Gift Card Holders using Scentsational Seasons, Watercolor Winter and Jolly Bingo Bits from Stampin' Up!

Well, I was on a roll with my personal blog challenge of posting every weekday in December but that all went kaflooey when one of my little lassies got a tummy bug for TWO FULL DAYS which brought us to the pediatricians and then to the ER. Poor girl was so sick. She is all better now but everyday life seemed to take over (meaning: making things to sell at craft fairs, showing all my Hispanic friends at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party how to stamp with all our wonderful Stampin' Up! products - photos of that coming soon - a belated anniversary celebration of sharing a delicious dinner and theatre tickets with my in-laws, my oldest daughter's school band concert, Holiday parties and oh yeah, several days of NO EMAIL since I use cox.net and their whole system across the US was down! Whew thats a lot of stuff. ) . Soooo, my challenge has changed a little bit but the end result will still be the same for you. Instead of posting every weekday in December, I'm going to post 21 times this month (which equals out to one post every weekday in December). This means that I'll be posting more than once a day so come visit often and you'll see lots of Christmas stuff that I've been working on.

One thing I worked on this week was fulfilling some orders I received at a craft show. I made gift tags, candy holders and gift card holders. The gift card holders were so much fun. I made lots of different kinds as you can see. I used Scentsational Seasons, Watercolor Winter and Jolly Bingo Bits from Stampin' Up! for the gift card holders pictured here.

 

Gift Card holders using Scentsational Seasons, Watercolor Winter
and Jolly Bingo Bits from Stampin' Up!

I even made my own designer series cardstock. I needed the thickness of the cardstock but wanted the look of Designer Series Paper so I just went ahead and made my own. Sooooo much fun. You can do 'random stamping' like I did on the Christmas Tree or pointsettia cardstock, or you can so a specific pattern like I did on the candy cane, gingerbread man and hot cocoa cardstock.  So, which one is your favorite? Oh, if you're trying to copy mine exactly, keep in mind that in this photo my cardstock is already cut to the size I needed for this project.

Designer Series Cardstock handmade using Scentsational Seasons,
and Watercolor Winter from Stampin' Up!

Here is a photo of the inside of the project. I attached a folded envelope (which created two pockets) to the inside of my hand stamped designer series cardstock. In the pockets I placed two little decorated blank cards where you could write a note and attach a gift card. I finished it off with a belly band to keep everything inside.

Inside view of the Gift Card holders using
Watercolor Winter from Stampin' Up!

These alwasy get a great reaction for the person that receives them. Hope you enjoy.

Rose-Ellen

End of School Teacher Gifts (Gift Cards, Punch Art Frog and Pencil Holder)

Wow, I can't believe its been so long since I've posted on my blog. June was a busy month around here with a graduating 6th grader, a graduating preschooler,  graduation parties, end of year parties for all the kids, camps starting, and much more. I did get to create some teacher gifts that I promised I'd share so here goes. Enjoy!
Our class decided to give a plant to our teachers and if we wanted to, we could give gift cards in decorated envelopes. The envelopes were put into the plant on floral wire and were supposed to look like flowers. I might have taken the theme literally, but they were so cute I couldn't stop, so several teachers got gift card envelopes like these.

 Here I used some retired Designer Series Paper and the retired 5 petal flower punch

 For this one I used retired Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper and the retired 5 petal flower punch

This set used the Stampin' Up! Simply Scrappin' Kit, the retired 5 petal flower punch, the retired fancy flower punch, the 1-3/4 scallop circle, the 1-1/4 circle and the 1/2 inch circle.

I used the scallop envelope die and the Big Shot to cut the envelopes. The envelopes are normally a little too small to fit a regular sized gift card so I folded the paper in half and left three scallops uncovered when I cut the paper.

This makes the envelope longer and voila, it now fits a gift card.

One of the teachers is very fond of frogs and she has a frog as her classroom mascot so of course I had to make her gift card envelopes frog themed.

Too cute, right??

My youngest was graduating preschool and she is going to a different elementary school than most of her classmates so she gave pencils to her classmates so they could start kindergarten with a memory of her. This is what we made for all her preschool classmates and teachers as a graduation gift. Pink for girls and blue for boys.

 I used the owl from the retired Stampin' Up! set called Go, Graduate and punched it out with the cirle and scallop circle punches. A little 1/8 taffeta daffodil delight ribbon and it was finished.

Today I'm stamping with my brand new goodies from the new Holiday Mini Catalog to create projects for my Christmas/Holiday Stamp a Stacks. I hold one of these each month starting in July and running through December. When you come to the class you'll make 12 cards (4 each of 3 different designs) and if you come to all the classes you'll have 72 cards ready to send out or give away just in time for the Christmas Holiday Season. The best part is that when you sign up for one of these classes you'll get product to use on your cards while you're here AND you get to take the rest home. The Christmas in July Stamp-a-Stack is going to feature Dazzling Details. You can take the bottle home and add some sparkle to any cards you already have or are about to make. Not a bad deal. Click here to check out my calendar of upcoming events and see which events you'd like to attend. And don't forget that the card sentiments can be stamped in English or Spanish if you'd like OR you can leave them blank and use them through out the season as Thank You or Thinking of You notes. So many options, so little time. I'll post some of the Holiday Cards this week so stay tuned by following my blog, liking my facebook page (Stampin' Up! with Rose-Ellen), following me on Twitter at @REEastman or signing up for my newsletter. You can email me with questions anytime at StampingWithRose-Ellen@cox.net

Hope you're having a wonderfully relaxing Sunday!
Rose-Ellen

Stampin' Up! Stocking Punch NOT carrying over, Carryover List Avaialble Now, Clearance Blitz and Project Photos

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE to all my Stamping Friends, I hope you have been enjoying a wonderful holiday season, celebrating with your family and friends.  That’s what we’ve been doing here so I have lots of things to share with you on this last day of 2011.
BIG NEWS – THE STAMPIN' UP! STOCKING PUNCH will NOT CARRY OVER to the next catalog. 

That’s right, Stampin’ Up! has decided not to carry over the Stocking Builder Punch (item 124095) from the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog into the next Idea Book & Catalog. Instead they will offer other great designs in its place--not to mention a trendy, new design planned for next holiday season. It is only available until January 4th and ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST so if you want it, please get it now.

Once the current inventory of this punch has been depleted, it will no longer be available for purchase. We hope many Stampin' Up! stockings will adorn cards and brighten holiday projects this season and look forward to seeing what you create with the next seasonal design.

THE CARRYOVER LIST IS AVAILABLE – Some of the fantastic products featured in the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog are still available. You can see the products here. 

CLEARANCE BLITZ – New items have been just added to the Clearance Rack. You can only purchase these items on-line but you can do this very easily at www.roseelleneastman.stampinup.net and clicking the ‘shop now’ button. You can order regular items as well as Clearance  Blitz items on the same order.

I will be placing an order this evening so if you’d like to get a few things and don’t have access to a computer to place the order, or don’t want to use a credit card online, you can contact me and I can arrange the order.

Now that we’ve gone over the REALLY IMPORTANT stuff, let’s catch up on a few projects from December.  Here are some photos of some treat bags I made for the girls teachers. Some were for a church based preschool and some were for public school teachers.

Do you think they look like pencils?

And here is a little snippet of how we spent the tail end of December 2012.

The girls in their new pajamas on Christmas Eve

Visiting my parents and THE Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center.

Checking out Times Square before the ball drops and we ring in 2012!

Thank YOU for making my 2011 so great. I hope you have a wonderful New Year Celebration, however you celebrate, and I wish you a fantastic 2012 full of happiness and joy.

Rose-Ellen

Stampin' Up! Festive and Fun; Christmas Stamp-a-Stack Card

Hi there My Stamping Friends, I know its probably a little early to start posting Christmas Cards but I love, love, love my new Stampin' Up! stamp sets, particularly Festive and Fun. When I saw Shelli create this Halloween Bookmark at the Stampin' Up! Annual Convention in July 2011 I knew I had to have this set because I am a Halloween Fanatic.

The Holly Jolly and Valentine sentiments sealed the deal. I made this Christmas Card and thought I'd share it with you so you might be inspired to love this set as much as I do. Post a comment and let me know what you think.

I used:
123744 Stampin' Up! Festive and Fun Clear Mount Stamp Set
124004 Holly Berry Bouquet Designer Series paper
102482 Real Red card stock
108641 Wild Wasabi card stock
103133 Real Red classic ink
109014 Wild Wasabi classic ink
115657 Soft Suede Classic ink
104332 Snail Adhesive
104430 Stampin Dimensionals
103954 Aqua Painters
119246 Basic Rhinestones
113439 Big Shot Machine
117335 Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

All of the products I mentioned and much more, can be ordered by contacting me, or shopping 24/7 through my website at www.RoseEllenEastman.StampinUp.net
Before I go I wanted to remind you about a few things:
TOMORROW, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011 is the LAST DAY to take advantage of the FREE BIG SHOT OFFER when you join my team. We have a team meeting this Saturday so if you join on Friday, you can jump right in on Saturday morning to create some great projects at my house.

SAVE THE DATE: December 9 & 10, 2011 for my next Scrapbooking and Card Making event. I will post all the details in the next few days but this is your chance to bring your supplies and get caught up on your scrapbooking or get a jump on those Christmas Cards you've been meaning to make. If you're new to scrapbooking or card making, take one of the Stampin' Up! classes I'm offering on Friday evening, Saturday morning or Saturday afternoon and learn what we do. There are plenty of classes to choose from so check them out, sign up and come join us. If you want to make sure you have all the latest details, visit www.facebook.com and friend Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Department or Stampin' Up! with Rose-Ellen .

If you still haven't received a hard copy of the Holiday Mini and you'd like one, contact me and I can drop one in the mail to you.

Here is a preview of tomorrow's blog post using Stampin' Up! Autumn Days and Stampin' Up! Hand-Penned Holidays. Make sure to come back and check it out.

Happy Stamping,
Rose-Ellen

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Christmas in October....

Hi there My Stamping Friends,

I can't believe my first post of October is a Christmas card, but it is. Don't worry, I LOVE Autumn and I will definitely make projects for the season, but I got this stamp set and this simple card was just calling me. Hope you like it.

I used Crumb Cake cardstock for the base. I cut a piece of Night of Navy and covered it with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz (#118772). I tore that in half on a diagonal (might as well make two cards if you're already making one). I attached it to the top left corner of the card base and then used my Come to Bethelem set (#120591-clear) with Night of Navy ink to create the main image on the bottom and the sentiment above that. As my girls would say, it was Easy Peasy.

I'm going to be working on swaps tonight and heading to the Baltimore Regional tomorrow but I'll have something to post for tomorrow so you don't miss me.

Feel free to post a comment and make my day!

Have a great weekend,
Rose-Ellen