Inchies - New to Me!

What will creative people think of next, my friend Dawn sent me an email the other day with a link to Sharon Harnis blog Paper Fections, on her blog was this amazing Christmas tree loaded with these little inchies, take a look: Ten Inchies = A Christmas Tree Album. After doing a search on splitcoast I was surprised at how cool these little pieces of art work were and how much of an impact a little inch can make, so of course I wanted to give it a try, what do you think? It's hard to see from this picture but my inchie snowman has Liquid Applique and Stardust glitter on him. For more samples of these inchies here is a link to what I found on splitcoast: Inchies

Supplies: It's Snow Time, Warm Words, Flannel BG, Ticket corner punch, Brads, Piercer w/mat, Gingham red ribbon, Textured cardstock, Liquid Applique, Aqua brush, Stardust clear gelly roll pen, dimensionals. Colors: Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Whisper White, Bordering Blue and Bashful Blue.

Christmas Wish List

If your looking for a fantastic list of supplies that you may want or need for Christmas, you have to check out Lauren Meaders blog The Beauty Within for what she recommends to all of the card makers and scrapbookers out there. Three of the items on her What you need for Christmas list I either have or have just ordered for myself and I'm giving them to my DH to give to me on Christmas morning (its just easier that way).
Happy Shopping!

Glitter Window

The above card was a card that I made at the Stampin' Up meeting I went to yesterday. It was to show the technique of creating a glitter window using the stamp set A Tree for All Seasons and the snowflake wheel. This is such a cool and easy technique and I thought that I would share a few other cards as samples using the glitter window.

The card to the left uses a square glitter window with designer paper for the back of the window instead of a stamped image. I created this card and used it for my very first Stamp Camp, the original design of the card I cased from my up line Kathy who is so immensely talented and is a big source of inspiration. This card is a letter sized envelope folded in on the ends with the inside center flap cut open to create a pocket.

This card to the left was a Christmas card that we received last year from my cousins family, again using a square glitter window, very fun!

If you have punches, paper, some glitter and some packing tape you can make one too!

For all the how to's follow this link: Here


If you make a card using a glitter window, I would love to see it, add a link to your card or blog in the comment section of this post.

Thanks

Chitter Chatter

Today has been a pretty busy day, for most of the day I was at a Stampin' Up downline meeting. These meetings always get my head spinning with ideas, getting together with a room full of talented Stampin' Up demonstrators and seeing some of their work, doing make and takes and demos done, its all such a rush. I'm on auto pilot driving home because in my head I'm stamping and thinking of ideas!

December 1st marks the release of the Stampin' Up retired stamp set list, you can view it here, get em before its too late! January 2 is the release of the new Spring-Summer Collection Catalog, so you have from now until the end of the month to place an order for any stamp set that is retiring. if your interested in placing an order you can email me here.

In my mind I still cant believe that today is December first and how strange is it that here were I live in Michigan we're getting our first substantial snow fall, its in the low 20s with around 3" of white stuff and sleeting rain. As pretty as the snow looks from the inside of my house looking out, seeing it means that my husband has to leave to go to work out in it, he plows snow in the winter months and if we get a really bad storm with a foot or more he may be gone for 48 hours or more at a time (with no sleep) :(.

Well its almost midnight, time for bed, tomorrow I'll be posting a few of the things we did at the meeting today.

Thanks for visiting!