Box for Mum

My mum, who is 80, still plays tennis once a week!!!

For their Christmas lunch they are exchanging Secret Santa gifts so she asked me to create a box to put her gift in.

I made a hinged box to her specifications, with a window in the top.

Stamps:  Delightful Decorations (retired)
Card: Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Season of Style DSP, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink:  Cherry Cobbler
Tools:  Big Shot, Holiday Ornaments Framelits, 1 1/4" Scallop Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, 3/4"  Circle Punch
Accessories: Basic Rhinestones, Window Sheets

If you have any questions about any projects or you would like to place an order, please email me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone 07 55 765 469.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Last Class Christmas Treats

I held my last official class for the year this past week so everyone received a little treat.

I have shown many covered chocolates on my blog before but I love making them...they look so cute!

 

 

I packaged up a pair of wrapped chocolates in a cello bag with a topper decorated with the Christmas Collectibles punched image.  I am loving this Season of Style DSP, especially the full range in the 12 x 12 pack.

 



Thanks for stopping by!!

Anna

Casing the Customer

I love it when customers see the potential in a design or a pattern and create their own take on an idea.

We made four gift tags where the participants had four DSPs patterns to choose from using the Season of Style paper stack.  They also had Gumball Green and Cherry Cobbler accents.  One customer did some swapping with her neighbours to get four of the same pattern DSP and all Cherry Cobbler accents and came up with this:

 

 

Isn't the Cherry Cobbler a hit with the Crumb Cake pattern?

 

These are the ones I made up using the leftover pieces.

 



Stamps:  Jolly Bingo Bits (retired)
Card:  Season of Style DSP, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
Ink:  Cherry Cobbler
Tools:  3/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punch, Corner Rounder Punch
Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler 1" Stitched Edge Grosgrain Ribbon, Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Library Freebee

Every now and then I run a free mini class at some of the local libraries. Using Christmas Collectibles, we made matching card and gift tag.

The design was CASEd and tweaked from Di Gibbs.

 

The ladies loved the colour combination of the Winter Frost Specialty DSP and Pool Party.

 

 



There's still plenty of time to get your orders in for Christmas crafts!  Email me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 07 5576 5469.

Stamps:  Christmas Collectibles, Christmas Messages
Card:  Pool Party, Winter Frost DSP, Whisper White, Smokey Slate
Ink:  Pool Party, Smokey Slate
Tools:  Christmas Ornament Punch
Accessories:  Silver 1/8" Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Little Bits of DSP

I am loving the Season of Style DSP and have been using it a lot for classes and projects which has meant that there are lots of little bits left over.  I have teamed it up with Stampin' Up!s Christmas Collectibles.

So I came up with this card.

Pretty easy.

Stamps:  That's the Ticket, Christmas Collectibles
Card:  Whisper White, Season of Style DSP
Ink:  Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green
Tools:  Christmas Ornament Punch, Ticket Duo Builder Punch
Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, Dimensionals, Basic Rhinestone

Quick Goodbye

This is a quick and easy technique to use on cards to give them a nice finish.

I was asked to make a few Goodbye cards for a workplace and this is one of them.  I have already passed the others on so can't show you the variety of designs and colours but they all followed this idea.

The sentiment was computer generated.  I then stamped the images from Simply Stars randomly on some Whisper White in various shades of blue.
I then ruled a pencil border around the edge of the card and traced over it with pen.  By stopping the line just before each image I was able to integrate the line with the stars for a simple overall effect.    My matching at the corners was a little dodgy on this one!
The same idea can be used with other images, such as flowers or doilies.  It's a really easy way to get quick results.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna