Lookie, Lookie, Lookie – you can now stamp your cookies!

Stampin’ Up! has a brand-new product called Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. Something fun for crafter’s, baker’s and kids! The cookie stamp is a solid wood handle with three interchangeable stamp images: a heart, a jack-o-lantern, and a snowflake.

Just make your favorite shortbread cookie dough (or one of the two included recipes) and stamp away! Create beautiful, hand-stamped cookies in a flash. The stamp images are completely food-safe and child-friendly. They're easy to use and no ink required!

Turn your cookies in to homemade gifts by packaging them in a Kraft Gift Box from the Holiday Mini Catalog (find them on page 15). The boxes are made from food-safe material. And the perfect tag can be made with our A la Carte stamp – Homemade – on page 20 of the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog.

To order, use item code  #125152 for $16.95.  What a sweet present!

Tags: Holidays

TODAY, September 1, 2011 - January 3, 2012 are the ordering dates for items in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  There are so many fun and exciting products for the upcoming holidays and for your everyday papercrafting projects.

Want to see some items in person?  Then be sure to attend my Holiday Mini Catalog Open House on Friday, September 23, 2011, from 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., at my home in Blaine.  RSVP needed so you can make the projects.

Tags: Holidays

Yesterday, this is what I woke up to.

Our yard and trees were covered with a beautiful, fresh coating of snow.  I grabbed my camera and took different pictures in the yard and on the drive to my daughter's house.  It was so beautiful seeing the snow sticking to the trees.  But by noon, almost all the snow had melted.  This doesn't happen every Spring, so I wanted to capture proof of the snow in my photographs.

Today's card is an Easter card from my recent Card Buffet.  It features the 121905 Easter Blossoms stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog.  I embossed the words and images in black to give them some dimension.  I also sponged the edges of the Very Vanilla cardstock for the words and images.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Ink:  105208 Sahara Sand Ink Pad, 102283 VersaMark Ink Pad

Punches:  119859 2" x 1 3/8" Oval XL Punch

Sizzix:  113469 Scallop Circle #2 Die & 122125 3" Circle Original Die, 117335 Perfect Polka Dots Emb. Folder

Accessories:  1000045 Pink Pirouette Marker, 118481 Victoria 5/8" Crochet Trim, 109133 Black Embossing Folder, 101610 Sponges

The Easter Blossoms stamp set is only available until April 30, 2011.

Tags: Big Shot, Stamping

My two oldest grandgirls wanted a new art project to do today.  I opened my craft cupboard and found 2 styrofoam cones.  That's when I remembered seeing the back of the new upcoming Holiday Mini Catalog.  Viola!  They took my pile of retired cardstock scraps and started punching circles.  They adhered them with glue dots, which isn't permanent, but good enough for a child's project.  The project on the mini catalog used brads to adhere the circles.

Here's a close up of their finished projects and a very small picture of the inspiration project on the mini catalog.

And here are the proud artists with their creations!  Not bad for 6 1/2 and 3 years old!

Tags: Holidays, Punches

Here is the mini scrapbook that the students at my Big Kids, Little Kids Mother's Day class made.  They used the Tea Party Designer Series Paper and Whisper White cardstock for this project.

The base of the scrapbook is using 114519 Bag w/Scallops Sizzix die cut.

Fold it in half and then fold in half again.

This is the inside of the scrapbook with places for three photo's.

This is the outside of the scrapbok with one place for a photo.  Where it says "i love you" is where the child writes their name and the year the scrapbook was made.

Tags: Big Shot, Gift Item, Holidays, Scrapbooking