Sparkly Fun Friday -- Gifty Bella with A Spoon Full of Suger Challenge #133

Sparkly Fun Fridays features a sparkly or glittery project using shimmer paints, embossing powders, glitters, rhinestones... anything shiny to welcome the weekend in a fun way!!!

 

Hi everyone,

It sparkles and it shines and it's Christmas all over here in Montreal! We got a good dump of the white fluff at the beginning of the week and it got me into the spirit of things. And I've decided to play along with A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #133, which was to make a Christmas card!

Ooooh, lots of sparkly things on here. First of all, the background was dry embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder and my Big Shot -- love the effect. Its different shades of whites I got from the embossed CS really reminds me of patches of snow. The stamp is from Stamping Bella but the name escapes me. I know it's not particularly a Christmas stamp but I made it into one by adding lots of glitter and a little tag that says "merry" from Stampin' Up!'s Tiny Tags stamp set.

Some White Opal Liquid Pearls on the dress, lots of Dazzling Diamonds on the gift and a bling on the tag gives this a very festive look. Oh, and let's not forget the glitter shoes and bows!!! Yeah, I went all out. Here are the markers I've used.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Sweet Treat Thursday -- Reindeer coffee bag

Sweet Treat Thursdays are all about food -- our other favorite topic -- and features ways to embellish/wrap/present something edible. CAUTION: May be hazardous to your waistline!

Hi everyone,

Since these days I'm always last minute...I have the opportunity to play with challenges, today I succeeded to get 3 done in one project...

Color challenge #59 from Stacey, sketch challenge #118 from CPS and My time to craft  #118 which was using a reindeer :

Here's my creation a couple of coffee bag for a cookie exchange that we have at Christmas :

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Whatever Challenge Wednesday -- cQc #62 meets FTL #119

Whatever Challenge Wednesdays features a challenge from the blogosphere, chosen randomly.

Hi everyone,

Today I played along with 2 challenges : the color scheme from color Q challenge #62 and the layout from clean and simple FTL #119:

Here's my creation:

I used Holiday lineup from Stampin' Up! stamp set and I colored it very fast on watercolor paper with classic ink and an aqua painter. Simple buttons and a strip of monochromatic Daffodil Delight DSP and voilà!!

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Two 4 Tuesday: Two Gift Companions and One-Day, One-Product Sale!

Two for Tuesday features 2 projects that are similar in either color, theme, layout or embellishment but... with a different twist!

Un message important en français suivra --

Hi everyone,

Today, I'm using our own Gift Companion Tutorial to show you my latest project: My DVD Collector Companion (pictured in French above). 

 ...and my Tea Connoisseur Companion:

oooh, I'm lovin' our Companions. I had so much fun putting the latest one together. I made the film strip for the cover using the 1-1/4" Square Punch with the Spiral Binding Punch. Then I stamped the same image a few times and punched them at varying heights with the 1-3/8" Square Punch.

Fun! Here's the inside with the index cards for TV Shows Titles, Movie Titles and Wish Lists:

 
I can't wait to have some free time and fill out my cards.

And here's the sale of the day -- only today, friends! We're having a special on the Gift Companion Tutorial. Because today is the BUSIEST ONLINE SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR, we've decided to offer the Gift Companion Tutorial at half-price! So go check it out here or click on the button below to order directly. The sale ends TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time).

Pour nos clientes francophones --

Pour célébrer la journée du magasinage en ligne la plus achalandée, nous avons décidé de vous offrir un petit spécial: notre Tutoriel "Gift Companion" at 50% de réduction. Mais attention!!! Bien que le tutoriel soit en anglais, nous vous offrons TOUS LES GABARITS en français. Hâtez-vous car la vente se termine ce soir (7 déc. 2010) à 11h59 p.m. heure de l'Est. Pour commander, allez à notre magasin ici ou bien cliquez sur le bouton "Add to Cart" ci-bas.

Here are my 4 themed companions -- can you tell which one was the 1st one I made and the inspiration for our tutorial?! Hint: It's different than the others, hehe. I think I'm going to redo them all in French now :-)

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Quickie Mini Monday -- Santa playing with PDCCC#58

Quickie Mini Mondays feature a 10 minute-or-less project -- something fast, fun and easy to reproduce and mass produce.

Hi everyone,

For today's quick card I decided to play along with the Play Date Café color challenge # 58, we had to use red and white:



Here's my red and white creation:

Very simple, very basic, but I just couln't help adding some puff paint on Santa!!

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Sparkly Fun Friday -- Snowflake spinner

Sparkly Fun Fridays features a sparkly or glittery project using shimmer paints, embossing powders, glitters, rhinestones... anything shiny to welcome the weekend in a fun way!!!

Hi everyone,

Today I made a spinner, it so easy an fun. I created a slot with the word window punch in the DSP and mat, adhere to the card base with dimmensionnals, then slid a penny by the slit, with a rounded dimmentionnal I adhere the snowflake to the penny throught the slot.

Here you can see what happens when you move the card from side to side, it spins...

Have fun creating card with movements, its always a wowser.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Sweet Treat Thursday -- Felt Reindeer for Candy Canes

Sweet Treat Thursdays are all about food -- our other favorite topic -- and features ways to embellish/wrap/present something edible. CAUTION: May be hazardous to your waistline!

Hi everyone,

Oooooh, I had sooooo much fun with this project?! I bought a whole bunch of candy canes last weekend with a project in mind. I didn't quite know how to go about it until Gen pointed out a card she had made with punches and a sweet treat cup last winter. So I decided to replicate it, using felt.  But since I was using fabric as opposed to cardstock, the fun part was substituting punches that she'd used for Big Shot dies. And I did it! Check this little guy out!!!

Ooooh, isn't he cute?! I love him! Every single piece was cut out with dies and glued together with a hot glue gun. I used 2 Top Note pieces; one to hold the candy canes by making slits in the felt with a hobby knife and the other one to use as the face. Both pieces of felt are then glued together. Easy-peasy!

Here are the dies I used:

• Top Note 
• Simple Letters Alpha "w,x,y,z,..." -- on that die there are tiny little circles which I've used for the inside of the reindeer's eyes.
• Circles #2
• Movers and Shapers with the Ornament magnetic die

I'm gonna be making a few of those to give to kids over Christmas.  I can see it being a good decoration on a gift also. You can add a little tag to one of the candy canes with the name of the person. 

I'm going out to shop for a warmer kind of brown felt. I find this one is too dark.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!