The Holiday's Begin!

This is Adri's beautiful gingerbread house.  Last year she put as much candy on it as she could fit, but dropped it before we could get a picture.  This year she toned it down a bit.  Very 'creative'!

Tori set aside 3 hours for this lovely master piece.  Although it actually only took 2 hours, maybe less.  She looks forward to grandma's get together every year.  She's been planning this look for days!

Justus kept it simple this year with no bleeding reindeer or Santa's (thank heaven)!  He said all of the gifts under the trees are for him.  These lego's were very handy.

These aren't all of the wonderful gingerbread houses that were made today by the Sorensen clan, but it's most of them (note - some kids piled on the treats to eat later... great idea!).  Don't they just look tasty!  Adri ate a lot of hers on the car ride home.  Hopefully she's not too sick for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.  Thanks for the fun Grandma!  Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day everyone!

Delightful Decorations

Here's my card trade for Stamp Club.  I tried to show all of the different ways you can use shimmer paint.  For the ornament I mixed the White Shimmer Paint with Ruby Red reinker and then used a sponge dauber to apply it directly to the stamp.  That was stamped right onto Whisper White paper and then I used the Ornament punch to punch it out.  The curly Q's behind the ornament are from the Season of Joy stamp set.  And shimmer paint was applied directly to the stamp with a sponge dauber and then stamped.  On the Certain Celery piece of paper I stamped all of the 'snowflakes' with the shimmer paint/ruby red ink mix.  The Peace on Earth was stamped in just Ruby Red ink and then I lightly sponged over it with a sponge dauber and shimmer paint.  I sponged all around the edge of the celery paper with the shimmer paint as well.

Delightful Decorations

This is the card we made at stamp club last week.  I decided to take pictures with the camera, rather than scanning it, so you could see all the sparkles!  It really worked!!!  We embossed the ornaments with clear embossing powder and then with a sponge dauber we rubbed the White Shimmer Paint directly over them.  You can wipe the excess paint off the embossing with a tissue, but whatever comes in contact with the paper stays there.  For this middle part on the green ornament we used the dauber with shimmer paint directly on the stamp and then stamped it on the green paper, punched it out and used a dimentional to attach it.  The sparkles on the red paper were made by using rubbing alcohol mixed with a little of the shimmer paint in a spray bottle.

Delightful Decorations

On this card I used the new Frost White Shimmer Paint.  You can't see the 'sparkle' on the scan, but in person this stuff is awesome!  I mixed a little bit of the shimmer paint with a few drops of Ruby Red reinker and then used a sponge dauber to ink up the little circle stamp.  So each of the circles 'shimmer'.  I also mixed some of the Shimmer Paint with a little alcohol in a mini spray bottle and spritzed that all over the card.  In the light the whole card sparkles.  I tried daubing  shimmer paint onto the greeting that I had already stamped in Craft White, but that didn't work so well.  All it did was lighten the white.  It was fun to try different things though.

Delightful Decorations

Halloween is finally over!  Now it's time to move on to some Christmas card ideas, right?  This was a swap I did with some other demonstrators.  I used the new set Delightful Decorations and the Sparkle & Shine wheel from the Holiday Mini Catalog.  I also used the awesome Ornament punch from the mini.  I can never pass up a coordinating punch and set.  The colors are Real red and Old Olive and the greeting is from the Sincere Salutations set.  It's hard to see but I used dazzling diamonds on the snowflake on the ornament and embossed the wheel with Iridescent Ice powder.