No Time To Stamp?

This is a grouping of7 items all made with Dashing DP and the adorable little snowman from Merry and Bright. Actually, this grouping was prettymuch an after-thought. Last week I had a workshop and we made the card (which you can hardly see) in the back, far left. I had some left over pieces of DP cut to size for that card. I had a quiet Friday evening here and decided I would challenge myself to use up each cut piece of that DP, and get myself a few Christmas cards done as a result. So that’s what happened. Then when I had used up all the cut pieces, I wanted to do a couple more items! Here’s what I ended up with:

• 5 standard cards
• 1 tent topper gift holder
• 1 bookmark with sleeve (and jingle bells!)

The card on the left is the one we did at the workshop, and that card uses all SU supplies. For the other cards I gave myself the liberty of using a variety of my Marvy Punches and the tent topper uses a rectangle and rectangle scallop Nestability Die by Spellbinders.

It isn’t visible from the front view, but the tent topper is actually a gift card holder. I cut my paper 4 1/4 x 10 1/4, and scored it (on the Scor-Pal) at 4 1/4 and 8 1/2. That will then fold into the 4 1/4″ square necessary for the tent topper and it leaves a 1 3/4″ flap to turn up for the gift card holder. Here’s a picture of the inside:

Here’s the last 2 cards:

And here’s a bookmark I made with a sleeve for gift giving — and I added jingle bells to this bookmark — I’ll probably give it to one of our God-children along with the gift card holder above! My Stamp Simply Challenge on Friday was to do one of these bookmarks with a sleeve. You can click here to find the tutorial.

• Stamps: Merry and Bright, Many Merry Messages, Star Studded Season
• Paper: Real Red, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Dashing Designer Paper
• Ink: Black Stazon. Markers in Real Red, Certainly Celery, Only Orange, Sahara Sand.
• Accessories: Ribbon, Dimensionals, Crafter’s Tool Kit. Variety of punches and dies. Jingle Bells from Christmas craft section of Wal-Mart.

Again, thanks much for looking and for all your comments!!! I truly appreciate it!!! If all goes as planned, my next upload will be a very pretty gift set — crossing my fingers that all goes well — LOL!!!

What’s for Dinner? I found a recipe the other day for a crock pot chicken dish to be served over noodles on Nancy Riley’s Blog. I tried it and it was delicious!!! Even all my guys, who are meat and potato lovers, loved it!!! Check it out!!!