Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 12
Posted: December 11, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentIt is Day 12 of Stamp Simply Celebrates! The party’s almost over, but it has been so much fun. If you are new here, check out Party Central for a full rundown of our 12 day schedule. Feel free to jump in anytime at all!!!
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
Barb Schram – Explore. Dream. Discover. – Today for Barb’s Featured Project she has created a useful Holiday Home Decor item for YOU if you please, or it makes a fabulous gift item that will knock the socks off your friends! It comes completely packaged with a card to match! I KNOW you won’t want to miss out, so be sure to visit today over at Barb’s place and lap up the inspiration!!!
Sharon Johnson –No Time To Stamp? – Me again. It’s my regular Stamp Simply Challenge today, and it promises to result in some great layout options for you to use for quick projects. Hope you can play! All you have to do is scroll up as it is the post uploaded just above this one.
Some great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today can be seen on these blogs: Julie, Janine, Jennifer, Tammy, Dee, Becky, LeAnne, AJ, Jerri and Darlene.
Leslie Miller – Running with Scissors – Leslie has some BLOG CANDY for you today!
Sharon Johnson –No Time To Stamp? – Me again with more BLOG CANDY, and it’s right here, so just scroll down.
Simple tags
Posted: December 10, 2008 Filed under: Holiday Sampler, WInter Post 8 CommentsIt’s Day 11 of Stamp Simply Celebrates! If you are new here, check out Party Central for a full rundown of our 12 day schedule. Feel free to jump in anytime at all!!!
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
AJ Otto – The Willow Garden – Are you wrapping gifts yet? Probably! I’ll bet you need some pretty tags to dress those packages up — well, be sure to check in on AJ’s Featured Project today to see all her Gift Tags. And then play AJ’s Challenge so you, too, can have some nice gift tags on hand!!! Be sure to stop in at AJ’s today!
You can see more tag samples by checking out the Blogs of: Janine, LeAnne, Jerri , Sharon and me!
Jerri Jimenez – A Touch of Grace – Today Jerri will grace us with her Featured Project which is a beautiful 6 x 6 Scrapbook she made, which is certain to be a real treat for the eyes. Jerri also has BLOG CANDY to offer today (think scrapbooking made easy), so be sure to stop in to see Jerri!!!
Other scrapbook samples can be seen by checking out: Barb and Jennifer
Deb Saaranen – Dream in Color – Deb has an offering of BLOG CANDY for us today!
Jerri Jimenez – A Touch of Grace – Jerri also has BLOG CANDY to offer today so be sure to stop in to see Jerri!
To make my easy tags I cut a strip of Old Olive and stuck on a piece of designer paper which was a little narrower so the olive showed at the top and bottom of each tag. I cut vanilla pieces all the same and then punched different corners on a few. All the stamping was done using the very useful little stamps from Holiday Sampler and the To/From out of Winter Post. I drew all my stitching lines on with a fineline pen. When I started these I didn’t even know if I would like them, I don’t usually reach for Old Olive, but I surprised myself and had a lot of fun creating a different design on each one.
Supplies:
Stamps: Holiday Sampler, Winter Post
Inks: Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Old Olive, Very Vanilla,Petals and Paisleys d.p.
Also: Hemp twine, slit punch, burgandy fineliner
Celebrate with candles
Posted: December 9, 2008 Filed under: Lovely as a Tree, Rollers 6 CommentsDay 10 of Stamp Simply Celebrates! I have a candle and matching box to share today, but first I’ll let you know about all the celebrating going on elsewhere:
Leslie Miller – Running With Scissors – Today we are treated to the beauty of Leslie’s work with her Featured Project where she is showing us how to Alter Food Packaging to turn it into a wonderfully warm, cozy, and sweet gift item that anyone would love to receive! And it’s something we can all easily do! I know you won’t want to miss this, so be sure to visit Leslie today.
You can see more great samples of Leslie’s Project by: Dee, Jennifer
Joan Fricker – Joan’s Garden – Joan offers us a beautiful Featured Project today — who doesn’t love beautifully presented Soap and Candle Gifts! Well, especially these soaps and candles! And you can make your own as a part of Joan’s Challenge, with inspiration from many. Be sure to check out this sweetly scented event!
And there are many more samples of Joan’s Challenge. Check out: LeAnne, Dee, AJ, Barb, Darlene, Janine, Sharon and me!
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
Tammy Hershberger – Stamp Happy – Tammy is offering BLOG CANDY today!
It is great to be playing along in the Stamp Simply Celebrations. I enjoyed decorating a candle and matching box for Joan’s challenge today. I stamped three navy trees on tissue paper then used wax paper and a heat gun to melt them onto the candle. I have a tutorial explaining how to make a box and candle HERE. The trim on the box and candle wrapper were made with the retired Pine Bough roller from Stampin’ Up. The box and lid were made from night of navy cardstock, with panels of vanilla stuck on the sides of the box.
Supplies:
Stamps: Pine Bough roller, Lovely as a Tree
Inks: Night of Navy
Cardstock: Night of Navy, Very Vanilla
Also: Navy grosgrain ribbon, pillar candle (IKEA)
Stamp Simply Celebrates day 9
Posted: December 8, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentIt’s Day 9 of Stamp Simply Celebrates! If you hadn’t heard there is a party going on, check out Party Central at No Time to Stamp for a full rundown of our 12 day schedule. Feel free to jump in anytime at all!
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
Jennifer Buck – The Buck Stamps Here – Time is moving on and I think we all need some Quick Cards about now, agreed? You’ll enjoy Jennifer’s Featured Project today where she also Challenges you to create some quick cards, qualifying you to enter her BLOG CANDY drawing.
You can see more great Quick Card samples by checking out Jennifer’s designers: Janine, Julie, Tammy, AJ and Sharon
AJ Otto – The Willow Garden – How about a game? I LOVE games!!! Check out the DT Trivia Game AJ is hosting over at The Willow Garden!!! And AJ has some BLOG CANDY to offer to the winner!!!
Jennifer Buck – The Buck Stamps Here – Jennifer is offering BLOG CANDY in conjuntion with her challenge listed above.
Sharon Johnson – No Time To Stamp?– has some SU BLOG CANDY today.
I hope you enjoy all there is to see on the blogs of these amazing stampers. I’ll be back tomorrow with a project to share.
Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 8
Posted: December 8, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentMore candy and more great ideas are being offered today by:
Julie Koerber – Out to Impress – Julie is out to impress you with her Small Gift Ideas today! Play her Challenge to have some small gifts on hand yourself, and be eligible to enter her BLOG CANDY drawing! You won’t want to miss all the fun at Julie’s today!
Sharon Johnson – No Time To Stamp? – Our wonderful hostess, has more BLOG CANDY today!
The party continues
Posted: December 7, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper 4 CommentsWe 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
Table Decor Challenge
Posted: December 5, 2008 Filed under: Snow Swirled 21 CommentsYes, we are still celebrating!
I have a challenge for you which you can read about below, but there’s more:
AJ Otto – The Willow Garden – AJ has some BLOG CANDY to share!
Sharon Johnson – No Time To Stamp? – has more BLOG CANDY!
LeAnne Pugliese – Wee Inklings – Doesn’t every Mother need a helper, especially during the Holidays? Well, for LeAnne’s Featured Project that is just what she is giving us, a Mother’s Holiday Helper! LeAnne is running a Challenge along with her project, providing us with templates and instruction so we can quickly and easily create our own helper. Don’t miss it!
Now for my Challenge. When I was growing up I was only too happy to decorate the table for special occasions. As I had two brothers I didn’t get much opposition. My mother was also keen to have have me take on the task as she was usually busy with the food. My decorations were never that fancy but they usually involved hand made place cards and napkins folded in some fancy way I had learned or devised. Sometimes I added flowers or candles. My children also like this task and have incorporated stamping into their table decor.
My challenge is to create some items to decorate your table during the Christmas season. You can make it as simple or as fancy as you like. I’m calling it a 1-2-3 challenge so you can choose to complete one, two,or three co-ordinated items to dress up your table. Here are a few ideas but feel free to share your own hand made table decorations: place cards, napkins, napkin rings, candles and candle holders, menus, centrepieces. Make sure you check out the decor designed by these talented ladies also: Jennifer, Darlene, Joan, Jerri
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).
Every year I choose a different colour scheme for Christmas decorating. This year it is gold and white/cream. I will add more to my table decorations but I have three for starters: crackers, place cards and a treat triangle. To make the cracker I took apart an used cracker from another year and copied the dimensions. I used gold foil wrapping paper and whisper white cardstock, embossed with gold e.p. To keep the shape as I rolled I put three pieces of rolled up card board inside, a centre piece and two end pieces. With those three pieces in place I scrunched the paper where I wanted it to indent and then tied the ribbon bows. I will be adding cracker snaps and novelties when I make the ten I need for our Christmas dinner this year. I’m sorry if my instuctions are a little hard to follow, I will try and do a tutorial some time soon.
The place cards are very easy, I used brushed gold and whisper white cardstock, embossing and cutting out the tree and sticking it in place with stampin’ dimensionals. I wrote the name with a Tsukineko emboss dual pen and embossed in gold.
For my third element I wanted some sort of little box to hold the Lindor balls which just called out to me when I was in Michaels. They obviously needed to be part of my table decor, they were the perfect colour. We all know I didn’t buy them to eat! My daughter came up with the triangle idea, open not closed because she thought those perfectly co-ordinated balls need to be seen not boxed up.
The shape is an equilateral triangle, scored 1″ in on each side. Where the scoring lines cross I cut out the resulting diamond shape. I then pinched each corner together, punched through both sides and tied them together with a bow. I don’t know that I have described it all that well, here is the shape of the triangle after scoring and cutting out the corners.
Thanks for dropping by and joining in the celebrations
Supplies:
Stamps: Snow Swirled (again!)
Inks: Encore Gold
Cardstock: Brushed Gold, Whisper white, Hallmark Giftwrap
Also: Gold organza ribbon, gold e.p., Tsukineko emboss dual pen
Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 5
Posted: December 5, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper, Home for Christmas, Lovely as a Tree 15 CommentsThe party continues at Sharon’s blog today so drop in and see her own Stamp Simply Challenge then pop over to see
Barb Schram – Explore. Dream. Discover. – Barb has an offering of BLOG CANDY today!
Cathy Tidwell – Cat’s Creations – CAT, too, has BLOG CANDY to offer today, but she has more!!! She has created a Sketch Challenge for you as well. You can see the sketch over at Cat’s Creations, so be sure to stop!!! (NOTE: Cat’s Challenge and Ssharon’s challenge can tie in together well and you can get two challenges done on one card!!!)
Here is my card for CAT”S challenge:
I think I qualify for Sharon’s challenge also, using a non-traditional Christmas stamp and non-traditional Christmas designer paper. I used Cerise Designer paper for this card, cutting out the little squares and placing brads in them for the detail down the side. I used Creative Memories oval cutters for the central image.
Please check out these fabulous blogs to see samples of CAT’s Sketch Challenge: Darlene, AJ, Leslie, Julie, Susan. And please bear with us all as we are uploading throughout the night — all will be posted by morning.
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
Supplies:
Stamps: Home for Christmas, Lovely as a Tree
Inks: Riding Hood Red
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Cerise Designer paper
Also: Red hemp twine, red brads
Stamp Simply Celebrates day 4
Posted: December 4, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentThe party just keeps on going over at Sharon’s – No Time To Stamp? – with more BLOG CANDY!
and at Dee’s – Stampin cuz I Luv 2 – Dee also has some BLOG CANDY today!
and a challenge over at Deb’s – Dream In Color – Today Deb’s Featured Project is to make a gift of Note Cards, attractively packaged for gift presentation. She is also turning this project into a Challenge for you to participate in, allowing you to show all of us your creations. Be sure to check it out!!! There are sure to be so many lovely samples to inspire!!!
Don’t forget, any one can play whether you are a blogger or not. Upload to your blog and then link back to the hostess or at Splitcoast, PLEASE KEYWORD all Splitcoast uploads for this event SSC08 (Stamp Simply Celebrates! 2008).
See you tomorrow with some stamping.
Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 3
Posted: December 3, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentThe party continues over at Sharon’s blog.
I don’t have anything new to share today but make sure you visit the following blogs for inspiration and candy!
Blog candy: Joan
Blog candy: Jennifer
Challenge and Featured Project: Tammy Hershberger of Stamp Happy. Tammy’s Featured Project is making Christmas cards in mass production. Make sure you drop by to check out her fabulous cards, as well as those of her sample makers, Darlene, AJ, Leslie, Sharon, Julie and Barb.
Heather Telford 