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This is a SUPER quick and easy, yet elegant Christmas card - taken straight
from the pages of the Big Stampin' Up! Catalog and Idea Book

Card Measures 3" x 6"
MENU:
SS: Bells and Boughs, Curly Cute
CS: Cherry Cobbler Textured 12x12, Very Vanilla
INK: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories: Top Note Die, Big Shot, Victoria Lace, Dimensionals

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Peek A Boo Card

PEEK A BOO!

When you open the card the cute snowman from the stamp set
SNOW MUCH FUN peeks out at you

MENU:
SS: Snow Much Fun, Petite Pairs
CS: Sahara Sand, Cherry Cobbler, Holly Berry Bouquet DSP, WW
INK: Staz On Black, Markers: Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wasabi,
So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie
PUNCHES: 1 3/4" Circle, 1 1/4" Circle, 1 3/8" Circle, Scallop Circle
Accessories: Red Line Sticky Tape

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Gift Card Holder

This is the gift card holder that we made at this months Technique Class...

FRONT


BACK

INSIDE

This is the technique...
Cut a 12" x 4 1/4" piece of card stock
Score at 5", 6" and 7"
Fold all creases to create a "Tent"
Use your Decorative Label Punch to punch the center folded piece
to hold your gift card
Use Red Line Sticky tape to hold it together
Decorate as desired

The gals also had a short course on using the Stamp A Ma Jig
for the image on the front

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RHSSC #12

The Red Hot Stampers Sketch Challenge for this week...

Here is the sketch we had to work with...



And this is my take on it...

I admit that I saw this Poinsettia on Sandi Mac Iver's blog
so wanted to give it a try on my Sketch Challenge
She always has elegant ideas on her site so go ahead and check it out.

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Napkin Rings

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving with all our children and

grandchildren together this year.

Our family is small so there was only 10 of us, but we love having everyone together.

These are the napkin rings that I made for our Thanksgiving table.

And here is the Chef that made our delicious Thanksgiving Dinner for us...

I Love Thanksgiving because Dale takes charge of the kitchen and I get to sleep in!!

This year we celebrated at the evening meal so Dale got to sleep in today too!

YUMMY!! Homemade Brown and Serve rolls

A Beautiful Bird from the Health Food Store
NINETEEN POUNDS!!!

Heading into the oven - with a Butter Garlic Seasoning

Nearing Completion..


Gracie's Turkey Barretts

And Gracie thought she better check out the Black Friday ads in the newspaper
After all, Christmas IS coming

What a fun day!!



A few photos of our beautiful Thanksgiving table

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Place Cards

These are the place cards that we had sitting at everyone's place
at our Thanksgiving table yesterday.

We also made this as a project for the Big Shot Class last week.

Pull up on the ribbon and you have a little note
where everyone can write down what they are thankful for.

When I started dating Dale we celebrated EVERY Thanksgiving Day with his family.
It was a wonderful day that we always looked forward to.
Dad Waite would have us go around the table and each one would
tell what we were thankful for. Sometimes it would be sentimental
and maybe a few tears would be shed, and sometimes there would be something
fun or silly. I would say "you never know what the kids would say", but in this
family it was usually "you never know what the adult men would say."
They had, and still have a habit of being fun-natured, and a bit silly at times.

Wonderful memories that we now cling to with both Mom and Dad Waite
celebrating Thanksgiving in Heaven.

Hope you all had a wonderful
Thanksgiving Celebration!

Christi

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Happy Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!

I trust you are all enjoying a wonderful relaxing day with your family
feasting on the many blessing that you have in your life.

Just wanted to share the card that I made for Tyler and Gracie
for Thanksgiving


You must know by now that I love working with the punches
Thanks to Sharyn Jensen for sharing her tips on the
little punch art Pilgrims.

I thought it looked a bit plain so I added some colorful fall leaves

Much Better!!

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Happy Feet

Penguins are all the rage right now with the new HAPPY FEET TWO movie coming out on Thanksgiving Day so with that in mind we offered several penguin themed items at our craft sale last Saturday (which by the way was a HUGE success!!)

Inside this little tin was a package of M&M's
Of course whoever bought them could change them out for whatever
they chose when they gave it away if they wanted.

Thanks to all who stopped in to see us at the craft sale!
It was wonderful to hear your kind comments

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Floating Snowflake Technique

For tonights Technique Class we are making this Floating Snowflake Card

I've seen this idea on various occasions but this snowflake one
was one I saw on France Martins Blog

Probably the easiest card we are making tonight
and don't you just love all the glitter??!!

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Tea-riffic!!

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through November 30th.

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These are today's specials (Monday, Nov 21,2012)

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At the last craft sale someone asked if we had anything with tea
so we both took it as a challenge.

This is what I came up with...

INSIDE:

I haven't seen Sue's tea holder yet, but you can bet it is beautiful!

Stamp Set used: Morning Cup
Spoiler Alert!! The new Occasions Mini that starts January 4th, 2012
has a darling coffee/tea stamp set. Can't wait to get my hands on it!!

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Red Hot Sketch Challenge #11

RED HOT STAMPERS SKETCH CHALLENGE TIME!!!

THIS IS THE SKETCH WE HAD TO WORK WITH...


AND THIS IS MY TAKE ON IT...


REMEMBER I SAID THAT I USUALLY TAKE MY INSPIRATION FROM
WHATEVER IS SITTING ON MY WORK TABLE?!

WELL...

THIS IS ONE OF THE ITEMS WE MADE AT THIS MONTHS BIG SHOT CLASS

WHEN I SAW THE MEDALLION SITTING THERE I THOUGHT IT
WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THIS SKETCH CHALLENGE.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY THINGS THEY SHOWED US AT CONVENTION LAST JULY!

I LOVE IT!!!

MENU:
SS: Pines and Poinsettias
CS: Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabi,
Holly Berry Bouquet Specialty Paper - the stripes are raised and glittery!,
(Cherry Cobbler on the card)
MARKERS: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Wild Wasabi
PUNCHES: Scallop Oval, Decorative Label, (Modern Label on card)
ACCESSORIES: Two Tags Die, Circles #2 Die, Square Lattice EF,
Petals a Plenty EF on card) Big Shot, Dimensionals, Snips,
Window Sheet (Acetate), (Basic Rhinestones on the card),
Very Vanilla Seam Binding

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Stitched Stockings

This is one of the Cards we made at this months STAMP A STACK class.
Getting this close to Christmas - 5 out of the 8 cards we made were Christmas Cards,
and you will probably see a lot of Christmas Cards in the weeks ahead as well.
I don't want to be like the stores and start showing you Valentine's cards
before Christmas is done, but ... you never know,
the OCCASIONS MINI comes out for our preorder soon
and I'm itching to get my hands on some new stamps.

MENU:
SS: Stitched Stockings, Hand Penned
CS: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, WW, Frostwood Lodge DSP
INK: Early Espresso, Real Red, Garden Green
PUNCH: Stocking Builder, Scallop Border
Accessories: Cherry Cobbler/White Bakers Twine, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

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Warmest Of Wishes

Tomorrow is our last scheduled Craft Sale of the season.
Sue and I have both been working hard at getting things ready for the big day.
We LOVE this one because it is held in our local high school,
and it is combined with the community Santa Claus Parade
so we get to see many people we know who will stop in after the parade.
If you are able to come check us out we are at ...

HUDSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL - 32nd Street
9 AM to 3 PM - you will find our booth in the cafeteria

This is one of the more recent projects I made to sell at the craft sale.
I thought it turned out so cute.


Thanks to Lynn Pratt for the mitten shaped pattern on her blog
A yummy treat is inside and perfect for a small treat for a friend, neighbor,
teacher, mail carrier - oh the options are endless!!

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Stampin' Queen Sketch Challenge #13

Time for another Stamping Queen Sketch Challenge

Here is the sketch we had to work with...


and this is my take on it...


Silly me, I actually used the colors on the sketch challenge too.
I used three different Embossing Folders to give the card added texture
and I used the water coloring tips from our down line meeting
to color in the giraffe from the stamp set ZOO REVIEW.
Stamped the giraffe on the water color paper that also gives a texture.

This time my grand daughter, Gracie, helped me choose the stamp set
she wanted me to use on the card.

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