Secret Santa

These are the Secret Santa cards that we shared at our team meeting today!! Aren't they fantastic?? The 'Sandy Claws' card has a plastic sheet overlay to give an effective appearance of looking into a fish bowl. Awesome work Shanni!! The card using the Season of Joy trees and the koala bear was also a 3D card with a sheet of plastic at the front, really impressive Coral!! The blue card uses the Snowflake Swirls with a matching envelope. The envelope has been cut with the smaller piece creating a lid and the remainder a pocket which has been crimped. A wonderful idea created by Paula. The remaining cards used a combination of the Christmas tree from Snow Swirled and the flower from Scribble This cut out twice. This would be my work!! Thinking of those of you who couldn't be there today!!

All boxed up!!

These cute Origami Boxes have been lots of fun to make. It takes an A4 piece of cardstock to produce a box about 7cm wide. Once the band is removed the box opens out. They make a great idea for teachers presents filled with lots of yummy things - chocolates, tealights, lollies etc. The Ski Slope DSP has been used in the band with the snowflake from the Snow Swirled stamp set stamped using the Craft white ink and Real Red ink on the card. The cardstock is Real Red. All products are Stampin' Up!

The box can also be filled with coordinating gift cards and tags making gift giving a completely creative experience!!

12 days of Christmas

The plan is to post a 12 Christmas cards for you to get some inspirational ideas. Here goes.........

Firstly a play with the SEASON OF JOY stamp set:

The Season of Joy stamp set is using with Baja Breeze and Basic Grey cardstock. Stazon white is stamped over vellum on the bottom of the card with white taffeta ribbon on top of the tag card. White Craft ink is used to stamp the small flowers on the tag. A photo can go behind the tag.

This was lots of fun with a different combination of colours of cardstock - Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze and Rose Red. Black brads and Black gingham ribbon were added too.

Perhaps my favourite, nice and easy to mass produce at Christmas time. The flowers were stamped with Riding Hood Red Ink and Chocolate chip for the florishes and wording. Chocolate chip Stampin' Write Marker

was used to highlight the centre of the flowers. The lovely striped ribbon was added to embellish. The cardstock was Very Vanilla and Riding Hood Red.

Christmas Craft Fair display

Here's some of the items that were on display at the Christmas Craft Fair. The paper is Ski Slope Designer Series Paper and it's available until 30 November from the Spring Mini Catalogue.

NEW STAMPIN' UP! WEBSITE

Take note I now have a NEW WEBSITE. It's easy to use with lots of information on specials, recruiting and events. Please take a look! http://www.ruthmassey.stampinup.net/ (please note NO 'au' at the end) At least that is a note to myself!!

Punching it Out!

This month's Technique class was 'Punches'. The ideas for punches was endless. Don't worry this is not one of the cards the class created on the night for those who are attending at a later date. The Designer Series paper was punched out with circle punches of various sizes and repositioned with a larger circle punch underneath (in some cases) or soften with Whisper white craft ink. The Upsy Daisy stamp set was used for the background flowers. The flower was inked with Versamark then stamped on the card before layering the other paper.

Good Chat

The birds are having a chat!! The Good Friends stamp set has so many fun variations. The Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series Paper pack has all the patterned paper used on this card and more. Baja Breeze and So Saffron cardstock was used on this card also. Abit of doodling with the Chocolate Chip Write marker on the So Saffron cardstock. The Write markers are now available individally as well as colour family packs.

Fresh Cut

A fresh start to the new Catalogue with the Fresh Cuts Stamp set. The Split negative technique is featured and was just one of the techniques added to our Technique journal. The new In colors - Kiwi Kiss cardstock was used with Kiwi Kiss sponging along the left hand side. The images were stamped in Not Quite Navy and Whisper White inkpads.

Birthday Best

Here's something else you can do with the Chunky Glitter and the Scallop circle punch. This makes a quick and easy card with lots of colour. The Designer Series Papers are Petals and Paisleys and Bali Breeze. The stamp set Birthday Best also will retire. This set was my first purchase and has come in handy with lots of kids and ladies birthdays too!!

Embrace Life Flowers

This card uses the flowers from the Embrace Life stamp set. The scallop edge punch is also from the Summer Mini catalogue. The centre of the flowers have been decorated with Blue Chunky Glitter and a pearl from the Pretties Kit. The Soft Sky flower has been highlighted with the white gel pen. The Designer Series Paper is from the Spring Break collection.