Guessing Game, Part 7... and the Finale... and a super fun video!

Today brings the close of my little mini series on design inspiration.  This card includes dry embossing and heat embossing.  After you enjoy my creations, please click on the link to a video that is really fun.  I know you'll love it.  My cousin from Australia sent it to me. 

 ... and the design inspiration... from the large, upper right section of my framed project:

I hope you've enjoyed my little mini series.  Please leave me a comment if you have suggestions for future mini series posts.  I love hearing from you.

To wrap it all up, here are all the card designs and their source of inspiration:

... and now, for some entertainment:
This will brighten your day.

Outstanding performance lip syncing by 4 young kids.  Gotta Love the Bass Singer - he is an absolute riot!  Enjoy!!

http://www.flixxy.com/kids-lip-syncing-a-wonderful-christmas-song.htm

Guessing Game, Part 6

I have another card design for you today that was inspired by my Season of Style framed project.  I love the wreath.  If you look closely, you can see that I've used my little trick of double embossing on the Cherry Cobbler piece directly behind the wreath.

Today's design inspiration came from the lower left corner.

... and my previous card design inspired by this framed project:

Thanks for stopping by.  I have one more design inspiration to share with you in my next post.  After that, I'll be sharing some gift card holders that could work for cash or a check as well.  Come back and see how I dress up the presentation to show off how special it really is.

Guessing Game, Part 5

Today I continue our little guessing game but with a new framed project as my design inspiration.  The next cards you see were inspired by my Season of Style framed project.  This is my 'Joy' card.

My color story:
-Cherry Cobbler
-Old Olive
-Whisper White

Remember this framed project?  My design inspiration came from the top, middle square.  What square do you think I'll use next?  Come back to check it out.

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Stamp-A-Stack for Christmas... Card 5

Before I share the last of my Stamp-A-Stack cards, I'd like to say that I had a fabulous time teaching my holiday cards class at our library yesterday.  It's always fun to meet new people.  Many of them had never stamped before and I had the pleasure of introducing them to the joy of creating something fun and beautiful. They did a great job.

While talking about scrapbooking, I mentioned that one of my special (ongoing) projects is working on my heritage album.  From that discussion came suggestions for my teaching a class on making heritage albums.  I would love that, but that's a whole separate post for another day.

Now, my last card for the Stamp-A-Stack.  Think snow!

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Stamp-A-Stack for Christmas... Card 3

Today's card brings back childhood memories... wishing for big packages under the tree.  How about a whole stack of presents... complete with a tag?  This card has a little stamping, a little layering and a whole lot of fun.

My color story is taken from the designer papers:
- Old Olive
- Cherry Cobbler
- Whisper White

Here again are all my Stamp-A-Stack cards:

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Stuffing and Stamp-A-Stack... Card 1

As I write this post, my house is filled with the beautiful smell of stuffing.  My husband's Sunday School class is hosting our church's Thanksgiving Dinner tonight and he is making tons of stuffing --- one of his specialties.  While I fight the urge to go gobble some, let's take a look at one of my Stamps-A-Stack cards for this Sunday afternoon. 

Because Stamp-A-Stack cards need to be able to be made a little more quickly, I rely heavily on dies and punches to make the cards quick to assemble but still quite nice.  This one features our Festive Flurries dies, several punches and some Season of Style DSP.  A nice thing about the 3-D tree is that it will fold flat to put into an envelope.  Here are all the Stamp-A-Stack cards.

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Season of Style Cards... a Closer Look

We have one last 'closer look' to take at my Christmas Retreat projects and that's my 4 Season of Style cards and coordinating envelopes, all of which fit into a cute little coordinating box.  The box was made with our new Envelope Punch Board.  It's basically a 3-D envelope and holds all 4 cards and their coordinating (lined) envelopes.  Let's get started.

You may have noticed on my Winter Frost cards that I used the same design template on each of them.  On today's cards, I not only used the same template but actually made doubles of two color stories.  All of this was planned intentionally, to save working time at the retreat.  We are making so many wonderful projects that I wanted to be sure we had time to finish all the cards.

Here again are all the projects:

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Scrapbook In A Box for Christmas

I decided to make another Scrapbook In A Box for Christmas, using our Season of Style papers.  As almost always happens when I play with our gorgeous papers, I could not settle on just 1 design --- so I made 3 boxes.  Using the 3 prominent colors in the papers, I used these 3 colors:

• Cherry Cobbler
• Old Olive
• Crumb Cake

Here are my boxes:

... and here's 1 box opened.  The nice thing about using this larger size box is that there is room to add a fun little gift inside.  These would make an awesome Christmas present for a special someone, especially a family member or close friend.  Fill the little sections with photos or stamped images and you have a perfect gift.

I added a bow to the lid and a two-sided punched tag.  You could make a box with our new bow making die, as well.  I was trying to keep it super quick and simple.  I think they turned out great.

Please leave me a comment if you would be interested in a tutorial for making the boxes.  Your wish is my command ... well, to a point:)  

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Stamp-A-Stack Cards

I love making cards for Christmas.  I love planning the colors, choosing the stamps, choosing the embellishments, thinking about who gets each card... I love it all.  Whenever I design cards for a Stamp-A-Stack, I have to remember to keep it simple enough to make several of them quickly and yet still wonderful.  As you know, I sometimes love a challenge.  Would you like to see what we're making Sunday afternoon at my Stamp-A-Stack?  Take a look:

There will be 5 designs.  Everyone gets to choose how many of each that they'd like to make.  The more cards you make, the better price break you get and the more cards you'll have to share with others.

Sunday, October 27:

Stamp A Stack for Christmas / 3:00...

There will be 5 designs.  

Choose how many of each you wish to make and pay your fee to register by Oct. 25.

Make   5 cards for $15. / 1 of each design

Make 10 cards for $25. / 2 of each design

Make 15 cards for $30. / 3 of each design

Make 20 cards for $35. / 4 of each design

Make 25 cards for $40. / 5 of each design

NOTE:
There will also be a Stamp A Stack for Christmas class on Sunday, November 24 / 3:00...

Let's take a closer look at the Cherry Cobbler cards today and we'll come back to the others in another post.

We'll stamp a message inside each card, as well as create a coordinating envelope.

I may or may not color in the tree later.  What do you think?

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