Cards and Tags #3 - Snowflake elements & Home for Christmas DSP

 

Our precious little Sapphire turned 3 last Sunday! Three!! What an amazing member of our family she is, adored by all and very excited to be celebrating her birthday! Of course, like most little girls in this day and age she is a Frozen FAN! If you could get Elsa and Anna cats, sausages and swimming pools (things she has TRULY asked me for!!! CUTE!) then her world would be complete!
My last card and tag combo was for her, a combination of snow and sparkle and Elsa! I made this stamp myself with the retired stamp kit SU once stocked which allowed you to make your own stamps! You can see my other card made with it HERE.

 

 

There are some wonderful new goodies in the Holiday Mini including the cute Home for Christmas Designer series Paper and the Snowflake Elements which I used. The sparkle frame is Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper and the silver metallic thread another new product to Stampin' Up! The words that I put togetherer for the greeting is from the Happy Birthday Everyone Hostess set. It has great greetings including "to my darling," so I did some cutting and pasting to make up the words "our" and "girl." The Happy birthday stamp I popped inside is also from that great set!

 

 

Needless to say Sapphire LOVED her card and her pressie which was a Frozen hopper ball!
I hope you have been inspired to get wrapping and co-ordinate a tag to match your card while all your stamping goodies are out and being used! It's a special way of adding that something extra,

Fa la la la gift tag (Kikki.K inspired)

With many a gift to wrap and do up all pretty for the season you must have the perfect tag! While looking through one of my fav Christmas mag's (inside out) I noticed a very groovy tag from the wonderful Kikki.K!! WOW it totally POPPED from the page and I knew that I HAD TO case them!!

 

 

I used an old alphabet set that I love and embossed the words Fa la la in gold. The tag itself is made from the Scallop Tag topper cut at 2" wide by 10 cm long. I LOVE the gold sequin trim and the shiny gold ribbon together for that bling touch!! I've mixed these tags up with a feather one I've designed (post to come) for an elegant look to our gifts this year! Oh and I've also done up a pack of these little goodies for a gift!!

 

What do you think? Liking the black and gold look?? It's definitely a first for me (I'm such a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas colours) and I'm LOVING IT!!!
Happy gift wrapping,

SUO challenges #111 - Tag you're it!

With Christmas day only 12 sleeps away I've been busy making tags and gifts and making some special packaging. So with SUO challenges featuring a Tag You're it challenge I was in!

This little package was for my children's gym teachers. I made them a selection of cards for the year to come and simply wrapped them in a brown lunch bag. Then with a tree punched out in some wonderful All is calm DSP (on sale now) added to a pre-cut tag from Under the Tree Tag a bag Accessory kit (also on sale) a silver star (cut with the star framelits,) twine (that also comes in the kit) and some very wonderful All is calm washi tape, burlap ribbon, pool party cotton ribbon and finally the word "love" stamped from Many Merry stars stamp set.....

 

You have your self a little Christmas tag! YAY! I must say I'm really liking the soft blue and green for Christmas colours, I'm usually a red and green girl but this is most certainly taking my fancy! What do you think? What colours do you like best at Christmas time?
Thanks for popping by, Merry Christmas to you!

Christmas gift packaging ideas

It's that time of the year when we are thinking gifts and packaging and tags and well presents! I've been having sooo much fun designing and wrapping little goodies for customers and friends for Christmas. Here is one that I actually received from the lovely Jayne, she gave me this gorgeous box and I totally LOVE IT!!!

Beautiful tag with Seasonally Scattered stamp set 

ON SALE NOW click HERE for other bargains too!!

All the details that she has added just make the whole thing awesome!! I've not even opened it as I'm not wanting to wreck it!!! hee hee, best soon though I'm told there is chocolate in there!!

CASE-ing the Catty : Colour challenge #14

 

We are up to our last challenge for the year at CASE-ing the Catty! Yeap, challenge #15 will be next year, just in time for the super Sale-a-Bration!!! (wow that will be FUN!)

 

So Bron has organized a colour challenge for our last one, taking colours from the groovy Washi tape on page 28. I have to admit that these colours all together when in MY HANDS just weren't working like I waned!!! GRRRRR, but that's why they call it a challenge so with only 3 of the colours I CASED the sketch of the card which is also on page 28 (that Visions of Santa's cool card!!)

I have a few new goodies... YAY! Like the Star framelits, 25 days stamp set, Many Merry Stars and the Hello December Project Life Accessory Pack Washi tape... LOVE .... both of these available in the Extra special Christmas brochure.

Ohh and when my eyes spotted the little golden star clip on the Tree Christmas card (page 24) I HAD to get some of those too!! (Basic Hodge Clips $11.95)

When I asked my children what they thought of the card they said
"It's a great Male 25th birthday card Mum, good colours and the stars are cool too!!"
They were quite surprised when I told them it was actually a Christmas card..... Oh well!! I like how it turned out!! Hope you can join with us for our final challenge for the year,

CASE-ing the Catty challenge #13 Christmas cards

  

CASE-ing the Catty is happening again with a new challenge for you all!! Join us for our 13th challenge in creating a Christmas card with inspiration from the Seasonal Mini! My inspiration came from a few different pages..... sketch on page 42, a green base card on page 9 and lastly glitter and sparkle from page 25!

 

I used the fringe scissors to get my effect and layered the Gold foil sheets with the champagne glitter paper! Finishing off with a greeting from the current Hostess set (you can receive FREE with any workshop over $300) and some Pear Pizazz ribbon with gold ribbon too!

I really love sparkle and shine for Christmas and think this will be a card I'll make again and again for my list of 50+ I need this year!!
Hope you can join us and don't forget to check out the other wonderful design team's creations!!

Merry Christmas to you all!

The gifts have been wrapped and even given out now...... Turkey eaten, plum pudding enjoyed and carols sung!! Truly a wonderful Christmas has been our day today, what a blessing it has been to us all! How I love that God sent His Son Jesus to be born on this earth for all, the most amazing gift of all!

DIY Christmas Star (made from wooden sticks)

 If you are looking for an easy gift idea that looks really lovely and is very in-expensive, then this wooden star is the gift idea for YOU!
Just gather yourself up some sticks, about the same thickness and then cut them to the same length!. Then place them on top of each other in lots of two. From there form your "star" shape. Next grab some ribbon or twine or string and wrap it around the end a good few times. Tie a knot.

 Continue doing this until you have 5 points all tied together! In the center where it crosses over I've also tied a little string to help hold my star in place, this way it doesn't all fall in to itself! Then it's ready to hang!

This makes a fantastic gift, something you've handmade always does!! What do you think? Any good ideas you have to share too? Another fabbo idea I saw over at Traveling Mama is HERE! Very groovy indeed!
Well with only 6 more sleeps I hope that you are getting your lists done and enjoying all of the Christmas spirit at this special time of year!

Perfectly Rustics challenge #12 Christmas gifts

 

Can you believe that it's not hit December!!!?? WOW oh wow! So with this wonderful season upon us it's time to start thinking gifts and what better gift to give then that of a handmade one!
So here this time we are helping to inspire you with Christmas gifts at Perfectly Rustics!!
Here is my idea....... An Advent Calender!

I've used the Peek-a-boo bigshot die and then stamped all the assorted boxes with different number stamps and also the fun Rotary stamp too! Then I've stuck it all onto a piece of DSP (retired newsprint sheet) and punched some holes to thread the ribbon through for hanging! Inside I've typed out a number of fun activities and questions and then glued it all down with the 2 WAY GLUE pen!! Amazing little adhesive that allows you to stick things like a sticky note, over and over!!

I'm sooo super happy with how they turned out and have made at least 5 now, sending some over the straight and given some out to my dear friends ready for their countdown to Christmas!! YAY!
Be sure to pop on over to Perfectly Rustics and see the other fabbo creations, or perhaps join in yourself and show us your handmade gift!

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 10

As promised I'm here today to show you how to make the paper Christmas trees shown in the IBC on page 17!! I knew when I saw them that they HAD to be made, so with the help of my brother actually while he was over from WA he nutted out the best way to make the cone and the rest was quite simple!!
For my cones here I've cut a 8"x8" and then with the 4" length I've rolled the cone and then cut the excess off. If you just tuck in the end, pointing down in the middle then wrap the cardstock around itself until you're happy with the shape. I try and get as small a hole as possible at the top too so it's easier to cover. Using SU's sticky strip adhere down end, then cut base till it's even.

Next you need to cut your DSP strips. For my larger tree I've done 12"x2" strips and then as you work up to the top you can use 6"x2" so there's not as much overlap. For the smaller tree I just used shorter lengths cut at 1 1/2" wide.

From here you need to add sticky strip on the backs of all lengths (i actually did mine after rolling them as you'll notice in the pictures but it's best to do first so your curls don't get squashed!!

I had a little helper in the office!! She gives the biggest CHEESES when she sees the camera!

Roll the DSP ends to make them curly!! I used a pen! Try and do it as firm and hard as possible, this will give you a very lovely curl! (thanks for the tip here Loretta!)

Start sticking the DSP to your cone. Start at the bottom with the curl hanging over the edges, so when it's completed they will sit up and your cone will be covered (no peeking colour underneath!)
Keep on going... and going .... and going..... each time I start I make sure the curl is overlapping the edge of my last piece.... Does this make sense???


Once close to the top carefully wrap around until happy and squeeze in together!!

Lastly I sprayed my trees the silver Smooch spray! It looks really cool and adds the sparkle it needs!

I gave these to my sister who LOVES things simple, I showed this at my last stamp club for the year and we added all the tinsel and topped it off with the star!! Do what you like with the finished product!!!

I'd love to see what you do, please send me a link if you give it a try!!! See you tomorrow,
only 2 days left of show and tell!!!!