Daily Archives: September 26, 2007

Country-Style Christmas Tree

Posted on September 26, 2007 | 13 comments

I love a country-style Christmas! Real tree, home-cooking, hand-crafted gifts and decorations. There is something in me that just loves old things. That’s a good thing as I live in a century old farmhouse. It blends right in. Works well for a large family too. I just can’t see trying to raise 5 kids in an ultra-modern design…all that stainless steel, glass and mirrors? I don’t think so! LOL

And so, when Flourishes released this darling O Christmas tree set, I knew I’d love it. Just like their Cake Decorating 101 set, you can decorate it to your hearts content! 🙂

Country-style Christmas Tree

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Now if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that I love taking themed patterned paper and using it for a different purpose, just to shake things up a little. I love challenging myself and this is also a good way to use up paper…. but don’t talk to me about that! LOL I can’t help but keep buying it! 🙂

This design uses the new Basic Grey Mellow line of paper. I always love buying the 6×6 paper pads as they are just perfect for designing cards. They are exactly the same as the larger 12×12 papers only scaled down to 25% of the size. The colors of this Mellow line are so warm and homey. They are actually marketed as a Fall line but as you can see, I decided to see if they would work for Christmas.

To create the tree image, I stamped it with Palette Hybrid ink onto green patterned paper from the pad. Using my new Copic markers, I quickly sketched in the branches using two different greens. If you use a short sketchy style stroke, it really gives the effect of branches. To highlight the tree, I shaded around it with a soft yellow Copic marker and then sketched in a rough shadow under the pot.

To add to the country look, I curled up the edges on the central image and then added some copper hardware to the design. A Hodgepodge Hardware clip is at the top of the design and I used my Crop-a-dile to set the eyelets along the sides of the design. To finish it off I added a little scrap of ribbon, knotted and adhered with a glue dot, to the truck of the tree. It was a very simple way to add texture and dimension to the design.

Supply List:

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive – Stampin Up

Patterned Paper: Mellow 6×6 paper pad – Basic Grey

Stamps: O Christmas Tree – Flourishes

Ink: Black Palette Hybrid ink – Stewart Superior

Other: ribbon – Offrey, Hodgepodge Hardware – SU, eyelets – Making Memories, Crop-a-dile – WE R Memory Keepers, markers – Copic

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Posted in Card Designs, Holiday

OK…I’ll play!

Posted on September 26, 2007 | 1 comment

I saw this on another blog …forgive me if I don’t remember which one! I copy and pasted this last week and finally got a chance to fill it out. The entry said to consider yourself tagged if you wished and I thought it sounded like fun. LOL I didn’t notice the stripper on until later or I may not have done it!

 

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) – Buffy Astro

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) – Chocolate Chocolate Chip

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) JSTA

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) – Celery Dog

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)- Kathleen London

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) – STAJI

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put “The”) – Sky the French Vanilla

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) – Wellington James

9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy) – Obsession Caramel …yikes!!!

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names) – Kathleen James

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Daisy Noteclip…

Posted on September 26, 2007 | 13 comments

It is such a dreary rainy day here, I just had to post this jumbo clothes peg note holder that I made recently. I had so much fun making it…so cute and sunny. I was going to give it away as a gift but my teenage daughter claimed it and so I’ll just have to make another. It was fun, quick and easy so I’m not too worried about it. 🙂 I’m glad she at least takes an interest in a few of the things I make.

I have to tell you about something that touched my heart this morning… I drove my teenagers to school early this morning. It was See you at the Pole day. Just after 7:30 in the pouring rain. We were a couple minutes late and there standing on the front lawn of the school…that early in the morning in the cold pouring rain…there were already about 50 teenagers standing there praying for their school, teachers and fellow students. I was so touched at their dedication. It really made my morning. See you at the Pole started at a high school in Texas in the 90’s and now takes place across the US, Canada and Australia. It is totally student initiated and student led.

And now…back to the design… 🙂

Daisy Jumbo Clothespeg Note Holder

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I bought this large white Clothes peg at Michael’s a while ago. I’d seen them altered before and wanted to jump in on the fun myself. To start I covered my paperclip with some beautiful Rhonna Farrer Autumn Leaves paper and sanded the edges. My new May Arts ribbon was a perfect match (I love this ribbon! I’ve gone through huge amounts in the past weeks!) and was easy to tie on the peg.

Edited to add… I used my favorite glue … Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive …. to adhere the patterned paper to the clothes peg clip. 🙂

For my daisy embellishment, I pulled out my Daisy Dots stamp set from Lizzie Anne Designs. The daisy was first stamped using my Canvas Palette Hybrid ink onto Soft Sky cardstock. I stamped it again with the black Palette pad and then cut out my daisy. For the daisy center, I stamped one of the dots onto the patterned paper and then punched it out with my circle punch. For the center, to add a little fun, I added one of my Doodlebug Designs gemstone stickers. They come in varying sizes and colors and are fabulous.

Quick Tip; My 7/8″ circle punch works perfectly with the Daisy Dots stamp set. The one inch circle punch works wonderfully to mat it if desired.

I decided when giving this as a gift, a little gift not tucked into the clip would be a perfect addition. I used a scrap of Kraft Cardstock and punched one edge with my Spiral punch from Stampin Up. The edges were then sponged with Close to Cocoa ink. I stamped the solid daisy again in my Canvas ink and pulled out my Simply Sentiments set…I just love this one! AFter stamping the friend sentiment in black, I quickly stapled on a little scrap of the May Arts stitched ribbon and voila… I was done! 🙂

Wishing you a bright happy day!

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