First Day of Christmas

Welcome to the day one of my 12 Days of Christmas.  Today I am featuring a fabulous sketch from Stylin' Stampin' Inkspiration, a great stamp set, and one of my favorite color combos.  Here is the sketch.

Here is my take with Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White and Gold.  I love the stars from Bright and Beautiful and Many Merry Stars.  To me, they just beg to be embossed, so that is what I did! 

Thanks for looking! 

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Holiday Decor

I thought I would take some time to share some of my homemade holiday decor.  Here is my mantle. 

And a close up of each cluster of stars

Here is the sampler I made last year.  

Here is a layout my upline made for me last year.

And here is the large star from the Many Mary Stars Kit.  

I hope you are all getting into the holiday spirit as well,  Later this week I will be sharing some handmade Christmas ornaments,  Stay tuned!

Catalog Premiere Party

One of the many reasons I am excited to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is getting a first look at the upcoming products.  Tonight some of my Stampin' sisters and I are heading to a Livecast Catalog Premiere Party.  We will get a first look at the 2015 Occasions Catalog as well as Sale-A-Bration, which takes place January 5th to March 31st.  I can't wait!

To prepare, I decorated the cover my new This and That notebook.  This is the Documented version.  I got it on sale from the Online Extravaganza.  I love the fun colors!  I can't wait to fill it with ideas and inspiration!

Any Stampin' Up! event is not complete without swaps.  Here is a card I made to swap with other fabulous demos.  I tried to keep it simple but that still resulted in embossing 68 times.  Some day I will learn. 

I am so excited!  What do you think the next big thing will be?  What colors and patterns will be featured in the DSP?  Are we getting new punches and framelits, what shapes do we need?  What about ribbon and other fun embellishments?  I am hoping for some romantic valentine's DSP along with a pretty stamp set, maybe that goes with the Sweetheart punch.  I would also like more Blendabilities, or atleast more stamps we can color in with them.  For embellishments, maybe some lace trim and vintage style buttons.  And Sale-A-Bration...I can't wait to see what awesome items we can earn for free...I loved everything from last year!  

Stylin' Stampin' Inkspiration Design Team Search

I was so excited to see that one of my favorite blogs was looking for more design team members, I had to apply.  We were asked to submit some work.  So here are a few of my projects:

This is a flip card I made for a swap.  It was a lot of work, but I love the finished product.  The flip card have become one of my favorite Fancy Folds because the Thinlits make it so easy!  And I just love the Get Your Santa On stamp set.  It is so fun and playful and it gave me a chance to color with my Blendabilities!  

Here is the first page of my son's album.  I was thrilled to see Stampin' Up! offer Project Life, here is the Little Moments set.  The colors are gender neutral and the journal prompts are perfect.  

Finally here is an Angel Ornament I made with the Gift Bow Die along with the All is Calm DSP.  These Angel ornaments are so easy to make with all the fabulous Stampin' Up! punches.  

Thanks for looking...I could have filled this entry with so much more.  It was hard to pick a few projects, but please poke around my page since I have shared lots of creations here! 

Mojo Monday #374 and SSInkCC16

Finally getting back to my online challenges, I was happy to jump right in with Mojo Monday and SS Ink.  I would have posted this yesterday, but technology has not been my friend.  Here are both challenges:

And here is my take.  Love these colors together.  Such an unlikely color combo.  I think I might make a few more of these to send out for Christmas.  

Thanks for looking!

Been Kinda Busy...

But I am back!  I have had lots to prepare for during the month of November so I had to take a break from blogging.  But I was still creating.  In fact one of the reasons I had to take a break was to get ready for the baptism of my son.  Here is what I made for the event:

I had shared the invite before, but I thought I thought I would include it since it set the stage for the whole theme of Pool Party, Whisper White and Silver.  I had made little favor boxes using the Curvy Box Thinlit Die (which I LOVE) and filled it with tea-light candles.  And I created a Thank You card using the Work of Art stamp set and Filigree Embossing Folder.  Thanks for looking!  Will be sharing more!   

Keep It Simple Saturdays - Ornament

I am sure there is a fancy name for this ornament.  It is so easy to make!  All you need is five 3 x 3 squares of DSP.  Fold each one horizontally, vertically and diagonally in one direction.  You play with the folds until you get each square to fold into a smaller square.  Then use some sticky strip to put together.  So easy!