Like the Gift Box above? I loved it when I saw it at the Stampin' Up! Leadership conference in Orlando in January (another fun demonstrator perk!). So my thank you gift for a fabulous Sale-A-Bration this year is an Idea & Inspiration sheet for this project.
Contact me for my free Idea & Inspiration Sheet: the Pretty Petites
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Classroom Christmas Treats: MDS Style
I'm a big fan of using MDS for school projects. (check out some MDS school projects on my blog) So recently I volunteered to teach a My Digital Studio class at a local school, showcasing a few ideas on how MDS can come in handy. Every teacher can use a little time saving help, right?
Each teacher had the chance to make a classroom set
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Owl Occasions: Christmas Tags for Cake Pops
Did you see my Cake Pop post from earlier this week? The Santa Hats? Well we had another set of them to package, so this time we used the Owl Occasions stamp set (see it online).
I've been in love with the owl set since it came out in the Holiday Mini Catalog, and it's going away soon! The Holiday Catalog items are only available
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Ho Ho Ho: Santa Cake Pops
Early in December my daughter decided that she wanted to make Cake Pops to kick off our holiday season. What says Christmas more than a red & white Santa hat? Plus we had red and white candy melts on hand, which is really why we chose these instead of the Christmas trees. Use what you've got, right? :)
Speaking of using what
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Perfect Holiday Treats: Cute, Clever & Quick with the Petal Card Punch
Looking for a fun treat to make for holiday gifts? You know, the ones you always think about making to hand out to neighbors you see at the Post Office, or the clerk at the grocery store who always says something nice to you?
Oh wait - you haven't gotten around to making those? Really? Well let me help you!! This is a really quick,
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Last Chance for $5 Stamps: Reason to Smile
Whew! Summer is flying by, and with the end of July comes the end of the $5 Reason To Smile stamp set. Have you seen the samples of this fun set on my blog? (check them out)
Here's another project idea -- a quick and simple one. A great feature of 2-step stamp sets is that they make for quick projects. These sets are an outline stamp
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Whooo Loves You? Cello Bag Topper Valentine Owls
Looking for a cute Valentine treat bag topper for a cellophane bag? Here's a quick one that uses several of the punches on my Clearance Rack, if you need to add any of these punches to your collection! These cute owls are based on the Small Cello Bag size (see them online), and a handful of M&M's fits perfectly.
Punches &
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Homemade & To Die For… Holiday Treats
Do you have a favorite Christmas Cookie recipe at your house? Our favorite is Pepparkokkar cookies. They're a Swedish gingerbread that doesn't taste much like gingerbread, more cardamom and cloves. But yum, they're great! Plus it's fun to think about my great great great... grandmothers making these long ago. They're hard to roll, so
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you have a wonderful day, and the chance to celebrate with your loved ones. Here's my Thanksgiving Day gift to you!
I sometimes enjoy my turkey with a little chocolate on the side :)
Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy Stamping!
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Batty for Licorice in 1 x 8 Cello Bags
This past summer at the Stampin' Up! Convention, demonstrators got a sneak peek look at the Holiday Mini Catalog. What do demonstrators do with their free time? Stamp, of course, and think about stamping! Several of us spent an hour thinking of all the fun things that can fit inside the new 1" x 8" Cellophane Bags in the Holiday Mini
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Sunny Garden Quick Gift: Two Tags and Beautiful Wings
Yesterday I shared a Matchbox Die project using the retiring Sunny Garden Designer Series Paper (see it online). Today I have another Sunny Garden project--only even simpler.
All I did was use a Stampin' Up! Medium Cello Bag, fill it with a few Lifesavers candies, then wrap it with a strip of the Sunny Garden DSP. This is a terrific
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Stamping with Chocolate: Candy Ornaments
Because stamping is fun, but stamping with chocolate is better...
This quick holiday treat takes very little material and very little time to create because the Stampin' Up! punches are the perfect complement to the images in the Tags Til Christmas stamp set. Plus the Tags Til Christmas bundle is part of the ABCs of Handmade Holidays
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