Holly Berry Christmas hand-crafted Wreath

Decorating my home is one of my favorite aspects of the year!  With a variety of seasons, it is so much fun to change out what 'accessories' I have on and around my home.  I love what I do in paper crafting and using it to create home decorations like this pretty mock "Holly Berry" Christmas Wreath.  Join me in creating beauty and art all around you (and others) at our fun card making and crafting classes!

Create this Christmas Wreath with:

*Vintage Leaves stamp set (138802)

Mossy Meadow ink pad (133645)

Mossy Meadow card stock (138419)

Winter Wonderland Specialty Designer Series Paper (139588)

Red Glimmer Paper (121790)

*Leaflets Framelits (138283)

Gift Bow Bigz L Die (129977)

Spiral Flower Orginals Die (129379)

Big Shot Magnetic Platform (130658)

Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine (113439)

*Bundle and Save 15% on this stamp set and coordinating dies (photopolymer 140235)

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Pretty, pretty, pretty accents to use in paper crafting.  I adore how easy it was to create these fun mock "Holly Berries" and pretty gold bow for my Christmas Wreath. Grab a grapevine wreath from Amazon or your local craft store, hot glue and these fun dies.  See this fun Video Tutorial and let me know what you think (please Share and Like this for your family and friends, too!).

See this Video Tutorial  on creating this "Holly Berry" Christmas Wreath:

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Creating these pretty flowers, leaves and big bow is super easy with the Spiral Flower Die, Gift Bow Die and the Vintage Leaves stamp set/ Leaflets dies.  

(I adore that the Leaves stamp set and dies are Bundled to Save 15%!!)  Simply using my Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine with these dies can die-cut all of these shapes and more!

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Die-Cutting these flowers is super easy.  Using Hot Glue to adhere them together is the best way.  I hope that you enjoy this pretty Christmas Wreath - use more than you'd think in Hot Glue to adhere it all together for the long haul.

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What traditions do you hold on to?  Do you decorate your home for the holidays?  It sure is fun to see the way that our pretty paper and dies to create a hand-made Christmas Wreath for my front door.  Let me welcome in my family, friends and guests (and delivery people, it is the Christmas and Gift Giving Season after all) with a pretty wreath that I am proud to have made with my two own hands.  Join Me in creating pretty decorations for your home, hand-stamped cards at our in-person and to-go card making classes ~ you are invited!

A gift basket of hand-stamped Simply Wonderful cards!

A gift within a gift basket!  Deliver a sweet gift to someone special with this easy 3"x3" hand-stamped card collection in a delightful die-cut Berry Basket!  It is extra sweet with how it is FREE!  Free Stamps, Free Paper.. oh my, FREE is an awesome word!  Here with our Sale~A~Bration items you will be blessed with FREE stamp sets and FREE papers while you deliver a hand-crafted, priceless gift!

Create this sweet hand-stamped gift with:

Simply Wonderful FREE Sale~A~Bration stamp set (wood 139125/clear 139128)

Coastal Cabana ink pad (131175)

Whisper White 12"x12" card stock (124302)

Best Year Ever FREE Sale~A~Bration Designer Series Paper (138633)

Rhinestone Jewels (119246)

Elegant Butterfly Punch (127526)

Bitty Butterfly Punch (129406)

Bow Builder Punch (137414)

Spiral Flower Originals Die (129379)

Berry Basket Bigz L Die (137366)

Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine (113439)

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Using one sheet of 12" Whisper White card stock to create a collection of hand-stamped cards.  Cut the cardstock at 6" and score each at 3".  Turn and cut 3" x 6" strips of scored card stock.  It's great to get 8 3"x3" cards from one sheet of 12" paper - YAY!

Cut a 3" strip of the Best Year Ever FREE Sale~A~Bration Designer Series Paper.  This double sided paper can be alternated to have a stylish but coordinated look.  

Using the Simply Wonderful FREE Sale~A~Bration stamp set and Coastal Cabana ink pad to stamp the cards with a variety of sayings.  

Add a punched accent using the Elegant and Bitty Butterfly Punches.  Glam it up with our adhesive backed Rhinestone jewels.

A hand-stamped gift is one that keeps on giving! It will bless those who receive it and then they can use it to bless others.. paying it forward with love.

Oh I love, love, love the new Berry Basket Die for my Big-Shot Die-Cutting Machine!  It will die-cut and score the Berry Basket.  Here using the retired, thicker Holiday Designer Series paper to create a stand up-box.  (Using regular Designer Series Paper will not stand up, well, to much use - card stock or thicker paper is the best way to go.)

Create a cute gift within the gift - this 'book mark' was created using the Bow Builder Punch and a cute paper-clip.  It's easy to create the punched bow and then hot-glue it together and to the paper-clip.  Simply clip it to the front of the Berry Basket for a cute accent that can be re-used!

Accent the sides using the Spiral Flower Die and the Best Year Ever FREE Sale~A~Bration Designer Series Paper.  This will give the hand-crafted gift a cohesive look.  

See this Video Tutorial on how to use the Berry Basket die to create elegant hand-crafted gifts and decorations.

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Pull it all together and wrap it up!  Here a hand-crafted gift is a great way to say 'Thank You'.  Creating this collection was a fun way to Thank a special customer for their generous order, while welcoming her and her mom to our Gettin' Crafty Stampin' Stampers!  It's fun and easy to create a hand-stamped gift that keeps on giving.  See how fun it is to use rubber-stamping and paper-crafting to deliver smiles.

Butterfly hand-stamped wreath and dry erase board

I love butterflies!  We released live butterflies at our wedding and they are kind of like a family logo for us.  Most things in nature delight me.  Creating a fun Butterfly wreath and matching dry-erase board is easy and stunning with our Swallowtail stamp and this cool hand-stamped stained-glass technique.  These were created for the Best Selling Author, Brenda Novak's Diabetes Auction. Who knew that butterflies could fight diabetes??

Create this hand-stamped wreath with:

Swallowtail background stamp (wood 131943/clear 129216)

Vellum card stock (101856)

Aqua Painters (103954)

In-Color 2012-14 card stock (retired)

In-Color 2012-14 ink pads (retired)

Gumball Green In-Color 2012-14 ribbon (retired)

Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper (retired)

Versa Mark ink pad (102283)

Embossing Buddy (103083)

Black Embossing powder (109133)

Heat Tool (129053)

Butterfly Bigz Die (retired)

Spiral Flower Die (129379)

Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine (113439)

 

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This is how you do hand-stamped, mock stained-glass.  The secret to a better embossed image is to always prep the surface with the Embossing Buddy. 

 

~ Prep the surface of the Vellum card stock with the Embossing Buddy by rubbing the EB over the surface of the Vellum.

~  Stamp the image (here the Swallowtail background stamp) with Versa Mark ink on the Vellum card stock.

~ Liberally cover with embossing powder (here the Black Embossing Powder)

~  Shake off the excess that the Versa Mark does not hold.

~  Heat set with the Heat Tool until completely shiny.  The secret to using the Heat Tool is to hold it at a 45* angle and do not move the Heat Tool until the Embossing Powder sets/turns shiny.  Move slowly across the surface of the image until the image is set as you go.  It is not a hair dryer.  It needs even heat to set properly.

~ Using the Aqua Pen in the ink pad (squish the ink pad while closed and open - you will have a collection of ink to use in water coloring).

Here the Gumball Green satin stitched ribbon (retired, sigh) is a bold and beautiful green that comes right from nature!  Wrap the ribbon around this wire wreath (I grabbed some on-sale through Amazon and have seen similar ones at the Dollar store).  Using the Hot Glue gun to secure the ribbon to the wire.  This will give a strong surface to adhere the Spiral Flower Die roses and the hand-stamped, stained-glass butterflies.

 

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Using the rich In-Color 2012-14 retired card stock to create coordinating roses.  These Spiral Flower Roses are stunning and easy to create.  Using the Butterfly Die to create blank butterflies and adhere as 'filler' where there may be "open space".

 Hot Glue the Butterflies and colorful roses to the ribbon covered wire wreath.  This will deliver a colorful greeting to all who see it.  (Keep a wreath like this inside - the paper could be ruined by the elements.)

Creating a coordinating dry erase board is a great way to give a deluxe gift.  Frame it in a frame of your choice and you have a stunning, coordinating dry erase board that will delight!  Adding a Spiral Flower Rose in the Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper is a pretty 3D accent.  Hot glue is a wonder, isn't it??

Here with the Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper as a base, prep, stamp and emboss the butterfly.  Using the Aqua Pen to color it in. 

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Butterflies are sure to delight as they are delicate while being strong, change to adapt and grow, colorful and light as a breeze.  The winner of the Brenda Novak Diabetes Auction took home this delightful collection of cards with the hand-stamped, stained-glass butterfly and rose wreath and the coordinating dry-erase board.  I love that paper-crafting and butterflies could help fight Diabetes!!

A Golden Anniversary Banner

'His banner, over me, is love'.... it is one of my favorite hymns.  Growing up, holding my Pappa and Nanna's hands, standing in the church that my Pappa built (and is still pastored by my family) I was surrounded by love and faith.  Love and faith are what is needed to make marriage (and life) possible.  In celebrating our beloved friends Dave and Donna, these hand-stamped banners were created to celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary. 

Create these love filled handmade banners with:

Very Vanilla card stock (101650)

Blushing Bride card stock (131198)

Gold Foil Sheets (132622)

Gold Foil Designer Vellum (133363)

1/8" Circle Punch (134365)

Typeset Alphabet Bigz Dies (retired)

Expressions Thinlit (retired)

Hearts Collection Framelits (125599)

Circles Colletion Framelits (130911)

Banner Framelits (132173)

Big Shot Magnetic Platform (130658)

Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine (113439)

Gold Metallic Baker's Twine (132975)

Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive (110755)

 

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Our dear friends live a life of faith and love.  When Donna was told she had less than 5% chance of surviving her rare cancer, she and Dave turned to prayer.  Donna is three years cancer free now.

 

So when we discussed the banner, I asked her to consult her husband and come up with some scriptures that were important to them.  They gave me 5 amazing verses.  Printing them on our Very Vanilla card stock made for easy and meaningful accents to the banners.

 

Creating these custom banners is easier than ever!  Place the cut card stock into the Circle Framelits on the bottom.  I added the smallest heart from the Hearts Framelits and rolled only this half into the Big Shot.  I did NOT roll the whole banner piece through - just the end on the framelits, this allows me to avoid creases in the top half of the banner.  The Magnetic Platform helps to hold the framelits right where you want them. (It is a must-have for all Big Shot owners!!)

This embodies the hanging banner of love for our beloved friends.  Using the Framelits to create banners for the names, the hearts of Very Vanilla and Blushing Bride card stocks under the same cut Gold Foil Vellum.  Adhere the Vellums to the card stock with the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

 

Do YOUR Cutting Pads warp over time??  See this fun video I created on how to fix it (and even how to ruin it - lol).

 

Laying it out... I'm a visual girl and in laying these out on our hearth to balance these banners made for an easy way to create these banners. 

 

These stunning roses are fun to create!  With this gift of banners, these everlasting roses will adorn the banners and tables.. Click Here to see more on them.

 

Once laid out, punch the edges with the 1/8" circle Punch and thread the Gold Metallic Baker's Twine.  To prevent coming 'frazzled' lol.. see the secret to using this Baker's Twine and the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

 

These Golden Letters are easy to create.  The Typeset (Retired) Bigz Dies create the lovely names and the 50 for the banner.  The Expressions Thinlits (retired) give this stunning, delicate 'love' that fits perfectly on the banners (I used the 'heart' and placed the 'o' of the Love over it - it is super cute!!).

 

The fine tip on the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive (there are two tips) makes it easy to adhere the Gold Foil letters and 'love' for a delicate and beautiful look.

 

Retired??  Sigh - these stunning products are retired and now are priceless as they aren't in production anymore!!  DO NOT MISS OUT - The Annual RETIRED Sale is Happening (twice) next month!!  With Two Dates - you can be the FIRST To Pick these Great Deals or snag some at the end.  BONUS!!  BOGO - All Items will be DOUBLE IN VALUE!!  Shop the Retired Stamps, Papers, Tools, etc and get the equivalent for FREE from the NEW Catalog!  WOW!!  Do NOT Miss Out on this precious deal and time to shop (and create) RSVP YOUR SPOT - there is a $10 Door Fee with cards to make!

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Faith and Love... it is what is needed to make it in marriage.  I love that hymn 'His banner, over me, is love' and it embodies the reason to join with Dave and Donna celebrate their 50th Anniversary.  In love and friendship for them, in remembrance of my Grandparent's love and faith filled marriage (they were married two weeks shy of 70 years).  These hand-crafted banners embodies our friends' walk in faith and love.  Celebrate those special moments in life with hand-stamped and crafted banners, flowers and gifts.  It is a blessing to be part of this celebration and to have them as our friends.  I miss my beloved Grandparents but I know that this would surely warm their hearts.