Time to Scrapbook!

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. 

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More Country Living Kit!

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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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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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We really did stamp this month!

November has really been a busy stampin’ time here.  I had many stamp classes as well as Stamp Camps and Clubs to boot.  Now add in a few craft shows and you have ONE busy busy month! 

This months stamp camp was a lot of fun and I am so excited to share with you the projects we made.  My focus for stamp camps this month has been "gift" giving.  I think we mastered that this month.  LOL!  Here are a few projects and I am also including they instructions so you can make these projects in your home.    I hope you enjoy them.

 This adorable little box is actually a box that can hold those cute little mini loaves that you bake.  Now since I am not really a baker or COOK for that matter, I made a cute little table center with pine cones and such for my Thanksgiving Day table setting.  I used the stamp set Harvest Home.  We watercolored the image using ink pads.  I did emboss the image using Basic Black Craft ink and Clear Embossing Powder to make it an easy watercoloring image. 

 Click HERE to download the instructions!

Next project was SUPER cute and SUPER easy!  I think I heard a few of my stampers squeal when they made this.

This opens up and has layers of cardstock inside to place pictures on.  I used Green Mono Glue to keep the Big Felt Flurries Snowflake on.  Love that Ski Slope Designer Paper.  It really is a BEAUTIFUL Designer Paper. 

Next is a simple little Kit Kat bar covered with Designer Paper from one of the Prints Packs.  I ***LOVE*** the Country Living Holiday Collection Kit and EVERYTHING inside that Kit.  The stamp set is WELL worth the money!!!

Click HERE for the instructions for the Kit Kat and Mini Scrapbook!

Then we did these adorable Chocolate Peppermint Sticks!  I love this idea because they are simple, and you can make a ton of them FAST. These are great little trinket gifts to give to those friends you just cannot live without.  I have a ton of people like that.  They just make me smile. 

I have used sooooooooooo many of the Season of Cheer Rub on’s by Stampin’ Up! this year.  Besides Chit Chat being my favorite Rub On’s, Season of Cheer ranks right up there.  If you have the punches, then this set of Rub ons is right up your alley.  Nothing seems better to me than rubbing on a sentiment and then punching it out.  This is what makes this sooooo fun and simple.  I am sure I will be asked where I got those yummy chocolate peppermint sticks…. COSTCO. 

Click HERE for the instructions!

Lastly, our Stamp Camp ended with the cute Snowman Tins.  I loved making these tins this year.  They are Snowman Soup!  I posted this a little while back on my blog HERE!

Now HERE are the instructions!

I hope these little projects bring you some stampin’ cheer!  I know they did to myself and my customers. 

NOW BIG NEWS!  I will be doing a 12 days of Christmas Gift Giving Blitz starting on Thanksgiving Day!  There will be tons of fun projects just in time for you to make for the Holidays!  You must sign up for the newsletter in order to receive them.  You will see the SIGN UP on the right column of my SIDE BAR! 

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Fun Holiday Cards

Good afternoon!

I’ve had a few requests for the cute little tea bag holder.  Sorry I don’t post a lot of directions for projects.  I am usually on the fly (or riding by the seat of my pants) most of the time. 

To make the tea bag holder:

Old Olive cardstock: 3.5 x 7.5

Score cardstock at 1/2", 3 1/4, 3 3/4" and 4 1/4"

Decorate as you wish!

Hope this helps you!

Now, this past week has been whackadoodle in my stamp room.  We have been stampin’ like crazy women!    I just had my SAS this past weekend and I wanted to share some of the cards with you:

Now, dig deep into your stampin’ supplies and see if you can uncover your precious chalk!  This card used the ole Poppin’ Pastels using Versamarker, Chalk and a Sponge Dauber.  If you are a customer of mine you have heard me say many times to use your chalk.  It is such a great tool and especially if you do not have many of our inks.  Of course you should have those inks on your wish list.  Stampin’ Up! inks are the BEST!  Anyways, I just used my VersaMarker to color in the image and then used the dauber with chalk to color the image.  Viola!  The sides of the stamped image were created using the Curly Label Punch.  Just a fun little extra for the card.

Here is another card using the Country Living Holiday Collection.  WOW I love this kit.  I used VersaMark on the Kraft cardstock with the snowflake and then added some Ski Slope designer paper at the bottom.  Love how I can punch that Snowflake out using the 1 3/4 punch. 

Speaking of snow… I see a few flakes coming down.  Yippie!

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