Wrapping up Christmas/ diaper fold

Hope your having a great weekend. Can’t believe Christmas is almost here. Did some shopping today Stores are getting crowded. I don’t know about you but I have a hard time finding gifts for daughter and grand kids now that they are older. That’s where gift cards come in handy. I like putting them in a

cute holder. This first holder Is called the diaper fold.

Supplies:
6x6 piece of DSP
Label punch
Stamp with sentiment you want to use
Twine

Directions:
1. Fold paper as shown here.

2.Fold top part of triangle down

3 Fold the sides in

4 Make a label to put on the front

5 Leave as is and put in stocking or punch hole in top . Attach twine and hang on the tree.

Paper Pumpkin and Animal Outing

Wow I can’t believe how fast December is going. It’s already Wednesday and I haven’t posted a blog.  Been busy with Christmas and classes. How about you? I think most have finished with cards and could use some ideas for packaging and stocking stuffers. Starting Friday I will post some ideas for wrapping up Christmas.

Meanwhile Paper Pumpkin for January is now available for order. This kit coordinates with the Animal Outing suite from the annual catalog. It’s not just for Valentine’s Day. I’ll post some alternate
projects once I get it.Click on the paper Pumpkin link on the right to order. 

The December kit sold out fast so if your wanting to try sign up early.
 Also remember there is a clearance going on and the Holiday catalog is good till January 2,2019.

Still Night Bundle

Finally got a chance to play with this bundle. Love owls and this set can be used for any season or occasion. For this card I blended old with the new.
Materials:
Card base- Balmy Blue cardstock 41/4 x 11 fold @5 1/2
Card mat - Whisper White 4 x 5 1/4
Scrap of brown for tree and owl
Piece of Copper Glimmer paper for owl
Mossy Meadow ink
Shape thinlit of your choice. I used the one from blended seasons now retired.







Pine trees from stamp set Rooted in Nature from annual catalog.



Directions
1. From Balmy blue cardstock make the card base.

2. Cut shape out of center of Whisper White card stock

3. Stamp trees on the shape cut out from the white paper. I did this by stamping off to give the illusion of more trees.

4. Using your die cut machine cut out the tree branch and the owl(copper paper)

5. Glue owl to scrap of brown and then fussy cut around
6. Glue tree paper to center of paper then using dimensionals line up other white paper on top of this.

7. Using glue dots glue the branch then the owl. Finish with a sentiment. There are 2 nice ones in the stamp set.

You can buy any of these products on my website.

Stampin Up Retiring product

Have had the flu the past few days and just now getting back on the computer. Just want to let you know Stampin Up is having their year sale on retiring product. If there is something you have contemplated on getting now is the time. Once they’re gone they’re gone.

Craft fairs

Busy weekend for me. 2 days of craft fairs. Today is local Christmas tree lighting and craft fair . Tomorrow I go to another local craft fair. Hope you have a great weekend. Will try to get new post up on Sunday evening.

Spirited Snowmen Update

Yesterday I showed how to make a simple beautiful card with just one stamp set. In today’s card I added other materials to change it up. I used Festive Farmhouse DSP from the Holiday catalog , Pretty Pines Framelits  (annual catalog) and a shape thinlet I have that’s retired.
Materials:
Whisper White cardstock cut at51/2 fold in half this will make two card bases.
4 x 5 1/4 piece of Festive Farmhouse DSP for mat

Scrap of red and green for bow and pine
animal stamp of your choice( I used a dachshund I had also Ready for Christmas has a cute dog)
Water color pencils
Shape Framelits to stamp image on

Have fun with what you have and use your imagination. There is no wrong way.
Here are a couple more I made using my dog stamps.

You can order the Stampin Up products from my website.

Also I’ll be ordering the new catalogs next week for Saleabration. If you need one let me know and I’ll send you one.

Spirited Snowmen simple stamping

I remember when I first started making cards I had the basics. Cardstock, stamps and paper. One can make amazing cards with just these three things. I’ve been stamping about 20 years now and have collected a lot of craft supplies through the years. Sometimes it’s nice just to use the basics. You can make this card using these supplies:
 Whisper white cardstock
Memento ink
Balmy Blue ink
Spirited Snowmen stamp set

Directions:
Cut whisper white at 51/2 fold in half. This will make 2 Card bases.
Stamp snowman image using memento ink
Using snowflake image ink up in balmy blue then stamp off twice before stamping on card
Stamp greeting inside, decorate with more snowflakes


Note- stamping off means you ink the stamp then stamp on scratch paper before stamping on card base.
Tomorrow I’ll show another version of this card using additional products.
Have a great day