My Happy Stamping Place

Open House card

Having my Holiday Open House on Thanksgiving weekend might not have been the best idea.  My attendance was pretty low.  But this working full-time thing is getting in the way of my stamping time. hah!  The people who did come got to make this card as one of the make-n-takes.

 

Cherry Cobbler is, without a doubt, my favorite new color that was introduced with the new catalog in July.  It is so rich and beautiful!  It's an excellent Christmas color but you'll probably see it popping up in my Valentines projects too!

Recipe: Stamps: Dasher, Perfect Punches

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Cherry cobbler

Paper: Cherry cobbler, Chocolate Chip, very Vanilla, Old Olive

Other:  Petals-a-plenty embossing folder, cherry cobbler ribbon, scallop circle punch, little leaves sizzlit sizzix die, stampin' dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Blueberry Dessert

Did anyone go out Black Friday shopping?  My daughter and I tackled the crowds.  We had great luck and our first two stores - Target and Kohls.  No significant lines and we found most of the things we were looking for.  Then we decided to drive to another area and the traffic was terrible.  We abandoned the store based on the nightmare in the parking lot.  We moved onto another mall but it wasn't our usual mall so we were unfamiliar with where everything was and it was overwhelming!  So we drove back to "our mall" and finished up our shopping.  My daughter had to work at 5:00 for 3 hours.  Then she came home and put up the tree with my husband.  What a long(but good!) day.

So now I'm all rested up again.  It's a good thing cuz there's a lot on my plate today.  I will be putting the rest of the Christmas decorations up and getting ready for my Holiday Open House tomorrow.

I want to share with you one last recipe card from Recipe club this month. 

 

I made the blueberries with the 1/2" circle punch and Not Quite Navy cardstock.  I sponged them with Night of Navy ink and highlighted them with the uniball white gel pen.  The bowl is made with 1/2 of 1 1/4" circle punch and 1/2 of 3/4" circle punch in River Rock and sponged it with Soft Suede ink.

The jumbo ric rac is made with the Tasteful Trim Sizzix die from the Holiday mini catalog.  After die cutting this piece I ran it through the polka dots embossing folder to give it some fun texture.  I finishedit off with a cherry cobbler button and vanilla taffeta ribbon.

And here is a picture of the dessert.

 

If you are local to the Twin Cities area and would like to come to my Holiday Open House contact me at [email protected] or call me at 952-226-2190.  It is 2:00-5:00 on Sunday.  You can see all of the information here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Punch art Chef and Holiday Open House

It's a challenge coming up with new and cute recipe cards each month for my recipe club but it's a challenge I enjoy!  I love to use punch art in my pages because it adds so much and my clubbers love it!  This was a particularly putzy card but worth it in the end!  We started out weaving 1/2 strips of Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla cardstock to form the checkerboard pattern.  I got this idea from Lorie's recipe card. I wanted to make some kind of chef for my recipe card.  I started out with this chef from Lynn but I veered off and came up with my own guy borrowing an idea or two along the way.

 
Recipe: Paper: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black

Punch art chef: large oval in Blushing Bride cardstock for head, heart punch in blushing bride for ears(cut heart in half), circle punch from punch pack trio in blushing bride for nose.  Medium circle from owl punch for eyelids in blushing bride. Medium circle from owl punch in whisper white for eyes. Double circle punch(pig nose punch) in basic black for eyeballs. 1/2 of red circle from the medium circle in owl punch for mouth. Boho blossom punch in basic black for hair. The negative from the curly label punch for the mustache. Butterfly punch in Very Vanilla for top of chef hat. 1/2 x 1 inch strip of very vanilla with corners rounded for brim of chef's hat. I sponged around the chef's hat with Sahara Sand ink and around the large oval punch with Regal Rose ink.

other supplies: Tastetrim Sizzix die(for large ric rac)

Here is what the dish looks like.

 
The picture on this dish doesn't do it justice.  It is quite tasty! This recipe came from Wendi too.  I have one more recipe to share with you from recipe club in the next day or so.

My daughter and I are out Black Friday shopping today.  We don't go at 4:00 or 5:00.  I can't get her out of bed quite that early.  I hope to be out there by 6:30.  We've been doing this for about 5 years and it's a great bonding day for us!  How about you?  Are you tackling the crowds today!

I want to let you know about my Holiday Open House this Sunday, November 28.

Please join me for a holiday open house!  There will be make-n-takes, hand-stamped cards and gifts for sale, lots of ideas on display for cards, tags, gifts, gift packaging, and scrapbooking, gift certificates, and purchase opportunities for the holidays. 

Date: Sunday, November 28

Time: 2:00-5:00

RSVP: to Kathleen by e-mail at [email protected] or by calling me at 952-226-2190.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

 

Thanksgiving 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!  We are going to spend today with my mom and my side of the family.  We alternate years with my husband's family.  There's a bunch of us on my side.  There should be 35 or so of us this year.  Maybe more.  I'm bringing the desserts.  I baked a pecan pie, frosted shortbread and caramel rice krispy balls.  Two of them are new recipes so I hope they'll taste good!  Dessert is very important to my family.  We all have terrible sweet tooths!  We'll have the tradiitional turkey and stuffing.  Because we are all traveling from different places we don't usually do mashed potatoes.  It's hard to make all of the hot dishes with limited oven space.  So we make a different potato dish which my family loves - we call them Peggy Potatoes!  My oldest sister Peggy introduced them to the family and they have become a family tradition ever since!  we also have our traditional orange salad which is not a salad at all but an excuse to eat more dessert!  Someone will bring veggies which we will eat to feel less guilty about all of the other stuff and rolls too.  What are your family's traditional Thanksgiving foods?

Since we are talking about all of this yummy food, I want to share a recipe card from recipe club this month.  Wendi provided this yummy recipe.

 

The letters are made with the Broadsheet Alphabet.  You may recognize these letters from the Austin card we made last week. I love the look of this alphabet!  So stylized and fun!  I stamped the letters in Early Espresso on Whisper White and punched them out with the 1 1/4" circle punch.  I popped them up with stampin' dimensionals. The background is stamped in Old Olive Ink on Old Olive cardstock with a flower from the Fast and Fabulour Level 2 hostess set.  The flower embellishment is made with XL Fancy flower punched out in Poppy Parade designer paper from the Level 1 paper pack, the 5 petal flower punched out in Daffodil Delight designer paper from the Greenhouse Gala designer paper pack.  Then I place a vintage brad in the middle.

And here is a picture of this yummy salad.

 
This is healthy and delicious! 

Check back tomorrow for another yummy recipe and a totally cute punch art chef!

Have a safe and happy Thanksving!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

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Austin's birthday

 My son, Sam, had a birthday party to go to for an 11 year old boy yesterday.  I pulled out the alphabet stamp set , Broadsheet alphabet.  Sam had the layout idea.  sigh.  It does a stamping momma proud when her kids come up with their own creative ideas!  We stamped every other letter in Early Espresso Ink on Certainly Celery and Tempting Turquoise cardstock.  We popped the letters up on stampin' dimensionals.  My kids are catching on to my love for dimensionals because Sam pointed out that we should use them as well.  The happy birthday in the middle of the card comes from the Curly Cute stamp set.  This was Sam's idea too.  That was it.  A pretty simple. but attractive boy card!

 

Sam had a blast at the party!  They went cosmic bowling and laser tag at Brunswick Bowl and they did some science experiments with soda and mentos.  Sam got him a rapid fire nerf gun for a present. Great boy fun!

I had my recipe club this afternoon.  We had some yummy recipes!  I'll be sharing the recipe cards with you this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Simple Snowflake

 When you have lots of Holiday cards to make simple is the key.  This card is very simple but lovely just the same.  I started out wiht a piece of crumb cake cardstock.  I ran it through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry embossing folder from the Holiday mini catalog.  Then I ran my Whisper White craft ink pad along the edges and the top of the snowflakes.  I stamped the greeting from the  Peaceful Season Level 2 hostess set in the Holiday mini.  I finished it off with some rhinestone gems in the middle of three of the snowflakes.

 

Thanksgiving is coming this week and then it's full speed ahead to Christmas and Hanukkah.  There's no time like the present to get started on your holiday cards. Every miniute is precious now.  There's a lot to pack into a day.  I think people appreciate the hand-made card now more than ever because of this.  You put a little bit of yourself into it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Happy Acorn

 Winter has started to settle in here in Minnesota.  We have snow on the ground and the temperatures are cooler.  It is that time of year.  But it was still fall when we made our last round of cards in stamp club.  We also have Thanksgiving ahead of us and I always reach for Fall colors with Thanksgiving cards.  Here is an adorable little acorn guy we made for this card.  I first saw the acorn guy on a card from Doris Denman, a fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  Then I saw a little modified version on a video tutorial on Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie's blog.  You can view that here.

To make the background on the card I stamped my images from Circle Circus in Old Olive, More Mustard, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso on Very Vanilla cardstock.  Then I ran that through the square lattice die with my Big Shot to give it all over texture. Then I layered that with Early Espresso cardstock and the cardbase is Cajun Craze.

 

 

Stamps:  Teeny Tiny Wishes, Circle Circus

Ink:  Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Old Olive

Paper:  Very Vanilla, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Soft Suede\

Other:  Word Window punch, modern label punch, eyelet border punch, ornament punch, glimmer brads, black brads, square lattice embossing folder, little leaves sizzlit die, stampin' dimensionals. linen thread, sponge dauber

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Kathleen

 

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Kathleen

More thank you's

 I finished up with the thank you's I needed and mailed these out to some customers.  This was just the cute and simple layout I was looking for! 

 
Recipe: stamps: I Heart Hearts, Curly Cute(greeting)

Ink:  Real Red, Basic Black

Paper:  Whisper White, Real Red, Basic Black

Other:  Vintage wallpaper embossing folder, neutrals button, eyelet border punch

I was supposed to go to my church today and show ladies in the widows group how to stamp.  Instead, we got dumped with about 8 inches of snow and it's still coming.  My youngest has been playing in it most of the day.  This is kind of late in the season for Minnesota to get our first snow.  It looks like it's going to be here to stay.  I have to admit it's kind of fun getting the first snow.  I don't mind the cold and snow leading up to Christmas.  But after Christmas it can all go away as far as I'm concerned! So instead of heading up to the church, I stayed home and cleaned.  It really needed to be done.  Then I moved on to packaging up cards for sale.  I have someone asking for birthday cards to purchase.  After that is done I'm finally going to get down to stamping!  Its fun to hibernate inside and stamp!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen