Stamping Fun with Sherrie

Everyday Enchantment Creative Journal

Sale-A-Bration begins Tuesday, which means free product for customers spending $50 or more. One of my favorite Sale-A-Bration items this year is the Everyday Enchantment paper, printed in colors such as Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz and Poppy Parade.  Other accessories used for this project include the new Blossom punch, antique brads, lace ribbon, taffeta ribbon, Top Note die for the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.

I covered this 5x5" journal with the paper and added embellisments to create a "Creativity Journal." All of the ladies who joined a 2012 stamp club (clubs begin in February) will receive a creativity journal to decorate in appreciation of joining a club for the year. I am having a contest, with everyone bringing their decorated journal to stamp club in March. The winning journal will earn a $20 gift certificate to spend in the catalog. Cheers!

Valentine's Day & Occasions Mini Catalog Card ideas

Happy New Year!

Valentine's Day is around the corner, which means it's time to start thinking about Valentine's cards and creations. Using new products from the Stampin' Up! Occasions mini catalog, I created some fun Stamp Club projects:

Products used: Adorning Accents Edgelit Die with Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders and Bordering on Romance border stamp; Take It to Heart stamp set; Melon Mambo card stock; Blushing Bride pleated satin ribbon; Whisper White ink; Twitterpated Designer Series Paper, Dazzling Diamonds glitter; Heart punch.

Products used: Matchbox Die for the Big Shot; Candy Conversations; Melon Mambo striped grosgrain ribbon; It's a Wrap Holiday stamp set; pearl accents.

Products Used: Twitterpated Designer Series Paper; Mixed Bunch stamp set; Blossom punch; Pear Pizzazz pleated satin ribbon; So Saffron and Pear Pizzazz card stock. Cut two petals from punched flower to create butterfly. In addition, the rock-n-roll technique was used for the butterfly color.

Altered Frame with new Mixed Bunch Set

When I saw the new Mixed Bunch stamp set and matching punch, I knew I would love creating things with them! I made a Christmas gift for one of my friends using both of those to embellish a frame I found at Target. The frame was cute, but it was definitely lacking the wow factor!

Accessories used: Mocha Morning Specialty Designer Series Paper, Blossom punch, Filigree designer brads, Silver Embossing powder with Versamark pad and Basic Black  1-1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon. Below is a close up of two of the flowers.

Picture Christmas Card

Every year, I make my own photo Christmas cards... I try to make each one unique, and I think I've featured some of them through the years on my blog. Now that Emma is in college and Lindsay is in high school, it's really fun for them to go back through the cards and see how they have changed through the years (complete with precious "young years" and the "awkward preteen years").

This year's card uses the new silver glimmer paper for lots of bling! And, I love the Stitched Stocking stamp set and Stocking Builder punch. I ran the black card stock through the Big Shot with the snowflake embossing folder, too!

Christmas & Cookies at Club

Had a great stamp club tonight with a great group of ladies!

Several of these ladies have been in stamp club for almost 10 years with me... I appreciate them so much!! :)  Our projects tonight were all about Christmas!

This is a simple gift card holder using an envelope. Seal the envelope and cut one inch off a shorter side. Then run a border punch along the edge (I used the scallop edge). Decorate front of envelope with designer series paper, ribbon, and of course a little glimmer paper! I embellished with the Stitched Stocking set and stocking builder punch with Cherry Cobbler ink and silver glimmer paper. The insert is made with Lucky Limeade card stock and a stamped greeting. Just affix gift card with a mini glue dot (see below). Easy and cute!

The card below is another easy one. I ran some sheets of Old Olive through the Big Shot using the Lattice embossing folder. I punched out six hearts, sponged the edges with Whisper White ink and arranged in a tree pattern. Decorate with red circles as ornaments and a yellow star on top.

For the card below, I used the new Stocking for the Big Shot, folded a 12x6" piece of card stock in half and placed the fold just beneath the top edge of the stocking die, so that stocking would be a folded card. Then, I embellished with designer series paper for the stocking accents and stamped greeting. 

 

It's Beginning to Get Closer to Christmas...

Happy 11-11-11! Poor Thanksgiving - always seems to get pushed aside for Christmas! This is the case for my November stamp clubs. We focused on all Holiday ideas this month.

First, we created tags from the cute Winter Wishes Stitched Felt accents from the 2011 Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog. Super easy and quick, and no doubt will dress up any package. I used the brown and white bakers twine as well as designer series paper accents from the Holly Berry Bouquet pack and the Silver Glimmer paper as well (love that!!). These ideas were shown to demonstrators at the Louisville Regional conference.

This cute treat is easy and takes very little in the way of materials! I used Twizzler licorice pieces to fill the 1x8" cello bag. The Santa head is made with all punches! I used oval punches, the ornament punch for the beard (which I ran through the Elegant Lines embossing folder for the big shot), and the bird punch for the mustache. A little silver Glimmer paper gives it some pizzazz, too!

Here is a quick, easy holiday card to make using the Stitched Stocking set and Stocking Builder punch from the Holiday Mini Catalog. Embellishments include the Holly Berry Bouquet designer series paper, Pear Pizzazz seam binding, Real Red card stock run through the Big Shot, large scallop punch and 1 3/4" circle punch. Finished off with a rhinestone! :) Love the bling! Happy Veterans Day!

Decorated Notebooks Make Great Gifts

There are 11 of us heading to Louisville tomorrow to attend the Stampin' Up! Regional conference in Louisville. I wanted to give everyone something as a thank you gift - and here is what I came up with!

These are very simple to make! Wrap a Composition notebook with designer series paper. I cut two sheets of the In Color DSP to 9 3/4" x 8" and taped to the front and back of the notebook. Then, using the leftover strips, I punched one edge of the 4" x 9 3/4" strip with the lace scallop edge punch. I printed names onto white card stock and mounted on alternate pieces of designer series paper. I decorated with flowers stamped with the Triple Treat flower and punched with the large flower punch. I layered several flowers and placed an In-color polka dot brad in the middle.

More Christmas Lane Cards

Here is part 2 of "30 Cards from the Christmas Lane" Simply Scrappin' kit... let me know if you would like a "to go" kit for just $50 at stampingsherrie@gmail.com!

30 Cards from Christmas Lane Simply Scrappin' Kit

Each year my friend and fellow demonstrator Susi B. and I come up with cards from the holiday Simply Scrappin' kit featured in the Stampin' Up! catalog. We were excited with this year's Christmas Lane kit - lots of great die cuts, and we were able to get 30 cards from half of the kit! I will be offering classes in November (and "to go kits") where you would have all of the supplies to make 30 cards (envelopes included). Cost will be around $45 and includes everything except adhesive.

Class and kit details are coming in my eNewsletter this week. If you would like to subscribe to my eNewsletter or would like more details about this great holiday card making opportunity, please contact me at stampingsherrie@gmail.com.

Below are just a few of the cards we designed...more to follow in future posts. Have a great day! :)

Ghost m&m Halloween Treat

Trick or Treat!

Here is a cute, easy Halloween treat you can make for little goblins... 

 

The only stamp set used was "Wicked Cool." Everything else was punched. The ghost was created using the Owl punch (cut off the feet and turn upside-down). I stamped the spider web on the Rich Razzleberry scallop. You can't really see it in the photo, but I ran the Basic Black card stock through the Big Shot with the spider web embossing folder. Other accessories: Pumpkin Pie card stock and black and white polka dot ribbon. The new thin clear bags in the Holiday Mini are perfect for m&m's. Yum!

 

I wish I could say I made this darling wreath, but one of the talented ladies in my downline created this awesome Halloween wreath. Props to Misty Freeman for this creation. I just had to share it, because I fell in love with it at our recent stamp camp. She used the Halloween designer series paper in the Idea Book & Catalog and crafted the folded backings using the Simply Scored tol, and she decorated with various stamps and punches. I love the black and white striped grosgrain as an accent as well!! :)