Hello, everyone!
The Stamp Candy Stamp Club had our November meeting this week. We always laugh and have lots of fun. This month we made projects in preparation for the upcoming Christmas season.
I love the color scheme of the All Is Calm DSP. Soft Sky, Lost Lagoon and Pear Pizzazz have such a calming, Wintery feel. We used these colors, along with Whisper White, for all the projects.
First, we used 1″ strips of DSP to make bows and belly bands for Kraft Gift Boxes. I highly recommend using Liquid Multipurpose Glue for assembling the bow. Here’s a link to the instructions: http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/paper_bows(contact).pdf
Next we made the tags. We stamped the snowflakes in Soft Sky, and the To/From in Lost Lagoon.
Margie & Judy each added a touch of All Is Calm Designer Washi Tape to their tags. (I forgot to take any photos at the evening meeting, but Martha and Linda did an excellent job on their projects, too.)
Now, of course, we needed cards to match, right? We stamped the sentiment in Lost Lagoon and Pear Pizzazz. Normally we would color each area of the stamp with a Stampin’ Write Marker, but we did something a little different this time. When I was designing this project, I used markers at first, but realized there was a lot of ground to cover with the Lost Lagoon. So I inked up the whole stamp image with the Lost Lagoon ink pad, then used a baby wipe to remove the ink only where I wanted to color it in with the Pear Pizzazz marker. If I accidentally removed too much Lost Lagoon with the wipe, I simply filled it in with the Lost Lagoon marker. And that’s how we did it at Club.
After embossing the card front with the Filigree Frame TIEF, it was beautiful, but it seemed just a little too calm. We used a Cherry Cobbler Candy Dot to dot the “i” in Christmas. It added just that little pop of something that it needed. We adhered the card front to a Soft Sky card base and rounded all four corners with the Project Life corner rounder punch.
We stamped the envelope with the same Soft Sky Snowflakes as on the tag.
Here are the products we used:
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
