Category: Special Projects

Last Minute Gifts



Here’s a quick last minute gift or add on that you can create in a just a couple of minutes!  Reindeer Food! 

Cut a piece of Real Red 3 3/4 x 5″ and fold in half. Staple to your small, flat cello bag filled with Reindeer Food (oatmeal and glitter or colored sugar)

Cut a piece of Wild Wasabi 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 and score at 2.”  Use your slit punch to made a slit at the bottom. Adere to the Real Red being careful not to adhere the slit!

Cut a piece of Whisper White 1 3/4 x 3 1/4 and stamp “to/from” in Real Red.  Attach to the front.  Decorate the front with the reindeer stamp and some ribbon.

Print out theReindeer food insert and trim to 1 3/4 x 3 1/4 and adhere to the inside.  (I really, really hope I did this correctly and it prints for you at the right size!)







Have fun making these cute Christmas Eve gifts!  Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Framed Christmas



I made this framed Christmas piece to give at our team Christmas party.  It’s Glorious Garlands inked with Stampin’ Write markers and stamped onto a piece of Very Vanilla.  I went over parts of it with a two-way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds (which you can’t see in the photo) and mounted it on Real Red and Old Olive.  The star is punched out of Brushed Gold.  The background papers are Dashing and Cerise.  It’s all done up in a 5 x 7 frame.  Hopefully the gal that got it will enjoy it for many years.

On another note – I spent today updating the buttons in my Art Gallery at franticstampers to reflect the retiring list for the Fall/Winter catalog.  If you come across any buttons and/or links that don’t work – let me know!  I’ve been know to do some screwy things when I start messing around with my website!  (If you’ve never visited my website, you can find it here!)Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Merry Nuggets

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Cute and easy – my favorite kind of project!  The only stamping on these nugget boxes is the the Ho Ho Ho – from Many Merry Messages (with the “3” omitted)  The striped paper is just Whisper White with Real Red drawn with a Stampin’ Write Marker and a ruler!  Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

More Paper Trees

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This one uses a little cone – and the base is a cute little bucket from the $1 rack at Michaels!  On the big ones I put styrofoam in the pot and inserted a skewer up through the cone.  On the little one, I simply used Crystal Effects to glue the cone to the top of the bucket.  Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

I’ve been Elfed!

iStamp!  Isn’t this the cutest?  She made a darling notebook – and she promises to share the instructions – a clippie – and she added lots of decorated chocolate!  She even threw in some bling!  There is a bottle of Stickles and some rhinestones in there!  I’m in heaven!