Stampin' Creations

I was able to go to my upline, Jan's on Sunday to stamp for a while. It was so nice to have stuff prepped for me! Here's some of what I did using New items from the upcoming catalog. This page uses Kiwi Designer paper, Baja Breeze CS & Designer Paper, Pacific Point striped ribbon, and check out the new Sizzlit that cuts and embosses!
Here's a closeup.

Love those felt flowers and buttons too. I didn't glue them down real well yet so I can slip my pictures underneath some.
Here's another scrapbook page that I love! Can't wait to snap a pic of my kiddos to put in it. It uses the new Love You Much stamp set and 3 heart punch along with that yummy ribbon from the Holiday Mini. Oh - and the filligree brad for the flower is so cute! Riding Hood Red and Kraft look great together. I also made a card that matches.


I'll have more for you later!

A Wish for Peace, Love and Joy this holiday season to all of you, and a Stampin' New Year!





(felt snowflake placed inside clear ornament ball and cut word from die and ran through Xyron to adhere to front of ball)

Here are some monogramed stationary sets I made for teacher gifts. I made the blue ones first then discovered the adhesive strips from SS Kits went much faster. I love those kits - I find new things to do with them more and more. This one here is the retired Crew Kids Girl and the other is from an older DSP we had. The J is from the Lovely Letters Alphabet. I like the way they came out - hope they do too!

A little more than a week left til Christmas and I'm still making Christmas cards! There's just something about the set To You & Yours that makes me keep coming back to it. I had another piece of the DSP from "I Wish" SS kit that made a nice background. And I've had this idea to use the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder as a snowy look for a while now, I just embossed the Top Notes Die and sponged the edges. The sentiment is punched with the large oval but the house and red layer was done with the Coluzzle - all sponged as well. Choc. Chip polytwill ribbon finishes it. My hubby liked this one, hope you do too!

This is the closest I get to quilting. I saw Lee Ann Groff's card and had to case. I actually simplified it a little, but it's the main idea I really like. The four punched squares are from the I Wish SS Kit and spread out a little on White cs, then layered on Real Red. There's a red rhinestone brad in the middle to complete the quilt look. The Olive patterned paper is from the kit as well (love this kit!) and I cut just the "joy" part of the Sizzix die to put on top. The wide red grograin goes under the panel, which I popped up with dimensionals. I really like the choc. chip with red combo for holiday cards. And how appropriately named since you have to have choc. chip cookies at Christmas time. : )

I love this idea for a "little something" gift. I looked up directions on Splitcoast but wound up making modifications. Here's what I did:

Cut outer layer of DSP 5 1/2 X 4" and score at 2 3/8" from each side. Cut inner layer of cardstock 5 1/4" X 3 3/4" and score at 2 1/4" from each side. Then I cut across the score lines in the middle at 1 1/2" and 2" starting from the 2" mark down to the 3 1/4" mark on my paper cutter. That makes the opening for the tube to go into. For the tabs to stop the lip balm from sliding out, I made a little pencil mark (erase later) at the top and bottom of the tube, then took it out. With the slit punch upside down, move it in until the pencil mark is about half way down the punch and squeeze. You'll notice it doesn't punch the paper all the way down, which is why you did that. Press the tabs down and your lip balm holder should fit nicely inside. Cut a piece of ribbon about 14" long to adhere across the middle of the inside cover. Adhere the inside cardstock on top, centered. Here I stamped "Happy Holidays" from a retired hostess set, Warmest Regards in Choc. Chip. For the lip balm: take off whatever wrapper it has. Cut a piece of DSP 1 7/8" X 2 1/8" and adhere across the tube. Scotch makes a tear by hand packing tape that is 1 7/8" that wraps around your paper perfectly to protect it. (I think I got mine at Wal-mart) Now for the front: I used the retired Holiday Minis poinsettia stamp and colored it in with a blender pen and Riding Hood Red ink and Old Olive ink. Then I embossed it with clear EP and cut it out. Added some dimensionals and placed on the front. Tie the ribbon and you're done! If I left anything out, let me know.

Enjoy!

These ornaments are so quick and easy! The hardest part is finding the coordinating paper for your shape. You just pop it out and adhere it to the chipboard. I sponged the edges too. This is a kit in the Holiday Mini that we'll be using at my next Stamp Camp. The first picture features some words and I really liked the sample in the brochure of "joy" so I copied the idea of using a star for the top of the j. I used 24 gauge wire for my "hanger". The chipboard was a lot easier to punch than I thought. I just used my regular 1/16" punch and threaded the wire through and curled. These would make great scrapbook embellishments as well as tags on a gift too. The second picture features 2 pieces layered and a silver cord.

I'm back from vacation and now it's time to get started on Holiday ideas. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. And if you're getting ready to start shopping, start here!

Hello! Just a note to let you know I'll be in Disney with the kids for a week. I do have some things to post, but the camera is packed so it'll have to wait til I get back. Have a great week!

I wanted to thank 2 friends for being so nice to me lately and helping me out. It also gave me an excuse to make something I just hadn't had to the reason to before - a Coaster Post it Note Holder. I covered a coaster with the beautiful Holiday Treasures DSP and sponged the edges in Close to Cocoa. Then I covered binder clip with a coordinating paper from the same pack. Isn't this paper so pretty? I cut a strip of Red Riding Hood cs , rolled it up and inserted it into a clear barrel pen and tied 2 widths of ribbon on the clip. Easy and so cute! Of course my selection of post it notes didn't really match so I'll have to make a stop for that. Wouldn't it be neat if I could find notes that matched my colors?

Wow - time flies. But I am getting a good head start on my Christmas stuff. Here's a box I made at my upline, Jan's meeting which was just had the Top Note Die cut in the Ski Slope DSP on top when I left. We were supposed to jazz it up, as we were inspired by Mary Jo Albright to do, at home. So I added the sponging around the edges as well as to my greeting, layered onto Baja Breeze and added brads. Those new Felt Flurries are so fun and layer great together. I put a Star Brad in the middle and that jazzed it up quite a bit. I would have liked to change the ribbon but was afraid the paper would get too messed up. Hope she likes it.

Yes, you read right. I got to meet Mary Jo Albright - 2X Artisan Award Winner for SU! She is so sweet and does such amazing work. I even got to sit at her table. Of course, as my luck would have it, I started to get a migraine headache towards the end of the meeting and felt awful. So I didn't get to chat with her as much as I'd like, but better than nothing!

GO PHILLIES!!

This card is for a caretaker of a person affected with Alzheimer’s. I consider myself incredibly blessed to not have first hand knowledge of this as I know how widespread this disease is. Please go to Cammie's blog here and see what an amazing thing she has done. The generosity of stampers is incredible. The blog candy simply cannot be beat, but participate just because it's a great thing to do.
I had actually started this card at my stamp camp but didn't finish it until I saw her post. You can't really tell in the photo, but the Upsy Daisy flowers are stamped in black on glossy cardstock that was smooshed in acetate with reinkers and spritzed with water. I had a smaller piece so I stamped the Thank you part of the sentiment that comes with the set on that and layered on black again. A black grograin ribbon on the Ballet Blue card base finishes it off. Thanks to those who care for Alzheimer's patients, and thanks to Cammie for organizing this!

Isn't this an awesome card? It's great for so many things. I wish I could take credit, but I cased it from somewhere and it looks like the name on the pic I saved says Allison Ohran. I hope that's right. I love it, Allison! Not sure if I used everything exactly as hers, but here are my supplies: Kraft, Choc. Chip & Vanilla CS; Summer Sun, Old Olive and Choc. chip markers, Versamark and clear EP, Inspired by Nature set and Choc. Chip grograin ribbon.

Next is another beauty that I received in the mail. Love how my pen pal Debbie used the Cuttlebug and chalks! The distressing is great too. Gotta love stamped snail mail. Thanks!!

My sister's Anniversary was this week and I didn't remember until the day before so I wanted to make a quick card so I wouldn't be late with it. I actually got the Brocade Basics free from this past Sell A Bration but haven't used it until now. How aweful is that!! I love how elegant it is and that it's large enough to cover most of the card front. So, it fill the bill for my purpose. I used Kiwi Kiss and Groovy Guava ink on W White CS. The edges are sponged and the sentiment is from All Holidays. The Background is the Floral Stamp. But the thing I got the most excited about was my discovery for the little clear bubbles on the top left. It needed something up there but nothing too distracting. When I went for an adhesive I saw my Sparkly Glitter Glue and thought it would be cool to adhere them with a little sparkle underneath - and it worked!