Impressions by Day

Everyday Elegance

Using the Simply Sent Everyday Elegance for your holiday cards will save you so much time!  There are 8 printed embossed cards and envelopes (4 in Baja Breeze and 4 in Cherry Cobbler) as well as 16 self-adhesive tags.

At our recent SAS, one of the cards we made was this one.

We stamped the sentiment and image (Lovely as a Tree) using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with White Embossing Powder.  A strip of the Vanilla Velvet ribbon and some pearls finished the card and it make a lovely elegant holiday card.  The card comes up beautifully in the Cherry Cobbler.

Orders placed by December 14, 2011 will ensure that you will receive it before Christmas.  You can shop anytime right here!

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

 

Snow Swirled Pop Up

It seems the star of my post yesterday was not my card but my sweet, Bella, whose picture was in my blog post yesterday as I received several emails about her.  She's so loveable and follows me all over and when I have to go out she looks at me with the saddest eyes and makes it very difficult to leave her.

There's no new photo of her today but perhaps in the next week or so. In the meantime I'll share with you this pop card made with the Snow Swirled stamp set and the best Christmas tree image.  Not a traditional holiday color, but I just love Black and the flocked sheet from the Mocha Morning DSP seemed like a good choice for this card.

Here's the pop up inside the card.  The angle at which the picture was taken distorts the color of the snowflakes.
Here's a better angle.

 

The card was a 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" square, with the inside Basic Gray card stock at 4" x 8 1/8".  The pop up piece was cut 1" on each side from the centre line and 1" across.  The tree image was stamped with Versamark on Black card stock and embossed with the Pewter Embossing Powder.  After the tree was trimmed with the Paper Snips, it is attached to the pop up piece with SNAIL and a rhinestone was added as the tree topper.

The snowflakes were also stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with the Pewter powder.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

 

Snow Much Fun

This set is great to make a variety of holiday cards with all the different images. 

Quick and easy to make with the great embossing folders and on this one, we used the Houndstooth folder.  The snowman is nattily dressed in a coat of dazzling diamonds.

Oops, while I was taking the pictures yesterday, Bella wanted to have her picture taken too so she posed for this one.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

Scallop Dasher

At my annual Holiday Stamp a Stack, we made 10 cards and I couldn't resist not using Dasher in one of the cards.

Made it into a Scallop Easel card

Pink Pirouette is the base color for the card.  How it's made:

• Cut 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and fold in half for 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".  Place the fold four scallops down from the top of the Scallop Circle die and run it through the Big Shot
• Cut another piece of Pink Pirouette 4 3/4" x 4 3/4" and cut another Scallop Circle through the Big Shot
• Cut a piece of Black card stock 4" x 4" and use the large scallop from the Scallop Circle #2 die and run through the Big Shot
• Cut a piece of Whisper White card stock 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and use the 3" Circle die and run through the Big Shot
• On the folded Pink Pirouette card, score 1/2 way down from the top to create the fold for the easel.
• Place the Pink Pirouette large scallop circle in the New Snow Burst Embossing Folder from the Holiday Mini and roll it through the Big Shot
• Use a sponge and gently apply some Frost White Shimmer Paint over the embossed scallop to give it the sparkly shine
• Ink up Dasher with a Black Marker and stamp on the 3" Whisper White circle
• Cover him up with some 2-Way Glue and dip in the Dazzling Diamonds
• Add two Rhinestones around his neck
• Adhere the Whisper White circle to the Black Scallop Circle with adhesive
• Place dimensionals on the Black Scallop Circle and adhere to the Pink Pirouette large scallop circle
• Apply adhesive to the bottom of the folded card front and position the large Pink Pirouette piece to it
• Ink up the sentiment with Black inkk and color the word "bright" with a Pretty in Pink Marker
• Punch it out with the Large Oval punch and adhere it to a punched Oval Scallop piece of Pink Pirouette
• Add dimensionals to the back and place on the inside of the card to hold up the easel when the card is open
• You're done!

All of these items to make this card can be purchased at www.dayanna.stampinup.net at any time or email me with your order (Canada only).

• Scallop Cicle die, #113468
• Scallop Circle #2 die, #113469
• 3" Circle die, #122125
• Dasher, #116816
• Snow Burst Embossing Folder, #124096
• Frost White Shimmer Paint, #116854
• Large Oval Punch, #119855
• Scallop Oval Punch, #119856
• Stamping Sponges, #101610
• 2-Way Glue Pen, #100425
• Dazzling Diamonds, #102023
• Basic Rhinestones, #119246

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

 

 

Season of Joy

I felt I was Christmas carded-out having been working on Christmas projects for what seems like two months and after a while it becomes fatiguing.  For some reason yesterday the urge to do more Christmas cards came upon me and among others, I made this card in two different color themes. 

I'm finding the Season of Joy stamp set very versatile with so many images in the set you can create many different looks.  From a very simple card that I made last week with this set, I took it one more step for these.

The first one was made with Handsome Hunter card stock.  A color that I hadn't used this year for Christmas projects.  The embossed piece is Very Vanilla cut 5 1/4" x 4" and run through the Big Shot using the Petals-A-Plenty embossing folder from the Holiday Mini.

The image from Seasons of Joy is stamped in Handsome Hunter ink on a piece of Very Vanilla cut 2 1/2" x 2 3/4" and matted onto a piece of Handsome Hunter cut 2 5/8" x  2 7/8".  I used a piece of the Riding Hood Red and Very Vanilla striped grosgrain from last year and folded it under the stamped image.  The Merry Christmas image is also from Season of Joy and stamped with Riding Hood Red onto Very Vanilla and punched out with the large oval punch and matted onto a Handsome Hunter Scallop Oval piece and placed on the card with dimensionals.

I was pleased with the way the card turned out and when I cast my eye over my ribbon storage and saw the Black and Vanilla striped grosgrain, I knew I had to make one using that ribbon and thus this card.

The base card stock is black with a layer of Brushed Gold cut 5 1/4" x 4" with the Very Vanilla piece cut 5" x 3 3/4".  The image is stamped in black and while its difficult to see in the picture, I lightly touched up the flowers and the centre of the tree with some Champagne Shimmer paint.  Rather than the red rhinestone brad in the middle of the word JOY, I placed a half pearl from the Pretties Kit in the centre.

Don't you find that when you're just "playing" with your stamping stuff that the end result turns out better than a preplanned one?  At least I find that is how it works for me.  Often I have an image of a design that I want to make but the result is a huge disappointment.  I get so excited about making it and then its a dud but when you're just playing around the result could be very satisfying.

Well, we had a fairly large amount of snow that fell out our way last night but its raining now and washing it away so hopefully it will be all gone within a couple of days.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

 

Christmas Mail

It's the most wonderful time of the year when you receive Christmas mail.  Here are a few I've received the last few days that I'd like to share with you.

This beautiful vertical stair step card is from my friend Amber.  She used glossy white card stock for the sentiment and the snow flurries at the bottom. 

From my stampin ' buddy, Rhonda, this adorable one.  So cute!

From another stampin' buddy, Kim, this sweet card - I love the belly band that she put around the card.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

 
 

Gifts of Christmas

Gifts of Christmas - a beautiful name for a beautiful stamp set.  I have to admit that I only recently bought this set and I only wish that I had bought it much sooner so that I could have used it in my Holiday Stamp a Stack.

I only had time to play with it yesterday - I have to admit that it was very therapeutic to spend half a day stamping for fun having not had the chance to do so for a long while.  We're always busy preparing for classes or workshops that there's never time to just stamp for the fun of it but I did get to do so yesterday and it was so relaxing!

This is what I came up with using the dove image from this set.  I inked up the image using Real Red, Always Artichoke and Going Grey Markers.  I then applied Champaign Mist shimmer paint with a fine paint brush on the dove.  It is much prettier IRL (in real life) as you move the card around the shimmer comes through beautifully.  I also added small touches of Frost White shimmer paint around the edges of the flowers bordering the stamped image.

On the inside of the card is a piece of Whisper White 4" x 5 1/4" card stock on which is stamped the small floral image and sentiment from the set.

 Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

 

Merry Christmas!

Happy wishes for a very Merry Christmas to all - hope you have a wonderful day of celebration with your family and loved ones.

Congratulations to Ulla and Sandra for winning the Blog Candy.  

I've Got Mail

Brrr!  Baby it's cold out there!  Could we possibly have a white Christmas?  Looks fairly certain that  it will as snow is still on the ground and more being predicted to fall tonight and into next week.  It's beautiful to look at but treacherous to drive in.  So, if you're out and about today - take it easy!

I just love receiving Christmas mail and all the lovely hand stamped cards.

   

Alison Solven sent this beautiful card using the Mr Twigster set from the Holiday Mini.  Alison has created such a beautiful scene with the trees glistening in the snow with the red ornaments and the moon in the background.  Alison is my upline and friend and has been a source of inspiration and support since I signed up as a Stampin' Up! demo with her about 4 years ago.

My friend Amber Walker made this beautiful card - such gorgeous detailed colouring on the Christmas bouquet of flowers.  Amber and I were co-workers and when I was doing workshops at our workplace she attended one and quickly embraced this craft and enjoys and makes lovely cards and projects and we'll soon be meeting at our Class of 2009 scheduled to start next month.

Kim Lee is a Stampin' Up! demo also with Alison's downline and she is such fun to be with.  Her card uses the Snow Flurries stamp set and accented with Night of Navy. 

Isn't this a stunning card?  My friend, Kathleen Yarema made this lovely card using Pick a Petal.  She cut out each of the petals and layered them to form the flower.  The background is stamped with Doodle This. The ticket corner punched corners of the Whisper White gives the flower a beautiful accent.  Since coming to an Open House about 3 years ago, Kathleen has been attending my classes and also signed up for the Class of 2009.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!   Brrrrrrr!

Stocking Stuffers

I was searching for Kleenex in my car the other day and found a package of card fronts that I made for a swap with our group about a month ago but I can't recall why I still had them - lol.  In any event, there they were and I wished that they were completed cards and not just card fronts. 

It is a 4" x 4" card with a Whisper White cardstock and Real Red as the accent colour.  The stamp set is from the Level 1 Hostess Set - Punches Three.  Wonderful images to use the Square Scallop punch.  Being 4" x 4", they could also be used as gift tags just by adding some silver or gold cord to a corner.

After looking at the card, it got me into a red and white kick and so I started to make some treat holders to use as stocking stuffers.  The first one I made uses the Pillow Box die.  I had purchased some acetate covers from a stationery store and made this treat holder with the Big Shot and Pillow Box die.  I found some Christmas Kisses that were perfect to put into the box and wrapped some Real Red Striped Grosgrain around it and mounted the same Punches Three image used in my card onto the holder with dimensionals.

The next treat bag has two peppermint patty treats that can either be used as tree ornaments or just treats to be enjoyed!  The snowman from Merry & Bright (a retiring set) is stamped on Whisper White and then punched out with the 1 1/4" Circle Punch.  It is layered onto a 1 3/8" circle and then onto a Real Red Scallop circle.  The snowman is coloured in with Real Red and Bashful Blue markers.  The back of the peppermint patty is covered with a Real Red Scallop Circle.    The ornaments have Dazzling Diamonds on the snowman.  The Medium Flat Cello Bags (p. 167, #102757) is the perfect size to hold the two ornaments.  The topper on the bag is Whisper White cardstock cut using the Top Note die on the Big Shot.  It was scored on the long side and fits perfectly as the topper on the bag.

 

The last one I made is simply filling one of the Medium Cellophane Bags with the Christmas Kisses and then topping it off with Riding Hood Red cardstock cut 4" x 4" and folded in half.  I used the Scallop Edge Punch on the top side and added a piece of the self-adhesive decorative die cut from the I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit and added a felt flurry to finish it off.

 

 

By the time I finished making these, I'm not sure which held more of the treats, the bags or me - those peppermint patties are very hard to resist.  They're like eating chips - you can't stop at eating one!

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Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!