Mini 2010 Desk Calendar

Happy 2010!

Here is a Mini 2010 Desk Calendar I made for a few Christmas gifts this year.
To make the cover and the back I used chipboard and the Scallop Square clear bigz die with my Big Shot. I stamped the scalloped square with the leafy stamp from Not to Self in Soft Suede. The " '10" came from the On Board Lots of Letters chipboard pack. I sponged it with Soft Suede to make it stand out a little on the cover.
I used the Calendar Kit from the Holiday Mini (the Holiday Mini ends January 4!) for the calendar. I stamped/ decorated the sides of each month using the Note to Self stamp set that coordinates with the calendar perfectly! I used the Colors that are on the calendar, Bashful Blue, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Soft Suede, to stamp with.
I mounted each of the months onto acetate sheets so you could still see the DSP that is on the back of each of the months.
I bound all the months and the covers together using my Zutter Bind-it-All.

I hope you all have a great 2010!

Thanks for looking!

Simple and Elegant Ornamet

Here is a simple but elegant Christmas card I made. The colors are Real Red, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla.

The ornament is from stamp set is Tree Trimmings and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes which are both in the catalog. The texture on the card comes from the impressions folder Petals-A-Plenty which is in the Holiday Mini. If you want to get this folder, you only have a few weeks to get it as the Holiday Mini catalog ends January 4! I finished off the card by tying a piece of the 5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Chip ribbon into a bow and put it on the card with glue dots.

Thanks for looking!

Simple Snow Buddies

Here is a cute little card that we recently made at one of my stamp clubs. It uses the Hostess stamp set Snow Buddies in the Holiday Mini catalog.

This card measures 4 1/4" X 4 1/4". The card base is Night of Navy and the DSP is from the Pawsitively Prints paper pack in the Holiday Mini that is part of the Build a Bear collection.

The snowmen are sitting in a pile of ripped Whisper White card stock with a piece of White Satin ribbon tied around it.

You can see in this close up that we stamped one of the snowflakes in the Snow Buddies stamp set on the DSP using the Bashful Blue classic ink to give it a subtle look. The snowman's noses and scarves were colored using the Stampin' Write markers.

Thanks for looking!

Joy, Snow and Noel Blocks

Now that Christmas is less than a month away, I figured I better start showing a few Christmas things!

Here is a set of the Decor Element Blocks that I made. They are in the Holiday Mini catalog and are so fun to make! I used the Holiday Mix Decor Elements in Real Red and Chocolate, also in the Holiday Mini. My blocks will spell "Joy", "Snow" or "Noel" depending on how they are arranged.

My color scheme for these blocks was Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Whisper White. I used various DSP's, card stocks, ribbon and embellishments to make them. What a fun project to make a so easily adaptable to other holiday or events as well!

Thanks for looking!

Fall Acorn Bag

Here is a simple and fun bag made using the Big Shot with the Top Notes die and some Autumn Traditions DSP. The acorn stamp is from the set in the Holiday Mini called Autumn Splendor. I wrapped a few chocolate's in coordinating DSP and and called it good!

What a fun bag to make for any occasion!

Thanks for looking!

P.S Do you like my new blog look?

P.S.S. I am busily getting ready for a craft fair this weekend! What I made for the fair will be posted in the near future!

B&W Fish Finder and Tiles- CCCCAct8

If you are my sister and do not want to see your birthday present and card do no go any further...until after your birthday!





Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge this week, Act 8, was inspired my this Halloween table setting. The colors are Basic Black, Whisper White and Pumpkin Pie. Of course you look at these colors and think Halloween, but I don't need anymore Halloween cards so I came up with something else that was black, white and orange.

My sister's birthday is this week and needed to make her a card and present, so I thought of her and here is what I came up with. A Penguin card! She loves penguins and they are black, white and orange so I knew it would be perfect! I made the penguin and the fish by using various Stampin' Up! punches. The background of the card is Whisper White card stock and Vellum card stock ripped to look like snow. The "sky" (top third) of the card has a layer of the Snowfall Printed Window Sheets from the Holiday Mini catalog over it.

Here is a close up of the background and the fish! I covered the fish with the Orange teeny-tiny Micro Beads from Stampin' Up! I think she will like this little guy a lot!








And for her present, it is black and white (no orange). I made her these tile coasters. This was the first time I have ever made these and they were so easy and fun! Tutorial for these can be found on this post.



We were at her apartment and asked for a coaster and she said she didn't have any....so I made her some. I think she will like these too!

Thanks for looking!

P.S. Here is a list of the punches I used:

3 Wide Oval's- one white and two black for the penguin body
1 Large Oval cut to make his wings
1" circle for penguin head
Boho Blossoms for his feet
His beak was free hand cut

1" circle for the fish body
5-Petal Flower for the fish tail
Boho Blossoms for the fish lips

Sweet Treat Bone Mix

Halloween is just around the corner, so I thought I would share a Halloween project with you.

This is a card we made at club last month. It uses the Sweet Treat Cups from the Holiday Mini. I was trying to think of what you could put inside of it besides candy and saw these plastic skeletons while grocery shopping and thought wow...how easy it would be to cut him up and put the bones in the Sweet Treat Cup, so that is what I did!

This card has a few details that I will point out to you:

To the bone mix I also added a few orange beads from the Orange Duo and two small googly eyes and called it good (this picture gives you a better look at the beads and the bones).







I added two brads and an Orange "diamond" to the card to give it more detail (the Orange "diamond" came from the circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, I just took off the brad part of it and used the "diamond" with a mini glue dot). I also textured the Basic Black piece of card stock using my Big Shot and the diamond texture plate.







The sentiment was stamped on Very Vanilla card stock is Versa mark, embossed in black embossing powder and then punched out using the Modern Label punch. Then two more Modern label's were punched and layered behind the one with the sentiment on it. All layers were sponged with some Basic Black and Sahara Sand ink and attached to the card using Dimentionals.






The whole card thought out the steps was sponged to make it look a little more spookier! Here is the finished product again. It measures 4 1/4" square.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Thanks for looking!

She's Beary Cute!- SSSC31

It has been a while since I have done one of Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenges, so I thought I would give it a go. She has this fun sketch to work with this week. If you want to give it a try, just go see the details here.

I just got the cute new Build A Bear stamp set from SU, that will be available to order starting September 1 in the Holiday Mini, called Beary Best Friends. I thought it would be a great set to use with Karen's sketch, so here is what I came up with.
A little girl bear that is all ready to go to a "bearthday" party! I aqua painted her using the colors that cordinate with the Tea Party DSP that I used. The sentiment is from the stamp set Hugs & Wishes. I finished off the card by tying some of the White Satin Ribbon around a few of the layers!

Have a great week and thanks for looking!