Nov 8, 2009 | Big Shot, Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, Punch Art, Stampin' Up! Events |
This is the cutest little reindeer swap that I got from Rhea Anderson at the Chattanooga Regional. She was a new friend that I met there – it was her first Stampin’ Up! event and she was so excited. This is a little pouch that folds over – on the inside is a slot cut with the modern label punch that she had a piece of candy stuck inside. She used some ribbon to make a handle so it is like a mini little purse.
The punch art reindeer is the cutest. He has a red shiny nose – use crystal effects to get it to shine. And the whole pouch is covered with the shimmery sparkles from the new Shimmer Paint in the Holiday mini. I don’t think it really shows in person but it does in real life. It is just covered in shimmer!
Can you guess how the antlers were created? It is one of our Big Shot Dies – it is the Stampin’ Up! Tulipe Bigz die – she just cut a piece off the die cut image and used it for the antlers – very clever and looks perfect don’t you think?
Thanks Rhea for sharing your creativity with me at the regional and joining us at our table – we enjoyed the day with you!
If you missed my Holiday Card class the other week – you are in luck, I am going to have one more class on Thursday, November 19th at 10:00 AM only (not night class – sorry). I’ll add it to my website calendar and be sending out an email to my email list. This coming Friday I’m having a Holiday BIG SHOT class! We will be making projects using the Big Shot – it should be lots of fun – an email will be coming out for that too.
I had a busy weekend – it was Wendy’s Gift Giving Extravaganza weekend – Wendy is my upline and each year she creates about a dozen projects and opens her house up for all day Friday and Saturday for everyone to come make gifts for the holidays. I hope one year to have something similar but for now I just attend hers. Everyone chooses the projects they want to make and I made three different ones this year. So Friday morning/afternoon I was stamping at Wendy’s house. Then Friday night I had my Stamper’s Club meeting – it was a lot of fun and we made some great projects there including a gift idea which I’ll be sharing later this week. Saturday morning I took Ryan to his soccer game and then went back to Wendy’s house in the afternoon. The best part about going to Wendy’s for this event is that her husband cooks for us! Home made soups and rolls, deserts and more – the food is great – I’m not sure I can get Greg to do that for me. Today I’ve been working on the school years scrapbook pages and tonight we went to dinner with Greg’s brother and mom and just got back. It feels like its after 9 but it was only 7 when we got home. The time change has it dark so early now.
Enjoy what’s left of the day!
Oh – one more thing – someone asked me a question about one of the projects I posted recently and I tried to email a reply but it came back with a bad email. So can you send me the question again with a different email. I forgot which project so if I didn’t reply to you then email me again. Thanks.
Nov 1, 2009 | Christmas, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
This is a quick project that I made when I was up in Virginia for my girls week. I just love this hostess level 2 stamp set in the Holiday Mini called Snow Buddies. With a variety of stamps you can build your own snowman. And there are snowflakes and the little swoosh of wind. Here is how you make it:
- Stamp the images on a piece of 4″ x 1-3/4″ of Whisper White card stock using Jet Black StazOn ink. I used the tall snowman, the ice skates, the knit cap, the arms, and the snow flake and swoosh of wind. Just a hint if you’ll stamp the ice skates a little below the body of the snowman then you can add with a black marker the stick legs. That was easier for me than trying to line up the skates perfectly on the bottom of the snowman. I did pretty good with the knit cap, but error on the above the snowman side because then it just looks like the wind is blowing it off his head. Or if you have to have it lined up perfect use a stamp-a-ma-jig.
- Watercolor the images with an aqua-painter and classic ink – I used Bermuda Bay, Real Red and some Going Gray. Use the gray to add shadows on the snowman to give him some dimension and under his skates to ground him.
- Cut an 8-1/2″ x 2″ strip of Bermuda Bay card stock and score it in half at 4-1/4″.
- Attach the white stamped piece to one side of the Bermuda Bay card stock.
- Put a magnet on the inside of the Bermuda Bay card stock near the bottom edge. This will hold the book mark in place on the page of your book. Make sure the magnet pieces attract each other and are position in the same spot. The easiest way to do that is to attach a magnet to one side, then put the second magnet on the first so they stick together, then close the bookmark so the adhesive from the second magnet sticks to it. Press down and then pull the magnets apart. I found some business card size magnets that already had adhesive on them. I cut them into pieces – I used my paper cutter to cut them – it doesn’t cut through them but cuts enough that you can then break off the piece you need.
These would be cute little projects to include with a book that you are giving as a gift. Make one for each season or something more generic. How about this for a Christmas gift for a friend – a good book, a hand-made bookmark and some hot cocoa – sounds good on a cold winter night!
Stampin’ Up! has a Holiday Gift Giving Guide – click the Santa on my right-hand side-bar to download it. It is full of gift giving ideas for kids, for teens, for card makers and scrapbookers, for stocking stuffers, for neighbors and more. There is even a “Dream Come True Gift” – a Big Shot Gift Pack that includes the Big Shot, a collection of dies and accessories. And when you spend $50 on items in the Gift Giving Guide you get a free Decor Elements piece (up to $16.95 value)…
I hope you enjoyed your weekend and your Halloween. I can’t believe it is already November!!
Oct 26, 2009 | Christmas, class, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
I think I’m going to have several posts today – to make up for being late. First my next class is this Friday. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Holiday Card Making Class
Oct 30
10:00 AM
And again at
7:00 PM
This is my monthly hands-on stamping class and this month we will be making a variety of holiday cards.
The picture above shows some of the cards we will be making.
We will use a variety of stamp sets from the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book and the Holiday Mini Catalog.
(This is class is a week later than normal)
Class fee is $15 and you will receive $10 off if you place a product order for $50 or more.
Please bring adhesive (or I can order you some) and your own paper snips. RSVP for this class by 10/28/09. I hope to see you there.
My email is [email protected] – or visit my events on my website and click RSVP from there.
Oct 21, 2009 | Christmas, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009 |
I had my eye on this stamp set when it first came out and for some reason never ordered it – I guess I always had something else to get so I would wait. And then Stampin’ Up! puts out cute stuff in the Holiday mini so I get that stuff and wait. At Christmas time last year I still didn’t have this stamp set – and I still thought it was the cutest thing – so when do you think I finally bought it – in JANUARY and when do you think I finally got it out to actually use it – in OCTOBER! How bad am I?
Last week while I was at Stephanie’s I brought the Holiday Lineup stamp set with me – because I was determined to make something with it. On Thursday, Stephanie’s friend, Kara came over for the day to stamp with us – guess what she brought – Holiday Lineup! She also had plans to make a card with this set for her co-workers. So we got busy. And look at how CUTE these cards turned out!
The one with the elves is the one we designed for Kara to use for her co-workers. I played around with the others for me. I’m thinking about using the snowmen for our family card – I need to leave off one snowman to make it a family of 5 instead of 6. And the little reindeer are funny too! The Designer Series Paper is Merry Moments from the Idea Book and uses traditional colors – Real Red, Garden Green, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla. Everything on these is colored with Stampin’ Write Markers and the White Gel Pen was used to add the white on the hats and beards. This set was a lot of fun to play with because the characters have such personality to them!
Have a happy day!
Oct 20, 2009 | Big Shot, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, In Colors |
While I was visiting Stephanie (my sister-in-law) last week in Virginia we did a lot of stamping. This idea came from one of the blogs we were looking at while I was up there – now that I am home I can’t find it and I don’t remember whose blog it was. I have searched google for all the key words in the project and found many other ideas but not the original that we saw. So time to move on and just share it with you. This is a little treat holder for Halloween – it hold a mini hershey bar on the inside.
The original idea we saw used the Pumpkin Patch stamp set from the new mini catalog. I didn’t have that one so instead I used Autumn Harvest for the pumpkin on the front. The tag is made using the Stampin’ Up! Two Tags die for the Big Shot. When you use the die to cut the tag it scores it for you and adds the notch to tuck in the bottom of the tag. In order to hold the candy I added a second score 1/2″ away from the first. 
That gives you room for the candy but now the tag won’t shut – so you need the decoration on the front to be large enough to make up the gap.
Since the pumpkin I used was short and wide a circle punch didn’t work so well but the Wide Oval punch did so that was what I used – the pumpkin is stamped in Black StazOn ink and watercolored with Classic Inks. I’m pretty sure I used Whisper White card stock but it looks like Very Vanilla in this picture – I did sponge the edges so that tones down the white.
I also punch two Large Ovals in Chocolate Chip that I layered behind the top and bottom of the wide oval. Then I punched two Round Tabs out of Pumpkin Pie – if you layer then together they form a perfect 2″ circle. Which I used here as a layer behind the wide oval. This tucks into the slot.
The white gel pen stitching is on the inside and outside of the tag. I added ribbon through the top.
After making the pumpkin one I decided I wanted to make more – knowing I didn’t have another class for Halloween projects I thought I would try snowmen – and ended up with this one.
This one uses the In-Colors – Bermuda Bay and Melon Mambo and all the markers to color the snowmen from the Holiday Lineup stamp set. They were punched with the 1-3/4″ Circle punch and then the two Round Tabs layered behind them. Now I have to find candy to match.
So then I started thinking about Thanksgiving and we like to have a little treat on the table for everyone – so I tried a Thanksgiving one.
I used More Mustard for the tag and the Gobble, Gobble turkey from the Mini Catalog – didn’t he turn out cute! To color the turkey I used Stampin’ Write Markers – from lightest to darkest it is More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust and Chocolate Chip. He is punched with the Scallop Circle and another Scallop Circle is layered behind and off set between the petals. Again the two Round Tab Punches are behind. If you didn’t want to use those you could cut 2″ (or larger) circles using the Circle Scissor Plus and the Glass Mat.
We counted up how many of us we expected to gather for Thanksgiving and decided that might be too much chocolate. And maybe we needed a smaller place card for everyone.
I came up with the idea to use the other tag on the Two Tags die and the turkey that I just made and this is what I ended up with.
This one we decided would fit a small mint like an andes mint on the inside. I scored the tag at 2″ and 1-1/2″ to create the base. I cut 30 tags before I left, scored them all and began working on the Turkey’s. Stephanie will finish them all before Thanksgiving when all the family will gather at her house this year.
Someone emailed me about Thanksgiving ideas – here are a couple and I’m pretty sure I posted the Big Shot Turkey box last month. I’ll see what else I have. And share more of our girl’s week creations later.
And one more thought – I think I want to reorganize the categories on my blog – I thought I wanted to list them by stamp set but I think the list is so long now it is hard to go through and that more general categories might be better. Like have the holidays individually, birthday ideas, treat holders, etc. I’ll keep the technique section but get rid of the individual stamp sets that I have listed. What do you think?
Have a wonderful day – thanks for stopping by!
Oct 15, 2009 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, Lovely as a Tree, Scrapbook Pages |
Today I wanted to share a scrapbook layout from last month’s class. This was actually a layout I made at least a year or more ago – but I updated it to use the new Autumn Meadows Designer Series paper and colors and changed the accent pieces, stamp sets, etc. So it looks completely different.
The left page has the pockets with the tags that pull out for hidden journaling or extra photos. You could add more if you needed.
I doodled around the edges with a chocolate chip marker and did alot of sponging. The stamp set is Lovely as a Tree – it is good for so many things. I plan to add my hiking pictures from our fall break mini vacation to Red Top Mtn.
It looks like the rain followed me from Georgia to Virginia. But it is cold here and I didn’t bring that along – it was at least warm at home. Time to go to the craft room and start stamping!
Have a great day!
