Halloween Banner

So if you are like me, you probably make a handful of Halloween cards, maybe a scrapbook page or two and some treat bags and then you are done for the Halloween season.   You can't resist all the fun papers and stamp sets, but you find yourself without enough projects to justify your purchases.   In the last couple of years, I have changed my tune and ended up making homemade Halloween decorations.   Over the last couple of years, more and more homemade Halloween projects have made their way into my home for me to display year to year!

Here is a Halloween banner made with lots of fun new stamp sets and designer paper from the new Holiday Mini.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Spooky Fun, Cookie Cutter Halloween
Ink:   Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie Blendabilites
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with a Black Sharpie, Bright Enamel Dots, Clothspins
Tools:   Pennant Framelits, Perfect Pennants Sizzex, Cookie Cutter Punch

Viva La Verve Spooky Home Decor

Here is my Spooky home decor using one of this month's Viva La Verve sketch's of the month.

I love the Halloween season all the orange and black, but I don't send Halloween cards, so I decided to make more treat bags and items to add to my Halloween decorating this year.

Ingredients to make the home decor:
Stamp Sets:   Seasonal Snapshot 2015, Among the Branches
Ink:   Basic Black
Paper:   Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper, Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, Chocolate Chip
Accessories:  Linen Thread, Natural Buttons, Spider Web Doilies, White Perfect Accents colored in with a Black Sharpie
Tools:  Circle Framelits, Triple Banner Punch, Flower Fair Framelits, Oval Cutting System

Sale-a-bration, Occasions Mini and New Definitely Decorative

What a great way to end 2009 with a post of fabulous new products to come in 2010! Yes, you can download and check out all the new products in the Occasions Mini and the Definitely Decorative brochures!

If that is not fabulous enough! You can also download the Sale-a-bration brochure, for every 50$ you spend between January 5th and March 31st, you get to pick free products in the brochure!

Click here to download the Sale-a-bration brochure! ( 4 MB)

Sale ends March 31st!





Click here to download the Occasions Mini catalog! (16 MB)

Products available January 5th through April 30th 2010




Click here to download the Definitely Decorative Brochure (6 MB)

Another Decor Elements Pail

Since it is Christmas Eve and I know it's just a couple of hours before my cousin will get her gift. I figured I can give her a sneak peak to her Christmas gift. So hopefully she will be too busy helping her mom that she will not get a chance to check my blog and see her Christmas gift. It is another Decor Elements Pail that I made.


Ingredients to make the pail:
Accessories: Rose Red Double Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Flower Fusion Felt Flowers, Pretties Kit, Whisper White Decor Elements Sheets
Tools: Big Shot, Serif Essentials Sizzex, Simple Letters Sizzex, Hot Glue Gun





Ingredients to make the tag:

Stamp Set: Sweet Season, Lots of Thoughts (retired)
Ink: Ballet Blue
Paper: Ballet Blue, Whisper White
Accesories: White Organza Ribbon, Clear Rhinestone Brad, Jingle Bells
Tools: Big Shot, Tags Sizzex from a local craft store, Scallp Circle punch, Eyelet Border Punch

Decor Elements Gift Pail

I am so glad I picked up these tins when I saw them in the store. They have come in handy this holiday season. Here is a personalized gift tin, I made for my friend's daughter.

Accessories: Rose Red Double Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Flower Fusion Felt Flowers, Chocolate Chip 5/8" Jumbo Brads, Chocolate Chip Decor Elements Sheets
Tools: Big Shot, Serif Essentials Sizzex, Simple Letters Sizzex, Hot Glue Gun

Ingredients to make the gift tag:
Stamp Set: More the Merrier
Ink: Soft Suede, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive
Paper: Whisper White
Accessoires: Jingle Bells, Old Olive Striped Grosgrain Ribbon
Tools: Big Shot, Tag Sizzex I bought at a local craft store and Blender Pens

Decor Elements Decorating

Here is a tin I picked up at the local store which I decorated with decor elements made with my Big Shot. I also made a coordinating tag to go with the project.

Here are the ingredents to make the tag:

Stamp Sets: Best Wishes & More

Ink: Ballet Blue

Paper: Ballet Blue and Whisper White

Accessories: Silver Brads, White Organza Ribbon, Linen Thread

Tools: Eyelet Border Punch, Big Shot, Timeless Type Sizzlets, 1 3/8" Square Punch, Crop-a-dile, Paper Piercer

Ingredients to do the Pail:

Accessories: White Decor Elements Sheets, 5/16" Silver Brads, White Organza Ribbon, Jingle Bells

Tools: Snowflakes Set #2, Swirls Scribbles Sizzlits, Serif Essentials

Spring Fling 2009

On Saturday, I got to go to a regional Stampin' Up! meeting in Denville, NJ. Here are two of the fabulous make and take projects we got to make. The first one was a Stationary Box filled with cards and tags using the Walk in the Park designer series paper and Summer Love Rub-Ons. The second project was a shadow box made with the Beautiful Butterflies die cut and our home decor elements. For those of you who attended, I tend to love buttons and brads on my butterflies, so I changed that when I got home otherwise here are the fabulous projects we made.

Snowflake Treat Pail

Today's project is another project using the Decor Elements Sheet that Stampin' Up! sells. This time I used it to die cut the Snowflake #2 and I put it on a red pail that I got in the Target 1$ aisle. I put a half back pearl in the center. I then filled the pail with Hershey nuggets that I stamped with the snowflake from the Holiday Blitz stamp set. I put them in a cellophane bag and tied a bow with red wide grosgrain ribbon.

As for the tag on the side, it started with a piece of Holiday Treasures designer paper, followed by a strip of real read card stock. The greeting was stamped from the Sweet Serendipity stamp set. Lastly, came the snowflake stamped from the Holiday Blitz stamp set layered on 2 squares and adhered to the tag with Stampin' Dimensionals. I then punched a hole on top of the tag with my Crop-a-dile. I then attached the tag with linen thread to the pail. Next I tied a bow with the red grosgrain ribbon and attached it over the hole with a mini glue dot.

Treat Holder

Here I took a simple glass vase and turned it into a treat holder. Lollipops and pixie sticks were decorated with our Deer Friends stamp images layered on top of punched out circles and scallops. I die cut the Join in the Cheer with our Chocolate Element Sheets and put them on the glass jar. The finishing touch was the Real Red Striped Grosgrain Ribbon tied around the vase.

New Challenge

We just started another creative challenge within our Stampin' Up! group this one will challenge us to use different products, card sketches. The first one is to use our Home Decor vinyl art. Well I was shopping in Home Goods and found these great little candles on clearance. I decided to dress them up. So I took my Chocolate Decor Elements Sheet and punched out Hearts from our new Heart to Heart punch. Yes, this a little sneak peak into the Spring Summer Idea Book & Catalog!!! It was so easy to do, just punch, peel and apply to the candles.

Click here to see what my friend Kelly made for the challenge. It is absolutely beautiful. Look how quickly the everyday just was spiced up.

Sizzex Snowflake Gift Ideas

Here are some gift ideas I've been busy making for the holidays. The first one is a shadow box made with the Sizzex Snowflake #2 and the the Join in the Cheer Decorative Stip Die. I cut both the snowflake and the word Joy with my White Vinyl that is one of raw materials we sell that along side the Big Shot. I then placed both die cuts on the shadow box. I put a half back pearl in the center of the snowflake for a little bling. On the inside I glued some trimmings I found in Michael's. The back of the shadowbox, I put a piece of Holiday Treasures designer series paper.

Next I decorated a Jiffy Pop popcorn container. If you look closely there is a pocket and that is where I will be putting a Blockbuster gift card. I first trace the Jiffy Pop container on a piece of Frosty Day designer series paper. Next I made a die cut with my Snowflake and Big Shot with Kiwi Kiss card stock. I attached the Snowflake to the paper with my 2 way glue pen. Next came Mr. Twigster, I stamped and colored him and punched him out with my 1 3/8" circle punch and attached him with my Stampin' Dimensionals. I stamped the word Happy Holidays from the retired Mini Mates stamp set. Everytime I think I can part with this set, I realize how many great greetings are in the set and I always happy when I have an occasion to use the set. Next, I put the white card stock and attached to a piece of chocolate chip card stock. I lined the sides and the bottom of the chocolate card stock with sticky strip to make the pocket to put the gift card. The gift card insert is a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock that I decorated the top with. I made the pull tab by just punching the top half of the large tag punch and putting a vintage brad through the center with strips of Whisper White and Kiwi Kiss. The finishing touch was the wide chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon adhered to the designer series paper as well as knot tied to the handle. Hope these two gift ideas inspire you to make some homemade goodies for your family and friends.

Spooky Decor Elements

For a limited time, Stampin' Up! is offering this spooky spider in their Home Decor Line! It took a while, but I finally found something to put the spider on. At convention, they showed us how they put it on a cookie jar that someone purchased in Target. Click here to see the jar. I was hesitant to put in a glass jar since I didn't want to worry about storing it after the season was over. So I found this metal tin in Michael's and added a wired ribbon that I bought there as well. Now that I've put the decor elements on a few items, I can't believe how easy it is to adhere and put on! Click here to see the flyer on the Stampin' Up! website. The spider comes in three sizes, small, medium and large, ranging from $5.95 to $14.95

More Big Shot Ideas

Here are a few more Big Shot paper crafts ideas from Saturday's regional Stampin' Up! Event, Fall Fest I attended.

Home Decor Elements

Well I finally had a chance to play with the Home Decor Elements. I bought the Manhattan flowers and I have to say I can't believe how easy it is to apply. I put two of the flowers on a mirror which I tried to take a picture but with the camera flash and reflection, I have to say the picture didn't come out too great. Then the last flower, I put on a memo center I purchased. The flower was just was needed to dress up the memo center. I have to say I was in Walmart early today and I was walking around thinking wow that would look fabulous with a home decor element or our new rub-ons. Ordinary objects are taking on a whole new meaning nowadays with the release of so may wonderful products by Stampin' Up!

Tour of the Riverton Home Office

Here are pictures of the Stampin' Up! office in Riverton. Not only it just breath taking because the office is nestled in the middle of the mountains. Shelli made it a point when building the new location to make it welcoming and wonderful place to work. The first you notice is the beautiful waterfall in the atrium. How peaceful and relaxing would that be to look at in the middle of the work day.

After we took in the atrium, we went into the Legacy Museum which has wonderful art work and home decor. Check out on the left the 1st catalog Stampin' Up! ever released 20 years ago and the newest catalog that will be out August 10th! We've come along way baby!

Here are some of the beautiful items made with our home decor line. Can you believe it putting the home decor on a trunk and the beautiful framed art.

Check out the curtains made with our Summer Picnic stamp set and the cherries stamped on the border. Who would have thought.

After we toured the legacy room, we checked out the distribution center where we got to see packages being picked and then off to shipping! I wonder whose orders are going out as I snap the photo.

After it was all done, we walked out to the front of the building and took photos in front of the Stampin' Up! rock. Here I am with the two best convention buddies ever, Debbie and Tracy.

My Favorite Main Stage Projects

Here are just a few of my favorite projects that were shown on the main stage of the Stampin' Up! convention. The first ones are made with the new home decor line that will be released in October. Who would have thought that you can use the vinyl art to make such beautiful projects as these.

The next two come from Shelli, our CEO and co-founder. They are made with the Sissex Big Shot!!! So many fabulous pennants, thank you's, treat holders, centerpieces for parties. The first one is a dresser for her newest addition to the family, her granddaughter that is due to be born soon. There is a pennant with her name. She dressed up diaper cake, invitations, thank yous and many other items. The second one is for a birthday party for her grandson. There are even masks. Don't use just love the new In colors, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine Tango!


The next projects are a smores container made with one our new stamp sets Under the Stars. The second project was homemade gift bags made with our Designer Series Paper. The first one the embellishments are made with our Simple Birthday Thanks stamp set. Don't you just love the new ribbon, our chocolate chip one inch double stitched grosgrain ribbon!

The next project, the scrapbook page uses our styles silver hodgepodge, our new chipboard letters and heat embossed leaves from our Best Wishes & More stamp set. The second picture shows our new Cheers to You stamp set. I am so loving this set!!! It is by my favorite from the new catalog. What you can't see is how she made the same swirls stars on the inside with the beer mugs inside. This is so easy to do. I can't wait to plan a workshop and show everyone how to make the pop up cards. The last project is made with our upsy daisy stamp set. I just love the simple elegance of this card.

Check back tomorrow when I post more convention stories.