A Plethora of Projects

I spent a good part of my morning stamping a few quick items.  It has been a lot of fun to see what the other Stamp Simply Celebrate designers have come up with, so I thought I would attempt some of the challenges and projects.  But first, tomorrow is my baby brother's birthday...I can still remember how excited my two sisters and I were when we heard we had a brother--this was way before ultrasounds!  He is still very special and of course, he knows it! 

I wanted to make a birthday card using Sharon's beautiful two-colored embossing technique shown here.  Now, mine is nowhere near as beautiful as hers (I said mine were quick!) but I think he will like this!  He is an engineer and sometimes he's pretty hard to impress!

I used an image from Flourishes' Forest of Trees, and a sentiment from Winter Schminter by Whippersnapper.  They are embossed in copper and silver on Shimmery White cardstock from SU; the inside is also embossed in silver, just a birthday sentiment.   Hopefully you can see the silver embossing at the top and ends of the branches!

Yesterday, Dee had a challenge to incorporate some stamping into some food gifts.  I had just bought a tin of Cappucino Cream Wafers at the Dollar Store, just to have on hand for a quick gift.  I covered it with some paper from a Holiday Slab by Provo, added a tag using my new JustRite Christmas Stamp Ensemble and added a big honkin' bow.  The JustRite ensemble was a gift from JustRite themselves--an awesome company and a very generous gift, to be sure!  I am still learning how to use them, but I am having lots of fun!

I used some Old Olive twill to tie the tag on, then just stuck the bow above it.  There is a little twinkly bling on the tag, too!

 

For Susan's challenge to make a gift holder, I had to laugh when I saw hers.  I had actually stamped these a couple days ago, but didn't want to post them yet, and I laughed when I saw the similarities!  Of course, she has those gorgeous bows on hers and mine are, well, just plain!  Have a look:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made my entire holder from a piece of BG Fruitcake and added a scalloped border in Cranberry Crisp.  I stamped the image on Confetti Cream and colored it with markers and blender pens, then "distressed" it by stamping over it with Sanded.  I added a little Baja Breeze strip and added some punchouts that had also been stamped with Sanded. 

A simple sentiment on the inside from Flourishes' Holiday Greetings finished it off.

 

 

And of course, while I had that fun paper out, I made a card as well with some elements I was working with, but hadn't used on the gift card:

  Finally, I found the inspiration for this fun little felt gift card holder/purse at Lisa Johnson's Poppy Paperie:

I have several big chunks of felt that I have been hoarding (not just limited to DP!) so I gave it a shot.  I tried stamping on it, but the ink just soaked in, so it is a tad bit plain!  I'll have to experiment with that some more.  The Cosmo Cricket chipboard scallop holds the flap down, and it fastens with an adhesive Velcro piece.  I think my niece will like this!

Well, thanks for hanging in there with me!  I will have some more to post tomorrow---now it's off to bake some cookies!  If you have any questions on any of the above projects, shoot me an email!  Thanks for all your kind comments!