Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Ornamental Pine Blues




I love the Ornamental Pine stamp set. I've made a few card designs in traditional colours, and I wanted to try it in some non-traditional colours. For this stamp-a-stack, I've used Pool Party and Island Indigo, and I have to say, I really like the effect.
I've used the Window Frames framelits, but just used the centre part of the shape. To do the stamping, I placed the white Window Frame shape over the top of my main white piece and stamped the pine needle image. Then the Pool Party Window Frame piece covers the 'gap'.


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Monday, November 17, 2014

Trim the Tree Stamp-a-Stack

This week I am holding my very last Stamp-a-Stack Classes for the year. It's always sad when they wind up for the year, but I find the last few weeks of the school term and the lead up to Christmas is so busy that I just can't fit it all in. I feel very lucky to have a job that's so flexible!
This is a simple set of cards using the Tree Punch and Trim the Tree Designer Series Paper Stack. Instead of using the punched-out tree shapes, I've used the negative and let the patterned paper show through.


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Friday, November 14, 2014

A Swag of Stars


You'll have to excuse the bad photo for this one. I always find home décor items tricky to photograph - my little point-and-press doesn't cope very well with shadows and reflections. Anyway, hopefully you can see beyond my terrible photography to the actual project.

This is the Home Décor item that we made at a recent Team Craft Day. My house was transformed into  Big-Shotting, Embossing, Hot-Glue Gunning Crafting Chaos....we had so much fun!
This little star Swag is made using 1 sheet of Cherry Cobbler cardstock, 1/2 a sheet of Naturals Ivory and 1/2 a sheet of Crumb Cake. A little cardstock can go a long way!


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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Tiny Tic Tac Treats

Here are some little treat holders that I made for a recent Team Craft Day. I used the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch:

I think the cutest thing about these boxes, is what's inside:

Mini tic tacs! I found these at the Reject Shop, and 3 of them fit perfectly inside this little box.



Almost too cute to eat....almost!

Edited to Add Instructions: I've been getting lots of requests for instructions, so I thought I'd include them in case you want to make some of your own.
Cut your cardstock 4.9 x 15.5cm. Score at 6cm from each end. Punch each end using the Tag Topper Punch and fold on the score lines. Wrap a 16.5 x 3cm piece of DSP around to form box sides, creasing the corners as you go (it's easiest to do this with the tic tacs placed inside!). I used a mini peg to hold mine closed at the top.


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Monday, November 10, 2014

Christmas Tags, Bags and Gift Boxes

That's the name of this week's class, and that's exactly what we'll be making. Here are some of the goodies, ready to be filled with Christmas treats:
There's a Petite Gift Bag (with a window), a Curvy Keepsake Box, a Tiny Treat Holder, a Gift Voucher wallet and some Christmas tags.
I think my favourite is the Tiny Treat Holder. It's 2 Tiny Treat Boxes, stuck together to make a carrier, and then 2 of the smallest Gift Box Punch Board Boxes (made with 6"x6" cardstock) fit inside! So cute!!


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Friday, November 07, 2014

Big Tree, Baby Tree


I was so excited when I discovered that you can make lots of different-sized trees using the Christmas Tree punch. All you do is re-insert the tree into the punch and re-punch it, taking as much off the top of the tree as you like. Voila, baby trees!
I was also excited when I discovered how flexible Photopolymer stamps are. Here I've curved the 2 greeting stamps, so that they fit the curves of the circle.
Soft Sky and Lost Lagoon are such a pretty Christmas colour combination. I love blue and silver for Christmas, as a change from the traditional red and green.


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