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I've had these lunch box tins in my stash for quite awhile and decided to decorate them with some of my stash of retired designer series papers, rub ons, and ribbons for gifts! The initials are cut using the Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine #113439 and the Serif Essentials Alphabet #113464. I find that it is easiest to use the Anywhere Glue Sticks #104045 on a project like this. The rectangular tip fits right into the corner of the paper. I always apply glue sticks to both the tin and the paper for a better adhesion.
While you are on Christmas break, why not look around at your craft supplies and see what you can make with what you have!
Are you all tuckered out after the Christmas preparations??
Did the gifts you got not live up to your expectations??
Did the nightgown, the blouse, the slippers not fit right??
Don't want to hit the mall with the crowds at the after-Christmas sales??
Stampin' Up! is here to help! You deserve better! You deserve more! You deserve stamping supplies!!!
Just go to my Online Store and choose what you REALLY wanted for Christmas and nobody listened! You can even get some good deals at the Clearance Rack Blitz! Check it out, order online and have it sent straight to your house. In a few days, the stamping smile will be back on your face!
If you need help, just contact me!
PS: When you are looking at the Clearance Rack, on the right side click on "Show: ALL" Very easy to view everything that way. Otherwise, when you get to page 10, keep on clicking the arrow for the next page, even though it seems like you are at the end. There is more!
Don't forget.....the Holiday Mini ends on January 3, 2012....and the Stocking Punch is not being carried over!
I'm busy and you're busy, but I thought if you were looking for more Christmas ideas for cards, gifts, tags, bags, whatever....I would make it easy for you to search.
Please clickHERE or click on any of the Categories in the right-hand column for Christmas....or any others that interest you...OR click on the Archives for probably mostly December in the past years! After you scroll through the page that comes up, just hit the small green words at the very bottom of the page "More Posts from Karen" or "Older Posts from Karen" to go to the remaining pages.
Oh my! I just looked back in the "Archives" all the way back to December 2006....and there was my son's calculus project in Christmas colors back when I started my blog! He's ready to graduate from college now with a degree in Engineering....I guess the calculus and my stamping materials paid off!
And back in December 2007, here are some of those mailboxes that were decorated for gifts for my nieces and nephews! And there's good old Frosty!! (a very old, popular stamp!)
Stampin' Up! has announced the Stocking Builder Punch #124095 will not carry over from the Holiday Mini Catalog. Stampin' Up! demonstrators and stampers alike have thought up so many creative ideas for using the Stocking Punch, so it really took us by surprise that this punch would not be continued! In fact, once the supply of punches is gone, that will be it. So if you have been thinking about getting this punch, or hoping it would be in the next catalog, you better place your order soon! Here is the link to my store. And don't forget to check the Clearance Rack Blitz!
Stocking Builder Punch #124095 Holiday Mini Catalog page 34
If you're still needing Christmas card ideas, here are mine! It's an assortment of recently made ones and ones I've made for my blog hoping to get ahead of the game and other ones I've made along the way. It's really more fun this way I think that to have just one design to send! Many of these have been inspired by ones I've seen online by other demonstrators and some I might have made up myself! In spite of being way behind on Christmas preparations, I decided I was going to relax and enjoy making and sending my Christmas cards!
I hope you have time to make a few for some special people! They have to be "worthy", you know, to receive one of your special handmade cards!
Why would I make a Christmas card using Stampin' Up! Tangerine Tango card stock?? It's because Tangerine Tango is quite an important and newsworthy color! Pantone has chosen Tangerine Tango as its top color for 2012 for fashion, beauty and home! And Stampin' Up! already has it! Pantone Color Institute creates color standards that we all use everyday.
So I wondered, in light of this news, if I could create a Christmas card using the unlikely color of Tangerine Tango. This is what I came up with using the beautiful Snow Swirledtree and the Framed Tulips Embossing Folderfor the Big Shot.
Maybe we'll be seeing a lot of Tangerine Tango in the New Year!
Did you know you can sort by color when you go to my Stampin' Up! Online Store? In the left column at my store, just click "Shop By Color", then choose the color group and then the specific color if you want.
It's so easy to make a cute Christmas tag with the Two Tags Die. I just stamped the snowman from "Snow Much Fun", punched him out and adhered him to a Silver Glimmer Paper Scallop Circle. No coloring, simple simple....and beautiful!
Using this tree from Season of Joy#110384 and the Top Note Die to decorate a gift bag for Christmas is one of the quickest projects I have ever done. Use those shopping bags you accumulate from stores and decorate with your own creative touch! Fancy gift bag for free!
Ink tree from Season of Joy in Old Olive. Wipe off star at top and use Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Marker to color in. "Huff" on stamp to remoisten and stamp on Whisper White Top Note die cut. Stamp greeting in Cherry Cobbler ink.
Cut along scored border to trim die cut and layer on Cherry Cobbler Top Note Die cut. This makes a border in the same shape!
Adhere a piece of Cherry Cobbler 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon across the bag using SNAIL in the center. Tie the sides with Linen Thread. Trim ends and adhere with Mini Glue Dots.
Adhere Christmas Tree piece over ribbon using Stampin' Dimensionals.
Add some Rhinestone Jewels to the tree if you like or to the star on top!
If you are still looking for Christmas ideas or ways to wrap those Christmas presents, try this gift bag idea with whatever stamps, ribbon, and embellishments you have on hand.
I'm hoping to enjoy stamping some Christmas cards today, so I started with this Z-Fold card using the Pines & Poinsettias stamp set and the beautiful Holly Berry Bouquet Specialty Designer Series Paper. Today is even Christmas Card Day! The day celebrates Sir Henry Cole, who marketed the first commercial Christmas Card in 1843. So jump on board and let's make some Christmas cards today!
Here is the inside. You can see that the top cover of the card folds back, creating the "z".
I got the idea from a card I saw on our demonstrator website and I changed mine a little bit with the design.
Having the Simply Scored Tool made the scoring real easy on this card.
Cut a piece of card stock 4 1/4" x 11".
Score at 5 1/2" and at 8 1/4".
Fold on score lines to make the "Z".
Decorate as you like! Very fun!
If you need any stamping supplies to make some Christmas cards, just visit my Stampin' Up! Online Store.
The elves at Stampin' Up! are very busy getting orders out as quickly as possible for holiday shipping! One demonstrator said the other day that her order shipped so quickly she thought the whole distribution team must have been standing there just waiting for her order to come in!
Here is what Stampin' Up! has to say about Holiday Shipping....
We recommend you place your holiday orders by Wednesday, December 14, 2011 to receive your orders before Christmas. Delivery times will vary depending on where you live; if your personal experience indicates that it takes longer for packages to reach you, you will want to allow a little extra time for shipping during the holidays.
All orders we receive by December 14, 2011, will be picked, packaged, and delivered to our courier in plenty of time to arrive by December 24, 2011. But as you know, we cannot control delivery times; holiday mail volumes are high, and our delivery services encourage customers to ship as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Did you know there is also Expedited Shipping available, just in case? It costs a little extra but sometimes it is what you need. Ask me about it.
Here is the clip of Shelli Gardner on the TODAY SHOW today with Kathie Lee and Hoda! I'm pleased they didn't seem to rush her as much as in the past! And wait until you hear what they said to her at the very end!! Also, notice her local fan club in the background!! :) Shelli always makes us proud!
Read about Stampin' Up!'s participation in the Today Show Holiday Toy Drive HERE.
Is this Petal Cone Die Santa not the cutest thing??!!!! There are many versions online and I copied one of them. We made this in our stamp camp this past weekend and I think everyone loved it. Just imagine having one at each place setting at your holiday dinner either as a place card or filled with candy or treats as a Christmas party favor!
The box is made with the Petal Cone Die#121810 with Real Red card stock. His beard is another cut with the Petal Cone Die but I trimmed just one triangle section and then embossed it with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I cut it off about half way so that some of the red box would show for Santa's hat.
The moustache is from the Bird Builder Punch#117191 (the wings!) as are the green holly leaves with part of the stem cut off. Just punch some small circles for the berries and a larger one for Santa's nose.
The Silver Glimmer Paper#124005 hat fur is a little tricky. First punch a little bit out with theScallop Oval Punch #119856 to get the bottom part, then punch with the Scallop Punch #119854 to get the top edge. Place it on Santa's head where it fits the best. His face is Blushing Bride card stock cut with the Large Oval Punch #119859. I chose to just color in his eyes with a black marker and add the little highlights with our Signo Gel Pen#105021.
The little pom pom on top of his hat is punched from the Boho Blossoms Punch#119858.
Once you sit down to make this Petal Cone Die Santa, you will see that he is very easy and fun. You can change up a lot of the design to make it your own or substitute for what supplies you don't have.
If you need any of these supplies, just contact me or visit my Online Store for all your Stampin' Up! supplies! Still time to get them before Christmas!
Shelli Gardner, Founder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, will appear on the Today Show December 6th during the fourth hour (check your local listings) to talk about Stampin' Up!'s participation in the Holiday Toy Drive. Be sure to watch if you can! Perhaps I will be able to post a video of it later.
I see Shelli says on her blog her appearance will be between 10-11 am ET...so whatever time whichever part of the Today Show comes on at your house!
This punch art snowman Christmas card is inspired from one in an old papercrafting magazine. No directions were given but I thought it would be easy to duplicate with our Stampin' Up! punches.
Punches: Extra-Large Oval Punch #119859: Snowman face and hat (cut in half); 1 3/4" Circle Punch #119850: Snowman body; Small Oval Punch #120908: Snowman hands
The card base is Wisteria Wonder, the card layer is Marina Mist card stock. The hat and bow are Baja Breeze.
The little snowflake on top of his hat is from the Northern Frost die #120901 with a little rhinestone added to the center. The band on the hat is pretty much hand cut with lines drawn with the Wisteria Wonder Stampin' Write Marker.
The carrot nose is cut from a scrap.
You won't be able to guess how I made the bowtie I bet! It's the bottom half of the Butterfly Punch #119848 turned upside down!
The greeting is from Season of Joy #110384.
The snowflakes (from Serene Snowflakes #115438) in the background are stamped in White Craft Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder.
The little whimsical lines are just drawn freehand on some of the pieces with a black Sharpie pen.
All so easy, and what a happy little card!
If you need any of these stamping supplies, I would be pleased if you would order them from my Stampin' Up! Online Store
On someone's blog, I saw a Santa made out of the Petal Cone Die #121810, and it made me think that I could make a snowman the same way!
Just glue your two Petal Cone pieces together, close up the bottom and put the point at the top.
Punch out a large 1 3/4" Circle for the face, sponge a little Bashful Blue around the edges and make his face.
For the hat, just punch or cut a square, then use the Word Window Punch for the brim and put a little strip of red.
I fancied up his little lump of coal buttons with the Itty Bitty Shapes flower shape.
The arms are the Snowflake Punch, trimmed. I folded the ends and glued onto the sides of the snowman.
Really, you don't need directions! Just use your "snowman imagination" and go for it! Put some candies inside and make one as a Christmas party favor for everybody for your holiday table!
If you need more punches or other stamping supplies to make this Petal Cone Die Snowman, I would be happy to have you order them HERE! Thanks!
Have you ever had one of those stamping days??! I'm having one today. Every idea I had for this card, I discovered I either did not own the product I was planning to use or I couldn't find it! We've moved things around for the Christmas tree and lots of my stamping stuff got moved.
So I decided to just stamp with Snow Much Fun #122562 with Stazon ink and color in with#120962. When I started stamping, Stampin' Pastels were the thing to have because in one box you had all the colors to use. I think we have gotten away from pastels a little bit with other wonderful products, but I decided to use them today. Just touch your Blender Pen to a corner of the pastel and pick up the color, then color as normal.
So after coloring in the snowman and Christmas tree beautifully with Stampin' Pastels, THIS happened! You really shouldn't drop your stamp on top of the card you are working on!
But since "there are no mistakes in stamping!" (really?!) I had to make good on that statement! I stamped the images again on a new piece of Whisper White and then I cut out the tree and the snowman from this ruined piece! I mounted them with Stampin' Dimensionals right over the stamped images on the new piece and I LOVED how it looked! I didn't cut out the snowman's one arm nor the birds so that made it easier.
I also used a small narrow clear block to stamp over the greeting to highlight that.
And I added Tombow Multipurpose Glue to the bottom of the card to adhere Mica Flakes #124115. I should have stopped there, but oh no....needed a few snowflakes! So I think the snowman is in a blizzard....but that's okay because it IS December!
A bit overdone.....but that's okay! Somebody might love it this way! It's still fun! And was fun to make in spite of myself!
Is tomorrow REALLY the last day of November??! Are you kidding me?! Well, I guess it is, so if you want to take advantage of the Stampin' Up! Online Extravaganza before it ends Wednesday Nov. 30th, be sure to check it out!! Don't delay! You do NOT have to place your own order online, you can call or email me to do it for you....but you do have to do it before the end of the day November 30th!
Note: The price you see at first on a product is not the sale price...click on the product itself and you will then see the sale price in red ink. If you want one of the bundles, you have to put in the bundle item # to get the sale price so double-check that.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope you get some good deals!!
Both the Red (#121790) and the Silver Glimmer Paper (#124005) by Stampin' Up! are so beautiful to use! A person might even want to hoard this paper, but really, isn't it better to use and let others enjoy it also??! The glimmer and shimmer of the paper, especially the silver, is so beautiful in person one could just look at the whole sheet all day playing with it in the light!
Here is a very simple, easy, but elegant card using just a little bit of the Glimmer Paper. I love the tone on tone layers, and I used my Simply Scored Tool (#122334) to make the borders on the Whisper White top layer. Love the Mini Jingle Bells (#124116) and the Cherry Cobbler/White Baker's Twine! (#123125). The greeting is from the stamp set Grateful Greetings (#116511).
And today is Cyber Monday, perhaps the busiest online shopping day as people go back to work or shop from home on their computers! Stampin' Up! is already offering their Online Extravaganza (check it out HERE!) through the end of the month! If you haven't checked out the discounts, be sure to do it today because I am offering a free tutorial to make an easy Christmas mini album with a $25 Stampin' Up! order placed through me or my Stampin' Up! website only today, until midnight! Of course you can order anything you want, not just the Online Extravaganza merchandise. You have plenty of time to order your supplies for Christmas cards and projects and still have time to make them!
And don't forget the specialHostess Promotion going on until Dec. 15th! Hostesses will receive an additional $35 in free Stampin' Up! products when they hold a workshop totaling $350 or more (excluding tax and shipping)! This is in addition to all the other benefits they already get as a Stampin' Up! hostess. Or place your own very large order! You know you want to!!
So lots going on at Stampin' Up! Let me know if you have any questions, want anything, need anything! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.....and now it's on to Christmas!!
Perhaps you would like to avoid the crazy shopping rush called Black Friday this weekend....or maybe AFTER you have done your shopping this weekend you would like to just relax and check out all the wonderful products Stampin' Up! offers! If you look through the catalog as if you were choosing a gift for someone, you might find that there are quite a few suitable items even for the non-stamper....or the crafter!
Stampin' Up! has already started their Online Extravaganza through November 30. But to have a little Black Friday and Cyber Monday fun, I'm offering a special tutorial as a treat for you when you place an order of $25 or more (before shipping and tax). It's an easy mini album to make, perfect for a few Christmas photos. This offer is good now, Black Friday through Cyber Monday (Nov. 28). When I see you have placed your order, I will email you instructions on how to receive your tutorial. You can order online at my Stampin' Up! Online Storeor contact me to place your order. Just email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com.
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