Hello stampers and happy Saturday to you. Yes, I am catching up on my blog posts or these Christmas projects will no longer be relevant!! Today I used the Stars at Night Hybrid embossing folder and the deckled circle dies to make a beautiful Christmas ornament.
Video Tutorial
The Catalog as Inspiration for my Stars at Night Ornament
I used the catalog for my inspiration for this ornament. The Stampin’Up! designers used a gold metal circle purchased from Amazon, but I didn’t have these, so I improvised. If you sandwich two deckled circles together with the cording in between you get a lovely and relatively sturdy ornament. Also much cheaper!!
I hope that I have inspired you to use your paper for things other than cards. If you want more inspiration AND you want to pay it forward, then join me for my Christmas Magic party on Wednesday December 13 at 10am EST or 4pm in the Netherlands. You can join for free with a $60 order OR you pay $20 which will go to kits for the Women’s Shelter and Mental Health support groups. Here is the registration form.
I hope you join me for some paper crafting fun! We will make tags, bags and ornaments and perhaps even a box!! Together we really CAN make a difference. Please share this post if you care.
Happy Friday stampers! I love stories, especially Christmas stories. Regal Reindeer looks like some of the creatures and characters from some of my favourite stories. Today I have a card for you as well as some adorable shaker Christmas ornaments. I am also going to share a stunning card made by Tami White. Shall we take a look?
Regal Reindeer
Regal Reindeer has two different stamped images of majestic reindeer as well as an embossed die cut reindeer. Did you know that reindeer in the wild are called caribou?
If you want to see how the snow was made, check out my YouTube video here below. Have you subscribed yet? I hope you do!! Just click on the red subscribe button on the bottom right of the video.
Adorable Regal Reindeer Ornaments
Did you know that I participate in a Global Monthly Video hop? It is always the first Wednesday of the month and this month I am on the ball. I am quite proud that I already have my video ready to go. The ornaments turned out so beautifully that I couldn’t wait to share them with you. To see how they are made, you will have to wait until November 2. If you subscribe to my YouTube channel you will be notified when my video gets posted. It really is quite handy!!
Shaker Ornaments Video (added later!)
Just Ten More Days!
Did you know that there are only ten more days left to save a lot of money and have even more fun? That’s right! Make your wish list of Stampin’Up! products and pare it down to $206. You can put all of that into a starter kit and pay only $135. Couldn’t fit everything into the starter kit? No worries, you can order them later with your very own 20% discount. There are more great benefits. By getting the starter kit using my link, you will also get to join my team page, my training group and Prime Time all for FREE!! Here is the link for you if you live in Canada, and here is the link if you live in Europe.
Yes, Stampin’Up! is now in Belgium and in Ireland. I am hoping that if you live in either of these countries you will consider joining my European team. Opportunities abound!
Thanks!!
Thanks for joining me today, I hope that you were inspired by what I shared. If you want to help an independent business person grow her business you can help by pinning or sharing my posts or by shopping with me either for products linked below of for tutorials. I appreciate you!! Have a super day.
Hello stampers I am finally using voice dictation and it sure is a different way to write a blog post. I definitely have to get used to it; it’s hard to think what you want to write and I’m sure I have to go back and fix some mistakes. Hopefully this break will make my thumb feel better. It really is amazing what technology can do! Yesterday I made a card using some retired products and today I’m going to show you what I did with brand new holiday catalogue products: the Christmas Gleaming stamp set and some of the other products in the Brightly Gleaming Suite. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.
Brightly Gleaming Suite
Before you design the card it’s a good idea to lay out all your supplies on the table. This gives you a great visual and helps to get your creative juices flowing and I also stamped a few of the ornaments in different colours and in different embossing combinations to see what might work best. I absolutely love the beautiful vibrant colours in this suite of products you can see copper, pretty peacock, night of navy and old olive. It was hard to cut into this beautiful paper but then I remembered the #loveitchopit philosophy. I cut strips of 4″ by 12″ and that was safe for transforming into any cards. Once you decide to cut into your pretty paper it really gets easy to design cards.
My Card
I used the same sketch from Freshly Made Sketches as I did yesterday. This is a totally different colour scheme with all blues and coppers rather than red and green. What do you think? Do you like this non-traditional look?
The Measurements
Card base: pretty peacock 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/4″
very vanilla – 4″ by 5 1/4″
copper: 7/8″ by 4″
Brightly Gleaming specialty paper: 3/4″ by 4″
Small square: pretty peacock 2 1/8″ by 2 1/8″, Brightly Gleaming patterned paper 2″ by 2″
Larger rectangle: pretty peacock 2 1/8″ by 3 1/8″, Brightly Gleaming patterned paper 2″ by 3″
I coloured three pearls with the pretty peacock dark Blends and embossed the two ornaments with copper embossing powder on very vanilla cardstock. I used a small piece of copper trim tied in a knot and frayed on each ornament, these are secured with a glue dot.
The Swaps
I always love a picture of the whole group of cards together; there’s something striking about the pile of swap cards laying there prettily. I hope I’m not breaking any rules by posting a picture of my swap card. I just sent them in the mail today and this is all I had for a blog post so I hope I’m forgiven and I haven’t ruined any surprises.
The Opportunity
If you live in Canada you can get these products now already if you choose to get the amazing deal on the starter kit. Yes, you can put items from the brand new Holiday catalog into your starter kit. In fact, you can put $205 worth of products in there and pay only $135. You will also get a $14 coupon code to use on your order in September. I hate to break it to you, but you will probably want more than just $205 worth!! Thankfully you have until the end of December to use your own discount without having to fulfill any minimum purchase requirements. Have I told you that I would love to have you on my team? That there is no pressure from me, only encouragement to help you meet YOUR goals. To get the starter kit, you can simply click here. Remember to click “no” when asked if you have a host code for the kit and then click “apply”.
Shopping Online
Have a super day and thanks for dropping by. If you do choose to order online, please help me out by also using the current host code: XBTQ47UR. Just click on the links below and that will take you straight to my online store. Online shopping is great if you live far away from me and are not regularly coming to classes. Even if you do live in town you may want to consider ordering online. If your order is close to $100 you are not paying any extra to order online and have it shipped straight to your door. How wonderful to get exactly what you want and not have to leave your house!!
