The party continues

We are over half way through the celebrations with Sharon and the inspiration just keeps on coming.

Sharon Johnson – No Time to Stamp? – has even more BLOG CANDY – think specialty papers!!!

Susan Roberts – Rainy Day Creations – Susan’s Featured Project today shows us a quick gift card holder to make and she Challenges us to make our own, using her template or your own.  Susan also has a BLOG CANDY offering today.  You won’t want to miss this, so be sure to visit Susan today and drop in on her guest designers also: Janine, Jennifer, Darlene and AJ

Dee Jackson – Stampin cuz I Luv 2 – Dee has put together some gorgeous Packaging for Your Food Items.   Her Challenge today provides many beautiful samples for you to see and to be inspired by so you can prepare your own packaged delectables for those on your gift list.  Be sure to stop in at Dee’s today to see the sweet treats she has prepared, check out the treats from CAT, Jennifer, Darlene, Sharon and Barb as well.

Anyone may participate in these challanges and all the fun events, blogger or not!!!  If you upload to your Blog, provide a link to your entry in the appropriate post by the Challenge Hostess.  I also encourage you to upload your projects over at Splitcoast.  If you do upload at Splitcoast, PLEASE KEYWORD all Splitcoast uploads for this event SSC08 (Stamp Simply Celebrates! 2008).

I was also a guest designer for Dee today so I cooked up my first batch of gingerbread cookies for this season.  Baking and decorating gingerbread has become a family tradition for us.  Last night it was just my son and I baking; I made trees, he made trains.  My recipe can be found HERE.

I decided to package them in a box which held pasta, it was the perfect size for two trees across, stacked three high.  I just had to make the lid.  I wanted a tree on the lid, but instead of stamping one, I decided to use the cookie cutter to trace around.  I drew around each section of tree with a Stampin’ write marker and stuck them on with Stampin’ dimensionals.  The cute little tag is made using a Just Rite “Baking Ensemble” stamp.   I only just received my Just Rite stamps yesterday, so this is a very small start, but I am going to have so much fun with them I can tell.

Supplies:

Stamps: Baking Stamp Ensemble from Just Rite
Inks: Artichoke
Cardstock: Artichoke, Whisper white, Wintergreen d.p. Certainly celery
Also: Celery grosgrain ribbon, white eyelet, tree cookie cutter