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Christmas Blessings to You!

I wish for each of you, my friends,

a beautiful day filled with God's Love and Blessings,

Merry Christmas!

I wish you could have heard the gorgeous singing of the Sunday School Children at our church on Sunday.. it was just beautful!

Thank you God for sending us the best gift ever!

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

beautiful card from Janet Anderson

Our family tradition when I was young was always to attend the service at our Lutheran Church on Christmas eve (my brother and I always had a part in that) and then to open gifts at our home that evening.  On Christmas day we'd wake to see what Santa had left us, then travel to my aunt and uncles or my grandparents for Christmas dinner, fun times with cousins, and exchanging gifts. 

My husband's family always did all the celebrating on Christmas day after church (my father in law is a Lutheran minister).  We've blended that in our home and we attend Chrsitmas Eve service then open a few gifts and then exchange gifts on Christmas as well.  This year we are not travelling anywhere, but staying home and trying something brand new.. we are going to see Les Miserables in the theater today!!  I can't tell you how excited I am.. we have seen the production on stage about 7 or 8 times in the San Francisco bay area and it is by far my favorite musical ever!

What are YOUR family Christmas traditions?

Are you doing anything new this year?

Blessings from the Bennett home to yours,

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Merry Christmas from the Bennett Family

 

From Our Home to Yours,

Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas card this year, created with My Digital Studio

 

 

For those who wanted the "recipe" of downloads used in our My Digital Studio card this year:

Page 1 Supply List

Embellishments
   127431 Designer Kits\Tickets & Tags - embellishments\Tickets & Tags - label 10

Stamps
    131320 Designer Kits/Make A Mitten/Make A Mitten
    128895 Gift Labels\Gift Labels - merry christmas, Color = VERY VANILLA
    127579 Designer Kits\Merry & Bright Days\Merry & Bright Days - merry & bright

Punches
    118853 Basics\1.25 Square Punch
 
Page 2 Supply List

Embellishments
    127431 Designer Kits\Tickets & Tags - embellishments\Tickets & Tags - label 9
    127212 Designer Kits\Fan Fair - embellishments\Fan Fair - frame 10
    130978 Designer Kits\More Candid Frames\More Candid Frames - film 2

Stamps
    131320 Designer Kits/Make A Mitten/Make A Mitten
    128899 Punny Holidays\Punny Holidays - wishing you a warm
    119102 Winter Post\Winter Post - santa post

Punches
    118853 Basics\1.25 Square Punch

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Wishing you warmest greetings

this Christmas...

 

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Need a quick and easy last minute Christmas Card for a friend, co-worker, mail carrier, neighbor, etc.?   Here it is:

Cut 1" wide strips of Designer Paper (great way to use up scraps) and cut them into banner shapes, and adhere them to a notecard.  Add a greeting and some ribbon, and voila.. done!

Stampin' Up! Supplies you'll need for this quick card:

• Festival of Prints DSP pack #126904
• Notecards & Envelopes, pg 160 #107311
• Sweater Trim, #129939, #127838, #129937
• Cherry Cobbler Tulle #127841
• Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon #120992

Wishing you a peaceful holiday... blessings to you as you finish your Christmas preparations and spend time with family and friends.

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I've been blogging about our Luv 2 Stamp Group Christmas Gift Exchange earlier this month.. and today I'm so excited to share the last segment of our evening together.  You can see other posts from this event with my downline here.

This darling apron and gorgeous plates were made by Lorena, and Cindee got this lovely gift. Lorena used Mod Podge to apply Stampin' Up! Candlelight Christmas fabric (#126905, pg 4 Holiday Catalog) to the back of large clear glass plates.  These are just STUNNING!!

I received this stunning bracelet made by Ellen... it is so pretty and features NEW Designer Paper coming up in the Spring catalog!!

Lorena was the recipient of these fabulous wreaths made by Laura.. they are wrapped with Candlelight Christmas fabric!

Sharon received lovely cocktail napkins made by Carrie. Carrie is a great seamstress and used Comfort Cafe fabric for these treasures.  (item #126894, pg 171 Stampin' Up! Catalog).

And lastly, (but not leastly) :) Joy received this amazing set of drawers decorated by Sharon.. I just love this technique.. Sharon shared it at our October meeting and i will be blogging about this technique soon!

 

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Quick and Easy Neighbor Gift idea for Christmas!

 I wanted to give a little gift to each of my downline attending our Luv 2 Stamp Group Christmas party earlier this month, and I also made these for some neighbors.. it''s a great, easy and quick gift for the Christmas season!

I bought the containers in the Dollar Spot at a local big box store, and filled them with hot cocoa packets, peppermint marshmallows, Hershey kisses, and decorated them with Stampin' Up! Sweater Trim (#129939, #127838, #129937), a candy cane, and tags made with the Snow Festival tags (#128152) and printed images in My Digital Studio.

I used these punches: Curly Label (#119851), 2-1/2" circle (#120906), 2-3/8" scallop circle (#118874) and 1-3/4" scallop circle #119854

Need a quick and easy gift? Give these a try!

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One of my favorite recent classes was our Stampin' Up! Punch Art card class.

I got some great ideas from Jackie Topa, and this snowglobe idea was one of them.

 Here is what you'll need......

 2-1/2" Circle punch #120906

Ticket Duo punch #126883

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch #119275

Merry Mini's Punch Pack #126882

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I am reposting this cute idea... I originally blogged it 2 years ago but thought it was worth re-blogging since this is the time of year to give Gift Cards!

NOTE: Deck the Halls fabric is only 99 cents on the clearance rack! Can't beat that!

GIFT CARD HOLDER REPOST

I got this cute GIFT CARD HOLDER idea from Connie Stewart at our Founder's Circle trip last September... I LOVE this cute little gift card holder!!  I redid the measurements slightly to get more out of 1 sheet than the original design.. the dimensions I used are all listed below.

 
You'll notice I've made a little tie around them with the DECK THE HALLS FABRIC from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini catalog... soooo cute!!

 Below:  OPEN and CLOSED

 

Dimensions I used:

 

Order now to get your supplies in time to make these for Christmas:

• Deck the Halls Fabric, #121716
• Cherry Cobbler cardstock, #119685
• Always Artichoke cardstock, #105119
• Very Vanilla cardstock, #101650
• Cherry Cobbler ink, #119669
• Tags Til Christmas set, #120847 or 121169
• Decorative Label Punch, #120907
• Oval punch, #120908
• Linen Thread, #104199

 

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Thanks to the Punch Art creative genious of Jackie Topa, I used some of her ideas and came up with this great 4x4 card for a recent Punch Art Class. 

I hope you like it... see below for punch pieces and supplies used.

did you notice the gold marker applied to the tips of the Summer Starfruit Dalhia?

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Last Friday night about a dozen of my Luv 2 Stamp Group demonstrators got together to celebrate the holidays with dinner, a gift exchange and we made a very special project led by Cindee Wilkinson.
I wanted to share the amazing hand made gifts we exchanged.

I'll share a few each day.

We bring our gifts in a brown shopping bag and set them on a table, then we go around in a circle and each person selects one bag, and opens it. (no we do not steal gifts once opened).

Gina received beautiful handmade ornaments from Carol:

and Laura loved her paper angels from Joy!

The angels are similar to THESE ANGELS that I blogged previously, but Joy put one angel on a pretty sparkly ornament and the other angel on a battery operated tea light.. so cute!

Laura's husband, Jeff, came for dinner (as did my hubby and son)... aren't they the cutest couple!?

 Carrie received a super cute paper cupcake with a Starbucks card inside! And a cute candy kisses tree both made by Cindee.

and Carol received this amazing fabric garland made from strips of the Candlelight Christmas fabric, pg 4 in the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog, #126905. Cut strips approx. 1" x 6-1/2' and tie them onto a strand of lights!!  This garland was about 6' long and took 2 packs of fabric and 1 pack of Early Espresso Tulle ribbon.  It's on a battery operated strand of lights, but you could also use regular lights.

check back again.. i'll be sharing MORE gift projects!

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Scentsational Season Framed Art Christmas craft

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December Customer Thank You Gift

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At our Luv 2 Stamp Group Holiday party on Friday night, Cindee Wilkinson taught us how to make this ADORABLE Christmas Framed Art Craft, featuring the Scentsational Season stamp set and matching set of framelit dies from Stampin' Up!

Scentsational Season stamp set, pg 16 Holiday catalog, #121026

matching framelit dies #127814 or bundle #129945

Thank you, Cindee.. you are the BEST!

Ellen (the BIRTHDAY GIRL!) working hard on her project:

Sharon and Joy ... um... working hard??

Carrie, Gina and Rosie working on die cutting and texture embossing

Carol working on her framed art

Ta da... the finished project!

The frame is about 7" x 14" and is the same one I used for my square swap, available for $3 at Walmart!

a COUPLE CLOSE UPS for your viewing pleasure :)

 

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On Friday night about a dozen of my Luv 2 Stamp Group demonstrators got together to celebrate the holidays with dinner, a gift exchange and we made a very special project led by Cindee Wilkinson.
I wanted to share the amazing hand made gifts we exchanged.

I'll share a few each day and I'll share our special project, too.

We bring our gifts in a brown shopping bag and set them on a table, then we go around in a circle and each person selects one bag, and opens it. (no we do not steal gifts once opened).

Ellen received an AMAAAAZING wreath created by Rosie.

(Left: Rosie, Right: Ellen)

Rosie used the large 3-1/2" Circle Big Shot die (pg 193, #121811) to cut about 200 white paper circles, then she cut them in a spiral and spiraled them into little paper flower cones and hot glued them to a styrofoam wreath. This wreath is just STUNNING!

Below:

Rose selected the bag with my gift, which i blogged about yesterday here.

check back for more gifts throughout this week!

 

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Congrats to Billie T. of Kissimmee FL who won the Christmas Card Kit Giveaway last week!!

If you'd like to enter to win a kit to make THIS fun photobook, just leave me a comment (below the blog post) and I'll draw a winner on Sunday evening!

We made this DARLING photobook project at our Luv 2 Stamp Group October meeting .. I got the idea from demonstrator Cathy Parlitsis.. she has GREAT ideas on her site and I was so amazed at how she used the Season of Sweets Designer Cookie Kit (#126912, pg 15 Holiday catalog from Stampin Up! or HERE ONLINE) to make a photobook!!!

 This was one page from my meeting handout.. I hope it will help you with some assembly instructions if you want to make one.  CLICK to VIEW LARGER if you wish.

Order your supplies online here today, and don't forget to leave a comment on my blog to be entered to win one of these cute kits!!

 

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In October, my stampers came to my class to make these gorgeous ornaments, similar to the one on the cover of the Stampin' Up! holiday catalog.  I die cut 800 ornament shapes for this class (which took DAYS to cut and bag and organize).. but now you can make these ornaments super quickly!

Check out the Ornament Kit Here!

you can make 10 ornaments for only $14.95!

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(be sure to print out the instructions, here)

SORRY!!!!!

above and below.. ornaments made in my class

Below.. gorgeous ornaments Saundra brought to share!

 

 If you prefer stamping and die cutting your own ornaments.. you will love the

ORNAMENT KEEPSAKE BUNDLE

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My Luv 2 Stamp Group (demonstrators in my downline) have been working on some fun Square Swaps this fall.. first we did Halloween, and we just swapped Christmas squares.. next we are working on Valentine's Swaps!

I'm so excited to share my 2 framed swaps with you ...

(you can click to view larger)

For my 7" x 14" frame above (under $3 at walmart!), I used pieces from the Merry Moments Simply Scrappin' kit (pg 9 Holiday catalog, #126911), and repurposed a tag that Cindee gave me on a package!! :)

For the 10" square frame above, i tried to make it look like a Christmas Tree.

I got the idea from Deb Rought who did a similar idea with her squares.

 Below are the squares from the gals in my group who participated.. didn''t they do an awesome job??

You can click to enlarge any of them.

If you would like info on joining my Luv 2 Stamp Group, check out this page for details about joining Stampin' Up! and please email me so we can chat!  PattyStamps@comcast.net

(you can view details about my square here)

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