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Mingle All the Way and a Color Challenge

Hi there!  It's Stampin' Royalty Challenge Day!

Today we have a fun color challenge! 

I thought these colors would make a really fun Christmas card. 

These colors just make me happy!  And the strawberry slush is not too pink for Christmas.  

Here are all the fun things I used to make this card: 

 

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My girls and I are having a Kids Stamp Camp this Saturday. 

We are making some cute Christmas Projects, check them out.

This will be our first Kids Stamp Camp in the new house/new craft room!  Can't wait.  Let me know if you would like to join us! 

EDITED TO ADD: 

I have had several requests on how to make the Star Santa card in this post so I am adding this quick step by step on how I made him: 

 

For this card I used the Largest Star from the Star Framelits.  And when I die cut the card, the top point of the star hung off the fold, so it does not cut  the fold.  Then use the same die to die cut one point of the star out of Real Red, this becomes the hat.  The pom pom on the had is the 7/8” scallop circle punch.  The hat band is the modern label punch.  The card and the two white hat pieces were all run through the Big shot using the Decorative Dots embossing folder.  

 

The mustache was made using the Curly Label punch, punch it out and then use the negative of that and punch out a partial piece; using the negative as the edge for the piece you are punching, it creates this mustache piece. 

 

The face is die cut using the Ornament Framelits, the one that looks like a light bulb.  I trimmed off some of the top and bottom, so it fit where I needed it to.  I used a sponge dauber on the side of his face to make cheeks with blushing bride ink.  The eyes were punch with the Owl Builder punch from Basic Black.  The nose is the circle from the Itty Bitt Punch pack, or a 1/4” circle would do too.  The edge of the nose is sponged as well. The holly and berries were die cut with retired Build A Bear dies, I have since sold mine and do not know the name of it, but it was a the Santa suit one. 

 

Adhere the face first, then the red hat, the hat trim, the holly.  Then adhere the nose to the mustache and pop that with dimensionals.  

 

Please continue to email me ([email protected]) or leave a comment here if you have any further questions or I can help you out in any way. 

 

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Yesterday I had so muh fun playing with my October Paper Pumpkin kit.  I made PIE!  

Check out these fun PIE shaped boxes! 

There are enough ready cut supplies in the kit to make 8 of these pie shaped boxes.  The yarn for the pom poms is included, as well as a pom pom maker piece! 

That pom pom is my favorite part!  

But the stamps set deserves some love too!  The sayings are, "there's no such thing as too much pie", "holiday calories don't count", "thankful for you", "happy thanksgiving" and there is even a cute little heart stamp!  I know I will be using this stamp set again!  It is a fun one to use in your Project Life albums or for scrapbooking. 

The paper piece that you stamp the sentiment on for this project has adhesive on the back and is scored so that the top of it folds over and keeps the box sealed shut.  I love that!  But I was not quite ready to stick mine shut as they are not filled yet.  So I cut off the paper backing over the bottom part of the sticker and left the top on, to remove when I am ready. 

If you like this fun project you should consider subscribing to My Paper Pumpkin and getting a paper crafting kit in the mail each month too.  

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A Touch of Silver

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #253: SILVER

Create a project incoporating silver. 

That's so much fun and such a broad theme.  But I knew just what I wanted to do, a Christmas tag.  I saw an idea on Pinterest that  I loved; using twigs of different lengths to make a Christmas tree.  I had twigs left over from another project and knew this was just the thing I should use them for!  Well then one tag turned into three.  A trio of tags is better than just one.  I really had so much fun making these tags and I just want to make more.  Forget the house work, homeschooling, errands and responsibilities, let's just make Christmas tags!!!  So glad you're with me on this! 

You can see I added a touch of silver to each tag. And now I need to get myself three Christmas gifts because I'm not sure I can give these away!  Let's take a closer look...

The twigs!  I loved how it turned out.  So rustic and a little vintage.  For each of the tags I used the Dictionary Page background stamp, cause I'm in love with it.  My touches of silver here are the silver star topping my Charlie Brown tree, the three rhinestone jewels and the silver cord tied at the top.   

Sparkle.  Perfect sentiment for this tag and so it should go to someone who sparkles!  Rhinestone, buttons and pearls, oh my!  I found an assortment of buttons that I had on hand, hot glued them to my hand cut triangle and filled it in with rhinestones and pearls.  A few of the rhinestones and pearls have been colored with my Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities markers.   My favorite special touch on this tag is the white sparkle image I stamped in the background.  Everyone needs that image, it is in the Holiday Invitation stamp set.  

The stacked tree.  I used the Petite Pennants Builder Punch to create this tree. Fat, full and tall.  It's the tree I want every year.  I love the stacked pieces of different papers.  Different colors, textures and patterns. And now I want to go make more tags!!!  They are such a fun way to make a gift extra special. 

 

check out the fun things I used to make these tags: 

 

 

 

 

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Take a look at what my fellow design team members made with the SILVER challenge.  We are looking for guest designers, leave me a comment if you are interested. 

 

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Watercolor Winter Card #4

Sharing one of my favorite cards that we are making at my Watercolor Winter Christmas Card Class on November 15th.  

We will be making four different cards and you get to pick how many you want to make!

Here is the flyer for the class.  Let me know if you would like to join us. 

 

Bill of Rights Book

You may or may not know that I homeschool my kids.  Recently I wanted to do a little "project" to go with our lesson on the Bill of Rights.  I could not find anything I like that was ready made.  So I created it myself using My Digital Studio.  

It is a little book with each of the 10 Amendments.  

I created the pages and captions.  She had to cut them out and match them up.  Then she illustrated the pages.  We worked on it over the course of three days, during our unit on the Bill of Rights.  

To make the book I cut 3 pieces of construction paper in half, folded them in half and punched holes in the top and bottom of the center of the book and tied it together with string.  

My Digitial Studio made this so easy to create and now we have a reminder of each Amendment. 

You can try out My Digital Studio for FREE! It is a great digital crafting program.  You can also make memory books, greeting cards and so much more. 

Here are my Bill of Rights Book pages.  Feel free to print them and use them for your child or class to create this book. 

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