Pencil Packs

These little pencil packs will be
a great stocking stuffer for the kids.

Using the Cookie Cutter Christmas, Merry Mice and Jar of Cheer stamp set to create these cute little
pencil packs.

Aren't they adorable. They were super fun and so easy to do and a great way to use all your little
scraps of paper.

I got the pencil packs from Dollar General. They came 8 to a pack so I was able to get two pencil packs from each one.  Alternating patterns of the pencil, I place 4 in a pack of the cello bags.
The real read card stock was cut at 2x4 and scored at 2 inches. I cut the whisper white card stock at   1 7/8 x 1 7/8 to layer on the red. I stamped the images with Momento Black ink and cut out using the cookie cutter punch for Santa and the Reindeer. I colored them in using the Stamping Up markers except for the black shoes and belt and I used a regular marker for them. I used dimensional to adhere them to the tag and then using snail adhesive I attached them to the cello bags.

To stamp the Merry Mice image on the whisper white, I used a post it note to cover the other mice when inking the selected image. I used black, real red and garden green (I think) to stamp the sentiments, Merriest Wishes came from Christmas Magic Stamp set and used the classic label punch to cut the sentiments.



Jar of Cheer  142161
Merry Mice 142142
Christmas Magic 142116
Cookie Cutter Christmas stamp and punch set 143493 (bundle price saves %10)
Real Red & Crumb Cake Markers 141973
Classic Label Punch 141491
Moment Black ink 132708
Stampin Dimensionals 104430
snail adhesive 104332

Craft Fair

Last Saturday, November 19th was my first craft fair as a Stampin Up Demonstrator.

I have done craft fairs before for jewelry and crochet items. I've never been to a craft fair that

had a Stamping Up booth (not a stall, but a booth. I hate when people call them stalls) so this would be a new venture for me and I usually share a booth with my daughter. So we had three separate tables with each bearing their own items.

At first I was hesitant to add my Stamping Up display because as we all know, craft shows are hit

and miss. You never know what will sell. The coordinator of the craft show had a cancellation and I was able to purchase another spot. Well to make a long story short, I did extremely well.

My cards sold well and so did my Hershey Nugget packs. I only sold 2 of the mini coffee cups and I almost sold out of the fingernail file holders. I even got a request to do a card for a baby boy.  Gave away some catalogs and even had people inquire about Paper Pumpkin.  A few people even asked about hosting parties. Hopefully this will turn into some leads for me.

Excited for the next craft Fair on December 3rd.

Three Step Stamping

To me this is one of the hardest things to do. I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler! So how in the world am I ever going to line up two images with the base!

I decided to conquer my fears and just DO it. Here is my finished card.

I stamped the background image with Timeless Textures in Cajun Craze and Smoky Slate ink. This stamp set has so many great images in it and I love the way it turned out. I layered that to Cajun Craze card stock for the base of the card.

I used the Baby Bear stamp set to layer the three images and I am so pleased it turned out right. For the bear I used Early Espresso and crumb cake and found by reversing the steps and starting with the darker color made things easier to line up! YEA!!!

Scallop circles frame the bear, then layered that with dimensional to a stitched frame lit and then a large scallop circle. I then used the larges circle framelit to cut through all the layers of the card. I added a piece of white card stock to the inside and  stamped the bottom right corner with Smokey slate ink. I used the cut opening to position the bear to the inside of the card and after stamping the sentiment again in smokey gray, I used the classic label punch to place under the sentiment.

Motivation

Such a big work that can have huge impact on your life, your future and most of all yourself.

Where do you begin? Why at the beginning with goal setting and then developing a plan to achieve  that goal.

Motivation can also be trying a  new technique you have never tried before or just managing to make time for the things you love to do.

Today for me motivation came in the form of sitting down in my studio and working on mini coffee cups for the craft fair I will be doing on Saturday (of course bad weather is supposed to come rolling in).

So I decided to work with the One Wild Ride Stamp set and do cups for the guys and the gals. This is what I came up with.  On the black one I did all the stamping in white ink and embossed the Route 66 and the Life's a Journey. The tags were just stamped with the white ink. I attached everything with dimensional and filled the cups with 10 Hershey Kisses. I hope everyone likes them as much as I do.

The pink cups were just stamped with black archival ink. I used the Curvy Keepsake framelits to cut the tags.

                                                                                               

                                                                            

First Craft Fair

Raton Convention Center Gym
November 12, 2016

craft fair

The new stitched framelits are now available

They add a cute finished touch to your frames.

Stitch Framelits