Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow ...

And well if we cannot have snow outside I can at least make it feel all wintery in the house ... these are some snowflake ornaments we will be making at this Saturday's Ornament Stamp a Stack event!

Front side of the ornament features the Silver Glimmer paper which I sponged with some Tempting Turquoise to give it a subtle two tones look and than  added a Tempting Turquoise snowflake and some glimmer brad bling!  

Back of the ornament ... sponged the white with some tempting turquoise and added some bling to cover up the string holder!

Happy Stampin
Margaret

Baby It's Cold Outside - Friday Mash Up ...

This is my Friday Mash Up inspired card .... create a Snowman themed card in the colors Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze and Basic Grey .... LOVED IT!

So I am more in a 'spreading the love' mood than a Christmas card mood so opted for another Winter Valentine themed card using the Stamp from the Build a Cupcake, the Heart Trio punch and a Punch Art Snowman for this card ... not as noticeable in the photo but I had to sneak some Real Red glimmer paper into the card as well!

If you have a moment head on over to the Friday Mash Up and see what the Design Team and other card makers were inspired to create with this sketch idea!

Also sharing this card offering over at There She Goes Clear Stamps

with the color challenge of Blue, Pink and Red so check out the wonderful offerings over there as well and get creative in the craft room!

Happy Stampin'
Margaret

Anything but a Card ...

This weeks challenge over at the Stampin' Royalty blog is to create anything but a card .... and well I have always wanted to try one of  these snowflake candles I have seen on the various blogs ... so here is my take on one!

 Can you say BLING isn't it just divine? Plus it took less than 10 minutes to make - use the Big Shot to punch out two snowflakes using Roofing Tin. Spread some Tombow along the edges of the snowflake and sprinkle with Silver Glassy Glitter as well as a strip around the edge of your tea candle. When dry use a hot glue gun to adhere the two snowflakes together and place  candle in the middle - done!

Thank while I had the snowflake and roofing tin out I was inspired to make an ornament as well as a gift for my super awesome totally rocking hairdresser as a thank you for all her work on keeping my grey's hidden!

I am just loving the 'lollies' right now and the Stampin' Score sure does make them easy .... however must admit that I am super excited that the Stampin' Up Occasions mini is going to have a new die to help speed up the process of making these!

Happy Stampin'
Margaret

Bling Challenge

This months Gold Star Ink team challenge was BLING so imagine my delight to carve out some time this morning to get busy creating something to share with the team that features bling, glitter, smooch and well just WOW to anyone who gets this handmade card in their mailbox this upcoming season!

I was inspired to use the tag punches to create a snowflake I have seen making its rounds on the Internet to create an ornament.

 So to start I cut some brush silver cardstock and punched out 16 small tags leaving space on the strip as shown. Than using the lag tag punch I carefully re-punched the strip of tags ... creating the 'window' at the bottom shown here ... 

Than you use a 4 x 4 piece of velum and using glue attach 4 tag windows snuggle together at the corner edges to the vellum as shown below.

Please note my first one I used the two way glue as this is what someone online had said they used - however I noted that it did not stick as well to the vellum once I started cutting later so on my second one I chose to use the Multi Purpose Tombo which worked better IMO however is messier - so to each her own on glue choices ;)

Repeat the pattern with a second layer slightly rotated to the right ... as shown here ...

Once you have your two pieces of vellum with the tag pattern glued on and dry - than you need to take your paper snips and carefully snip away the flat edges to  reveal the snowflake as shown here ....

 Snip both pieces as shown here ...

Than I used the Northern Frost snowflake die to cut out a snowflake focal point  - however you could use any alternative 'focal' piece in the middle here. I used the paper pierce to pierce the focal point and ONE snowflake and attached a silver glimmer brad through and using fishing wire I tied a loop around the brad before 'closing' the prongs to secure it in place for use as an ornament hanger. Than attach the top snowflake to the second layer at a slight angle as shown here - I chose to use a 'dimensional' to give it a little more depth.

Now you could just use this as an ornament on your tree or hang them from a window as a sun catcher throughout the winter season - it really is striking and I am very please with my first effort ... however when I was done I decided I wanted more BLING for this particular challenge ;)

 So I repeated the entire process using the new Stampin' Up Silver Glimmer paper ... and well can you say BLING - photos do not do this justice but  you might need some sunglasses to view this baby in person!

 And well I wanted to create a card to go with it ... so that it could serve as both a Christmas card and a small token of thanks for someone special this season - so here is the card i created to hold the ornament

 There was so much bling going on here I was afraid a sentiment would take away from the glimmer - so thank goodness for the Tiny Tags sentiments and Jewelery punch ... cause a little Merry sends the message of Holiday tidings while not taking away too much from the snowflake ornament!

 Side view to show the dimension on the card ... the Framed Tulips and Snow burst embossing folders both smooched with some Vanilla smooch  really add some additional glimmer to the card in person

Happy Stampin'

Margaret