Button Trees – Great Christmas Craft

  Looking for a fun craft to do this Christmas Holiday Season?  These Button Christmas Trees were SO much fun to make!!  Of course it's even more fun when you craft with friends.. so gather some friends, have them each bring some old buttons, straight pins and a styrofoam cone.. you'll be in for hours …

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Make a Scrapbook or a set of Christmas Cards!

  Click for 18 Days of Giveaways! Click to see Year-end Closeout products at up to 60% off!   Record your Family Christmas Memories in this fun Scrapbook, created with Stampin' Up! supplies! More fun Candy Cane Lane Christmas cards, scrapbook and craft ideas for you! On our recent stamping cruise in October, one of …

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Repurposed Paper Pumpkin Teddy Bear Box

  I'm sending a box full of bear hugs to my niece!!  We were chatting one day and she mentioned that she cannot find her Snail adhesive after moving across country, so I knew that I had to send her a care package!! I repurposed my November Paper Pumpkin kit box and filled it with …

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Do you Give Gift Cards at the Holidays?

  Gift Cards… do you give Gift Cards? We probably all do, right?  Family, Friends, Mailman, UPS guy, co-workers, teachers, grandkids, etc. Well, here is a creative way to present an otherwise boring gift card!   All I did was to fold a bag in half, in this case I used the Glassine Gift Bags, …

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Double Z Fold Card with Santa’s Sleigh Framelits

  Santa's Reindeer are bringing a sleigh full of gifts in this beautiful Stampin' UP! Christmas card I made at Cindee's recent stamp class!   Cindee taught us how to make the Double Z Fold card and we decorated it with the die cut reindeer, trees and sleigh from the Santa's Sleigh stamp set and framelit …

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Framed Christmas Home Decor with Santa’s Sleigh Framelits

 Reminder.. click for Retiring Holiday products and December Sale info!  Wondering exactly what's retiring? what's on Clearance? what's in excess inventory priced at a great discount for you? CLICK TO Download 2016 Stampin Up retiring clearance excess list ———————- Last month I took a stamping class at Cindee's house.  She is an amazing teacher and …

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How I Distressed Pine Boards for Photo Backgrounds

  If you follow me on Facebook, you probably saw the fun pile of pine wood boards that my neighbor left by my front door.  Many of you asked what I was going to do with them?  Well, they are for the backgrounds of my blog post projects!! HOWEVER, I came across a little issue….  …

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Holly Berry Happiness Christmas Note Cards

  Simple Christmas Note Cards can be used for Christmas greetings or Thank You notes after Christmas! These cards feature the Holly Berry Happiness Stampin' Up! stamp set and thick Whisper White note cards.     I kept the color palette very simple.. Garden Green, Mint Macaron and Cherry Cobbler, with the flash of Gold …

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Christmas Collage Frame, or boxes, bags and cards

  One of the Christmas crafting projects we made on the recent stamping cruise in October was this great framed collage with 3×3 squares decorated with a variety of Stampin' UP! holiday theme paper, stamps and accessories.  Jenn Gulch designed this GREAT project for us and we framed it when we got home.  12×12 framed …

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Christmas Stamp Set Blog Candy Offer

  ** don't miss the ANNOUNCEMENT at the bottom of this blog post! **   I am offering 5 free Stampin' UP! Christmas Stamp sets to one lucky winner of my blog candy offer!   It's easy!  To enter to win: Leave a comment on this blog post (on my blog) and tell me your …

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Christmas Banner featuring Candy Cane Lane paper

  It was a first for the Bennett Family.. we stayed home on Thanksgiving AND we put up our Christmas Tree and decorated for Christmas!!  It has actually been really nice enjoying the lights and festive decorations the last several days, and not feeling rushed to get it all done right before Christmas like we …

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Wink of Stella Gifts for Luv 2 Stamp Group

 Special Notice!  CLICK HERE for Online Extravaganza Sale Starting Tomorrow, Nov. 21! ————————  Each month, I love to recognize and celebrate my Luv 2 Stamp group (Stampin' UP! team) who have excelled in sales, recruiting and promoting.  We celebrate these accomplishments on our private Facebook group.  I also send out gifts in the mail for …

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