Reindeer Peeker made with Owl Punch!!

I am sooooo excited to share this card! I haven't seen this anywhere yet so who knows, I maybe the first - LOL! I was trying to think of a card to do and my owl punch sitting on my desk caught my eye. I started looking at the pieces and the owl body reminded me of a reindeer head and then the stomach part reminded me of hooves and WAAAAHHHLAAAAH.... my reindeer peeker was born! Rudolph's nose, the white and black part of the eye, are all from the owl punch too. The pinks of the ears, the antlers and the marina mist eyes are all pieces from the Sizzix die Swirls Scribbles. Check Rudolph out!



Isn't he the cutest??

The layout for this card was inspired by this one I saw on splitcoast by Bee-Bee.

I used the color coach to choose my colors. This color scheme was suggested on the basic black card: Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze & Basic Black.



I stamped the small swirl from priceless in versamark & heat embossed with iridescent ice on the baja breeze layer. Here is a closer peek at Rudolph for you!



I LOVE how he turned out - too cute!

Here is what I used:

Stampin Up! Stamp Sets: Big On Christmas, Priceless

Paper: Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Marina Mist

Ink: Stampin Up! Classic ink pads in Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Stampin Up! Versamark, Iridescent Ice, Heat tool, 1/8" black taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, blender pen, Stampin Up pastel chalk, Stampin Wrute markers in Old Olive, More Mustard, Basic Black, dimensionals, Owl Punch, Swirls Scribbles Sizzix Die, Big Shot, Color Coach, White Gel pen, Crystal effects

Handmade Holiday Promotion

Happy December everyone! Hard to believe that it is almost the end of the year and that Christmas will be here before you know it! I wanted to take a minute to tell you about a few things.

From now until DECEMBER 16th you can still take advantage of the Handmade Holidays promotion. There are a few select Stamp sets bundled with designer series papers and punches all at 20% off! Click Here to see the product bundles in the Handmade Holiday promotion!



Also being December this is the LAST MONTH to order out of the HOLIDAY MINI CATALOG! Get all your favorites as soon as you can because once the items are gone - they are gone! The Candy Cane Christmas designer series paper is already no longer available. So don't let your favorites sell out before you get them!



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The last day to order to ensure Christmas delivery is DECEMBER 15, 2010 by Noon - Click here to order now.

Have a great night all!

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Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving! If you are like me and don't like fighting the crowds at the stores on this Black Friday...shop online with me from home! Stampin Up! is offering an INCREDIBLE deal that will last from now until November 30th! With FREE SHIPPING on orders over $150, products like MY DIGITAL STUDIO at HALF PRICE, you can't go wrong shopping from home in your jammies!

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Lovely As a Tree - Vintage Christmas

One of my favorite stamp sets is Lovely As a Tree. You can use it for pretty much any occasion. I was working on designing my cards for my Christmas stamp-a-sack and here is one of the cards I came up with.



It is hard to see in the picture but the tree is completely embossed with iridescent ice embossing powder so it is all sparkly! I love how it turned out!

I wanted to bling mine out just a bit more so I made another card sample and added some snowtex under the tree to really make it pop!



Here is what I used to create these cards:

Stampin Up! Stamp Sets: Lovely As a Tree, sentiment is from A Cardinal Christmas, snowflake from Snow Swirled

Paper: Stampin Up! Sahara Sand, Whisper White

Ink: Stampin Up! Classic ink pads in crumb cake - sponging & the tree, soft suede for sentiment, snowflakes done in whisper white craft ink

Accessories: versamark, iridescent ice embossing powder, heat gun, sponges, whisper white taffeta ribbon

Inspired By Nature

I AM BAAAAACK! YAY! I finally got down to clean off my desk and get my stamp area half way usable since the flood! So since my desk was clean I had to stamp something - lol! I haven't been able to stamp in forever it seems!

Since I hadn't stamped for awhile I thought it would be fun to pull out my Stampin Up! Color Coach and try a color combination challenge! The one I chose from the back of the Cherry Cobbler card for the creative combination. It uses Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, & Daffodil Delight! I love love love these colors! Here are the colors from my color coach.



I also thought it would be fun to do the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge so I used the layout to make my card also! I flipped the sketch sideways because the stamp I chose fit better that way. Here is the Mojo Sketch #165:



And here is my finished card!



I love how it turned out! This is the first time I have used the flower stamp from Inspired by Nature. I have used the grass one a lot but hadn't tried the flowers. Hope you like it!

Stampin Up! Stamp Sets: Inspired By Nature, Fresh Cuts

Paper: Stampin Up! Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Stampin Up! Classic ink pads in Chocolate Chip for sponging, Early Espresso

Accessories: Stampin Up! Versamark, Scallop Edge Punch, Crimper, both oval large punches, paper piercer, black grosgrain ribbon, corner rouder punch, dimensionals, prismacolor watercolor pencils - white, black, dark umber, square lattice embossing folder, clear embossing powder, embossing gun

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Back Finally!

Hi Everyone -

I am finally back! I am hoping to get back to making some stamping projects and putting together a technique class here in the next week or so. Our basement flooded and that is where all my stamping stuff is. Once I get some kind of order back and can find everything I will be back to posting on here. Right now all my stamping stuff is buried in sacks and boxes. I appreciate all that have joined as my followers and will be getting caught up on that as well. Thanks for your patience everyone! I did get the new link for the holiday mini catalog up! They have a lot of really cute things so be sure and take a look! Take care - Laura