Deck the Halls with Glitter Balls!

Nothing says Merry Christmas like glitter balls right?!? Last year, I made glitter ball ornaments for each of my stamp camp gals using their favorite Stampin' Up! colors. This year I had a handful of requests for wanting to know how to make the glitter balls themselves. So, for the December Stamp Camp, one of our projects will be glitter ball ornaments.

I'll have a couple of different colors of reinkers for my gals to choose from (or they can bring their favorite color reinker from home) and we'll be using gold and silver glitter. The glitter ball in the picture was made using 15 drops of Glorious Green reinker and gold craft glitter. If you switch to silver craft glitter, the same Glorious Green will come out looking totally different. These ornaments are especially pretty when the lights of the Christmas tree are shining behind them!!!

December Stamp Camp

The December Stamp Camps start this week, so I figured it was time to show you a couple of the projects we'll be doing! Here is a paper bow created from one piece of 6"x12" double sided patterned paper. I have a ton of patterned paper scraps, so each person will get to choose what their paper bow will look like. This project is super easy and its a great way to coordinate your gift packaging with tags and cards!

Check out www.splitcoaststampers.com for the directions on creating paper bows.

A Chocolate Chip Christmas

The pressure is on...with only a handful of my Christmas cards actually complete, I need to finish atleast 10 a day to get them out by the middle of the month! I buckled down today and finished 10 of this design. Whew! 10 down, 110 more to go!

Last month, I ordered some of the Shimmery White cardstock and Shimmer White envelopes and let me just say they are super-shimmery in person. Unfortunately, the camera doesn't do the shimmer justice! I used my Coluzzle to cut an oval out of copy paper and used it to reverse mask the image on to the Shimmery White cardstock. I stamped the tree-scape from Lovely As A Tree in Chocolate Chip and then sponged River Rock and Blue Bayou for the background. The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Chip and I used some of the GORGEOUS Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon (which is on sale right now!!) to dress it up a bit. This one got a thumbs up from the hubby - he really liked the color combo!