Holiday Mix Up & PSS!

This time of year I'm the best at confusing my children over which holiday comes first over the next few months.  I start stamping Fall, Halloween, Christmas, Winter, and Valentines Day all at the same time.  I also work on Home Decor items for the different holidays so they tend to be totally confused.  Can you relate to this?

Today I thought I would have a Holiday Mix Up here. I've been showing you Fall and Halloween, it's time to open the Christmas vault.  If you are like me and you hand stamp your Christmas cards you should by now have at least an idea of WHAT you would like to stamp.  Make a plan and figure out how many you need.  If you can pick ONE day per week from now until the first week of December to work on your cards you will save yourself from PSS.  PSS in the stamping community means  Procrastination Stamping Syndrome.  I've had it for 8 years.  I am the girl who starts *thinking* about her Christmas Card design around the second week of December.  I stamp them all the way up to Christmas.  They are sent out around January 1st or so.  PLEASE someone tell me YOU have this syndrome!  Surely I'm not the only one? I am bound to STOP PSS and show my family I can be a good stamping girl and get my Christmas cards out on time. Possibly with a picture of my kids too.  YEAH!!

Here is my first Christmas card design of the year and it's more of a Winter card than Christmas.  Give me a few props… I'm trying. *Hee Hee*

Holy Cow! I love these felt little Snowflakes.  Here is what I did:

This card started off simple and then became over the top. I pulled out my sewing machine and sewed all the Snowflakes onto the Pool Party cardstock.  I took the prongs off of each of the Antique Brads and hot glued them onto the snowflakes.  I wrapped and tied a bow with Whisper White ribbon around the bottom of the Pool Party.  I then used a sentiment "Let it Snow" from the Punch Pals stamp set.  I mounted this onto Night of Navy Cardstock.  My card base is Pool Party cardstock again.  On the front of the card I used the Delicate Doilies stamp set with Whisper White Craft ink.  I mounted Night of Navy cardstock onto my card base using dimensionals.  I used my favorite Spritzer Tool that every stamper should have with a Soft Suede marker.  I lightly sponged around the entire card using Soft Suede ink.  Lastly, I used my Crystal Effects and Mica Flakes very lightly around the Felt Snowflakes. 

It may be a little over the top and I may not make 100 of them, but someone will be receiving this card!  It could be YOU! This card could even tip the scales over 5lb's in wt.  *hee hee*

Here's how:

I want to know when YOU start making your Christmas/Holiday Cards and HOW MANY do you make? Leave your comment by Sunday, September 11th Midnight EST.  I'll be choosing a name using the Random Number Generator thingy. I'll mail this card along with another on the following Tuesday!

Hope your day is FABULOUS!

XOXOXO

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Oh Mr. Penguin!

So here is a little fact about myself you may not have known!  I love Penguins!  I think they are just so stinkin’ cute.  Every time I go to the zoo one of my favorite places to go to are the penguins.  I love to watch them swim.  When the new Holiday Mini came out the Cold & Cuddly (116523) set caught my eye right away.  It was a must have in my book.  I love that chubby little penguin.  Here is a card I made using this set!

I used the Jolly Stampin’ Around wheel  (112479) on the Bashful Blue cardstock.  There are actually a few layers of the Bashful Blue cardstock on top of each other to give it more dimension.  Then I used an aqua painter to wet the paper and loosen the fibers on the cardstock.  Then I rolled the paper down using my fingers.  Viola!  A cute Penguin card.  So fun!

Time to teach a class.  Have a FABULOUS evening!  I hope to catch you tomorrow with lots more cute stuff going on in this stamp room of mine!!!

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Oh Pretty Snowflakes!

I’ve had some time to play with a few of my new toys lately.  I wanted to share a card that has many beautiful elements that I have fallen in love with.  The Holiday Mini has so many favorites in it for me. 

Let’s start with the paper.  I asked for ONE thing to be in the mini catalog this year and I *kinda* got my wish.  I love FLOCK and they brought out this beautiful flocked designer paper.  I could sit and touch it all day.  I love how it feels and best yet, how it looks on creative projects.  The paper is called Christmas Cocoa Specialty (116770).

I stamped the Snowflakes using the Serene Snowflakes (115438) stamp set using Soft Suede ink and then applied the Icicle Rub Ons (116804) over the stamped snowflake.  The rub ons include 2 sheets: 1 sheet ea in silver and Whisper White.  I loved how the Whisper White looked over the Soft Suede.  For the focal point on the card I reversed what I had done on the card front and applied a Whisper White rub on to the Soft Suede cardstock then stamped a snowflake in Soft Suede ink onto Whisper White cardstock and cut it out.  Using a dimensional, I popped it up onto the applied rub on.  It’s so three dimensional.  The Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper is on the base of the card.  It feels so pretty.  Here in Colorado, I am sure snowflakes are in our near future.  I am not ready for it, but I can stamp them.   

Now to figure out what our Holiday weekend plans will be.  Russ and I have a few plans up our sleeves with the kids.  Time together is on tap.  He spent this week in Israel and was lucky enough to see Madonna in concert.  WOW!  He was super excited, I was super jealous.  I tried singing "Like a Virgin" on the phone and he promptly told me he had to go.  Not sure if it was my singing or…..  oh anyways… I was jealous. 

Have a safe and fabulous weekend!

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Chilly Willy!

Holy Cow!  It’s super CHILLY outside today and Alexis and I even watched "snow balls" drop from the sky.  I know, snow balls!  They were itty bitty snow balls.  They melted right away but it was fun to watch.  Tonights card is in honor of the chilly willy weather we are having! 

Have you checked out the new Country Living Special?  You can check out all the details by clicking on the right sidebar.  GREAT kit with so many great things inside.  Most of all I love the stamp set.  I love a stamp set that can get a lot of mileage.  This is one of them.  This card uses the stamp set within the kit called Holiday Collection.  I just love this snowflake and the fact it can be punched out using the 1 3/4 circle punch.  I used Iridescent Ice over the Snow Flakes and I also used the Snowflake wheel on the background of the Night of Navy cardstock.  Then, I used the Baskets and Blooms die and rolled out the bottom part of the basket and used it to mat my snowflake.  So fun!  Here is a closer look:

Take time today and check out this awesome special.  I believe it’s a GREAT deal.  Also, make sure you pick up a copy of Country Living Magazine.  There is a GREAT spread of Stampin’ Up! creations in it.  Have a FABULOUS day!

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So Delicate

If you remember from my post yesterday, I stated that Scandinavian Season stamp set was never my favorite in the beginning when the Holiday Mini Catalog came out.  There was something about the tree that I couldn’t make work.  Then it dawned on me!  Embossing powder!  It’s like a Band-Aid!  It fixes everything!    I am now in love with this stamp set.  One of my favorite colors to put with this set is Sage Shadow and Chocolate Chip.  It makes this stamp look Shabby Chic or almost Vintage and delicate! Here are two fun projects I have done. 

You can see in the close up picture that I gave this lots of layers.  Honestly, this tree was not a "quickie" to make, but this is what makes me fall in love with stamping every day.  When I can just PLAY! 

Here is another fun project:

I used the Scandinavian Wheel and Autumn Vine DSP.  Don’t you just love those silly mittens????  Oh, I do.  They are SuPeR DuPeR cute.  Again, I embossed and then came back and watercolored with Sage Shadow.  ohhhh weeee!!!!

Oh, and you will have to excuse my BANNERS!  It’s my new "Thang!" 

Have a FABULOUS day!

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