Festive Phrases Gift Card Holder

Happy Monday! I hope your week is off to an awesome start. It’s cold and rainy here today, but I’m making the most of it in my stamp studio. As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to share the projects I made for our team meeting last week. In addition to the ornament swap that I posted on Sunday, we also did a Shoebox Swap. We all had a lot of fun putting all of the projects together!

After making SO many Christmas cards recently, I decided to create my project for Valentine’s Day. The soon-to-be retiring Festive Phrases stamp set has an adorable sentiment that had yet to see some ink, so I paired that with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies and created this little gift card holder. If you didn’t want to use it as a gift card holder, you could easily just stamp or write on the little pull-out card.

I wanted to add a little more texture to the front of the treat bag, so I used the new Scattered Sequins embossing folder on just the front of the bag. That embossing folder is brand new and will be available for purchase on January 3, 2018 in the new Stampin’ Up Occasions catalog! I colored in the stamped image with my Stampin’ Blends markers and added the trio of little sparkly hearts for fun. I hope you enjoy this project as much as I do! 

You can order almost all of the supplies I used by today clicking the images below to head on over to my online store. 

Have a great day! 

Product List

Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies [137547]	Festive Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set [144960]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Old Olive Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144597]
Pink Pirouette Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144604]	Scattered Sequins Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [145649]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314]
Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack [144131]	Powder Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144244]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Twine Baker's Whisper White [124262]	Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995]

Merry Little Ornament Exchange

Hello and Happy Saturday stamping friends! I hope you are enjoying your day today! Over the next couple of days I am going to be sharing with you some of the projects I made for our team meeting this past Monday. One of the projects for our meeting was a handmade ornament exchange. It was so awesome to see what everyone came up with!

I immediately went to Pinterest to search for inspiration and came upon a video tutorial for this 3-D Snowflake Ornament from Carrie Rhoades. She shared a fantastic tutorial to create this ornament on her blog. HERE is the link to check it out! The ornament itself is simply created from a 6x6 sheet of paper. Once you assemble the ornament, you can embellish it in SO many different ways, which I love!

To package the ornament up, I repurposed an empty box from my Birchbox subscription. (PS: If you love getting surprise beauty goodies delivered to your door every month, check out Birchbox HERE)

The box even had a piece of red tissue paper in there already, so it must have been meant to be. I just added a piece of Merry Little Christmas DSP to the top of the box and stuck some of the 7/8” Black and White Striped Ribbon around the box top. I love that the ribbon has wire in it, so it is really easy to work with.

It seems like everyone is “mad for Buffalo Plaid” right now and I’m on board with that trend, for sure! Then I just went for lots of sparkle and shine! It IS the holiday season after all! I added some details with die cuts and my favorite products: Glimmer Paper, Rhinestones and Wink of Stella. I colored in that center rhinestone with the Old Olive Stampin’ Blends Marker to give it a little extra “pop.” 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! All of the products used on my ornament (except that gift box, haha) can be purchased in my online store. But hurry, many of the items will be retiring soon! Click on the product photos below to order. 

Have a happy day!

Product List

Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits Dies [144678]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Trim Your Stocking Thinlits Dies [144682]	Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper [144621]	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314]
7/8" (2.2 Cm) Striped Ribbon [144624]	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702]	Foil Snowflakes [144642]	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856]	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220]
Mini Tinsel Trim Combo Pack [144636]	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897]	Old Olive Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144573]	1/8" Circle Handheld Punch [134365]	Big Shot [143263]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Guest Designer at Inspired By All the Little Things

Hello and Happy Saturday to you! 

I am SUPER excited to announce that I was asked to be a 

Creative Guest Designer over at Inspired By All the Little Things. 

I am truly honored to share my project with these amazingly creative gals! 

Thank you SO much! 

Check out the challenge and please play along! 

Here is the inspiration photo:

When I saw the photo, I immediately wanted to create a Christmas card using a white/gray/silver color combo. I wanted to try to keep it on the clean side, but with some texture and dimension. I don’t usually make cards that don’t involve a LOT of color, but I really enjoyed putting this card together. 

So crisp and clean! 

On the inside of the card, I heat embossed the sentiment and snowflakes with Silver Embossing Powder and added a little strip of silver washi tape from the Year of Cheer Specialty Washi Tape Bundle. I always like to decorate the inside of my cards because I think it adds a little extra detail. 

I really hope you enjoyed my card today! Please hop on over to the Inspired By All the Little Things blog and play along this week. 

Here is a quick rundown of the Stampin’ Up products I used on my card: 

• Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
• Card Front Builder Thinlits Dies
• Snowflake Sentiments Stamp Set
• Silver Metallic Thread
• Rhinestone Basic Jewels
• Silver Embossing Powder
• Stitched Shapes Framelits
• Whisper White Baker’s Twine
• Year of Cheer Embellishments
• Year of Cheer Specialty Washi Tape 
• Silver Foil Sheets 
• Smoky Slate Cardstock
• Whisper White Thick Cardstock

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Not So Spooky Pumpkins for FMS308 and PP366

Well hello there! It’s been quite some time since I have posted but I thought I would dust the cobwebs off this blog today and say hello! 

Where did I start when making this card? I hopped on over to Freshly Made Sketches for inspiration for my card layout. As soon as I saw the sketch, I knew I had to give it a go. 

I had NO idea what kind of card I wanted to make, so I checked in on the new challenge over at 

The Paper Players and the decision was made to make a Halloween-themed card. I’m not sure this is Clean-and-Simple, one day I hope to get better with that. I love the layers! 

Y’all should check out both of these blogs for amazing creative inspiration.

I didn’t really do much stamping on this card, but after the long hiatus I’ve been on, I’ll take what I can get. Ha! I used the Stampin’ Up Patterned Pumpkins Thinlits Dies which coordinate perfectly with the pumpkin paper in the Spooky Night Designer Series Paper. Super easy! 

 Although these aren’t exactly “spooky” pumpkins, they sure are cute. The expression on the smallest pumpkin’s face cracks me up! He looks really worried about something. It might be those gold glitter flourishes I added for a pop of sparkle but ended up looking like crazy arms on the big pumpkin. Oops! In retrospect, that really is kind of spooky. 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! There are going to be a lot of changes here soon…all good things, I promise. Enjoy your day! 

Happy Stamping! 

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