Seasons Greetings

Seasons Greetings

Supplies (all can be purchased at www.lisahenderson.stampinup.net ):
#102283 – Versamark Ink Pad
#109129 – Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder
#124824 – Old Olive 12 x 12 Cardstock
#124302 – Whisper White 12 x 12 Cardstock
#101179 – Basic Black Classic Stampin Ink Pad
#100908 – Chocolate Chip Stampin Ink Pad
#101610 – Stamping Sponges (#102892 – Sponge Daubers would also work really well!)
#116586 – Many Merry Messages Wood Stamp Set
#107289 – Medium Square Envelopes in Whisper White
#122334 – Simply Scored
#104152 – Paper Cutter
#100005 – Heat Tool
#104332 – Snail Adhesive
#104430 – Stampin’ Dimensionals
#102642 – Stampin’ Scrub
#102394 – Stampin’ Mist
#102197 – Powder Pals
#115223 – Medallion Stamp

Directions:
1. Using the paper cutter, cut the 12” x 12” whisper white paper to create two cards 10” x 5”. Score in the middle using the Simply Scored to create the fold.
2. Cut a 4 ¼” x 4 ¼” piece of whisper white. Cut a 5” x 5” piece and a 4 ¼” x 1” piece of Old Olive Cardstock.
3. Ink the Medallion Stamp with Versamark ink and stamp on the 4 ¼” x 4 ¼” piece of white. Add the gold embossing powder to the stamped image.
4. Heat the paper with the heat tool being careful to keep moving the paper around so it doesn’t burn (hint – sticky notes work really well as a “handle”) until the embossing powder turns metallic.
5. Ink the edges of the 5” x 5” piece of Old Olive cardstock using Chocolate Chip.
6. Mount the embossed piece on the 5” x 5” piece of Old Olive cardstock.
7. Take the 4 ¼” x 1” piece of Old Olive cardstock and stamp the sentiment using the Many Merry Messages set in Basic Black. Take the sponge and ink the edges in Chocolate Chip. Mount on the card using dimensional adhesive.

A few notes:
To clean the stamp off, spray the wet side (look for the rain drops) of the Stampin’ Scrub with Stampin’ Mist, then dry on the other side (look for the small umbrella)
To get your embossing powder back in the jar, use the powder pals underneath when you pour the embossing powder.

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Joyful Season

Joyful Season

Supplies (all can be purchased at www.lisahenderson.stampinup.net ):
#100730 – Cardstock 8 ½” x 11” in Whisper White
#107301 – Medium Envelopes in Whisper White
#122334 – Simply Scored
#104152 – Paper Cutter
#113439 – Big Shot
#104332 – Snail Adhesive
#102394 – Stampin’ Mist
#115316 – Rich Razzleberry 8 ½” x 11” cardstock
#120981 – Big Shot Letterpress Small Joyful Season
#119718 – Craft Stampin’ Spots Brights Collection

Directions:
1. Using the paper cutter, cut the 8 1/2” x 11” paper in half to create two cards 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Score in the middle using the Simply Scored to create the fold.
2. Cut a 5 ½” x 3 ½” piece of Whisper White.
3. Ink the letterpress plate using Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Real Red, Old Olive, and Pacific Point and place on the Big Shot Plate. Carefully place the cut piece of Whisper White on the plate and add the clear plate gently. Run through the Big Shot and carefully take apart.
4. Cut a 5 ½” x 1” piece of Rich Razzleberry.
5. Attach the ink piece (once dry) to the cardfront and add the piece of Red Razzleberry below using Snail adhesive.

A few notes:
To clean the letterpress plate off, use Stampin’ Mist with a piece of paper towel.
Only Craft Stampin’ Spots can be used on the letterpress plates. Classic ink will bead and dry too quickly.

Noel

Noel

Supplies (all can be purchased at www.lisahenderson.stampinup.net ):
#120902 – Big Shot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Northern Flurry
#105208 – Sahara Sand Classic Stampin Ink Pad
#101610 – Stamping Sponges (#102892 – Sponge Daubers would also work really well!)
#116586 – Many Merry Messages Wood Stamp Set
#100730 – Cardstock 8 ½” x 11” in Whisper White
#107301 – Medium Envelopes in Whisper White
#122334 – Simply Scored
#104152 – Paper Cutter
#113439 – Big Shot
#104332 – Snail Adhesive
#102642 – Stampin’ Scrub
#102394 – Stampin’ Mist
#124116 – Mini Jingle Bells
#104199 – Linen Thread (or craft wire would work)
#102067 – Tempting Turquoise 8 ½” x 11” cardstock
#104430 – Stampin’ Dimensionals


Directions:
1. Using the paper cutter, cut the 8 1/2” x 11” paper in half to create two cards 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Score in the middle using the Simply Scored to create the fold.
2. Cut a 5 ¼” x 4” piece of Tempting Turquoise. Run through the Big Shot in the Northern Flurry Embossing Folder.
3. Using the Sponge, rub the Sahara Sand ink around the edges and over the embossed area of the cardstock.
4. Stamp Noel using the Many Merry Messages set in Sahara Sand.
5. Using craft wire or linen thread, string the jingle bell and attach at each side of the Embossed piece using dimensional adhesive.
6. Mount the embossed piece to the card front using dimensional adhesive.

A few notes:
To clean the stamp off, spray the wet side (look for the rain drops) of the Stampin’ Scrub with Stampin’ Mist, then dry on the other side (look for the small umbrella)

Christmas Ornament Card

Christmas Ornament Card

Supplies (all can be purchased at www.lisahenderson.stampinup.net ):
#116586 – Many Merry Messages Wood Stamp Set
#100730 – Cardstock 8 ½” x 11” in Whisper White
#107301 – Medium Envelopes in Whisper White
#122334 – Simply Scored
#104152 – Paper Cutter
#104332 – Snail Adhesive
#102642 – Stampin’ Scrub
#102394 – Stampin’ Mist
#119847 – Ornament Punch
#119862 – Marina Mist 8 ½” x 11” Cardstock
#119686 – Early Espresso 8 ½” x 11” Cardstock
#103133 – Real Red Classic Stampin Ink Pad
#119670 – Early Espresso Classic Stampin Ink Pad
#121169 – Tags Til Christmas Clear Stamp Set
#118486 – Clear Block C
#123125 – Cherry Cobbler Twine
Alternative to Early Espresso:
#121045 – Basic Black 8 ½” x 11” Cardstock
#101179 – Basic Black Classic Stampin Ink Pad


Directions:
1. Using the paper cutter, cut the 8 1/2” x 11” paper in half to create two cards 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Score in the middle using the Simply Scored to create the fold.
2. Cut 3 pieces of 2 ½” x 1 ¾” and 1 piece of 2 ½” x 2 ½” white cardstock, a 3” x 3” piece of Marina Mist and a 5” x 3 ¾” piece of Early Espresso cardstock using the paper cutter.
3. Take the 3 piece of 2 ½” x 1 ¾” white cardstock and stamp the ornament shape from the Tags Til Christmas set on each piece in Real Red Ink.
4. Using the Ornament punch, cut the 3 stamped pieces out.
5. Using the Simply Scored, score each stamped piece in the centre to create a fold.
6. Glue the 3 stamped pieces together back to back on the folded sides with snail adhesive to create the 3-D ornament. Using a small piece of the twine, create an ornament hook and attach with the snail adhesive.
7. Mount the 2 ½’ x 2 ½” piece of white cardstock on the cut piece of Marina Mist. Centre the 3-D ornament in the centre of the white cardstock and mount with snail adhesive.
8. Mount the Early Espresso on the white card front with snail adhesive. Add the mounted ornament in the top half.
9. Stamp a greeting on the inside of the card in Early Espresso using the Many Merry Messages Set.

A few notes:
To clean the stamp off, spray the wet side (look for the rain drops) of the Stampin’ Scrub with Stampin’ Mist, then dry on the other side (look for the small umbrella)

Merry Christmas Card

Now that the Stamp-A-Stack is over, I thought I'd start sharing the directions to the cards here, one at a time. Here is the first one!

Merry Christmas Card

Supplies (all can be purchased at www.lisahenderson.stampinup.net ):
#124096 - Big Shot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Snow Burst
#102283 – Versamark Ink Pad
#109130 – Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder
#117155 – Paper Designer Series Stack Patterns Brights Collection (used Melon Mambo Polka Dot Paper)
#109120 – Basic Grey Classic Stampin Ink Pad
#101610 – Stamping Sponges (#102892 – Sponge Daubers would also work really well!)
#116586 – Many Merry Messages Wood Stamp Set
#124094 – 1” Square Punch
#100730 – Cardstock 8 ½” x 11” in Whisper White
#107301 – Medium Envelopes in Whisper White
#122334 – Simply Scored
#104152 – Paper Cutter
#100005 – Heat Tool
#113439 – Big Shot
#104332 – Snail Adhesive
#104430 – Stampin’ Dimensionals
#102642 – Stampin’ Scrub
#102394 – Stampin’ Mist
#102197 – Powder Pals

Directions:
1. Using the paper cutter, cut the 8 1/2” x 11” paper in half to create two cards 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Score in the middle using the Simply Scored to create the fold.
2. Cut the Melon Mambo Designer Dot Paper to a 4” x 5 ¼” size.
3. Ink the Snow Burst Embossing Folder with the Versamark Ink Pad (Ink the side with the snowflakes indented). Place the cut Melon Mambo paper inside the folder.
4. Place the embossing folder on the Big Shot Pad and run through the Big Shot (I like to run it a few times to make sure the ink gets on really well).
5. Take the paper out of the embossing folder. Put the clear embossing powder on the ink side (it won’t stick otherwise) and make sure its covered (it will appear white).
6. Heat the paper with the heat tool being careful to keep moving the paper around so it doesn’t burn (hint – sticky notes work really well as a “handle”)
7. Once the embossing powder turns clear, use your sponge to rub Basic Grey ink on. The best part is that the ink won’t stick to the embossing powder giving you a two tone colour.
8. Take a 5” x 1” piece of white cardstock for the greeting. Stamp the greeting down (leaving the stamp off-centred). Cut one end in the square punch on the diagonal to create the angled tails. Fold the opposite end to wrap it around the Melon Mambo paper and attach with snail adhesive approx. ½” from bottom of Melon Mambo.
9. Attach Melon Mambo paper to card base with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

A few notes:
Don’t forget to clean the embossing folder off. I find Stampin’ Mist sprayed on a paper towel works quite well.
To clean the stamp off, spray the wet side (look for the rain drops) of the Stampin’ Scrub with Stampin’ Mist, then dry on the other side (look for the small umbrella)
To get your embossing powder back in the jar, use the powder pals underneath when you pour the embossing powder.

Christmas Stamp-A-Stack

Don't forget to sign up for the Christmas Stamp-A-Stack on December 10th from 1pm-5pm. Come create a series of Christmas Cards! Each person will create 2 cards of 5 different designs!
And, because it's Christmas, the cost for this class will be a $20.00 purchase of your choice from the catalog.
Please RSVP by December 8th, as limited space is available.
Samples in photos are some of the cards we will be making.

Only 3 days left for the Online Extravaganza! Make sure you place your order before November 30th to take advantage of the great deals (when shopping, remember to click on the product information to see the discounted price -- and remember to receive preferred pricing, you must select a demonstrator if you haven't already!)
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/lisahenderson

Make sure you check out the great holiday deals that start today! And for today only (Monday November 21), save on 2 brand new products, the Simply Scored, and the Cookie Stamps!

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•On customer, and workshop order types (Online orders do not qualify), with any order $450 or more receive an additional $45 in free hostess dollars!
•Hostesses may use their additional $45 in free merchandise on any catalogue/mini catalogue products.
•Qualifying orders must be placed by December 15, 2011.
•Call or email (lisa dot henderson003@gmail dot com) to book your workshop today!

30 things

Sometime last fall, I saw Kelly Purkey's list of things she wanted to do in the next year. And at the time I thought it was a great idea. This is the list I made (and an update on how I did):
1. Go on a trip - We went to sunny Florida in January! I also went to Ottawa for a few days in August, and Haliburton for a few days last week with some friends!
2. Finish the online courses you are already registered for. - Fail. I'm horrible for signing up, making it through the first few and then falling behind. But I'm still trying!
3. Take a photography course - Fail. See #2!
4. Go to Scrapfest (spring or summer, it doesn’t matter which) - Fail. Just bad timing this year. But I'm going to try again next year.
5. Find creative ways to save money. - A work in progress. This will always be a work in progress. Right now I'm getting the hang of the couponing thing. Trying my best to do as well as possible.
6. Take another scrapbooking course (in person, not online). - Fail. But only because there hasn't been one at my LSS when I've been available.
7. Go to the drive-in for the first time. - Fail. Hopefully next summer!
8. Go to Boldt Castle. - Fail. Hopefully next summer again.
9. Start a vegetable garden. - Success. In fact, its October, and I picked over 80 tomatoes again tonight. I also learned how to can veggies (we were a little overloaded at times!)
10. Teach Boss to lay down by handsignal only. - Fail. Boss' training has not been so great lately. Got to get on this!
11. Go to another concert. - Success! When I was in Ottawa, I went to a 3 day concert, the Capitol Hoedown. Let's just say, Carrie Underwood, singing Paradise City was FANTASTIC!!!!
12. Do some form of exercise for 30 minutes every day. - Fail. Really big fail. But I started a new job, much more physical, and I'm doing my best to make it work.
13. Buy dining room hutch, pay cash. - Fail. Because too many other expenses came up. But I'm going to do my best to save for this over the winter.
14. Take a Zumba class. - Sort of fail. I didn't make it to a class. But I did by Zumba for Wii. And then I only used it once. Really need to get back to this!
15. Write 1 blog post a week - Ummm....FAIL. Really bad!
16. Submit layouts to manufacturers websites/magazines - Did try a few times. Need to keep trying. Practise makes perfect, right?
17. Get sewing machine set up. - It's set up. But I need to find the manual so I can remember how to thread it!
18. Plan our next trip. - Sort of fail. More like on hold. With starting a new job, I don't really have vacation time until January. I'm thinking Nashville. T doesn't travel well, but that's one place he's always wanted to go. I'm thinking I could probably talk my sister into it too, although her other half also doesn't travel often, and definitely not a country fan (T & I would want to go to the Grand Ole Oprey)
19. Sign up for twitter – and use it. - Success. Kind of. I did sign up. I don't log in often, as I just don't have time. Probably once a week or so.
20. Read Nomad. - Success! And it was good, just not as good as the first book.
21. Create a long term bucket list. - Fail. Unless you count the one that's always kind of forming in my head.
22. Create a card per month for Mom’s Christmas present. - Success. More than 1 a month. I'm actually starting to get better at cards :)
23. Work on Mattie & Haylee’s mini album once a month. - Fail. But only because I didn't really have pictures for a while. I have lots now, and I do have the albums sitting in my office, just waiting!
24. Redo the main bathroom. - Fail. Too many other projects around the house, and this got put on hold.
25. Redo our bedroom. - Fail. See #24.
26. Try a new restaurant in Kingston. - Success. Went to Casa last week for a goodbye lunch with one of my former bosses.
27. Spend a day at the beach this summer. - Fail. But I was on the beach in Florida (and really--we have a pool in the yard).
28. Learn to make pie crust. - Fail. I haven't even tried yet. I will, someday!
29. Eat less processed foods. - Success. The garden helps with this one!
30. Go to Walt Disney World. - Success! We went when we were in Florida, it was great, and I can't wait to go back when we have kids!

Well, I didn't get everything, but that's ok. I just turned 31 (and I didn't make this list for a few months after my 30th birthday), and I'm just going to rewrite this, and add some to total up to 31. I really liked having some written goals and looking back on them!

Dancing Diva

I can't believe how long it's been! I keep thinking "I should blog", but then I have nothing to say!
But I decided to take a chance for once, and enter a contest over at PageMaps using the sketch above by the VERY talented Becky Fleck. The layout above it is my entry. These photos are 10 years old, from when we were in college, but I'm getting them scrapped!
I hope you enjoy!

Swagbucks

It is a fantastic time to sign up for swagbucks right now!

Swagbucks turns three years old and as part of their birthday celebration, Swag Bucks is celebrating with lots of Swag Codes and a new design.

To sign up, just click the photo link below:


And, if you enter the code BirthdayFun while signing up you will get an extra 25 SB to go with the 30 you already start with. This code is ONLY good for people who haven't joined yet - existing members won't be able to use it.

I find that they rack up quickly, giving me lots of opportunities to redeem them for my personal favorite, amazon gift cards! (Right now, I am saving for a birthday gift for a certain sweetheart of mine!)

Later!

Groupon

Another great budget saving tool are flash sale sites like Groupon. Groupon sells gift cards at a highly discounted rate. The last Groupon I bought was $8 for $20 worth of bakery product from our local bakery (and it was awesome!!). Groupon has been expanding which is great for us Canadians! They will also offer deals under other cities for internet stores, so be sure to check out cities other than the one you live in too!
Later!

Swagbucks

Hello!
I'm so, so sorry! I'm a whole one and a half month from my New Years Revolution, and I've already managed to miss a whole ton of posts! But, we went on vacation to Florida (which was awesome! especially after leaving -30 celsius weather!). And then I got sick. Another lung infection (I now get 1-2 a year) and have been busy with work. I'm just starting to feel better now!
One of the things I want to start doing on this blog is not only showing my creative work (which lets face it, I'm not great at posting -- the funny thing is I actually scrapbook a LOT!), but I am also trying to get better at budgeting my money, and I know that's hard for everyone, but in the last year, I've gotten better and better, mostly by reading what others are doing from their blogs. If you look, you'll see that I've added a new list of blogs I read to the side under the category "Frugal Blogs". I hope these help you as much as they've helped me!
Before we left on vacation, I place an order using a bunch of my swagbucks and here is what I got:

So excited about it all!
And the best part, thanks to swagbucks, it was all FREE! Yep, that's right. Talk about budget friendly!
I use swagbucks, which is a search engine that "pays" you with swag"bucks". There is a number of different ways that you can use your swagbucks, but I usually use them for Amazon.ca giftcards (they have Amazon.com giftcards too!) and use them for gifts and for myself. Another way you can earn swagbucks is thru referrals. If you are interested in swagbucks, sign up here:

I hope you love it as much as I do!
Later!

Photo Tray

A few months ago, right after we lost my grandfather, I took a new Vicki Boutin class on the 7 gypsies printers tray. This is the result of that class:


This tray uses a ton of 7 gypsies product, along with some miscellaneous pieces from other companies such as pink paislee (sorry, but they were part of the class kit). My grandfather was a bee keeper, and bee keeping was his passion, so when I saw the bee in the bottom right hand corner, I knew that this had to be for family photos and needed to revolve around him (I ended up giving this to my grandmother for Christmas -- I don't often give away my crafty products, but I figured this was a special occasion!). I absolutely loved this project (and I've always loved Vicki's classes -- if you ever get a chance to take one of her classes, do it! They are worth every penny).
Then, I decided to recreate the project and make it different as a Christmas present for my Mom (who mistakenly believes that me making her something costs me less than me buying her something, but I love the fact she wants me to do this for her--it builds my confidence in sharing what I've done--so I let her go on believing :) )
I started with Tim Holtz alcohol inks on the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Collection:


I've never used alcohol inks before, probably didn't use them for what they were intended, but I LOVE the effect!!!!
Here is the completed project with photos:


In addition to Tim Holtz alcohol inks & the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Collection, I used letters from Pink Paislee & American Crafts Thickers for the title, Making Memories for the two ribbon embelishments, Tim Holtz clock, Pink Paislee die cuts, Prima flowers, bird & felt, American Crafts Dear Lizzy brads, Making Memories for the "S", Sassafrass cork die cuts, Glimmer Mist, Distress Ink, 7 Gypsies tray, and I believe the bee is from 7 Gypsies.
Hope you enjoy!
Later

Bring on 2011!

So sorry that this is my first blog post in so long. We lost two very important members of our family back to back this summer, and in all honesty, I just lost interest in keeping up on my blog. But I'm back, and one of my New Years goals is to attempt to post once a week.
Another reason for the long time in between posts was the newest addition to our family, our Bullmastiff, Boss!



This photo is with our cat, Tess in front of our Christmas tree -- before Boss destroyed $100 worth of ornaments (the first destructive thing he's done in the 6 months we've had him) and he & Tess began eating Christmas lights. Which after stepping on broken glass, and having no working lights, we spent about 4 hours on Boxing Day stripping the lights off our prelit tree. I will never buy a prelit tree again!

Well, I think that's it for tonight. I will have a scrappy post for you in the next few days!
Later