New Toy!

OMG I am one lucky girl. I loved the idea of the cricut cake but could not justify the cost of the machine with my DH out of work and I really don't have the space for another large machine. So I was really excited when the mini came out, and when I saw it was on sale for $99.99 on black Friday I was really sad that I couldn't pick it up. Well what I didn't know is my wonderful DH called his mom and told her about it and she went and got it for me for Christmas!!! I'm so excited and can't wait to play with it.

Kitchen Chalkboard.

This is a project I've been meaning to post for awhile now but haven't had a chance to. A couple of months ago my DH and I finally replaced our food cabinet that didn't make our move last fall so successfully. When we were putting the new one together my husband got a little heavy handed and put one of the pegs all the way through so we had to come up with away to cover it up.

I decided I would finally do the chalk board paint that I've been dieing to do since I saw it on trading spaces so many years ago! While I was at target I found these coffee decals so I added them to the edge to add a little more.

Here is a picture of it all dressed up for our Christmas Party.

Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Ornaments.

Every year I make an ornament for everyone in my family. I didn't get to take a picture of all of them because it was getting late and I had to get them wrapped but here are pictures of the one I did for DH and myself. They look even better in person.

Supplies:

Stamp:
Punch Pals

Ink:
Staz On
Bic Marker
White Pigment ink pad (I used a la mode, that I found at Joann's)

Other:
Glass ornaments
Transparency sheets (I bought mine by the sheet from the printing dept at office max, if you want to buy a box of them the only come in 50 or 100 and are very pricey)
Chunky clear glitter (I also found this at Joann's)
1/8 whole punch
string

1. Cut a circle out of the transparency about a 1/2 smaller then the diameter of your ornament. I used my cricut for this.

2. Using Staz on ink stamp on your img.

3. If you want to add writing you want to do this now before flipping the img over to color. I wrote every one's name and the year using a sharpie.

4. Flip circle over and color with markers, I put a piece of masking tape at the top to help hold it in place and to keep from getting to many finger prints on the transparency.

5. Using a sponge (I used q-tips) color in the snow man by dabbing your sponge on the white ink pad and then on your snow man.

Before moving on to the next step I recommend giving him a little time to dry

6. punch a small 1/8" whole in the top of the circle and put a small piece of string through. I used stampin ups clear tinsel trim.

7. Set aside your transparency and fill the bottom of your ornament with glitter

8. Next roll your circle small enough to get through the opening, you want the shinny side (stamped side) out, and push through. Make sure you hold on to the string.

9. Adjust your transparency to where you want it and then pull the string over the edge and put the top back on, the top should hold the strings in place. Trim off an excess.

Domino's Christmas Pins

I got this idea from another Stampin up demo and I just love how they came out, and they were a huge hit.

Group Photo:

 Individual Photo's, sorry the pictures are not the best.

Supplies:

Stamps:

A Cute Christmas

Punch Pals

Ink:

Staz on

Bic Markers

Other:
Domino's

Sand paper

matte clear spray

fine glitter

pin backs

Hot glue gun & sticks

Directions:

1. lightly sand the smooth side of the domino, you just want to take the coating off. Make sure you don't sand to far down or your ink will run.

2. Stamp your img on using Staz on ink

3. Color the img with Bic or Sharpie Markers

4. Spray domino's with a clear coat, I used a mate finish. I did 2 coats and after I spread the 2nd one I sprinkled a very fine coat of glitter into the wet clear coat.

5. Glue pin backs on, and thats it.

A Christmas Wreath

I'm really loving making wreaths, I decided we needed a Christmas one for our door at work. I love how it came out.

The last of the Christmas Cards

Snowflake wreath:

Stampin Up Supplies:

Old Olive Paper

Cherry Cobbler Paper

Whisper White Paper

Old Olive Ink

Real Red Marker

Cherry Cobbler Ink

Real Red Ribbon

Serene Snowflake stamp set

Contempo Christmas Stamp Set

Fun Ornament Card

This is very similar to one I posted before but I cut the strips at a 1/2" instead of an 1" and I loved this paper combo.

Stampin Up Supply List:

Cherry Cobbler 8.5 X 11 paper

Old Olive paper 8.5 X 11 paper

Holly Jolly 12 X 12 Paper

Cherry Cobbler ink pad

Contempo Christmas Stamp Set

Ornament Extra-Large Punch

Gold Brads

Tinsel  

Snowflake Card

This picture does not do this card justice. In person the snowflakes shimmer.

Stampin Up Supplies:

Cherry Cobbler 8.5 X 11 paper

Old Olive paper 8.5 X 11 paper

Holly Jolly 12 X 12 Paper

Cherry Cobbler ink pad

Old Olive Ink

Serene Snowflakes stamp set

Punch Pals Stamp set

Real Red Ribbon

Non stampin up:

Glitter

Glossy accent

 A Picture of the 80 Cards I made:



Owl Christmas Card

Its my cute owl punch again, this time he's a penguin, no he's Santa!

Supplies:

Old Olive paper

Cherry Cobbler paper

Whisper White paper

Jolly Holiday Paper

Basic Black Paper and ink

Pumpkin pie paper

Moonlight Smooch
Top Note die

Contempo Christmas stamp set

Black embossing powder

Owl Punch

The Santa hat was cut with using the cricut.

Supplies:

Old Olive paper

Cherry Cobbler paper

Whisper White paper

Jolly Holiday Paper

Basic Black Paper and ink

Pumpkin pie paper

Top Note die

Contempo Christmas stamp set

Black embossing powder

The Santa hat was cut with using the cricut.
Moonlight Smooch

Owl Punch
Brushed Silver Paper

Christmas Cards

One of my very talented Not So Secret Sisters has been doing monthly online crops and challenges. Here are the cards I made for this months Challenge. Make sure you swing by her blog also as she's very talented

http://ivarai.com/pajamas-crop-challenges/

Supplies:

Old Olive paper

Cherry Cobbler paper and ink

Whisper White paper

Top Note die

Clear Tinsel Trim

Small snow flake punch (non stampin up)

Contempo Christmas stamp set

Lg Ornament Punch

Heard from the Heart Stamp set

Supplies:

Old Olive paper and ink

Cherry Cobbler ink

Whisper White paper

Jolly Holiday Paper

Top Note die

Clear Tinsel Trim

Contempo Christmas stamp set

Lg Ornament Punch 

Christmas Punch Set (retired set)

Supplies:

Old Olive paper and ink

Cherry Cobbler ink
Whisper White paper

Jolly Holiday Paper

Top Note die

Clear Tinsel Trim

Contempo Christmas stamp set

Lg Ornament Punch

Christmas Punch Set (retired set)
Curly Label Extra-Large

Curly Label Extra-Large

Thank you card

A thank you card using the Day of Gratitude Card.

Supplies:

Basic Black Paper and Ink

Whisper White paper

Day Of Gratitude stamp set

Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon

Glitter brads



Fall Wreath

I've been wanting to make a fall wreath  for our front door, so last weekend I went to Joann's and found these great silk flowers 70% off. All together it cost me less then $12 to make this wreath!

Owl Thanksgiving card

I'm really loving this little Owl Punch he's just so versatile. For this card, I transformed this little guy into a cure turkey. Isn't this just the cutest card?

Supplies:

Owl Punch

Day of Gratitude stamp set

Cajun Craze paper

Early Espresso paper and ink

Autumn Spice designer series paper

Old Olive paper

Daffodil Delight paper

The Word Window Large punch from SU would have been perfect for his feathers, unfortunately I don't have that punch yet so I cut little rectangles and then used my corner rounder punch.

Thanksgiving Cards

I've been busy crafting away but have not had a chance to update my blog so I'm going to try to update it tonight.

I made both of these cards with the Day of Gratitude stamp set.

Supplies:

Cajun Craze paper and ink

Day of Gratitude stamp set
Autumn Spice designer series paper
Early Espresso paper and ink

Old Olive ink

Daffodil Delight ink

Supplies:

Day of Gratitude stamp set

Old Olive ink

Whisper White paper

Old Olive Striped Grosgrain Ribbon

Glitter brads

Altered ATG gun and Stand

My new pretty pink ATG and Altered Pink Stand.

The stand took a ton of work. I ended up doing it twice. The first time I didn't use a primer and the pink paint I bought just got sucked into the wood, so I had to strip the paint off and sand it and then start from scratch. The second time I primed it 1st and then painted it black. I then cut the shapes with vinyl and then spray painted it again in pink. Before the last coat of paint dried I sprinkled glitter into the wet paint, once it was dried I pulled off the vinyl and there you have it.

Christmas Card Kit

Here is a simple and fun Christmas Card, I wish I could take credit for this but I totally scrplifted from another Stampin Up Demo.

Christmas Card Supply List:

Cherry Cobbler 8.5 X 11 paper
Old Olive paper 8.5 X 11 paper
Holly Jolly 12 X 12 Paper
Cherry Cobbler ink pad
Contempo Christmas Stamp Set
Ornament Extra-Large Punch
Gold Brads
Tinsel

Christmas Stocking Box Tutorial.

 
 
Stocking Box Supplies (all Stampin UP):
~Cherry Cobbler 8.5 X 11 paper
~Old Olive paper 8.5 X 11 paper
~Holly Jolly 12 X 12 Paper
~Whisper White 8.5 X 11
~Early Espresso ink and marker

I found the idea for this craft on Papertery Ink and I think they are super cute. I plan to make a bunch of this for Christmas and fill them with goodies.

To make these I started with a piece of Cherry Cobbler (I think this is one of my new favorite colors) cut to 9 14/16" X 3 10/16" , I then scored it with my scor pal at 3 9/16" and 6 1/4" If you are using the score pal there is an arrow at the 3 10'16" mark, to make it easy I scored one side and then flipped it and scored the other side.

Then going length wise I scored it a 1/2" in on both edges.

Next I cut little slits so I could fold them up.

And then uses my ATG gun to add some adhesive.

Next using the template I cut 2 stocking pieces out of the cherry cobbler and 2 out of the Holly Jolly paper, and I cut the toe and heel parts out of old olive.  Last I cut a piece of whisper white to 3 10/16" x 1 1/4" for the top of the stocking, and a piece of holly jolly to 3 10/16" X 1/2" for the loop.  Before I assembled everything I inked the edges and drew stitches, and there you have a cute little stocking box.

Owl Punch.

A few weeks ago I broke out the owl punch I got from SU and started playing. I think this is just one of the curtest punch ever.

Here are all the goodies I made:

I covered these cards with the brown waffle paper from SU to make it look like a tree, then I punched a whole and put the owl on the inside to make him look like he was hiding in the tree.

 The inside, I stamped this owls belly with the Because I care set, to give him the pretty flowers. The sentiment is from stem sayings set.

 For the outside owls I stamped their bellies with sweet scoops, the senament is from Heard from the heart, and the background was cut using the top note die.

 More waffle paper tree owl cards:

Here are some owl book marks.

Notebook and matching book mark. I used the waffle paper to cover the notebook then cut a piece of very vanilla with the top note punch. The branch is actually supposed to be a flower from the watercolor trio set, and again I stamped this owls belly with the sweet scoops set.  

 For the book mark I used the Curly Label punch to give it a similar look.

 

Halloween Wreath

I saw some really neat Halloween wreaths at Target but thought they were over priced and figured I could make a better one for less, and I think I did. :)

This photo doesn't do it justice but you get the idea.

Day Of Gratitude Cards

I made these cards using StampinUps Day of Gratitude stamp set. The colors used are Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze and Early Expresso.

Septembers SU Club kits.

Halloween Card:

Supplies:

Stamps:
Fang-tastic

Paper:
Peach Parfait (in Color)
Elegant Eggplant (regals)
Basic Black waffle paper
Whisper White (neutrals collection)
Ink:
Basic Black ink pad
Basic Gray Ink pad

Other:
Spider Web textured embossing folder
snail adhesive
Stampin' Dimensionals


Pumpkin:

Stamps:

Day of Gratitude Set

Paper:
Whisper White Card Stock
Cajun Craze Textured Card Stock
Autumn Spice Designer Series Paper

Ink
Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

Accessories &Tools
Brights Designer Buttons
Neutrals 5/16" Jumbo Brads
Stampin' Dimensionals
Crop-A-Dile
Big Shot
Leaves #2 Originals Die
Spray bottle with water

Instructions

1. Cut Cajun Craze strips to ¾” by 6” Stack 12 to 14 strips, and punch holes in both ends using Crop-A-Dile. Secure strips together on one end using Silver 5/16" Jumbo Brad, and fan out into circle shape. To form into sphere, secure other end of strips together using second Silver 5/16" Jumbo Brad.

2. Cut Old Olive card stock to 1/8” by 8.5” Spray thin strips of Old Olive Card Stock with water, and wrap around dowel or Stampin' Write Marker. Allow to dry, then remove from marker.

3. Cut leaves from Autumn Spice Designer Series Paper using Big Shot and Leaves #2 Originals Die. Adhere leaf and curly stem from previous step to top of each pumpkin using Stampin' Dimensionals.

4. Stamp leaf image in Old Olive ink on Whisper White Card Stock. Cut out, and adhere one to larger leaf to the top of pumpkin using Stampin' Dimensionals.

5. Adhere button one to top of each pumpkin.

Tips:
~ I put the brads in upside down so the tops are inside the pumpkin
~ I secured them on both ends and then took half and pulled it around to the other side, then spread them out one by one. I found if you pushed the pile in a little it made it easier to get them apart.