Three Quick and Easy Christmas Cards

These were the 3 cards we made at my Stamp-A-Stack of Christmas Card event last Sunday. Customers made 2 each of the individual designs.

Stamp Set:  Come to Bethlehem, Musical Note Wheel

Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Ink:  Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Champagne Chunky Glitter Basic Rhinestones



Stamp Sets:  Pines and Poinsettias, Delightful Dozen

Card Stock/Paper:  Very Vanilla, Real Red,

Holly Berry Bouquet DSP (Holiday Mini Catalog)

Accessories:  Stampin' Write Markers Button, Ribbon,

Snow Flurry Embossing Folder (Holiday Mini Catalog) Scallop Circle Punches



Stamp Set:  Warmest Wishes (Holiday Mini Hostess Set)

Ink:  Always Artichoke

Card Stock/Paper:   Old Olive, Whisper White, Letters to Santa DSP, Regal Rose

Accessories:  5 Petal Flower Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Petals-A-Plenty embossing folder, Dazzling Details glitter glue (Holiday Mini Catalog)

Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps

I'm not a baker and it has been a while since I did any holiday baking.  The new Stampin' Up! Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps inspired me to try my hand at baking.  I will stamp on anything that doesn't move so these were perfect.  All you have to do is make up some of the Sugar Cookie or Shortbread dough recipes that is included with the stamps, roll into 1-1/2 inch balls and press with the cookie stamps (see photos below for more information) For my sampler above I also made a peanut butter cookie recipe and a cream cheese candy recipe (white snowflakes) I found on line and I also used the stamps to s tamp on fondant icing to cover some of the cookies (the turquoise ones on the back of the plate ).   Not too bad for a novice at baking.  Check out the Cookie Stamps on my website here .  To combine your love for baking shop the rest of the site for other items to package your cookies like the Kraft box seen here  to add your own tag or topper. Approximate size: 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 2-1/2".  Contact me if you have any questions or to order directly from me. 

Roll dough into 1-1/2 inch balls and roll in granulated sugar.



Cookie Stamp is treated with flour
so the dough doesn't stick to it. 



Two Cards - One New Design featuring Stampin' Up! Faith in Nature Set

A little different take on the tent topper cards.  The Sahara Sand base of this card is 2-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches and the image panel is a 2 inch Whisper White square with 1/8 inch border of Early Espresso.  It is placed on the card and sticks up about 1 inch off of the card.  I stamped the flower from Faith In Nature and with daubers, sponged on Regal Rose and Old Olive ink.  The background paper is from the Letters From Santa collection.  This particular sheet doesn't look Christmassy so it can be used for other things.  I love being able to use items for more than one purpose.  I inked just the "keep your faith" portion of the sentiment stamp from the set with a marker and stamped it on a scrap of Sahara Sand and punched it out with the Word Window punch. Then layered it with the Modern Label punch.  The Basic Rhinestones were tinted with a Melon Mambo marker. 

Here's another card using this design I made with different stamps from the same set. A piece of Old Olive was embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder and adhered to base.  I stamped the pear image and sponged Old Olive ink and Crumb Cake ink on it.  The Basic Rhinestones were Tinted with a Chocolate Chip Marker. 

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Supply List:

Stamp Sets - FAITH IN NATURE (Hostess)

Card Stock - SAHARA SAND, EARLY ESPRESSO, WHISPER WHITE, OLD OLIVE

Designer Series Paper - LETTERS TO SANTA

Ink -  OLD OLIVE, REGAL ROSE, CHOCOLATE CHIP, CRUMB CAKE.

Accessories - SQUARE LATTICE EMBOSSING FOLDER, BASIC RHINESTONES, WORD WINDOW PUNCH, MODERN LABEL PUNCH

OBG Blog Hop - One Sheet Wonder Fall Themed Cards

Welcome to the Oldies But Goodies Blog hop.  The theme is to use at least 1 item in your stash that you have not used for 6 months ore more.  You should have arrived here from my dear friend and DIVAS sister Barbara's blog Made for Keeps and have seen her gorgeous design.   The first stop on the hop is the very creative Mary's blog My Stampin' Hide-Away so if you just arrived here and want to see the hop from the beginning click on the link to her blog and start from the beginning. 

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This is my project for the hop.  It is a group of cards I made using the Lovely as a Tree stamp set by Stampin' Up!  It is a set I have had for a very long time and I do dust it off from time to time.  It is one of the oldest and most loved Stampin' Up! sets and it is still a current set available for purchase.  The technique I used for the cards is also a very old technique called One Sheet Wonder.  I stamped an entire 8-1/2 x 11 inch piece of card stock randomly with all the stamps from the sets and sponged on some ink and then cut up the pieces to make the cards.  You can basically cut the 8-1/2 x 11 inch stamped cardstock anyway you want and make as many cards as you can with the pieces. I got 7 out of the pieces I cut with a little waste. 

Since I live in Florida, this is the closest I get to "fall" colors.

Supply List:

Stamp Sets: Lovely As a Tree and sentiments from the following sets: Word Play, Sincere Salutations, Heard from the Heart, Warmest Wishes, and Faith in Nature
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, River Rock, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze
Ink; River Rock, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, More Mustard
Tools/Accessories:  Scallop Border Trim Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Large Oval Punch, 1-1/4" Square Punch, Large Scallop Square Punch, Waffle Paper. 

To purchase any of the items used in my project or shop for Stampin' Up! supplies go to my Stampin' Up Website HERE

Two for One - Birthday Card and Matching Box

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I made this birthday card for my sister-in-law and then made the matching box with the Fancy Favor Box die.  I stamped the background on the Sahara Sand base with one of the stamps from the Simply Soft set in Sahara Sand ink.  Then I stamped the flowers stamp on Very Vanilla in Early Espresso ink and filled them used the fill stamp to fill them in with Rich Razzleberry ink on the card and ink from a Rose Red marker on the box.  I then embossed the Pretty in Pink card stock with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and then trimmed it down and cut the banner notch using the corner of a square punch.  I embossed Very Vanilla and cut out the oval die from the Lots of Tags die set.  I punched Stamped some of the flower stamps on Sahara Sand scraps and punched them out with the large oval punch for the inside of the  tag.  The flowers were punched out with the Boho Blossoms Punch on Bravo Burgundy card stock and scraps of the embossed Pretty in Pink card stock.  I used the Scallop Trim border punch with Bravo Burgundy Card stock to line the Embossed Pretty in Pink strip.  Stamping Dimensionals are used on the tag and behind the flowers.  It is finished off by stamping "Fantastic"/"Your Fantastic" in Bravo Burgundy and then using glue dots to adhere a Crochet Trim bow. 



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