Dec 7, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Fabric, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
I have another cute holiday idea for you. This was designed by Laree and she brought these to swap at our last demonstrator meeting.
She used the Holly Berry Bouquet designer fabric and the Holiday Stocking Bigz die to make this cute little stocking. Both are in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog. The Big Shot works great for cutting the fabric. There is a little trim on the cuff using the crochet ribbon. And then Laree made a flower out of the wide striped ribbon – a shabby vintage style flower with frayed ends. And then there is a button in the center. The hanger is made from ribbon and inside she had little treats.
It is a cute stocking don’t you think!
Here are a couple more daily activities for you to do with your family:
Dec. 6th – Watch Christmas Movies -what is your favorite? Elf or Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, there are many more. check your Family channel on the TV to see what’s playing each day.
Dec. 7th – See the Nutcracker Ballet – we took the boys to the FOX theater in Atlanta quite a few years ago to see the Nutcracker. I’m not sure they’ll go with me now that they are teenagers but I may try to do this instead – Celebrate the holidays with a timeless classic as NCM Fathom, the New York City Ballet and Lincoln Center present George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ LIVE in movie theaters nationwide for a special One Night Event on Tuesday, December 13th at 6:00pm ET/5:00pm CT/7:30pm MT/7:30pm PT.
Have fun with whatever you decide to do!
Dec 5, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Cookie Stamps, Fabric |
This is a gift idea that Becky shared with us at the PAWS meeting in November. It is a Cookie Mix Jar –
Fill a large jar with the dry ingredients for a cookie mix. Wrap a piece of fabric around the lid and tie with some ribbon. Add a quick tag with the recipe inside. The person that you give this too just needs to add the remaining ingredients, mix and bake – yummy cookies for everyone! You could pair this idea with the new Sweetpressed Cookie Stamps for a complete gift – the stamps have two recipes included.
Becky used the Deck the Halls fabric and Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding. The tag is cut with the Big Shot and the Two Tags die and one of the Snowflakes from the Northern Frost Decorative Strip Sizzlit die to decorate the front. This would be another fun activity to do with the kids and a great gift for teachers or neighbors.
So what did you think about the Up on the Roof Top Blog Hop this weekend? What were your favorite projects? I think my favorite ones were the wine tags that Rosemarie Diehl made and the Christmas Mantle Decor that Tara Bilbo made – but there were many other great projects on the tour. I have a list of a handful that I want to try to make. Since mine was a Countdown to Christmas I thought I might add the activities on my blog each day. These are activities to do with your family each day. So to catch up here are the first few days of activities that I have picked (my project tutorial includes 36 different ones for you to choose from) –
December 1st – Write a Letter to Santa. Make sure the kids write it and put it in the mail box.
December 2nd – Make Pinecone Ornaments for the birds. The birds can enjoy them all month long. I have had lots of birds the last week or so – a bunch of blue birds were here over the weekend and they were checking out some of the bird houses too – maybe some early house hunting go on.
December 3rd – Look at Christmas photos from past years. I love to do this and see how much the boys have grown and changed.
December 4th – Wrap Holiday gifts. I have a few things to wrap but mostly I still have shopping to do. I think I need to do this one a little bit later.
December 5th – Decorate the Christmas Tree. We bought the tree last night and we plan to decorate tonight. Since we have the new sunroom we are putting it out there this year. I’ll take a picture once it is done.
If you would like to see my project with the activity cards it is on this post.
Have a great day! I’ll have the Blog Hop Blog Candy Prize winner posted tomorrow so be sure to check back.
Nov 17, 2011 | Big Shot, Demonstrator, Fabric, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
Well I am away from my blog for a day or so and things have changed. I guess everything changes all the time and while I would like to say can you me some warning – the truth is they probably did and I didn’t pay attention to it. The first thing I noticed was a change in adding my pictures to my blog post. I wonder what else has changed – I guess I’ll find it as a I find it.
And now for the cutest little bears ever…..these are the teeniest little fabric bears.
I saw these on Patty Bennett’s blog – you can see her post and the instructions HERE. I wanted a fabric project for my last downline meeting and when I Patty shared these I knew they would perfect. These are teeny tiny little bears and we used the Spice Cake fabric to make the. This is a Big Shot project – using the Scallop Circle dies – the large, medium and small scallop circles were all used.
I got a picture of the three different fabrics in the Spice Cake assortment – I made one and the others were made by some of the girls at my downline meeting. These were assembled using hot glue but they are tiny enough that I think hand sewing them together would have been almost just as easy. I may try to make another one and just stitch the pieces together.
I am trying to finish up a tutorial for my Thanksgiving Turkey box so if you are looking for an idea for next week hold one for another day or so and I’ll have it out here for you.
Have a nice fall day! We had storms yesterday with tornado sirens (no tornado though) and the power kept going off (didn’t stay off long) and we have lots of wind today so there are leaves everywhere – falling leaves is why we call it fall.
Mar 23, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Fabric, Occasions Mini 2011 |
Look at this cute project! It is a pin cushion top on a button jar. The jars are short wide mouth jars that I was able to purchase as part of a bulk buy group.
The project idea is from Stampin’ Up! – it is one of the projects shown in their Fabric projects pdf that you can find on the Stampin’ Up! website – click here.
I pretty much followed the instructions. I cut a 6×6 inch piece of the button print out of the Sweet Stitches Designer Fabric collection. Then cut three layers of batting using the Big Shot and the 3″ Circle Die. Also trace the lid onto a piece of thin cardboard and cut out – it should be just bigger than the 3″ circles.
I glued the 3 layers of batting to the card board and then covered the whole thing with the fabric. I used a hot glue gun to attach all the fabric to the bottom of the card board piece and then I fit it into the ring. I glued the jar lid on the bottom of the card board – so that it covers all the ends of the fabric and make it looked more finished.
I finished the jar by adding ribbon around the lid and the little jewelry tag punch with “hand crafted” from the Tiny Tags stamp set. Fill the jar with buttons and add some straight pins in the top. The buttons in my jar are Sweet Stitches Designer Big Buttons also in the Stampin’ Up! occasions mini catalog. The buttons and the fabric are part of the Sew Suite Collection which also includes stamps, designer paper, and more.
I heard some of the Spring Bingo players are getting close to Bingo! Maybe today is the day – will you be the winner? Here is the next piece.
Have a wonderful rest of today!
images copyright Stampin' Up!
Jan 29, 2011 | Big Shot, Blog Tour, Cards, Demonstrator, Fabric, Occasions Mini 2011 |
Last weekend I had my PAWS team meeting. We covered some business topics, talked and shared about leadership, stamped some great projects, traded swaps and had a lot of fun! I wanted to share some group pictures and our meeting Make&Takes.
Stephanie, Becky, Travice, Cindy, and Lisa
The girls here are working on a petal cone project using the new Petal Cone die from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. 
They had a choice of Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight or Tangerine Tango for their box. The sides were decorated with Designer Series paper and Pom-Pom trim. This project idea actually came from a new site that I joined called the Paper Crafter’s Library.
You can fill the petal cones with candy or other small items. Close up the top with some ribbon for this design.
Fran, Linda, Cindy, Cindy, Christine
In the other room the girls were working on a little card using the Take a Spin stamp set and spinner hands from the Occasions Mini Catalog.
This was a 3×3 birthday card and then has the extra scallop trim on the edge. It will fit in our medium envelopes. Christine is holding her sample up.
The other end of the table is a card that Fran designed using a neat little punching technique to create a fancy frame.
Fran’s card uses a 3×3 inch square of card stock to start creating the border. We did discover that you have to use the old style Eyelet border punch in order for this to work. Center the Eyelet border punch on the center of each side of the square and punch – it leaves the four corners and a thin edge on the outside. The new style border punch does not leave this edge. Then punch all four sides again with the Scallop Trim border punch – this one is the new style. It punches the fancy trim on all four edges that you see on the edges of this square. The stamp set we used was Cute by the Inch for the center square.
Monika, Marie
Jenn also brought a Make&Take project along with a bunc
h of other Valentine treat ideas that she shared with everyone. I forgot to take a picture of her other ideas but here is the little Tag Treat we made.
This little holder is cute for a table – I’ve used this idea before at the holidays and we put little mints, nuggets, or kisses in side the holder. When I use them on a table they become place card holders and I just write names on them.
Jenn
Here is Jenn showing off the other project that we made. Name tags using the new Sew Suite Fabric and the Designer Fabric covered brads in the Stampin’ Up! mini catalog. This idea was shared on stage at the Leadership conference and I thought it would make a great project for our meeting.
To make the tags I used the white card board that comes in the back of the Designer Series paper packs. It was cut using the Two-Tags die and the Big Shot – this is the tag with the scallop circle at one end – it is covered by the flower in the picture. The flower is three 1/2″ by 6″ pieces of fabric. The pieces are folded over and a Fabric Covered brad is pushed through the center. The flower is attached to a piece of matching card stock that was punched with the Scallop Circle punch. Add the flower to the tag and write your name on the front. On the back glue a pin back so that you can attach it to your shirt. I used Crystal Effects for my sample and allowed it to dry overnight, but in the meeting we used a hot glue gun. At the next meeting I hope that everyone will wear their name tag so that we know who they are!
That was a look at our meeting and our M&Ts. Our next team meeting will be in March and I’ll be adding the information to my Stampin’ Connection PAWS group in February. Contact me if you would like information about joining my team or if you are a demonstrator and would like information about coming to my meeting.
Have a great day!
Jan 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Fabric, Occasions Mini 2011, Simply Adorned Jewelry, Stampin' Up! Events |
At every Stampin’ Up! Event there are Make ‘n takes – we have to have our stamping time. This year at Leadership the Make ‘n Takes were the best ever! Our Make ‘n Take session was on Friday night at the end of the Leadership Conference – I hope no one left early because they missed some WOW projects. I wanted to share them all with you. The stamp set they gave us was Clearly for You so the projects we made use that as the main stamp set. The tables were sprinkled with punched pluses to match our +ONE theme (I wonder if that will be a future punch?) and our stamp set and supplies were packaged up in a little box this time.
Box of M&T supplies and a bag of yummy carmels
table supplies and punched pluses decorating our tables
DVD notebook - Botanical Gazette DSP, Trinket Keys
For You card
Simply Adorned Charm Bird Insert - Botanical Gazette DSP
Simply Adorned Charm Amour Insert - First Edition DSP, Red Glimmer paper, Trinket Keys
Simply Adorned Charm Monogram Insert and Chain - First Edition DSP, Springtime Vintage DSP, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Vanilla Pearl Bauble, Trinket Crowns, Trinket Keys
Brooch - First Edition DSP, Seam Binding, Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Beveled Windowpane, Fun Flowers Bigz Die, Trinket Keys
We received the large Simply Adorned Charm and the long chain along with all the trinkets as part of our Make&Takes – everyone was so excited! Now I wonder what the convention projects will be like??
She used the Holly Berry Bouquet designer fabric and the Holiday Stocking Bigz die to make this cute little stocking. Both are in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog. The Big Shot works great for cutting the fabric. There is a little trim on the cuff using the crochet ribbon. And then Laree made a flower out of the wide striped ribbon – a shabby vintage style flower with frayed ends. And then there is a button in the center. The hanger is made from ribbon and inside she had little treats.
