build a bear dress up magnets

Have you seen the new build a bear dies for the big shot? They are exclusive to Stampin Up in our current Holiday mini catalog. At first, I was not going to get them. I have two boys ages 12 and 10, no big need for dress up.

But I am so glad, I did. They are toooo fun! What girl does not like to play dress up and accessorize???

Anyways, I got the original idea to make magnet tins from Michelle's rubber room
Here are some clothes inside:

And here she is all dressed up! The cool thing about the big shot you can cut through almost anything and this adhesive magnet sheets went through "like butter"

Masculine birthday card

I combined two challenges in one card! I got the sketch from SCS sketch challenge 253 and Late Night Stampers challenge #44- masculine cards. I went to my old standby for masculine cards Lovely as a Tree, may Stampin Up never retire it!!! The technique I used is thumping with markers.

Hershey Bar slider tutorial

I am participating in a vendor fair this Sunday and have been busy crafting some things to sell.
This is a cute candy bar slider. It is super simple to do, and fun way to present Chocolate!

steps:

1. cut you cs to 6 x 6 and then score it at: 1/2 inch and 3.25 inch
2. put sticky strip along the 1/2 inch side and on the bottom
3. stamp as desired
4. cut your ribbon double the length of the candy holder plus enough to tie it on top
5. using a crop a dile or another 3/16 punch punch top center through both sides
6. now seal up your sides of holder and crimp the bottom
7. slide ribbon through both hole and put candy bar between ribbon and slide it down and then tie it off. When they pull the ribbon it slides the candy bar up!

"Christmas fudge poem"
Dashing from the malls
With groceries yet to buy,
Lessons, work and housecleaning, Life’s so crazy! Why?
Bells on our telephone ring, The machine will take the call,
We have not time for family or friends, It drives us up the wall.
How are you? How’s your life? We really want to know.
Hope you’re ready for Christmas, Now maybe it will snow.
A day or two ago, We thought we’d make a treat, For all our special friends-
A Christmas gift to eat.
Our intentions were top notch, But our schedules would not budge,
Hence, here’s this year’s edition
Of homemade Christmas Fudge…

Buzzing by for 411 challenge

Even though I was working on house projects yesterday and getting ready for Halloween, I still got a chance to play along with Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch challenge. It was a challenge to think of 4 small items to stamp with and I needed some birthday cards. So, I dug through my stamps and decided to use just buzzin by stamp set. I also used some night and day designer paper from Holiday mini catalog. Since Stampin Up's designer paper is two sided, I reversed it on both cards. I used crushed curry for my card base.

Late Night stampers candy challenge

Late Night Stampers

Challenge this week was to use candy for your inspiration.

So, I chose my son's favorite 3 musketeers. And hey, it's low in fat too!

I used baroque motifs and embossed it in silver on brushed silver cardstock, then used delightful decorations out of Holiday mini and the silver cord (SU needs to have this cord every holiday season!). I finished it off with a rhinestone brad. And I ate no candy in the making of this card!

Quick and Easy gift!

This was a quick gift I did for teacher appreciation last spring. Super easy to do-

1) get your favorite candy bar (in this case Hershey's chocolate bar)

2) take your favorite scrapbooking paper and measure it about 1.5 inches longer on each end of candy bar and enough to wrap around it.

4) use double sided tape or sticky strip to hold it together.

5) put sticky strip at each end and run it through your crimper

6) I decorated it simply with something I typed on computer- but you can add "Christmas fudge poem", ribbon, stamped tag and more!

sorry, I have been lax in posting and checking in on everyone. I did a Stampin Up yard sale this weekend with some other demos and I have a vendor fair in two weeks- so super busy with all that!

Desk top stationary set

I created this a few weeks ago and just never loaded it to show. I am going to make a few of these for upcoming vendor fair.

Lauren Meader, the genius she is has created templates for you to purchase. They are affordable at $5 and saves you time from re-inventing the wheel. You can check out her templates here.

I used tart and tangy stamp set. The card stock is whisper white, real red and craft. The letters I cut out using my big shot and billboard alphabet and used some playground buttons. So cute!