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More Personalizing!
Aloha, all!
We had a totally busy day in paradise today–starting with a visit from an electrician who fixed that smoke alarm that has been going off at 4 in the morning more than I’d care to have it go off (um, actually, one time would be more than I’d care; but I’ve been patient). I’m truly looking forward to a full night’s sleep tonight!
After a few other social engagements, I finally had a chance to play in the Craft Room, and finished the second of the two ornaments that I wanted to make this year for the wreath being built by my son (Gus) and grandson (Quin). Yesterday I featured the "Q" ornament. Today the "G." Actually, Gus is not the name that I gave him at birth. His given name is Andrew. How he ended up a "Gus" is a story for another time.
But Gus he is, so a "G" is called for. I wanted the two ornaments to be similar but not the same colors. So today I reverted to one of my favorite of the Stampin’ Up! 2008 embellishments, the "Little Felt Flurries" (113697). No, I have not used them up!!! In fact, I can’t imagine you could use all those wonderful embellishments up unless you were mass-producing cards and ornaments. I rarely mass produce as I like to think about each and every card and ornament I make, so I tend to be slower than many of my fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. In fact, I’m thinking of saving some of the red snowflakes for Valentine’s cards. Hey, it still snows in February somewhere in our wonderful country! Maybe even in Hawaii (I’ll let you know when I first see snow this season).
The "G" is from the same Serif Essentials Sizzix alphabet set (113464) as the "Q" of yesterday’s blog entry. For the "G" I used white self-adhesive felt, added some Little Felt Flurries, and mounted it all on Glorious Green card stock. This was cut using the Scallop Circle #2 Sizzix Die (113469) (as was yesterday’s gold scallop circle).
I’ll be punching a small hole in both ornaments (to make them easy to attach to the wreath) and mailing them off to Oregon tomorrow.
Happy Stamping!
Robin
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Aloha, all!
While my 8-year-old grandson, Quin, was visiting from the mainland for Thanksgiving, he learned how to use the Sizzix Big Shot from Stampin’ Up! We started with the ornament that I featured in yesterday’s blog post. After that, he could hardly wait to get his hands on the Big Shot again! I had some snowflakes lying on my display table, and those intrigued him the most.
Quin definitely wanted to make a Snowflake ornament (using the Sizzix Originals Die Snowflake #2-113461). He was quite certain that he wanted one big snowflake with little ones at the ends of each of the spikes of the large snowflake. After a bit of coaxing, he agreed that three little snowflakes (made with the Sizzlits Snowflakes Set #2-113449) were sufficient. He went through all my Stampin’ Up! cardstock, and picked Brilliant Blue as the color for his large snowflake and Whisper White for the smaller flakes. We also decided to make the blue snowflake a big sturdier by using some of that wonderful light cardboard packed with Stampin’ Up!’s Designer Series Paper. Finally, we picked Friday afternoon as the time for the ornament crafting project!
Earlier in the day on Friday, Grandpa Harry took Quin out into our back garden to cut down a couple of Norfolk Pines for this year’s Christmas trees. Grandma Robin couldn’t resist making a video out of part of the tree-cutting event. Once Quin saw that video, he decided that we were going to make a video so he could demonstrate how to make HIS ornament.
Tomorrow I’ll share the video with you. He just loves that Sizzix! I do, too, of course, and would love to have you try one out! If you have kids or grandkids, I highly recommend it for hours of crafting fun!
Snowflakes Everywhere!
Aloha, all!
Well, not much here in Hawai’i! But there are snowflakes all over Robin’s Craft Room today! Here’s just a small sample.
And guess what?! They don’t melt!
The Green and Red snowflakes were made with the die-cut chipboard and Designer Series Paper featured in the Country Living Holiday Collection Stampin’ Kit, currently on sale through Stampin’ Up! (Item #114447 if you’re ordering online).
I made the white snowflakes using Sizzix Dies, the large one with the Snowflake #2 die (113460) and the four smaller ones with the Sizzlits Snowflakes Set #2 (113449). Yes, you get FOUR snowflakes in that set!
Last week I featured a video on how to put together the Holiday Collection Stampin Kit snowflakes. I’ve been asked why I use the Everywhere Glue Stick rather than Tombow Adhesive. I find that, with all the little pieces sticking out all over the place, adhesive is definitely going to end up on my hands. (You, of course, may be a lot neater than the inhabitant of Robin’s Craft Room; but she tends to be a bit on the childish side when she’s working with paper and glue!)
In any case, I find it much easier to wipe the glue from the glue stick off my hands right then and there. When I manage to get Tombow adhesive on my fingers, I have to go find a sink and soap and water. I’d rather spend time in the Craft Room!
Later on this week, I’m going to demonstrate some more of the snowflakes that I’ve made with the Sizzix, and show how I’ve used them in projects for my upcoming Stamp Club meeting!
‘Til then–Stay Warm!!!
More Christmas Ornament Fun!
Aloha, all!
Throughout December I’ll be featuring classes and workshops featuring handmade Christmas ornaments and gifts. Of course, I’ll be working on Christmas cards (and the occasional greeting and gift for Hanukkah). But with economic times as they are this year, I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to show everyone how to make the most of Stampin’ Up!’s products and promotions to make beautiful, thoughtful, gifts for everyone on our lists!
One class that will be lots of fun features Stampin’ Up!’s Star Bright Kit (113681), and will take place the evening of Wednesday, December 10th. To make sure that I have enough kits for everyone who wishes to participate, I’ll need registrations by November 30th. The class fee of $30, which includes the entire kit, must be made with your registration. Click here to download the class flyer!
If you can’t make it to Pahoa, Hawaii, for the class, you can still order the Star Bright Kit, which is featured in Stampin’ Up!’s 2008 Holiday Mini Catalog. Here are some of the ornaments that can be made from the kit, photograph compliments of Stampin’ Up!.
The kit features twelve 12" x 12" sheets of die-cut Designer Series Paper, in 6 different patterns. All of the paper is double-sided, for maximum flexibility in making the ornaments just the way you want! There is enough paper to make 54 stars, 6 paper-strip globes, and 5 to 25 paper circle globes (depending on how large you make the globes). There are also 12 Styled Silver brads (to help in making those paper-strip globes, and ten yards of Silver elastic cord for hanging these beauties.
Call (808.854.6145) or e-mail me to register for the class. Or order the Star Bright Kit any time of the day or night on my Stampin’ Up! website!
It’s November!! Holiday Crafting is Upon Us!!!
I love October and fall themes for crafting. But when I turn the calendar to November, I really start to get excited about my Holiday crafting! Stampin’ Up! is making this so much easier this year with its wonderful Holiday Mini-Catalog. My absolute favorite is the collection of great holiday papers. Not only that, this year Stampin’ Up! has included some papers with pieces for making simple ornaments already die cut!! The two ornaments at the top of this picture I made using the Star Bright Kit (113681). The kit comes with the papers (die cut–just punch them out!), some Styled Silver Brads, and the silver elastic cord for hanging. I added a Designer Brad from the Filigree Assortment (112577) to the top of the Paper Strip Globes for just a little bit of extra bling. Then I started getting into making more with my other papers– I used papers from the Holiday Treasures set (112469) to make the bottom ornament. I even used used some of my Sizzix Big Shot dies to make more of the paper circle globes using other Stampin’ Up! holiday papers. I now have a whole display "tree" full of Stampin’ Up! ornaments! I’ll be posting more later in the season.
There are even more ornaments using these same delicious holiday papers in the special "Holiday Collection Stampin’ Kit" (114447) that is being offered beginning today in conjunction with the Stampin’ Up! feature in this year’s holiday issue of Country Living Magazine. I’ll be making up some of those ornaments early in the week and will post pix of those then! Meanwhile, if you’d like some more information about this beautiful kit, click on the "Stampin’ Up in Country Living!" link to the right. Or e-mail or call me (808.854.6145), and I’ll be happy to send you a sample ornament from the kit!
Happy Holiday Crafting!!!
