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My top 5 off the page (OTP) creations for 2012 are:
Nikki's 8th birthday
Recycled jeans
First Christmas Bauble
Hot air balloon
Since I haven't scrapbooked much this year, I didn't have a huge choice to choose from. These are my top 5:
Project Life, week 2
Project Life, week 6
DSP blog hop
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Each year I try to narrow down my favourite creations for the year and these are my top 10 favourite cards I made for 2011. As I had so many, I've split them into two catagories, Christmas cards and other.
My top 10 Christmas cards for 2012 are:
Making Merry Monday #1
3D Christmas Card Class
MMM #31
MMM #38
MMM #35
Snowflake Soiree
MMM #12
My top 10 non CHristmas cards for 2012 are:
Custom baby shower card
New catalogue blog hop
Topsy turvy
Aunty Rosie
Versa shadow class
AFL birthday card
Delft tile
Stained mosaic
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December's technique class was baby wipe technique. As usual, we made two cards and a sample card. I was super busy in the lead up to the class so I cheated and CASED my own MMM card. The other card made was also heavily inspired by a make n take from the Heartfelt Stampin' Day.
Card 1
Card 2
Next month's technique class is acyrlic block stamping. January's class is Friday, January 4th (the first Friday of the month) beginning at 7pm, cost is $20. To book your place, contact me.
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My nephew Noah is celebrating his first Christmas this year and I have spent the past few days helping my sister make baubles and other things. It was a challenge getting little Mister 4 months old hand prints but we did it finally in the end.
Stampin' Up! materials used:
Cardstock: Whisper white, brushed silver
Punches: 1 1/4" circle, 1 3/8" circle
Accessories: Window sheets, island indigo ruffled ribbon, white bakers twine, whisper white organza ribbon
Other: Glass bauble, designer series paper, acrylic paint, ric rac
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I've finally got the crew's teacher gifts all ready to be given out. It has been a labour of love. Hubby said, you've spent a couple of hours putting that together right... ummm, a little more I told him. For anyone that has made an ornament like the one featured on the front cover of the holiday catalogue, you'd know it takes approx. 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Plus the box I made to store the ornament in, the gift bag tag and putting it all together... I think it's worth it as it looks pretty to look at and now the ornaments have a box they can be stored in for safe keeping.
Without waffling on any longer, here's the finished series of photos.
Finished boxes
A reminder of what is in the box, the rest of them can be seen here
Ornament in the box
On the back of each ornament I put a photo of the kids
All lined up ready for the kids to take them to school
Each year, I usually include the photos of the kids. Here they are:
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B
Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamps: Ornaments keepsakes
Inkpads: Cherry cobbler, gumball green
Cardstock: Cherry cobbler, gumball green, very vanilla
Punches: 1" circle
Accessories: Be of good cheer designer series paper, window frames collection framelits, cherry cobbler tulle, linen thread, basic rhinestone jewels, holiday ornaments framelits, snow flurry bigz die, big shot
Other: Chipboard, tissue paper, paper bag
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The kids and I made salt dough santa's as decorations (and name tags for Christmas presents). When I had leftover dough, I used my sweet pressed cookie stamps to make some different ornaments.
When glammed up with some ink, tulle, designer series paper toppers and popped into cellophane bags they make great downline gifts for my team.
By the way, these are the santa's the kids made. Aren't they cute?
Stampin' Up! materials use:
Ink: Real red
Accessories: Sweet pressed cookie stamps - special events, real red 3/8" taffeta ribbon (retired), good cheer designer series paper, candlelight christmas specialty designer series paper, early espresso tulle, cellophane bags
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This past weekend I celebrated family Christmas with my Oma (grandmother), aunts, uncles and cousins' on my mum's side. Wanting to give Oma a gift but unsure what to give her as she has most thing she wants/needs, I gave her a bundle of handmade cards. I figured who can't use handmade cards...
I decided to make the cards packaging look pretty but with limited time (when I left it to the last minute), I settled on using a brown paper bag from the supermarket and a pile of goodies leftover on my desk.
The cards were a hit! She had used all the ones I had given her a year or two ago. I think this will be an annual gift (along with an updated photo of my crew as Oma has a lovely photo wall).
Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamps: Scentsational season, sassy salutations
Inkpads: Lucky limeade, early espresso, real red, bashful blue
Cardstock: Bashful blue, whisper white, real red, lucky limeade
Punches: Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle
Accessories: Big shot, tasteful trims die, holiday collection framelits, cherry cobbler bakers twine, designer vintage faceted buttons, candlelight christmas specialty designer series paper, two tags die, basic black stampin; write marker
Other: Wooden clothes peg, brown paper bag
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Yesterday I posted about an ornament PDF, today I have a PDF regarding handmade bows.
Click here to download the PDF
The sample uses be of good cheer designer series paper ($18.95) but it would also look amazing in the candlelight christmas specialty designer series paper ($21.95) or even the festival or prints designer series paper stack ($11.95). Contact me to order yours today.
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Remember the ornament on the front cover of the holiday catalogue or the ornaments class I was teaching last month? Stampin' Up! have released a PDF to make a simplified ornament using the ornaments keepsakes stamp set and holiday ornaments framelits (ornaments keepsakes bundle) and I just had to share it with you.
Click here to download the PDF
If you don't have the ornaments keepsakes stamp set or matching framelits yet, contact me to order yours today.
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