merry christmas to all of my blog friends

Christmas blessings to you all.

I hope you each have a lovely, happy, peaceful holiday.


Linda

Think About Color Thursday - Silver, Night of Navy, Whisper White

This week's color combination is:

Silver

Night of Navy

Whisper White

This is a Christmas card that I created for my mother to send this year.  I think the silver glitter paper enhances the card and gives it elegance.  

The main image is also silver, though this image is stamped with Versamark and heat embossed using silver embossing powder.

The Come to Bethlehem stamp set is featured on this card.  The scene in silhouette makes it ideal to heat emboss.

Linda

Whatever Wednesday - Scallop Square Set

Here's a cute little set of note cards that I made and have been wanting to share with you.  The cards are square, scallop square to be exact.  They are die cut using the Stampin' Up Big Shot scallop square die.  The dsp is all from the same collection, Sweet Pea (retired).  You can make a set of cards similar to this using just about any dsp collection, a few punches, and a few stamps.  Circles dies also can be used as I have done here.

Need a last minute Christmas gift to give?  Maybe a sweet note card collection will be just the thing you can do!

Linda

Map It Monday - Wide Ribbon Thank You

It's Map It Monday and it is also the last Monday prior to Christmas.  Yikes.  No baking done yet.  No wrapping done yet.  Time to kick it into high gear.

This Christmas card is a nice Christmas gift thank you card to send after you've been a good girl and received a really nice Christmas present.  Don't you love, love, love the wide striped grosgrain ribbon?!?!

You can use that holiday themed designer series paper on today's card that you have left over from Christmas cards and holiday projects.

If you have Stampin' Up's ornament punch, you can use any of our ornament stamp designs to create this card.  If not, you can get yourself a Christmas gift and ask me to order it for you!

Have a great, busy pre-Christmas week!

Linda

Tuesday Tips - Dry Embossing over Stamping

You have stamped and you may have dry embossed, but have you stamped & dry embossed on the same piece of card stock?  Here I have stamped snowflakes onto Whisper White cs and then embossed it in a snowflake embossing folder through the Big Shot die cutting system.  You get more snowflakes per square inch that way! :)

I layered a tag with the three colors in the color combination {Pool Party, Riding Hood Red, and Whisper White}, and then I wrapped up the card with a long piece of the beautiful 1 1/4" striped grosgrain Riding Hood Red ribbon.  The style and the color combo of this card are gorgeous!

If you have your Christmas cards mailed already, why not make this card for a holiday thank you note?!

Linda

Think About Color Thursday - Concord Crush, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive

This week's color combination is a rich Christmas trio:

 Concord Crush, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive.

The neutral card is Very Vanilla; the richness of the color combination here required a light color to soften it.  Here are my notes if you'd like to give this card a try at home.

NOTES:

Stamp Sets:  Tags Til Christmas, Heard From the Heart

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

Cs:  Very Vanilla, Concord Crush, Cherry Crush, Old Olive

dsp:  Patterns dsp - Concord Crush

Punches:  Ornament, 1/2" circle, snowflake

Ribbon:  3/8" Quilted Satin Ribbon - Cherry Cobbler

Other:  Snowflake Embossing Folder, Vintage Mini Tags, Basic Rhinestone Jewels, Stampin' Dimensionals

Decorating the house for Christmas today FINALLY!

Linda

Whatever Wednesday - Embellished Treat Box

I am featuring one more project that the gals stamped at my recent "Christmas Buffet" stamp camp.  I found these large bakery treat boxes on clearance at a discount store and snatched them up to save for this particular stamp camp.   So many people like to give home baked treats for the holidays as a hostess gift or to neighbors and friends.  You can purchase plain Chinese takeout boxes or bakery boxes and embellish them yourself at a fraction of the cost of what it could cost to purchase giftwrap options at a retail store!

Here I simply adhered strips of dsp on all four sides near the bottom and then trimmed the dsp with paper snips so it would be angled like the box.  The dsp on the top of the box is a large diecut from the Scallop Square Bigz Clear Die.  Just add some ribbon and embellishments and fill with something yummy!

Linda

Tuesday Tips - Matchbox "Double Drawers"

Here's a great way to give jewelry as a Christmas gift!  {Or anything else of similar size!}.....make a darling little two drawer gift box and add a special something in each drawer!  It is so easy to make this gift box if you have the Stampin' Up Bigz Matchbox Die and a Big Shot diecutting machine!  This little box is one of the projects the gals made at my recent "Christmas Buffet" stamp camp!

You will need to die cut two sets of the matchbox and sleeve.  The Riding Hood Red little tag is actually one of three tag shapes that are also cut in the matchbox die!  So that matchbox die is really both a matchbox AND a tag shape die!  I love the curvy shapes of each of the tags on that die!  Here I layered tag shapes and topped it with a round message!  Cute as a button!

Be sure to insert and secure the buttons {mine are pearly brads!} before assembling the matchbox if you want to hide the wings of the brad.  Adhere the two box "sleeves" together, then wrap around a strip of cs.  A wide ribbon secures everything!

Wouldn't it be terrific to hide a pair of earrings in one drawer and a necklace or bracelet in the second drawer and give it as a gift?!

Linda

Fast Friday - Kind Days

Recently I had a fun day stamping with friends at my friend Ellie's home.  We used some non Stampin' Up scrapbook papers that she has had floating around in her paper collection and attempted to match them up with Stampin' Up colors.  It is not easy to get a color match, so that challenge made me thankful for Stampin' Up's color collections!  Have I told you recently how awesome it is that Stampin' Up's inks match the card stock, which matches the designer series papers, which matches the ribbons, which matches the brads, which matches embellishments, which match embossing powders, which matches Stampin' Write markers, which matches....................need I say more?

So, this is one of the cards I created on that happy day - using the Autumn Days stamp set, Baroque Motifs stamp set, and Crumb Cake card stock.  If you like this card style, make your own!  Stamping with one ink color and only one or two stamps keeps the card moving quickly.  Simply cut and layer a few strips/pieces of cs and dsp, then diecut or punch 2 layers of a shape of your choice and add Stampin' Dimensionals.  That's fast!

Have a great weekend!

Linda