The Christmas Scrapbook

One of the Christmas gifts I'm making this year is a baby scrapbook for my nephew. I've been totally cruising and have already finished 15 or 16 pages. I haven't done the cover or title page yet, but here's a taste of some of it.

Sew, Owls are in Right Now...

I had my first technique club & we chose punches as the technique. I found a tutorial for these owls on the Stampin' Up! site & thought they were adorable. The first birthday one is similar to the tutorial and I made one for my mother-in-law but since it's so close to Christmas I thought we'd make a more Christmasy one for the club.

Ingredients:

Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron DSP, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White - paper; VersaMark - ink; Occasions Collection - stamp set; White embossing powder, Chocolate Chip polytwill ribbon, Chocolate Chip marker, scallop edge punch, 1/8" punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, scallop circle punch, tab punch, 3/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, 5 petal flower punch, boho blossoms punch - accessories;

And so for the Christmasy version...

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Bashful Blue, Whiper White, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, More Mustard - paper; Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White - ink; Snow Burst, Best Yet (hostess)- stamp sets; white gel pen, Chocolate Chip marker, scallop edge punch, 1/8" punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, scallop circle punch, tab punch, 3/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, 5 petal flower punch, boho blossoms punch - accessories;

Sewing Machine!! I thought this set was great. I love vintage stuff!!! I even got it free during the Novemeber promotion from the sampler catalogue. I love the colours for this card too.

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, So Saffron DSP, Ski Slope DSP - paper; Old Olive, Tangerine Tango - ink; Puns from the Past - stamp set; mini library clips, linen thread - accessories;

More Christmas Card Parties :)

These were the Make & Takes I chose to make for my last party. The skaters was from the last Stampin' Success Magazine & I knew I wanted to make it as soon as I saw it. I'm so totally in love with the Winter Post set. Can't wait to use the "Post Card" stamp on a scrapbook page too!!!

Ingredients:

Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White - paper; Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, VersaMark - ink; Winter Post, Occasions Collection (hostess)- stamp sets; Alpine Ribbon Originals, Mini Library clips - accessories;

I saw a card using Lovely As a Tree and chalking the green to make it look like it was glowing but the paper & layout was different. When I first got the Holiday Treasures DSP I didn't think I'd ever use this crazy pointsetta paper but as soon as I looked at the sample I mentioned above, I knew this would be perfect!

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Ruby Red, Confetti Cream, Holiday Treasure DSP - paper; Old Olive, Chocolate Chip - ink; Lovely as a Tree - stamp set; Ticket corner punch, 5-petal flower punch, Felt Fusion Too, green rhinestone brad, sponge dauber, Stampin' Pastels, Chocolate Chip marker, Ruby Red marker, pop-up glue dots - accessories;

Lately I've fallen in love with the confetti cream paper. I'm totally into vintage stuff and anything made with confetti cream & chalked, automatically looks vintage! This last card feels kinda quilt-ish to me :) Love the gingham paper too :) The tree was inked mostly in Old Olive but I used the Chocolate Chip marker to color the trunk and after I'd stamped it, I used the fine tip of the marker to add a little more brown to the trunk & branches. I also added random dots to the tree with the Ruby Red marker after all the chalking was done.

Reindeer

These were the projects from one of my last parties. For some reason I was on a reindeer theme. Something about Rudolph's nose I think...

This card was made with the Holiday Lineup set. Every time I look at this stamp set I laugh. I LOVE all their funny faces :)
Ingredients:

Old Olive, Ski Slope DSP, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip - paper; Black StazOn, Chocolate Chip - ink; Holiday LineUp, Best Yet (hostess), Occations Collections (hostess)- stamp set; Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware, label punch, 1/8" punch, Horizontal Slot punch, Colluzzle,
Carousel Notes (traced onto Riding Hood Red), 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon, blender pen, Stampin' Pastel, crystal effects - accessories;

This treat bag is supposed to be full of spare reindeer noses.

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Ski Slope DSP - paper; Chocolate Chip - ink; Deer Friends (hostess) - stamp set; Small Cello bags, Swedish berries (WalMart), scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, corner rounder, mini glue dots, mini red pom-poms(Michael's) - accessories;

Christmas Stamp-a-Stack

So, it's been a while since I posted on my blog... It's not that I haven't been stamping it's just that I've been using all the projects for classes & parties. I didn't want to post them until I'd used them for the class :)

Here's one of the cards we made at the Christmas Card Stamp-a-Stack:

The watercolouring was lots of fun! I even took the time to add shadows & I think it made the image pop!

This card design was take from:


http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1068932?cat=14645

Ingredients:

Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, Confetti White - paper; Night of Navy, Black StazOn, Baja Breeze - ink; Holiday Lineup, Taffy Alphabet, Winter Post - stamp set; Stampin' Pastels, Blender Pen, distressing tool - accessories;

The second card was a total CASE. I think this is the most gorgeous card!!

It was taken from:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1045609?cat=14764

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Confetti Cream - paper; Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Baja Breeze - ink; Winter Post, Frames with a Flourish, En Francais - stamp sets; antique copper brads, Alpine Ribbon Originals, Chocolate Chip marker, sponge dauber, Stampin' Pastels - accessories;

And last but not least, some wine labels I designed for a wedding.
















Ingredients:

Avery labels - paper; Real Red, River Rock - ink; Baroque Motif, Frames with a Flourish - stamp sets;

Another Web Page?

So I've signed up for a Stampin' Up! web page too. www.rosemary.stampinup.net Check it out :)

A Fall Wedding Card

One of my co-workers asked for a wedding card... here's what I came up with. The old hostess set with "TOGETHER" is one of my favourites for weddings and anniversaries. The gold embossing makes it a little harder to read but I really like the look. Something about weddings and dry embossed papers just go together for some reason. I pulled out my trusty piercing template and covered a piece of vanilla cardstock with polka dots. Although it's somewhat time consuming I haven't broken down & bought a cuttlebug yet :) I had decided before I started that this leaf set was perfect for the style I wanted I wasn't sure if I wanted solid stamping, watercolour or some other technique for the leaves. After some exprimenting & the decision to use brushed gold for the card base. I decided on solid stamping with little bits of gold embossing on the leaves. After stamping & cutting out the leaves I used my VersaMarker to trace little bits of the leaf veins, rubbed the edges of the leaves on my VersaMark pad & then embossed in gold. I think it was just the touch I was looking for.

Ingredients:

Brushed gold, Very Vanilla - paper; Ruby Red, Old Olive, Really Rust, More Mustard, VersaMark - ink; Autumn Leaf Prints, discontinued hostess set - stamp sets; gold brads, old embossing powder, scallop edge punch, piercing template, embossing stylus, VersaMarker - accessories;