Stampin on Candles

Since I have gotten over my fear of stampin on candles, I have actually been doing a lot of it lately. This is one I did for a gift that I am giving. I still need to make a box for it, but at least I am on my way. If you would like a tutorial of how to stamp on candles, splitcoast stampers has a wonderful one. That is where I got my instructions from and so far so good. This one I used the Stampin' Up! hostess stamp set "Wings of Friendship". I used the markers bashful blue, pretty in pink and old olive to color onto the stamp. I then huffed on the stamp (held the stamp to my mouth and puffed air on it) and then stamped the tissue paper. I did the same thing for the saying. Then I cut it out and placed it on the stamp. The rest you can find in the tutorial here.

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment.

Christmas Origami Box

I made this box a from directions that "Martha Stewart", Stampin' Up! demonstrator from Fl. had submitted as a gift idea for Stampin' Up!. I thought it was a great idea for the color challenge at Color throwdown. I really should have taken a picture of it open, because it opens both ways, with a box in the middle, and the box of goodies or whatever you put in it is in the middle part. I put it together with 2 brads and the silver stretch ribbon that is in the holiday mini catalog. I really liked the box and it was so very easy to do. Picture below actually gives you a better shot of what the top looks like. I used the Merry Moments DSP and sponged the snow flake with the Champagne Mist Shimmer paint to give it some sparkle. The Snowflake is from the sizzlits 4-Pack Dies, Snowflakes. Thanks for looking.

Dasher in navy

I do so love stampin as you can see and this one stamp, "Dasher", is starting to be a favorite. It doesn't matter what color you ink him in, he is really pretty. With this particular card, I also used the Stampin' Up! Textured Impressions Folder "Petals-A-Plenty. It really adds to the background and to the card. It is all about what makes the card and those two together certainly make a card. I also am not one to deviate much from the Christmas colors when doing Christmas projects, but this year I have become more comfortable with other colors. You finally just have to force your self to do it. I also added a little shimmer paint to this, but it is hard to see in a photo. You can not pick it up as well as you can when it is sitting in front of you.

The colors I used here are Whisper White, Night of Navy, Real Red. The ribbon is 1/4" grosgrain white.

Thanks for looking.

Holy Family, Joy to The World

It of course was MOJO Monday yesterday and this is my take on the sketch. Every time I see a sketch that has a frame that will fit the "Holy Family" stamp set by Stampin' Up!, I have to try it and see how it comes out. I thought it turned out very well. I am pleased with how the colors came out. I was going to put a bow over the Joy to the World, but it was just too much, so I left it as is. Please let me know what you think.

Stampin' Up! products Used:

Stamp sets: Holy Family, Holiday Phrases (retired 1997)

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Real red

DSP: Merry Moments

Classic Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Coco, Old Olive, Real Red, Summer Sun, Rich Razzleberry and I used a blender pen to color in the picture.

3/8" round punch, scallop round punch

Christmas Box

I made this box on Friday night, but just now got the time to post it. I got it from a tutorial created by Maria Bell. You can find the tutorial here. It is just perfect for the candles I am doing as Christmas Presents and so easy. I just added some DSP and stamping and voila, you have a beautiful box. You must try it out.


Stampin' Up! items used:

Stamp Set: Dasher and for top Delightful Decorations.
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, real red, old olive
DSP is from the Simply Scrappin Kit Christmas Jingle.
Platinum Shimmer Paint for snow flake and Champagne mist mixed with Soft Suede classic ink for Dasher and the Ornament on top. Brad from vanilla hodgepodge hardware.
3/4" grosgrain polka dot ribbon in real red.

Thanks for looking!

Stamping 411 sketch

I saw this sketch on Stamping 411 and knew I was going to use this 3-D ornament again. It makes it so simple to use the Delightful Decorations Stamp set by Stampin' Up! and then cut it out with the SU Ornament Punch. Just to easy and simple. I did add a little shimmer to it by using the Shimmer paint, silver ribbon and 2 round pearls that I just had laying around.

Stamping 411 makes it easy also, because they give you the dimensions for the card and for the layers of paper used. Check them out.

Stampin' Up! products used:

Stamp Sets: Four the Season, Delightful Decorations
Cardstock: very vanilla, real red, old olive
DSP came from Christmas Jingle simply scrappin kit
Classic Ink: real red
Champagne mist shimmer paint
Silver ribbon

Pearls were not stampin up. Thanks for looking!

Taken with Teal Christmas

These were two quick and easy Christmas Cards that really went together in a matter of minutes. I was trying to cover a challenge at CPCM, but still am not sure I hit it right. I think I will still submit the cards for the challenge. Their card was square and as you see, my card is a typical A2 card. They are just much easier to deal with when you mail, even though I love the square cards. I usually wind up making a square card 4-1/4" square and mail in a regular envelope. That way it does not incur extra charge.

The first card here was using the "Holiday Lounge" DSP by Stampin' Up!. I just cut out the trees and attached to the Taken with Teal card stock, spritzed with the champagne shimmer paint (you can almost see the shimmer) and attached to another sheet of the DSP. Then attached the ribbon, stamped "be merry" (stamp set: Warm Words) on whisper white card stock and punched out with the Modern Label punch, adhered it to the ribbon and then that all to the base card which is Whisper white Card Stock.

The second card here, I still used the Holiday Lounge DSP, but I also stamped the Patterned Pines trees onto Whisper White Card stock with taken with teal classic ink and then sponged the champagne shimmer paint right onto the stamp over the ink with a sponge dauber, then stamped the image onto the card stock. I then took the Platinum shimmer paint and stamped the star from the Patterned Pines stamp set on top of each tree. I then cut a piece of Sahara sand card stock and using the scallop edge punch, punched one side of the paper. I stamped the Merry Christmas onto the paper using the taken with teal classic ink covered with the Champagne Mist shimmer paint. I used the white gel pen to add the dots to the scallop edge. Adhered the White to the Sahara sand and then adhered that piece to the DSP. Then adhered all to the card base which is also Sahara sand. Can't get much easier than that. Thanks so much for looking and please let me know if you have questions.

Christmas Treats

Aren't these just too cute? I found some jelly beans in Christmas colors and had to buy them and try this out. It turned out so cute. I like the one on the left better. Just personal preference, but to me looked more elegant. I used real red cardstock, whisper white cardstock and the DSP in the holiday mini called "Christmas Cocoa Specialty". The white on the DSP is actually raised. It is really beautiful paper. Of course used the sweet treats cups and the 3/4" satin white ribbon. Silver brads, platinum shimmer paint for the decoration top and Modern Label Punch. Stamps sets used were "Teeny Tiny Wishes and Sweet Center". Thanks for looking!

Wall Decor

I always have wanted to hang Christmas Art around the house at Christmas, but did not want to pay the price to only keep up for 3 - 4 weeks. So this year, I decided to do my own Christmas Art. Earlier this week I posted a JOY Banner I had made this weekend and today I am posting a Christmas Collage that I put together on Sunday. I used the Simply Scrappin "Christmas Jingle" and one 6" X 4" piece of DSP from the "Merry Moments". I purchased the frame from Wal-Marts for $3. So you can see how inexpensive it truly is. The letters were from Sizzix die. All the rest was from the Simply Scrappin Kit. Thanks for looking and now that you are stampin, do your own Christmas Art!

MOJO Monday Sketch

This is for the MOJO Monday Sketch. I liked the sketch and thought this paper would really look good. I was uncertain of the stamp until I stamped Dasher in the white and punched him out with 1-3/8" round punch. I then spritzed Dasher with the Champagne Mist Shimmer paint. You can kind of see the shimmer in this photo. Thanks for looking.

Stampin' Up! products used:

Stamp Set: Dasher

Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Taken with Teal

DSP: Holiday Lounge

Classic Ink: Taken with Teal

Craft Ink: White

Shimmer paint and 1/4" grosgrain white ribbon

Tinkerbell

My granddaughter will be 5 this coming weekend and loves Tinkerbell. So I had to buy the cuddlebug embossing folder and do her a Tinkerbell card. I just love the way it turned out. She will be five and loves all the glitter, so I tried to add as much as possible. For all the glitter I used the dazzling diamonds and adhered it with the 2 way glue pen. I also used the 5 petal punch for the large flower and a retired punch for the small flower. I put a half pearl in the middle which comes from the Pretties kit. Cardstock is Orchid Opulence, Whisper White, and Certainly Celery. I also used the Orchid Opulence marker, the barely banana marker, the blush blossom and the summer sun markers. Thanks so much for looking.

All products used were Stampin' Up! except for the embossing folder.

JOY!

I had been wanting to do one of these for my wall since last Christmas and finally was able to get to it this weekend. There are a couple of other decor items I want to do for Christmas, but this was my first one. I had seen others out there on splitcoast and really thought they were great for small spaces. So here is mine.

It was a lot of fun to do and I thought it turned out really well. I started out with the whisper white cardstock and used the " On Board Letters." I used the two way glue pen and covered each letter. I then used the fine galaxy stampin glitter-the gold one- and sprinkled over the letters to adhere the glitter. I then stamped different objects on each of the whisper white pieces of cardstock which were cut in 3-1/2" squares. I used a different stamp for each one. The one with the "J" is from the Patterned Pines hostess stamp set, the "O" I used the swirls from wings of friendship hostess stamp set, and used the Lace snowflakes (retired) for the "Y". I then cut a 4" garden green, real red and old olive piece of cardstock and adhered the white to it. The background piece of cardstock I cut 6" and adhered it to the hard piece of paper that comes with the DSP Paper to give it a heavier feel. The 6" pieces are real read and brushed gold. I then adhered the JOY to each piece. I punched holes in the top and bottom of each piece with the Horizontal Slot Punch and ran the 3/4" polka dot real red ribbon through each of the slots. Made a Bow for the top and viola, it is finished. Fun and easy to do. You could use any stampset you have.

All items used were Stampin' Up! products. Thanks for looking!

Dasher

Well, as you can see, I received a new toy. It is like a new toy. You can't hardly wait to get it out of the box and play with it. There were a few things I had seen done with the shimmer paints and also with the embossing plates, so I wanted to try out both and with Dasher. So these were the cards I actually worked on Friday night along with one other project I am in the midst of. Hopefully I will have it posted in a day or so. My embossing folder still came out a little on the inside of the oval that I had cut out, but not enough to mess up stamping the image in there. With one, I sponged the color on the inside of the embossing folder and with the other I used the ink pad to go over the embossing on the card. I then of coursed spritzed them with the champagne mist shimmer paint. I used Not Quite Navy cardstock and ink on one and the brushed gold cardstock on the other and the soft suede ink.

For this card I had watched a video on how to sponge the ink into the cutout of the top note die and then to stamp the image with the platinum shimmer paint. They had used another stamp set, but I liked the effects. So I thought I would try the stamp set patterned pines with Dasher. I love the effect, but not sure about the patterned pines with him. May have to break down and get the other stamp set. All in all a good night of having fun. Again, I used the Not Quite Navy Ink for the sponging and the sentiment. The sentiment comes from the stamp set Four the Holidays.

Thanks for looking!

Rejoice

This weeks Bible verse challenge at CPC was "Rejoice". So I always have like this verse and there is a song that says the same thing and actually since I decided to use this verse for the challenge, guess what? Yes, I have sung the song all day. I love this DSP from Stampin' Up! called Cottage Wall. Has some really pretty colors in it and I used the Orchid Opulence and the Old Olive. The ribbon is actually from the Mistletoe bundle that is in the holiday mini catalog. I also used the flower burst embosslit from stampin up and took the craft white ink pad and ran over the top of the flower. I love doing that when you emboss something with either a folder or the embosslits. It just seems to give it more dimension. The bible verse, I actually printed on the computer. Sometimes that is all you can do and since that is what I wanted to use, it just made it easy.

Thanks for looking!

My Presence will go with thee!

I created this card for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge this week. I also cased this from Julia Bettencourt who uses her punches to make all kind of beautiful flowers and that is where I got the idea to use the scallop oval punch to create this beautiful flower. I also made the button on the top by using the 3/4" circle punch and punching out five circles. Then I adhered them together, sanded the edges and covered it with the Crystal Effects. It was the first and actually turned out very well. I have done a few more in different colors and really like the idea. I used some retired DSP from Stampin' Up! and also Whisper White and Regal Rose Card Stock, 1/4" white grosgrain ribbon and old olive classic ink. I used glue dots to adhere the petals together and to the card. The stamp set was Words of Wisdom and retired in 2007. Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!