The ornament on the cover of
our holiday catalog was such a hit that
Stampin' Up! is making it available to you - just in time to deck the halls
with terrific trimmings you've made yourself!
Here's a quicker gift card holder if you have a number of them to make. It's a swing card just like the Santa I posted Saturday, but it is horizontal, and has a lot fewer parts. 
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Simply Scored Diagonal Plate
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Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine
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Big Shot Doctor's Bag
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Clear Block Bundle (Blocks A-I)
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Clear Block Storage Caddy
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Stack & Store Caddy
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I cased this card from my friend and fellow demonstrator, Mary McNeely. It was a popular swap card among my stampers so I decided they would be happy to have one of their own. 
Here's my first Watercolor Wishes card of the season, but I am sure it won't be the last. It is in the current holiday catalog, and I sure hope to see it in the new big catalog that will come out in June! At my last stamp-a-stack, some people chose to use the 2 steps to stamp it while others stamped it once in black and then colored with markers or watercolor crayons. 
When I first started stamping, I learned to use an envelope to make a small little bag. It never occurred to me until recently (thanks M.E.) that if you used a big envelope, you would get a bigger bag. So I went to the store for the white, large mailing envelopes, and it didn't occur to me until I got home and started in that I shouldn't have bought envelopes with the blue security print on the inside. To make the envelope, cut the top off and score the remaining three sides. Then stick you hand in the bag and gently work the corner into a gusset and score lines into the bag shape. Now there's no need to buy gift bags again! 
Gently Falling is one of my favorite stamp sets this time of year, and it seems to be very popular among my stampers. So we made this card as a fall card that could be made into a Thanksgiving card too. I saw a lot of birthday and thank you versions of this at my stamp-a-stack. 
Pennants are pretty popular these days in card and scrapbook making. I decided I better get in on the pennant action too with my latest Halloween stamp-a-stack. We used the Howlstooth and Scaringbone Designer Series Paper and the hostess stamp set, Wacky Wishes. 
Here is another of our recent Stamp-a-Stack cards. It was inspired by a swap I saw at convention a year ago. I didn't own this set, My Friend, until that convention but there were so many great cards made with it that I came home and had to order it. I hadn't used it for awhile so felt like a new set to everyone. 
Here is a slightly sideways view of a recent stamp-a-stack card. There are several stamps in the hostess set, Happy You, so stampers picked the stamp they wanted and colored with watercolor crayons. 
I was waiting for it to cool down so we could do this technique in stamp club. When it was 100 degrees outside, it felt a little silly to have a room full of stampers use the heat tool. So in September, I figured it would be safe to fire it up and emboss 3 different colors of embossing powder to create this tie dye effect. Stamp your image with VersaMark and strategically sprinkle the embossing powder over it. Once sprinkled it really isn't usable again so use a light touch. I did use the castoff to fill in areas not covered well enough, but beyond that, the colors mix together and won't give you the same look if you reuse them. 
Isn't this a beautiful card? My talented friend, Mary Ellen, designed this as one of her swaps for convention. I did some tweaking so that I could use supplies I had on hand and did my best to recreate her work. You can see hers here. 
Here's another Perfectly Preserved card. I've posted cards with the pear and the apple and now here are the flowers from that set. Maybe that versitility is one of the reasons it has been a popular set with my customers. The new woodgrain embossing folder adds a nice fall touch too.
