Holiday Mini Blog Hop!

Welcome to another fun filled Blog Hop! We are all very excited to show you a sampling of the new Holiday Mini that starts September 1, 2010. There are so many amazing things in the new Mini,  it's almost hard to know where to start! Well, we are here to help you decide which items you have to have the most, lol.

I am the last stop on the tour, so you may have arrived here from Candace's Blog featuring Christmas Postcard. Don't you just love her ideas?!  If you want to see the full list of blog stops and navigate from there, just click on the banner above.

Well, I am going to show you several ideas with the set Filled with Love. It is available as a Clear Mount set (#121154 $16.95) or as a Wood Mount set (#120839 $22.95) and coordinates with the Full Heart punch, Heart Small punch, 3/4" circle punch, and the Heart Treat Cups. And as you will see, this set can be used for far more than Valentines Day!

 This first bunch is a gift ensemble with a gift bag and a little 3x3 card and a box of tea light candles. O have made these candle box gifts many times and people tell they are too pretty to use! You can find a tutorial on the candle and boxes here
The 3x3 card has a tab at the side to pull out so that you can get to the treats in the treat cup without destroying the card.
The bag is a plain old lunch bag with the top trimmed down a couple inches and punched with the scallop edge punch (with the bag still folded up and closed) and then stamped to coordinate with the card and candle box.

• Stamps: Filled with Love, Grateful Greetings
• Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, tissue paper and copier paper
• Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride, Old Olive
• Other: 1-3/8" circle punch, 1/16" punch, Early Espresso 1/8" taffeta ribbon,  Stampin Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, paper cutter with scoring blade, Bone Folder, Heat gun, Acrylic block,  Scallop Edge punch, Full Heart punch, Ribbon edge punch, Scallop Square punch, Heart Treat Cup

ETA: I have burned these tea lights without any problems. The tissue paper does not not cause a flare of flame when the candle is burning.

Here is an 8x8 2 page scrapbook layout. Yes, I did say 8x8 :) We are getting 8x8 albums in the new Holiday Mini! I am so excited!!! See how you can make this set feel like Autumn and a little masculine?! Notice the shine on the little hearts on the right hand page? I covered them with Crystal Effects to give them shine and dimension, then popped them up on dimensionals. There was a lot of stamping off on these pages so that the images would be subtle.

• Stamps: Filled with Love
• Paper: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede
• Ink: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede
• Other: Signo White Gel Pen, Full Heart punch, Heart to Heart punch, Heart Small punch, Crystal Effects, Stampin Dimensionals, Bitty Buttons, crochet thread with a needle, Glue Dots, SCallop Square die with Big Shot.

This is a pair of cards I made using the Faux Reverse Letterpress technique. I really wanted to use the new Letterpress plates that are coming in the Holiday Mini, but they were not available to preorder... I will have to wait until Sept 1st like everybody else, sigh. But these are cool too! I used the texture plates with the Big Shot and inked up the plates before running the card stock thru the machine. I didn't have my brayer with when I made these so I just rubbed my ink pads right on to the texture plates and that worked great too! The card on the right was made using a Sketch Challenge over at Stampin Addicts.


Tic Tac Toe card

• Stamps: Filled with Love
• Paper: Soft Suede, Pear Pizazz, Pink Pirouette
• Ink: Soft Suede, Pear Pizazz, Pink Pirouette, Cherry Cobbler
• Other: Big Shot with Friend texture plate from Texture Plates kit #4, Full Heart punch, paper piercer with mat pack, Organza ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, Sticky Strip (to adhere the ribbon)

Paisley Card

• Stamps: Filled with Love
• Paper: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Naturals White
• Ink: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red
• Other: Big Shot with Paisley texture plate from Texture Plates kit #4, Heart Small punch, Cork with the Blossom Party die and the Big Shot, Stampin Dimensionals, Glue Dots

The little hearts stamped on the cork circles are from the Feb 14 stamp, and the polka dots are made with the circle of rubber that was die cut out of the O in love. LOVE that little circle! And you won't get any extra ink in the middle of your O this way either. 

And my last group of projects are some quick 3D projects. Another gift bag (this one is holding spools of retired ribbon a customer bought), a matchbox using the Faux Reverse Letterpress technique again, and a couple of Mini Milk Cartons.

Warm Heart gift bag

• Stamps: Filled with Love
• Paper: Riding Hood Red
• Ink: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red
• Other: Heart Small punch, Scallop Edge punch, Basic Rhinestone, Early Espresso 1/8" taffeta ribbon, Signo white gel pen, Crop-A-Dile to punch holes for ribbon

Warm Heart Mini Milk Carton

• Stamps: Filled with Love
• Paper: Pink Pirouette
• Ink: Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Early Espresso
• Other: Mini Milk Carton die with Big Shot, Heart Small punch, Stampin Dimensionals, Bone Folder, Sticky Strip, staple and stapler

Dotty Love Mini Milk Carton

• Stamps: Filled with Love, Tiny Tags
• Paper: Peach Parfait, Soft Suede, Naturals White
• Ink: Peach Parfait, Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze
• Other: Mini Milk Carton die with Big Shot, Heart Small punch, 3/4" circle punch, Basic Rhinestone, Stampin Dimensionals, Bone Folder, Sticky Strip, staple and stapler

Paisley Matchbox

• Stamps: Fille dwith Love
• Paper: Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Naturals White
• Ink: Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip
• Other: Matchbox die and Paisley texture plate from Texture Plates kit #4 with Big Shot, Full Heart punch, 3/4" circle punch, Basic Rhinestone, Whisper White Satin ribbon Stampin Dimensionals, Bone Folder, Sticky Strip

I hope you enjoyed your stop here on my blog. Now on with the show!