My Happy Stamping Place

Pop Up Gift card class

I have an upcoming class for popup gift card holders.  I have a lot of people I give gift cards to over the holidays.  I don't like the fact that I didn't put much thought into giving the gift of a gift card so I like to present them in a fun way.  This pop up gift card holder fits the bill!

Kim Score came up with this fun mechanism.  I just designed the card fronts.  I cased some ideas I found online and I'm very happy with how these came out!  In this class you will be making 9 pop up gift card holders and will have the makings of 10+ gift tags too.

Date: Thursday, December 15

Time: 6:30

Price: $25

If you are local to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and would like to come to this class, you can contact me for more details at [email protected].

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Thanksgiving Weekend

I had a fabulous 4 day Thanksgiving weekend!  It was filled with all of the things I love: Family, Food, Shopping, Stamping, and Movies.  It couldn't have been better! We spent Thanksgiving at my brother-in-law's house just 5 minutes away.  My nephew was home from the Marines. Here's a picture of him in his dress blues with my kids.

My boys are both sporting new short haircuts.

I spent a lot of time in my craft room.  I have some upcoming stamp club projects and a class to share with you later  Right now I'm going to share with you some ideas with the stocking sizzix die in the Holiday mini catalog.

This first  idea I saw at the Stampin' Up! convention last Summer.  You take the #2 Sizzix box die and turn it so the small end is up. Cut off the flaps on that side and sandwich it between two stocking dies.  It makes a cute little gift box!

Here is the stocking die with the top opening folded up to reveal a gift card pocket inside.

You can also make a die with the gift card peeking out the top.  Make some out of felt or fabric.  Make a garland of stockings to hang by the fireplace.  So many fun ideas to do with this die!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Chicken Pizzaoli

Hi all!  We got snow for the first time this season.  I was in LaCrosse with my daughter, visiting my sister, Geri for the weekend. We didn't get any snow in LaCrosse but on our drive back we slowly drove into the snow.  It wasn't much.  Just enough to stick to the ground and make the roads slushy.   I think it's all supposed to melt by Thanksgiving.

We had to get back early today because I had Recipe club this afternoon.  Bonnie was the hostess and she brought 3 delicious items.  The main dish was Pizzaoli.  This was deeelish!  Here is the recipe card I created for it.

The chicken is made from the owl punch and a few other punches.  The idea came from Michelle Scileppi.  I can't tell you how many different punch art chickens I have made for my recipe club cards.  It's always good to find another one.  I love the clever way Michelle adapted the owl punch to become a chicken!

The designer paper is the oh-so-cute, Domestic Goddess.  I have been itching to use this paper and found just the project.  The ric rac is made from the Tasteful Trim Sizzix die.  I can't stop using this die!

I'll post the other recipe cards we made in club over the next couple of days.

Tune in to my online website tomorrow.  Stampin' Up! will have some fantastic Clearance rack deals!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Fall

We're enjoying the last dregs of Fall here in Minnesota.  We're trying to soak up every last bit of it until Winter sets in.  The longer we can put off that first snowfall the better. 

We made this fall card in my stamp club.  It's a gatefold card so it opens in the middle.  It's the same size card I usually make it just has a different opening.  It's fun to change it up a bit.  The button keeps the card closed.

The stamp set used is the French Foiage stamp set.  Colors used are More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke and Early Espresso.

I have one last college visit with Rebecca this weekend.  We're going to stretch it into a weekend visit with m sister,Geri.  We haven't visited in awhile. Hopefully, there will be no snow to deter us.  Then it's time to light a fire under Rebecca to get all of these college applications in and applying for Scholarships.  Navigating the world of Scholarships is overwhelming.  Do they purposely make it hard?

Well, I must dash to work.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Sparkly birthday

This was another card we made in stamp club this month.  The build a blossom punch is the ribbon for the package and the doiley behind the present is from the Flirtatious designer paper pack.  You cut the doily from the 12 x 12 piece. You can use it as a whole piece or snip it apart for individual doilies. Doilies are hot right now!

The stamped background is the Delicate Doilies stamp set and the designer paper is from the fliratitous designer paper pack as well.  It's nice when you can work with coordinating products to make your project all come together.

We have been visiting colleges with my daughter.  it's such a big decision! I have to admit they are kind of all running together.  We have one more visit scheduled.  I have to say I don't really care what class is held in waht building anymore.  I think Rebecca is losing interest in it too.  She's going to have to get busy filling out those applications and applying for scholarships. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Turkey punch art

I just love punch art, don't you?! I ran across this punch art turkey from Amy Copeland and I just new I had to CASE it!  We made this card in my stamp club last week.  It's amazing what that owl punch can be turned into!

The tail feathers are made from the Trendy Trees stamp set.  Besides the owl punch the turkey is made from the 1 1/4" square punch(partially trimmed to make a rectangle, star punch for beak(trimmed down as well), the stocking punch for the waddle(the heel part of the stocking). This was so much fun to make!

 

I took all of my Halloween decorations down this weekend.  It's not nearly as much fun taking it down as putting it up.  I dusted all of the shelves and plan to sloooooowly bring out the Christmas.  I know it's early but I have a LOT of Christmas decorations and need to pace myself.  It's a lot of work to decorate but I feel my house is truly at it's best when all decked out for Christmas. 

I must dash to pick up my son from Soccer.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen