Holiday Swaps

As you may know the group of friends that I have done a couple of blog hops with mailto:http://stampinllamas.blogspot.com/ also swap. So here are some of the wonderful swaps.

The Last card I forgot to photograph so I swiped the image off of my friend Stephanie's blog. I will try to get a photo of it myself and post it  is an easel spinner card.

If you haven't made your Christmas cards yet this should help get you going! Have a wonderful day.

Ornament Tag

I made these tags for my neighbor gifts. This was inspired by Sharon
White :http://createdbyu.blogspot.com/2011/11/sqsc15-silver-whitevellum-christmas.html

• Base Silver 2 1/2" circle of Glimmer paper with a round tab at the top.
• first lolly is 1 1/8" CS vellum scored at 1/4"
• Next I sponged a Silver Glimmer Scallop Circle with Marina Mist.
• I add a 1/2" lolly again scored at 1/4"
• The largest of the Boho Flowers was punched from Silver Glimmer paper.
• Last an Antique Brad was added.

These are so shinny and pretty! I had to order more paper I liked them so much.

Winter Window

I have seen so many windows, doors, awnings and fireplaces as card fronts and I think they can make an interesting card, here is my window.

• The card base is Marina Mist.
• The phrase from Four the Holidays was stamped with Marina Mist on a Whisper White front that was then embossed with the Big Shot using the Snow Burst folder.
• The image was stamped on a square of Whisper White, I stamped the tree line from Lovely As A Tree near the top of the square and the sledding children from Welcome Christmas at the bottom. I the cut the square in half both directions.
• The window pane is a square of the wood grained DSP from Frostwood Lodge, I layered my 4 image squares on it and the added a small strip of DSP as the window sill.

I really the window card.

Many Merry Messages

This card is so shinny!

• The card base is Whisper White sprayed with Frost Shimmer Paint Spray. The front of Marina Mist was also sprayed lightly.
• I cut the snowflakes with the Big Shot and for the Glimmer paper I had to use as thick of a shim as I could and still run it through the Big Shot.
• The strip of Glimmer paper ribbon was cut from the edge of the strip of paper the I cut the snowflakes from.(it is hard to see in the photo but there is a bow on the right side.
• I sprayed a piece of Whisper White with the shimmer spray and when it was dry(heat gun is great for doing that) I stamped the phrase from Many Merry Messages in Marina Mist on it.
• The snowflakes are Silver Glimmer paper and Marina Mist sprayed with Shimmer Paint Spray. Rhinestone Jewels are in the centers of the snowflakes.

Have a great day and try and find time to stamp. . .

Punch Art Tags for Club

Yesterday was the last club day for 2011, so if you are in the Salem Utah area and are interested in joining a Technique Hostess Club contact me to join the 2012 Club.  For Decembers Club we made Punch Art Tags at the request of some of the ladies. Here are the four tags we made and the punches/dies used. I am not sure who the original ideas were for the different punch art, I thought I came up with the pemguin a few years ago, but noticed simular ones out there, the moose idea came from a card Lynn Pratt made a year or so ago. The rest are taken from a combo of many I have seen. Here are the 4 we made.

Punches Used:

2 ½" Circle – 1 Whisper White, 1 Basic Black
(Punch a 1 ¾" circle from the middle of black
Bird Builder(wing)- Basic Black
Boho Flower –Tangerine Tango
5-Petal Flower- Tangerine Tango
½" Circle- Whisper White
Itty Bitty Shapes (circle)- Basic Black

Punches/Dies Used:

Owl- Early Espresso
Scallop Circle cut with Oval- Crumb Cake
Scallop Circle with 1 ¼" Circle- Garden Green
Itty Bitty Shapes (circle)- Whisper White
Non Punch/Die:
Tag Base

Punches/Dies Used:

2 ½" Circle- Real Red
Itty Bitty Shapes(circle)- Basic Black
Round Tab-Basic Black
3" circle die-Basic Black
Non Punch/Die:
¼" strip of Basic Black
3/8" strip of Brushed Gold

Punches/Dies Used:

3" Circle Die- Whisper White
2 ½" Circle- Whisper White
1 ¾" Circle- Whisper White
1 ¼" Circle- Basic Black
¾" Circle- Basic Black
5-Petal Flower Punch- Tangerine Tango
Crop a dile- both sizes- Basic Black
Northern Frost- Early Espresso

We had a fun day creating!

Welcome Christmas

This card is so much better in real life, the season's Greetings is so sparkly, I mixed my Cherry Cobbler embossing powder with my fine red glitter and made myself sparkly embossing powder. The Whisper White was sprayed with Shimmer Paint Spray.

• The card base is Whisper White with a layer of Always Artichoke.
• I ran the top 3/4 of a 3 3/4"x5" piece of Whisper White through the Big Shot with the Snow Burst folder. Then the greeting from Many Merry Messages was stamped in Versa Mark and embossed with embossing powder. Cherry Cobbler ribbon was wrapped around it and it was added to the front.
• I stamped the family from Welcome Christmas on a scrap of Whisper White in Always Artichoke and punched it with the 2 1/2" circle and sponged the edges with Always Artichoke.
• A 3" Circle was ran through the Big Shot with the Petals a Plenty folder and the image was then layered on top of it and the added to the card front.

I put this stamp set on my wish list when it came out last July, I finally bought it last month. This card was one of my "Card Buffet" cards(you can come over every Tuesday and stamp cards ate $2 each to make, make as many as you would like), I made this as a Birthday card but the sentiment could(and was) change for any occasion.

• Card base is Marina Mist, then each layer is 1/4" smaller then the last, in order- Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo and Whisper White.
• The flowers are two step stamping. First layer was Marina Mist second layer Not Quite Navy. The stems are Old Olive.
• My phrase is from Petite Pairs, one of my favorites to use, I stamped it in Not Quite Navy.
• I used a Daffodil Delight marker to "dot" the flower centers.

I love the blues and yellows together!

Word Play

I love the Well Worn DSP!

• Card base is Very Vanilla CS with a front of Not Quite Navy CS with a 3 3/4" x 5" of Well Worn DSP.
• The phrase from Word Play was stamped onto a strip Of Very Vanilla in NQN.
• A piece of Island Indigo(coordinates well with NQN) ribbon was tied around the CS.
• Two pearls were colored with sharpies, first orange and then brown came the closest to Cajun Craze.
• The Very Vanilla CS was layered onto a strip of Not Quite Navy CS then added to the card.

This is a fast and easy card to make and shows off the Well Worn DSP.

Perfectly Penned Christmas(Really called Hand-Penned Holidays)

So have you heard that there is a Stampin' UP! Extravaganza going on until Nov 30?
Plenty of savings email me for the complete list. kath@fire-sprinkler-design.com

This card was a fast and easy card.

• Card base is Whisper White CS
• Front of Real Red CS
• 3 3/4"x5" Whisper White CS the top 3" was run through the Big Shot with the folder Stripes.  Merry Christmas from Perfectly Penned oops the stamp set really is Hand-Penned Holidays was inked up in Real Red and stamped onto the flat part of the Whisper White, I piece of Real Red Taffeta Ribbon was tied just where the strips ended and the flat part began.
• I stamped the image from Welcome Christmas on Whisper White (I had a scrap with Shimmer Frost sprayed on it, it made the Real Red not so Real Red) I punched it out with the 1 3/4" Circle punch and layered it onto a Real Red Circle. I added it to the front of the card.

Have a wonderful day!

Turtle & Co

We finished all the Wedding Celebrating this past week end with an Open House in California.  Sadly my laptop cord got a short in it and it took until yesterday afternoon to get a new cord. So my blog was neglected.

Today's card was from my weekly Card Buffet and uses the stamp set that is the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set. It is call Turtle and Co.

• The card base is Naturals White with a front of Old Olive, the bottom half was debossed with the Starburst folder.
• I colored directly on the stamps with Marker and stamped the onto Naturals White CS. I then lightly colored the images with ink and a Blender Pen.
• I used two phrases from Petite Pairs stamped in Old Olive.
• Image is layer onto Island Indigo and again on Calypso Coral.

So the wonderful ladies that I Blog Hop with did a Christmas card swap, I will be taking pictures of them and posting them so that you can get wonderful ideas for Christmas cards.

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One more Free MDS down load & Celebrate Today

Stampin' UP! is offering one more free down load so hurry on over and get it. Down loads can work with programs other then My Digital Studio.

http://mydigitalstudio.net/profiles/blogs/bonus-one-more-free-download

Today's card Uses Hello Doily and  Perfectly Penned. . .

• The card base is Whisper White with a front of Rich Razzleberry.
• The card front has Hello Doily stamped with VersaMark on two diagonal corners embossed with White Embossing Powder.
• I used the Ovals die and the Big Shot to cut two layering ovals one from Whisper White and one from Rich Razzleberry, over it is a banner of Whisper White stamped with Celebrate Today in Rich Razzleberry.
• Two Rhinestones were colored with Sharpies and added to the ends of the phrase.

I hope you enjoyed today's card it is one from  Open Stampin Tuesday. On Tuesdays I have a variety of cards that you can come and make. Cards are $2 each and you can make as many as you would like.

25 & Counting and Peek- a- boo frame

I'm back! Saturday was a wonderful day! It was my 28th Anniversary and the day that my daughter Jamie got married.  Saturday started with a snow storm, as we drove to the wedding we passed wreak after wreck, I was worried about the safety of the guests that were coming but all arrived safely.  It snowed the entire time we were inside for the ceremony but as soon as we came out the snow stopped. It was chilly taking pictures outside in several inches of snow but I think we had some lovely shots.  My daughter wanted to serve hot cocoa with mix ins and donut holes and cookies for her reception so the weather was perfect for that!  Everyone one seemed to enjoy themselves. . .

The wedding is over, unfortunately I was so busy with everything that I didn't take pictures of everything myself, so I will have to post later the things I did stamping on for the wedding when we get the proofs from the photographer.

On to the card. . .

• I use Naturals white for the base of the card with a piece of  Holly Berry Bouquet DSP on the bottom half of the card.
• I cut a Peek a boo frame out of Wild Wasabi CS and added it above the DSP.  I stamped Noel from Many Merry Messages (masking the edges) under the flap, in Cherry Cobbler.
• I stamped day 25 from the 25 & Counting stamp set in Night of Navy with Cherry Cobbler on the 25 onto A scrap of Whisper White CS and punched it with the 1" square. I layered it onto a piece of Cherry Cobbler punched with the Postage Stamp punch then layered it again onto a Scallop Square of Whisper White and added it to the Peek a boo frame.
• I added a Rhinestone to the star above the manger.

Have a great day, and go ahead and stamp something!