Technique Tuesday – Winter Wreath!!!

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Happy Tuesday everyone!!! That means I have a fabulous technique to share with you today and that is a fabulous winter wreath!!! After my Halloween wreath, I realized I needed to come up with something for the Holidays. After some thought and time going by, I realized that a winter wreath would be better and last longer than a Christmas one. Now I can keep this one up until the end of February or so.

Winter Wreath Rosette, www.LaurasStampPad.com

This is what I came up with!!!! What do you think?

SUPPLIES NEEDED: Foam Wreath, Burlap Ribbon, All is Calm Designer Series Paper, Rosette Designer Bigz XL Die, Big Shot, Hot Glue Gun, Embellishments (Ribbon, Buttons, All is Calm Snowflake Embellishments, Vintage Faceted Buttons)

I started by wrapping my foam wreath with the Burlap Ribbon! You can secure the ends with hot glue or straight pins. Be sure to go at an angle and make it just barely overlap or you won’t have enough to cover the wreath. Mine didn’t go all the way around but I covered up the missing portion with my rosettes. I did a class and some were able to cover all of it. You can always add more from another roll as well. Now it is time to make your Rosettes.

Smallest Rosette – One strip of Designer Series Paper: 1-1/2″ x 12″

2 Medium Rosettes – 2 strips of DSP for each Rosette: 2″ x 12″

Medium/Large Rosette – 2 strips of DSP: 2-1/2″ x 12″

Large Rosette – 2 strips of DSP: 3″ x 12″

Run each of the strips through your Big Shot with the Rosette Designer Die to get the folds for creating your Rosettes. Fold on the creases in a mountain/valley fold style. You can use your hot glue gun or some Sticky Strip to adhere the strips together and into a circle. To get your Rosette to stay down and not pop up, you will want to get our your Silicone Mat and put a glob of hot glue in the middle. Press your Rosette down onto the glob of glue right in the middle and hold while it cools. Once it is cool, it will pull right off and you are set. I did add a little scrap punched oval of cardstock to the back to cover up that glue spot and in case some of them still needed a little more stability. Once you are done with all of your rosettes, it is time to assemble them to your wreath. You can arrange them in the bottom right corner like I did or do 3 down there and 2 in the top left corner. You could even make lots of these rosettes and cover the entire wreath. Note: when assembling them to your wreath, place the glue on the wreath and place the rosette on top rather than putting the glue on the rosette. There were many times I would put it on the rosette and then realize that spot wasn’t even touching the wreath. 🙂 I added some Lost Lagoon Satin Stitched Ribbon, Vintage Faceted Buttons, and Snowflake Embellishments. You can always hang the wreath as is or you can add a ribbon loop. My ribbon loop was created with Whisper White Satin Ribbon. Love it!!!! Here it is on my front door!!!

Winter Wreath Rosette, www.LaurasStampPad.com

Let me know if you want this wreath! I would love to see your creation! Also, do you create a wreath for Valentine’s Day or just skip to Spring? Leave me a comment down below!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura


Technique Tuesday – Wreath Candle Holder!!!

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Happy Tuesday!! You all know what that means….I have a fabulous technique to share with you today! You have seen over the past few weeks lots of samples using the Wondrous Wreath Stamp Set and coordinating Wonderful Wreath Framelits! Well I have another out of the box way to use this amazing pair!

Wondrous Wreath Candle, www.LaurasStampPad.com

How adorable is this? It would be fabulous at your dinner table, on your mantel, on an end table and so many other places! You could use the Fall colors and use this at your Thanksgiving Dinner too!Now lets get started on how to make this!

SUPPLIES NEEDED: Wondrous Wreath Stamp Set, Wonderful Wreath Framelits, Big Shot, Wild Wasbi Ink, Garden Green Ink, Cherry Cobbler Ink, Red Glimmer Paper, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Candle

You will want to stamp three of the wreaths onto Whisper White cardstock and cut them out. Here is a video tutorial on how to stamp and cut! Now it is time to assemble. I started with a Scallop Circle punched piece of Garden Green as my base; you could always use any circle or scallop circle you wish! Add some Snail Adhesive around the edges of the scallop circle and place your first wreath down! Add some adhesive around the inner circle of the wreath. Take your second wreath and cut it apart on one side and overlap the wreath about 1/4″ to 1/2″ and press it into your adhesive. Now you will repeat with your last wreath but overlap it just a little bit more so that you have that gradual tapering affect. You could always use a Hot Glue Gun for this project as well. Now for your candle, measure your candle so you know how much Red Glimmer Paper you will need (all candles vary). I used Sticky Strip to adhere the Red Glimmer Paper to my candle. Now you can add a bow to your candle to help cover the crease of the glimmer paper and for some added flare. I used Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding and attached it with a Stampin’ Dimensional. Be sure not to adhere your candle to your wreath because the on/off switch for the candle is on the bottom! (Thought I would mention that since I almost did that. 🙂

I hope you enjoy this technique today and were able to see yet another way how to use your Wondrous Wreath Stamp Set and coodinating Wonderful Wreath Framelits! Bundle & Save! Love this pair!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura


Fall Decorations & Fabulous Deals!

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Happy Friday!!! I thought I would share some of my Fall Decorations! I’m not a huge decorator for each season (mostly because I don’t like storing it all the other months of the year)! But this is one decoration that is simple, cute, and easy to store! That’s right up my alley!!!

Pumpkin Home Decor, www.LaurasStampPad.com

How cute are these? They would be great on a mantel, kitchen table, hall table, and just about anywhere! Each of these pumpkins was created with 1″ strips of paper. The length of the paper varies for each one (smallest – 4″ and largest – 11″). You could even go 12″ with your Designer Series Paper.  I used Cajun Craze and Color Me Autumn Designer Series Paper. You can add as many stripes as you wish for a fuller pumpkin or just a few like the one against the wall. For some reason I made that one with just a few strips so I make it a half pumpkin and lay it against the wall or table! Once you have your strips of paper 1″ wide and however long you wish. You will take your 1/8″ Hand Held Hole Punch and punch a hole near the end on both ends. You don’t want to go in too far because then you will have lots of overlapping paper. Once you have holes on both ends of all of your strips, you can either add a brad to each end to hold them all together or you can put string through the holes. If you use a brad (I like the Antique Brads), you are all done and can start separating the stripes and fanning them out to make your pumpkin. If you are using ribbon, you will run all the pieces on one end through the ribbon and tie a knot on the outside. Now take the other end and do the same. With the ribbon, you can pull tight and make your pumpkin squatty or allow more ribbon and it is more tall or round! Now you can separate the strips and fan out your pumpkin. The best part is at the end of the season, just collapse all of the strips up again and you can store it flat! Love it!!!!

Of course, what is a Friday without the Weekly Deals to swoon over!!! 🙂

Weekly Deals 11.4

I hope you have a fabulous weekend!!!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura


Technique Tuesday – Halloween Wreath!!!!

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Happy Tuesday!!! You know what that means!!! I have a fabulous technique to share with you and today that is this amazing Halloween Wreath!!!

Frightful Wreath, www.LaurasStampPad.com

I love how I can have a fabulous wreath on my door for every season because Stampin’ Up has amazing kits!!! Check out my last one here! This kit comes with everything you need except a hot glue gun and a black ink pad for coloring your doilies.

Frightful Wreath Supplies, www.LaurasStampPad.com

You can see it comes with the foam wreath, the web, the black foo foo to wrap around the wreath, beads for the spider, ribbon, doilies, a sponge to color the doilies, and all the other pieces you need! I love that because it makes it super simple to just follow the directions and come up with an amazing home decor piece! BUT that doesn’t mean you have to follow the directions. I know there are a few rebels out there that like to create their own thing and that is perfectly fine as well. Now that I have assembled my wreath and looked at it each day because it on my Stamp Room door still, I have decided I’m going to change mine up. I feel like the spider is super adorable (and fake so I’m okay with him) but he blends into the black too easily. I am going to take off the greeting banner and stick the spider in the middle so he pops! Here is an upclose look at him!

Beaded Spider, www.LaurasStampPad.com

Also, I thought I would share this video in action. I’m sorry it isn’t my beautiful voice (hehehe, right) but one of the fabulous ladies at Stampin’ Up! While this kit doesn’t take that long to make, I’m sure if I made a video on it, it would be way longer than this one! 🙂

So my technique for you today is try out a kit! These kits are great to make as shown or you can add your own flare and mix it up a bit!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura


Technique Tuesday – Rosettes!!!

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Happy Tuesday!!! That means I have a fabulous technique to show you and I thought I would keep the Big Shot Fun rolling!!! So this technique uses the Rosette Designer Die and I will show how to make fabulous Rosettes!!! PS: If you missed out on all of the Big Shot Fun last week, click here!

Designer Rosettes, Name Tag, www.LaurasStampPad.com

Aren’t these adorable? I am using them for my Bridal Events as name tags but you could always create a wreath out of them or an amazing backdrop or even a gift tag!

SUPPLIES NEEDED: Cardstock, Big Shot, Rosette Designer Bigz XL Die, Extended Cutting Pads, Silicone Craft Mat, Glue Gun, and embellishments to decorate

For the Rosettes above, I cut 2 pieces of cardstock measuring 1-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ because I wanted a little Rosette. You will need 2 pieces of cardstock because otherwise the rosette is too tight and it will not reach around without ripping. The more pieces you use, the fuller your rosette will look. If you want a larger rosette you will make your cardstock pieces wider. Once I had my cardstock ready to go, I placed them on the Rosette Designer Die with at least one end on a crease line, this way I knew it was lined up straight. Run it through your Big Shot and then start folding on the lines in a mountain/valley pattern. Then you will bring out your Silicone Mat and Hot Glue Gun. You can use the hot glue or Sticky Strip or the new Fast Fuse to connect your ends with each other. You will want to connect them so that they keep the mountain/valley. Now you will take your hot glue gun and squeeze out a big glob of it onto your Silicone Mat, then place the rosette on top of the the hot glue, placing the center of the rosette on the glue. Hold for a few seconds, allowing it to cool and then you have your perfect rosette and you can decorate as you wish! I added some Blackberry Bliss Satin Stitched Ribbon and Venetian Crochet Trim, adhering it with more hot glue. Then for the greeting I used the I love you from the Good Greetings Stamp Set which is a Hostess Special Set that you can earn starting on August 28th! I stamped it on Very Vanilla cardstock and punched it out with my 1-3/4″ Circle Punch and layered it onto a Blackberry Bliss Scallop Circle Punch. For the other one, I used a greeting from a Demonstrator Set that I have so I could have little name tags! I used the Decorative Label Punch for that one!

Okay so I may have lost you on the directions above so I have created a Video Tutorial to show you how to create these amazing little rosettes! Be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you like it and want to see more Video Tutorials!

Don’t forget about the Big Shot Special that ends on August 31st! Also, if you want to earn the Good Greetings Stamp Set for FREE, click here to book your party/stamp class today!!!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura


Burlap & Blooms Wreath Kit!!!

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Burlap Wreath, www.LaurasStampPad.comWhen I first looked through the Occasions Mini Catalog, my eyes caught this amazing Burlap and Blooms Wreath Kit and I knew I had to have that for my front door wreath! It is fabulous! The kits comes with all of the flower to assemble, the burlap, the twine, the buttons, and directions! All you need is a hot glue gun! I actually comes with a thick cardboard ring for you to use but I just used the foam wreath that I have used a million times and just redecorate it! Here is another photo of the wreath that a customer of mine did and she used the cardboard wreath that comes with the kit!

Burlap Wreath, www.LaurasStampPad.com

I love how she mixed the colors of the spikey flowers….the ones that are loops of paper wrapped around each other.  So many ways you can make it different from the original and SO SPRING-Y!!!! I love it. I also went to deliver an order at a customer’s house and what was on the front door…..THIS WREATH! She had completed her’s and it was look absolutely amazing on her front door. There is still time to get your kit and make this amazing wreath….after all here in IL, Spring is still not officially here with a mix of 70 degree weather and snow this week.

Happy Hot Gluing!!!

~Laura


Loving my Banner!!

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Joy Banner, www.LaurasStampPad.comI have changed out my Banner from the Thankful one (here) to this one!!! It was created with the Build-A-Banner kit in the Holiday Mini Catalog! I used Pool Party and Bermuda Bay for the stripes, dots, and chevron patterns. Smokey Slate was the color used for the letters! The decorations between the letter are rosettes from the Christmas Banner Simply Created Accessories Kit. I love these banners so much and plan on keeping a banner hanging in this spot all year long!!! Next one might be LOVE for Valentine’s Day or something for Spring or both!

Right now you can get the Banner Refill Kit and Christmas Banner Accessories Kit on SALE! Check out the weekly deals here! These items end tonight at midnight so get them while they are on sale!!!

Happy Stampin’

~Laura


Curly Paper Fall Wreath!

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Curly Paper Wreath, www.LaurasStampPad.com

 

When I saw this wreath, I thought I HAVE to do that! I had a fall wreath hanging on my front door but I wasn’t super excited about it. In less than 2 hours, I found this wreath, cut the strips of Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper, and made the wreath…..all while watching Dancing With The Stars!!!! Now that is multi-tasking at it’s best, right?? All you need is a foam wreath and I have been re-using this one for over a year! Woot Woot! You will need Designer Series Paper or solid cardstock in 1/2″ strips and then you will run the strip over your bone folder (the same way you run curling ribbon over scissors). This will break the fibers and cause the cardstock to curl – Designer Series Paper curls easy but regular cardstock you need to run through at least 2 times! Then you will take a straight pin and place it in the middle of your curl onto your wreath! Repeat a million more times! haha Just kidding, it really doesn’t take that long. I’ll be honest, I looked at this and thought I’ll be here all night but it comes together quickly. You can then pull all of the curls off and do it with Winter Frost Designer Series Paper for the Winter Season! I’m loving it!!!! Now go try it out and send me a picture of your Curly Paper Wreath!!! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Happy Curlin’

~Laura


Getting Crafty with my Fall Decorations!

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Happy Wednesday! With the Halloween theme this week, I thought I would share these Pumpkin decorations with you! I created these last year (or maybe the year before) and they still look amazing with very little storage space needed!

Basket of Pumpkins, www.LaurasStampPad.com

So you are probably thinking, which package of Designer Series Paper is that? Since I made them a year or so ago, it was the fall pack that year! You could use the Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper for your pumpkins or you could use regular solid cardstock! My solid pumpkins were created with Cajun Craze cardstock! All you need are strips of cardstock and then poke a hole in the ends and insert a brad! I used our Antique Brads! You can then circle some cardstock around a marker (or anything else round a little) to get your little curly cues! When it is time to pack up the decorations at the end of the season, just pull the brad out of the bottom and line all the strips up and then re-insert the brad. Super simple and small to store and use again next year!!!!

Pumpkin Storage, www.LaurasStampPad.com

Happy Stampin’

~Laura