Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to you all! Today, I wanted to share some Valentine's Day gifts we made for Ian and Joelle's class and little treats for my three munchkins. 

Ian's class will be getting Sponge Bob silly bands but we wanted to dress it up somehow. Then, Ian suggested making Sponge Bob out of punches. So we went at it and came up with this:

We didn't have time to duplicate 26 of them, so I decided that it would only be right to give this original to Ian.

It was a combined effort but I have to say how amazed I am at Ian's creativity.
 
{Project Details}
Stamp:none
Ink: Basic Black and Tempting Turquoise Stampin' Write Markers.
Paper: Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Soft Suede, and Whisper White Card Stock; Red Glimmer Paper
Accessories:Big Shot and Petal Cone Die; 1-3/8" Square and 1/2" Circle Punches; Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack.



Joelle's gifts were also silly bands and a little chocolate bar, but I really didn't like the packaging (star wars with bright yellow candy bar didn't really scream Valentine's Day). My solution was to cover it up with a regular white envelope. 

1. Sealed the envelope and then cut in half to get two little pockets.
2. With the jumbo I {Love} Love wheel stamp, rolled it over the bottom section of each pocket.
3. Adhered the cupcake die cuts(used with my Big Shot).
4. Inserted all the goodies and folded the top of the pocket over, tucking it behind the top of the cupcake.
5. For a little more pizazz, I punched the top of the pocket with the Pinking Hearts Border Punch. 

**For some, I even crimped the whole pocket for more texture and dimension.

{Project Details}
Stamp: Gifted (116982-W/120480-C); I {Love} Love Jumbo Wheel (117084)
Ink: Riding Hood Red Classic Ink; Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker.
Paper: Chocolate Chip and Real Red Card Stock.
Accessories: Big Shot and Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder; Pinking Hearts Border Punch; and Crimper.


Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy the day with your loved ones!
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Love Camp

I wanted to share with you some projects that we made at Stamp Club. Can't wait for Valentine's!!!

Treat Box Card

It's a treat card where you can insert chocolates or any choice of treat on the side box with a little tag for you to write your special message to a friend or loved one.  (ooh la la)

This fun folding card was inspired from another demonstrator, Lori Vonada.  Open the top and bottom flaps and you get this:

  Flip the sides open and you get this:

Open the top and bottom flaps and you get this:

And you open it up again, you'll be taken back to the beginning.

With this card, you can't help but keep unfolding and unfolding and . . . unfolding! (Warning: you may get dizzy from having too much fun with this card!)

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12 Days 'Til Christmas

Can you believe it? We are less than 2 weeks a way 'til Christmas. We just got back from a wonderful ski trip to Park City, UT. We have made it a yearly vacation now that the kids are older and are able to attend ski school. I have to say that it was quite fun to challenge myself with snowboarding! I was terrified that I would injure myself because I have a rather weak back but as you can see...I'm alive and well!

So, would you like to see my project for today?

I decided to take the advent calendar and make it into a banner. And since we've been gone, my kids will be counting down 12 days. I tried to put "holiday words" together to make a word count of 12 (peace, joy, & noel) and behind each letter is a special little treat. When I originally thought of this, I wanted to put lollipops with it but since I don't have any in the house, chocolates it shall be.

I just love the holidays but it would help more if this weather in southern California wasn't 85 degrees. Don't hate me, I'm not complaining. But a little frosty weather to go with all the holiday music and decorations, would truly make it merry!

Stop by again tomorrow for more Christmas projects.

{Project Details}
Stamp: A Cute Christmas (120825-W/121133-C), Broadsheet Alphabet (118724-W/120585-C), and Dot-Dot-Dot (115332-W)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, and Real Red Classic Ink; Certainly Celery, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, and Real Red Stampin' Write Markers.
Paper: Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, Real Red and Very Vanilla Card Stock.
Accessories: Big Shot, Polka-Dot Embossing Folder, Table Setting XL Bigz Die; Clear Tinsel.

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Swap Share for Convention 2010

Every year, the highlight of my summer would be my trip to Salt Lake City for a Stampin' Up! Convention. Its a stamper's heaven: seminars on different products and presentations, make and takes, and overflowing of ideas.

One of the many fun things at Convention is swaps. Picture little boys trading baseball cards, but only its demonstrators sharing their creative cards and 10x more fun!

This is one of my cards that I made.

TIP: I used a technique that I like to call "masking with embossing folders". Wow, that's a long name! But the idea is to put chipboard shims in desired shapes (I chose rectangle) and put them on the places you'd like to see the embossed images and the other areas will not get embossed. I've completed a similar project, look here.


{Project Details}
Stamp: Elements of Style
Ink: Baja Breeze Classic Ink Pad; Baja Breeze, Basic Black, and Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Markers.
Paper: Baja Breeze, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla Card Stock.
Accessories: Boho Blossoms, Large Oval, Scallop Oval, and Wide Oval Punches; Big Shot; Perfect Polka Dot and Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder Embossing Dies; White Gel Pen; Basic Pearl Jewels.