Christmas
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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.
DCBD challenge #7
Hey stampers,
It is time for this week’s Diva Coffee Break Design Challenge…..here is the sketch I had to use…..and it had to be a Christmas card since it is Christmas Eve…..
Here is what I came up with…..
This photo really doesn’t do the card justice. I took the picture 8 times but I couldn’t get the flowers on the brads or the glitter on the trees to show up well. I used the vanilla hodgepodge hardware kit for the brads and pushed them through the kraft taffeta ribbon. I stamped the trees twice on vanilla and then sprinkled with dazzling diamonds. This is a super easy card but looks really pretty close up. I hope you like it. Why don’t you try the challenge and see what you can come up with? Don’t forget to check out the other Coffee Break Divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Thanks!
More Christmas cards!
I thought I was done posting Christmas cards but then I got a bunch more in the mail today so I thought I would share just a few of them.
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This one is gorgeous up close and personal. One of my talented downline, Renee Caffee, sent this one to me. It is on glossy white cardstock and the trees were masked and then blue was brayered across the top and then she took a white gel pen to make the snow. I just love it!
This one was made by one of my other talented downlines, Jessica Vanda. I love how she punched out her kid’s photo with the curly label punch. How cute is that!
This one was sent to me by one of my customers, Elba Mitoraj. She did an awesome job on this one. The red glitter is so pretty. I wish the photos were as good as the real thing….maybe I will get a new camera from Santa Claus this year so my photos will look even better soon!
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 what came in the mail!
In the past week or so, I have gotten a ton of beautiful Christmas cards from customers, friends and downline. I thought I would share just a few of my favorite ones. I would love to post all of them, but that would probably take me forever. Thanks to everyone that sent them though. They all brightened my day!!
This one is from one of my customers (and my adopted mom!) Carol Flach. I just thought this one was gorgeous!
This one is from one of my awesome customers, Terrie Kaluzny….I love how she crimped the edges to make a frame.
This one is from another very talented customer of mine, Chris Davis. I love the little ornament on the front.
This is from one of my very talented downline, Kristi Harley. It is hard to tell in the picture but it is a larger card that had a photo of the family inside. The glitter really makes this card exceptionally beautiful. I will post some more later….I have to go bake some Christmas cookies…..
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!
Stamp camp projects
Hey everyone,
I thought I would share a couple of my stamp camp projects from this month. The first one is a dressed up cocoa packet. I got this idea from my friend Kimberly. I don’t know what I would do without her. She always comes up with the cutest ideas. It is hard to see the dazzling diamonds on the snowflake but it really shimmers in person. I used the Snow Swirled set to decorate the outside and then used the top note for the topper.
For the 2nd project, I used our scallop envelope die that goes in the Big Shot. I made this project a long time ago but just got around to doing a class with it. I made one of these boxes and gave it to Shelli at Founder’s Circle also. She loved it. For this one, I decorated it with the Bella Rose paper and the Bloomin’ Beautiful set. I put a cello bag filled with candy inside but it would be great for any small gift.
Cute Snowman soup project
Last night I had my downline Christmas party and potluck dinner and we had such a great time. We made several cute projects including this one created by one of my downline, Niccole Marshall. The camera flash makes it a little hard to read the middle part but I think you can probably figure it out. She printed those out on the computer. Inside the cello bag is a candy cane stick, marshamallows and a cocoa packet. I love this Holiday Lineup set. I hope it will stick around for the next winter catalog. I didn’t order it this year but I have seen so many cute projects made with it.
Cute Gift Idea
Here is a cute little gift idea that you can give to someone for Christmas. I am probably going to use them for hostess gifts or door prizes. We made a similar project as one of our make and takes at Founder’s Circle. I decided to use a bigger cello bag though and our 3×3 notecards. I took our medium flat cello bag and cut the Ski slope paper slightly smaller to fit inside. Stamp Merry Christmas on that and slip it in the cello bag and use the word window punch to punch through the bag and the paper. If your punch is not brand new (a little dull), put a piece of paper on either side of the cello bag to punch it more easily. The cello has a tendency to get stuck if your punch is well used. Then I took a couple of our 3 x 3 notecards and decorated them with the Winter Post set and more ski slope paper. I stamped the envelopes with the snowflakes. Plop them in the cello bags and tie with a ribbon. Super easy and the notecards make great gift tags.
Cute snowflake notepads
I was cleaning out some stuff in my stamp room and found all of these old note pads from last year (yes, that is soft sky cardstock on the front) so I thought I better go ahead and make them up. The soft sky really is a close match to the baja breeze. I stamped it in baja breeze and used the baja breeze dsp and you can hardly tell the difference. These took me about 10 minutes to make and I did about 20 of them and sold most of them at a craft show I did this morning. The good news is that I sold quite a bit in a short amount of time, the bad news is, I spent more than that with the other vendors there. I did get my husband and my daughter each a nice Christmas gift though (and one for me too!)
Lisa Freeman
