RHSSC #56

Okay, so I can't count...

I made 12 squares instead of 9...oops!

This card was made with the help of My Digital Studio!

I was able to enlarge the Christmas Lodge, color it in to my liking

and then printed it out.  I smooshed the entire image with

Versa Mark then used and old Stampin' Up! product called 

Glassy Glaze, heated it up, then I did three more coats of 

Versa Mark, Glaze, etc.  Then I popped it in the freezer.

When I took  it out I cut it into equal one inch squares and 

mounted it on some Early Espresso card stock.  THEN...

I bent it a bit so the little frozen pieces cracked.

This is called CRACKED GLASS TECHNIQUE

I thought the sketch challenge looked like a window so

this is what popped in my head to create

I hope you like it

see... this is the sketch we had to work with...

now pop on over to the Red Hot Stampers blog to see what

the other gals did with this sketch

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have A Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Christmas Elves

Aren't these cute little elves ADORABLE!!!

Once again I put my punches to work to create these cute little guys

Ornament Punch, 1 1/4" Square, Modern Label, Owl Builder, Bird Builder

Just another item that will be at our craft sale TODAY!

Come check us out

Freedom Christian School

6340 Autumn Dr

Hudsonville, MI 

9AM-3PM

Be sure to mention that you follow this blog!

Haha! you can see that my kitchen still isn't finished! Dale got sidelined by

a job he had to do for a family whose drop ceiling in their basement fell.

What a mess! but he is thankful to be able to be their landlord/custodian

for the renters.  Bet they were surprised to have their ceiling fall in!!

Maybe I will be able to show you more progress soon.

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Owl Treat Box

 Thought I would share another craft sale item that we will have at this years booth.

Owls really seem to be the IN thing this year.  I fell in love with them as soon as

I purchased the Owl Builder Punch from Stampin' Up!  I know you have seen me

use it a TON with my punch art and you certainly will be seeing more!!

This cute idea I saw on Stampin' Connection (by Ilina Crouse). This is a demonstrator 

only idea site and it is definitely my favorite place to find amazing ideas!

If you want to have access to all the ideas, why not purchase the $99

starter kit and become a part of Christi's Crew and have all the benefits

of being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - even if all you want to do is be

 a hobbyist.  It is such a fabulous deal - hard to pass up.

Click HERE to get started.

The Designer Paper I used is from International Bazaar $10.95 126920

12 sheets: 2 ea. of 6 double-sided designs.
12" x 12". Acid- and lignin-free.

Come check out our booth at the Freedom Christian School

6340 Autumn Drive

Hudsonville MI

Tomorrow, September 29, 9 AM - 3 PM

Be sure to mention that you follow this blog

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Blessings From Heaven

I have been sharing so many craft sale items lately that I thought 

I better post a card for today.

This card features an often forgotten color - Perfect Plum

I embossed the base card with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder

The Top Note is cut from So Saffron Designer Paper in the Subtles Collection

Stamp Sets: Fabulous Florets and Blessings From Heaven

I stamped the flower on Vellum using Versa Mark and White Embossing 

Powder then cut them out.

Did you know that you can color your Basic Rhinestones and Pearls with a Sharpie Permanant Marker?  I did some with a golden color and some with purple.  Of course you could just keep your rhinestones irridescent, but I wanted to play around a bit.

My Double Bow was made using the Double D Bow Maker that my buddy

Dean made for me.  He sells them, by the way, for only $7.50

Click HERE to find one of those

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have A Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Angry Craft Sale Birds!!

 I am hoping that ANGRY BIRDS is a big theme this year because here is
another Angry Bird Box that I made up for the craft sales

This year I will be participating in four different Craft Sales

If you happen to live in my area please pop in to see us.

Here is a list of the Craft Sales that we will be in this fall...

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 9 AM - 3 PM

FREEDOM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

3640 AUTUMN DRIVE

HUDSONVILLE, MI 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 9AM-3PM

HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

4845 136TH AVE

HAMILTON, MI

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM

COMSTOCK PARK HIGH SCHOOL

150 SIX MILE ROAD

COMSTOCK PARK MI

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 9 AM- 3 PM

HUDSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

5037 32ND AVE

HUDSONVILLE MI

Congratulations to Becky Caughel from Fort Wayne, Indiana who
was the first to reply to Monday's blog post and is purchasing the
WANDERING WORDS stamp set from me!

Stay tuned I plan to do something similar soon
Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Happy Birthday Jessica!!

Today is our daughter in law, Jessica's, 30th birthday!!

I think this calls for a special card don't you!!??

 

Jessica is a very special gal and we absolutely love having her in our family!!

Jessica and Jeff are both very musical people so this card will be a big hit for Jess.

Happy 30th Birthday, Jessica!!

Love, Mom

(BTW: card inspired by: Ann Schach)

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Wanderng Words

 Christmas in September??  

YES!!  

I wanted to share a cute card I made using this 

retired Stamp Set called WANDERING WORDS. 

 

Yes, it is retired, but I am selling my used set for only $10.00. (plus shipping if required)

I teamed it up with the current LOVELY AS A TREE Stamp Set and I love the outcome

However, I did case it from another talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Gerry Stutz

First come first served!  If you like this card and would like this stamp

set for yourself please email me at

christiwaite@gmail.com or comment on this blog and we will make the 

proper arrangements to get it to you.

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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RHSSC #55

I am super excited to share this Sketch Challenge with you all this week because 

I also get to share with you some photos of my grandson, Tyler, 

who we are so very proud of.

On to the Sketch Challenge...

This is what we had to work with this week...

and this is my take on it...

 

About three weeks ago I was privileged to watch our grandson earn his
BROWN BELT in KARATE!

So this card was inspired by Tylers belt test, and the punch art Karate Kid was inspired by Brenda Ballesteros. I put the progression of belt colors on the card, Purple, green, red, brown (card base), Black (oval).  I embossed the front with the Stripes Embossing Folder because each color belt also has a stripe.  EX: purple, then purple with white stripes, Green, Green with white stripes and so on until they hit BLACK BELT, and although BLACK does not have stripes it does have 10 different levels. After 4 levels it gets a thin red stripe and you qualify as a Master.  I wonder how far Tyler will go??

 

Numchucks

  He even got to go a round with his friend Taylor.

 

Sparing

 Receiving his certificates from Master Rick

 A Proud day for the whole family

 Putting on his  new BROWN BELT

 

Tyler and Taylor

They both did a fabulous job and we are so proud of him to be a BROWN BELT at 10 years old!!

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Angry Bird Poop

 Only one week before our first Craft Sale of the season.

Actually, Sue will be at the Zeeland Christian Craft Sale in Zeeland MI

today if you happen to live in our area I bet she would love to have

you stop in to check it out.  I am gone for the weekend to the TRUE WOMEN 

Conference in Chicago.and it will be the first time since I started craft sales 

that I will not be at this one.

Thankfully I will be at FREEDOM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

in Hudsonville next weekend and this is one of the Angry Bird items that

we will be selling.

I snagged this idea from Danee Hoang

but she computer generated her Angry Bird on My Digital Studio

and I decided to make mine 3D.  The words, however, 

ARE computer generated.

The little circle stamped on the topper is simply by using

a new eraser on a pencil.  It is the perfect circle and I have

used this idea many times.

Thanks For Stopping By!

Hope to see you at the 

Craft Sale next week!!

Christi

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First Day of Fall

Today is the very first full day of Fall!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Fall season!

The weather is so beautiful and life tends to take on a "normal" routine.

The only sad thing about saying good-bye to Summer is the fact that I can

no longer wear my white capris.  I put them on the first day of Spring and 

during Spring and Summer I wear them the majority of the time.

So good bye sweet Capris I will see you again next Spring (sigh)

So I thought I should share a Fall inspired card with you
(inspired by Charlene Boyachek)

MENU:
SS: Gently Falling, Countryside, Teeny Tiny Wishes
CS: Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper
INK: Stazon, Cajun Craze Early Espresso, Pacific Point, Garden Green
Accessories: Buttons, Linen Thread, Aqua Painter, Markers in
Crumb Cake and Real Red

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Popcorn Anyone?

As I was shopping in our local craft store I ran into another gal who attends our church.  She is also an elementary school teacher and she was out trying to find the perfect item for her popcorn themed board for the kids. When she saw me the 'light went on' and she was wondering why she hadn't asked me for help in the first place.  I told her I had an idea in my head for popcorn, but actually I had seen a card by Julia Leece from New Zealand (who was casing the idea from Julie Japes)(see, I'm not the only one!!) using the Cupcake stamp set and punch teamed up with the Itty Bitty Punch Pack to make buckets of popcorn.  I went home and revamped it to my liking, turned it into a gift card holder and WOW!  I really like it!  Another great idea for a guy teacher. 

Oh, And By The Way...my friend from church loved it too, she said it was perfect!

Don't you just love it when it all works out!!

Actually, our son Joey and our grandson Tyler are HUGE popcorn fans

perhaps I will have to revamp these and personalize them a bit for my

popcorn lovin' guys!

Thanks For Poppin' By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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By The Seashore

Thank You to my friend, Sue, who loaned me her BY THE SEASHORE

stamp set.  She is really drawn to the sea themed stamps and I generally

am not so it didn't surprise me when she ordered this set.

When I saw these cards made up by Penny Smiley

 

 I wanted to make them up as a Thank You to our church secretary 

who had all of the church staff to their new home for a wonderful time 

of food and fun.  Their new house sits on a very 

peaceful private lake and it is GORGEOUS!!  

This is the card I made for them...

 

I seldom make just one of a kind cards, but I didn't necessarily want all

of them to say "Thanks" so the rest of them looked like this...

 

I never would have thought of the tone on tone for the words but it looks very elegant

 The letters were cut using the Big Shot and the Timeless Type (retired) alphabet sizzlits

I loved the simplicity of this next card and on all of them I used the Wood Grain

Embossing Folder, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, and Crumb Cake

 A little Champagne Glass Glitter gives the sand dollar the look of sand 

stuck to the edges.

I made up these 3x3's and although I really liked them I decided to add

 a little thanks to this as well and use it for the thank you notes I add to all 

the orders each month.  See, another perk for shopping with me!!

These letters were also cut with the Big Shot but instead I used

the Naturally Serif Decorative Strip Die Sizzlit (also retired)

One thing I have learned - retired or not, I never get rid of my alphabets

or word stamps.

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Peaceful Day!!

Christi

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Turtle and Co

TURTLE AND CO. was the 2011-2012 Ronald McDonald featured Stamp Set, 

and I had a few more cards I wanted to make up with it before saying 'good-bye'. 

Inspired By Anne Marie Hile

This one features some Designer Paper from Sale A Bration

I loved that paper, and am hoping come the end of January when Sale A Bration

starts again that they will have another fun designer paper available

Inspired By Jamie Hurley

I love the turtle but my little 5 year old niece loves the frog so when

I made this card I was thinking of little Sylvia

 No, I did NOT mess up and put the turtle upside down!!

This poor little guy just needs to get back on his feet again soon!

Which is what the greeting says on the inside.

Inspired by Dawn Griffith

Check out this cool technique.  It is called Faux Alligator Skin

or Faux Reptile Skin.  I first saw it on Dawn's blog but have seen it 

many more times since then.  I think it gives the card that extra little something

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Baby Boy Treat Bag

This is a fun Baby treat to sell at the Craft Sales

I had some of these small bags on hand from a previous holiday catalog

and never used them (shame on me), but when I saw this cute

idea from Anke Hamsch from Germany I revamped it just enough

to suit my needs, added some "It's a Boy" mints in each bag and 

tied the ribbon nice and loose so that whoever chooses to buy

one of these all they need to do is untie, add another small gift

or a gift card and they are all set.

I had just enough retired Designer Paper and Ribbon to make up all

of the little bags.  Don't you just love it when that happens??!!

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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RHSSC #54

I made up today's sketch challenge on the day that Becky was visiting so I have both of ours to share with you again!!  So Exciting!!  I love it when my 'girls' join in on the sketch challenges. 

 Becky's take on the sketch...

 Did you know you can make a Hershey Kiss with the Blossom Builder Punch?

Oh you would be surprised at how versatile this punch is!!

My take on the sketch... 

See...

And this is what we had to work with....

 

Click HERE to see what the other gals did with this sketch

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Bootiful Occasions!

I am so thankful to Belinda, a fellow Red Hot Stamper who let me borrow 

her stamp set BOOTIFUL OCCASIONS to make up some cards.

Get Well/Thinking of You

 The little clouds were punched using the Cupcake Builder Punch

and highlighted with Pool Party Marker

Halloween

 Inspired by Diana Gibbs

Inspired by: Wendy Weixler

Witch Hat from EAT DRINK AND BE SCARY

 Inspired By Karen Miller

 

And a fun Craft Sale item

It's a Gum Holster!!  haha

Inspired by Connie Babbert

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a BOOTiful Day!!

Christi

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Guest Stamper, Carla

My friend, and one of the gals in my down line, Carla, is doing so well 

with her card making - selling them before she can stock up even!  

She has a great resource through her regular job and her friends are 

starting to make requests.  

I LOVE IT!!

These are two cards she made when someone requested some

butterfly cards

 She used Butterfly Prints Stamp Set on the out side of her card

 and Kindness Matters Stamp Set on the inside

I think she did a BEAUTIFUL job!!

Thanks for Sharing, Carla!!

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