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posted on November 29, 2010 by

Simply Adorned Necklace

I’m back with another gift idea, the second in my 12 gifts of Christmas series. This is one of our wonderful Simply Adorned charms. These are just beautiful in person. The quality is very nice. It is a little bit of a change to stamp small, but a lot of fun once you get the hang of it! This charm is 1″ by 1 1/4″. I decorated it for the holiday season, but the sky is the limit with these. You can add photos, go artistic, funky or fun.

If you are going to give these as a gift you could stamp an insert for each month of the year and give that along with the charm. If you order the Simply Adorned bundle, these are the two pieces you will get. We have bracelets and smaller ones suitable for charms in our Simply Adorned line. You could also make lovely ornaments or key chains with these.

Tip: You can see that the holly berries are 3 dimensional. I used our white shimmer paint mixed with ink to color our pearls to make the berries.

Belinda

 

Stampin Supplies

Stamps

 Bells and Boughs ~ Charming

Ink

 Real Red ~ Old Olive ~ Black StazOn

Paper

 Very Vanilla

Fun Stuff

 Basic Pearls ~ Simply Adorned Charm ~ Simply Adorned 24″ chain ~ Shimmer White paint

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posted on August 11, 2010 by

Jolly Old St. Nick

This card uses so many of my favorite new toys from the Holiday Mini Catalog that I don’t know where to start!  First, the new Textured Impressions Embossing Folder called Northern Flurries. It coordinates with the Northern Hearts hostess set. Love it! I’ll explain in a minute how I colored the snowflakes and snow man, but first let’s talk about that adorable little snow guy! This is another favorite thing(s) from the upcoming mini (should be arriving in your mailbox in 2-3 weeks). The cute snowman comes from an adorable retro Christmas set called Jolly Old St Nick. These images all remind me of Christmases past.

I also love this sentiment set called Bright Christmas, it has 3 holiday sentiments using gorgeous, festive fonts. The clear mount set is only $10.95, a really inexpensive way to update a set you may already own.
Finally, the glittery snowflakes are a new decorative strip die for the Big Shot called Northern Frost. This die has 8 different snowflakes in varying sizes. I used the two smallest flakes for this card. The die also coordinates with the Northern Hearts set, as well as the Northern Flurries folder.

I loved the little tag made with this set from the Holiday mini, it is what inspired this card.The snowflakes and snowman appear to have been colored a lighter color than the card stock when it is actually the opposite. The rest of the card stock has color added to it to make the images pop. The snow man is simply stamped in Early Expresso Ink on Crumb Cake card stock. The scarf, hat and gloves were colored with Crumb Cake ink and cut out. I used the Tea stain distress ink from the new distressing kit to age the card stock behind the popped up image.

I used a brayer to ink up the relief side of the embossing folder with Crumb Cake ink to make the lighter colored snow flakes as shown.

The relief side is the side that has the snow flakes that are not elevated, so that when you apply ink it would cover all of the portion of the folder that would not emboss the card stock

Use a fairly heavy layer of ink

Place the card stock in the folder as you normally would to emboss.

Run it through the Big Shot

The Ink will cover the card stock where there is no embossing, just like a relief stamp.

If you don’t have  a brayer, you can apply the ink directly from the ink pad, as shown

For this piece I used Real Red classic Ink on Whisper White card stock with the Petals a Plenty folder

Oh, and I forgot to mention, we will be stamping this card at Stamp Camp this week.

Hope to see you there!

Belinda

 

Stampin’ Stuff

Stamps

 Jolly Old St Nick ~ Bright Christmas

Ink

 Crumb Cake ~ Early Espresso ~ Tea Stain distressing ink

Paper

 Crumb Cake

Fun Stuff

 Big Shot ~ Northern Flurries TIEF ~ Northern Frost decorative strip ~ Dazzling Diamonds glitter

 

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posted on October 21, 2009 by

Holiday Planner

Holiday Planner

 Holiday Planner

This is a fun little planner that I made to organize the information I’ll need for all of my holiday plans. Actually I use Microsoft One note to sort things out and then I’ll print things off and have a nifty little pocket organizer to carry them around with me, while I shop.

I used a regular school folder and cut it down so that it would be better sized to fit in my purse. I only had white ones on hand and so this paper from last years catalog worked best for what I had in mind. The folder is one of those simple class folders (no brads) that are available at back to school time for just pennies each. I cut about 4 inches off the top and then folded the back and front in half vertically. This gave me 4 pockets in an accordion fold.

Christmas Planner

I glued the two center pockets together from the back to make a center page rather than an accordion fold.

Organized Christmas

I  covered the front and insides with cut designer paper and stamped simple images to decorate each section. I didn’t have any red embossing powder and I wanted my titles to be opaque so I decided to cut them out with my Cricut machine. I thought it would be quick and easy. NOT! Gluing all of those skinny individual letters took forever!

planner

holiday Planner

I used the last pocket for a receipt envelope. Of course, when the envelope is overflowing, there is more room in the pocket for extras.

planner

I covered two pieces of chipboard with DSP and included some note pages and then bound it all together and added ribbon and a stamped image to decorate. This will be a fun little place to keep lists of all kinds. Wish lists, shopping lists, menus, party needs, Christmas card list.

planner

Decorating was quick and easy. Lots of punched pieces and a few cut out images.

Thanks for stopping by!

Belinda

 

Stampin’ Stuff

Stamps

 Delightful Decorations ~ Spotlight on Christmas

Ink

 Real Red ~ Baja Breeze

Paper

 Real Red ~ Old Olive ~ Baja Breeze ~ Ski Slope DSP

Fun Stuff

 Large Star ~ 5 Petal Flower ~ 2 3/8″ Scallop Oval Punch ~ 1 1/4″ Circle Punch ~ 1″ Circle Punch ~ 1 1/4 Square Punch ~ 1″ Square Punch ~ Red polka dot grosgrain ~ Baja Breeze satin ribbon ~ School folder ~ E-cut letters ~ Envelope ~ White twine

 

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posted on December 19, 2008 by

Snow Swirled

snow swirled

I have been playing with the snow swirled set! Lots of bling on this one. The snow flakes are stamped in Whisper White Ink and then embossed with Iridescent Ice EP.

There are two strips of Sticky Strip tape covered with Dazzling Diamond glitter behind the Baja Breeze grosgrain ribbon. I added Dazzle Effects on the Snow Swirled tree and last but not least, I used Rhinestone brads and Felt Snowflakes for a little extra fun.

Thanks for stopping by!

Belinda

 

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posted on December 9, 2008 by

Cello Topper

Spotlight on Christmas

I wanted to make a quick post with a little more detail on the Big Shot.

This cello topper was made using the Top Note Bigs Die.

Very quick little project using the Spotlight on Christmas set and the 5 petal flower punch. The designer paper is trimmed around the perforated edge to make a nice layer.  The flower petals are edged with a gold pen. I wish I had some neat chocolates for the cello bag, but had to settle for york peppermint patties. The good stuff keeps disappearing ……………

Big Shot

This is the Big Shot die cutting machine. The dies roll through the machine which puts pressure on them to cut or emboss the paper.

Big Shot

You will use a die, paper, and cutting mats layered together to form a “sandwich”. Different dies require different sandwich configurations, depending on how thick it is.

Big Shot

This is the pillowbox die after it comes through the machine. Some dies have score or perforation lines.

You can view the dies that are available in the back of the Mini Holiday Catalog by clicking on the link on the right.

Happy Stampin’

Belinda

 

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posted on November 26, 2008 by

Christmas Stamp a Stack

Deer Friends

These are the cards we created at our Christmas Card Stamp-A-Stack!

Kiwi Kiss and Real Red go really great together. This card was pretty quick to do, using punches and images that need no coloring!

Big on christmas

I love the embossing folders that are out there. You know, in those places that we don’t speak of in Stampin’ Up land! I don’t use a lot on non-Stampin’ Up! contraband, but these little folders really snazz up a card quickly. Anyway, they work with the Big Shot and so yes, you will see them occasionally. I hear we are supposed to be getting some of these that are Stampin’ Up exclusive and I can’t wait, because I loooove them. When I saw the snowflakes, I just had to have them to use with this set!

Snow Swirled

I love this card! I think this is my favorite new color combination too. It is the Not Quite Navy and  Baja Breeze. You can’t see the sparkles but we added dazzling diamonds using crystal effects.

We inked up the stamp with the Baja Breeze and then used the Not Quite Navy marker to draw in the second color.

Winter Post

When I saw these skaters in the Mini Catalog, I knew I had to use them with Lovely as a Tree to create a scene! (I hope this set never gets retired, it works with so many other sets!)

It is a pretty simple card, but the Kraft card stock is perfect for this vintage set and of course,  the Top Notes Bigz die steps it up to a WOW card easily.

A Christmas Cardinal

This is another of my favorite sets this season. I knew I wanted to use it for the Stamp-A-Stack. I try to keep these cards fairly simple, since we are doing so many in one evening. Using the word window punch to highlight the sentiment really stepped this one up. We had to punch twice to make the window big enough to fit the saying.

Happy Stampin!

Belinda

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