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Stampin’ Up! Christmas Card Ideas #7-Scandinavian Season

The set Scandinavian Season from the Holiday Mini Catalogues features a style that is quite unique! I’ve seen such lovely cards created with this set! Here are 3 great ones created for our Team Holiday Mini Swap.

Card #1

Created by Rosalie Crich

 

Item #	Description	Price	Pg. #
111774	stamp set-Scandinavian Season	$24.95	13 (Holiday Mini)
111644	stamp set-Heard from the Heart	$26.95	145
100730	cardstock-Whisper White	$8.95	163
111352	cardstock-Baja Breeze	$6.50	162
111833	Ink-Baja Breeze	$6.25	162
111836	Ink-Riding Hood Red	$6.25	162
111365	Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon	$9.25	187
104430	Dimensionals	$4.95	191
104199	Linen Thread	$5.75	187

 

 Card #2

Created by Deb Duval

Item #	Description	Price	Pg. #
111774	stamp set-Scandinavian Season	$24.95	13 (Holiday Mini)
113633	wheel-Scandivanian	$7.75	13 (Holiday Mini)
100730	cardstock-Whisper White	$8.95	163
111352	cardstock-Baja Breeze	$6.50	162
111833	Ink-Baja Breeze	$6.25	162
112994	Ski Slope Designer Series Paper	$11.75	12 (Holiday Mini)
1102283	Ink-Versamark	$9.50	190
109131	Silver Embossing Powder	$5.75	190
104336	Silver Brads	$8.25	185
100005	Heat Tool	$33.95	190
113100	Ribbon-Alpine	$19.95	23 (Holiday Mini)
103954	Aquapainter (2)	$19.95	193
111833	Ink Refill-Baja Breeze	$3.25	162

Card #3

Created by Patricia Allard

Item #	Description	Price	Pg. #
111774	stamp set-Scandinavian Season	$24.95	13 (Holiday Mini)
113633	wheel-Scandivanian	$7.75	13 (Holiday Mini)
110217	stamp set-Des voeux parfaits	$20.95	141
100730	cardstock-Whisper White	$8.95	163
111353	cardstock-Kiwi Kiss	$6.50	162
111835	Ink-Kiwi Kiss	$6.25	162
100908	Ink-Chocolate Chip	$6.25	164
111879	Kiwi/Vanilla Satin Ribbon	$10.50	187
102264	Coluzzle	$23.95	192
1109114	Pretties Kit-half pearls	$36.95	185
1112091	Scallop Edge Punch	$19.95	188

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed these lovely cards!

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Sharing some Fall Traditions

If you’ve never seen an Ottawa Fall, you’re missing out! It’s definetely such a great time to live in Canada! Though I hate that the cold is coming, the Fall colours are absolutely magical! As a rule, we try to go for a special outing to look at the Fall colours with the kids and this year- we checked out Gatineau Hills for the Fall Rhapsody Festival. There are tons of walking trails, beautiful Look-Outs and our favourite Mackenzie King Estates. We took tons of photo’s of the kids playing in the leaves and posing by the ruins. I thought I’d share a few of our Thankgiving photo’s with you!

Here’s a photo overlooking the water at Mackenzie King Estates near the boat house. Aren’t the colours pretty?!

Here’s me and my darlings posing for Dad:

The next day was TURKEY DAY!!! Yummy! We decided to start a new Tradition of giving this year…my oldest daughter and I made homemade Candy Apples and packaged them, made a cute stamped tag and then delivered the apples to 8 of our neighbours. It was really fun to stop by and catch up with people we hadn’t necessarily seen in a while. My kids would ring the door bell and say: "Happy Thankgiving" and then give them the Candy Apple. Some of the people thought we were selling them. My kids and I called it "reverse-Halloween". Here’s a cute photo of my daughter after we got them all made:

 

Thanks for reading! Just thought I’d share some of our fun this week!

 

Season of Friendship

This great new set in the Holiday Mini is not only great for card-making, but, looks absolutely lovely as framed art! This card was created by Heather Fosbery and I love how she created the tree to match the Designer Series Paper…just another reason why having matching products makes creating with Stampin’ Up! products so easy!

Item Code	Description	Price	Pg. #
111776	Season of Friendship	$28.95	6 (Holiday Mini)
102128	Chocolate Chip Cardstock	$6.50	164
101563	Sage Shadow Cardstock	$6.50	165
105119	Autumn Vine Designer Series Paper	$11.75	7 (Holiday Mini)
100908	Chocolate Chip Classic Ink Pad	$6.25	164
102549	Really Rust Classic Ink Pad	$6.25	164
103162	More Mustard Classic Ink Pad	$6.25	164
111367	Chocolate Chip Grograin Ribbon	$6.50	186

 

Stampin’ Up! Christmas Idea #6-A Cardinal Christmas

Happy Thankgiving to my Canadian Friends and Readers…hope you have a day filled with wonderful blessings AND lots of turkey!

For the next 5 day’s, I’ll be sharing with you some cards made by some of my Team Members in a  Holiday Mini Catalogue Swap I just hosted. Here’s a fabulous Christmas Card made by Liana Medynski using the stamp set: "A Cardinal Christmas".

  

Product Hightlight:

Item Code	Description	Price	Pg. #
111760	A Cardinal Christmas stamp set	$28.95	19 (Holiday Mini)
104421	Canvas Stamp Set	$20.95	135
101650	Chocolate Chip Cardstcok	$6.50 (24 sheets)	164
105119	Always Artichoke Cardstock	$6.50 (20 sheets)	165
100730	Whisper White Cardstock	$8.95 (40 sheets)	163
101179	Basic Black Classic Ink	$6.25	163
100908	Chocolate Chip Classic Ink Pad	$6.25	164
107214	Ticket Corner Punch	$8.75	188
107305	Large Oval Punch	$19.95	188
113100	Alpine Ribbon Originals	$19.95	23 (Holiday Mini)
	Various ink pads to watercolour

 

Blog Anniversary deserves a Blog Give-Away!!!

Wow! I can’t believe it’s been a year since I’ve started blogging!!! Where has the time gone. I honestly didn’t know if I could keep up with the blogging world when I started. I really had no idea how much fun it would be to share about stamping AND all the new friends I’d make through my blog! It has been quite an adventure. For those of you who read my blog, I have to say:

Thanks so much for allowing me to share my love of stamping with you! I so appreciate you coming by to check out my blog!

As a special bonus to thank you all for all your support-it’s time for a:

 

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Scrapbooking-Fall Fun

 Don’t you just love the wonderful colours of fall and this page hightlights the colours beautifully! Fall is definetely in the air , my toddler and I went walking the other day and it was so fun seeing her play with the leaves. She couldn’t stop stepping thought the leaves and hearing the CRUNCHING SOUND they made. It’s too bad winter has to come following such a magical season! Can you tell I hate the cold?! I just love the handmade elements to this scrapbook page, don’t you?

Here’s a close-up of the chipboard pieces:

This chipboard piece was made using the BIG SHOT:

with the Leaves #2 die:

Did you know that you can glue designer series paper to scrap chipboard to create your own chipboard elements for your scrapbook layouts? Just another great reason to love the BIG SHOT! (The best glue for this technique is a glue stick as it will adhere all the layer!)

Triangle Explosion Box

 I had so much fun today creating this Triangle Explosion Box. It’s actually a project idea that’s been sitting on my display shelf for years originally created in a Wow Swap I was in. The original box was decorated with baby stamps, but, I thought how fun this box would be as a Christmas party favour filled with CHOCOLATE of course! hee, hee

Here’s a few of the steps to create this box!

*Start with a 8 1/2 x 11" Whisper White Cardstock and randomly stamp a pattern.
*I used the stamp set "Snow Burst" #110386 with Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue and Night of Navy Classic ink pads.

 

 

 

Print out the Template and score on each of the lines. (Template not to scale.) I hope it’s easy to follow for you…it’s the first time I make a template.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To score the straight lines, I used the scoring blade on my cutter. To score the "W" and the "M", I used my ruler and Stylus with a soft surface below my paper. 
 

  
Start folding your score marks as show below. If you’re finding that your box is not folding properly, you may have to slightly trim some of your points. You can use your bone folder to create crisper creases!

Grag some ribbon to tie around & decorate with a matching tag! Voila, your done!

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