Velvety Snowflake Thank You Packets

Every month for my Workshop Groups, I make a little thank you gift for attending.   One of these packets contains a "Ticket" for a free gift.  This month I made little folding packets with Craft Smith's Ice Crystals dsp and decorated them with the Stampin' Up White Velvet paper cut out with the Snowfall Thinlits Dies from the current Snowflake Showcase products.  The Snowflake Showcase exclusive products are only available for a limited time, November 1-30, while supplies last.  This set comes with 20 dies in numerous sizes and styles and will be the only Snowflake die set you will ever need.

Stampin' Up products used:

Snowfall Thinlits Dies
Silver Twine
Petal Palette Stamp and die
Jewels Basic Rhinestones

DSP:  Craft Smith; Ice Crystals

Paper is cut at 4 1/2" x 6 1/4"
Score down 4 1/2" side at 2" and 4"
Score down 6 1/4" side at 1 1/2" and 5 3/4"
Remove edges from the two ends of the 2 1/2" scored side leaving a 1/2" fold up flap for the bottom and a 1 1/2" fold over flap at the top.  Tape or glue the bottom and side flaps.  Wrap a piece 14" piece of silver twine around the length of the packet, add a tag and snowflake before tying a bow with the twine.

Feathers & Frost Peace & Joy to the World

Paper:  SU Very Vanilla card stock, Whisper White; Canson Watercolor

Ink:  Night of Navy, Momento, Blends and Vintage Photo

Dies:  Stitched Rectangles; SU Ovals, Frosted Bouquet, Beautiful Blizzard, Colorful Seasons and Tropical Chic

Stamps:  SU Feathers and Frost and Good Greetings

Merry Christmas To All Poinsettia Card - Stampin' Up

Stampin' Up: Reason For The Season, Watercolor Winter stamp sets, both retired.  Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler and Gold Foil card stock, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, and Momento Black inks.  Merry Christmas To All stamp set and dies, Sprig punch, and Watercolor brush.  Gold Glitz Dazzling Details (retired).  Fussy cut flowers and leaves.

Dashing Deer - Stampin' Up

For my first card I used the following papers, inks and stamp sets:

Stampin' Up:  Dashing Deer stamp set and Detailed Deer dies, Santa's Sleigh wreath die, Eclectic Expressions stamp, Whisper White, Shaded Spruce, and Gold Foil card stock, Versamark ink with gold embossing powder, Shaded Spruce ink.  

"Peace" die is not SU.

Stampin' Up:  Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Call Me Clover card stock, Dashing Deer and Merry Christmas To All stamp set swith Detailed Deer dies, Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Stitched Square Dies, Cherry Cobbler ribbon.  

Nuvo Crystal Drops in Dandelion Yellow not SU.

Christmas Tree

My first card today is for the SCS TLC662 Splash Watercolor Technique Challenge:

Very Vanilla card base with Real Red and Old Olive background for "Splash Watercolor" technique Christmas Tree.

Second card is for the SCS CAS453 O Christmas Tree Challenge:

Very Vanilla card base with Crumb Cake on Holly embossing folder.  Tiny Star Embossed gold foil background with white Christmas Tree and moon, gold star sequins.

Paper Pumpkin Pining For Plaid Alternatives

Additions, Clockwise:

First card:  Hearts Come Home Santa with sleigh and reindeer
Carols of Christmas Bundle for deer and tree
Basic Black and Old Olive card stock
Background inks are Distress Oxide Broken China and Faded Jeans

Second Card:  Nature Sings and Perfect Pines Acorn die

Third Card:  Jar of Cheer for Candle, Mistletoe & Holly for Holly and Sentiment, SU Blends, White Gel Pen, Nuvo Crystal Drops-Autumn Red

Fourth Card:  Four Seasons, and Simply Snowflake for Sentiment

Various beads and sequins.

Warm Winter Wishes Hot Cocoa Packet Holder

It's the First Day of Winter!  So to keep my peeps snuggly and warm, I made these Hot Cocoa Packet Holders.  As a special treat, a stick of Annie B's Salted Caramel was tied to the side of each packet.

Card stock:  Stampin' Up Blushing Bride, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake; Cable Knit Dynamic embossing folder; Snowflake Card Dies (retired); Kraft Rope Trim.

Card stock was cut at 5.5" x 8.5" folded in half, run through the Big Shot in the embossing folder, taped closed at the bottom, two holes were punched on the right side, threaded with the rope trim and tied around the caramel candy.  Snowflakes were adhered and embellished with jewels.

Sentiment is from SU Winter Memories (retired) cut out with Snowflake Card banner die.

Mixed Media Background With Cling Wrap

Lydia (Understand Blue) is hosting the MIX-ability challenge MIX202 over at splitcoaststampers.com, so I thought I would give it a shot and get a little dirty, actually it wasn't too bad. Loved scrunching up the plastic wrap over my wet paints, was very hard to wait for it to dry because ideas for the embellishments kept leaping into my head. I used some sparkly snowflakes so as not to cover over the design. I settled on a sentiment from Nov. 2015 Paper Pumpkin kit, Mistletoe & Holly.

I used dabs of Red, Green and Yellow acrylic paints, Aztec Gold, Blue Russet and Spring Green PearlEx powders on a piece of plastic wrap, spritzed with water, placed shimmery card stock into the "mess" flipped it over and scrunched the clear plastic wrap, set aside to dry.  Pulled off the plastic wrap and added the snowflake dies.  I inked up the snowflakes with Wink of Stella.

This is also for the splitcoaststampers.com CC613 Color Challenge, Yellow, Red and Green.

Here is link to Lydia's instructional video for this technique:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQ5fqTXnGY

Take a look and play along.

Christmas Tags Workshop 2016

For my Christmas Tag Workshop this year we made 14 gift tags.

A 3D item, a 2017 Calendar (Dawn Olchefske design)

My thank you gifts for my team:  Tiny Tea Cup Ferrero Rocher Chocolate (Bibi Cameron design) and Bottle of Martinelli's with a Cheers tag.

Christmas Penguins

This cute Inkadinkado Penguin is so cute.  I used heavy card stock for a base and SU papers in the background.  Colored with Copics.  The new Metallic ribbon is a "sneak peek" from Sale-a-bration which starts January 2017.  This card was entered into the "Snow Day" challenge over at Jeanne's blog Dragonfly Journeys.

My second penguin card features a singing trio from Penny Black.  I kept the same color scheme, Crumb Cake, Real Red and Whisper White for the CAS card.

Wonderful Winterland

It's time to play with the November 2016 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Wonderful Winterland.  Here are just two of my alternative projects:

For the first card I tried using a full moon background, but it didn't meet my expectations, so back to the drawing board.  I ran out of the SU Irresistibly Yours DSP stars background sky paper, so for the second card I made my own with the Hero Arts Tiny Little Stars stamp and Versamark, embossed with clear embossing powder.

Card bases are thick SU Whisper White (A2) 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"  Second card is backed with a piece of Whisper White then Dapper Denim.  Sleigh Ride (retired) die used for foreground in dazzling diamonds paper.  The star is from the current Starlight Dies.  Trees were watercolored with Pear Pizzazz ink and Soft Suede marker.  Dapper Denim ink was sponged over the starry sky.

Santa's Coming To Town

Back in 2013 I made a few of these money/gift card holders as stocking stuffers, they were pretty much a pain even though I had made a pattern.  Fast forward to 2016 with a few more paper crafting skills under me belt, when I decided there had to be a better way.  

I have had requests for them over the years from my groups and clubs, so I set out to make this project as easy as possible so that it could be reproduced with these classes in mind.

It took me an entire day to design, cut out and put together just one.  But now I have an excellent pattern to follow using die cuts and punches, except for the hat and moustache which were hand drawn and used as a template to upload to my Cricut for cutting.

Can you tell in the above photo which Santa was made three years ago and which one was made today?

All papers and card stock by Stampin' Up.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Betty

Christmas Cod

Stamp Set:  Stampin' Up Fa-la-la-la Friends

Bear Hugs Framelit Dies

Papers / Cardstock:  SU Crumb Cake card base, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Garden Green, and Warmth and Cheer DSP

Inks:  Smoky slate, Real Red

Candyland Christmas

CTMH Candyland Christmas Card

Base is 5" x 10" scored 5"
Papers / Card Stock:  Kraft, SU Candy Cane Lane DSP, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip.
Image colored with Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush watercolor markers

Dove of Peace Christmas Card

Stamp Sets:
Stampin' Up Dove of Peace and  Festive Flurry both retired.
Papers/Card Stock:  SU Thick Whisper White, Crumb Cake Vellum, Dazzling Diamonds
Inks:  VersaMark heat set with White embossing powder, SU Blushing Bride, Basic Gray, and Smoky Slate

Sequins and White Ribbon

Card base is 5" x 10" scored at 5", rounded corners at bottom.

A Beautiful Season

Flashback 

Playing with an old favorite stamp set and technique.

Cardstock:  SU Hello Honey, Bashful Blue, Basic Black and Glossy paper.
Stamps:  SU A Beautiful Season, French Script and Winter Memories all retired.
Inks:  Staz-On Black, Hello Honey and Bashful Blue
Accessories:  Black twine, Xyron, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, sponges, hole punch

Star of Light Glad Tidings

Stamps:  Stampin' Up Star of Light, Antique Tags

Inks:  Soft Sky, Pool Party, Marina Mist, Night of Navy

Card Stock:  Heavy Whisper White, Silver, Pool Party, Irresistibly Yours 

Extras:  Starlight Framelits, Washi Label Punch, Jewels

Pink Ice Skates

This is for the Split Coast Stampers Sketch Challenge  SC613

Details:

Stampin' Up Winter Memories (Retired); Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White and Basic Black card stock.  Northern Flurry Embossing Folder (Retired); Watercolor paper; Flirty Flamingo, Old Olive, Crumb Cake inks Silver Pen; Liquid Pearls in Petal Pink and Cotton Candy Stickles.

One of my most cherished memories is taking the Grands to ice skate at Union Square in San Francisco at Christmas time.  My beautiful snow angels had so much fun and provided us with wonderful times and albums full of smiling faces as they glided across the ice.

Stampin' Up Greetings From Santa

Ho! Ho! Ho!  Greetings From Santa

One of my favorite dies in the Stampin' Up 2016 Holiday Catalog is the Detailed Santa, he is adorable.  Basic Black 5x5 base. Santa backed with sparkly red and white papers, face is a flesh paper from my stash.  I used white embossing powder for the Sentiment.  Love him.

Holiday Treat/Money Box

The measurements for this box are as follows:

8 3/4" x 11 3/4" card stock
Score with 8 3/4" side at top of scoreboard at 3 1/4, 4, 7 1/4, 8, and 11 1/4"
Turn and score with 11 3/4" side at top of scoreboard at 3/4, 7 1/2, and 8 1/4"

For the money holder cut a piece of card stock at 2 x 6 3/4" and punch out a half circle in the center top at 3 3/8"

Cut two pieces of designer paper at 2 7/8" x 6 1/2"

Cut one piece of neutral colored card stock for the sentiment at 2 1/2" x 5"

For instructions on how to cut and tape/glue the box together head on over to Angela Pajyas - Stamping With Amore YouTube video showing how to put her design together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZiLoN8IMQE