It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!!!! (La de Da)....... Stampin' Up has put together a fun Gift giving Guide for anyone on your list. These ideas are always fun for everyone and will also give you a chance to spend quality time with family and friends stamping, laughing and having fun making special gifts, cards, and projects. I'm sure, like me, once you've tried out some of the fun ideas, products, papers, ribbons, etc. you will be hooked. Have any of your family and friends commented how much they enjoy your hand stamped items and even though they throw away store bought cards some time along the way, they "always" keep yours? I enjoy seeing people's faces and hear the comments when they open my cards and gifts because they are special and one of a kind. The following link will help you in deciding what would be a fun gift for Christmas to share. Follow the link and call, email me or order online by going to my Stampin' Up website http://www.janetelam.stampinup.com/ and clicking on "order now" at the top of the page. http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/gift_giving_guide_us.pdf
My customers have already commented on how easy it is to order online and not only that, the products are delivered to their door within just a few days. Give it a try, like Mikey I think you will like it too.

Kristina Werner's color challenge

I have really enjoyed doing the color challenges Kristina Werner has thrown out. As I said last week, it makes me actually use my own imagination, which is "sort" of getting better. I still tend to copy others except for these challenges, which makes me more confident each week. I love the colors this week, they are so soft and feminine, the sort of colors that are relaxing. in fact, the paint in my house is called "herb

ivore" which is close to these two greens combined. I also have absolutely loved the Organic Outlines stamp set, so this was a good challenge for me. I made this a 6" X 6" card, which is unconventional for me, but I love the look. After I stamped the images on the Whisper White, I cut out three areas and propped them up on dimensionals to stand out to be 3 dimensional. I also added the Old Olive ribbon and some White Ribbon for dimension as well as a clear round button with some of the DSP paper I used on the card as well as a certainly celery button on top of the clear button attached with some natural hemp twine. The greeting is from the Chit Chat Rub-ons and I added some half pearls from the Pretties Kit. I think this card turned out pretty cute.

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I have had so much fun trying out the color inspirations from Kristina Werner's challenges. I am pretty famous for just copying other peoples creations, but this is actually teaching me to challenge myself and come up with some of my very own creations; that's pretty exciting. I'm sure my customers would like to know that I can actually use some creativity and help them with theirs. These colors were extremely challenging for me; it seemed like the Pacific Point and the Taken with Teal sort of clashed, but I do like them together. One of my favorite colors, Elegant Eggplant is easy for me to put together with other colors. I actually used all of the 5 colors and water colored, layered, embellished and even used a rub-on. Even though this is meant to be a "Christmas Card", it's sort of unconventional, but I like it, do you?

Country Living Holiday Kit

NEW! Stampin' Up! Country Living Holiday Kit
Create beautiful handcrafted ornaments and decorations with your family and friends this holiday season with the Country Living Holiday Stamp Kit (Item #114447, $49.95)--available only while supplies last. The kit offers a convenient way at this busy time of the year to create simple and elegant ornaments to brighten your home or share as hand-crafted gifts.


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The Holiday Collection Stampin' Kit (Item #114447, $49.95) includes the following products:
Holiday Collection stamp set (six stamps-)
Four 12" x 12" sheets of die-cut chipboard
Eight 12" x 12" sheets of die-cut Designer Series paper (2 ea. of 4 double-sided designs)
Four 12" x 12" sheets of Designer Series paper (2 ea. of 2 double-sided designs)
Two 12" x 12" sheets of Whisper White card stock
25 yds. Silver Metallic cord
10 yds. 3/8" Whisper White taffeta ribbon
Pretties Kit brads (20)
Stampin' Dimensionals
Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Glitter (1/2 oz.)
Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive
Riding Hood Red Classic Stampin' Spot
Old Olive Craft Stampin' Spot
Uninked Stampin' Spot
Whisper White Craft Ink refill

What a fun and affordable way to make unique and beautiful projects for the holidays! Watch for the 8 page spread of ideas in Country Living magazine!

I can't remember where I saw this, but I made one of these for each customer that is coming to my Christmas Card Class this week. I cut out the brown felt from the Circle Scallop Die Cut from my Big Shot. Then I put several peppermint sticks in a cellophane bag and tied shut with the gold elastic ribbon in the Mini Catalog. I stamped the "Do Not Open till Dec 25th" from the Winter Post stamp set and cut out with the label punch. Then I punched a hole in each of the labels at the top and threaded the gold elastic ribbon through, tied with a slip knot close to the label and the tied the top with another slip knot to slide over the ribbon before the "second" tie. I used the Red and White striped ribbon from the Mini catalog to tie around the felt and peppermint sticks, then attached the label punch to the ribbon. What a fun and fast gift for anyone!!

Eastern Blooms

I found a card like this somewhere, but I changed a few things. I used the half pearls from the
Pretties Kit on the flowers and the ribbon slide on the side.

This was a fun card to make and in real life really looks elegant. I used the Eastern Blooms stamp set and punched out the flowers from the punch that was in the Three for You Stamp Kit. The flowers and pearls were set up on dimensionals so they added dimension to the card. The cardstock was using Whisper White, Pacific Point & Baja Breeze. I used some white taffeta ribbon as well. The sentiment is from the Holidays and Wishes set.
Hope you enjoy