Another Box?

Good Saturday morning Peeps!!! Another cold one here, I got a little Christmas shopping done today before heading to work, Yeah!!! Oh and I also made this cute little box. I can't seem to stop with the bags and boxes lately! I really love the frosty days DS paper from SU! It has such non-traditional Christmas colors! I am on a tangerine tango HIGH over here!!!!!

The box is made with a 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 sheet of card stock. I used the word window punch to make the opening, punched twice, and covered the inside with a small strip of acetate. Filled it with some chocolate kisses with almonds. Another cute Little gift to give to a friend, neighbor or co-worker.

Short post today! Have a great weekend! Happy Stamping!

Vicki

Urban Thank you

TGIF Peeps!! Hope you had a great week and are ready for some weekend fun and maybe some or alot of stamping time!

Today's card is one I made with some of the SU Urban Garden DS paper. I saw a card very similar to this one on a blog a while back and for the life of me I can not find it now to show you.

I loved the SU set "Inspired by Nature" when it came out and was one of the first stamp sets I order, but I have never used it, til last night. I know, I don't know why I waited so long, I really like these flowers and they are some of my all time favorites IRL. Purple cone flower of Echinacea or even the Black eyed Susan, I love them and their shape and how they can grow just about anywhere, I have even seen them peeking up and blooming through the bricks in the alley next to the building where I work. They sustain in almost impossible circumstances, I just love that about them, but I digress.

The flower stamp was "inked" up with versmark and stamped on the patterned paper from the Urban Garden DS pack and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I used kiwi as my card base and some not quite navy and baja breeze for the accent stripes. The sentiment is from the SU Upsy Daisy set and stamped in navy on whisper white card stock. I added the baja button with a tiny strip of navy threaded through the button holes to resemble thread. The sentiment is up on dimensionals. That's it....very easy peasy lemon squeezy!!!!

That's all for today, have a great day and Happy Stamping!

Vicki

One Sheet Merry & Bright Bag

Happy Thursday Morning Peeps!!! Another cold day here, tonight is the Webb City Christmas parade, but with temps in the upper 20's, I think I will stay home with a cup of hot cocoa and sit at my stamping table and work on some fun card or project and watch Ugly Betty and Grays Anatomy. How about you?

Yesterday on my friend Lois' blog she posted a cute little top note bag. Isn't is adorable?

So it got me wanting to make another bag.
I found a video tutorial on how to fold this one sheet bag. It has no cuts, it is all in the folding. It is a bit tricky, I watched the video about 10 times and still had a hard time, but finally it clicked, well sorta of, and I got it to come together. I used the ski slope DS paper again, love it! I cut my paper to be 8 1/2 x 11 inches and scored like it said in the video and then used sticky tape to hold it all together, side note, if you are going to make one of these and punch a circle in the top, do that before you tape it all together, because we all know that you can't punch through several layers of paper at one time.

I used the snowman from the Big on Christmas set, I just inked up the center of the stamp where the snowman is and stamped on some whisper white cardstock, I colored his hat and nose in with my markers and used a blender pen to color the hatband in with some baja breeze ink from my ink pad. I cut him out and mounted him with some dimensionals onto a 1 3/8 inch circle and mounted that on to a scallop circle. I used the Merry & Bright set for my sentiment. Tied it all up with some baja and sheer white ribbon and tied on the sentiment with some silver cording. Isn't it cute?

Here is a side view of the bag:



Now what to fill this with? Any suggestions?

Hope you all have a super great day and have some stamping time! Bye for now.

Vicki

Hot Cocoa Kits

Good Wednesday morning peeps! Hope ya'll are having a great day so far!

Do you remember a while back I mentioned I wanted to make some hot cocoa kits? I finally found a template I liked, at Papertrey, made by Lauren Meader, and so last night I got busy and made a couple. I love the SU in color tangerine tango and the frosty days DS paper. My first one is made with them. I used the SU top note die to add to my flap and stamped my favorite snowman on very vanilla card stock with timber brown stazon, I added just a touch of chocolate chip with my blender pen for some shadow. Here is a picture of the inside, it holds two hot cocoa packets and two small candy canes.



The next one is made with another of SU's in colors, baja breeze. I cased this one from my friend Lois, she made these beautiful Christmas Cards for our stamping group, so I borrowed her idea for this cocoa kit.




These are super easy and fun, they are the size of a music CD, and could be used to hold one for a gift or for gift cards or any little gift or treat. I was thinking giant cookies would be cute too.

Here is the inside of the snowflake one:




Well, that's all for today. Thanks for stopping by and Happy stamping!

Vicki

Folded Medallions

Good Tuesday morning peeps!

Today I have a couple of cards to show you, they are made with the triangle folded medallion technique seen here.

They are so fun, you just got to give it a try! The first is made with the ski slope designer paper from SU. I really love the colors in that paper, the baja and of course chocolate chip is one of my favorite colors. I made the Merry Christmas sentiment to look like a banner, I sorta rolled it one way and then the other to make get the look I was going for. I did carried away with all the rhinestones on this one, but it sure is sparkle-y IRL!!!! I used the cuttlebug on my BG paper and highlighted the swirls with some white craft ink and a sponge. It is a busy, busy card, but I like it!!!

This next card is a semi-CASE of this Fabulous card. I change a few things but used the same colors and designer paper, SU Haiku, Awesome colors in that pack!




You need to try these folded medallions they are so fun!!

That's all I have for today, hope ya'll have a great day and Happy Stamping!

Vicki

Snowman Gift Tags and Box

Good Monday morning Peeps! It is the season for freezing here!!! BRRRRRRRRR......cold, cold and even some snow!


Today I have a fun little project for ya! I borrowed this snowman stamp from a friend Saturday night, I just love him!!! I say borrowed but I think she had no choice but to let me borrow it because I told her to keep an eye on it because I might just sneek it into my bag.

I started by stamping the snowman image on watercolor paper but because it is so small I ended up just coloring him with my markers, just the hat and the scarf, so regular cardstock would be fine. I cut im out with my circle nesties and layered him with some bashful blue and night of navy that was also cut with the nesties, one scallop and one petite scallop. The tag opens to allow for a personal greeting on the inside. I layered in a white circle on the inside.

The box was made with

this template. I adjusted the size to 3x3 to accommodate the tags. It holds 6 nicely.


I tied some bashful blue grosgrain ribbon around the top and made a bow. For the box I sorta reversed the colors and used the navy behind the snowman and used the bashful blue on the box, a small square that I ran through the cuttlebug with the swiss dot embossing folder.


That's all for today, Hope you have a great Monday, and Happy Stamping!

Vicki