Stampin' Up! Holiday cards and Christmas Projects for 2012 (part three)

Greetings My Stamping Friends,

I'm finally getting to share a spinner card I made several weeks ago. I used the Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsakes stamp set and the Holiday Ornaments framelits die. The sentiment is from More Merry Messages and I used the tree from Lovely as a Tree as the branch. There is a small piece of thread (or you can use fishing line) to get the ornament to 'float' in the opening. Before you close the card you should spin the ornament and close the card quickly.  That way, when the receiver actually opens the card, the ornament will spin for them. It definately gets lots of Ooohs and Aaahs.

 

Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsakes stamp set and the Holiday Ornaments framelits die. The sentiment is from More Merry Messages and I used the tree from Lovely as a Tree as the branch.

 

Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsakes stamp set and the Holiday Ornaments framelits die. The sentiment
 is from More Merry Messages and I used the tree from Lovely as a Tree as the branch.

 

A joyful wreath card made with the Holiday Frame embossing folder and the coredinations card stock.
I used the JOY sentiment from the Joyous Celebrations stamp set from Stampin' Up!

 

Friendly gingerbread people made with the Scentsational Seasons stamp set. Their hearts were made with the owl builder punch and the scallop was cut with the scallop trim border punch.

 

 

A CASE using the pointesettias from the Watercolor Winter stamp set
and a sentiment from More Merry Messages.

I hope you enjoyed the final post of my holiday and Christmas cards from 2012. Now I can move on to all the exciting things going on in Orlando, FL for the Stampin' Up! leadership meeting. Can't wait to share all the fun things that are starting tomorrow at check in. 

Stay Tuned,
Rose-Ellen

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

Fussy Cut Watercolor Winter Christmas Card with More Merry Messages from Stampin' Up!

Hello there My Stamping Friends, I'm keeping up with my December Daily Posting Challenge so today I'm sharing a card I made using the Watercolor Winter and the More Merry Messasges stamp sets from Stampin' Up!

Watercolor Winter Fussy Cut with More Merry Messages by Stampin' Up!

I really enjoyed making this card because it was so fun, simple, quick and gets a big reaction when you give it away.  I started with half a sheet of confetti cream cardstock and stamped several pointsettia's from Watercolor Winter, along the short edge (making sure that you could see the whole flower along the right side of the cardstock). I stamped the outline of the pointsettia in cherry cobbler and the inside of the petals in real red. Once those were stamped I grabbed my snips and cut along the outside edge of the pointsettias (hence the name 'fussy cutting').

Watercolor Winter Fussy Cut with More Merry Messages by Stampin' Up! inside view

Next I chose a sentiment from More Merry Messages and stamped that in the 'center' of the front of the card. Once the sentiment was stamped I could stamp the rest of the pointsettias to frame the sentiment. Next I used gumball green and old olive to stamp the pine branches just on the edge of the inside of the card so you could still see it when the card was closed.

The cutting is what took the most time and I'd say that took less than a minute. The whole card took probably 5 minutes and I really like how it came out. So, what do you think? Leave some love in the comment section of my blog. I can't tell you how you all brighten my day by leaving such nice notes.

Have a super fantastic day,
Rose-Ellen