December Stamp Club is tomorrow night! I tried to make some of the projects Christmas but also projects that could be adapted if the ladies wanted to use them for something else. I thought this one could be a winter birthday for most anyone. It features an old technique, but one I have never done with the club before. If you don't have treat cups but still want to do a snow globe, how about making a gel card? I used the 1 3/4 circle punch for the hole, attached a cello bag of hair gel and Dazzling Diamonds to the back of the Bashful Blue and adhered it to the top of the Real Red. Do you recognize the piece I used for the base? It's the balloon basket from Sweet Centers. 
After making several of these Halloween treat containers with the Candy Wrapper Bigz Die, it seemed to be an easy switch to Christmas. I used the Northern Flurry Textured Impressions Embossing Folder from the holiday mini catalog. You can see the seam of the box at the top - that's because I wanted to put my Merry Christmas scallop on the side with the fewest snowflakes. Although the ribbon isn't necessary to keep the box closed, I think it adds some color and keeps the recipient from peeking!
The tutorial for this came from Splitcoaststampers under paper bows and is a fun way to personalize gifts using your favorite Designer Series Paper. Since all the Designer Series Papers coordinate so nicely, you could even use scraps! We made these in stamp club last week. I pulled out all of my old DSP, and it was fun to see all of the color schemes and neat bows everyone created. 
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This was a quick card I made as I was designing stamp-a-stack cards for last week. It didn't make the cut, but I do like it and will plan to make a few more for the holidays. I used the new Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel and added a belt. I was using up scraps so the gold is not Stampin' Up! And here's a tip: cut a square of gold slightly bigger than the belt and then cut a square of black the same size as the strip of black.... voila, faux buckle!
They gave us this stamp set in Salt Lake City (with an ink pad, glass glitter and Designer Series Paper) at the very, very end of convention. Imagine a room full of women who love stamping being given a last minute surprise gift of stamps! The room went crazy! And of course right after that, we began thinking about how we could use it this holiday season. It has the best greetings. They are big and ornate and can be a nice focal point of a card. I look forward to using it again, but this card was for last week's stamp-a-stack. We also tried out the 1/2" seam binding. 
Have you ever looked at the Decor Elements vinyl images and thought, "Yeah they are cute, but what can I do with them?" Well here's a quick option. The Candy Cane Christmas set of 10 can be cut and used on a variety of projects. This $1 plate from IKEA makes a quick hostess gift or plate for baked gifts this Christmas. There are 10 images on the sheet, so be checking back for my next project!
We are doing Fall cards this Friday at my Stamp-a-Stack. Here's another one of the cards we will be doing. Let me know if you would like to join us!
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