Dec 28, 2012 | Cards, Holiday catalog 2012 |
I have another New Year’s idea for you today – this one is a card – an idea that was from the Chattanooga regional – I believe it was Carrie Cudney’s presentation. I thought it was a fun twist on a card.
I’m not sure that you can really “see” it in a photo – but the front of the card is covered with a cello bag and the small silver glimmer paper and silver card stock circles are loose inside the bag like confetti. You can move them and shake them around! Isn’t that fun! Here are some quick pointers for this card –
- The base of the card is Basic Gray – cut 4″ x 11″ and scored in half
- The front Whisper White layer has Celebrate (from Seasonal Sayings which will still be available through the spring catalog) stamped in Basic Gray. Next use a Sponge Dauber and Platinum Shimmer paint and add some dots – let those dry.
- Punch a bunch of Silver Glimmer and Silver card stock circles using the Bitty Punch Pack circle.
- Cut a little Silver card stock banner and attach it to the white layer. Attach the whole white later to the front of the card base. If you want glue a few Silver Glimmer and Silver card stock circles to the front.
- Trim a cello bag so that it is 5-1/2″ tall (I used the 4×6 size). Slip that over the front of the card and use snail on the inside of the card to attach the top.
- Drop the loose punched circles inside the front of the card and add some snail to the top of the card to glue the bag to it.
- Across the top outside attach a piece of Silver Glimmer paper – you need to use glue dots or sticky strip for the glimmer paper the snail doesn’t hold it well. This covers up the adhesive that you used to hold the cello bag to the front of the card.
- Thread White baker’s twine through a Vintage Faceted Button and add that to the front on the silver banner.
Ok I think that gets it and hope it all makes sense.
We are stretching Christmas out – Christmas Eve and Christmas morning we were here at home and Greg’s mom joined us. Christmas Day we went to my parents and my brother and his family along with his wife’s family joined us – and Greg’s mom too. It was a big group! Last night we went to Greg’s moms house and his sister and brother and their families all came – we had a fun evening. And tomorrow night we are all gathering here with all of Greg’s family from his dad’s side. It sounds like we will have about 30 people here! I think our New Years Eve is going to be a quiet one with just us here at home as we are going to be celebrated out by the time it gets here…
Have a great week end! Remember to place your final orders from the Holiday Catalog – I am putting in one final order so email me or you can do it online. The last day of the catalog is January 2nd! And a new Spring catalog will start on the 3rd.
bye for now….
Dec 27, 2012 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Mary |
For this week’s Create with Connie & Mary challenge we have a color challenge – Pool Party, Whisper White and Silver Glimmer. Good thing I ordered more Silver Glimmer paper – I used what I had to make snowflake ornaments for Christmas and ran out so I ordered more. And while this color challenge does scream snowflakes to me – that is not what I wanted to do. So I put my thinking cap on to come up with a different idea. And New Year’s Eve is what came to mind.
Plus I wanted to do something other than a card and came up with a treat holder idea instead. After some playing around this is what I created –
You could add these to your table decorations for a New Years Eve Celebration – decorate with silver and blue (pool party to be exact). Here is a view of the back – it’s the petal cone die –
- cut two of the Petal Cones out of Pool Party card stock and glue together to make the cone
- cut four of the scalloped half circles out of Silver Glimmer paper – I glued 3 of them to the petal folded back and one to the petal left straight – that becomes the bottom “lip” of the container
- stamp the New Years (single stamp) in Pool Party ink on Whisper White card stock – cut with the Apothecary Accents framelit label. Fold the tabs back and attach with mini brads to cover the top portion of the petal cone opening.
- I dressed up the stamp image by adding Dazzling Details to all the numbers and little circles plus a Vintage Faceted Button tied with some white Baker’s Twine.
- Stamp the Happy New Year on the Pool Party Banner from the Petal Cone Die and add it to the top corner.
- Stamp the Happy New Year a couple of times on scrap piece of Whisper White and punch out the numbers with a 3/4″ circle punch. Glue those to the bottom of some chocolate kisses.
- I also stamped the little sparkle from Delightful Decorations on Pool Party card stock and punched those out to add to the chocolate kisses.
- Stick all the chocolate kisses in the Petal Cone box.
- Time to Countdown to the New Year and Celebrate!!!
A fun little treat don’t you think? We aren’t really sure what we are doing on New Year’s Eve just yet – but I do have some festive table decorations ready to go. Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. Have a great week!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: New Years (single stamp), Delightful Decorations
- Card Stock: Pool Party, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer
- Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, Petal Cone Die, Apothecary Accents Framelits, 3/4″ circle punch, Mini Silver Brads, Dazzling Details, Whisper White Baker’s Twine, Vintage Faceted Button, 1/16″ handheld punch, Mini Glue Dots, multipurpose glue, chocolate kisses
Dec 24, 2012 | Christmas, Punch Art, Tags |
Take a look under our tree –
These cute little snowman tea lights were an idea from Becky Roberts. They are just adorable and I decided to turn them into tags. The little battery operated tea lights are the base with the “flame” as the snowmans nose. I turned them on and put them under the tree. Very fun!
It’s Christmas Eve – I hope everyone has been good. Have a Merry Christmas tomorrow! And I’ll be back on Thursday with a fun color challenge for Create with Connie & Mary – something to get you read for a New Years party – so be sure to stop back by.
Dec 23, 2012 | Big Shot, Christmas, Cookie Stamps, Holiday catalog 2012 |
Here is a quick idea to wrap up some cookies or other treats for a neighbor – Holiday decorated Kraft gift boxes.
I got this cute idea from Jackie Bolhuis. We made these in my Cookies & Milk class a few weeks ago. Everyone also made cookies to go inside the box using the Stampin’ Up! Cookie stamps. If you don’t have much time you can use store bought cookies dough – the gingerbread dough worked really well with the cookie stamps. Make sure it is a little chilled and that you dip the cookie stamp in sugar each time.
I love the idea of the steam coming out of the mug – that idea came from Ann Schach on a card that she made.
Here are some quick instructions:
- fold up the Kraft box
- cut a piece of Designer Paper the width that you want it and wrap it around the box – the ends just meet at the top – they won’t overlap – but that’s ok – and this is just a band so we aren’t actually glueing it to the box
- cut a piece of matching card stock about a 1/2″ wider that your designer paper, glue the designer paper to it and make crisp folds all the way around
- punch a hole at each end where the meet at the top of the box and pull some ribbon through and tie in a bow – your band should just slide off the box when it’s time to open it – you don’t even have to untie the bow
- punch a 2-3/8″ scallop circle and run it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing folder
- ink up the mug with Cherry Cobbler ink, use a cotton swap or blender pen to remove ink from the inside – the part that’s the hot cocoa – then ink that with an Early Espresso Marker- now stamp it on some Very Vanilla card stock, cut it out with the matching framelit
- ink the steam up with Early Espresso and stamp it on some Vellum card stock, cut it out with the matching framelit – then trim the bottom flat, use a mini glue dot to attach it to the mug
- add the punched circle and mug to the front of the box with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- And finally add a Rhinestone to the mug
Fill with some cookies or other treats. The Kraft Boxes from Stampin’ Up! are food safe. But I still wrapped up the cookies in some plastic wrap so they would get the box dirty. You could also add a piece of paper on the inside for decoration too.
And just a quick family note for you – Friday afternoon I took Ryan to take is driving test and get his driver’s license – yes the youngest member of the family was about to be a legal driver. The line was so long and even with an appointment (which didn’t seem to matter by the way) we waited forever. Finally it was Ryan’s turn and the testing lady came back with a young girl who was in tears – apparently she did not pass. She came up to Ryan and said – “well it hasn’t been a good day” – oh no – not really what you want to hear. I got out and told her that hopefully her day would improve now and she smiled and got in the car with Ryan. Off the went and left me waiting and being a nervous mom – he was ready and is a good driver and knew everything – but still he was a little freaked out because of the girl in front of him crying. After a while he came back and as he walked up I saw the grin on his face! Yeah – good news! He passed with a 100! And the lady was much happier – told him he was the only one all day (and remember we were there in the late after noon – it was almost 5 by the time she got in the car with him) that aced the parallel parking, and the only on she gave a 100 too. And she said he did so well that when he went back in he should make sure they give him a key chain. So yeah all the boys are now legal to drive and I no longer have to be mom’s taxi service – time to celebrate!
Merry Christmas!
Dec 21, 2012 | Big Shot, Christmas, class, Punch Art, Tags, Tutorial |
Look at these CUTE Holiday Tags that I made for my Bags & Tags class last week!
I saw on Pinterest a photo of some stickers and thought I bet I can make those with my punches and dies and they would be so super cute. I stayed up late one night finishing these cute things because once I got started I was so excited with how they were turning out. I have one more that I want to create but haven’t had a chance to sit down yet to do it. And guess what I created a tutorial to share with everyone! Merry Christmas from me to you! The link will be at the bottom of the post. Here are some close up pictures for each tags.
Mr. Snowman
Cute Penguin
Rudolph the Reindeer
Santa
Aren’t they the cutest tags? I loved them and so did all the girls that came to class last week.
CLICK HERE if you would like the tutorial on how to make these cute tags.
Merry Christmas!
