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Oh my! It’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything here and longer than that since I’ve posted anything creative. Like most of you, probably, my holidays were busy… great, but busy. We hosted a couple of holiday gatherings which really added to the chaos, too. But I got a new tablet, so maybe it’ll be easier for me to post on the fly. Translation… more often. 
So, I want to share some of the Christmas cards I made, but I don’t have pics of them available on my tablet so they’ll have to wait. Sorry! Instead, I’ll show you a gift box I whipped up yesterday.
One of my coworkers, Betsy, has a birthday coming up in a few days and I have just the thing to give her as a little gift. I have had some of the neatest yarn sitting in my studio, but I’ve had it for years and haven’t done anything with it. It’s time to pass it on, don’t you think? Betsy is a big knitter, so I think she’ll really appreciate the yarn. I don’t know if it’s enough to make much of anything, but if I’m betting she will be able to come up with something neat.
Unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of the yarn, but I did take one of the gift box and the card. I made the card eons ago. It was one of those cards that I liked so much that I couldn’t bear to give it away. LOL! I’m forcing myself to give it to Betsy, but I know she’ll like it so that’s making it a little easier.
Since the card was made using retired colors that I no longer have (loved Groovy Guava), I used similar colors from the In Color collections – Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz, and Peach Parfait – to coordinate the box with the card. They match pretty good, don’t you think?
If you haven’t seen these 6 sided boxes before, you’ll be surprised that they’re made using Stamping` Up`s little milk carton die. I know!! 
. Cut 2 milk cartons and cut off one side from each, then adhere them together. Oh so easy!
Box Supplies
Mini milk carton die & Big Shot
Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Whisper White cardstock
Chocolate Chip, Pool Party classes ink
Perfect Punches stamp set
Large Oval,label punches
Pear Pizzazz seam binding ribbon
So… Halloween’s tommorrow and you haven’t made anything cute for your kids, or for someone else’s kids, or for yourself? It’s not too late to create! Here are a few projects to help inspire you…
Each of these uses the Frightful Sight Designer Series paper from the SU Idea Book & Catalog. I love this DSP because it’s got both Halloween-themed designs and designs that are great for autumn, masculine, and so many other projects. Way too much fun!
The mini easel card was inspired by one that another demonstrator friend of mine made. It was made with the wide tag from the Two Tags Big Shot die. The image is from Greeting Card Kids and the greeting is from Delightful Dozen. Both were stamped onto glossy white cardstock. The main image was stamped with Stazon ink and colored with SU markers. The little mini closepin was also colored with a marker (Riding Hood Red) then coated with a layer of our new Dazzling Details glitter glue – it’s an homage to Wizard of Oz and the ruby slippers. 
The little milk carton treat box was stamped with the woodgrain background stamp using white craft ink – so cute with the owl and his ghosty vest! Both treat boxes are filled with Dove chocolate candies – they are the perfect size and shape!
The candy wrapper treatbox was lengthened by folding the cardstock in half before running it through the Big Shot. Then the black cardstock was punched on both sides to make the border. Then everything was wrapped around the box to hide the seam.
If you’re having trouble folding and assembling the candy wrapper treatbox – you really should watch this video. I’m not sure who the lady is who made it, but I could listen to her accent forever!
Hope you enjoyed these spooky treats! Have a happy Halloween!
Posted in 3D Projects, Big Shot, Cards, Chocolate, Designer Paper, Holidays, Punches
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If you read this post, you know that I hold a series of Christmas card classes each year. This year we started in August and will finish up in November for a total of 4 classes & 40 cards.
The cards I’m showing you today are the ones we made in the September session. The theme for September was stockings and featured awesome new stocking products from the Holiday mini catalog.
This elegant card is based on a design by a demonstrator named Lisa Reber – thanks for the inspiration, Lisa!
The lower section of the card is a 4×4 Whisper White sqare embossed with the Petals Aplenty embossing folder, then wrapped with Real Red satin ribbon and layered onto the Whisper White card base. I love the look of white on white! The greeting at the top is from the Many Merry Messages stamp set and was heat embossed with silver embossing powder.
The stockings were stamped using images from the new Stitched Stockings stamp set, punched out using the Stocking builder punch, and layered with pieces punched from the new silver Glimmer paper. This picture doesn’t do the sparkle from this paper justice. Just the little bit used on the card turns it from a nice, elegant card into a WOW ELEGANT card.
Stitched Stockings Card
The second card is a shaped card – a stocking shape, of course. All the pieces for the stocking were cut using the new Holiday Stocking Bigz L die, except for the scalloped trim, which was cut with the Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die. The stocking is Cherry Cobbler cardstock, folded in half before being cut (the folded edge placed just below the cutting blade on the die to end up with a card rather than two seperate pieces). The top piece is Very Vanilla, and the patterned accents are from the Letters to Santa designer series paper.
The front of the stocking was embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder. The sentiment at the top is from Hand-Penned Holidays, in Cherry Cobbler ink. You can just see the inside layer peeking out – Very Vanilla cardstock cut with the Stocking die and trimmed, just barely, around the edges.
The last detail is the tiny, Mini Jingle Bell attached just to the lower left of the Merry Christmas sentiment. Isn’t it sweet?
Because this ends up being too big for a standard size envelope, I had everyone make custom envelopes from Very Vanilla cardstock. Our new Simply Scored scoring tool made it super easy!
Stocking Shaped Card
Unlike last month’s session, there weren’t any 2 minutes cards in this bunch! But everyone loved them anyway.
Thanks for stopping by!
Caveat – I am not a professional photographer. I’m not even a remotely good amatuer photographer, but I think I can fake it fairly well.
Thought I’d show you the homemade lightbox I have been using lately to photograph the projects that I post here. I had purchased a pop up lightbox, but wasn’t really satisfied with it. Then I found a post by Patty Bennett (another SU demonstrator) talking about one she made using the chipboard backing from our designer series paper packages. Following her lead, I made one of my own. It fits on a shelf of one of my bookcases. This is where I use it most of the time because I’ve got a light that I can move to different angles that I shine at the box – the chipboard diffuses the light pretty good.
Homemade Light Box
This was super simple to make. I basically taped 4 sheets of the chipboard backing together to make an open cube. I line the bottom & back with 12″ x 12″ patterned paper. I have a couple sheets that are taped in permanently, but for different looks, I just lay in other sheets of DSP – no tape at all. The picture here shows a couple sheets from the Letters to Santa DSP. I love using our DSP for backgrounds, but I also have a 12″ x 12″ calendar with pretty, floral pictures that I use sometimes.
Anyone want a pop up lightbox? I’ll send it to you for the cost of shipping! Contact me!
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