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Here’s a fun project that I shamelessly CASED from Tina Rosenkrans’ Blog…I loved the project so much I almost copied it exactly! 

I used the Simply Scrappin’ Winter Bright kit and only used a bit of it to create this fun Holiday Planner. The planner is made using an ordinary 2 pocket folder from an office supply store…or even the dollar store! 

Here’s a closer look of the inside of the planner:

You can use the pages to organize any of your holiday planning, but, my pages say: Gift List, Family Traditions, To do and Recipes.

Here’s a photo of the back:

 

Tips to creating this project:

Step 1: Choose the cardstock and decorative paper that you would like to use in your kit.

Step 2: Cut 6 strips of cardstock and/or decorative paper into 4 1/2″ x 12″

Step 3: Pick 5 of the strips from above and cut them in 2 pieces of 4 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ and 4 1/2″ x 7 3/4″  (This may change depending the size of your folder pocket)

Step 4: Use a bone folder to create an accordion fold in your folder.

Step 5: Decorate your folder using your cut paper from step 3. The remaining uncut strip is used for the back cover. I used modge podge to adhere the papers to the folder.

Step 6: Cut 2 pieces of Whisper White cardstock (8 1/2×11 size) to 4 1/4″ x 11″ to use for your inside pages.

Step 7: Embellish your white cardstock as desired and add to your pockets.

Step 8: Use Sticky Strip to adhere Ribbon to front of folder only. (Real Red Grosgrain recommended)

Ta da….A fun Organizer in 8 easy steps! 

If you’d like to purchase the supplies to make this project, email me at josee@stampingjo.com!  

Josee

One of my customers emailed me this great tip and I just had to share it on my blog! 

Here’s what she said: “I purchased a 12 pc ink set (Stampin’ Spots) from you at the last party I attended.  You had mentioned about we should store our inks upside down.  I came up with an idea thought I’d pass it on to you for your customers.

Since the colours on the ink package are nowhere close to the beautiful colour of the ink, and we are to store them upside down, here’s my idea.  I used one of your small stamps, and stamped the same image with all the different colours in the box.  Then I punched them out with a square punch, and used a tab to secure it to the bottom of the ink pad.  That way I can see what colour it is, and it looks pretty in the box too!”

Thanks so much Samantha Cranke for this great tip! I was so excited, I had to use your idea for my Stampin’ Spots!

Happy Stamping,

Josee www.stampingjoblog.com

Here are the projects we made tonight at my Stamping 101 class. Gotta love that Scallop Circle Punch, you can find it on page 183 of the Catalogue!

Enjoy! Josee www.stampingjoblog.com

Wooohooo….check out what I got in the mail today….a swap from Shelli Gardner, the Cofounder and CEO of Stampin’ Up! This adorable tag made my day. Shelli made them for all the Founder’s Circle Trip Achievers. (The top demonstrators in Canada and the US received a Free trip to Lake Powell, Arizona for 5 days.) If you want to see what we did and saw on this trip…you can find my pictures from my trip HERE. We were supposed to receive this adorable tag while on the trip, but, unfortunetely the tags made it onto only the first bus on the last morning…so, they mailed them to us instead- how nice to receive something special in the mail! Here’s a cute photo of Shelli making her swaps.   It’s so nice to know we’re not the only ones not having our swaps done till the last minute. 🙂 Happy Stamping! Josee www.stampingjo.com

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving! (Canada) On Sunday, my family enjoyed a wonderful Turkey Dinner out…with wayyyyyy to much chocolate cake for dessert and the next morning went out for a delicious brunch at my step-parents home. Again….way too much yummy food!  What is it about holidays and food?!

Today, I’m sharing with you a few of the cards we’ve made at my Christmas card classes.

Card 1: This one has been one of the favourite cards we’ve made…everybody LOVES embossing!  

 

Recipe- Stamp set: Wondrous Gift,  All Holidays Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla, Brushed Gold pg. 179 INK: Versamark, Bashful Blue ACCESSORIES: Gold Embossing Powder, Daubers (to apply bashful blue ink), gold brads

Card 2: This card is using the hostess stamp set on page 20, Perfect Presentation. I love using our new In Colors, found in our catalogue on page 165. All of the 6 colours have the matching Double-Stitched Ribbon which makes it so easy to add the perfect ribbon to your projects!

Supplies used: Stamp set: Perfect Presentation, Whimsy Wheel *Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red *Ink: Wild Wasabi, Summer Sun *Accessories: Silver Brad, Scallop Circle Punch, Double Stitched Ribbon

Don’t forget to check my CLASS PAGE for upcoming events!

Happy Stamping! Josee www.stampingjoblog.com