Finally it’s Christmas prep time

Yummy Santa Tummies!!

Jolly Chocolate Santa

Supplies

• Jolly Friends stamp set
• Jolly Hat Builder Punch
• Hang Your Stocking stamp set
• Scalloped Tag Topper punch
• 1 1/2″ Circle punch
• Cherry Cobbler ink and card stock: 2″ x 7 1/2″
• Whisper White card stock: Small scrap for santa hat and face.
• Pink Pirouette ink & Blender Pen: To lightly colour face
• Cherry Cobbler Silky Taffeta Ribbon: 10″
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
• Blender Pen
• Adhesive: Tear & Tape, glue dot, dimensionals & Tombow
• Woolworths brand Chocolate Santa Belts

Instructions:

1. Cut Cherry Cobbler card stock. 2″ x 7 1/2″. Punch one end of card stock in Scalloped Tag Topper Punch
2. From other end score at 2 3/8″ and 2 6/16″.
3. Align Circle punch with second score line, centre and punch.
4. Add Tear & Tape to inside bottom edge. Fold up and adhere after removing backing paper.
5. Adhere glue dot to back of Chocolate coin and place in hole made by the circle punch. Place to the side.
6. Stamp Santa face on Whisper White card stock with Momento ink. Use Pink Pirouette ink and blender pen to lightly colour Santa’s face. Carefully cut out the face.
7. Stamp hat, brim and pompom in Cherry Cobbler. Use Jolly Hat Builder Punch to cut out. Adhere hat together with Tombow.
8. Using Momento black ink, stamp sentiment at top of tag.
9. Place Santa face and hat on the tag, using dimensionals. I suggest using two dimensionals on top of each other under the hat and face.
10. Cut a piece of Cherry Cobbler Silky Taffeta Ribbon 10″ long and fold in half. Thread through the top of the tag and either knot so it can hang or leave as a tie.
11. Your finished, resist the urge to eat the other chocolates, before you have made enough tags for your friends.

 

 

More christmas cards

Home for Christmas

This card uses the emboss resist technique, where I clear heat embossed the snowflakes and then sponged over them with Lost Lagoon.  I have used the  blender pen with the ink pads to colour the trees and houses.  The sentiment is stamped in Mossy Meadow. The thread is Cherry Cobbler twine.

White Christmas Flowers

I like the new Reason for the Season stamp set and matching  Festive Flower Builder Punch.  I have used a Whisper White background and heat embossed with Gold. The sentiment comes from Embellished Ornaments and I finished with the leaves cut from the Gold Foil Sheets and framed with the 1/8″ Gold Ribbon.

White Christmas Flowers

Snowmen suffers in snowstorm

Oh dear, I knew what I wanted the card to look like, but I overdid the snow. To make a subtle card I used Smoky Slate and Encore Silver ink.  I like how the snowmen turned out, but I just put too many snowflakes around it. The snowman and snowflakes came from the Snow. Place stamp set and the two little birds are from Festival of Trees and Sprinkles of Life. I do think the Cherry Cobbler is a good colour to use as the contrast.  I am thinking I might order the Christmas Greetings Thinlit Dies and cut out the merry in Cherry Cobbler.  This might move the eye away from the snowstorm!  When it comes in I’ll post a before and after.

Snowstorm!

Snowmen Hiding

I just love the new stamps and matching framelits. In particular Snow Place and the Snow Friends framelits are so cute!

  They are so cute hiding behind the trees

Stampin’ Up! colour Scheme: Bermuda Bay and Whisper White

Stamps: Snow Place and matching Snow Friends Framelits. Dotty Embossing Folder. Festival of Trees stamp and Matching Tree Punch. Embellishments: Dazzling Details.

I can’t decide which I like the best, ear muffs or Santa hat.

Preparing theChristmas Trees

So it is time to start the card making for Christmas.

I have had fun embossing, both with heat and folders. (Though I love the Northern Flurry impression folder it is now retired).  I still used it anyway😉

Stampin’ Up! Colour Scheme: Old Olive, Whisper White. Stamp Sets: Flurry of Wishes and Festival of Trees. Embellishments: Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder.

Stampin’ Up! Colour Scheme: Lost Lagoon, Whisper White. Stamp Sets: Flurry of Wishes, Festival of Trees. Embellishments, Dazzling Details. Oval Framelits and Snow Flurry Punch.

Beautiful Butterflies

I have been playing around with the new colours and beautiful butterfly dies and stamps.

Beautiful Butterflies

For these these cards I have used

Stampin’ Up! Colour Scheme: Cucumber Crush, Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Whisper White. Stamp Sets: Butterfly Basics, Gorgeous Grunge, Perpetual Calendar, And. Many More. Embellishments: Metal Gold Thread. Washi Label Punch, Word Window Punch.

Butterflies fly.

Hopefuly you you like these cute butterflies.

Quick catch up

I really am pretty slack at putting up posts, but can I say it is because I am busy?  Maybe it has been 2 months, about 10 weeks, gosh just the length of the school term!  That’s right, the only time I get to write is during the school holidays. So I am going to post a few pics of the cards that I have made during the last few weeks.

Gifts from the garden

Stampin’ Up! Colour scheme: English Garden DSP, Hello Honey, Whisper White, Mossy Meadow. Stamp sets: Gifts from the Garden,  Fabulous Four. Butterflies Thinlits die, Oval collection framelits and Washi Label punch. Embellishments: Linen Thread.

Friendship is the spice of Life.

Stampin’ Up! colour scheme: English Garden DSP, Soft Suede Cardstock, Blushing Bride, Hello Honey, Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow, Whisper White. Stamp Sets: Gifts from the Garden. Embellishments: 2015-2017 Blossom Accents, Thick Baker’s twine (retired), Satin ribbon (retired).

Hope your day is wonderful!

Stampin’ Up! Colour Scheme: English Garden DSP. Blushing Bride, Hello Honey, melon Mambo, Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow, Blackberry Bliss. Mossy Meadow Cardstock. Stampin’ Up! Stamp set: Gifts from the Garden, Cottage Greeting. Lots of Labels Framelits, Bitty Butterfly’s punch, Tree Builder punch (flower).

Butterfly’s and Blooms

This evening I have made a couple of pretty little birthday cards.

Happy Birthday

Butterfly’s and Blooms

Blooms, Butterfly’s and Birthday’s

I have used a colour palette of Mossy Meadow, Rose Red, Elegant Eggplant and So Saffron. The second card’s flowers have been stamped off, to give a more pastel tone. The stamp sets are: Butterfly Basics, Flower Patch, World of Dreams, Papillon Potpourri, Kinda Eclectic and Gorgeous Grunge.  The flowers are hand cut so as to make them a little smaller and I have used the Bitty Butterfly Punch, Elegant Butterfly Punch and Washi Label Punch. To finish off I added pearls and rhinestones.

What have I been up to

Even though I haven’t posted for a while I have still had a little time to make a few cards.

Kinda kindness

Kinda Eclectic inside

Kinda Eclectic

Kinda Eclectic

Here is one more!

Eclectic Kindness 

I really like this cool Dad card that I made using the Guy Greetings Stamp Set.

World’s Greatest Dad

Hopefully I will have a few new cards up soon!

Wish I could be at the convention!

I am very thankful that I have access via the Internet to some of the South Pacific Convention. Wish I could be there, but circumstances mean no.  So I have stamped this weekend to make up for it.

So I will go through each one, from revisiting the past to celebrating the current.

Get Well Soon card.

Stampin’ Up! Current and retired stock. Fabulous Four set, Patterned Occasions stamp set, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

Fabulous Four greeting set, patterned occasions set (retired), Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack.

Painted Petals Birthday and Mother’s Day cards

Painted Petals, Calypso Coral, Painted Blooms,

Painted Petals stamp set, Crazy About You, stamp set, Painted Blooms DSP, Good Greetings stamp set, And Many More stamp set, Whisper White, Calypso Carol, Pear Pizzazz, Bakers twine, Buttons, Pearls, Ribbon.

Celebrate cards

 

Fabulous Four, Gorgeous Grunge, Confetti Celebration DSP

Fabulous Four stamp set, Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, Confetti Celebration DSP, Bermuda Bay, Tangello Twist, Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Smokey Slate, Pear Pizzazz, Linen Thread,

Happy Birthday Vintage Car Card.

Guy Greetings, Lost Lagoon, Basic Gray, Hello Honey, Itty Bitty Accents, Punch, Confetti Star Punch

Guy Greetings stamp set, Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey, Whisper White, In Colour Accessory pack, Itty Bitty Accent Punch, Confetti Stars Border Punch, (Washi Tape from home stash).

Can’t wait to pre-order from the new catalogue. It is a great perk as a demonstrator!