I still have a few Simply Sent Everyday Elegance cards and decided to continue turning them into Christmas cards. You’ll have to forgive this photo – my easel has gone missing and it doesn’t show well without it. 
Supplies
Stamp Sets – Delightful Decorations, Petite Pairs
card stock – Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler,Simply Sent Everyday Elegance
Ink – Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze
Etc – Ornament punch, small oval punch, Petals embossing folder, Baja Breeze and Cherry Cobbler seam binding, silver cord, Rhinestone
These cards make great bases!
My hot glue gun went up in flames yesterday while making more medallions- real flames! Scared me to death! I have another one but am thinking that it might be time to just buy a new hot glue gun. Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Category: Holidays
Medallion Christmas Tree Instructions
Thanks for all your kind comments on my Christmas tree – you made my day! Here’s the instructions for the Medallion Christmas Tree! 
The first thing you need is the
Hope this works (and helps!) Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Medallion Tree
I’ve seen lots of cute things made with “lollies” or medallions – scored strips of paper – so I decided to try a Christmas tree. This is made with retired Old Olive Designer Series paper (tons of this stuff!) Isn’t it cute?
Here’s the medallion “trunk.”
The star on top is two star punches, slit so they fit over each other.
So now I need to find some more little buckets so I can have a forrest of these! Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
The Sounding Joy
Here’s another The Sounding Joy card using black and silver – and Shimmery White. The black card stock on the side is embossed with the Striped embossing folder – but I can’t get it to show up in the photo. The Top Note die is embossed with the Snowflake embossing folder. To do this, die cut first and then emboss.
Stamp Set – The Sounding Joy
card stock – Shimmery White. Basic Black, Brushed Silver
Ink – Versamark
Etc – Top Note die, Snowflake and Striped embossing folders, Basic Black satin ribbon, rhinestone brad, silver embossing powder.
Christmas stampin was fun yesterday – and we’re doing it again tonight! I’ll share those cards soon. Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Highlighted Season
This Christmas card is based of one I saw on Stampin Connections (Stampin Up’s demo site) by Marianne Foerster. I loved how she selected just a piece of the bird to highlight and used the punch down the side. I switched it up just a bit and this is the card –
The image is colored with watercolor pencils – 
Supplies
Stamp set – Beautiful Season
card stock – Whisper White, Real Red
Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Real Red
Etc – Lace Border punch, pearls, watercolor pencils, 1 3/4 circle punch, 1/8 Real Red ribbon
This is one of the cards we’ll do this weekend at my Christmas Stamp a Stack III – which starts in 30 minutes! Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Another Regional Tag
Here’s another tag that I saw at Regionals. This one is made with the Pennant punch by punching three scalloped pennant, folding them in half and adhering them together. I think this was done by another demonstrator and just shown on stage – if you know who created the original, let me know. 
Again, I made a 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 tag and stamped the pot from Pennant Parade on the bottom. Then I made the tree and inserted a glimmer brad at the top. Since I didn’t want the brad to show on the back, I covered it with another tag. The brad was a bit bigger than I planned – should have moved the Dear Santa up! Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Stitched Felt
Here’s an idea share by Bonnie Thurber (LOVE her!) at the Louisville Regionals. She created a set of tags using the Stitched Felt Winter Wishes (124108) and the Frostwood Lodge Designer Series paper (124002), the ribbon punch and the Dear Santa stamp set. I cased her idea using 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 Whisper White tags. 
Silver glitter paper! Love it! The center circle is the 1 3/8 circle punch –
Now I am 4 tags ahead! Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Everyday Lineup
Tomorrow is the last day for the Buy Two Simply Sent card kits and get one of the coordinating stamp sets free promotion. These kits are easy to use and make great cards just as they are – and they can be used as a base for any card. Here I’ve used the Everyday Elegance kit and paired it with the Holiday Lineup stamp set to make a Christmas card – 
I stamped the image in Jet Black Stazon and colored it with Stampin Write markers. Then I matted it on Baja Breeze and Cherry Cobbler – add some Dazzling Diamonds and stamped the sentiment from Christmas Greetings on the included tag. A few 1/4″ circle punches and it’s ready to go.
It sparkles!
Supplies
Stamp Sets – Holiday Lineup, Christmas Greetings
card stock – Simply Sent kit Everyday Elegance, Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Cherry Cobbler
Stampin Write markers – Baja Breeze,Cherry Cobbler, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie
Etc- Dazzling Diamonds, Two way glue pen, 1/4″ circle punch
Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
The Last of Halloween
The last of the Halloween treat holders! This is the Petal Cone die done up with Out on a Limb – 
Wow! That picture is blurry! How did that happen? Here’s a close up – 
You can see that I added the “moon” but it didn’t quite fit. I’m thinking the kids won’t care! Those are rhinestones on the cat eye – what was I doing when I photograph this? The DSP is retired (I am swamped in retired DSP!) And if I don’t use up all the current DSP I have – I’ll be swamped in it too!
Supplies
Stamp set – Out on a Limb
card stock – Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White,
Ink – Basic Black
Etc – retired DSP, rhinestones, Petal Cone die, Pumpkin Pie ribbon (retired)
Enjoy! Hugs, Fran
Poisoned Milk
Pick Your Poison Designer Series paper has some great designs for 3-D items. The images are large and- in this case – are almost all you need to create your project. I made a double milk carton box (die cut two milk cartons, remove on section that does not have a flap from each die cut, and adhere together) and covered it with the Trick or Treat piece of DSP.
The tag is punch with the Designer Label punch from the DSP –
I added a few rhinestones just for fun and then distressed the edges. 
I was able to get 6 of these finished in about an hour – Samantha’s party is Saturday and I’m running out of time! Glad these were easy! Enjoy – Hugs, Fran