Poinsettia Gift Box

The Wrapping Up the Holidays session of UStamp has begun... if you are looking for all kinds of gift and packaging ideas you will find lots of them!  

My first project is a box for presenting a poinsettia plant.  The panels on the side and card are done with a multi-color embossing powder technique.  No two will every be the same!

Primrose and Gray

For this sympathy card, I used the color combo of Primrose Petals and Basic Gray.

One very nice thing about Stampin' Up Designer Series paper is that the designs can be used for so many styles of projects.  The dotted Gray and Vanilla strip is from the Howlstooth and Scaryingbone pack which is mainly for Halloween but on this project it has an entirely different feel.

The card base is stamped tone-on-tone with the flourish from the Everything Eleanor stamp set.

The focal image is stamped in Basic Gray ink and colored with markers going from the darkest colors at the center getting lighter toward the outside plus a few darker highlights following the shading of the image.

One trick I like is to outline the image with a Sahara Sand marker to make it appear more realistic.

The flower is layered on the medallion stamp (also from the Everything Eleanor set) punched with the 2-1/2" circle punch and a Raspberry Ripple doily that was diecut using the Delicate Doilies Sizzlet.

Acetate and Tissue Christmas Ornaments

The Technique Boutique session of UStamp featured 40 projects each using a different technique.  I choose to design Christmas ornaments with the Acetate and Tissue technique.  This pretty technique makes unique ornaments - no two are exactly alike.  The Christmas tree ornament has a custom box and the baby in the manger ornament is part of the card front.   It is adhered with a single glue dot making it detachable.

Even though the live session has ended you may still sign up by clicking on the blinkie below.

Spider Truffles and Cobweb Cookies

When is a spider too sweet to be scary?.....  When it is a yummy chocolate truffle!  

Leah makes the best and easiest truffles so when we saw the idea for these spiders and cobwebs in a book called Cookie Swap we decided to adapt it using her recipe.  (The recipe is on this past post).   The legs are made of licorice and his eyes and fangs are little candy decorations.  The cookies are decorated with piped icing.

Even though Halloween is just a few days away I seriously doubt there will be any left by then!

Cannery Set Halloween Projects

Finally!  A chance to stamp!   I have had the idea for these little halloween candy treats for a month or two.  Now that halloween is just a few days away it was now or never!

When I get a new product, I love to try to find unusual ways to use them.  The ghosts, skulls and pumpkins are made with the Cannery Set Framelits.  Now the Cannery Set is made to coordinate with Perfectly Preserved stamp set which has a jam jar theme with fruit and corn.   Here a few stamps in that set. 

This photo shows the framelits positioned over the stamps ready to run through the Big Shot

and here they are after die cutting.

As I was looking the shapes of the framelits, I began to see how they could be used as halloween cutouts as well.  The apple became a pumpkin, the pear flipped upside down became a skull and the corn became a little ghost by cutting off the base.  

The stick-on googlie eyes in the Holiday Mini were the perfect size for their faces.   I drew eyebrows, eyelashes and other facial features with Stampin' Markers.  I had fun coming up with different expressions.

Rolo candies are just the right size to make these into yummy little treats.

For the card, I added the bat from the Googlie Ghouls stamp set and some crossbones.   

The crossbones are punched with the Modern Label punch and then trimmed a bit on the sides.

Sure feels good get the creative juices flowing again!

Candlelight Christmas Sewing Gift Set

This sewing gift set was my final design project for the Heating Up the Holidays session of UStamp.   It features the Candlelight Christmas fabric cut with various Big Shot dies.    The hanging tool caddy, which holds scissors, seam ripper and marking pencil or stylus, is made with Oval Accent die.  The needle holder is made with the Two Tags die and pincushion with the Scallop Circle die.  It also includes cute packaging for buttons and thread.  It all goes in the jar for gift giving-- except for the card of course!

The live session has ended but all the projects are still available.  The blinkie below has a link for sign up info.

Rosh Hashanah Gift

Here is evidence of how long it has been since I have posted. 

This is a little gift we made in mid-September.  Leah was invited to her friend's house for supper celebrating the Jewish New Year.   Apples and honey are eaten as part of the celebration.  The Orchard Harvest paper and the Perfectly Preserved stamp set were just perfect for this.