Happy Monday!  I have a few more Chirstmas cards I want to share this morning.  We did these over the weekend. 

Last year, one of my favorite stamp sets was from the Holiday mini called Winter Post.  Every one of the images was perfect.  Most of all I loved that snowflake.  I love the modern feel this card throws off with that beautiful Holiday Lounge DSP.  The DSP has Taken w/ Teal, and Sahara Sand in it so I used Sahara Sand as the cardstock base.  I used Bermuda Bay to stamp the snowflakes.  It was actually on accident because I wasn’t paying attention and thought the color in the DSP was Bermuda Bay.  I love accidents with stamping.  Sometimes the outcome comes out better.  The sentiment comes from Teeny Tiny Wishes! 

Here is the last card we did!

This is another set from last year that I adored. A Cardinal Christmas!  In fact, I have a framed card that Shelli Gardner did last year with this set and I keep it up all year.   It was a beautiful card that we received in a swap at Founders last year.  This set is beautiful on tiles.  It would make great decorative tiles or coasters.  I used the Finial Press embossing folder for the background and the new Holiday Best for the sentiment.  It actually has a cardinal on the flourish but he got chopped because he was to chubby.   If you notice the big scallop square in the background, that comes from the Clear Scallop Square Die Cut.  I trimmed off a smidge from one side and attached to the card.  Then lastly I used that oh so yummy Chocolate Chip/Vanilla Striped Ribbon that is to die for.  I used so much of it last year in the Riding Hood Red.  I am SUPER excited to see these colors in this ribbon.  Especially the black.   I will have a ball with that and Halloween!  I must admit that making these cards is gearing me up for the Holidays.  How about  you? 

I hope your weekend is fabulous.  I am off to shop for convention.  I need new duds as I will be on the stage chit chatting.    They said Bikini’s were out.  

Have a fabulous day!

I worked on swaps all day and after I did all the designing of the cards they seemed to get a few face lifts along the way.

You may remember this card the other day:

I gave it a little face lift tonight:

Not much difference, however the butterfly now has Iridescent Ice all over it.  Very pretty.  I’ve had a few people ask me about making the banners on the cards so I thought I would show you in a few pics how to make them.  Hopefully this will give you more of a visual and help you when making your own.  They are soooooo addicting. 

Here ya go:

 Here is the close up on a card:

Okay, and now one last card for tonight.  I really do not want to see the stamp set Season of Friendship go.  It’s currently in the Holiday Mini and I adore this set.  I love it because you can use it for sooooooo many holidays.  Here is my take on Valentines with it!

Thankfully the Love You Much stamp set coordinates VERY WELL with the Heart punch.  It made this card much easier. 

Here you can see how dimensional this card really is. 

Have a Super Fabulous Sunday!

I spent the better part of my day today packing up all the Christmas decorations and pulling out my Valentines decorations.  Once again I have successfully confused my children as I was pulling out the Valentines items out of the closet.  Alexis told me at least 5 times that it wasn’t for another month and was this really necessary?  Jeesh!  I think she was so concerned because her birthday is just a week away.  My little girl will turn six very soon and she seems to think I will forget.  Tonight I proved her wrong.  We sat down and made the invitations to her party.  She was giddy with excitement. 

I used the Large Scallop Die Cut to make the base and then the Scallop #2 for the Kraft Cardstock and my main image.  I stamped Crazy for Cupcakes on the Kraft cardstock using Basic Black ink and then used markers, dazzling diamonds and that puffy stuff for the tops of the cupcakes.  This is when Alexis started dancing around my stamp room.  She thought this was "COOL"!  The Designer Paper comes from the Level 3 Hostess Simply Scrappin’ Kit as well as the Flower that is stamped at the top.  I also added a Button on top of the flower to give it a little more dimension.

Here is a closer look:

Once again, lots of dimensionals.  Most important, she loved them. 

I also made a quick Valentine card tonight using A Happy Heart.  This set is in the Holiday Mini so it won’t be available too much longer.  Super set and fun to stamp! 

I used an eraser to make the polka dots with Whisper White Craft Ink on the bottom of the card. 

Have a super weekend. I will be working on swaps for Leadership this weekend.  Lots of stampin’ is in my future.  Whoo Hoo!

It was scrapbook club at my house tonight!  Not only do I love the fact I get to produce two pages for my own scrapbook, I just LOVE this group.  They make me laugh so hard!  It really is a giggle fest. You know the giggle that makes you run to the bathroom!  Okay, on to the pages….

Every year I always like to do a scrapbook page of our Holiday Traditions.  You know… putting the tree up, baking cookies with all the neighborhood kids, making the gingerbread house, yadda yadda!  This year is no exception and here is the layout. 

Here are a few close up pics…

So now a few details about this page!  The pockets were made using Kraft Envelopes.  Every year I take 1000’s of pics at Christmas time.  I don’t need 50 layouts on the subject so this gives me a way to compress all those pics right there into pockets.  The trees were cut using my Fiskars paper trimmer.  Truly done by eyeballing it.  The stars are felt cut using my Stars Bigz Die Cut.  I *LOVED* this idea.  It really made the tree’s pop out.  The stamp sets I used were Winter Post and Lovely as a Tree. The Alphabet is Contempo and Big Deal Numbers. 

This next layout was completely inspired by a layout I seen in my Scrapbooks Etc. Magazine on pg. 108.  I just loved this layout and I added a few twists to it. 

Here are a few close ups:

Do you have pictures of your kids sitting on Santas lap?  This layout is perfect for that.  I cut the Top Note from the Long Board Chipboard and then covered the bottom with Ski Slope designer paper.  Of course I had to put a banner on it.  Who doesn’t like a banner???  I used the Season of Cheer Rub on’s and then added our fun Felt Flurries at the top.  Again, I used Winter Post for the stamp set and Christmas Classics.  Two very fun stamp sets. 

I hope this inspires you to get your photo’s out this weekend and scrapbook. 

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!