GETTING READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

If you are thinking about he holidays this is an adorable treat gift bag that SU! makes. They come 5 to a pack for only $3.95 (#115690). All you need to do is add the embellishments. Put a pack or two in your next order.

CRAFTING WITH SU! NEW SHIMMER PAINTS

I wanted to share with you my experience with the new SU! Shimmer Paints. First let me say that I love them and at the truly affordable price buy 2 of each one. I die cut this card using my Big Shot movers and shapers die with the curvy label die. The card stock base is chocolate chip and the paper is the new designer paper Christmas Cocoa. The snowflake was punched out with the snowflake punch and I brushed the shimmer paint on it with my sponge dauber. Do you want to know what else I shimmered? If you look closely, or if you click on the card above you will see that I also added shimmer to my white taffeta ribbon. Oooh, the holidays never looked so good. Thank you SU!

BUILD A BEAR BIRTHDAY CARD

Today is my sister Teresa's Birthday. I made a card for her. In honor of her birthday, I'm posting this card. I used my Build A Bear stamp set and stamped the bear and his birthday hat. I water colored him to match the card stock which is only orange and bermuda bay. I ran the swirly wheel over the bermuda bay card stock and then textured the card with the Big Shot. If you swipe white craft ink on top, the polka dots are more pronounced.

Happy Birthday Teresa.

GREAT BIG SHOT PROJECT MUST SEE - using pillow box die

Last evening we had a Holiday Card making class for World Card Making day. Class was held at Carol Hartline's lovely home. When we walked in we were told we could each have one of these lovely creations. These are absolutely fabulous and took a lot of work.
These are paper mugs made with the Pillow Box die for the BigShot. Because the class was
holiday themed, Carol made them holiday style.
Above is a photo of Carol showing how she made them. She said she found directions online.
Pat Nuckels is admiring hers. Carol said that you die cut 3 pillow boxes and trim them. Attach them together and reinforce with sticky strip. There is a 4 inch double circle on the inside to hold the goodies.
Here is a close up of the hand made mug. Carol really took a lot of time with these creations. She gave them to everyone who came to class and has a few left for anyone who places an order over $65 for her workshop. All local orders are due in Monday am. These are really lovely Carol. Thank you so much. I'm going to make a few for teacher holiday gifts. These would also be great for Birthday gifts, Easter gifts and get well gifts.

DEAL OF THE WEEK #1 OCTOBER

The deal of the week is back! Get any or all of these SU! punches when you order through me or through my website. What a deal! Do you love punches? don't pass these up. price is good until noon monday!

OCTOBER 1st HALLOWEEN CARDS

How about some Halloween for the first day of October? This holiday is the second most decorated holiday next to Christmas - or so I am told. I decorate for Halloween and most everyone on my street does too. I send Halloween cards to my relatives, do you? While these aren't the exact cards I'm sending, they are great samples. I used the stamp sets From the Crypt, Holiday Haunts and Teeny Tiny Wishes. Notice the ribbon above is wide black grosgrain which is new this year (love it!) and I placed elegant eggplant rick rack ribbon from the SU! Orchard pack on top. Love this designer ribbon.
I embossed the skull with white embossing powder on basic black card stock. I used rhinestone brads for the eyes and our new modern label punch. The background on the cards are embossed with texturz plates for the Big Shot.

HOLIDAY LINE UP

Holiday Line Up is one of my favorite stamp sets for the holidays. It is really versatile and everyone will love it. You can stamp the images and leave them uncolored or you can color them with stampinwrite markers or watercolor crayons. As I love watercolor crayons, I decided to watercolor them. The image above is somewhat multicolored. I used whisper white card stock to stamp all of my images and above I bordered the image in real red and glorious green card stock - more traditional colors. This card is so clean and neat. A simple sentiment at the bottom is all you need.
The card above uses the snowmen from Holiday Line Up again. However, I bordered this card with more nontraditional card stock colors - crushed curry and bermuda bay.
I love the elves in this set. They look like they are really working hard to make those toys for Christmas!
The reindeer are getting ready for the big night. As of today there are only 86 days until Christmas! This card is also water colored and I used real red and close to cocoa for card stock for the bordering. On all of the cards I highlighted with crystal effects and in some areas dazzling diamonds glitter by SU!

BRAND NEW SU! CLEARANCE RACK

SU! has a brand new Clearance Section. Just go to my website to shop now and on the left hand side will be a clearance rack. Make sure you order through my website so you can get preferred pricing. Lots of great things on sale!

THE MONSTER MASH

I made these adorable monsters last year with my stamping group. We used the Big Shot machine by SU! and the Top Note Die by SU! as well as lots of different punches. The mummy was made using the stamp set sanded. The tongue is the oval punch and the eyes are circle punches. I also used my white gel pen for the eyes in all of the characters. Dracula is one of my favorites. For the teeth, I used the small star punch. Frankenstein is an adorable character. I used the arrow punch and the stamp set smarty pants. I love to bring these guys out each year at Halloween. If you click on the photo above you will see the monsters really close up.

GREAT CARD USING BIG SHOT BUTTERFLY DIE

I wanted to show a very easy card to make using the SU! BIG SHOT butterfly die. I stamped the sentiment on dsp and embossed it with SU! white embossing powder. The butterflies are die cut with the Big Shot. I used white taffeta ribbon to make the antennae. This is one of the cards I made that our group at work signed for the 2 doctors we have retiring.