Candy Cane Lane

Just got the Candy Lane DSP and had to make a Fancy favor Box house with it! also made a matchbox and several candy wrappers to go with it.

"Wishing You a Merry Christmas"

In the New Mini Catalog Stampin' UP! is offering NEW singing cards that are plain white on pg. 15 #121007 sings "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and #121009 is Recordable for ONLY $5.95!!
You can record your own message! How cool is that! Add a picture of the family?? So many cute things you can do with these. Above is my first card.
Supplies:
DSP: Deck the Halls
CS: Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Espresso
Stamp Set: Level 2 Hostess Set Peaceful Seasons-Embossed in Gold
Big Shot: Oval Scalloped Die, embossing folder Vintage wallpaper on the scallop around the oval
Gold cording around the top

Shot of the inside: I used seem binding(cherry cobbler in the fold and topped it with Chantilly Crochet- Now I just have to pick my sentiment!

View from the top: On my next one I am going to add seam binding and tuck it under the DSP so you can not see the white of the card.

Big Shot 3 September class

Everyone had a interesting time learning how to fold and twist the candy wrapper! It is a tricky lil thing! TIP: Make sure to bone fold all your score lines back and forward making very crisp folds. You get deeper score lines if you sie cut 2 at a time, I would not do anymore than that at a time. It may cut thru the score lines.
Especially the sides(just like the milk carton) you must make sure the side folds are crisply folded so that when you go to fold & twist the ends they will go smoothly. This is one of the funnest die cuts so many ways to embellish it. It has been very popular among our group.
Vewe it in the Holiday Mini Catalog pg.10 #120890 $32.95

The matchbox die is also very versatile and can be used for party favors, wedding favors, small gifts on and on... they are super easy to make. You can only cut one at a time on this die.
Supplies: Autumn spice DSP (HMC) pg. 13 #120808-$11.95
Stamp Set: Days of Gratitude (matches the DSP) HMC-pg. 12 #120835 $26.95
CS: More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Early Expresso pg.166-167 $6.95
Ribbon: Pear Pizazz #119265-$8.95 1/8" Early Expresso Taffeta pg.191 #120931 $4.95

I used the #2 box and put the spongy foam for plant decorations inside the box and punched 3 1/8" holes zig zagged leaning more toward the top of the box to insert the lollipops. stick the lolli's inside the foam to stand up.
Supplies for Embellishments:
Punches: Extra Lg. Scallop Circle, 1 3/4"circle,1 3/8" circle & 1 1/4 circle, Bat
DSP: Wicked Cool Speciality -CS: Rich Razzleberry, Tango, white
Stamps: Batty for You
Ribbon: Old Olive 1/4" grosgrain $4.95, pumpkin pie 1/4" grosgrain $4.95 & elegant eggplant

Sandra and our guest at Big shot club for this month Dana busy working on their Lollipop box.

Leslie, Becky and one of our newest BIG SHOT CLUB members Miss Lora.
Busy as little bees making their projects. Also new member Diana just missed the picture.
Everyone did an awesome job and we had a fun day!

Holiday Techniques

Join us for Holiday class and you can make cool gifts like these for your friends and family!
Not crafty? No such thing....With Stampin' UP! it is easy to be crafty!
Especially with your own personal creative coach to teach you these trendy techniques.
Here is a great gift ensemble in Woodland Park DSP.
Matchbox, Candy Wrapper, & a Bread Box for a mini spice or pumkin loaf!
This is an awesome project to use the NEW Homemade stamp from pg.18.

We made this bread box with Wasabi for the base it takes a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of CS. Then we embellished it with Woodland Park DSP. Chocolate 5/8 grosgrain ribbon, used the extra lg flower punch and stamped the sentiment Just for you "so you do not have to share" stamped in wasabi ink.

Marbling Technique

• Use gold and silver Encore metallic ink re-inkers in a stamp box, you put several drops of each in the box and then put 4 or 5 marbles in the box with the ink.
• Then take your piece of CS that you want to marble and put a little dotto on one side and stick it to the lid shake the marbles around in the ink and then flip the box over and up and down and all around and ink up the cs to the desired level .
  
• Then sit the CS aside and let it air dry while you are preparing the rest of your card. There will be little dots of wet ink in certain areas dot them with a towel(you can use the heat gun also)Try not to smear them.
  

Inside of the card stamped with Level 2 Hostess gift Peaceful Season

Embossing Tin:
This is a metal DVD tin embossed with Silver Encore ink and Silver embossing powder.

• TIP: You must use your embossing buddy powder up the top of the surface very good with the emboss buddy and we stamped it randomly with Serene Snowflake stamp set.
  
• When stamping on metal be sure to stamp straight down & up do not wabble your stamp or rock it you will get a double visioned impression.
  
• If you make a mistake before you heat it- take a Lysol wipe with the scrubby on the back and remove the image and powder.
• Make sure to get all the image impression removed and then try again. If you heat it and it still has flakes where you did not get the embossing buddy on that area you can still take your fingernail and remove the image and then repeat the above removal step. It also depends on the tin some remove images better than others.

Trick is don't mess up! LOL- I have a pratice tin that I let everyone practice on first then stamp on your real tin. If your getting alot of flakes around the image your embossing buddy needs to be replaced!
Then we filled the tin with gift tags from Tags Til Christmas pg.24 in the Holiday Mini Catalog and tied a big red & white striped 1 1/2" bow around it!

It's SHINY!!

I have been wanting to do this project for a while know I have had the galvanized metal flashing I bought at my local hardware store for months. Finally the other day I got er' done.
I used the Fancy Favor Folds XL Die ( I love how versatile this die is you can use it for so many things!!) Item # 115970 pg. 208 then I embossed the metal with my Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, look how purty the design on it are!

Then I wrapped sticky strip around the base of the tea light and lit it up with Champagne glass glitter. It turned out so good!

close up see the embossing patterns!
this will definitely be a BIG SHOT CLUB project, ladies.
what a great gift for someone's desk or anyone to show them how crafty you are?
I will say again girls "what did we ever do before the BIG SHOT?"

Spooky Fright Night

Sneak Peak of Upcoming Halloween treats!

Inspired by Creations on Paper

Today's Card from our Holiday Stamp Class yesterday

Halloween Owl Card

Measurements:

Cut 5 ½ x11Tango Tangerine score at 4 ¼

White 5 ¼ x 4 emboss in spider web folder

Cut 2x2 3/4 tango back of sentiment

Cut1 ½ x3 White for sentiment

Cut 6 ½ inches of Pumpkin striped 1 ½” ribbon use dotto to adhere it to whisper white

Use scraps of black, old olive & tango for Bats & Owl

Assembly:

Tango base

Emboss white with spider went emboss folder

Take tango 2x2 ½ and use on the oval die on the middle oval run thru Big SHOT

Stamp choice of sentiment on white 1 ½ x3 cs then cut it to fit on oval or use a punch.

Owl assembly: Punch small oval (2) black ovals one for hat one to cut for hat point

Punch Owl in Black, large eyes in white and large (1) eye in olive then cut olive one in half to make eyelids

Punch the flank on the owl in tango use dotto to adhere it all together

Punch out some bats color of your choice out of scraps to decorate card as you wish

Accessories Need: Big shot $99.95 Item #113439pg. 204

Owl Punch #-$16.95#118074- page 200 (IBC),

Bat Punch (HMC) $16.95 #119279-pg.200

Small Oval Punch #119863 $15.95 pg.202

Sizzix Oval Die $15.95 #114525 (IBC) pg. 201

Spider Web EF (HMC) #120889$7.95 pg. 6

Gratitude - What R U Grateful 4 today?

What a cute gift for your Thanksgiving host or for yourself to sit in your home as a part of your Thanksgiving decorations!

I love these little frames I got at the local Target in the $2.50 bin they came with 3 in a pack.

The NEW Autumn Spice Textured Designer Paper is perfect for making the background in the frame then I added some 3-D texture by adding some leaves in More Mustard &Cajun Craze embossed them with the BIG SHOT embossing folder to give them some depth and I stamped some leaves from the NEW stamp set Days of Gratitude in cajun craze and cut them out and placed them stemming out from the sentiment also from Days of Gratitude. I used the wide oval punch and the NEW Decorative Label punch(HMC).

then I added some Expresso 1 1/2 " wide striped ribbon and rope twine to embellish the corner on the outside of the frame.

Enjoy!

Fright Night A' la-Carte

How long have you had that Owl Punch? Have you used it yet??

Me either, this is my first Owl card!! Hooray!

This little spooky owl looks drunk more than scary.....better fix his eyes,aaay?

Okay let's see what we have going on here.

Accessories:

CS: Tango Tangerine, white,old olive

Big Shot, spider Web emboss folder, ovals die

Punches: Owl punch, small oval , bat,

Stamps:Fright Night

Ink: Old Olive

Ribbon: Striped Pumpkin

Hope you enjoy!

Jolly Holiday Gift ensemble

Jolly Holiday Ensemble of gifts and Cards

Box for Holiday Goodies!

Real Red card stock with Jolly Holiday DSP and Old Olive satin ribbon
Use your Ornament punch push all the way up and punch out your ornament and then emboss an ornament from Delightfully Decorative on white CS in Silver encore and silver embossing powder and put it thru the top of the punch area and dotto it down (no dimensionals)
then run a piece of sticky strip along the side and use the NEW glass glitter(very chunky) sticks very well to the sticky strip and gives it that WOW factor!

This is my version of the Holly Jolly House! This is a white tree I cut out with my Big Shot Christmas Tree die cut.You can make a forest with these things!

Front of the scrap tin I made last year

Inside view of my signature design scrap tins and a candy wrapper! You see my girls are naughty and nice, so there has to be something for everyone!
Want to order scrap tin directions or a kit to assemble already pre-cut including the tin.
Check the right hand side of my blog for those details!

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

There were tons of raffle baskets donated by neighborhood businesses and crop attendees
Last count I heard we were able to raise over $2000.00 for Breast Cancer Awareness!

Check out the Stampin' UP! raffle basket which went to Jeanette Karl!
Congrats Jeanette!!

Check out the space we got to hold the crop. Dana Allan our MSABC and crop administrator spent countless hours putting this event together! She secured this awesome spot with the help of our resident Real Estate broker Terrie Fuehrer.Terriefuehrer@remax.net
It was an empty old Beall's store that is how big it was!
Dana is one of the most humble giving people I have ever met.
Thank you Dana for all that you do for so many different causes. She has also been a girl scout leader for 27 years. My daughter Ansleigh was in her Brownie troop and we are so blessed that her first experience with girl scouts was in Miss Dana's troop!

There were over 60 woman that came together for the cause and had a wonderful weekend spending time together cropping and winning door prizes I still hear ticket numbers being called in my sleep! All the proceeds went to MSABC! My SET massage therapist Susan G. Fattouth came and donated her time to the cause gave massages and consultations to our poor aching bodies. Need a good all around Massage Therapist, a little Reiki, Hot stones, synery Light therapy. Trust me I am her biggest fan since I have been going to Susan for the last year my body has changed and I have grown emotionally, physically and spiritually!
Visit Susan at The Wellness Center on the corner of Magnolia and Palmetto in Daytona!
Or just call her at 451-9651. Mention my name and you will receive an hour and a half session for $75.00!!
Thank you Susan so much for your time and thoughtfulness during this event!! She also donated a $100.00 gift certificate for the cause to be raffled off. I really would have loved to have won that!!

This young lady participated in one of the make and takes I did.
The two ladies in the background Jan & Pat I met at the crop and really look forward to getting to know them more, they were such a blessing!

Serenity Stamper Guest Designer

I love this Dasher card by Leslie Sharpe one of my team members!
Accessories:
Stamp Set: Dasher,Snow Swirled, Perfect Punches
CS: Midnight , whisper white
Ink: Midnight Navy,white craft ink, embossing powder white, heat and stick,embossing buddy,heat tool
Ribbon: white satin
Big shot:Elegant Lines Embossing Folder
Punches: Scallop circle, Boho

Thanks Leslie for such an inspiring card!

Wicked Cool Halloween Projects

I love Halloween! these projects are so much fun to make!!

Deck the Halls Sneak preview!

Deck the Halls Holiday Ensemble
Join the Holiday Big Shot Club and try out all the new Holiday Mini Catalog goodies and choose your Holiday gifts for the season!

Deck the Halls Christmas Fancy favor die cut house, Holiday Candy tin with the Rules of Chocolate and a shadow box with the NEW Deck the Halls DSP and decor elements on top of the glass.

Vintage Christmas Collage background Stamp card with a treat cup full of sparkling snow!

Ala' Carte Christmas Postcard stamp set (HMC)pg.41 $9.95
New Deck the Halls DSP!

Thanksgiving Sneak Peak!

Autumn Spice Textured Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog
is my favorite DSP this season.
I have had a blast putting together these projects to teach to my customers during the upcoming Holiday classes.
Stamp sets: Days of Gratitude (HMC)
Harvest Home (IBC)
Seasonal Sentiments(HMC)
There is a wide array of projects so join us for our upcoming
Holiday BIG SHOT 4 and Holiday classes and you to can make these beauties!!

Sneak Peak of Big shot 4 projects

Days of Gratitude Card stamp set matches the Autumn Spice DSP!
It is textured!! Super thick!! Lovin it!

Harvest Home stamp set relaxing on Labor Day water coloring

Thanksgiving ensemble

• Candy wrapper (new die cut in HMC)
• Decorative Bread box for your sweet gifts
• My new little Fancy Favor House treat gifts
• Thanksgiving card
  

These houses are addictive! My friend Linda and Serenity Stamper ,Supervisor from Plant City came up for a visit this weekend and we stamped the day away on Saturday. It was so nice to just stamp with your BFF and no teaching just relaxing and creating , two heads so much better than one. We made houses and Vintage Christmas cards.

Home baked Goods box, candy wrapper die and milk carton

Inside normally their would be a loaf of pumpkin spice bread but we will have to settle for some raffia.

Big Shot Club Projects for August 2010

I love the NEW HOLIDAY DSP on pg.18 #120810
in the NEW Holiday Mini catty "Deck the Halls"
We also used the NEW wood sheets from pg. 205 in the IBC $9.95 116309
We stamped the image with Artichoke craft ink embossed with iridescent ice EP
CS: Chery Cobbler, Artichoke, DSP
Big SHOT: cut the wood sheet with the top note and the wood sheets have an adhesive back where you can just stick it to any project!

Isn't this the cutest ever??

• We used the Ovals die cut out 3 of the largest with tango tangerine,
• used the baskets and blooms die cut for the baskets on the outside
  
• made a little box for the inside.
• Medium oval punch and snipped the ends to make look a bit more pointy for the leaves.
• Ran them thru the crimper
• Used the Scalloped oval die center for the black hat, embossed it with the lattice embossing folder & folded it in half ,then drew and cut the top of the witches hat and mouth
• used the lg star punch for the tips of the triangle for the eyes
• white gel pen for eyes and mouth definition

• made some curly cues by wrapping the 1/4 inch strip of cs around a stylus and leaving it for the time we made an assembled the box so it would get a good curl.
• Cute ain't he?
  

side view

Wicked Cool is one the hottest NEW Halloween stamp sets in the NEW IBC on pg.23
118738 only $19.95wood & $14.95 clear mount
Big Shot: Large Circle Scallop, #2 Circle Scallop die, 2-1/2 x 2 1/2 circle punch NEW in HMC
page 19 #120906, I am so glad we have this circle punch now! fills in a lot of gaps.
Check out the NEW Spider Web embossing folder on pg 6 of the Holiday Mini #120889 $7.95

CS: Rich Raspberry, Old Olive, Tango Tangerine, Whisper White
INK:white gel pen, black, old olive, tango markers
The sentiment is popped out with the curly label punch.
We also used the NEW tastefully trim die cut for the sides. This die cut has sooo many possibilities, it is way cool!