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Night Divine/Stars at Night Frames and Vintage Ornaments

Hi Stampers!

Hope everyone is doing well, and everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!

I’ve been busy crafting up a storm lately making a lot of different Christmas decorations using the Night Divine suite from Stampin’ Up! and vintage-style Christmas ornaments that I’ve found at local thrift stores.  Today I want to share my projects with you.

This first one is the nativity scene in a white 8″ x 8″ shadow box frame.  I used a piece of O Holy Night DSP for the background and cut out all the figures in the Night Divine dies using Basic White cardstock. The star is cut in basic white as well using the Stars at Night dies. I used a retired die for the hills.  Any one you might have would work if you want to recreate this scene, or you could just tear the paper and layer it to make hills.  If you are interested in either of these sets, you better order soon as they ARE retiring.

The next item is an expanded view of the nativity using the Stars at Night and Night Divine dies along with O Holy Night dsp.  The frame measures 18″ x 10″.  I confiscated it from my daughter awhile ago as she was moving and was going to throw it out.  It’s been sitting in my closet for quite some time and I thought it would be perfect to do this with it.  Of course I had to piece the background paper together, so I matched two sheets of the dsp as well as I could and then used tear and tape to stick them together.  The colors I used in this scene are Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Copper Clay and Pebbbled Path.  The palm branches and palm trees are from a retired set.

 

 

And finally, the last item I’ve been working on are these vintage-like Christmas ornaments, most which I found at local thrift stores.  The only ornament that is truly vintage is the red tree-top finial on the right.  It belonged to my grandparents and has been hidden away in a box of many of their vintage ornaments that I inherited.  I haven’t got the heart to do this with their ornaments, so thrift store ornaments work just fine.  The candle sticks are from the thrift store as well. The three tiered candelabra is definitely vintage and similar to a set that I inherited as well.     I can see me making more of these and displaying them year round on a mantle or a shelf.  I used E6000 glue to attach the ornaments to the candle sticks.

This is what I’ve done with the majority of my grandparents’ ornaments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was a short post, but I hope you enjoyed your visit.  If you have questions about any of these “creations” please feel free to email me and I will do my best to answer them.  Until next time…

Happy Stamping!

 

 

 

 

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Winter Cabin Paper Lantern

Hello Everyone!

Gee it has been awhile! As I mention in my video, I’m really not sure what I’ve been keeping busy with, but I’ve been keeping busy with everything EXCEPT stamping! I spent some time traveling to Northern Colorado to visit my daughter and grand-daughter in May. I also spent a few weeks in May having my kitchen cabinets re-painted.  What a mess that was, since I had to totally empty them and I had stuff EVERYWHERE!!  Then in June we traveled to my hometown, Struthers, Ohio, to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday with close family. Since we’ve been back I’ve been busy, but if I had to tell you EXACTLY what I’ve been busy with, I would not be able to say.

I have managed to get into my craft room to complete a few crafts, mostly other than stamping. THIS one is my most recent stamp project which doesn’t really involve stamping at all. I really like these Cabin Dies and the Peaceful Cabin stamp set.

I’ve always had a fascination with paper lanterns especially after seeing some of the really cool ones when I browse Pintrist.   I made my grand-daughter a paper lantern hot air balloon basket for Easter…that was in April.  It turned out really cute.  You can find those on Pintrist as well.  I purchased that paper lantern at a local craft store…it was round.  But as I was browsing Pintrist,  I quickly realized that I need one of those fancy paper crafting machines where you buy programs to print out the patterns for all of  the lanterns similar to this one.  So….I decided to create my own pattern that can be printed out on a regular computer printer, hand traced onto a piece of card stock and then cut out.

This is the pattern I developed.  I have a link to a printable pdf that I am willing to share, but please keep in mind, I am only able to do this after you place an order in my Stampin’ Up! online store.  The video I share is very long to watch (about 38 minutes) as this is NOT a quick project.   I did manage to cut the video down from 60 minutes.  🙂

 

 

DISCLAIMER:  THIS LANTERN IS MADE TOTALLY OUT OF PAPER and ONLY AN ELECTRIC CANDLE (battery run) SHOULD BE USED.

(Unfortunately, I felt the disclaimer was necessary!)

Here is a list of measurements for the card stock.  You will need…

  1.  Night of Navy card stock—4 pieces that measure 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2 “, 4 pieces that measure 3-3/4″ x 4-3/4″, 1 piece that measures 1″ x 6″, 1 piece that measures 4″ x 4″ with score marks at the 1″ mark on all 4 sides to make the electric candle stand, and 1 piece that measure 8′ x 2”.  The 8″ x 2″ piece should be scored with the long edge at the top of your score tool at 1-7/8″, 3-3/4″, 5-5/8″, and 7-1/2″  You also need a piece of scrap Night of Navy

      2.  Vellum card stock—4 pieces that measure 1-7/8″ x 1-7/8″ and 4 pieces that measure 4-3/4″ x 4-3/4″

Other items you will need in assembling this lantern are  a ruler and pencil.  You will also need an electronic candle.

Now…get yourself your favorite drink and sit back and enjoy the video.  As I mention in the video, I had a few stops and starts during the entire process.  You would think at this point I would have learned to make sure the camera battery is charged and I have a big enough memory chip inserted into the camera.  What can I say?!

 

 

 

Until next time!  Happy Stamping!

 

 

 

 
 

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Dandelion Shadow Box Card (also Blossoms in Bloom)

Hi Stampers!

Hope you are all doing well and staying healthy!  There is nothing new here to report other than the gym has opened back up and I went there four times since last week.  I wonder everyday I set foot in there if I am doing the right thing by going.  I don’t want to catch any of this virus stuff!  They are running at I think less than 1/2 capacity.  We have to make a reservation for any class we want to attend and can only make it up to 48 hours in advance.  We are also only allowed 1 hour per visit per day.

My husband and I went out to eat for the first time since February last Friday.  We went to a restaurant where we could eat outside on purpose.  There was definitely MORE than 6 feet of space between the tables, so I felt very safe.  Each time the waitress came to the table we wore our masks.  Trying to be safe and still enjoy life a little.

I’ve been a stamping fool lately.  There isn’t much else to do other than clean and if you put cleaning and stamping in front of me, stamping will win every time. 🙂

 

As I mention in the video, I started out wanting to make a shadow box card. My initial thought was to use the Blossoms in Bloom stamp set and Many Layered Blossoms dies, but I ended up creating a shadow box card out of one of my monthly club cards.  For the card I am featuring today,  I used the Sweet Silhouettes Dies, Subtle 3D Embossing Folder and Dandelions 3D Embossing Folder along with a sentiment and image from Dandelion Wishes stamp set. I love dandelions and I think the embossing folder and stamp set go very well together.   I will give you the dimensions of the card stock pieces and colors used for the two initial cards I was going to make.  The video will give you all the information you will need for the Dandelion Shadow Box card.  The first supply list at the end of the post contains all the things you will need to create the Dandelion card.  The second supply list will be preceded by the card stock dimensions for the other two cards.

If you watch the video, you will notice I didn’t decorate the inside front cover of the card.  This is a photo of how I decided to quickly cover up that seam the card base creates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Enjoy the video!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what you need for the dandelion card.

Dimensions for the Blossoms in Bloom cards are as follows:
  • For card base you need two pieces of the same color card stock that measure 5 1/2″ x 11″, and 5 1/2″ x 4″
  • Inside the card you need two pieces of the same color that measure 5 1/4″ x 3 1/4″
  • Front of the card you need 2 pieces of the same color.  One piece is 2 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ and one piece that measures 4 3/4″ x 3 3/8″
  • Also on the front a piece of Whisper White 2 3/4″ x 4″
This is what you need for the other two cards.

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