What a Fun Evening!

We had so much fun at my Hostess Scrapbook Club last night.  I gave them their surprise gift --- a personalized MDS page I designed for each of them --- and then we made a layout AND a Christmas card.  I love spoiling my ladies ('Stamping Ladies' as my grandsons refer to them).

Here's the layout we made: 

The base is Soft Suede and then we added a (10" square) layer of Crumb Cake and another layer (9" square torn diagonally) of Very Vanilla.  We stamped snowflakes onto the Crumb Cake layer, using Illuminate Ink and then, using VersaMark Ink we stamped more snowflakes onto the Very Vanilla.  We embossed these with White EP and then sponged over them with Soft Suede.

To add more interest, we used a Soft Suede Marker and the Color Spritzer Tool and added a few 'splatters' and followed that up with a gentle spritzing of Frost White Shimmer Paint/alcohol mixture.

After everything dried and cooled and the layers were all attached (ribbons are tucked under the Crumb Cake layer) we added pearl accents.  It's much prettier in real life, but you can get the idea here.

This layout was inspired by this card that I designed:

For our Christmas Card, I made up more kits of a popular card, designed by Lynn in my downline.  Lynn, everyone loves your design!  I changed very little.  It's really pretty.

I hope your holiday preparations are going well.  My grandsons are enjoying the antics of Elfie and finding him in a new place each day.  He's quite a busy little guy.

I'm busy today putting in our club order (another lucky person won a free family of ink pads!  Yay!) and completing more items to add to my booth at the Root Cellar.  Somewhere in my time today, I need to order some more Christmas gifts!  So much fun... so little time:)

Watercolor Winter: 2 Ways

Here are 2 versions of cards I made using the Watercolor Winter set.  I'm home with a stuffy-nosed baby this morning, so I thought I'd catch up on my posts.  We're all pretty exhausted, after all the family get-togethers, the visitation and memorial service for my father-in-law.  My in-laws were truly blessed with a lot of really good friends.  It's nice to have a moment this morning to reflect on my own about the past events.

In turning to Christmas cards, we can think about the coming holidays and the One who was born for us all.  I love getting ready for Christmas and all the card-making, decorating and preparations that I do for family times.

Today's cards are 2 versions using the same stamp set.

Whether stamping on CS or DSP, this stamp set can create a gorgeous background.  In the first card, I used a die cut ornament (Ornament Keepsakes) as my focal piece.  In the second card, I kept the poinsettias all in the background, but stamped and hand cut the top one, mounted it on dimensionals, and let it take on more of the focus.  The sentiment is embossed.

So, that's it for today.  Both card are fairly simple to make and I know you'd enjoy making them.  Come back soon for more inspiration.

Framing up a Little Christmas

If you know me, you know that I love to make framed projects.  Here's my newest one --- framing up a little Christmas.

This was made with the Evergreen stamp set and the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set.  Using the Tasteful Trims die and the Apothecary framelits, I added lots of shimmer with our Champagne glimmer paper.  It is really sparkly!  The rosette/flower is made using the new little scallop circle punch and First Edition DSP.  

I used the framelits to cut out the ornaments, too.  The Holiday Ornaments framelits and the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set make it so fun and easy to create lots of beautiful ornaments.

The part that I can't seem to showcase in a photo is the sparkle of the tree.  I stamped the evergreen with Crumb Cake and then stamped over it with our new Illuminate Glimmer Watermark Stampin' Pad.  It is gorgeous in real life.  If you want to see how pretty it really is, check it out when you're here for one of my classes.

Today, I'm off to do a little tweaking in my new booth at the Harristown Depot Antiques and then work in my studio ... more Fall, Halloween and Christmas ... coming up!  Have a great day.  

Sneak Peek #4: A Christmas Box

Here's your last sneak peek for my class this Friday night.  This one is a decorated box to hold a special gift.  I used the Watercolor Winter stamp set and our Cherry Cobbler tulle.  I love how easy it is to work with it.  This project was inspired by our Holiday Catalog.  If you want to see the rest of the projects, you'll just have to come this Friday night!  I hope you can join us.