12 Days of Christmas - Day 10 Cookie Decorating Kit

It's Day 10 & I'm thinking about yummy Christmas treats.

Combine that with my passion for snowflakes, and voila!  You've got snowflake sugar cookies all baked and ready to decorate.

We have the most gorgeous cookie stamps and they are really easy to use!

 

 Round treat cups are perfect for sprinkles and they have a self adhesive base that you add a punched scallop circle to.  You'll need the 2 3/4" size.

I've used a small cello bag for the icing.  Stampin' Up! carry a smaller bag which would look better but I didn't get my order in on time!  Oops!  

Then all you need is a cute package.  Brown paper bags are popular this year (Trace!) and I love them with red and white accents, so the snowflake die and my version of Rudolph make another appearance.  The tag is from Tags Till Christmas.

Another gift idea may be to whip up some placemats with our yummy fabric.  I nearly fainted with joy when they brought out the Spice Cake fabric despite the fact that I don't sew!  Yay, thanks SU!  Thankfully my daughter loves to sew.  Pretty good for year 9, don't you think?!

Yes, I'm proud of her talent!

So that's it for day 10. 
Have a super Friday!
Cheers
Karen

12 Days of Christmas - Day 7 Snowflakes & Ribbon Card

When you have designer series paper that you love, it's an added bonus to find it's suitable for a variety of occasions.  I just discovered this with Comfort Cafe.  

I like the balance in this card, the colours are gentle and I've incorporated vintage brads, glimmer paper & lace.  Some of my favourite things!

Supplies used: 
Stamp Set:  Greetings of the Season. By far, the BEST Christmas greeting set I've ever had!
Cardstock:  Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Marina Mist
Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink: Marina Mist
Designer Series Paper:  Comfort Cafe
Snow Flurry Die & Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder for the Big Shot
Blossom Punch, 1 3/4" Scallop Circle & 1 3/8" Circle
Crumb Cake Seam Binding & Lace ribbon with an Antique Brad.

Wishing you a very happy and productive day!

Cheers
Karen
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12 Days of Christmas - Day 6 Decorated Candle Jars

Hi Everyone

I am really enjoying doing these projects!  I hope you like them too!

This is an easy way to turn your old jars into pretty decorations to fill with candles, tealights, or even coloured stones & sand.

The decorations are all on the outside so safe to burn without the fear of setting the house on fire!  Always a bonus!

This first jar uses up the negatives from the Snow Flurry die.  It's just silver glimmer paper & I've used glue dots to attact it to the outside of the jar.   Blue wide grosgrain ribbon makes a lovely bow, and although you can't see it, there's a candle inside from a previous post.

This jar lends itself beautifully to the Triple Layer Doily punch (R) because it looks like a snowflake when used on the last setting.  Attaching them was tricky.   I first tried vellum adhesive but it wasn't strong enough.  Scratch that!  Then I found my old zyron sticker maker and that worked really well.  For any stubborn bits I used a mini glue dot.  The Champagne snowflakes were punched and cut in half.  Cherry Cobbler seam binding was used for the bow.  If I was doing this again though, I'd use our SU sticky sheets to adhere to the glimmer paper before punching out.  But beware, those triple layer punches are a bit tempermental (aren't we all at this time of year!!) so you might have to try a small piece first.

 

This gorgeous scented burgundy candle was stamped with White Craft ink (R) but you could use Staz On instead.  I've used the tissue paper technigue, details in a previous post.  I love this technique because the candle burns as is.

So there you have it.  A lovely table display for the festive season.

Enjoy your day!
Karen

12 Days of Christmas - Day 5 & SUO #60 A Sparkly Tree Card

Today's card is all sparkly.

It doesn't need an explanation as to how it was made, but here's the supply list for you if you'd like to have a go:

Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree, Greetings of the Season, Joyeus Celebrations (bow)
Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue & Silver Glimmer Paper
Paper:  Festival of Prints DSP
Ink:  Always Artichoke Classic & marker, Island Indigo
Accessories:  Faceted buttons, Dazzling Details
Scallop Circle punch, paper piercer, Snow Flurry Die & Big Shot.

Don't you always need "just one more" card?!

Have a super day.
Karen

Mojo Monday 268

I walked into the studio this morning to the biggest mess you've ever seen - actually, you've probably seen something similar on your craft table!  
Basically, I finished my crafting last night and just got up and walked away!  Have you ever done that?  Yeh, right!

Well, not knowing what to clean up first, I avoided the lot, switched on the computer and there was this weeks Mojo Monday!  Aha, a way to skip over the cleaning and make more mess I said to myself!   Nothing quite like a Mojo Monday to get your....mojo going.

So, here it is:

I loved the simplicity of the sketch and as soon as I saw it had an idea of what I wanted to do.  So much so that the card was made, photographed and blogged in just under 40 minutes.  Whoa girl, slow down or you'll meet yourself coming back!!

Supplies I used today:
Stamp Set: Snow Swirled and a little snowflake filler stamp from retired set Short & Sweet
Cardstock: Early Espresso, Co-ordinations Cherry Cobbler & Whisper White
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Long retired Christmas Cocoa Specialty - LOVE IT! Shelli, please bring it back...pleeeease!
Silver Glimmer Paper
Scallop Circle Die, Snow Flurry Die & Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder with the Big Shot, 3/4" circle punch & Basic Pearls

Now, it's off to do the cleaning.  Yep, reality calls!
Cheers
Karen

Christmas Decorations

If you've had a look at the holiday catalogue this year you'll have seen the ornament on the front cover.  And while I was at Heartfelt with Stampin' Up! recently, I saw lots of variations on this theme, and some very gorgeous creations.

Here's my version of the ornament with a banner.

 

Supplies for the fancy ornament:  Whisper White Cardstock, Silver Glimmer Paper, Real Red Basics DSP for small rosette, Real Red Classic Ink & Lucky Limeade Classic Ink, Bakers Twine, Hot Glue Gun, Ornaments Keepsakes Stamp Set & co-ordinating Framelits for the Big Shot, Snow Flurry Bigz Die, Simply Scored.

 

Supplies for the banner:  Wild Wasabi, Whisper White Cardstock, Silver & Cherry Cobbler Glimmer Paper, Two Tags Die, Snow Flurry Die & Typeset Alphabet (R), Real Red grosgrain ribbon.

Supplies for this simple ornament:  Snow Flurry Bigz Die, Glimmer Paper, Real Red Cardstock and circle punch, then emboss with Petals a Plenty folder.  The rosette was a strip of Real Red Basics DSP scored every half inch on the Simply Scored, folded accordian style and adhered with hot glue.

I am loving working with Glimmer Paper.  It's really easy to use and the glitter doesn't come off all over the place.  Unless of course you are cutting lots of snowflakes with your Big Shot as I did for this project..giggle..but I just wiped it all over my face and clothes so I'm-a-sparkling all over!!