November 2018

5 posts

It’s A Gingerbread Christmas

Welcome, to the November Creative Team Blog Hop.

Once you finish my blog click on the names below to hop along:

Kazan Clark

Lezlye Lauterbach

Carrie Rhoades

Christine Chan

Jill Hilliard

Marty McGee (you are here)

The blog hop theme for November is Christmas and I wanted to bring to life a 3D project featuring the Gingerbread Boy Tag Set.

Click on the banner below to order your Gingerbread Boy Tag Die Set:

This little guy evolved from a Pumpkin Bread Gingerbread Boy to a Santa Gingerbread Man. In fact, there are two Santas bringing you a special treat for Christmas.

To begin, cut one each of the gingerbread boy die in the following cardstock colors: Peaches and Cream, Candy Apple, Whip Cream and Black Licorice.

To create a Santa, take your die-cuts and proceed as follows. On the Black Licorice die-cut, cut off the arms and legs for Santa’s gloves and boots. On the Whip Cream die-cut, cut rectangular shaped pieces off each arm (near the shoulder),  off each leg (near body), at neck into the body portion and the middle part of the face. For Santa’s suit cut off the arms, feet and head from the Candy Apple die-cut. You will need to cut off the top portion of the Candy Apple head for the hat and save back one of the hands for the tip of the cap (the top portion for the cap is not pictured).

Glue the arms and legs onto the Peaches and Cream gingerbread Santa. Add the facial features onto Santa’s face. These pieces are cut from Black Licorice, Watermelon Fusion and Whip Cream.

Adhere the red suit and cap to Santa’s body.

To finish off Santa’s outfit, die-cut a curvy Whip Cream strip, three large Black Licorice circles and one large Whip Cream circle. Apply the curvy strip down the front of Santa’s suit, add buttons and puff to end of Santa’s cap. Go ahead and add the cuffs, rim of cap and neck trim to body.

Set aside the two Santas. Cut two strips of Candy Apple cardstock one at 5 3/8″ x 1 1/2″ and the other 5″ x 2 1/2″. Score both pieces at 1 3/4″ measure in from each end. On the 5″ x 2 1/2″ strip, score down each long side at 1/4″, cut out the scored tabs on the middle portion (between the two 1 3/4″ score lines).   Place the 5 3/8″ x  1 1/2″ strip crosswise onto the 5″ x 2 1/2″ strip.  Adhere the tabbed edges to the inside of the crosswise strip.

 

Adhere a Santa to each narrow end of the box, where the middle of the Santa hides the box.

The last step is to Place candy or small cookies into a cello bag and tie off with a ribbon. Place treat into holder.

How cute is this for a Christmas treat.

 

Supplies:

Gingerbread Boy Tag Die Set
Cardstock – Peaches and Cream, Candy Apple, Whip Cream, Black Licorice, Watermelon Fusion
Trimmer
Cello Bag
Twine
Journey Glue
White Liner Tape
Precision Shears

 

 

 

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Joy To the World Wreath Gift Tag and Tree Ornament

Y’all it is Day 4 of the FSJ + Spellbinders Better Together launch. I had a little time to whip up a gift tag project and once the recipient of the gift opens their package, the tag can be re-purposed as a tree ornament.

The following stamps and dies were used for the project:

holly bells, gold embossed holly leaves

In celebration of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge, I decided to use my Spectrum Noir alcohol markers to color the holly leaves. I stamped them onto Spectrum Noir cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Markers AG1, AG2, AG3 were used to color the leaves. Once colored, they were die cut with the Holly Bells coordinating die. I glued the leaves to a round scrap of cardstock creating multiple layers with medium foam squares.

The center sentiment was stamped onto Candy Apple cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and cut with Holiday Joy’s coordinating die set Special Day Tags Die Set. Two red Rainbow Drops were added to the sentiment for a touch of bling.

The final step was to create a twine loop to hang the ornament on a tree using Gold Thread. It was adhered to the wreath and a Candy Apple cardstock circle adhered to the back to give a finished look.

If you like coloring, this is definitely the project for you.

I hope this inspires you to create some Christmas Tags for those special gifts for family and friends.

Click on images below to order:

Holly Bells Wreath Gift Tag-2

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Gingerbread Boy 6 x 6 Recipe Card – FSJ + Spellbinders

It is Day 3 of the FSJ + Spellbinders launch. So many awesome products and so many ways to bring paper to life!
I decided to do something a little different than a regular A2 size card.

Today’s inspiration showcases Spellbinders Gingerbread Boy Garland Tag and Recipe Card set by Sharyn Sowell.
I featured a 6 x 6 recipe card because they hold a special place in my heart. For over 10 years, I held a Christmas In The Woods Stamp Camp, each participant created a 6 x 6 recipe card swap and made the dish featured on the swap. So many wonderful dishes were enjoyed over the years. I still have every swap safely stored in 6 x 6 scrapbook albums.

Here are the stamps and dies I used on this project:

There are no special techniques used to create this project, just die cutting and a little stamping. Cardstock used on the Gingerbread Boy are Pumpkin Bread, Whip Cream, Bubble Gum and Black Licorice with the edges of the “boy” sponged with Pumpkin Bread Fusion adding depth to the die cut figure. The Candy Apple rick-a-rack mat has a Butter Cream mat with Hazelnut Blend stamped lines. The sentiment “Baked With Love” is stamped first with Pumpkin Bread Fusion Ink and then offset slightly and stamped with Hazelnut Blend Ink. The absolutely adorable rolling pin is cut from Turbo Teal cardstock with a Candy Apple red flower and Electric Lime leaves. I adhered a double bow from the Beach Breeze Twine onto the rick-a-rack mat. All die cuts are popped out with medium Foam Squares. The mat dimensions are 5″ x 5″ Hazelnut Blend mat, 5 1/8″ x 5 1/8″ Oatmeal Cookie mat and a
5 7/8″ x 5 7/8″ Candy Apple base mat.

I hope this inspires you to create recipe cards to give to family and friends or to start your own recipe album.

Click on the images below to order:

Gingerbread Boy Recipe Card

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Holly Bells Christmas Ornament Card

Have you ever messed up a project and used the cast-a-ways to create a new project? Well, this is how the Holly Bells Ornament card came into existence.

Here’s the back story. I began creating my kits for PJ’s & Papercrafting Nov/Dec Virtual Stamp Class and for some reason andfor the life of me, I couldn’t die cut a centered circle into the card mat for the window box card project. This happened on all four attempts. I gave up and walked away.

Flash ahead to the FSJ + Spellbinders Better Together Launch. I planned on posting five projects made with two stamp and die sets I received from Spellbinders to celebrate this partnership. As I was looking around my craft room for inspiration, I found my messed up mat with die cut circle:

Guess what? The mat could be used as a base mat and the circle would make a great ornament. So, the project began. The base of the card is FSJ Whip Cream cardstock with the Candy Apple cardstock mat placed on top of the base. A piece of Whip Cream cardstock with piercings created from the Journey Rectangles die set was adhered to the Candy Apple mat with medium foam squares.

I ran the Candy Apple circle through my Platinum machine in a retired host embossing folder. Any embossing folder with details would work. I suggest the Mystic Impressions Embossing Folder as a substitute for the one I used which is a brocade design.

Once these steps were completed, I stamped the holly from the Holly Bells stamp and die set onto Spectrum Noir cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

holly bells, gold embossed holly leaves

I chose the following Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers to color the holly:

I did the same with the banner and sentiment from the Winter Build-a-Scene ATS with coordinating die.

The Spectrum Noir markers for the banner are:

I cut a top for the ornament out of Silver cardstock with the scallop die from the Build-a-Scene coordinating dies and adhered it to the back of the red ornament. The colored holly leaves are popped out with medium foam squares and placed at the top of the ornament. The Merry Christmas sentiment banner is popped out with small foam squares in the lower left portion of the ornament and the ornament is popped out with medium foam squares. Man, that’s a whole lot of poppin’ out going on.

The finished project is below:

Leave a comment and let me know how you used a messed up project to create a new project.

Spectrum Noir Alcohol markers and paper can be ordered from Consumer Crafts. Click the link below. Search “Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers”:

All Other Supplies (click on image to order):

Holly Bells Christmas Ornament

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Holly Bells Christmas Card – Celebrating a New Partnership

The FSJ + Spellbinders partnership launch is today! To celebrate this day, I created a Christmas card using the Zenspired Holidays, Holly Bells stamp and die set by Joanne Fink.

I began with a FSJ Butter Cream base and added a 5 1/4″ x 4″ FSJ Kiwi Slice mat to the base.

The gold embossed holly leaves mat took several steps. First, I cut a 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ watercolor paper mat and set it aside. Next, I placed my Gel Press onto my desk and applied FSJ Fresh Forest and Limeade Splash Liquid Colors to it. Tip: Apply more Limeade Splash for a more Christmas green color. Note: The pictured Gel Press with liquid color was created by cutting a full 8 1/2″ x 11″ Gel Press into fourths.

After spritzing the Gel Press and the watercolor mat generously with water from my media mister, I pressed the watercolor paper mat onto the Gel Press, lifting and reapplying until the entire mat was covered with color.

Before embossing with gold embossing powder, I made sure the colored mat was completely dry. To make sure the powder only stayed on the inked image, I applied anti-static powder over the entire mat and then stamped the holly leaves using FSJ Clear Pigment ink. Once I finished stamping, I applied the gold embossing powder and using my heat tool melted the powder creating shiny, gold holly leaves. The last step for this portion of the project was to cut the mat down to 5″ x 3 3/4″ using FSJ Trimmer.

For the sentiment, I gold embossed “Peace on Earth” stamped image from the Holiday Joy stamp set and die cut it with the coordinating Special Day Tags Die Set.

Tip: I used my MISTI to stamp the image four or five times to get a good inked impression.

This card definitely needed some ribbon. A 5 1/2″ length of Special Day White Organza Ribbon was placed across the mat and adhered to the back. The die cut sentiment was centered and adhered on top of the ribbon with medium foam squares. A double bow created from the ribbon is attached with a piece of gold thread and the finishing touch are the Sea Stones embellishments. And, of course, they sparkle just a little bit.

Here is the finished project. I hope this inspires you to create your own holly themed Christmas card.

Supplies Used For This Project (click on the banner above to order):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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