Don't try this when you're supposed to be getting ready for a trip….but be that as it may, I really like the new Stampin' Up! Cookie Stamps! There are recipes enclosed in the box. I'm just rolling the dough into balls, rolling in extra sugar, dipping the stamp into sugar, and then pressing into the ball of dough! The batter tastes good so I think the cookies will, too! Be sure to put these on your next order!
If you need a Halloween scrapbook page, here's one I made in My Digital Studio from a birthday-type template in the program. But if you don't have My Digital Studio, all you have to do is make it the traditional way with the Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper #122351 and a few punches and embellishments.
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The Bigz Fancy Favor Die for the Big Shot is so useful for all sorts of projects. Here I have a made a cute little Halloween Fancy Favor Bag (or box). Just fill it with some crinkled paper and a Halloween treat and decorate the outside how you like.
Supplies I used:
Stamps: Wicked Cool, Sooky Bingo Bits
Ink: Stazon Black, Wisteria Wonder, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green
Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Fancy Favor Die, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Large Oval Punch, Sponge, Paper Snips, Paper Piercer
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I crumbled and sponged the First Edition DSP with several colors of ink. For the pumpkin I punched the 1 3/4" circle and the placed the punched oval over the center. For the pumpkin vines, I cut slivers of card stock and curled around my paper piercer. Just stamp and cut out the witch's feet!
Just have fun with it! For stamping supplies, order here.
I got the idea for this Halloween card from a sample in a magazine. The Stampin' Up! set Spooky Bingo Bits is just perfect for this card design. I used Glossy White card stock #102599 for the card base and for the tag. The greeting is from Grateful Greetings. Love that set!
And here is the inside of the card, the greeting also from Grateful Greetings.
If you need to order either of these stamp sets or maybe some Glossy White card stock, just go to my website and place your order. Or email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and I can help you. You will have so much fun with Spooky Bingo Bits!
Click on the photo above!
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The Petite Pocket Bigz Die is a new one this year, and now that I have finally played with it, I think I am loving it! You can make cute little gift card holders, cards, candy holders, treats for any occasion with it! Here is a Petite Pocket Halloween Treat that I just made.
I started by die-cutting a piece of Pick Your Poison Designer Series Paper #124001. It's about 10 inches long.
Folded up and decorated, with a little pull-out card inside, this is what it looks like.
Do you know how I made the ghosts? I punched a heart and then cut it in half! The features are just colored in with a black marker. The Scallop Oval Punch #119856 is placed and glued so that it holds the flap shut behind it. Only put glue at the bottom of the oval. The letters are die cut with the Naturally Serif Decorative Strip Die #113453.
The little pull-out card you can either cut with the die cut and trim down a hair or just cut something narrow that will fit inside. It is stamped with images from Spooky Bingo Bits and the greeting from Grateful Greetings. For a little tab to pull out, I punched a 1" circle, folded in half and stapled on with a little bit of ribbon.
Try this Petite Pocket Die! It really holds lots of possibilities!
The first time I saw these tea lights turned into little cakes I thought they were the CUTEST things! So when I wanted just a little something for a friend to celebrate her belated birthday, I thought this would be perfect!
These little tea light birthday cakes are so easy to make and so much fun! You can pick the LED tea lights almost anywhere these days for pretty cheap. Then just decorate with a 5" x 3/4" strip of paper around the side. Punch a 1 3/4" Scallop Circle for the top. To get it over the light bulb, you have to punch a hole in the center and cut little slits. You can make a template first if you want by folding a scallop circle in half, half again and half again and then snipping the point which is the center….or draw lines across the scallop to see where they intersect in the center. Then use Paper Snips or a hobby knife to cut the little slits.
For the flowers and leaves, I used the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch, the Boho Blossom Punch and the Bird Builder Punch. Then I added some rhinestones and pearls to the flowers. Put a little Scallop Border on the side of the cake if you want. I added some Dazzling Details, the new irridescent glitter glue in the Holiday Mini to the scallop border.
If you need some birthday cake ideas, get some tea lights and try this! Really cute! It's an easy birthday cake to make and you can make cakes for all occasions! Have fun!
The stamp set "Pennant Parade" and the matching punch "Petite Pennants" work together to make a great Christmas card. I'm not sure how I got red Christmas trees, but I was envisioning the red alongside the Silver Glimmer Paper! Oh well! The card still looks Christmas-y for sure! You can see a little extra ink from the edge of the tiny star stamp….but it almost looks like glow lines from the star so maybe I'll just add some on the other side! As I heard someone say the other day, if you have a mistake it lets the person know it is truly handmade! But since there are no mistakes in stamping, I can probably "fix" my boo boo somehow!
For my Convention swap, I just eyeballed things, but today I did use my Stamp-a-ma-jig #101049 to get everything placed where I wanted. It's a great tool to have on hand because you WILL use it.
As I've said before, the Silver Glimmer Paper #124005 is so beautiful but a photograph just doesn't do it justice. You'll want it!
SUPPLIES
Stamps: Pennant Parade #122740w, #122742c
Paper: Old Olive, Real Red, and Shimmery White #101910 card stock, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink: Old Olive, Real Red, Daffodil Delight
Accessories: Petite Pennants Builder Punch #122361, 1/4" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon #109034, Stamp-a-ma-jig #101049
Pick out some easy Christmas card designs you like and make a few cards! Send them to those on your list who are "worthy"!
Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps!! Who would have thought that besides talking about stamps, paper and ink we would also be talking about baking at Stampin' Up!?
We were surprised at Convention last summer to hear that the cookie stamps would be coming out! We even got to sample them at lunch one day when Stampin' Up! gave us a surprise dessert! What fun!
Listen to Shelli's daughter, Sara, talk about the new Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. I'm putting them on my order today and can't wait to try them! Yum!
"Take your love of stamping into the kitchen! Create fun and tasty stamped cookies for any occasion. Fit a silicone stamp over the bottom of the wooden handle and press into dough—it's that easy! Let the kids help! Food-safe, easy-to-clean and dishwasher safe. Each set includes 3 silicone stamps, 1 handle, and 2 great cookie recipes."
To order your Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps just add #125152 to your order! Better pick up some extras for gifts, too!
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Don't wait until Halloween night!
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Part of the fun of My Digital Studio projects is that they literally only take minutes to make…..OR you can work for hours on one if you want to. In this case, I just used a designer card for Halloween already made up, but changed a few things. I added the sentiment on the front, the brads and the tree in the background. Very easy!
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Looking for a different, safer way to have your children trick or treat this Halloween with the neighbors and their friends? Here is an older post I did in 2009 explaining something we did for a few years with our kids. It takes a little bit of planning so you need to get started….really just contacting your friends and/or neighbors and planning the route you will take! Parents and children all go together so it is fun for the whole family….and a chance to visit with your neighbors!
Here is the link to my previous post: https://www.karenstamps.com/2009/10/a-different-way-to-trickortreat.html
It sounds crazy and confusing, but it really works….and most of all, it is FUN!! Let me know if you try it!
This Spooky Halloween Tree card was so much fun to make! I used Glossy White card stock #102599 so that I could do lots of sponging of color. I wanted a big moon in the sky so the silhouette of the tree would show.
The way you make the moon is with the 2 1/2" Circle Punch #120906 and post-it notes….or at least some sort of circle stencil. I punched a hole in a post-it note with some sticky on the back. First I placed the punched-out piece down like a stencil to color in the moon. I used a sponge and several colors of yellow classic ink with a touch of Pumpkin Pie. Then I removed the stencil piece and stuck on the circle I had punched as a mask to cover the moon I had just sponged. That way I could sponge the background sky without getting ink on the moon. I just used different blues…I think Pacific Point, Not Quite Navy and Night of Navy…with a little Pumpkin Pie thrown in and maybe some yellow.
Next I stamped the tree from Season of Friendship #111776, the bats and the word "spooky" from Wicked Cool #120600 (clear). The owl I stamped in Chocolate Chip from Spooky Bingo Bits #123946 (clear) and cut him out with my Paper Snips. The Halloween greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.
It was really fun to play with all those colors and doing the sponging. So if you need some Halloween stamping supplies, be sure to go to my Online Store HERE and place your order!
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Grab one of those paper gift bags you have and let's make a spooky ghost gift bag for Halloween! You might want to take a hostess gift to a Halloween party or maybe someone has a Halloween birthday. There are so many fun Halloween ideas out there you should use them whenever you can!
Here's how I made the Halloween gift bag. It was a total accident!! My plan was to make one of those medallions or lollies out of Halloween paper, perhaps sticking it on a bag. I wanted to try scoring the Halloween paper and folding up part of it to get a two-toned medallion. I was doing that and after glueing the two scored strips together and flattening it, trying to push it together in the center, I got this oval shape and thought why not do something with that?!
Here is the scored Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper #122351. I made two strips, each 12" x 2 1/2" and scored at every 1/2". ( I should have cut ONE strip 12" x 5" and cut in half later!) Then I turned the paper in my Simply Scored #122334 and scored at 3/4" to get the edge I would fold over. Love the Simply Scored!!!
After I got the two strips glued together and played around with the shape I wanted, I turned it over and used Sticky Strip #104294 to hold it in shape on the back side. The scissors is just holding it down in place. It is not glued to the bag yet, I'm just fitting it around the ghost to get the proper shape. The ghost I made with the Owl Punch #118074….punch out the owl, cut off its feet and turn it upside down! Make his face with punched pieces or draw them in.
Take off all the Sticky Strip red covering and stick to the bag centering the ghost, which is already glued down on a black piece of card stock.
There's still plenty of time to order paper and stamping supplies for Halloween projects! Just go to my website at www.karenfontinelle.stampinup.net and click the "Shop Now" button!