Candlelight Christmas Gift Bags

I always love to see regular plain brown paper gift bags dressed up with a little TLC!

Andrea Walford provided an easy tutorial on making these using the Snow Flurry Bigz die, Merry and Type stamp set and the very beautiful Candlelight Chrismtas DSP.  I purchased my bags from Walmart and adjusted the measurements to suit the bags.  Andrea's original one was in the green; I then tried making one using the red sheet of DSP from the same package of Candlelight Christmas DSP.  I also used a sentiment from Elements of Style for the centre of the large snowflake.   They really are quick and easy to make up!

Just fill them with a gift of your choosing and you have a super way to give a gift "Stampin' Up!" style!

Have fun creating fun packaging for your Chrismtas gifts!

Happy Stamping....

Cindy

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Fresh Vintage

With the end of Sale-a-bration in just a couple of days, I thought I'd add this photo of a card made with the Fresh Vintage stamp set from the Sale-a-bration brochure.  This card is a case of a card by Beth Adams, another demonstrator; she also provided the measurements to help make it a quick and fun card.  I changed the colours and the sentiment.  It's not really that easy to find a sentiment to fit the 1 3/8" circle punch!  But I did find this one from the Elements of Style stamp set.

These are the measurements that Beth provided.  My image piece was smaller - 3 1/4 X 2 3/4.  All my black matting was 1/8th of an inch smaller.

Elegant Eggplant card stock
- Card base measures 5 1/2" x 11"

Basic Black card stock
- Layer measures 3 3/4" x 3 1/4"
- Strip measures 1 1/2" x 4 1/4"

Old Olive card stock
- Strip measures 1 1/4" x 4 1/4"

Whisper White card stock
- Layer measures 3 1/2" x 3"

Fresh Vintage Stamp set
Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive Stampin' Write Markers
Scallop Circle and 1 1/4" x 1 3/8" Circle punches
Designer Jewels - Rhinestones

Hope you have enjoyed this year's Sale-a-bration!!

Happy Stamping!

Cindy 

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Elements of Style with Doily Die and Embossing Folder Wax Paper Resist

I love the new Doily Die.  You do however have to have a little patience to poke out all the pieces!  It's also very important to make your "sandwich" nice and tight, especially when using card stock.  You will need a card stock shim to help with this.

The embossing folder wax paper resist technique is fun to do.  The types of background papers you can make is endless.  Vintage Wallpaper was used here.  I also used shimmery white card stock.  It gives an elegant shimmer when light is reflected.

My card is topped off with a very vanilla seam binding ribbon bow and dazzling details in the middle of the Elements of Style flowers.

The original design for this card was by Chris Smith, a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  I really enjoy her work.   I changed the stamp sets, paper colors, ribbon and added the background technique in order to try something new.

So, hope your New Year is off to a good start and you are creating whenever possible!  Happy  stamping!

Cindy

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French Foliage - Rock 'n Roll

 A class card using the Rock 'n Roll technique.  A fun technique to give stamped images color and dimension.  Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive used here.

The rhinestone was colored using a permanent marker such as a Sharpie.

Time to put the fall stamps aside for awhile and get moving on the Christmas images!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

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Elements of Style and Mocha Morning

I love how this card turned out.  I had made a 12 X 12 DSP purse and wanted to make a card to match.  I ended up giving the purse away, so there is no picture of it.  I'll just have to see if there is another piece in that pack of paper that will be suitable for another purse.

So crumb cake and basic black were the only two colors used.  I didn't realize until I was making the card that the paper and the stamp set co-ordinate!  So I used the flourish part of the stamp on a little corner of the inside.  The vintage wallpaper embossing folder was used on the black background.  The hummingbird is clear embossed.

Other embellishments are the crumb cake seam binding ribbon, vintage brads and the eyelet border punch.

Stamp Set:  Elements of Style

Paper:  Mocha Morning Speciality

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy