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This is a simple card using the Eat Chocolate stamp set again. The pompoms are one of my favorite new accessories from the new Occasions mini catalog!
A lot of people have been asking me when Sale-a-bration starts this year. The dates are January 25 through March 31. I'm not sure why the odd dates but that's what they are. I have some Sale-a-bration product to play with it too. Stay tuned for some projects with the upcoming Sale-a-bration products.
Thanks for stopping by!
Kathleen
Being the chocolate lover I am I just had to have this new set from Stampin' Up! called Eat Chocolate. It's coming out in the new Occasions mini catalog January 4. This is a simple card using some new products in the Occasions mini including Tangerine Tango pompom trim(love it!) and the big button.
Recipe: Stamps: Eat Chocolate
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango
Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Other: Early Espresso wide striped ribbon, designer label punch, stampin' dimensionals, tangerine tango pompom trim, tangerine tango button
We've been doing a whole lot of nothing around here this week. Which means I get to hang out in my craft room. Yeah! I hope your week is going good.
Thanks for stopping by!
Kathleen
I'm sorry to disappear for so long. You know how it is with getting ready for the holidays and having family around. I was off all last week but was getting ready to host Christmas eve for my husband's family and Christmas day with my side of the family. We had 19 on Christmas Eve and 51 people on Christmas day. A new record! Everything went surprisingly well. Then I had my mom stay with me for a few days so I haven't been able to get into my craft room - until today! It felt so good to put ink to stamps again! This is a card I made using a new set from the upcoming Occasions mini catalog. The set is called Eat Chocolate.
There's lots of new products on this card including that pompom ribbon, new embossing folder and new button sizzlet die! So many fun things to play with!
Recipe: Stamps: Eat Chocolate
Ink: Early Espresso, Melon Mambo
Paper: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Melon Mambo
Other: Framed Tulips embossing folder, Melon Mambo pompom trim, Sweet Buttons embosslit, word window punch, modern label punch, ribbon border punch, crystal effects, stampin' dimensionals
I'm starting a new full-time job on Monday! This one shouldn't be as time consuming as my last job. It is 5 minutes away for one. It is a small office and I will be doing customer service, unpacking merchandise, entering orders, shipping out product, and anything else that needs to be done. I'm really looking forward to my new position!
I hope your holidays were great! Thanks for stopping by!
Kathleen
I got a box of new stamping goodies this week. These are new products that will be in the upcoming Occasions mini catalog that starts January 4, 2011. My oh my, I had to have this new cupcake set and coordinating cupcake punch! It makes making paper cupcakes a breeze! This is my first simple card with this punch and stamp set.
Stamps: Create a cupcake
Ink: Blushing Bride, Early Espresso, Poppy Parade
Paper: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Poppy Parade, Level 1 hostess designer paper pack
Other: rhinestones, crystal effects, 1 3/4" circle punch, 2 3/8" circle scallop punch, wide oval punch, decorative label punch, blushing bride ribbon, build a cupcake punch, stampin' dimensionals, paper piercer
My last day of full-time work was Friday. I was doing a contract job that ended. I will be looking for new work in January. I get to enjoy the next couple of weeks with my family and in my stamp room! Stay tuned for lots more new samples!
Kathleen
I've been complaining a lot about the cold and the winter to my family lately. I told my husband and kids we should move somewhere warm. My kids say no, they love it in Minnesota. I was only kidding. I do love it in Minnesota but the cold does get to me sometimes. It feels good to hear the kids say they love it here too! I think I need to plan a vacation somewhere warm though. :)
This month during stamp club we had a Christmas winter theme. We made this card. The medallion and the greeting banner are a case from the very talented Sandy McIver. It is die cut with the scallops #2 Sizzix die, and then each scallop is punched with the crop-a-dile. Isn't that a cool effect? The rim of the circle is ringed in mono multi glue and sprinkled with the silver glass glitter from the holiday mini. The background is done by running a piece of carstock vellum through the Northern Flurries Embossing folder. Then I layered the vellum over some Baja Breeze cardstock.
Recipe: Greeting card kids, Curly Cute
Ink: Jetblack Stazon, Real REd, Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand Marker, Blush Blossom marker
Paper: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Real REd, Garden Green, cardstock Vellum
Other: Scallops #2 Sizzix die, crop-a-dile, silver glass glitter, aquapainter, Northern Flurries embossing folder, buttons from holiday mini, blushing bride ribbon
Thank you for stopping by today!
Kathleen
My monthly card stamp club likes to do card swaps each month in addition to the cards we make at card club. We start off passing around one swap at a time. Everyone is very appreciative of the cards each one makes and we ooh and aah over what they make. I'll have to start sharing those with you.
Well, we did a Christmas or Winter theme this month. I wanted to make something special for each of my club members. I found this penguin box by Lisa Young and fell in love with it so that was my packaging part of the project.
This was so easy! Just use the Fancy Favor SIzzix box in Basic Black for your base. The feet and face are done with the full heart punch. The tummy with the ovals sizzix die. The beak with the heart to heart punch and the eyes are googlie eyes. A little real red wide grosgrain ribbon and you're done!
Next was the gift itself. I always have a good supply of litle notebooks on hand so I set to work decorating them up. I found this adorable reindeer tag by Jacqueline on splitcoaststampers. I decided that was going to be my focal point on my notebook. This adorable reinder is made with the owl punch! Just cut off the feet and you have the head! Add some red bling for the note, the eyes are the circle from the owl punch and the circle punch from the punch trio pack. The antlers are part of the snowflake punch and add some details with the basic black marker, and highlights in the eyes with the white uniball gel pen.
I love how this turned out! I gotta make up some more of these!
I had a jam packed weekend. It took me two hours to get home from work on Friday because of some snow and slippery roads during rush hour. I fed my boys and then went to pick up my daughter from work. I was all done in by that point and went to bed early. On Saturday we went to a birthday party for my nephew who turned 13 and out to dinner with some friends for my husband's birthday that evening. On sunday after church I headed to my niece's house for a Norwex party. Have you used this stuff? I love their products! In between I added the ornaments to the tree and the countdown to Christmas calendar. It's hard to candy small enough to fit in there! So now we're back to Monday!
I hope you had a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!
Kathleen
How is your December starting off? Today is my husband's birthday. I was scrambling with my kids last night to get cards made for him. Not our best effort but I think he'll appreciate them. I have been asking and asking him for ideas for me and the kids to get him. He's not that easy to buy for and we get a double whammy in December with his birthday and Christmas. He's really into playing hockey these days so most of what he wants is around that. Mostly money to play more hockey!
Guys in general, are difficult to buy for. As much as I don't like giving gift cards and money for gifts, I have slowly come around to it. This is the gift they want. I just don't like giving gifts with little thought or effort behind them. That's why I like to give money and gift cards in some kind of clever way.
I usually try to use a different card holder each year. This year, we made one at my open house. You die cut three top note Sizzix dies. You cut one of them in half, punch a 1" circle half way in to give them something to grab it out of the pocket. You form the pocket by glueing around the edges of the 1/2 top note. It's hard to see the pocket in the picture but hopefully, you get the idea.
I love the inside sentiment for giving gift cards. I can think of more than a few on my gift list that this will work for!
Recipe: Tags Til' Christmas
Ink: Real Red
Paper: Baha Breeze, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Real Red
Other: Top Note Sizzix die, Northern Flurry embossing folder(holiday mini), 1 1/4" square punch, scallop square punch, small oval punch, large oval punch, oval scallop punch, rhinestones, neutrals brads, stampin' dimensionals
How are the holiday festiviites coming along? We have our tree up and some of the decorations up but I still need to put the ornaments on the tree and my youngest keeps bugging me to wrap presents and put them under the tree so he can snoop! That's not going to happen for awhile. We have birthday celebrations first. My nephew's birthday is the day after my husband's so we are going to celebrate this weekend for both!
I have some projects to share with you in the coming week from my stamp club. We're meeting tonight so I don't want to spoil the surprise yet!
Thanks for stopping by!
Kathleen
