Stampin up Dec 2013 cards

Hi everyone,
I just have to say that December was once again BUSY! as usual :)

I am finally able to post the cards that we made in our December  Stampin Up  club.
I really don't know how Charlene does it but here we go with three gorgeous cards!

Our first one called "starburst technique"  love how this turned out!

There are many variations of this technique

Card was CASE'd from Kay Kalthoff Stamping to Share  and she shows you how in this video :)


Suspended snowflake was our second card.   WOW! loved how it turned out.

 CASE'd from Lyssa Zwolanek Song of My Heart Stampers


And our last card, which I was not able to make at the club. I had to leave early to pick up my hubby from his staff party.  Charlene wanted me to be able to make this last card so she had precut and packed it into a baggie for me to take home, how sweet !

Love it!
this card was CASE'd from  Susan Itell  Simple Stampin 


Until next time whishing you all the best !!
Donna

family Christmas gift tags

I was a VERY busy gal in December. I was on a mission to make a tag, giftcard or card for each gift this year.

We were blessed this year to have more family join us to make a total of 23 beautiful family members to share this special time together.

It was late in the evening when we decided to start putting tags on the gifts when I remembered that I hadn't taken a photo. I quickly grabbed my camera and took them. Only now I am able to look at them. Due to bad lighting the colour is off . My apologies.

This first photo shows the tags and giftcards made for family members.

some closeups :)

In this photo are hat pins that I had made. They are teeny hats glued onto large bobby pins ! The girls were able to take them off the tags, and quickly put them in their hair ! yes they did love them :)

As some of you know I run a childcare home. The following photo shows some of the cards that I had made for the children and their parents gifts

WHEW!!

I need to go take more photos of the cards that we made in stamp club this month. Hopefully they will be posted in the very near future!

Wishing you all the best in the New Year !!

Stampin' Up November club cards

The long awaited card, ornament, and card holder that we made at club night!


Loved how this card turned out

this card was cased from Stamp4fun with Selene Kempton



Here is a beautiful creation called the flip fold card/ornament that we had made using one of my favorite new dies

the project idea came from  Lyssa Zwolanek  Mini photo tutorial flip flop card

and our last one for the evening was this great envelope punch board card box

Love how this turned out
here is a link to show you how it is done CRAFTDOC

We had a very busy night but I will tell you it was a TON of fun!!

THANKS Charlene!

Stampin' up Nov club

I 've had a couple of sad moments these last few weeks. I lost my 2 dogs to cancer :(
That is what motivated me to make this type of card.

I did purchase Stampin up my digital studio program and thought that it was time to try it out. Here is the result of my first card using the program.

and here is the link to the sketch challenge that was sent out for this months challenge Fab Friday

Stampin Up Oct club cards

It has been awhile but I did finally get the photos taken of the cards that we made at our club night. Once again Charlene has done a wonderful job in choosing such great cards for us to make at our meeting. Thanks Charlene!

here is our first card 
extending  "flip it" thin lit dies and five-way flower.

 love those new "flip it" dies that Stampin' Up has come out with. 

here is the link to where this idea came from five way flower thinlit die card

this next card is so darn cute. Pop up gifts card

 here is the link to show you how to make the pop up birthday gifts


our last card that we made, I love this technique faux tiles

We did change it a bit from where it was cased.  To see how its done just click on this link :)  Faux tile technique


That is all for now . We have our next meeting on friday!! so yes I did sneak this post in just in time :)
Have a great weekend everyone!
Donna

Lights4Christmas

I decided to make a gift card holder using the latest stamp set from The {stamps} of life   called Lights4Christmas. Love the lights! I added some glitter rock candy to give the sparkle.  I also used a little trio tree stamp that came from an older stamp set called Joy2Christmas also from The {stamps} of life  to create a background on the card.

WOW I need to clean my room lol I've created quite a mess from these last few projects. But I enjoyed every minute.

Hope to share with you all again soon.
Donna

Stampin Up Oct

Well it's that time again. Club night is coming up later this week and our challenge comes from
The Paper Players what a fun challenge to work with.

 Because it's Thanksgiving this weekend here in Canada I thought it would be great to go with the theme and make use of my newest stamp set from Stampin Up called truly grateful. I really enjoyed playing with it :)

 and here is the inside

Wishing all my Canadian viewers a wonderful Thanksgiving !

Donna

creative chemistry 102 day 5

I was up late last night working away. It is our Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and there is lots to prepare for.

Day 5 was all about embossing Effects :)
I managed to make 3 of the 6 techniques from this last day. I have to say that I had a ton of fun playing around with these tags

Here are the results of my late night playing :)

The first tag is rusting with distress powder, the second one which I LOVED is called the shabby chic technique, and the last tag is tarnished silver except mine is copper :)

If you have never taken an online class from Tim Holtz I would totally recommend his Creative Chemistry 101 and now 102 classes. You will have online access to them for life :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Donna

creative chemestry 102 day 4

I was able to sneak in a little time last night to create from class four.
It's all about alcohol inks! love these inks !

Here is my work

First one is the Ombre technique loved how it turned out. I will be doing this one again.
The second tag was faded layers. This was a really cool technique.
The last tag is the monoprint, again, I really enjoyed learning this technique.

There are 3 more techniques from this day that I was not able to do at this time. As soon as I am able I will post them here :)

Talk to you again soon :)
Donna

creative chemistry 102 day 3

I am planning to work on my day 3 class later this evening. That is the plan :)

I was able to spend some time last night playing with the tags for day number 3!

Day 3 is all about Distress. There sure are quite a few differnent ways to achieve this

Here are 3 ways that I have learned

 the first 2 tags is a technique called smudge stamping, the next technique is called brayered stains what a neat effect for a background. The last one is distress  glitter rock candy I LOVE  working with this distress glitter.

There are 3 more techniques that were taught to us. I will post them at a later time.