Warming Up Winter One Snowman At A Time...

Well here we are at the midway mark in November and just over four weeks away from Christmas!  Whooooosh... that's the sound of 2016 as it flies by at light speed! Grin  Today for my design team post here at the My Sweet Earth blog I am sharing these two lovely tags I created specifically to start a little glow in the heart of the person I am sending them to...

I am using Susan's One Of A Kind Winter stamp from Unity Stamps.  Susan created this wonderful snowman stamp a few years ago and it is still one of my very favorite stamps.  I enjoy creating something different with him every Christmas Season.

This year I stamped my image onto a piece of cardboard that came with something I bought... it had the most lovely embossed circles on it and I love the way my snowmen look after I colored them using my Zig Clean Color brush tip markers.

For the tag backgrounds I used gesso and pastes mixed media style and then added embossing powders which I melted over the tag to create texture...

But for this tag I stamped the house and sun from Susan's Create Your Day Unity Stamp set  - once on the tag and once on a dictionary page which I cut out and pasted to the background.

And of course the part I enjoyed the most was adding the embellishments and a thick layer of Rangers Stickles until those tags sparkled. These were fun to make and will be even more fun to put on a package and gift away.

Thanks for joining me today and I am sending you a warm winter hug from my Snowmen!

Lynne Mizera,
for the Susan Weckesser Design Team
 
Susan K. Weckesser products used on this project:

One of A Kind Winter

Create Your Day

A Reel Snowman

Hello crafty friends, Samantha here today and I would like to share with you a super easy Christmas decoration which is perfect for your tree or mantle.

 I was a complete numb nuts and forgot to take photos during the making process so I hope my directions make things clear for you.

I began with an old wooden cotton reel and gave it a coat of gesso and then painted it pink. I added a turquoise ribbon around the centre. Next I cut a piece of wire and twisted the loop in the middle, which becomes the top and the two ends then go in to the centre hole of the cotton reel and glued in place. The wire also had a couple of coats of gesso and some white acyclic paint along with some glitter for Christmas bling. A cotton wool ball made some fluffy snow. I used a punch to make the snowflakes really easily by punching out of white card and decorating with glitter.

 Finally I stamped the snow person on to white card and coloured using Prismacolour pencils. When cutting him out I didn't go all the way around to leave a tab at the bottom which was used to glue him in place.

Susan's wonderful Snow Way stamp set which is shown below can be found here at Unity Stamp Co.

I do hope you like my snowman and I hope I've inspired you a little. I promise to take photo's next time!!

Wishing you a wonderful day,

Samantha Read 

Susan K. Weckesser Design Team member

Christmas Themed Family Layout

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying your day.  It's Lee-Anne here and today I have a Christmas themed layout to share with you using Susan's awesome stencil, a snowman stamp for the vellum snowman embellishment,  that I can't seem to get enough of, and some patterned papers from Canvas Corp. I also sprayed some Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist in Ferrari Red,  as well as some twine on the banner from May Arts.   The sketch was designed by Karan Gerber.

I hope you are inspired to get inky and messy and use lots of different techniques on your next layout.  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

Lee-Anne

Let it Snow double frame

Hello crafty friends, Einat Kessler here with a project to warm your hands ! Now that winter is here and some places are already snowy and white you probably have fun photos of playing in the snow, building snowman or making snow angels. Here is a great idea to display these photos in a double chipboard frame!

Start with stamping a piece of thick transparency with a snowman from the Let it Snow set. Use a permanent ink like StazOn to make sure it will not smear. Emboss the snowman with white embossing powder. I used an embossing markers to make sure I only emboss the inside of the snowman and not cover the black outline. Cut around the snowman shape.

Stamp two clouds as well. I embossed one cloud with teal, grey and sparkle embossing powders and covered the other one with white paper.

Then cover the bottom of the chipboard frame with cheese cloth to create your snow.

Add a little light blue color with color spray or Pan Pastels.

Adhere the snowman and clouds on the frame and add rhinestones.

to finish the frame stamp Let it Snow on the frame. Stamp the sentiment from the same set on a white piece of cardstock and cut it in a cloud shape. Adhere it to the frame.

Now all you need to do is go outside, have fun and take a picture of it!

Have fun creating!
Einat

Santa's Message Board

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

Preparations had begun with the stocking on the mantle and milk and cookies place right beside....then the kiddies exclaimed that they wanted to leave Santa a message when he came to our house!  So I whipped up a message board so we could shout out!  (Ok if you have not realized yet I suck at poetry)

First I found a white picture frame that was lying about.  I removed the back and cut a piece of Fancy Pants paper to fit the inside.  I closed the frame back up with the paper inside.

I then cut out from another piece of paper the three Christmas trees that were on it.  This was glued to the frame and glass.  I added two Want 2 Scrap flourishes onto the frame and glass as well.

I then stamp Susan's snowman onto glossy paper, cut him out, coloured him in and pop dotted him onto the trees.

I then took various Fancy Pants stickers and added them to the cluster and top of the frame.

I also added a flower, leaves, buttons and bling to jazz it up!

Now you can write in the glass with a water marker or dry erase any messages you would like to leave for Santa or other people in your family.

At the end of the season wipe clean so it is all ready for next years message.  A cute idea not only for Christmas but you can make an everyday one that you can leave messages on, shopping lists etc.

Hope you enjoy!  Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Jennifer

Let it SNOW!

Hello crafty friends! Einat Kessler here with a new fun and easy project.
I always say I was born in the wrong place. I love my country but not the weather, the summer is too long and the winter is barely winter in North American or European terms...it rains, it gets a little cold but that's basically it. We only get snow on one mountain, which is a tourist attraction that you have to drive 3 hours to get to and try to have fun with too many people around you.

So...to encourage myself I created a cute card that I'm going to put on my work desk to help me imagine a snowy winter...

This card is very easy to make. First stamp the cute and amazing One of a kind winter by Susan Weckesser on a white cardstock. Make sure to use StazOn ink so it will not smear. Then color it with water colors or Copics. Cut it in a square or a round shape. I used Spellbinders Nestabilities. Then cut from different papers more shapes each one a little larger than the other. Adhere all the layers and add a title and a little bling!

Now all I have to do is look at my card and imagine....

Have fun Creating!
Einat

Snowman Banner

Happy day!  It's Lee-Anne here and today I am sharing a winter/Christmas banner that I created with Susan K. Weckesser's awesome One Of A Kind Winter Snowman Stamp.  I love this stamp and I love snowmen (if you saw inside my home, you would agree) and I wanted to create a banner that could be doubled as a Christmas banner or a winter banner.  I thought it would be perfect on my fireplace mantle.

Snowman Banner - by Lee-Anne Thornton

Supplies Used:
Cardstock - American Crafts
Glitter Cardstock - Coredinations
Banner Diecut - Spellbinders Shapeabilites
Rosette Flower Die - Tim Holtz
Diecut Machine - Cuttlebug (Provocraft)
Embossing Powder - Sugarloaf Products
Mists - Heidi Swapp, Tattered Angels
Patterned Paper - Canvas Corp.
Punch - Kreaxions #312 Insert A
Ribbon - May Arts
Sequins - Unknown
Rubber Stamp - Susan K. Weckesser
Texture Spray ( Goosebumps) Imagine Crafts

The banner was created with some glitter card stock by Coredinations, a Spellbinder's banner die, a paper rosette die by Tim Holtz, a sheet of Red And White Reverse Patterned Paper by Canvas Corp., a paper punch by Kreaxions, some ribbon by May Arts, embossing powder, some Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists in Primrose, Peach, Navy, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist in Cornflower Daze to "paint" the snowman hat, scarf and cheeks and finally some Goosebumps Texture Spray to give the snowman some sheen and texture.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are inspired to try a snowman banner to decorate your home.

Hugs and Smiles!

Lee-Anne

Christmas Tag!

I am continuing to share the Christmas Love Campaign spirit.  I made this little tag with the products the sponsors had sent us, this is made with Fancy Pants paper, letter stickers and embellishments! The ribbon is from May Arts and of course the Susan K Weckesser Unity snowman stamp!  I love when paper manufacturers have a cover sheet with a preview of the paper that is inside, may times I have cut up that piece of paper to make a broader showing of all the papers!   Here is a piece of that paper, made into a fringe and place on the bottom of the tag.  I started off with a plain Prima tag.

After adding the fringe to the bottom of the tag I added the word snowman from letter stickers to the side of it.

Then I stamped the little snowman three times.  As you can see I changed the word from snowman at this point to snowmen! I coloured in the hat and scarf of the stamped images.

I then added ribbon and stickers to the tag.

Here is the finished product, pretty cute for such a simple tag. This will adorn someone's present this Christmas season. 

Hope you enjoyed this little tag, take care and until next time! 

Hugs Jennifer

Shabby Christmas stocking

The countdown to the big day has started and Christmas crafting has gone into overdrive in my basement workshop. One thing I absolutely had a blast creating was this canvas stocking by Canvas Corp.

With the stocking in it's raw state I used Susan's borders stencil to just add some faux cross-stitches around the border, then I hand stitched some ribbons from May Arts Ribbons around the top. 

I put Susan's little snowman onto a kraft tag and mounted it onto a burlap tag also by Canvas Corp. along with a bit of thread. I cut the frame and holly leaves from glitter card by Core'dinations and finally the stars are cut from Fancy Pants paper with the alphabet stickers coming from the same kit called "Happy go Lucky". 

Don't forget to link up your projects to the Christmas Love Campaign, we'd love to see.

See you next time

Jaine for the Susan Weckesser Design Team x

Let It Snow Chalkboard Christmas Card

Hello and happy Sunday!  It's Lee-Anne here and today I am sharing a Christmas card that I created for the Susan K. Weckesser's Design Team.  It was so much fun to create and I wanted to try to do something a little different by creating a "chalkboard" feel to my card.  I am loving the chalkboard and sequin craze right now and also vellum as it gives a little softness to a card.

Let It Snow Chalkboard Card by Lee-Anne Thornton

Kraft Cardstock Card - Michael's
Pearlized Ink - Clearsnap (Smooch Snickerdoodle)
Ribbon - May Arts
Rubber Stamps - Hero Arts, Susan K. Weckesser (IB-SB-326)
Sequins - Unknown
Stamp Ink - Craft Smart (White)
Vellum - Recollections
Washi Tape - Bella Blvd. (Jailbird)
Wood Veneer Shapes - Studio Calico

Below are the step by step instructions to create this card:

Stamp the front of the card with three different snowflake wood mounted stamps using some white    pigment ink and let it dry.

Diecut a  small envelope from a sheet of vellum (I used my Silhouette Cameo)  and cut a piece of black card stock to measure approximately 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches.   Assemble and adhere the envelope.

Stamp the Susan K. Weckesser snowman stamp (IB-SB-326 One Of A Kind Winter) and also the "let it snow" sentiment with some white pigment ink onto a sheet of black card stock and let it dry. When it was dry,  fussy cut the snowman.

Slide the black card stock sentiment into the vellum envelope and added some gold sequins and wood veneer stars painted with some Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink.

Cut a strip of washi tape and adhere it around the bottom of the vellum envelope making sure to cut the strip long enough to seal the right hand side of the envelope.

Adhere the "chalkboard" snowman with adhesive to the righthand side of the envelope.  Be sure to offset it a little off the righthand side of the vellum envelope and adhere three wood veneer stars to the outside of the vellum envelope.  Set the vellum envelope aside.

Wrap the of gold May Arts ribbon around the front of the card and tie a bow. Make sure to have it on the lefthand side of the card so there is enough space for the vellum envelope to be placed to the righthand side of it.

Add some dimensional adhesive or pop dots to the backside of the vellum envelope and place it over the ribbon.

The card is now complete.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and be sure to check out Susan K. Weckesser's blog for more inspiration.  Have a creative day!