Votive Luminary

I am so excited to share this one with everyone at the next club meeting! We are going to be making some really cool stuff this time. I saw this on splitcoaststampers.com and had to do it myself. It turned out gorgeous and I think I will have to make some to give away as gifts and for all kinds of holidays! I got to use my Holy Triptych stamp set for a lovely Christams centerpiece. I then went out in the yard and cut some pine branches, found a couple closed pine cones, and bought some fake red berries to add to the black candle tray I have had forever and voila! I had a perfect centerpiece!

This is the tree wise men lit up. I love the soft glow. It looks even better in real life!

This is the angel. You can't see it here, but I added glitter to her wings so that when the candle isn't light, she still has that special shine. The fourth side uses the Holiday Wishes set's Merry Christmas stamp.

Sneek Peek at November Club Projects

This is a 8x8 scrapbook page that we are going to make next month in club. It uses the Artfully Asian stamp set. We will use twill tape for the first time and stamp on it!

October Club Projects

If you missed club this month, you missed a great time. Here are some of the projects we made this month.This darling little pumpkin is made using these Stampin Up! products: scallop punch, pumpkin pie cardstock, So swirly jumbo wheel with chocolate chip ink cartridge, and a non SU sagey green ribbon. Very easy and very quick! I plan to make a whole bunch of these and string them on the Gold Cord from SU to make a Thanksgiving garland, I will also use the oval punch to attach names to the pumpkins and use them as namecards at the table. I might try scattering some around a large round candle with some dry leaves and stuff as a centerpiece.

This is the lunchbag luminary unlit with the lights on. Used Autumn Harvest and Holiday Wishes stamp sets with Choc Chip ink, then used watercolor pencils and blender pen to color the pumpkins.

This is the lunch bag luminary in the dark with a candle lit inside. very cool in real life.

This the masculine card we made with the Noble Deer and Everyday Flexible Phrases stamp sets and Weathered background stamp. The cardstock is Handsome Hunter, Really Rust, and Very Vanilla. Used Choc Chip and Really Rust ink. Any nature loving guy would love to get this card!

October Stamp Club Meeting

Yeah! We have our next date picked and we will meet on Friday Oct 19th at Dawn's house. If you are a member of the club, you should have received a set of directions to her home in your email and possibly your mailbox at work. I just finished working a weekend of nights and I am ready to go play with my toys! Hopefully I'll have some fun stuff to post real soon.

House Warming Card

Here is a card that I made tonight after work to give to a friend at work who just moved in to her new home. It's in the country and thought these little wilderness friends were just the perfect welcome wagon! Gotta go to bed now, have to be up early for work in the am!

Christmas Ornaments

These are some ornaments that I made using the On board Trimmings set of chipboard pieces. I painted this one white with acrylic paint, then used the Baroque Motifs set to stamp the swirls in Soft Sky and Versamark, then used Iridescent Ice embossing powder to make it sparkly! I used Blue Bayou and Versamark for the flower/star/snowflake in the center. Also embossed with Iridescent Ice. Then I used the handy dandy Crop-O-Dile to punch the hole in the center of both chipboard pieces and used a turquoise rhinestone brad to hold it together. Also used Crop-O-Dile to punch hole and set the light blue eyelet. Used the lovely Gold Cord available in the Holiday Mini catalog. Used basically the same process for all of the ornaments and I have prepainted a bunch of chipboard pieces for use to make ornaments at the next club meeting. That would be the October club meeting, which looks like the hostess will get to pick the date as I have only had 1 response to the "which date works for you" question.
Don't these look just yummy for on your tree, decorating around the house, to give as gifts, or to attach to gifts ?!

Nevaeh's Birthday Card

Our little Nevaeh turns 1 on September 28th! This is the card I made for her, totally CASEd from this card by ncmorgan on splitcoaststampers. I thought it was just adorable! Now I just have to wait for all of my family to sign it before I can pop it in the mail. Boy, this is a busy month for birthdays!