Christmas Chocolate Nugget Tins

 The holidays are approaching us faster than we want to admit so now is the time to start your special gifts.  These little tins measure 3 1/2 X 5 1/2 and hold 12 Hershy's nuggests.

The nuggets are wrapped with Deck the Halls Designer Paper.  The wrap around the tin is a layer of Cherry Cobbler cardstock with a strip of Deck the Halls Designer Paper laying over it.  I then stamped the little labels with the Bells & Boughs stamp set found in the holiday mini catalog.  I used versa mark pad to stamp the images, then embossed with gold embossing powder and colored them in by watercoloring Cherry Cobbler, and Old Olive.  These are great gifts for a special friend, a teacher, or anyone you want to give alittle something to.  I will be having classes on this tin and another little square tin using the peppermint patties next month.  Anyone who is interested please let me know.  Well it's off to work on some more kits.

A Wonderful Day With My Granddaughter

 I love my days I spend with my granddaughter, Lyla, she is the joy in our lives.  She loves sticker books so I found a big one for her and she is enjoying it so much.

It is always fun to put them on yourself too!!  Lyla is bout 20 months old now and she is so smart and learning so much everyday.  What a blessing grandchildern are.

Glistening Trees

The card below is one I found in "Images by Ann."  I thought it was a very elegant project and it would be a nice Christmas card as well.  My picture isn't as pretty as the card actually is.  I'm not a very good photographer. 

Stamps:  Lovely As A Tree, any word sets that would fit
Paper:  Stampin'Up! Gold, Always Artichoke
Ink:  Vera Mark Pad, Old Olive Craft
Accessories:  Gold Embossing Powder, Clear EP, Black EP

Recipe Book

I've been making these recipe books for the past year on and off.  They make great gifts.  I put my favorite recipes in them.  What fun I've had making them.

Cute Little Box

Oh what fun this box was.  I was hoping that maybe I could do a class in something like this in the next couple of months.  If anyone is interested let me know and I will work on setting up a time and date.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

This cattail card is one we are going to make in my Saturday Club.  I found it in Splitcoast Stampers and it was made by Michelle Zindorf.  Such a pretty card for fall.  This is stamped with Inspired By Nature stamp set and the cattails are made with the little horizontal punch.  I masked off the moon and sponged the card with Daffadil delight, pumpkin pie and cajun craze. 

Stamps:  Inspired By Nature
Paper:  Whisper White, Cajun Craze,
Basic Black, and More Mustard

Ink:  Basic Black, Early Espresso, Daffadil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze

Accessories:  Horizontal punch, photo corner punch, white gel pen, peircing tool, gold brads.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Busy getting ready for winter so have to get on the ball and take pictures of my new projects.  I am getting ready for a club, a workshop and "World Card Making Day Make and Take."  I will be setting up some classes in Christmas Cards, Christmas Tags, A Candy Tin and a cute little box.  If anyone is interested in any of those let me know and if a weekday night would work better, an afternoon or a Saturday.  Then I will be able to know how to schedule these classes.

Autumn Cards for September Club

Can you believe the change in the weather.  I guess I'm going to have to retire my summer clothes.  It hardly seems like I've worn them much this year.  Oh well, there's more time for stamping. 



The card above is one we will be doing in one of my clubs in September.  I love the autumn colors.  I was inspired by a card similar by Jennifer Weide to make this card.  This is the new French Foliage Set from the Holiday Mini catalog.  The cardstock is Cherry Cobbler, (yummy), early espresso, and very vanilla.  Ink:  More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and Old Olive.  I cut the oval from the Big Shot die, Frame Oval Scallop, and took the oval out and used it to mask off the center.  I sponged crumb cake around the masking and then took it off.  Then stamped the leaves and the sentiment in the center.   This was a quick and easy card to make.

Another card we will be doing this month is from a splitcoast stampers idea.  This one is done with the "Just Believe" stamp set.  Both these cards are very simple but oh so pretty.
I used the oval from the above card to mask this one off as well.  I sponged More Mustard and the bottom with Old Olive.  The masking was removed and the image was stamped with Early Espresso.  An 5/8" Old Olive Satin ribbon was wrapped around the top piece and topped with a border made from the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch out of Early Espresso Cardstock.  The butterflys were cut out of a scrap of More Mustard with the "Beautiful Wings" die and ran through the Big Shot.  I don't think there is a day that goes by that I don't use my Big Shot. I love, love, love it!!!

Autumn Cards for Club

August Stamp Club Card Samples

Isn't this a cute card.  It was a card exchange from my team leader, Teresa.  I thought that is was adorable so it was an extra card we made in our August club.  These are our three new colors, poppy parade and pear pizzaz, and wild wasabi. 

Got to get busy again.  I'm trying to work on some projects for a stamp camp and also World Card Making Day.  So many different ideas, not enough time.  Have a great weekend!

Another card that we made in our August club.  This is stamped with "Natures Silhouettes", in soft suede.  The background papers were stamped with "Autumn Days".  I ran the metal strip through my Big Shot Final Press Embossing folder and cut them to fit.

Oh so easy, yet so elegant.  This was one of the cards we did in our Saturday Club in August.  The stamp set is "Just Believe", a new set in the 2010-2011 catalog.  What  a  versitile set, so many different cards you can make with it.  The ladies really had fun making this card. This was a card that we made at our team meeting.  This card was a project that Melinda brought for us to do at our shoe box swap.

World Card Making Day

In celebration of World Card Making Day on October 2, I will be hosting a make and take at the St. Maries Fire Department.  The cost will be $12.00 to make 5 cards.  

Celebrating five years in 2010, World Card Making Day is a day for the card-making community-hobbyists, retailers and manufacturers to unite and celebrate the connection and creativity that is the heart of card making, "states the World Card Making Day web site.

If you are interested please let me know and I'll get you signed up.