Christmas is Coming!

(Originally posted November 9, 2008)

As I type this post there are 45 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes until Christmas.  Can you believe it?  I love this time of year. I’ve even already started listening to the Christmas Carols – LOVE it!  So, in the Christmas spirit I wanted to show you a fun Christmas card that the ladies made as part of my stamp a stack the other night.  I simply cannot let a Christmas go by without throwing in a pink Christmas card and this year it was even more fun because of our new Pink Pirouette!  It’s always fun to play with new colors and new stamp sets!  Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy Shopping everyone!

Supply List

Stamp Set:
Snow Swirled
Inks:
CLASSIC: Pretty in Pink, Versamark
Card Stock: 
Pink Pirouette (8.5" x 5.5")
Brushed Silver (2" x 5.5" AND 3.5" x 2.75")
Whisper White (1.75" x 5.5" AND 3.25" x 2.5")
Embellishments:
Rhinestone Brads from Pretties Kit
Punches:
1/2" circle, 1/8" handheld hole
Accessories: 
silver embossing powder, embossing buddy, heat gun, dimensionals

Emboss Resist Video Tutorial

(Originally posted November 5, 2008)

Well, two video tutorials in one week?  Aren’t you lucky?!?!  LOL  Don’t get used to it but I had a little time yesterday (thanks to my mother’s helper) and I thought I’d show you a great technique that I don’t do nearly enough.  Unfortunately, due to a little glitch you’ll have to watch two videos to see the entire card get put together.  But I hope you’ll think it’s worth it!  Enjoy!

Here’s the card you’ll see made in the videos:

 PART ONE

To see Part One in high quality, click here then click ‘watch in high quality’ on the bottom right of the video. 

PART TWO

To see Part Two in high quality, click here then click ‘watch in high quality’ on the bottom right of the video.

 Supply List

Inks:
CRAFT: Always Artichoke, Brocade Blue, Whisper White
CLASSIC: Brocade Blue, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Basic Gray
Card Stock: 
Pacific Point (8.5" x 11")
Very Vanilla (4" x 5.25" AND 4-5/8" x 2-7/8" AND 4.5" x 2.75")
Always Artichoke (4-7/8" x 3-1/8")
Strip of Scrap CS (at least 5" long)
Embellishments:
Always Artichoke Brads
Punches:
Large and Small Ovals, corner rounder
Accessories: 
clear embossing powder, embossing buddy, heat gun, rubber brayer, stampin’ sponge,
dimensionals, paper piercer, paper piercing template, foam mat

Scallop Ornament Video Tutorial

(Originally posted November 2, 2008)

Okay, slowly but surely another video has made its way to my blog.  I wish uploading it was as quick as actually making the video!   LOL   Oh well.  I hope you enjoy it!

To see it more clearly click here and click ‘high quality’ in the bottom right corner.

Heritage Holidays

Originally posted October 23, 2008

Unfortunately I think that most people overlook this fabulous stamp set in the catalog.  I have played with it several times (for one, I am doing a class featuring the Heritage Holidays stamp set coming up on November 10th) and this is my latest creation using the set.  If you’re coming to my Christmas Card stamp a stack on November 6th then you’ll be making 3 of these!  Lucky you!

And Kristina’s challenge this week was pretty vague – Use Red – any color red as the main color of the card.  So I think this works!   Let me know what you think!  Oh and thank you to Becky Roberts, another SU! demo, for inspiring the layout of the card.

Find the Original

All too often I hear "I’m not creative, I can’t come up with anything."  And hopefully most of you know my answer to that: "you don’t have to be, that’s what the catalog is for!!"

So, to prove that I too use the catalog for inspiration for color combinations, layouts, and everything else, I’m showing you a card we did at last night’s Christmas stamp a stack.  My challenge for you is to find the card in the catalog that inspired this card.  Once you find it, post a comment here on my blog letting me know which card you think it is by Monday, the 25th at 5 pm EST.  I’ll then randomly choose one winner from all the posts, using random.org, and send that person one each of the four different Christmas cards we made last night!!

Next time you’re stuck turn to a fabulous source for inspiration – the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog!!

Okay – well you ladies are smart. It was indeed inspired by the Simply Said card on p 59. And Amanda – definitely the one on page 38 would’ve been a great guess too! I certainly can see many similarities between the two cards. So, the winner of the 4 Christmas cards is as chosen by random.org:

There were 3 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

3
1
2
Timestamp: 2008-08-25 22:53:27 UTC

So comment #3 – Amanda –  is the winner!
I’m happy you three (come on I KNOW more of you looked at this post – don’t be lazy! LOL) participated. I’ll be sure to put more fun games on here in the future and give away more free stuff! Who doesn’t like free stuff????