Christmas Tagables Photopolymer Stamp Set

Hello!  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoyed spending time with family, if you were able to be with them.  I always love Thanksgiving and holidays in general for that reason.  I love being with my family! I celebrate it at home, warm and cozy, rather than out waiting in lines or fighting crowds to buy early christmas gifts.  The holidays are just more fun spent at home, warm and surrounded by family!

On that note, I'm so excited for another photopolymer stamp set from Stampin' Up!  Take a look at what they've come up with for Christmas this year.  I definitely want this kit, and I'm sure you will too!   I love Christmas and am excited for it, but don't worry, I still love and celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving too!

 Pop and Place Holiday Punch Book and Christmas Tagables Photopolymer Stamp Set!

We added pockets to the front and back cover, so that if you pull a piece out and decide not to use it, you will have somewhere to store it.

We added perforation lines between some of the shapes and extended the design to the whole page so that if you are feeling creative, you can use the negative space as well as the tags themselves.

Finally, we decided that a book full of tags needed a stamp set to go with it, so there's a stamp set designed specifically to coordinate with the punch book.

134975	Pop & Place Holiday Gift Tags Book	$9.95
134623	Christmas Tagables Photopolymer Stamp Set	$13.95
135921	Pop & Place Holiday Gift Tags Bundle includes Pop & Place Holiday Gift Tags Book  Christmas Tagables Photopolymer Stamp Set	$19.95
135290	Pop & Place Holiday Gift Tags Starter Bundle includes Pop & Place Holiday Gift Tags Book  Christmas Tagables Photopolymer Stamp Set Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Spot Clear Block C	$24.95

I don't know about you, but I'll be adding this to my next order!  :)

Very Merry Chapstick Holder

Hello!  Today I want to share a project I made for my class last week at my home.  I love chapstick and use it a million times a day, so I thought up an easy little holder to put a chapstick in that would make a great little gift for a neighbor, co worker, teacher, or friend.  I used the circles framelits to cut the circle and scallop circle cut out of Old Olive card stock and Season of Style Designer Series Paper.  I layered the two pieces of paper on top of each other with sticky strip, added some chapstick held down with sticky strip, then punched a hole with a single hole punch, tied it closed with some Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, and then stamped a greeting on Whisper White card stock in Crumb Cake ink, punched it out with a 1 1/4'' circle punch, punched another circle out in Cherry Cobbler with a 1 3/8'' circle punch, and mounted the two on a scallop circle punch in Baked Brown Sugar.  I added a little rhinestone jewel for an extra something, and that was it!  It truly was easy!  This makes a great little gift for someone.  Chapstick can be pretty inexpensive when you buy it in a 3 or 4 pack like I did, so these are great gifts for any small-large group you may need a little treat for.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to check back tomorrow, and use hostess code UEEJ6PPB when you place an online order through my store.  You can view all the items on sale through December 2 in my store as well.  See you tomorrow!

Color Me Christmas Card

Hello!  I'm back with another card, giving you ideas for your Christmas cards.  This card is a case from demonstrator Heather Summers.  I love her work and check her blog often for great ideas, and when I saw this card, I fell in love and had to buy the set.  I love the set so much now that I almost ordered it twice on accident, not knowing that I had actually already ordered it.  Funny, considering how I once told myself it was really ugly and I was never going to buy it!
I love this card, because it's really inexpensive to duplicate for mass quantities, it's simple enough to to duplicate for mass quantities, and it's cute.  If you already have the stamp set, for 13.45 plus tax and shipping. (the cost of a pack of Whisper White cardstock and a package of washi tape), you can make about 75 cards.  With the stamp set, it would be 34.40 for wood mount, and 29.40 for clear mount.

Such a cute and simple card that makes me happy!  Supplies I used to make this card:  Color Me Christmas Stamp set (wood #131742 $20.95  clear #131745 $15.95), Season of Style Designer Washi Tape #132155 $4.95, one pack of Whisper White Cardstock #100730 $8.50 for 40 sheets, and Stampin' Write Markers in Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Blush Blossom (Retired) and Real Red (For Santa's Candy Cane).  I popped up my santa and stocking with some Stampin' Dimensionals, but you don't have to if you don't want to. I just felt like the card could use a little dimension since it's pretty flat and really simple.  Popping up your cut out image just makes it a little more interesting.  The greeting is an old stamp from a Christmas greeting stamp set by Stampin' Up!, but you could use any Christmas greeting stamp you have on hand at home.  This card truly is that simple! I hope I've encouraged you to try making your Christmas cards this year.  Enjoy and I'll see you back here tomorrow!