My Crafty Obsessions

Christmas Cards

Hi Everyone! Can you believe it's December already?!? On one hand I am excited because only 19 more days til vacation and heading home! On the other hand I am a bit panicked because I still have a lot of holiday projects to finish up! Good thing I work well under pressure!



I'm posting from my phone, so if this post doesn't look quite right I will fix it tomorrow when I have time for the computer at home.



A couple of quick Christmas cards, both were very simple to put together. All stamps are from Penny Black except the sentiment on the first card (Cat's Pajama's) and the background stamp on the second card (Stamper's Anonymous). I used the Cuttlebug Damask embossing folder, and Nestabilities to cut the shapes on the first card, love this embossing folder!



Tonight I am teaching a "Graphic 45 Christmas" class at Scraptasia using the Christmas Past collection (beautiful paper). For this class I made two cards, two tags, a gift bag, a money holder card, a gift card holder and a bookmark!! I LOVE how they all turned out!! I'll start posting those pics tomorrow night after I've had a chance to take pics.



Have a great day, Shari

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Another Hedgie Holiday card

I thought I scheduled this to post yesterday but must not have clicked the right button! Here's another holiday card I made with the Penny Black Holiday stamps I got at Scraptasia. This little guy is sooo cute!! The pattern paper is by Making Memories and already has the great border on it! I used a new Cuttlebug embossing folder for the top half, I think it's called Candy Stripes but not sure. Image colored with Copic Markers (E31, 33, 35 fir the fur; R20, 29 for the hat; E000, R02, R20 for his body). Circles and Scallop Circles cut with Nestabilities. Oh, I also added a touch of Clear Spica pen to the hat trim for a little sparkle!

Tomorrow I have two cards to share! Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day, Shari
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Christmas Wishes

I hope you all are having a great weekend; the weather has been beautiful here in NJ this weekend -sunny, high 50's, nice.  And this coming week is a short work week for me so I'm not too upset that my weekend is almost over.  

Today's post is a cover I made for a mini 5x8" legal pad using more of the new Penny Black stamps we got in at Scraptasia!  I have really enjoyed stamping and coloring all these Penny Black stamps; they are such cheery little characters, how could they not bring smile to your face!  

 These are quick and easy to make, just have to do a little measuring and off you go..  (for those in the area-all supplies are available at Scraptasia) 

I cut my main cardstock twice the width of the notepad plus an extra 1/2"  and cut the height about 1/4" more then the height of the tablet.  So for this pad it was about 10.5 x 8.75" for the brown cardstock.   On the inside front cover, I made a little pocket to slip notes or receipts or whatever, and attached with redline tape.  Instead of regular adhesive to attach the note pad to the cardstock, I used Mod Podge so it would stay put.  You could also create a pocket on the back cover and insert the back of the notepad into the pocket to make it easy to remove and replace if you want. 

Pattern paper is from the new Jolly by Golly collection by Cosmo Cricket; cut out the shapes with nestabilities; all stamps (except 1) from Penny Black, the Naughty/Nice stamp on the inside is from a Crafty Secrets Christmas postcard set.  All images were colored with Copic markers.  You can''t see it in the picture, but I also stamped and cut out his list on Bo Bunny double dot paper and adhered to the main image for a little 3d effect.  I used a Fiskars border punch to create my faux lace and inked everything up with a little Antique Linen Distress ink. 

More Christmas cards to share with you tomorrow.  thanks for visiting my blog, have a great day, Shari

 

Celebrate The Wonder

Yay, Friday!!! I'm so happy the weekend is here!
Just a quick post tonight from my phone. I love these cute Hedgie stamps from Penny Black, so cute!! Scraptasia ( the shop I teach at) recently got several of the new Penny Black holiday stamps in and and I have been having a great time stamping and coloring them! This card is a big one- 5x7", I really like how it turned out! The pattern paper is from Making Memories; stamps from Penny Black; colored with Copic markers.

Have a great weekend!
Shari
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Christmas card..

I love this simple red and cream Christmas card!! This is another card I made for my class last week. The Santa image is from one of my favorite Christmas sets from Crafty Secrets; it continues to be one of my go to sets for three years now!!
I started with a piece of cream cardstock, then first punched the bottom border using the Fiskars border punch. After that I made a score line just above the border and again about 3/4" above that (to fit the width of the ribbon I was using). I used the Swiss dot Cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the area above the top score line and finished off the cream piece by inking it up a bit with some Antique Linen Distress ink.
I stamped the Santa in Fired Brick Distress ink, inked the edges with Antique Linen, and cut out the image, the mat with Nestabilities dies and adhered to card with foam tape. The little circle stamp is also from Crafty Secrets but a different set; it is one of the little stamps that come in their new Christmas Postcard kits. I think I will be making more of these!
Lots more to share with you so I should have another post tomorrow.
Have a great day,
Shari
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Thanksgiving Wish

I meant to post this last night but fell asleep before I got it posted.

Anyway, on to the card...  I love the new Thanksgiving set from Crafty Secrets, so many cute images like these! And paired with some paper from Cosmo Crickets Nutmeg collection, perfect combination!

This stamp set has several images in it; I used three on this card.  Images colored in with Copic Markers.  This is one of the cards we will be making tomorrow night in my class at Scraptasia!

I'm writing this from my iPhone so will keep it short.   Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Shari

Warm Cocoa and Candy Canes...

aka: Cozy Moments!  That's the name of this new clear stamp set from Hero Arts - Cozy Moments. This is a great set to have; I got this at my LSS - Scraptasia and believe they still have a few sets left..  :)  

This is great for a quick gift; very easy to put together.  I got the little wood box at the craft store and mod podged the paper to the box, sanded and inked the edges (Antique Linen distress ink).  then filled with a few packs of cocoa mix and some chocolate dipped peppermint sticks.

Every stamp used on this project, the box and the tag, are from the Cozy Moments stamp set.  All Paper from the Jolly by Golly collection by Cosmo Cricket. Nestabilities were used to cut the oval labels and I used two different border punches - Apron Lace by Fiskars and this lace one (not sure of the name) from Martha Stewart.

Thanks for stopping by, I'll have more projects to share soon. Have a great day,

Shari

Just a Note...

Hi everyone!  Mondays are rough but I can't complain too much; I am very thankful to have a good job.  And I have my creative crafty time to keep me sane!  lol!!

I was playing around with a photobooth app on my iPhone - you can take new pictures or use pics already on your phone to create photobooth strips; you can make them square, as I did here, or in the usual photobooth strip and change the frame to be white or black.    So now we'll see how the pic looks on my blog...   

These are a couple little notepads that I decorated and made a matching gift card.  I'm also going to make a matching note card set to complete the set.  Wanna see more??  :)

Thanks for stopping by, Have a great day!

Shari

(Paper from K & Co Madeline paper pad and stamps from PaperTrey Ink)

Sweet Treats

 

Hi again! Sorry for the bad picture but if I keep trying to get a better one I will never get this posted before Halloween!  These are from a recent Sweet Treats class I taught at Scraptasia.  

• The two purse like items in the back hold a little bag of treats.  The one on the left - paper from Doodlebug; stamps from Inkadinkadoo, Hero Arts and BoBunny.  The one on the right - paper from Cosmo Cricket; stamps from Inkadinkadoo and Memory Box.  Nestabilities used on both for the shapes and a little airbrushing with the Copic markers. 
• The box on the left is 3" square with a circle punched out in the front and a piece of acetate adhered to make a window.  Pattern paper from BoBunny; stamps from BoBunny and A Muse Art Stamps.
• The gift tag with the candy apple - stamps from A Muse Art Stamps
• Trick or Treat nugget box - this holds 5 Hershey Nuggets or has plenty of room for other little treats.  All stamps from Hero Arts; I LOVE this new background stamp (the orange stamped piece wrapped around the box).  Tag cut with Nestabilities.  Also used the Fiskar's Apron Lace border punch (one of my favorites).
• And the last item on the right - a quick bookmark that I adhered to the front of a kraft treat bag.  The little girl stamp is from a Crafty Secrets Halloween clear set, sentiment from Hero Arts.

You can click the picture on the right for a close up of the nugget box to see the detail of the background stamp a little better.  

I got a lot of these ideas from the Score-Pal website; check it out, lots of great ideas there!

Have a great day!

Shari

Trick or Treat...

Hi there!  I know, I've been a very bad blogger the past few months, nothing to say other then life has been busy.  It's so hard to believe we are halfway through October already!  Although it feels more like winter this weekend then fall here in Jersey; too cold for me!  

I figured I had better take the time to get all the Halloween stuff posted before I get too far on the holiday goodies...  

I love the Eerie Halloween collection that Basic Grey came out with this year and what better to pair it with then a couple little Basic Grey stamps!  Sentiment stamps are from Crafty Secrets (Halloween Greetings) and Hero Arts (Trick or Treat).  I used a few different Nestabilities dies and my new Martha Stewart spider web border punch and colored them both with Copics.  (click the picture to see larger view).

 

And while I had the Eerie paper I out, I decorated this mini comp book with my scraps.  My grandkids will get a kick out of these; my two granddaughters LOVE paper - anything they can draw on, write on or cut up!!  No idea where they get that from...   ;)

The little Frankenstein stamp is a new mini Hero Art clear stamp; sentiment from Crafty Secrets clear set. 

Have a great weekend!  I am off to write up my blog post for tomorrow while I have the time!  :)

Shari