages |
Earlier this month I had a scrapbook class. Normally my class is at the end of the month but with Thanksgiving and Christmas falling at the end of these two months it makes getting the scrapbook class into my schedule a bit difficult. So instead I have one class at the beginning of December for both months. My regular schedule will start again in January. Anyway, this time I decided to go ahead and do Christmas pages so that everyone would have them ready for this years pictures (or could scrap older pictures if they needed to). For mine this layout will probably be for this years pictures and my second layout is going to be for some older pictures.
This idea started with a sketch in a scrapbook magazine and then combined a few ideas from different versions of that sketch. I love how this turned out and can’t wait to get some pictures on it. But it is pretty even without any pictures on it.
The colors are Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, and Very Vanilla. The Designer Paper is the Holly Jolly paper in the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog. The designs on this paper are just stripes and dots so it is easy to use for anything. The alphabet that I used for the title and the “ho ho ho” is the Jumble Alphabet. This set is just like it says a jumble of alphabet letters in various fonts so you could easily pair it up with any other alphabet that you might have to get the right combination of letter sizes. This set has a variety of big and small and upper and lowercase letters. It also means you don’t have to worry too much about things being straight. I did use my Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up my letters but free hand does a good job too.
The main sections of the layout are Old Olive textured card stock that is 12″ x 6″ in size and I used a ruler and Stampin’ Write Marker to draw lines every 3 inches to create the squares. Then I used my Paper Piercer and Mat Pack to pierce along the lines so that it would look like faux stitching.
I cut pieces of the Holly Jolly Designer Series paper, Very Vanilla card stock, and Crumb Cake card stock into squares to layer on the Old Olive Squares. The Cherry Cobbler accents are cut with the Big Shot Die-Cut Machine and the Two Tags Die and the Hearts 7 Brackets Die.
The main stamp set that I used is the Winter Post stamp set – it is one of my favorite ones. I even created a faux postage stamp for one of the squares.
To do this I stamped the reindeer in Early Espresso ink on Very Vanilla card stock and punched it out with the Scallop Square punch. Next I used the Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker and a ruler to draw the lines around the edges of the scallop square. I sponged the edges of the square and wrote 44 cents in the corner (since the postage will change in January again – this will be a reminder of what it cost to send cards this year). I attached the faux stamp to my square of Crumb Cake and the stamped over it with the Cherry Cobbler ink and the Santa Post cancel stamp.
The right page of the layout has many of the same elements. The square with the snowflakes as the little pearls in the center. The “ho ho ho” has little stamp from Punch Pals scattered in between to add some more color.
The “2010” at the top is the Calendar Alphabet and Numbers stamp set. The zero is actually the letter ‘O’ from the set since it doesn’t have a zero by itself. These were punched out with the Jewelry Tag punch and then tucked under the top of the page.
I also used the new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch to make the Early Espresso ribbon strips. I started with about a 1″ strip of card stock and punched all the way across to get the ribbon strip and then the left over straight strip is what I used to create the edge at the top of the panels.
At the bottom of the right page is the Heard from the Heart stamp set with an extra little heart punched using the small heart punch.
Satin Ribbon and Linen Thread finish off each of the tag accents. And a Bitty Button tied with Linen Thread was added to the large heart on the left page. Add your pictures and journaling in any of the empty squares. You could either leave the designer paper squares as they are or put pictures on those too. I’ll wait and see how many pictures I have that I want to add to the layout.
Like the page says “Welcome Christmas into your Heart”.
I hope this inspired you to create a Christmas layout – I’ll have another one coming so check back with me this week.
Holiday Treats & Tags Class – Dec. 17th – RSVP by Dec. 15th. – CLICK HERE.
Dec 12, 2010 | Bingo, Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010, Tags |
These are tags you could use for your Christmas gifts. I used them as thank you tags on my customer orders but if you need them for your gifts leave off the “thank you”.
These are 3×3 tags made from Real Red card stock.
Then I used my scraps from the Candy Cane Christmas Designer Series Paper. I just cut little strips or squares of the various papers and added them to my 3×3 squares.
The Stampin’ Up! Sweet Snowglobe stamp is an individual stamp in the Holiday Mini catalog. I inked the whole thing with Baja Breeze ink and then used Stampin’ Write markers in Real Red and Garden Green to color the house and the trees. Stamped it on Whisper White card stock and cut it out.
I also stamped “thank you” in Real Red – but you could leave that off for just regular gift tags.
Believe it or not I added some glitter. I used the 2-way glue pen and put glue everywhere I wanted the glitter – then sprinkled it with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.
Punch a hole in the corner and add some white string to hang it from your gift.
Are you wondering about Monika’s Blog Bingo? I have a new winner for Round 7!
Here is her email:
I have Bingo!
I have the “N” column filled.
N1 is #10
N2 is #6
N3 is FREE
N4 is #5
N5 is #1
Thanks for all the fun and great ideas.
Judy J
The winner is Judy from CA. Congratulations Judy and I’ll be sending you out a prize.
Well ladies – that is it for Blog Bingo for right now. I’m going to take a break and get through Christmas and New Year and then I’ll look at doing something again. When I’m ready I’ll be posting it on my blog. I hope you’ll continue to visit me for the stamping ideas and leave comments for me too. I love to read them and try my best to reply to them all.
We have teeny tiny snow flurries coming down right now and I need to decorate my Christmas tree. Luckily we bought it last night when the weather wasn’t so bad – before the rain started and now the temps are dropping – my fountain is starting to freeze again and there is a white dusting on everything that is somewhat “cold”.
Thanks for visiting today!
Dec 10, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2010 |
One more card from my Holiday Stamp-a-Stack class. This one was an idea from Dawn Olchefske. Another simple card that is easy to replicate. This is the Peaceful Season stamp set which is a level 2 Hostess set in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday mini catalog. I love the big curly swirly font on the Season’s Greetings. The little trick I used for this one (I’m not sure if Dawn did it the same way or not) is that I first inked the holly stamp with Always Artichoke ink. Then I used a blender pen to remove the ink from the berries. Next use a Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write marker to add the ink back to the berries. Stamp on your card stock, without re-inking stamp again to create the lighter image next to the original.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for this card:
- Card stock: Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
- Ink: Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: Peaceful Season Hostess Level 2 set (from Holiday Mini)
- Accessories: Scallop Trim Border punch, Blender Pen, Medium Whisper White Envelope
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I’ve heard from some of my Bingo players that they have 3 in a row and someone has 4 in a row. Maybe today will be the magic day for someone. Are you ready to play?
Here we go with Monika’s Blog Bingo. This is Round 7! The group is full and all the cards were emailed out Monday 11/29. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners and the players for this round.
And now for the next piece – Here is piece #10–the little mug from Itty Bitty Bits stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
If you have Bingo – 5 in a row be sure to email me. Are you getting closer to Bingo?
Dec 9, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Christmas |
Here is another card from the Holiday Stamp-a-Stack class. This idea is from my friend Cindy Schuster. She brought this card and three others to one of our demonstrator meetings. The elements for each card were exactly the same – she used different colors and a different sentiment on each one. Because it was such a quick card I decided to use it for my class.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies for this card:
- Card stock: Real Red, Old Olive, Early Espresso, Whisper White
- Ink: Old Olive, Early Espresso
- Stamp sets: Word Play
- Accessories: Real Red Grosgrain ribbon, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Decorative Label Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Basic Pearls, Stampin’ Sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Medium Whisper White Envelope
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I went to my Pokeeno Group last night which is played like Bingo – I didn’t win – not even one time – bummer. When it’s my turn to be the hostess I think I’m going to have them play my way with Bingo Cards that I make – most of these ladies are not stampers – I wonder how they will react. Well for now let’s continue ….
Here we go with Monika’s Blog Bingo. This is Round 7! The group is full and all the cards were emailed out Monday 11/29. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners and the players for this round.
And now for the next piece – Here is piece #9–the little cupcake from Itty Bitty Bits stamp set (stamped in Poppy Parade).
If you have Bingo – 5 in a row be sure to email me. Is anyone close??
It is a Santa Notebook. I just bought some notebooks from the local store. I used Stampin’ Up! card stock, punches and my Big Shot to dress it up using the ideas that Cindee and Kelly had shared.
