More Country Living Kit!

Good morning!

Hopefully by now many of you have ordered Stampin’ Up!’s Country Living Holiday Collection Kit.  You know how I feel about this fabulous kit.  It has so many fun trinkets inside the kit and today I wanted to share a few projects that you can do OUTSIDE of what’s in the kit.  All of these projects today are ones that we did in my clubs this past month.  My goal is to show how versitle the kit is and the stamp set can be used way beyond the Holiday season. 

My little Rudolf may look a little sad, or as one of my friends said, "Are you sure he wasn’t drinking?", but he’s so cute.  The sentiment came from the Holiday Collection stamp.  You can pretty much tell how I made Rudolf from the picture, but I wanted to tell you the antlers were made using the Tulipe Bigz Die that is EXCLUSIVE to Stampin’ Up!  I love that die cut.  It’s very elegant.

This Chocolate Stick holder holds three Chocolate Covered Peppermint Sticks inside.  I used the Enjoy Stamp from the Country Living Stamp set, Holiday Collection.  I *LOVE* that particular stamp the most.  Oh the milelage that stamp will see.  I love how it fits PERFECTLY inside the 1 3/4 circle punch. 

This is your standard 2-5-7-10 Box that we revisited this month.  Every stamper has pastels (or at least you should) but I think the more we get into stamping we forget to use this GREAT tool.  There are so many great techniques that you can use your pastels for and this month we did Poppin’ Pastels on the box.  We used the Big Snowflake Jumbo Wheel in VersaMark and then used a sponge dauber dipped in pastels to POP the snowflakes out on the Baja Breeze cardstock.  Another fun element on this box you will notice is the Embossed Snowflake is placed onto the Bottom portion of the Basket & Blooms die cut.  It fit perfectly and the snowflake was punched out using the 1 3/4 circle punch.  WOW, I love that punch.  This makes your seasonal gift making super fast and easy. 

So there you have it!  Three projects that are super fast and cute and perfect for the season!

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Happy Sunday!

 I only have a few minutes before I have to transform myself getting ready for the last day of my craft show.  Yesterday was unbelievalbe.  The biggest crowd I have seen yet.  Our table was CRAZY looking by the end of the day.  Hardly anything was left.  I got home around 430pm and started working on two things we ran out of quickly.   Here is one:

These flew off our table yesterday along with the chocolate covered  peppermint sticks.  Here are a few other things I had done for our show.  

I found these two things at the Home Goods store and *loved* giving them a decorative lift.  I think they turned out pretty cute and they were also GONE. 

Lastly, here are a few chocolate boxes that I did!

These hold the "G-delli" (don’t know how to spell them right this second) chocolates.  I will have a few more designs of this one to share later.  I have done TONS of them. 

Have a fab Sunday.  Off to transform myself. 

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Tags Galore

Holy Cow!  I can’t believe it’s Saturday ( very early Saturday!).  Where in the world did the week go? 

I’ve been super busy again this week getting ready for another craft show.  I am pleased to announce this is the last one.  While I really do enjoy meeting so many great people at these events they are a lot of work to get ready for.  I am sure many of you can relate.  I have a few things to share tonight and I will try REALLY hard this weekend to upload some of the projects I have been working on especially for this show.  I have to say a big thank you to my friend and partner Christy for the hard work she has put into these shows as well.  We do entertain each other at the shows and I couldn’t do these at the pace we do without her. 

So, I have to share FIRST these super cute tags we did at my Christmas Tag class this past week.  We did 20 tags total, 4 of each design. 

This first one is a Top Note Die Cut just folded in half.  I used the Ski Slope designer paper and stamped the snowflake from Winter Post in VersaMark and then used Iridescent Ice over it to add a little fun shimmer.  I love using those Felt Flowers.  (I know, you have heard this 1000x). 

This is my favorite tag for a couple reasons.  I added Cinnamon Sticks to the top and they just smell GREAT.  Then of course you have Kraft paper and honestly what doesn’t look good on Kraft?  Exactly!  Anyhoo, I used Winter Post stamp set, again!

This one uses all kinds of trinkets.  The chipboard frame was embossed with Iridescent Ice.  I used the Curly Label punch and the Big Oval Punch.  The Scallop was made using the Big Shot Die Cut Scallops #2. 

Now, these last two tags were not my original ideas. I have no clue where I had seen the original designs, but I changed them up a bit and these are what I came up with.   I just love that Reindeer tag.    Hopefully many of you have purchased that Country Living Holiday Collection Kit.  Again, fabulous stamp set and great kit contents.  I love the stamp set.  I stamped the Enjoy stamp and embossed with Iridescent Ice, again.    Then I took some clear wrapping paper and wrapped it to look like a piece of candy.  Super easy and fun.  The Reindeer uses the Scallop #2 Big Shot Die Cut.  

Have you made your Holiday tags?  I hope this was a little inspiration for you.  

Okay, one last thing!  I waned to make some quick cards today to add to the collection of cards to sell.  I really enjoy using our Rub Ons and they make cards sooooooooooo simple and fun.  I used them on this card below. 

Hope your week was super fabulous and your weekend is filled with stamping at some point.

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I feel like a genius!

First, I know I’m not a genius but I sure felt like one when I made this project.  If it’s been done before… don’t tell me.  I want to savor this feeling for a few more days.

I went a little over board this Mini Catalog season with the beautiful Felt Flurries.  Now believe me, I have used them.  I have applied them to cards, mini books, Canvas projects… the list goes on.  The other day I found some of these glass ornaments in my "stash" of stuff.  I wanted to make something pretty and was sitting on the floor and had an ah ha moment.  I think I scared Russ.  He was playing on my computer and I let out a big scream and he turned quickly to find this…

I was so super excited when that felt snowflake fit over that glass ball.  I made 6 of them super quick.  I just cut strips of designer paper and curled them on my paper piercer from my Crafters Tool Kit.  Then I dropped them in the ornament one by one.  I carefully put my felt snowflake on then the cap.  I loved using that beautiful Rope ribbon from the mini catalog.  Isn’t that the best stuff???  I would love to see this in the next catalog.  So many great things can be done with it. Last thing I applied was the great rub on’s that Stampin’ Up! carries.  This one is Season of Cheer.  WOW have I gotten a lot of use out of these Rub On’s.  I would say at least 70% of my craft show projects used these rub ons. 

So, again… I am sure someone may have figured this idea out long ago… but I will continue to think I am a genius for just a few short days. 

I have one more thing to share.  Some of you may have seen this project before.  I really love scrapbooking on the wall and have been teaching Altered Canvas for some time.  Last night I had my last canvas class for the season and I wanted to share with you.  These are super fun and easy.  

Lots of fun products were used on this canvas.  I used the Big Felt Flurries, Designer Brads, Season of Cheer Rub On’s, and Old St. Nick Rub Ons.  I also used that gorgeous Chocolate Chip double stitched ribbon, Chipboard Snowflake and that fun Rope again.  If you want to see a tutorial on this, click HERE!

The most common question I get asked when making a canvas are the photos.  I highly recommend that you use photos printed from a professional place such as Wal Mart or Target.  Do not use a photo printed from your home printer as the Modge Podge will eat the ink and you will be left with a blank picture.  Probably NOT the end result you were looking for.

Well folks.  That is all I have to share tonight.  All the cleaning I did the other day really did me in.  I feel like all the dust bunnies I caught on Sunday have landed in my nose and head.  Ugh! 

Have a GREAT Wednesday and thanks so much for taking a peek!

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So Sweet and Soft

I just love the feel of felt.  It’s so soft to touch.  I have ONE last craft show coming up and I had these baby onsies hanging around and I wanted to try putting some felt flowers onto one.  I got so caught up in making these I ended up making 4 of them.  I cut the felt using my Big Shot and the Flower Layers w/Leaf die cut.  I love using that die cut with the felt.   Remember, the sizzlets will not cut the felt.  

Here is a looksie!

Here is picture close up.  

Making these makes me want another baby.  Or NOT!  *wink*

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