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Merry day before the day before Christmas Eve. 

We spent the day today at my in laws celebrating Christmas.  I love my in laws.  You don't hear that very often huh?  I do though.  They are awesome people. 

So today I wanted to show you 2 of the tags we made at the meeting.  The first one was from the Ornamental Elegance kit.  It is the ornament you see on the cover of the Holiday Catalog.  You can buy all the supplies to make the ornament and then of course you have the stuff to make a million of them if you want.  The kit made 10.  I thought it would be fun to make them at the meeting. 

Except the kit came with no directions.  OY! 

Took me awhile to figure it out and then thought to check out the You Tube.  I was on target. 

So here is the kit version:

It is very pretty and pretty big.  It says Merry Christmas on the back.  I didn't think to take a pic of that. 

The kit is sold out but if you'd like to know what supplies to order to make your own, just let me know.


Here is another tag we made.  Alot more simple.

Watercolor Winter and Teeny Tiny Wishes sets.  Naturals white and soft suede cardstock.  Garden green, crumb cake and early espresso inks.  Big shot, woodgrain embossing folder, wood buttons, vanilla seam binding, window frame framelits, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds and linen thread.


I really like this one.  I left the tails of the ribbon long because I thought it would look pretty on a package. 

Pretty glittery pinecones.

Again, I didn't think to take a pick of the back.  I used Fabulous Phrases to stamp the "to" and "from". 

Alrighty then, I'm pooped.  Everyone and their mother was on the road today and it took forever to get home.  Stay safe out there. 

Blessings, b.

not yet

Well, I haven't taken pics of the projects we made at the group meeting yet.  but I am caught up to date on the December Daily.  I just need to take the pictures to show you. 

So tonight I thought I'd show you another Christmas card. 

Watercolor Winter set.  Garden green, whisper white and crumb cake cardstock.  Garden green, riding hood red, whisper white and cherry cobbler inks.  Big shot, window frame framelits, sticky pearls, paper piercing guide and dimensionals.

I don't think I've shown you this one yet.  Pretty quick and easy card.  It would mail nicely too. 

Although I just remembered I used all my pearls at the group meeting.  I'll have to come up with something else. 

Watercolor Winter and woodgrain sets.  Garden gree, whisper white and crumb cake cardstock.  Garden green, whisper white, cherry cobbler and riding hood red inks.  Big shot, window frame framelits, cherry cobbler seam binding, sticky pearls and dimensionals. 

Here is another version.  I have yet to color in the poinsettia with my aquapainter.  I'll have to try that soon. 

Alrighty then.  That is all for tonight.  18 is on the train coming home for Christmas as we speak.  So excited to have her here for a whole month!  I have to get to bed because I have to get up really early to go get her. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Blessings, b.

winter holly

I haven't photographed the projects from our stamp group yet.  I've just been so busy the last few days.  Cross your fingers I get it done tomorrow. 

So today I have another Christmas card to show you.  When I got Watercolor Winter from the Holiday catalog I made lots of cards with it.  This is another one.

Watercolor Winter set.  Garden green, whisper white and crumb cake cardstock.  Cherry cobbler, garden green and black Stazon inks.  Cherry cobbler seam binding, wooden buttons (holiday mini) paper piercing pack, aquapainter, big shot, window framelits and linen thread.


I really like this one.  It is 4.25 x 4.25.  I think it would mail easily enough.......maybe. 

When watercoloring on the whisper white you can't have your brush too wet.  The cardstock will pill and warp.  So this was quick and easy coloring. 

Alrighty then, thats all for today.  Oh!  Did you see The Amazing Race last night?  I even stayed up late to watch it.  I'm so happy The Beekman Boys won.  They were so nice the whole time.  I would love to go to their farm.  Those twins!  UGH!  They were horrible! 

I have one more funny thing to show you:

Proverbs 31 is my favorite and when I saw this I laughed out loud (LOL!) 

Okay, thanks so much for stopping by.  You make my day.

Blessings, b.

another goof up

I know, you're surprised I goofed up again. 

Oh, you're not?  

Yeah, me neither. 

So last month when I did a workshop I diecut the wrong size for a project.  We didn't notice it until they were ready to place it on the card. 

Luckily, I had the Big Shot and extra cardstock with me. So we took a little creative liberty.

Here is what it was supposed to look like:

Watercolor Winter and Greetings of the Season.  Crumb cake, very vanilla and riding hood red cardstock.  Riding hood red, crumb cake and Versamark inks.  Crumb cake seam binding, gold embossing powder, big shot, window frame framelits, lacy brocade embossing folder. 

So this was the original idea.  Yes, we could have just restamped the right size die cut but you know, that would have been too easy.

So this is what we came up with:

We diecut the bigger size and layered it.  It also gave us the opportunity to use the paper piercing tool.  I think they came out pretty great. 

I might even like it better.  Happy mistakes.


So I'm going to keep it short and sweet tonight.  It was a really long day.  We had our first stamp club meeting today.  I went a little overboard with the projects and I think I wore the ladies out.  I know I'm worn out.  But I had so much fun with them. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and hanging out. 

Blessings, b.

Christmas pine

Howwwwwwdeee!  (said in my best Minnie Pearl voice) 

How is everyone today?  It was below 90 today.  Fall might be on the way yet........just in time for Christmas ;)

Speaking of Christmas I have another Christmas card to show you.   

Watercolor Winter and Greeting of the Season sets.  Crumb cake and naturals white cardstock.  Garden green, crumb cake, early espresso and black Stazon inks.  Scallop border punch, cherry cobbler seam binding, vintage faceted button, linen thread, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds and sponging and dimensionals.

The family really liked this one.  BUT it would be a bugger to mail.  That button sticks WAY out.   I have an idea to make some "to and from" tags for packages using the same design though. 

I used the 2 way glue to make the glitter stick.  Love that stuff! 

I won't lie....I had to use the Stampamajig to get the greenery lined up right.  Ever since Stampin' Up! took their name off the stickers that go on the blocks, I can't line anything up correctly. 

So, enough of Christmas.  How about some Halloween? 

Fabulous Phrases set.  Sahara sand, choc. chip, whisper white, real red and basic black cardstock.  Black Stazon ink.  Lg. owl punch, early espresso bakers twine, Howlstooth & Scarington DSP, 1x8 cello bags and 1 3/4" circle punch. 


These are the thank you tags I put on the bags from that last workshop.  Cute eh?

They make the perfect size little gifty.  They would be great for a classroom treat.  I'm going to make up a bunch for Grace to give to her friends at school and to the teachers if she is so inclined...........except they won't say thanks.

 Alrighty then, thats it for today.  Oh! I almost forgot to tell you about my most awesome weekend. 

(You thought you were going to get away without having to hear it huh?) 

We went to see 18 at school for Parent Weekend.  I got to hug on her all I wanted.

 I got to hug on her all I wanted.  Why are my eyes closed?

The weather was great! We played lots of disc golf.   LOTS.  In some parts it was more like "hiking disc golf".  I was sore for a few days.

What form..........see that look of determination?  Yeah, even with all the one-on-one coaching, I don't think I get it more than 40 feet at a time.  I have short arms.

This kid had a birthday on Sunday.  He turned 20.  Gosh, he just loves when I pull out the camera.

Okay, now I'm really done.  Thanks so much for stopping by and hanging out.

Blessings, b.

pointsetta

You know its amazing how quickly a week goes by.  It wasn't even a good week.  Good thing its over I guess.  

So today I wanted to show you another project from the workshop. 

Watercolor Winter and Greetings of the Season (Holiday Catalog).  Crumb cake and whisper white cardstock.  Cherry cobbler, riding hood red, garden green and black Stazon inks.  Stampamajig, black journaler, sticky pearls and dimensionals.

I really like this card.  Simple and easy.  Another possibility for my own Christmas card.

Can you tell me why I did a project using the Stampamajig?  Yeah, me neither.  Its super easy to use but lets face it, it has a learning curve. I love my Stampamajig. 

In my defense, the hostess wanted to use a 2 step stamp set.  Anyway, I think everyone liked it.


I also want to show you the hostess gift I made for her.

 Everyday flexible phrases.  Very vanilla crumb cake and more mustard cardstock.  Crumb cake and black Stazon inks.  Newsprint DSP, wooden buttons, big shot, window frames framelits, little leaves die, hemp, woodgrain embossing folder, twill.


Who wouldn't love a big jar of chocolate?  This was/is a Classico spaghetti sauce jar.  I spray painted the lid silver.  I wanted the autumn colored kisses but I couldn't find any.

I'm really digging this woodgrain embossing folder.  I sponged some crumb cake on there to show a little more definition.

Alrighty then, thats it for today.  I'm keeping it short.  Yes, I can hear you thanking me now ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Blessings, b.