Monthly Archives: December 2007

Kim’s Been Busy….

Posted on December 12, 2007 | 2 comments

Kim’s been busy creating more darling stamp sets! If you haven’t already checked them out…Kim Hughes has another SEVEN darling new sets, just released from Cornish Heritage Farms. So cute and fun, I just had to share them hear with you today. Canada Post being what it is at holiday season, my sets are still out in the great wide world out there! LOL I don’t have any samples yet to show you. I’ve been stalking that mail-person…hoping today is the day! I can’t wait to use that Supah Star set on some great boy designs. I have four of them you know…boys that is. 😉 And won’t Say What work well with that Quirky Alpha? So fun! I also can’t wait to use the Hugs and Kisses set for Valentine’s. I must say…my favorite set of the release is America the Beautiful. Now this may be a little strange seeing as I am Canadian. LOL But I just LOVE that eagle! He has some serious attitude! 😉 You can check out the design team samples in the Kim Hughes Collection Gallery at Cornish Heritage Farms.

America the Beautiful
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Bloomin Beautiful
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Hugs and Kisses

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Pet-tootie Sentiments

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Quirkie Alphabet
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Supah Star

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Say What?
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Have a fun day! I’ll be busy finishing up some stamping assignments and doing some MORE Christmas shopping. Does it ever end?! And tonight…the High School Christmas Concert. I’ve been waiting for this one all year! 🙂     Make sure you check back in tomorrow as I have a Ways to Use it Challenge for you that I’m sure you all can play! 🙂

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Sunny Days…

Posted on December 11, 2007 | 16 comments

Sunny days…how I’m wishing for some today! I don’t mind it a little cold with lots of fluffy white snow this time of year but today…a steady rain all day long has washed it all away! This design is really out of my usual color choices…fun and bold with yellow and orange. Actually I was inspired by that teeny tiny orange and yellow tag on the design. Funny thing how a little embellishment can inspire an entire design. I love those Making Memories chipboard/epoxy “sweets” and those dots had me thinking of my new dotted backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms. I just had to photograph it with my sunglasses in the pic for a little fun.

Wishing You Sunny Days

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To create my design, it is really just simple basic stamping using two background stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms….Large Polka Dots and Lined Paper. That Lined Paper stamp especially is right up there at the top of my faves list right now. 🙂 The Lined paper stamp is stamped onto a sheet of acetate with my White Stazon ink.

Quick Tip: Stamping things on an angle can make them more visually appealing and shake up a very traditional, simple layout. When stamping on an angle..decide first how much of an angle will look good. Too little of an angle will look like a mistake and too large of one may look more like a diagonal.

I love this Wishing you Sunny Days sentiment…so appropriate for a lot of occasions. The edges of the circle were sponged with So Saffron ink and then layered onto a scalloped circle. I couldn’t resist working another of these Fancy Pants pins into my design again. I’m totally addicted to these little pins! Isn’t that little heart cute?

Wishing you a wonderful day!

PS Did you see my new Yahoo Avatar…I’m stuffing stockings in front of….a REALLY large Christmas card…how fun is that? 😉

Supply List:

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Whisper White – Stampin Up

Stamps: Large Polka Dot , Wishing you Sunny Days, Lined Paper – Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron – SU, White Opaque Stazon – Tsukineko

Other: Harvest  Pines – Fancy Pants Designs, white grosgrain ribbon, “sweets” tag – Making Memories, circle punch & Scalloped circle punch – Marvy, aceate – Staples

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Daisy D’s for the Holidays…

Posted on December 10, 2007 | 14 comments

I just love Daisy D’s line of patterned paper. So warm and vintage looking…perfect for the holidays. What is warmer and homier than Christmas?! This month, Jacksonbelle is having a Daisy D’s Holiday paper product spotlight and I made up a quick design to play along. I’ve been wanting to use this paper more and I certainly didn’t think twice about having a little fun with this. I also hadn’t inked up this darling little reindeer stamp by Inkadinkado. Isn’t he sweet?

Happy Reindeer with Snowflakes and Holly
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This Snowflakes and Holly Daisy D’s paper is a fabulous 6×6 size and is perfect for making cards. I love that scaled down print size and the beautiful color combos. The prints I chose have a gorgeous pinky red color, you could perhaps call it Rose Red or cerise. I love using slightly different variations of reds and green for my cards instead of that bold primary look of pure red and forest green. For this design I paired up my “red” with Always Artichoke for a festive but unique look.

To create this design, I started with a 5.25″ square card base and layered it with my patterned papers. After stitching around the perimeter of the design, I distressed the edges and added two copper Karen Foster brads to add to the vintage look.

My main image is the Happy Reindeer stamp from Inkadinkado. He is so cute and quick to use. I simply colored him in with my Copic markers and added a fun rhinestone single on his nose…he looks like a Rudolph to me. 😉 To finish off my image panel, I matted it with some Artichoke cardstock and then set an eyelet and tied some stitched ribbon to the bottom right corner. It still needed a little emphasis but I didn’t want to cover up too much of that darling snowflake on the printed paper. What to do? I found a scrap of vellum on my desk and it worked perfectly. I swiped the edges with my Canvas Stewart Superior ink for a frosty look and you can still see the paper patterned underneath. 🙂

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Got holiday designs?

Posted on December 8, 2007 | 1 comment

At Craft Critique, we are getting ready for our biggest Carnival ever! Three days full of great holiday links! We want to see your links for holiday cards, layouts, decorations, recipes, gift ideas….just about anything holiday related! The deadline for the carnival links is December 18th so be sure to get on it. You can check out the details right on the Craft Critique site at the following thread… Our Biggest Carnival Yet.

Have fun!

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Simply Saturday…Happy Holidays, a quick design

Posted on December 8, 2007 | 9 comments

Another super quick holiday design to share with you today….simply Saturday. As you know, I love to post very simple designs on Saturdays….more than just Saturdays actually these days. This design uses some simple scrapbooking supplies to make a quick, glitzy design.

Rhinestone Lights Holiday Card

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I’ve been designing a lot of white cardstock designs lately but this design uses a black cardstock base to really make those rhinestones pop. I just love this Christmas bulb rhinestone sticker from Me and My Big Ideas…so fun and festive. I adhered it to a black cardstock square and then matted with Cool Caribbean cardstock. A strip of Chatterbox patterned paper breaks up the design and don’t you just love those colors?! I added a little brad border (Making Memories silver brads) along the top of the paper to add some interest and repeat that dots from the rhinestones. My sentiment also repeats some dots in the black berries of my Bo Bunny Happy Holidays rub-on transfer. Quick and fun…if you still need to whip up a few Christmas cards…this is so easy to do.

Wishing you a simply wonderful Saturday!

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Holiday Packaging…a little fun with Anna…

Posted on December 7, 2007 | 18 comments

With so many great holiday packaging ideas around these days, Anna and I decided to have a little fun with it ourselves! It is always fun to think out of parameters of a card design and try something a little different. My project is a super quick holiday project…perfect for busy people this time of year. Anyone else really crazy busy right now?! 😉 I’m keeping this one simple for you! For Anna’s fabulous project…make sure you check it out on at Sweet and Sassy Notes. Enjoy! I know that you will love it because everything Anna does is fabulous!

Sparkling Winter Candy Gift Jar

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I picked up a few of these great glass jars a few weeks ago at the dollar store. I just love how the metal lid seals on and the flat top and side panels were perfect for stamping on. I pulled out my new Snowflakes Large stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms and it was so quick to stamp the sides of the glass with White Opaque Stazon ink. Once the sides were dry, I added some of my favorite bling rhinestones stickers to the center of each snowflake for a fun look. I wish I could have gotten a better shot of the snowflakes…the shine of the Hershey’s Kisses inside makes it difficult to see. In real life, the snowflakes are so pretty and much easier to see.

To decorate the top of my lid, I used my Azure Stazon ink and the new Broad Striped Backgrounder, also from Cornish Heritage Farms. I stamped the stripes across on the angle for a fun look. To add a little more sparkle, I inked up a fun little chipboard snowflake from Cosmo Cricket
with white craft ink. While wet, I sprinkled it with a glitter embossing powder, and then heated with my heat gun. I love the sparkle. Around the edges of my lid, I wrapped it around with some beautiful Flair velvet Ribbon and adhered it with some sticky strip adhesive. Make sure you check out Lisa’s Lined Paper Memory Tin…the metal lid was inspired by that tin. 🙂
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Lots of fun to do, this project was also quick and inexpensive. Perfect for a last minute idea. 🙂 Wishing you a great Friday and wonderful weekend…full of lots of winter treats.

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Tape…a challenge!

Posted on December 6, 2007 | 13 comments

I know many of you are busy shopping and wrapping presents this time of year and actually that is what inspired the challenge today…getting caught up in a roll of Scotch tape. The little boys love it and I have to hide it to keep it out of their hands. 😉 My roll is getting quite the work-out here with the amount of presents I have to wrap! Which got me thinking about the kinds of tape we use in papercrafting. Why not have a “tape” challenge and find ways to use it. Now I’m NOT talking about just using regular adhesive tape to hold your design together…I’m talking tape that that you can see or at least…use it in a special way. There are all kinds of tapes available on the market if you just stop and think about it. Making Memories makes a fabulous textured tape that I adore. There are also other great patterned tapes out there, red line tape…add some microbeads with it! How about packing tape? Lots of cool uses there! Diasy D’s even makes a fabulous rub-on tape in the form of stitching. If you don’t have anything besides the regular adhesive tape…why not try it on a surface and sprinkle some embossing powder on it. Oh! I just thought of another! Isn’t there a masking tape technique out there? I’ve never tried it but it might be fun! Have fun with this! Be creative!

All are welcome…join us at WT143 to play along! 🙂

Best Friends
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For this design, I wanted to use a fresh spring/summer look to go with these fun flower stamps from My Favorite Things. The two strips across the design in gingham and paisley patterns are actually textured tape by Making Memories. I just love how quick and easy they are to work with! It may be difficult to see in the photo but this tape is actually like a woven printed fabric with adhesive on the back. After adhering the tape to my kraft cardstock layer, I trimmed the edges.

For my main card base, I adhered a layer of Certainly Celery cardstock over the Whisper White base and then lightly scored a light where the top of my kraft layer would go. Using Aloe Vera Chalk ink, I stamped the circle from this Build a Bouquet stamp set repeated along the line. The clear block and stamps made it so easy to line up. After adhering my kraft layer over top…it looks like a scalloped circle shadow border. I pulled it together by straight stitching around the perimeter of my design.

for the main image panel…the flowers from the Build a Bloom set was stamped and then stamped again to get a double blossom type flower. I used a little flower in Old Olive ink to fill in a little of the white and stamped the Best Friends sentiment in black. To add a little fun, I clipped on this Cheek Making Memories clip to highlight the sentiment and used three Doodlebug Designs gemstones to glitz up those flower centers.

Hope you have time to play along with the challenge this week. Have fun with that tape!

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