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IT’S TIME TO MAKE SOME CHRISTMAS GIFT TAGS

I love the kits that Stampin’ Up! ® includes in its range of products. They are perfect if you don’t have lots of paper crafting supplies because everything you need is in the box (other than a pair of scissors). I also like them because they make great gifts to give to friends and family.

This kit – Love, Santa Tag Kit – has the supplies to make these 12 gift tags.

LOVE, SANTA TAG KIT (ENGLISH)

It would be lots of fun to have a couple of friends joins you for afternoon tea and make a set of four tags each.

LOVE, SANTA TAG KIT (ENGLISH)

I made one of each of the tags following the instructions that are included.

Then I decided that I would like to make some alternative projects using the remaining supplies. I hope these give you some ideas. I’ll share some today and the rest tomorrow.

Today’s projects are all easel cards and are perfect for displaying tag images.

For this first card I took a piece of Soft Suede card and embossed it with the Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder. To lighten areas of the brickwork I swiped the Whisper White Craft Stampin’ Pad across the card.

I added Stampin’ Dimensionals to the back of the tree and popped it on the front panel. There are lots of coordinating gems in the kit so I was able to embellish the card.

The greeting is from the Tidings & Trimmings Stamp Set and I stamped it with Just Jade ink.

The gift box is such a cute image expecially stamped in Polished Pink. I tucked a short length of Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon under the scalloped circle. By placing these layered circles up on Stampin’ Dimensionals this provides the anchor point to hold the easel card upright.

For this easel card I embossed a layer of Basic White card using the Merry Melody 3D Embossing Folder.

This Christmas greeting is from the Merriest Moments Stamp Set. It was stamped using the Night of Navy Ink Spot that was supplied in the kit. I cut the greeting using one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.

I used coordinating Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels to embellish the card.

This is the third easel card I made. I trimmed the gift boxes away from the top of the remaining taxi tags to add to this card so that Santa had some gifts to deliver.

I embossed a piece of Just Jade card using the snowflakes from the pair of Wintry 3D Embossing Folders. A Basic White piece of card was also embossed.

The Holly Jolly Wishes Stamp Set was where I found the greeting for this card. After stamping it with Bumblebee ink I cut the layers using the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.

The final touch was to add some of the Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels for a biy of Christmas bling.

Tomorrow I wi;; have two more cards and a gift box to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad
Whisper White Craft Stampin’ Pad
[101731]
$14.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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I’M RUNNING LATE TODAY!

I decided to make a Mini Christmas Album for my Facebook Live today. So I thought that I would wait until it was finished and share it with you.

You can see how I made it here – just click!

Facebook Icon Symbol - Free vector graphic on Pixabay

The album will be given as a gift for Christmas, filled with messages and gift cards.

I cut 18 pieces of card using the largest of the Scalloped Contour Dies. Using three 1-1/2″x 1/2″ pieces of Basic Black card, I joined each pair of die cut ‘pages’. These pieces of black card were folded in half to create a hinge.

To create the album, each of these hinged pairs were then glued to the back of a pair. The next photo shows you how the album looks.

Each of the eight pages is made up of two of the die cut pieces of card. The Facebook video also shows you the technique I used. By joining two pices of card for each page gives the album greater stability.

Each page then had either a panel of Painted Christmas Designer Series Paper or a panel of Basic White card adhered. These pieces also worked to cover the black hinges.

The white panels provide a place to write your Christmas messages and the pockets are a place to pop a gift card or a tag with more messages.

The pages can be used to attach photos of the person you’re giving it to or can be left so that they can use the album to add photos of their Christmas celebration. The photos would need to be 3″x 2″.

To secure the album I wrapped a length of Real Red Double-stitched Satin Ribbon around the album, securing it at first with some Stampin’ Seal+. Then Iattached a panel of DSP to the front and back pages.

The Christmas greeting, from the Merriest Moments Stamp Set , was stamped and then cut using another of the Scalloped Contour Dies. This was attached to the front of the album.

The front was decorated with stamped and cut elements from the Christmas Season Stamp Set and Seasonal Labels Dies. I popped them on the alum frint using Multipurpose Glue and Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I finsihed the front off with a few Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

I am so pleased with the way this Mini Christmas Album has turned out.

Until next time, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad
Whisper White Craft Stampin’ Pad
[101731]
$14.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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TIME TO TRY A NEW TECHNIQUE

Hello to each of you who are popping by today. Welcome!

Well, I had planned to share these projects with you yesterday but somehow I managed to get behind schedule.

this is the first time I have made cards using the ‘curtain fold’ or ‘drapery fold’ technique. It is a great way to showcase the double-sided designs of our Designer Series Papers. For these projects I used the Painted Christmas 12″x 12″ DSP.

The DSP starts as a 12″x 5-1/2″ piece that is cut in half diagonally – Not corner to corner but 1/2″ in from the corner. The paper was then scored at 1″, 3″, 4″, 6″, 7″, 9″, 10″ and 11″. To see how this was done, I made another one of these cards during my Facebook Live – here is a link – https://www.facebook.com/mmmstampintime/videos/2599057596906237.

I stamped a coordinating leaf design on the card front using Evening Evergreen. The folded DSP was then attached to the card front and I added a strip of Evening Evergreen card at the top of the curtain fold.

The greeting, from the Merriest Moments Stamp Set, was stamped in Real Red. The same leaves were stamped on the card insert and envelope. Then I added some Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels to the card front.

I made three other cards using the products you can see and the other items I have mentioned.

So, what do you think of these four curtain fold Christmas cards?

Until next time, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00