Did you get your Halloween orders in? All your “spooky” projects done? I’ve had so much fun making all my Halloween things this year, I just love the selections Stampin’ Up! gave us this year! Just a few more treat boxes and I’m ready to go for my office staff’s surprise Halloween boxes. And I’ve finished all my […]
Christmas cards
Today’s the day…Holiday catalog is live!!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for creativity! Oh the fun, oh the surprise, oh so many cool things in the new Holiday Catalog! I’m so glad that as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator I got to order the new things early and play with them. Many of my projects over the last couple of weeks used […]
SGGW weekend challenge, meet my 1st Holiday card this season
I worked on this card all last weekend using the SGGW 8-12-16 weekend challenge template. I fiddled, I futzed, I cut multiple ideas, and I tossed a number of attempts. I had this vision, but none of them came together the way I wanted. One problem was my new Holiday DSP papers hadn’t been delivered yet, […]
Tags for Christmas – Oh What Fun!
Ah, back to crafting after a short vacation break for Thanksgiving! I missed my craft room!! Don’t forget, you’ll need tags for all those presents you bought on Black Friday! But don’t feel like you have to resort to those plain pre-made tags! You can create your own personalized, handmade holiday tags using the Oh What Fun tag kit […]
Technique Tuesdays – Cutting those intricate dies
The Embellished Ornaments stamp set has a beautiful matching thinlet dies set. Check out the bundle below to save 15%. Before you get started though, you’ll need a Precision Base plate for your Big Shot so that you get, what else, precision cut on those intricate dies. It’s well worth the investment when you get […]
Making Christmas cards will help temperatures drop, right?
Finally, Texas is experiencing a little “chill” in the air so my Christmas card creations are helping. Here’s my second card using my Peaceful Pines bundle. It’s a simple card with traditional colors. But instead of stamping a tree, I used the Perfect Pines framelit die to cut the tree out on the Whisper White front. I layered a […]
More fun projects for the Christmas holidays
Your Thanksgiving decorations are done. And not quite time for your Christmas decorations…WHEW, you can breathe a sigh of relief! Wait, don’t forget about your Christmas cards – the To You & Yours shaker card kit makes it so fun to give and get those Christmas and Holiday cards! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DXTYPRmno&w=560&h=315] Here’s the list things you’ll […]
Weekly WOW Deals – November 17-23!
Well when technology works, it’s great. But when you have a slow connection, it sucks!! Hopefully you will see this correctly. Sorry I can’t add my pictures of my wreath, but see my earlier post for the Halloween version. I’ve since turned it into my Thanksgiving wreath by changing the swag, but can’t post the […]
Technique Tuesday – Kissing Your Stamps
Yes, I know you love your stamp sets, I love mine, too! But I didn’t mean for you to actually kiss your stamps! “Kissing” in the stamp world is a technique where you ink a solid image stamp and then press it onto an uninked pattern stamp before stamping the image. When you do this, this […]