Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon – A Stamping Journey

Did you catch the video in yesterday’s post with the swaps I received from Onstage? If not, head back to the last post. I have the still photos there too.

Today I wanted to share with you my buddy gifts and the swaps I made to share.

BUDDY GIFT PACKS

I made up little Gift Packs – or Onstage survival kits. 😉 I made up 4 of them.

These packs contained a notebook. I loved these notebooks. Two had on the front “Don’t Forget To Be Awesome” and the other two were “My Awesome Book of Brilliant Ideas”. I thought these would be great to write notes in at the Onstage sessions. In the packs there was some mini Tic Tacs, Tea Bag, Kit Kat Chocolate and of course Mini Post-It notes for the new catalogues. I will show you a close up of the tags I made.

THE TAGS

A scallop square was cut with the Layering Square Framelits and also a larger black square. On the white card I stamped the sentiment from the Around The Corner stamp set. Then stamped the small “flowery” centre shape on to Mango Melody Card and punched it out with the 3/4″ circle punch. Then I diecut a flower in Mango Melody Card from the Flourish Thinlits and layered them together. Before adhering the flower to the card with Dimensionals I stamped the leaf from the Around The Corner set in Granny Apple Green. The Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon was adhered between the white scallop square card and the black card. They are simple but I loved how they turned out.

MY SWAP

I didn’t have a lot of time to make swaps but I really wanted to and I knew I wasn’t going to have a lot of time to swap on the Saturday as I was helping with registration in the morning. So I kept the card simple and only ended up making 15 of them.

This was my swap card.

I have used the Rooted in Nature Bundle. The tree and the leaf were heat embossed in Copper and diecut out. The sentiment is from Wood Words stamp set. I wanted to go for an angle look so angled the paper from the Love What You Do Specialty Paper. Underneath the paper there was a strip of the Copper Foil Paper. To finish I tied a knot using the Copper Trim.

Now since I hadn’t made many swaps I had a few doubles of cards from recent classes so thought I would add those to the swap mix. These are the group of cards. I had 2-3 of each card. These were received well too.

Thanks everyone for swapping with me. I hope you liked your card you received from me.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU CARD

Earlier I mentioned that I was helping on the Saturday. This was the special card I received from Stampin’ Up! to say Thanks. Totally unexpected. It was signed by all the staff that were there. How lovely.

This uses the Tropical Escape Designer Series Paper.

Thanks for visiting me. I hope you like them.

Tomorrow is another 12 Weeks of Christmas Edition so see you then.

Jenny

I have another card using the Detailed Deer Thinlits. This card was another from out Shoebox Swap in our Team Stamp Day a few weeks ago.

This card was created and shared to us by Vanessa Webb. Isn’t it an elegant one??

The sentiment is from the Merry Christmas To All Bundle. What about those Galvanised Buttons? They have a country/rustic feel. The red trim on his neck is from the Suite Season Specialty Washi Tape.

I haven’t paid too much attention to the Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon which you can find on page 49 of the Holiday Catalogue. We don’t create for Halloween or Thanksgiving here so we tend not to focus on the later half of the catalogue. This ribbon is really lovely though. It is so soft – and very sparkly. It works well for an elegant Christmas card too. I may have actually bought some since making this card. It is one of the ribbons in my Ribbon Share too. I just had to add it. (You can head back a few posts to see about that or you can email me to join in at jghayward@yahoo.com)

The background on this card is Merry Merlot cardstock that has been embossed with the Tin Tile Embossing Folder. I rubbed over the card very lightly with some White Shimmer Paint with a Sponge Dauber. It is just a subtle effect. A scalloped Vellum Oval was adhered under the Reindeer too to finish.

Hope you like it. Thanks for visiting me. I have people from all over the world visiting me here. It’s so lovely that the internet can join us together in our love of crafting. Why not say Hello in a comment and let me know where you are visiting from.

Jenny