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Holiday Punch Class 1

I just wanted to show you the projects we did at the Holiday Punch Class 1 last Friday evening.  We had some new stampers who thoroughly enjoyed themselves:

 
My little gingerbread man was quite a hit on the front of this Christmas card.  With just a few punches, a black Stampin' Write marker, and a white gel pen, we made some small pieces of cardstock into a cutsie Gingerbread man to decorate Christmas cards, tags, or a gift bag.  This is the perfect man, you can take him anywhere and he will behave!

This adorable Christmas tree was made with Stampin' Up's Heart to Heart punch.  I used the two largest hearts and alternated them in building this Christmas tree.  Before layering the hearts onto the card, I sponged the edges of all with Old Olive classic ink.  The packages were More Mustard square punches stamped with a snowflake.  This was a super quick and fun card!  

And then there was Rudolph, romping in the sparkly snow!  He's starting to look a little chuppy, so he's working out before Santa's big ride this year.  Notice what punch I used for his antlers?  The new Snowflake punch.  Be creative, think out of the box when looking for new uses for your Stampin' Up punches. 

Santa's Coming to Town...to My Punch Class

This cutie stand-up Santa will be making his appearance at my Holiday Punch Class I this Friday evening.  If you want to get the pattern to make him and 4 other projects, you need to attend my class.  Please contact me to RSVP: jan@creativestampingwithjan.com.

Mr. Scarecrow, Is He Scarey or Not?

Mr. Scarecrow went with me to my first craft fair this fall.  Afterall, what is fall without scarecrows? 

He looked pretty lonely by himself, so I let him hang out with his friends at the craft fair in this basket.  He's much happier here with buddies!  Still, they aren't very scarey, even in big groups!  Check out the scarecrows in their hats--see what I mean, even the scarecrows love them!

 

My sister, Melinda, just attended a Stamp Group event and was describing the scarecrows she made there.  I wanted to use a scarecrow design at my booth, so I tweaked her idea and came up with MY MAN!  (Thanks, Melinda!)

Melinda said her scarecrow was a wrap for a large candy bar, so I used Mr. Goodbars, white chocolate Cookies and Cream candy bars, and boxes of Milk Duds.

I'll give you a back view also.

 

I just wrapped two different colors of Stampin' Up designer paper around the candy, one for the blue jeans and one for his shirt.  I used Stampin' Up's new Real Red polka dot 5/8" wide grosgrain ribbon for his bandana. 

With the Top Note die shape and the Big Shot machine, I cut out Mr. Scarecrow's face using Very Vanilla cardstock.  I used my 1/2" circle punch to cut out two Basic Black eyes and one Very Vanilla nose.  I used my white gel pen to highlight the two black eyes, and a little Chocolate Chip ink on a sponge around the face and the nose.  Have you seen the gorgeous new stamp set Autumn Harvest?  I chose the wheat stamp from that set for Mr. Scarecrow to chew on.  And topped his mouth off with a dotted Chocolate Chip marker line.

 

I also cut out his hat using the Top Note die, cutting two Really Rust pieces.  For each hat I cut the Top Note in half horizontally and one in half vertically, and used a sponge to dab Chocolate Chip ink around the edges of each piece.  You can see how I adhered these two sizes to the top of his head to make his hat.  Mr. Scarecrow has a little bit of shaggy yellow hair sticking out below his hat brim.  I just cut the hair randomly with my scissors (no die cut involved).

To top his hat off, I used the Birds & Blooms Stampin' Up sizzlet die to cut out all of my black crows.  I attached the birds and wings with Stampin' Dimensionals, and they look like they love hanging out there on the hat.  (They aren't a bit scared.)

There you go!  Let's see what ideas you can come up with.  Post a comment to me, and I'll send you the pieces to make yourself one of these cuties--all you add is candy!