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Snow Festival Super Simple Holiday Class – on the go!

This class on the go includes Snow Festival tags, 20 Note Cards & envelopes, and the stamp set Greetings of the Season (set of 4 holiday greetings)  You can choose clear mount or wood mount.  All you need to complete these cards are ink and adhesive.  Complete them as shown or add your own embellishments to make them your own creative cards.

Buy the on the go class with clear mount stamps – $30 $24 plus $6.95 shipping

Buy the on the go class with wood mount stamps- $35 $28 plus $6.95 shipping

Milk Carton Birdhouse

We’ll be making these cute little milk carton birdhouses at my next stamp camp on St. Patty’s day.  If you’re in the Sno-King county area, I’d love for you to come!

There are many tutorials out there, here’s the one I most closely used by Chic’nScratch.

Stamps: Woodgrain BG

Paper: Soft Suede, Old Olive, Bashful Blue

Ink: Soft Suede, Bashful Blue, Early Espresso

Accessories: Bird Punch, Scallop Edge punch, Flower Brads, sponge, Milk Carton die, big shot

Timeless Portrait mini scrapbook tin

I love pinterest!  If you haven’t heard of it yet, then I think you may have been living under a rock because it seems to be ever so popular now.  I found this awesome idea to make a mini scrapbook tin after my mom told me she had saved a bunch of empty Altoids tins if I wanted to use them in a class.  So I took one home, and since it was already red and I didn’t want to paint it, I used the coordinating Timeless Portrait DSP to decorate it.  This has got to be my favorite DSP and I also love that there is coordinating fabric.  I’ve pulled out my sewing machine a couple times because of the designer fabric that Stampin’ Up sells.  I’ve got lots of ideas on stock, or should I say “pinned” because of Pinterest.  Here’s the tutorial I found for the mini scrapbook tin: Altered Altoid Tin Album by Sarah Willis

Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Word Play, Best Friends Forever, Triple Treat Flower, Precious Butterflies (hostess), Creative Elements, Kindness Matters, Four Frames, Fabulous Phrases,

Paper: Very Vanilla, Timeless Portrait DSP, Newsprint DSP, CS Vellum

Ink: Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Island Indigo, River rock

Accessories: Basic Pearls, Blossom Punch, 5-petal Flower punch, Fancy Flower punch, 1/2″ circle punch, 3/4″ circle punch, Beautiful Wings embosslit, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Neutral Glimmer Brads, mini silver brads, decorative label punch, Cherry Cobbler polkadot ribbon, basic black 1/8″ taffeta ribbon, tag corner punch, crop-a-dile, 1/8″ circle punch, Fresh Vintage brads.

Cheerful Treat Tea & Candy Holder

I got this fabulous idea from fellow demonstrators who saw it demonstrated at Leadership/Regionals this past January, and one lovely demonstrator posted a super helpful video on how to create this cute little Tea & Cookie (in my case candy) holder.  Here’s the link to the video: Stampin’ with Nicki

I gave these to my class attendees last Saturday to thank them for attending 🙂

Stamps: Easy Events

Paper: Cheerful Treat DSP, Melon Mambo

Ink: Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Melon Mambo polka dot ribbon (retired), SAB Stickers (retired)

Every Last Detail Photo Tray

At convention this year there was an addition of some extra classes we had the option to take.  I squeezed in on the registration for this class right before it filled and though there wasn’t nearly enough time to do the project that night, I’ve finally (after 2-3 hours per night this week) have finished it!  There are lots of distressing techniques and extra details that I usually don’t add to my projects but I think they definitely make a difference!  The class was called Every Last Detail, and this is the photo tray we decorated.

Stamps: Best of Everything, Borderlines, Full of Life

Paper: Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede; Patterns DSP: Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Wood Sheets

Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Tea Stain Distressing ink, Frost White Shimmer Paint, White Craft ink

Accessories: Silver Glass Glitter, Distressing Essentials Kit, Crimper, Silver Brad, White Bakers Twine, Tombow Adhesive, Dimensionals, Petite Details On Board pieces, 3-step floral punch, heart punch, mini punch pack, bird punch, rhinestone basics, sponges, petite pennants punch, paper daisies, ribbon border punch, ruffled ribbon: lucky limeade, calypso coral, pool party.

 

Sorry for the blurry picture(s) but hope you get the idea!

Jewel Button Bracelet

Here’s another of my button bracelet color combinations.  Its the 2nd bracelet I’ve made.  I’m looking forward to making many more, they’ll make wonderful gifts 🙂  I used the Simply Adorned charm bracelet and Brights Designer buttons in Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Tempting turquoise.  It created a great gemstone color combo so I called it “jewel”.

To anyone interested, I have this bracelet for sale in my Artfire store and can make them in other colors as well.  Just contact me if you are interested in another color combination!

ArtFire - Buy Handmade - Sell Handmade

Firefly Button Bracelet

Stampin’ Up has a line of jewelry called Simply Adorned.  I got a great idea to use the charm bracelet in that line and decorate it with the designer buttons in fun combination.  I have about 2 dozen great combination thought up and here’s just one of them.  Firefly.  It uses the Brights designer buttons in Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, and Daffodil Delight.

To anyone interested, I have this bracelet for sale in my Artfire store and can make them in other colors as well.  Just contact me if you are interested in another color combination!

ArtFire - Buy Handmade - Sell Handmade

Sweet Treat Cup Refillable Advent Calendar

I’ve been so excited for this project!  This idea is completely from Heather Wachtman.  She’s still getting her new blog up and running and had plans to post the tutorial but hasn’t quite yet.  But I’ll be holding a class so you can make one with me!  These are made in such a way that they can be reused every year, completely justifying the cost of this beautiful project.  I used the new Christmas Cheer simply scrappin’ kit, which is geared toward a countdown calendar for the holidays.  I also used the sweet treat cups that were made available last year at this time.  The whole thing didn’t take me very long to make either 🙂

Lap of Luxury Stationery Box

Have I made enough of these yet? I just love to give them as gifts, and this one is for my display in August.  I used the Lap of Luxury designer series paper and love how all the colors just scream my name 😀  I will also be offering a class on making these boxes.  It will be part of a Holiday giftables class.  More than just holiday style projects, but things you can give as gifts any time of the year!  Let me know if you’ll be interested in making the stationery box!