December Creation Station Blog Hop--Anything but a Card!

 

Good Morning, Stampers and Paper Crafters, or good whatever the time of day you've arrived at my blog!  This is the first Sunday of the month which means its time for the Creation Station design team monthly hop.  So glad you've joined us today!

Our theme this month is Anything But a Card, so you will see lots of different projects.  Enjoy all the inspiration we have for you today by clicking on the "Next" link at the close of each post until you've returned to where you started this hop.  Don't know what the other team members have in store for you today, but I am sharing some holiday decor pieces I'm sending out as Christmas gifts to family and friends. I have two different style banners and a little ornament for you:

For each of these I used the Peaceful Place specialty designer series paper (#156394) and the Silver Foil specialty pack (#156457).

For both of my banners, I made rosettes out of the designer series paper and letters from the Playful Alphabet dies (#152706).  For my Peace Banner, I die cut the letters and the large Tasteful Labels die (#152886) out of the darkest silver foil piece. The label in the center of the rosettes is from the Pretty Pillow Box dies (#156321) and was die cut out of the lightest silver foil. The banner pieces were strung on a piece of Black & White 1/4" gingham ribbon (#156485).

I used the Layering circle dies (#151770) and another label die from the Tasteful Labels dies on my Joy banner.  I picked out some of the shimmery paper designs  out of the designer series paper pack and the lightest Silver foil for this banner.  The letters were die cut using Black glitter paper (#153518).  Both the foil for the letters on the Peace Banner and the glitter paper on this banner were mounted on Adhesive Sheets (#152334) before they were die cut.  I adhered the Black Glittered Organdy (#147897) to the back of the foil scalloped circles with glue dots to keep it in place as I placed Smoky Slate card stock circles over the backs of the foil circles using a hot glue gun.

I used the medium range foil for this ornament, eliminated the rosette and added a Wonderful Snowflake (#156340) using the iridescent side.  The Merry Christmas words were die cut using the Word Wishes dies (#149629), once out of the foil and three times out of Basic Black card stock to stack behind the foil and raise the words off the snowflake background.  Both the White Glittered Organdy ribbon tied in a bow at the top of the ornament and the Opal Rounds (#154289) added to the front also have an iridescent look.  A bit of silver Simply Elegant Trim (#155766)  was threaded into the back of the ribbon to create a hanger for the ornament. 

Hope I've given you a bit of inspiration for your own Christmas decor or for last minute gifts!

Now, I have the pleasure of introducing our newest design team member,  Barb Pfeffer at justBstamping.  I love her creations, am so happy she has joined us and am excited to see what she is going to share with us today.  Just click on her link below to hop over to her blog:

To Barb's blog . . .
 

Have a Wonderful and Blessed Christmas season.

--Sara Nell

  

 

 

Peaceful Season--#tgifc330

Sometimes all you need to make a beautiful card is a beautiful piece of designer series paper and a greeting.  My idea for this project was to add two stamped and die cut images and maybe some sequins or silver cord.  It was just too much. I wanted a peaceful feeling and that came from the paper and greeting alone.  So  I put away the extra "stuff":

The card is a 5-3/4" square with a Smoky Slate card base and a piece of designer series paper from the Peaceful Place collection (#156394).  The greeting is from the Peaceful Cabin stamp set (#156395).  It was stamped in Basic Gray directly on the paper using my Stamparatus (#146276).  This large card needed it's own handmade envelope created with white paper and a strip of another pattern from the Peaceful Place paper collection.

This card was made for this week's Inspiration Challenge from TGIF Challenges.  The inspiration is the July to December 2021 Mini Catalog.  If you need some inspiration for your recent Stampin' Up! purchases from this catalog, checkout the TGIF Challenges blog here.

Have a great week!

--Sara Nell 

Enjoy Peace--#tgifc326

This week our challenge from the TGIF Challenges team is to create a decorated envelope.  I came into my stamping room with a pretty floral covered envelope in mind but that's not what happened.  I pulled out my Peaceful Place designer series paper pack (#156394, available beginning August 3), turned on my Brandon Lake gospel album, House of Miracles, and created in the peace of His presence.  

I created the 6-1/2" x 4" envelope out of one of the paper patterns in Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic Black and Silver.  I used a long retired envelope template with a rounded flap on one end.  The envelope was wrapped in silver Metallic Mesh ribbon (# 153550) which holds the flap on the back of the envelope closed.  

The greeting is from the Peaceful Cabin stamp set (#156395, available beginning August 3).  It was stamped in Versamark on Basic Gray card stock, heat embossed with Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder (Metallics set, #155555), and then die cut using a Tasteful Labels die (#152886).  

The envelope is decorated with Pearl Basic Jewels (#144219) and Wonderful Snowflakes (#156340, available beginning August  3).  This envelope will be used for a gift card and note during the Christmas holidays. I'll be making more of them!

If you want to up your envelope game, head over to the TGIF Challenges Blog here for lots of inspiration.

May you find and enjoy peace today!

--Sara Nell