Pretty Packaging! Who cares what is inside?

As my kids and nieces and nephews have gotten older I have found that I need some creative ideas for gift card packaging! Sometimes our easiest inspiration can come from the holiday cards we create! I used this card (which is a design we are making at my Christmas Card Class Friday night) to decorate this gold foil pizza box. Inside I can tuck a gift card and a couple of treats. It is always more fun to give things in pretty packaging!

This card features my favourite set of the moment the Word Wishes (149629) dies to create the sparkly Merry Christmas along with the ‘sprig’ element from the Christmas Layers Dies (150654). Carrying both of these elements and color pallet over allowed the card and pizza box to look like a team. I am so happy with the end result!

Holiday Gift Packaging

It is easy to use a card as the inspiration for Gift Packaging!

Happy Wicked Halloween

Well I thought I would celebrate the fact that we can now stamp with Purple Posy ink! Yay! It is finally available! Actually truth be told, I needed to make a Halloween layout for one of my monthly groups and was running low on my 12x12 card stock options. I wish so badly that Stampin’ Up! would offer all of our amazing colors in 12x12! Alas, they do not so I was forced to be a little unconventional in creating this page. Challenge accepted! Yay! I used all of the new Halloween stamp sets at my disposal on this layout; Boo to You, Wonderfuly Wicked, Spooktacular Bash and my favourite new set To Every Season (see that bitty bat punch? It is a part of the Every Season Punch Pack! 150670) it is a MUST HAVE! I decided to design this page so you can fit a number of 4x4 photos onto it. Sometimes my group members only create one Halloween page so I like to give them an opportunity to add a lot of photos. The Basic Patten Decorative Masks were also a ‘must use’ as they are so versatile and add just the right amount of dimension and texture the card stock. I am also loving the Word Wishes dies (149629) which are in our Annual Catalogue —they are a scrapbookers best friend as they have so many holiday words in the set! Hope you and your crew have an awesome Halloween Season!

Curvy Keepsakes Cupcakes--Spooky Style!

At a recent Stampin’ event I co-hosted, Creative Day Getaway, in Calgary, a fellow demonstrator Jennifer Reynard used a cupcake stand to display some Christmas curvy keepsake boxes. I was inspired to use her idea to fill my spiderweb cupcake stand with Halloween curvy keepsake boxes! The mercury acetate boxes hold a tea light that will add a spooky glow when the lights are dimmed! I absolutely loved this idea and wanted to share it all with you. I wish I had a fancier photo but I think this gets the idea across! Happy creating!

Do you love Memories and More?

Have you crafted with Memories and More? If you have shied away from memory keeping, I truly encourage you to give this product line a chance. I scooped these retired Big Plans cards up on the Clearance Rack a few weeks back. I almost have regret that I didn’t order them when they were current product! I turned them into this AAAAMAZING mini Memories and More album! Here is my secret—-look at each panel like a card front. How would you design and embellish a card? I also put a lot of embellishments on the OUTSIDE of the pocket pages! want to be able to see and touch them when I flip the pages. Dimensionals work awesome to keep stuff stuck down. I love the color combo of these cards too. Calypso Coral, Pineapple Punch and Grey Granite were the perfect pairing for my album, which is my summer 2019 highlights album. I am offering this as all day stamping’ class on Saturday, Nov 23rd from 9:30-5. My stampin’ friends will come and create this album that holds at least 26 photos and has lots of sparkle as I embellished like crazy with rhinestones and Wink of Stella. I do have a couple spots left in this class, so if you are interested in more details please reach out to me! I hope this little snippet encourages you to give this product line a try!

Happy Wicked Halloween!

I absolutely LOVE to create Halloween projects every year. I have an impressive collection of things I make each year that I put in a Rubbermaid tote to save and decorate with. It is a walk down memory lane each time a new year rolls around. This year I had fun recreating a previous project—this cute curvy keepsake bat! The wings are simply a 2 inch circle cut in half that I snipped with a 1 inch circle to give the wings shape. The coffin boxes that Stampin’ Up! is offering this year will be an all time favourite of mine. I sacrificed the lid of a coffin to create a template that I can trace onto a variety of card stocks or Designer Series Paper to add to the coffin lid to give dimension. To create the ‘wicked’ I sponged Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie ink onto white card stock (to resemble candy corn) and then used the framelit to cut out the word. The pumpkin face came from the Harvest Hello’s stamp set (it is a keeper!) and the cutest touch is the little tiny bat. You can get the worlds cutest bat from the Every Season Punch pack. Almost all of these supplies can be found the Holiday Catalogue! I am sharing all of these in a kids class on October 21st! Sign up below if you want to bring the kids by to make these adorable Halloween treat!