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Hey everyone,
For this week’s challenge, we didn’t have a sketch or anything….we just had to create a New Year’s card….my interpretation of that is a New Stampin’ Up Year’s card with a stamp set out of the NEW catalog! This stamp set is one that we received at Founder’s Circle a couple of months ago and I have been dying to use it so I got it out this week and played around with it. I am doing another card with it for a swap so I can’t show you that one (yet). The set is called Simple Friendship and I LOVE IT! It comes with the butterfly, the circle stamp, the true friend and some flowery stamps too. I had a ton of Urban Garden DSP so I thought I would use some of that up (just in case it retires next week). I wish they would tell us which papers were going before I made all of my Leadership swaps (this is one of them). The circle punch is our 1 3/4 inch one and I used the scallops from the pennant die to fit around it. I used baja breeze, kiwi kiss and not quite navy for the colors. I hope you like it. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Also, check out the other Divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar. Thanks for looking!
Love you Much project
Here is a Valentine version of the little top note bag Angie Juda created. I wanted to make one using the new Love You Much set. I stamped the hearts in the white craft pad, then stamped the birds in chocolate chip. I stamped the scallop image 3 times….once on riding hood, once on pink pirouette, and once on close to cocoa….then I punched one out with the scallop punch, one with the 1 1/4 punch and I cut the heart out. I also took the white gel pen and filled in the dots around the outer edge.
Merry Christmas!
I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday! I thought I would share the projects that I did with all of my clubs this month.
I got the idea for this gift bag from Angie Juda’s blog here . We made these at each club and I gave everyone a bag of my homemade Christmas candy to put inside of it, although pretty much everyone ate the candy before we finished the project! The stamp set is from the Country Living special and I cut out the front and back pieces for the bag using the Top note die in the Big Shot.
This was an ornament I made using a coaster, our Ski Slope DSP, the snow flurries, and our chipboard frames. These are super easy to make. We sponged the frames with close to cocoa craft ink, glued the paper to the coaster, trimmed it and sanded the edges. The snowman is from Punch Pals and we stamped him on watercolor paper and then colored him. The snowflake is attached with a glue dot and then covered in glitter. I love that twine for hanging the ornaments. You can unravel it to give it a totally different look.
This last project was a birthday card I received from my good friend Kimberly Van Diepen. She always does such gorgeous cards and when I showed the card to my customers, they were all begging me to make it in class. The daisies are stamped in white craft and embossed with irridescent ice. THe butterflies are stamped in close to cocoa, cut out and then stamped with the versamark pad and embossed with irridescent ice also. They all loved the card and most of them didn’t want to give it away because it was too pretty to part with.
More Christmas cards…
This one came from one of my friends and fellow Stampin Up demo Gina Dygert. She also had a cute snowman card posted on the Stampers Showcase on the Stampin’ UP website yesterday! Way to go Gina!
This one is from one of my talented downline and friend Carol Reid….I love the pink and black combo. It is hard to see the glitter in the photo but it really sparkles in person.
This one is from one of my awesome customers, Jean Baynor. The gold embossing on here is so elegant.
This last one is from another one of my talented customers, Lynn Wyndham. The green rhinestone brads really make the tree pop!
Look at what my downline made!
One of my downline, Lisa Rapacki, made these adorable Christmas dog sweaters using the Big Shot! She got some fabric and punched out their names and all sorts of shapes to decorate them. I thought this was such a creative way to use our die cuts!
Cute little gift idea
Here is a cute little gift idea I copied from one of my very best friends, Kimberly Van Diepen. She always comes up with the cutest ideas and then I copy them all! That’s what friends are for right? LOL! These are just chocolate stirring sticks I picked up at Big Lots and I put into a small cello bag and used the Top Note die for the topper and then wrapped it with our gorgeous new striped ribbon that I keep going through like crazy. I love Stampin Up’s ribbon. It is so high quality and is a great value too because the rolls are huge!
It is starting to feel like Christmas!
Here is another card from one of my shoebox swaps. This one was created by my good friend Terri Mongeon. It is hard to tell from the photo but the skaters are popped up with dimensionals and the trees are covered in dazzling diamonds. This card uses the sets Lovely as a Tree, Winter Post and Bella Toile.
Simple Yet Elegant Christmas card
This is one of the cards we made at my downline shoebox swap. One of my very talented downline, Carol Reid, created this one. I just love it. It is so simple but very elegant also. You could whip out a ton of these for Christmas in no time! THis card uses the Cardinal Christmas set in the Holiday mini. We colored the holly leaves with markers to get those vibrant colors.
Christmas Ornament card
Hey everyone! This is a card I made at my shoebox swap yesterday. One of my talented downline, Sandy Alexander, created the original card and we all got to make it. I just love it! But, I have to tell you that I had to take the picture 8 times to try to get a good one. This card is GORGEOUS in person but I could not get it to look as good on the computer screen. I wish you all could see the real one up close and personal. I hope you all are having a fabulous week! Stop by again tomorrow to see some more of my shoebox swaps! Or better yet, subscribe to my blog and you will get an automatic update everytime I post a new picture.
More downline swaps….
Here are a few more cards from my downline swap. These were created by Renee Caffee, Pam Browne, Kristy Harley and Debbie Keane. I think they did a great job! Way to go girls!
Lisa Freeman
