Loving Honeycomb!

As a new Stampin'Up demonstrator, I recently held my first workshop. I love the new Honeycomb Embossing Folder. I tried for weeks to figure out how they cut the hexagon shapes out to fit into it.  I finally decided that I either had to hand cut them or cut them on my Silhouette. I opted for the Silhouette...and they fit perfect!  These cards featured the "Tea for Two" Designer Series Paper, Riding Hood Red and Pear Pizzazz cardstock, Riding Hood Red pleated ribbon and Riding Hood Red and Old Olive Stamp pads. The stamp set is "Perfectly Penned".  The group enjoyed piecing together their cards and did a great job!

 We also tried the Boutique Boxes Designer Printed Kit Bundle and made some gift card boxes.

Let it Snow..even in Florida

My eight year old grandaughter, Paige loves to do crafts.  Yearly, just before Christmas she comes over to make some personal Christmas creations for the family. This year, she did three different craft projects and helped bake cookies too! Clearly, she enjoyed the crafts the most. All three projects were Pinterest inspired with adaptations made to them. We hope you enjoy them. (Paige is pretty excited to be showcased on the blog and Pinterest too!)
The first project was Hershey Bar Snowmen. These involved punching, stamping, embossing, gluing, and cutting. The hats were cut on my Silhouette. Then, Paige decided that they needed to be embossed and went about embossing the hats and the stripes with the Sizzix Tim Holtz Cuttlebug "Swirls" folder. The scarves were strips cut from a red/white swirled piece of felt which I picked up at Joanne's. Scalloped circles were 2". The stamps used for the faces, snowflakes and text "Let it snow" were from the StampinUp retired "Cold Play" set. She is an excellent rubber stamper and didn't even mess one up! Here is the finished product.

Now for Paige's step by step pictoral guide.

Christmas Kits from a friend

Lil made up some 'kits' for the group and I brought them back with me. Yesterday, we put most of them together. There were some beautiful embossed Christmas cards and tags. Marti and Robbie had a bit of a problem with the 'darn little pieces'...but they got them done. Thanks Lil! We love them!

Hurricane Crafting

I recently visited Lil in MA and Hurricane Sandy followed me up there. We spent the time making tags and cards. These are some of what we did.
The first is an embossed Cricut ornament tag. The angels were from a cardmaking kit that Lil had but you could also cut images from old Christmas cards. They are holding stars punched from glittered cardstock. Lil had the perfect gold cord to finish them off!~

 

Marge had shared a pattern to hand cut Santa/Elf hats. I cut them on the road and these are some that Lil put together.

 

Combined a Cricut penguin with glittered cardstock and snowflakes for this cutie. The lollipop is done with Stickles.

The last was a gingerbread cookie creation. Pan and cookies are Silhouette patterns.

 

 

Shhh more tags

Marge had made these and brought them to the meeting last week. The tags were very whimsical and fun! I know she is going to hate putting them on gifts!

Still More Tags

Ok so we are stuck on tags atm.  The penguins are made from the Stampin Up Owl Builder Punch and were an idea I saw on Pinterest. The snowmen and stockings are dies cut from my Silhouette Machine. I used the knit hat to cut the baseball hat for the little boy snowman. The stockings were "stuffed" with candy and cookie stickers.

Gerber Daisy thank you

These are the thank you cards that I made for my neice. I used Gerber daisies (since that is what she is having in the wedding) and vellum embossed leaves. The background is embossed with the Cuttlebug Embossing folder "Julie's Garden". When I found this folder, I loved it...especially since the neice's name was also Julie!