Showing posts with label Holiday Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday Home. Show all posts

Monday, 29 December 2014

Many Merry Stars

I promise you this will be my very last Christmas-related post this year! I had some very grand plans for table decorations, but I ran out of time unfortunately, and after all, it is probably more important to get the food organised.

I did make some gift card holders using the Gift Card Envelope & Trims Thinlets Dies. The design has been very heavily influenced by this card by Teneale Williams, another Australian demonstrator who is on the Stampin' Up! International Artisan Design Team. I love the detail Teneale uses on her cards, but I am not so good about all of that. Holiday Invitation provided the Be Merry sentiment, cut with the long banner in the Gift Envelope set. The star is from Many Merry Stars stamp set that came out in a supplementary leaflet, and doesn't appear to be carrying over, so if you like this clean star which co-ordinates with the Star Framelits, best you order in the next week. (Photopolymer 138105 $27.95). The Santa and sleigh silhouette comes from Holiday Home, another great photopolymer stamp set, also not carrying over. 5th January is the last day to order these items. Under the Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper has been used on the belly band holding the envelope closed, and that is over on Year End Closeout sale at $15.39, down from $21.95. it is actually more like a card, not paper and would be perfect for making gift boxes. You should be able to click on the picture below to get taken directly to that item in my online shop, all available only till 5th January 2015.

I was rushing to get these made the night before our family gathering, so there are no little buttons or linen thread on mine, but a couple of the mini staples did the job and are totally appropriate for a bunch of boys. I don't often get compliments on my crafty projects from my sons, but apparently this was pretty good. Or maybe it was what was inside?

And, a really big statement from the eldest (which I may happen to agree with too) - "This was the best Christmas ever!"

Hope yours was just as jolly,
Rachel

 I have a general card class on Wednesday 14th January at 1pm and another Project Class (page 16 of the Occasions Catalogue) on Tuesday 20th January - check for picture on the CLASS page, or contact me.
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Thursday, 2 October 2014

Home For Christmas RS#134

I've had some fun and  got my fingers very inky, playing with masking and sponging again. Just a slightly different technique from yesterday's. You are welcome to join a Christmas Class at the end of October if you live near South Morang, Victoria.

Holiday Home is a very cute photopolymer stamp set from the latest Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue. It's very adaptable and can be used for Halloween, Christmas, House-warming and in lots of other scenarios too, I'm sure. The greetings from Endless Wishes have a lovely variety of fancy fonts, and plain.

I had seen the sketch at Retrosketches and thought about it for several days before letting loose with ink. The composition of this scene is fairly simple, the house is one piece, the wreath on the door and Christmas lights are separate, Santa and his reindeer has been curved a little more than it is in the pack: so easy to do with photopolymer.
I had a Banner Framelit still near the Big Shot after my last card, so cut red with it this time. The square surround for the picture has one side only cut with the largest scalloped Square Framelit and the silver Baker's Twine was handy too.

Have you made any Christmas Cards yet?   
Cheers, Rachel



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Friday, 26 September 2014

Christmas Tags CTC#11

It's Friday - WooHoo!!!
Actually, I'm on holidays, so that sadly means one week has passed already. I seem to be less organised, because I am having too many social events, I suspect. I was quite relieved that we are CASE-ing The HOLIDAY Catty this week, and focusing on tags.The challenge will be running for 14 days too, which will give you more time to Case the Holiday Catty and share your tags.

My inspiration hasn't come from any one particular project, but just from the general impression of several samples. I've made a simple tag for my work colleagues' Christmas bags and the bauble will hang off the bag also. The stamp used is Holiday Home, which has co-ordinating framelits.

Firstly, I cut Shimmery White card with the Homemade Holiday Framelit, choosing the house without a chimney. You can use the others too, just snip off the chimney, but I love the fancy end on this particular one. I've tried my best to colour match with the bauble, but it is more purple than Melon Mambo and brighter than Rich Razzleberry, so I've sponged a mix of the two at the top using a sponge dauber. I had a scrap of card with a curve to use as a template for the sponging. There is a light sponging of Soft Sky at the bottom.

The stamps are both from Holiday Home photopolymer stamps. I laid them face-down on the tag and then pressed the acrylic block onto the stamps, so everything was placed perfectly for the tag. The Santa and reindeer has been slightly curved too, to fit nicely onto the tag.


When you make multiples of an item, the secret is to perform each step of the process at the one time. You begin by doing all the cutting and for this project my second step was sponging them all with Soft Sky, then the next two colours, before stamping them all. That way, you only have one stamp pad open at a time and you're less likely to get them mixed up.

On the back of the tags I've stamped To: & From: which were included in Wondrous Wreath, another fabulous Christmas stamp available in Photopolymer.

Now, I can hardly wait to see what the rest of the crew on the CASE-ing The Catty design team have made for this challenge. Will you be joining in this week?

Hope to see your name there,

Rachel
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Friday, 19 September 2014

Happy New Home RS#132

Today I have made a quick little card to go with a house-warming gift. I found the sketch at RetroSketches helpful to lift it from being extremely plain, to having just a touch more interest. I have had to rotate it, and the greeting is incorporated into the top square. There are a number of sentiments and small pictures in this stamp set to widen the appeal for all occasions, especially Christmas.

I've included the block in the picture so you can see how easy this really was. After placing the photopolymer stamps in position on the white square of card (face down) I pressed an acrylic block over the top of my composition, so it could be stamped at the one time.

Imagine if you chose this stamp set to be your Christmas card this year, you could build your picture up, and stamp multiples at one time. How easy would that be? And Santa in his sleigh is so darn cute!!!!

I used a range of Blendabilities to colour the house, you'll find the colours in the product guide below.


Thanks for popping past.

Rachel




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