Seasonal

Raspberry Tart!

I had no idea what to do with our new Raspberry Tart DSP because I didn’t really like it for cards (it is a little on the wild side for me) so I was trying to think of a 3D project I could use with it and then I saw the box of Kit Kats in my stamp room and decided to make a bunch of them for Leadership swaps. All you have to do is cut the DSP into 4 6×6 pieces and each of these covers a full size Kit Kat perfectly. Then I crimped the ends and wrapped with our ribbons and plopped a scallop punch from our new Love You Much bundle on top and Voila! These are super easy and who doesn’t like a pretty piece of chocolate? 

Here is the close up view of one of them….for the scallop, I stamped the image on pink pirouette and vanilla and punched them out. I punched out the center of the pink piece using the 3/4 inch circle punch and then cut the heart out of that piece so I didn’t have to stamp it an additional time.

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!

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.

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.

WOW! Free shipping on orders over $70 and the retired sets are 10% off!!

WOW!  Several fabulous sales are going on! FREE Shipping on all orders over $70 until December 23rd.  It is also time to stock up on Retiring Stamp Sets which are 10% off (also until December 23rd). Click on the graphic (right) to view the list of retiring sets in a convenient PDF. Click HERE for a visual view of the retiring sets. Make sure you log in and it shows Lisa Freeman as your demonstrator at the top.

DCBD Challenge #4

Hey everyone! This is my weekly Wednesday challenge for the Diva’s  Coffee Break Design team. This week it was a color challenge and boy was it a tough one. For those of you that know me well, these are not my colors at all! I am more of a chocolate chip/pink pirouette or chocolate chip/ baja breeze girl. I had a very hard time coming up with something in these 4 colors, but I finally did. I don’t think I have used my garden green pad in about 5 years. It was totally dry when I opened it! I hope you like what I came up with. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of it.

For this card, I punched out a circle from a postit note and stuck it while I brayered Summer Sun across the paper, Then I took a sponge and sponged Pumpkin Pie all over. I removed the postit circle and lightly sponged a little bit in the circle. I then stamped the Garden Green grass from the Inspired by Nature set. Lastly I stamped the words in Riding Hood Red. I wanted the words over the sun a little more but I did that last and I wasn’t about to do the whole card over again. I hope you like it. Make sure you check out the rest of the diva designers…. the list is under the coffee cups in my sidebar.