Shrink Plastic Wine Glass Charms

Sorry for the dark photo, but you get the idea I hope. These wine charms were made by stamping on Shrink Plastic with Black or Green StazOn ink, then I colored them in if necessary with Bic permanent colored markers. I punched a 1/8" hole at the top for threading through the pre-made wine charms with colored balls on them that I found at our Target Dollar Spot. To shrink, hold your paper piercer or similar tool (a large needle would work) in the hole over a heat-proof surface, then heat with your Heat Tool until it is completely done shrinking. It will flip all over the place while shrinking, but if you hold it down so it doesn't blow away it will not stick to itself.

I used the Holiday Trinkets and Spotlight on Christmas stamp sets. My sister got these for Christmas from me, along with some homemade bath fizzies and a jar of homemade olive oil salt scrub and a retired stamp set. Mom got the same from me in a different scent, but instead of the wine charms she got a handmade desktop calendar.

Dad and my brother-in-law each got a Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit! I hope they use them!

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

Bathing Santa Ornament

I don't remember now where I got this idea...please speak up if it's yours so I can give you credit! Edited to add that it's Lorri Heiling! She had this on her blog and it was so darn cute, I just had to CASE it! Thanks Lorri!

I covered a 4x4 chipboard coaster with Real Red DSP using Anywhere Glue Stick after inking up the coaster edges with Real Red Classic Ink. The belt buckle on the 1/4" Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon was made by punching 2 Horizontal Slot Punch slots and then cutting the Brushed Silver CS down to a square. I attached a Round Tab Punch piece in Basic Black (stamped by painting the words only on the Curly Label Punch Bundle Christmas stamp, then heat embossed in Silver EP) to the photo using SNAIL adhesive. After attaching the photo with the Round Tab Punch to the coaster, I adhered the ribbon and buckle with SNAIL, then clipped the ribbon-topped binder clip to the top.


This could be hung on the Christmas tree, a bulletin board, or if you were to attach a magnet to the back, on the fridge. Make sure to write the year on the back!

Michelle

Christmas Card from Jeannie

Jeannie, a friend of mine in Omaha, sent this Christmas card this year! She's an avid stamper and was making handmade Stampin' Up! cards to send at Christmas long before I was. It's gorgeous!

Thanks Jeannie!

Michelle

Christmas Mice

Here's a Christmas take on the mice cards made with the Pick-a-Petal stamp set. I stamped the santa hats from the Deer Friends set and cut them out. The sentiment tails are from the Window Dressing set. A pom pom on the hats and a Martha Stewart snowflake with mica glitter rounds out the decorations, along with the Silver Elastic Cord bows on the tails. The cheese holes were made with the 3/4" Circle Punch.

Stay warm!

Michelle

Winter Stampin' Retreat - A Few Spaces Left

We have a few spaces left for you in our Winter Stampin' Retreat!

(click image to see and print the full-size pdf file)

Announcing the 1st Winter Stampin' Retreat! You and your friends are invited to join Joyce and I for a girls' weekend away at the Holiday Inn Express Convention Center in Sturgis. All the details are in the flyer. This is our event to show our customers (yes, anyone can come!) and their friends that we appreciate them! Everyone will get a goody bag chock full of Stampin' Up! products including the new Spring/Summer Idea Book & Catalog, and there will be door prizes for everyone!

Bring your stamping and scrapbooking projects and have access to all of our Stampin’ Up! punches, ink pads, Big Shot machine and dies, tools, and stamp sets!

We'll also have Make & Takes for you, and meals will be catered.

I hope you join us, because this is for YOU!

Print the flyer for details and payment information (register by December 31st...we need to order goodies, prizes, and new Idea Book and Catalogs for everyone!). You can also register at http://winterstampinretreat.eventbrite.com/.


Michelle

Snowflake Santa

I got my hands on a Marvy snowflake and Martha Stewart snowflake punch! Here is a punched Santa (CASEd from Lindsey Sasseville, if I remember right...correct me if I'm wrong please!). I covered the snowflakes with Martha Stewart mica glitter.

I just have a few more holiday cards to share, even though Christmas is over. It won't feel like the holidays are over for me until the new year!

Michelle

Juggling Snowballs

Did you keep all the snowballs in the air while juggling everything before Christmas Day?

This card from Old Olive, Basic Black and Kraft CS was made with a retired stamp set called It's Snow Time. I colored the snowman in with an Aquapainter and some Whisper White Craft Ink and some other Classic Ink colors for the details. The snowballs are mini pompoms that I attached with Mini Glue Dots. The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark ink and heat embossed with White EP.

I think he's cute!

Enjoy your day,

Michelle

Merry Christmas!

I hope Santa was good to you!

Michelle

The Reason for the Season

Enjoy your family today,

Michelle

Holiday Icons

Mom gave me this set a few years ago and I do not know the name of it, but it's pretty cool! I stamped the border stamp in Whisper White Craft Ink on Not Quite Navy cardstock then embossed it in White EP. Then I wheeled the center in VersaMark ink with the matching wheel stamp. The icons were stamped in Earth Elements Craft Ink and embossed in Clear EP, then cut out with Paper Snips and affixed with a Stampin' Dimensional.

I doubt that I'll ever let go of this set! Thanks Mom!

See you all tomorrow,

Michelle

20% Off Love You Much Bundle

If you're like me, sometimes it's hard to wait for something new, but this month you can get your hands on new Stampin' Up! products before they come out in the catalog!

It seems early to be thinking of Valentine's Day, the biggest card-sending occasions of the year, but if you order this bundle the day it is available, Tuesday, December 23rd, you can also take advantage of the last day of the free shipping on orders over $70 offer too! Maybe you've got a few retired stamps on your list that are also on sale for 10% off through that day to add to your order and reach the free shipping level?

It's easy to order online anytime at http://2stampis2b.stampinup.net with the Shop Now button.


Click the image above to see a full-size version of the pdf flyer.

In addition to Valentine's Day cards, here are some more ideas for projects you can make using the Love You Much Bundle:

• Little candy containers using the Sizzix Pillow Box die and Candy Lane Designer Series paper.
• Handmade Valentine's Day boxes for school or home.
• Candy bouquets with stamped accents.
• Candy jar with a Designer Series paper belly band and stamped tag.
• Sweet words jar: Take a glass jar and decorate it with paper and stamps. Then put a bunch of slips of paper into the jar that say why you love the recipient. The recipient takes out one slip of paper each day.
• A decorated photo frame.
• A Valentine's gift wrapped in Candy Lane Designer Series paper.
• Confetti made from punched out hearts; good for putting on tables or beds, or in a cello bag as filler.
• Place settings (napkin holder, name tents, etc.) for a special Valentine's dinner.
• A 50 Reasons I Love You book.
  

Michelle

Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit Sorry Card

Here's a sorry card from my Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit. I absolutely love the Puns from the Past stamp set! If you don't know it, that's an old-fashioned typewriter eraser! I Used Kraft, Whisper White, and Cameo Coral cardstock, along with some DSP from the Hostess set of paper. Inks are Basic Brown, Chocolate Chip, and Cameo Coral applied with a Blender Pen to the eraser. A touch of 1/4" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon finished off this simple card.

You won't be happy if your hubby has to give you this, but won't you feel better that he at least recognized he messed up? Ha!

See you tomorrow,

Michelle

Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit Anniversary Card

This card, part of my Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit, would work nicely as an anniversary card.

I first cut the Top Note shape out of the Sweet Always DSP with my Big Shot, then I stamped the Always bird in VersaMark ink then heat embossed it with Clear EP. I used a sponge dauber and some Close to Cocoa Classic Ink to sponge in circles over the bird. That filled in the flower detail in the stamped bird and shadowed around the image, leaving the bright DSP behind it. I thought it turned out really cool!


Stay warm,

Michelle

Santa Treats

I made a few of these cute santa candy cane holders for my son's kindergarten class party. I cut out the Real Red CS with an oval Nestabilities die and used the Slit Punch to thread the candy cane through.


To make his boots black, I first inked up the stamp in Real Red Classic Ink, then quickly wiped off the red boots with a paper towel, then colored them in with the Black Stampin' Write Journaler before stamping him on Whisper White cardstock. I managed to quickly cut around each during my son's school music program from the orchestra and all the way through preschool and up to the 5th grade performances before his class performed the finale!

I also had time while waiting during the program to attach him to the nestie oval with a Stampin' Dimensional and adhere the pom pom to his hat with a Mini Glue Dot!



I think they were a hit with the kids at the party!

Michelle

Charlie, You Made My Day!

Look at all the cool stuff my friend Charlie sent us! I am so lucky! We got 3 decorated candy canes, a package of Candy Cane Seeds, a beautifully stitched snowman card, some really cute Santa candy bars, and 3 gorgeous gourds that Charlie painted!



Charlie and I have birding in common, can you tell?

How cute is this little guy?

If you'd like to see more of Charlie's work, including stamped and painted items, go to http://charliescraftroom.com:80/portfolio_RubberStamp2.htm and have a look around! I am nuts about her work, especially the gourd paintings!

If you'd like to see her action (for whatever she brings to work on), she's signed up for retreat in January! Come have fun with us all!

Thanks so very much Charlie, very cool!

Michelle

Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit Mother's Day Card

Using the Best Wishes stamp set and Georgia Peach DSP with coordinating colors, I made this Mother's Day card to go with the Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit, explained here.

Make yourself a set for your husband to give to you for Christmas!

Michelle

Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit Valentine's Card

Here's a Valentine's Day card (lovingly CASEd from Jenn Dierks' card here) that I made for my Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit that I first showed you the other day.

Would you like to get this card from your significant other? I would, even if I had to make it myself :-)

Keep warm!

Michelle

Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit Birthday Card

Yesterday I explained the Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit. Here's the birthday card:

Stay warm!

Michelle

Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit

I read about this idea over on www.SplitCoastStampers.com and just had to make it. It's a kit of 6 cards for a husband to give his wife throughout the year to keep him out of the doghouse. I printed out a table for him to write in the dates so as not to forget her birthday, their anniversary, Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day, and there's a card for "just because" and one for "I'm sorry." The cards are packaged in a custom-made Kraft and acrylic box, and the clear lid is decorated wtih the Cheers to You beer mug image. I used some black StazOn ink and a clear alphabet stamp set I had to stamp the "Husband's 6-Pack Survival Kit" on the clear lid.

I'm thinking these would make a great Christmas gift for a few guys I know, especially if accompanied with a real 6-pack of beer!

I'll be showing you some closeups of the cards in subsequent posts.

Have a great day!

Michelle

Desktop Calendar

Here are a few desktop calendars I made out of an acrylic photo frame from Wal-Mart. I slipped a piece of DSP in the frame, turned it over, then Sticky Stripped the MS Publisher-printed wallet calendar on the front (2 brads fasten the calendar together), added a small stack of post-its, a customized RSVP pen with a tube of DSP in the barrel that is held on by a piece of ribbon that is stuck in between the plastic with some Sticky Strip. Some ribbon, die-cut blooms, and felt fusion flowers attached with brads decorate the top.

Easy peasy!

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

Candy Kabobs

At club we did two projects: Tile Coasters (a big hit!) and these Christmas Candy Kabobs that I first saw on Andrea Walford's wonderful blog:

We used the 2 greens from the Ski Slope DSP and Olive Olive CS, each color punched from the 3 different sizes of circle punches that Andrea recommends. And we used the Large Star Punch as I don't have the small one. For another variation, you could spear foil-wrapped Reeses cups or any other favorite Christmas candy on the bamboo skewer.

Are these cute or what? We had a very fun time making our projects and sampling all the potluck holiday food everyone brought. Mom took the lead on the tile project and we did them a little different this time by using Clear Embossing Powder over the craft ink instead of spraying acrylic sealer over them. They look really cool! Everyone made a set of 4 tiles to keep or give as a gift. I think some of you are even going to go into Christmas gift production with the tiles, huh?

The other fun thing we did that the Club gals came up with was brought a Christmas card to exchange. We had a nice variety and got some great ideas, and everyone went home with a different card! Here's a photo of the whole batch:

Good job girls!

See you tomorrow!

Michelle

Last I Wish Page Set

This is the last set of pages I made with the I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit...14 pages in all (plus 16 3x3 notecards and leftovers that could make another 10 pages!).

All I have to do is print out our holiday photos and put them in...holiday book completed!

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit set #6

I love these 2 pages I made with my I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit! I added the Felt Flurries snowflake, Vintage Brads, and Jumbo Eyelet to the right-hand page and the 1-1/4" Riding Hood Red Striped ribbon and Silver Elastic Cord to the left-hand page.

I'm going to have a full scrapbook this holiday!

Michelle

Holiday Open House Door Prize

This was my contribution to the door prizes offered last Friday at the Sturgis Parade of Lights Holiday Open House...a set of 5 different Christmas cards with envelopes in a custom-made matching box, and a mini stamp and Basic Black Ink Spot. I hope the winner enjoys it!

Thanks to Wendy for pulling the event together!

Michelle

Retired Stamp Sets List

Get free shipping on all orders over $70 from December 9-23, along with 10% off the Retiring Stamp Sets! Click the image below to go to the pdf file for printing!

Get 'em while you still can! Go to http://2stampis2b.stampinup.net and click the "Shop Now" button to place your order, or call me!

Michelle

Winter Stampin' Retreat

(click image to see and print the full-size pdf file)

Announcing the 1st Winter Stampin' Retreat! You and your friends are invited to join Joyce and I for a girls' weekend away at the Holiday Inn Express Convention Center in Sturgis. All the details are in the flyer. This is our event to show our customers and their friends that we appreciate them! Everyone will get a goody bag chock full of Stampin' Up! products including the new Spring/Summer Idea Book & Catalog, and there will be door prizes for everyone!

Bring your stamping and scrapbooking projects and have access to all of our Stampin’ Up! punches, ink pads, Big Shot machine and dies, tools, and stamp sets!

We'll also have Make & Takes for you, and meals will be catered.

I hope you join us, because this is for YOU!

Print the flyer for details and payment information (hurry, the deadline is soon!). You can also register at http://winterstampinretreat.eventbrite.com/.


Michelle

I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit set #5

I really got a lot of mileage out of the I Wish SS kit: 14 scrapbook pages and 16 notecards with a lot left over! Here are some more:

Have a great day!

Michelle

I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit set #4

Yep, another I Wish SS kit set of 2 pages.

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle

I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit set #3

Here's another set of 6x6 scrapbook pages I made with the I Wish SS kit:

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

Sturgis Parade of Lights Holiday Open House

I hope to see you there! Click on the image below for more details:

Have a great day!

Michelle

I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit set #2

Here are 2 more pages I made from the I Wish SS Kit. Love that kit!

See you tomorrow!

Michelle

I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit pages

I made 14 scrapbook pages and 16 gift cards with 1 I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit, and had lot of the kit left to make more! Here are two pages:

More to come!

Michelle

Old Olive Sparkly Trees

I stamped Lovely as a Tree in Old Olive Craft Ink and heat embossed them with Iridescent Ice EP. The sentiment is Heard from the Heart, and the whole thing is cut out with the Top Note Bigz Die and mounted on Old Olive CS that has the corners clipped with the Ticket Corner Punch.

Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate your visits and comments!

Michelle

Deer Friends Pocket Card - Angel

Mish Mash inspired me to make pocket cards, and this is another one I made with the Deer Friends Hostess Level 2 stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by,

Michelle