More Christmas Projects

I spent today working on some more Christmas projects. I got a couple of gift card holders done for my nieces as well as some little gift bags and lots more ornament tags!

Supplies: cardstock and paper by Stampin' Up! Monogram byJust Right.

Circle and scallop cut with nestabilities.

Supplies: Paper by Kaiser, Card by Stampin' Up! Monogram by Just Right.

All products for this gift bag by Stampin' Up!

Instructions for the box can be found at Splitcoast Stampers in the Resources section.

Paper by Kaiser. Ornaments inside made with Stampin' Up! products.

Paper by Kaiser. Ornaments inside made with Stampin' Up! products.

Christmas Gift Tags

I received an order from the US Christmas Mini Catalogue by Stampin' Up! today and couldn't wait to play with my new goodies. I made a set of 24 gift tags and also made a box to put them in (to give to someone else as a gift). I love this punch so much, I hope I don't wear it out! LOL

Supply List:

Carsdtock: basic black (for the box base) whisper white, cool carribean

Ink in Cool Carribean and Real Red.

Stamps: Delightful Decorations (SU) Signature Christmas (PTI)

Misc: Red and white ribbon, silver cord (spotlight), Dazzling Diamond glitter (SU), Clear Acetate for the box lid.

Gift Card Wallet

Yesterday I attended an afternoon of stamping at Ngaire Anderson's place, where I saw this gorgeous little Gift Card Wallet that she had made. Ngaire kindly gave me her sample and of course I came right home and made one myself! Since I give my neices and nephews gift cards for Christmas I will be making a tonne of these in the very near future (in Xmas papers of course).
They are so quick and easy to put together. The sample Ngaire gave me had a ribbon holding it closed, but I made mine with a band. And I am sure there are many other ways to close them (small velcro dots, mini magnets). You are limited only by your imagination! And of course you could resize them to fit movie tickets, lottery tickets etc.

Supplies: All products are Stampin' Up! Papers are Parisian Breeze, and the stamp sets are Big Flowers and Great Friend. I have left the inside blank because I don't know what I will use it for yet, but will stamp a greeting of some sort in there later.

A productive stamping weekend!

Well it might not sound that productive since I only got 5 cards done, but all of the images were hand coloured and most of them took an hour or more to complete. Plus I got another 2 images coloured ready to be put on cards. Here is my latest card ... and my last one for this weekend.

Supplies: card by Stampin' Up! in real red, certainly celery and whisper white. Paper by Kaiser. Image by All That Scraps. Coloured with Prismacolour and I added dimensional magic to the ornament, and it looks so cute! A bit of stitching and some glitter for the pixie wings and it's all done.

I managed to put a couple of cards together using the images I coloured last night. I also threw together a very quick and simple wedding card. Just stamped the image straight onto white card, coloured and added some ribbon - easy peasy!

I love colouring in!

I never got over my love of colouring-in as a child. I remember being so excited when my girls got old enough to colour and we would sit for ages colouring their Bananas in Pyjamas and Wiggles colouring books. I find it very therapeutic!
So it is no wonder that my favourite stamp images are ones that I can colour in. I downloaded these Sweet Pixie Digi Stamps at All that Scraps and had a lot of fun colouring them in last night. I am going to order the stamps in rubber, but I really wanted to play with them a bit and didn't want to wait (yes I am impatient). Plus I love that you can resize them in their digi format!
Unfortunately my printer ink doesn't seem to be smudgeproof so the colouring is less than perfect (another reason to order the rubber version). But oh well, I still had fun with the images anyway! Now I just have to make cards out of them.
Oh and the first two images are the first time I have tried doing the grass with my pencils, and I really love the effect!

Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #15

I finally managed to have a go at Makeesha's sketch challenge for last week. Better late than never huh! I haven't added a greeting yet so will do that another time as I am waiting for some great Xmas Greeting stamps from Papertrey Ink to arrive this week and want to use one of those. Here is Keesh's sketch:

I even did the inside of the card this time. I really like to do that, but sometimes for one reason or another never quite get to it. The bottom border is done with the cutest little star border punch by Martha Stewart that I picked up this week.
Supplies: Paper by Kaiser, all cardstock and ink by Stampin' Up! Image from All That Scraps. Greeting stamp by PSX. Coloured with Prismacolour pencils and added some Dazzling Diamonds to the hat, dress and wings. It is very sparkly in real life! And here is a closeup of the coloured image.