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Holiday Lineup Paper Pin — treasure from trash

You can make this from scraps of cardstock!  View my video on making paper pins HERE. The basic 'pin' is 4 layers of white paper glued together with ModPodge, a 'lone' snowman (the center one) is also 4 layers and added with a Dimensional.  You can see my full tutorial here. So, don't throw out your scraps (you'll never look at them the same again)! All hats and scarves are a ... View Post

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Cardinal Christmas Paper Pin

This is one of the paper pins we made on Monday night at my "Paper Porcelain Pin" making class.  See my entire tutorial on making these pins here.  I'll be publishing the date of this class (I'm going to do it again) soon. You can see from the side view (shown left) that I made a second wing in 3 layers of Riding Hood Red paper and then adhered it with a Dimensional. The face ... View Post

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‘A Cardinal Christmas’ card

Okay, so this is my *new* favorite Christmas stamp set... I love birds!  See below for card cutting dimensions... I colored the cardinal in with watercolor crayons that I didn't actually color with... what I mean is that I like to use the open set as a 'palette' and take the colors that I need.  Less color is better... the artwork is done for you... just use the suggestion of ... View Post

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Crazy for Cupcakes Gift Card holder

This is one of the birthday sets that is 20% off this month for Stampin' Up!'s birthday sale!  I let the DSP Bella Rose determine the color of the stamped images (I had a bunch of scraps left over from cards I was making). It's a *very* simple gift card holder to make and it took a VERY small amount of the designer series paper... in fact, I used the wide grosgrain to hide the fact that ... View Post

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Home for Christmas

What a fabulous stamp set... and I LOVE the Designer Series paper "Ski Slope" (which is the background 'stars' as well as the 1 1/2 inch decorated stripe that I cut off of an elaborate stripe pattern paper. You can see the pop up details below: paper saving trick: I learned this trick working in a stamp store years ago. The stamp companies sell you samples for display, ... View Post

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Eat, Drink and Be Scary Halloween Treat Bag

Isn't the candy in this bag awesome?!  I got it at the local Giant supermarket, it is chocolate shaped like body parts (my favorite is the eyeballs)!  The Top Note Sizzix die has a 'stitched' border about 1/8 in inside that I cut off for the orange DSP so that you can see the black layer  a 'matted' look. Materials List ... View Post