Teacher Gifts

For Christmas this past year, I gave my girls' teachers monogram note cards. I had a ton of fun making them! I put them each in a little box that Debbi from Stampin' Addicts shared with me! (Aren't you proud of me? I remembered where I got something from!) This set was given to one of Lydia's teachers, who's favorite color is blue. Marina Mist is my new favorite blue so I just had to use it! The flowers were stamped using the silver shimmer paint. I also got the silver scallop and the circle layer on the cards by punching them from white and then using a finger dauber, colored them silver! 

Stamps: Lovely Letters, Baroque Motifs

Ink: Marina Mist

Card Stock: Marina Mist, Whisper White

Accessories: Scallop, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, finger dauber, silver

shimmer paint, Whisper White satin ribbon, dimesionals

Purple is the favorite color of Belle's teacher so Concord Crush was the color I picked to make her cards! Belle is so funny! She has always LOVED the color orange. As soon as she found out her teacher's favorite color is purple, her favorite color changed! Can you guess what her "new" favorite color is? Yep, Purple!! Oh, to be 4 again!

Stamps: Lovely Letters

Ink: Concord Crush

Card Stock: Whisper White, Concord Crush

Accessories: Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, Eyelet border

 punch, Whisper White taffeta ribbon, Concord Crush ribbon

This last set was for Lydia's other teacher who's favorite color is green. This set is similar to the set I made for Jeanine this last fall. Different colors, of course but the same layout.

Stamps: Lovely Letters

Ink: Old Olive

Card Stock: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Whisper White

Accessories: Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, Scallop trim punch,

Old Olive satin ribbon, Elegant Lines embossing folder

Because this card is hard to see, I took a photo of one out of the box.

I think all the teachers liked their cards. I even got one back as a Thank You note!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Happy New Year!

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while! Christmas kept me pretty busy. We celebrated on the 26th and 27th with my family. Then we came home and got ready for a big party we have at our house every year! That was on the 2nd. Then the kiddies had to go back to school and life caught up with me! Groceries were needed and there was cleaning after the party. Friends of ours needed a bunk bed set and I wanted to get rid of the one that we have so yesterday they came and got the bunk beds and now I have to re-paint and re-organize my youngest two's bedroom! I guess there is always something! I'm sure you all have stories similar to mine.

Well, I have been stamping! I had a couple of swaps that I needed to get done. I'll show you those soon! Keep watching! This card I thought when a friend of mine and I were driving to Green Bay by another friend last year! I finally got around to stamping the vision that I had. I know that it says Merry Christmas but this is a nice winter card!

Stamps: Pendant Park, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Marina Mist

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Night of Navy

Accessories: Clear embossing powder, 2-way glue, Dazzling Diamonds, White taffeta ribbon, word window

and modern label punches, square lattice embossing folder, dimensional

Not sure if you can see it but the Night of Navy piece in the background was embossed with the square lattice embossing folder. So what do you think?

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope you all are enjoying your families and the holiday spirit. This is a card that shows the reason we are all able to celebrate this marvelous holiday! I fell in love with this stamp set when I first got my holiday mini way back when. I think I own almost every nativity set that Stampin' Up! has created and they seem to have a new one every year! I love each one and Stampin' Up! has made some great ones! This is this years nativity set.

Stamps: Rejoicing in Christmas

Ink: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso

Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Scallop edge punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, aqua painter, Early Espresso taffeta ribbon, Shimmer

paint, finger dauber, Square Lattice embossing folder, sponge

Remember with all the family and gifts that the real reason for the seaon is the birth of a little bitty baby!Rejoice in the birth of our Savior! Merry Christmas!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

One Sketch, Three Cards

Well I had some time earlier this month to play with a sketch challenge at Stampin' Addicts! Paula is very creative with the challenges and I love to play along! Here is her design:

This sketch came from our FABULOUS Idea Book and Catalog, page 69 to be exact! I loved this sketch from the moment that I saw it! I had several ideas come rushing to my brain and I just had to stamp them out. I will admit that I did rotate the sketch but other than that, I stayed pretty much with what we were given!

Here's my first card!

 Stamps: Big on Christmas

Card stock: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and So Saffron markers, Top Note die, 2-way glue,

 Dazzling Diamonds, Very Vanilla satin ribbon, Jolly  Holiday DSP, dimensionals

I did stamp the tree on Old Olive cardstock and cut it out. I'm not sure if you can see but there is Dazzling Diamonds on the star on the top of the tree. Isn't it pretty?

Well, here's another card! The top note is a little bigger and the sketch is rotated but still the same sketch! On this one, I stamped the ornament on Very Vanilla card stock and colored with markers and Platinum shimmer paint.

Stamps: Big on Christmas

Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, and Early Espresso markers, Jolly Holiday DSP, Platinum shimmer paint, aquapainter, Top Note die, Very Vanilla satin ribbon, dimensionals

Now for my favorite card! When I first saw the sketch, this is what I had come to mind right away. I have to admit that my hubby wasn't too happy with me because supper was a little late that day! Oh well, I got my card made and everyone ate! All works for me!

Stamps: Come to Bethlehem
Ink: Old Olive

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Jolly Holiday DSP, Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder,

Champange shimmer mist, finger dauber, Top Note die

Now you need to check out some challenges and create your own fun cards! I pray that you all have a very Merry Christmas!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

November Club projects

I have a hostess group that meets every month. We make several projects every time we meet. These are the projects that we made in November. This card is very simple but I was pretty excited with the way it turned out! I did change it a little from what my ladies all stamped but you get the idea! The snowflakes have Platinum shimmer paint on them. I also stamped the ornament and the sentiment with shimmer paint on them. What I did to do this is ink up the stamp in the color that I wanted and then using a finger dauber, I sponged on the shimmer paint and then stamped.

Stamps: Tags til Christmas, Short & Sweet

Cardstock: Whisper White, Marina Mist

Ink: Marina Mist

Accessories: Platinum shimmer paint, finger dauber, Marina Mist ribbon, Northern Flurries embossing folder, Ticket corner punch, ornament punch, dimensional

These hand sanitizers have been all over the place. They are super fun to make! I followed directions from somewhere but not sure where. I made several extra and then sold them at a vendor fair that I was part of (hence the sign in the background!).

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Dot, Dot, Dot

Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Basic Black

Ink: Poppy Parade, Soft Suede

Accessories: Wide oval, scallop circle, 1/2" circle, snowflake punches, crop-a-dile, 2-way glue, dazzling diamonds, dimensionals

Here's the inside. I didn't do anything to it. Ran out of time!

The last project we made required each member of the club to bring along a mini muffin tin. We punches scallops from Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler (don't you just LOVE this new, rich red? I do!) and circles from Holly Jolly designer series papers. I printed the numbers from my computer and we punched them with the 1/2" circle punch. Add some magnets and you have a great Advent calendar! We were trying to figure out what you could put behind the scallops as little gifts other than candy. Quarters are my favorite!

Edited to add: In searching for something else this evening, I found a picture of this advent calendar exactly like mine! The other one was posted this summer. I must have seen it and forgot! Mine has therefore been CASEd!

Stamps: none

Cardstock: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Ink: none

Accessories: 2 3/8" scallop circle, 1/2" circle and 1 3/4" circle punches, Old Olive striped ribbon, magnets

Now, don't you want to be making cool projects like this every month? Call or email me and we'll get you into a group and make some more fabulous creations!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley