Welcome to day number two of the blog tour! I have been having so much fun with my new White Stazon ink pad (page 190 in the Idea Book & Catalog) the last few days! I've been wanting to get this ink pad for a while now but kept forgetting when I was placing orders. Finally I have it and this is one of my first projects! Stazon ink is a permanent ink and can be used on non-porous services like glass and plastic in addition to cardstock and paper. I picked this piece of glass up at my local dollar store for just a dollar and used my ink and Serene Snowflake stamp set (from the Holiday Continue reading
Framed Cardinal Decor and Matching Card
Welcome to the Last Minute Holiday Blog Tour! I have so many things I'm looking forward to sharing with you in the next four days. I hope you'll come back each day to visit! This is a card I created to go along with the frame I'm going to show you below. The colors I used here are Handsome Hunter, Real Red, Basic Black and the Encore gold ink pad. The branch you see is from the So Tweet Chipboard found on page 185 of the Idea Book & Catalog and then I pulled the little "berries" from various other chipboard packages like the On Board Batch of Blossoms. I used craft ink to color the Continue reading
Lovely as a Tree Christmas Card
The Lovely as a Tree stamp set has been around for years and it's well loved! (When I say "years" I mean it, it had been around for several years before I ever became a demonstrator 3 1/2 years ago.) Each time we get ready for retired stamp sets we all hold our breath hoping this stamp set will stick around for yet another catalog. This set is so very versatile and is one of those sets that works well for both masculine and feminine cards. I've combined Lovely as a Tree with the Four the Holidays stamp set for this particular card. This Christmas card is very simple but elegant. In the Continue reading
Big Shot Bird Christmas Card
We will be making this card at our last Christmas Card Making class this coming Thursday. This card has a lot Big Shot items which I've already cut and embossed so we'll be able to put these cards together in good time. The Handsome Hunter is embossed with the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder, and then I used the Birds w/Leaves and Scallop Circle Dies. "Merry Christmas" is from the Holidays and Wishes stamp set and stamped with Silver Encore ink. There is just one more space open in the Christmas card class if you're interested in joining us. Continue reading
Visiting the Bay and Christmas Scrapbook Pages
Here are some scrapbook pages I put together this morning. These pictures are from when we vacationed at Bethany Beach. The home we rented was within walking distance of the Bay so we walked there one day. The colors I used here are Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue and Basic Black. I used a stamp from the Yummy stamp set which was available as a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set last year. The Scrap Club is going to be doing a layout very much like this one. Like I said yesterday, I don't have any Christmas pictures to scrapbook right now (I'm all caught up! Wow!). So, I made the water Continue reading
Christmas Ornament Scrapbook Page
Here is another layout we'll be doing for Scrap Club this month. This is a fun design using a bunch of chipboard to make the ornaments and some felt snowflakes too. (There will be a little variation in the DSP we use in club due to what I have on hand.) If those in the club have more pictures they want to show it will be easy to add more across the top of the two pages. I did not have many pictures to work with so that is why mine is a bit on the bare side. These pictures are from my son's preschool Christmas program last year. The lighting was terrible for pictures and there were so Continue reading
Change Up a Card Design
Don't you just love this Christmas Card? This is the Gifts of Christmas stamp set and I just love it embossed in silver and mounted onto Night of Navy, Brushed Silver and Whisper White Cardstock! The Night of Navy Cardstock was embossed with the Petals-A-Plenty Embossing Folder on the Big Shot. The ladies at Tammy's party last Saturday made this card and loved it! Here is the same exact card, I just changed up the colors (actually I first saw the design done just like this from another stamper - really wish I could take the credit!). This time the card was made using Bravo Burgundy, Continue reading
Patterned Pines Merry Christmas
I'm excited about this card we'll be making for our Christmas Card III class tomorrow! I just received the Patterned Pines hostess set and the Four the Holidays stamp set and wanted to use them right away for class. The colors you see here are Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss and Whisper White. When we make this in class we will be using a variety of different greens to correspond with the various pieces of DSP I have available to use. I am offering a ribbon share right now that I hope you'll join in! It's been a little while since I've offered one and I have had a request to do one with Continue reading
Snow Swirled Christmas Card Share
Lara Kohler shared this Snow Swirled Christmas card with us for the card swap last week. I love way she punched one of the stars from the DSP to use for the top of the tree! The effect really ties the two items together I think. The "Christmas bulbs" on the tree were made with the small snowflake in the stamp set and they're great! Snow Swirled is one of my favorite Christmas sets (although I must admit that list of "favorites" seems to be continually growing) and I'm very happy to have another great idea for how to use it. Thank you Lara for sharing with us! Stampin' Up! has published a Continue reading
Triple Serene Snowflake Card
Remember this card I showed you last week? I made this using My Digital Studio. I said at the time that I wasn't planning to print it, just use it as an idea for making a "real" card. Okay, I did that today and here is the "real" card. As you can tell, they are definitely different but at the same time they are very similar in layout. I simply changed the colors and used square punches to fit the snowflake I wanted to use. Instead of buttons I used brads. I really like the buttons from the first picture, however, seeing as we're going to be making this card on Monday at our Christmas Continue reading
Dasher Handstamped Christmas Card
Here is one of the Christmas cards we'll be making on Monday night for our third Christmas Card Making Class. I'm looking forward to class already and hope you are too! If you haven't signed up yet, we have just one spot left in the class, at the Mason-Dixon Library in Stewartstown 6-8 P.M., so contact me ASAP to reserve your spot! This card features the Dasher stamp found on page 208 of the Stampin' Up! Catalog as well as "Merry Christmas" from All Holidays on page 43. The DSP you see here is retired from last year, some will use this paper and others will have pieces of the Merry Moments Continue reading
Home for Christmas Card
Here is another of our swaps that I'd love to share. Beth Keeney, one of my wonderful downline members, made this card using the Home for Christmas stamp set and the Christmas Cocoa Specialty Designer Paper. Don't you love the way Beth colored the garland and wreath? Thank you Beth for sharing this with us! Continue reading