A few more Christmas cards I made with The Sounding Joy and Come to Bethlehem.   Love Christmas!

Hope you have a very Merry Christmas,
Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Elegant Music Christmas Cards

Made these two cards for our Pastor and our Music Minister.   Thought they were pretty.  I used some retired Stampin' Up! Christmas Designer Series Paper.  The stamp set is The Sounding Joy.

Have a wonderul holiday season,
Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Ornaments Scrapbook Page

Ornaments Scrapbook Page

My hubby and I are on a little getaway to the beach.  We have been blessed with nice weather.  Supposed to be 72 today!  Yahoo!  Sadly our vacation ends today, tomorrow it is back home.

I made this scrapbook page on My Digital Studio yesterday while we were chilling.  I used the Christmas Jingle Designer Album kit, but added the Christmas tree in Whisper White from the Christmas Lodge brush (stamp) set. 

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Hope you have a wonderful day,

Tammy

Tarheel Stamper Snowflake Trio

Here are three quick and easy cards.   I heat embossed the swirly image from Wedding Sweet in Whisper White.  I wanted it to look like a wind swirl and had this image on hand.   All of the Designer Series Paper is from the Frostwood Lodge pack available in the Holiday Mini catalog.  Punched three snowflakes with the, you guessed it, Snowflake punch.  A Basic Rhinestone is adhered to the center of the snowflakes.  I used the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border and Scallop Edge Border punches for the bottom edging.  Card stock colors are Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler.  Ink used are  Versamark and Cherry Cobbler.   These would be easy to mass produce.  I saw something similar on another blog, but I cannot find the paper.  Tomorrow I will be sharing a small turkey I made.  Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Have a great day,
Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Card

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This is such a fun card.  I saw a Rudolph made with the Stocking builder punch and it was so cute so I wanted to make one with the Sizzix Bigz Holiday Stocking die.  The photo with the pieces I used does not show Rudolph's smile.  To make the smile, I punched a circle out of Chocolate Chip and then positioned the circle punch over the punched out area a little off that to get the smile.  I used the Snowburst embossing folder on Rudolph.   The Signo white gel pen is great for adding highlights to the nose and eye.  The "antlers" are from the Snowflake #2 Bigz Die. The holly leaves were cut from the Stocking Accents die. The jingle bell is available in the Holiday Mini Catalog and is tied on with Cherry Cobbler baker's twine.  Colors used are Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Garden Green.  Hope you enjoy seeing the card and making one too!

Have a great day!
Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper



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 Another Christmas card I mailed to my Monday Mailers partner.  If you are a NC demo, this is such a great group.  We share business tips, ask questions of each other, and they plan quarterlies.  I have not been able to go to one, but I hear they are a blast.  It is a great group of stampers and I have learned a lot through this Yahoo group! 

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On to the card.  I used my lonely Lattice Sizzix die on this one.  Colors are Real Red, Garden Green, and Whisper White.  I used the Blossoms Petal Builder punch for the poinsettia and ran it through the Big Shot inside the Northern Flurry embossing folder. The Tasteful Trim XL Garden Green piece was run through the Big Shot with the Holiday Mini's Snowburst Embossing Folder.  The Merry Christmas is from Teeny Tiny Wishes punched out with the Word Window punch and layered on a Real Red piece punched out with the Modern Label punch.  Rhinestones are on the ends of this.  Below is a photo of the pieces I used to make the poinsettia.  It is the smaller petal on the punch.  I glued two layers of 7 petals on the 3/4" circle and then added the small rhinestones on the center of the flower after I ran it through the embossing folder.

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Hope you have a wonderful day,
Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

NC DEMOS HOLIDAY BLOG HOP

Welcome to our NC Demos Holiday Blog Hop.  I know that you have seen some awesome holiday projects.  You probably came from Tiffany's blog Make Life Creative.  I hope you enjoy your stay on my blog.  Please come back and visit often.  Next stop is the talented Ariel's blog Be Creative!

I am highlighting a stamp set available in Holiday Mini catalog named The Sounding Joy.  You can click on the photos to get a larger view of them.  A supply list is included at the bottom. I made a Fancy Favor box, a Christmas card, and a Christmas ornament. 

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Blog candy is The Sounding Joy clear mount stamp set.  Good luck! To enter please leave a comment and your email address in the comment.  I will use random.org to select the winner.  You have to live in the USA for me to have it mailed to you straight from Stampin' Up!  Of course, I love comments so if you cannot or do not want to enter the contest, I would love to read your comments.

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Hope you have enjoyed the projects I have made.  The were a lot of fun to make!  Thanks for stopping by.  Remember to enter to win the blog candy.  Details above.  Click on links below to continue your tour. Supplies lists at end of post.  

Have a wonderful day!






http://becreativewithariel.blogspot.com/

      



http://makelifecreative.blogspot.com/

Supplies used:

The Sounding Joy Clear Mount Stamp Set
Elegant Eggplant, River Rock, and Very Vanilla card stock.  Subtles Collection Designer Series Paper
Elegant Eggplant Classic and Craft Ink.  Sahara Sand Classic Ink.
Clear Embossing Powder
3/8" Very Vanilla Velvet Stitched Ribbon
Pinking Hearts Border Punch
Stars #2 Sizzix Die
Fancy Favor Bigz XL Die

  

Tarheel Stamper - Snowflake Trio



Snowflake Trio

Photographed in natural light

Photographed with flash



 Largest is about 15 inches in diameter



I saw a magazine with snowflakes made of wooden craft sticks and wood shapes and loved them so I made some.  One hint they had was to draw intersecting lines on a scrap paper and then use that to build your snowflake.  It makes it easier to glue them together correctly.  I used lots of glitter, but it was hard to photograph.  I stamped the trio of snowflakes in Serene Snowflakes on a glue pad and then sprinkled glitter on top of that.  They are so pretty hanging in the window.  These are hard to photograph.  The diameter of the largest is 15 inches.  I spray painted them white.  There is a plastic ring hot glued to the back to hang them from on some pretty ribbon.  Hope you have a wonderful day!  Let it snow...let it snow....let it snow...somewhere else today.  LOL We are visiting Brattonsville Plantation to see their Christmas event.  I love Christmas and attending local Christmas events.  Check out your local calendars and see what is available near you!  Have fun with your family and of course stamp something!  LOL

Happy Stampin',

Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Snowman Klenex Box

This is not 100% Stampin' Up!  I saw this Justrite stamp set at a local scrapbook store and love the snowman. I picked up the snow stuff at the store.  I heat embossed the stamped images with black and silver embossing powder.  Then I took bleach and brushed it inside the embossed area on the ones I colored with markers.  I used an online tutorial for the Kleenex box cover.  I love how it turned out.  Card stock, inks, embossing folders, accessories are Stampin' Up!  You can click on the photos for a larger view.

Have a wonderful day!

Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Christmas Poinsettia Card

Another card we made at Saturday's stamp camp.  I love the vintage feel of this card.  I printed the poinsettia image from My Digital Studio.  I did stamp the ladies' image though.  Colored with Cherry Cobbler (my favorite red) and Always Artichoke reinkers, and used a Daffodil Delight marker for the center. The Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper is so pretty.  Used the Vintage Wallpaper

Texture embossing folder for the Always Artichoke card base.  Merry Christmas came from the Come to Bethlehem stamp set and is stamped in Always Artichoke and punched with the Modern Label punch.  I have a pdf here.

Have a wonderful day,

Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Christmas Collage Card

I love this card.  I cased a card on Robin Merriman's blog and just fell in love with it.  I have a pdf here with instructions.  Embossing is a great technique and I love how you can use Classic Ink and still emboss with it.  If you ink up the stamp with Versamark first, then sponge on a Classic Ink color as I did with this card, you can heat emboss with clear powder and get whatever color of ink you have embossed!  I love that technique.  I like the vintage feel of this card.  The new seam binding (Cherry Cobbler)  is so pretty and easy to work with.  I can't believe how long it has been since I posted, but I was busy cutting pieces and preparing for my Christmas Stamp Camp tomorrow.  We will be making this card tomorrow.

Hope you have a great weekend.
Happy Stampin',
Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Royal Blog Tour Christmas Tag Box

Christmas Rose Tag Box

Hope you thoroughly enjoyed your stay at the Royal Blog Tour castles during the blog tour.  A lot of work goes into the tour behind the scene and I appreciate all the time and effort put into it.

Now on to some instructions for the Christmas Tag Box and some more tags. 

I found the tutorial for the Christmas Tag Box from the super talented Becky Jensen of Stamp That.  You can see her tutorial here. 

I changed my box lid a little.  I made one lid per her instructions from card stock.  Then I laid it down flat on top of my cutting mat without cutting or taping the lid.  It was scored so I could see where the sides of the box lid were.  I cut out a square using a ruler and straight edge.  I measured in 3/4" from the score lines to cut the center out.  That was a 5 1/2" square cut out of the center of the box lid.  I cut a 6 inch square from Thick Window Sheet to glue under the box lid.  I stamped the flower image from Delightful Decorations on the window sheet in Stazon Opaque White.  You have to be careful not to slide the stamp around once you stamp.  I stamped on the box lid in the same ink.  Assemble the box lid as the tutorial instructs.  I cut a length of ribbon and adhered it underneath the bottom of the lid.  That way you don't have to untie it to open the box.  

One other thing I did differently was to glue the inserts to the side of the box with Tombow Multi-purpose glue.  I just held the side of the box to the insert for a few seconds until it stayed together.  

To make the raised platform under the folded punched ornament tags, I cut a 4 1/2" square and scored at 1/2" in from each edge.  Follow instructions on tutorial.  

Come back tomorrow for some more tag photos and following that more photos and directions for some of the ornaments. 

Have a great day,

Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

To purchase supplies used in this and other projects on my blog visit http://www.tammyhowell.stampinup.net/

 

ROYAL BLOG TOUR - Hear Ye Hear Ye! Christmas Time is Coming!

 

Welcome most honored guest to my stampin' castle on the Royal Blog Tour!
I am pleased that you have stopped by for a visit on your journey today. 

Hope you enjoy your royal stay at my stop on the Royal Blog Fall Tour.  I am sure you have seen some wonderful castles and they have treated you royally.

For my featured stamp set, I used Delightful Decorations.  I love that Stampin' Up! has a coordinating punch to quickly cut out the images.  Also the 3/4" circle punch, cuts the small images neatly.  And I am giving away one of Delightful Decorations stamp set of royal blog candy to one honored participant!  Details about entering are at the end of this post.

I decided to make 3D ornaments and also Christmas Tags in a box.  I live in two states because of my husband's job and wanted a tree to have during the days we are in our rental home.  What is better than making the ornaments myself and using Stampin' Up!'s wonderful products?  I love Christmas and decorating with Stampin' Up! paper crafts.

My first project is a Christmas Tag box. 

I made the center of the  box lid with a thick window sheet stamped with Opaque White Stazon ink.  The outside of the box lid is also stamped with Opaque White Stazon ink. Card stock used is Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Jolly Holiday Designer Series Paper, and thick window sheets. Inside are 3" x 3" gift enclosure tags, folded punched ornament tags, and single sided ornament tags to tie on or include inside gifts.  The ribbon is the gorgeous seam binding in the Holiday Mini catalog.  I will have a tutorial for the Christmas rose on top of the box after the tour.  I used some of these to decorate my tree.  Subscribe to my blog or check back after the tour is over for more information.

 Inside view of the box.

Close up of some of the 3 x 3 note cards.  I will have more photos in the coming days.

Next I will show you some of the ornaments I made.  I will have more photos and instructions in the coming days of some of the other ones I made.  

This ornament has basic rhinestones on it.  We all need a little bling in our life!

The following ornament was coated with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  It is so shiny like a crown!

Threaded a pearl bead on top of this ornament.  Jewels are a standard part of a princess's wardrobe!



 Now on to the blog candy.  You must email me your name and email address to tarheelstamperblogcandy@gmail.com to enter to win the stamp set Delightful Decorations.  I will use a random number generator to pick the winner.  Emails will be numbered in the order they are received.

I will contact the winner at the email address listed in their email to me.  You will not be entered to win the blog candy unless you email me at tarheelstamperblogcandy@gmail.com  You can go the Royal Blog Tour homepage after the Blog Tour is over to see the names of all the winners. 

Also I appreciate comments and the time you take to leave them!  I know that taking a blog tour is an undertaking and appreciate your comments! 

And now I must bid you, "Fare thee well"!  I know you will enjoy the rest of the wonderfully talented queen and princess stampers residing in the gorgeous castles on this tour!  Come back and see me sometime.  I love guests!

Tarheel Stamper - FTL114 Floating Snowflakes Cards

Floating Snowflakes Cards




My watermark on my photo should say card stamped by Tammy Howell not designed.  Sorry about that.

 




 

I cased this card for this challenge.  I love the simplicity of Clean and Simple cards, but rarely make them.  I find one layer cards difficult to make.  These two cards I made are the same except for the colors.

I used the CAS Challenge sketch pictured in yesterday's post here.

Card Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Come to Bethlehem, Serene Snowflakes

Card Stock - Pacific Point, Marina Mist

Ink - Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Versamark

Accessories - White and clear embossing powder