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!

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.

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!

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.

A customer asked me to make this Christmas frame in Bravo Burgundy and Handsome Hunter colors.  I like how it turned out.

The first theme for October’s scrapbook club was birthday pages made in primary colors.  The Big Shot "Alphabet Simple Letters" has become my favorite alphabet die cut.

The Big Shot "Big Bold Cupcake" sizzlits die cuts were very fun to use.  Crimped the bottom of the cupcake and added brads to the top.

I’ve been wanting to try the Big Shot "Lattice" die for a while.  Glue dots work the best to make them stick to cardstock.

The second theme was Christmas featuring Merry Moments designer series paper, Old Olive, Real Red and Very Vanilla cardstock.

Embossed words in Iridescent Ice embossing powder and punched with the ornament punch.  Added silver cording on the back held with a brad.

This page features the styled vanilla hodgepodge hardware kit with retired real red striped grosgrain ribbon.

 Again, the embossing was done with Iridescent Ice embossing powder.

My Scrapbook Club met this week and made four 12×12 pages.  I will show you the four pages without photo’s and with my Christmas photos.  I tend to take a lot of photo’s and then worry how I’ll get them on my pages.  Page 1:  11 photo’s on it!

Page 2:  7 photo’s on this page.

Page 3:  12 photographs on this page!!

Page 4:  5 photo’s on this page.

I’m pleased that I got 35 photo’s on these four pages.  I love using the large oval punch and the 1 3/4" circle punch to get head shots of people.  It is quick and easy to do too.  I like to blend the small head shot photo’s with my larger photo’s.  Now I just have to do my journaling and then into the cabin scrapbook album they go!

This card is made by Peggy K.

This card is by Amy M.

That’s it for posting Christmas cards.

My downline, Amy M., made these two ornaments.  The one on the left was used with the silk flowers from the Pretties kit.  The one on the right was used with circle punches.

Here’s a closeup of the silk flowers.

Here’s a closeup of the circle punches (folded).

It amazes me that people can think up such creative ideas.  Of course, I love copying them!  Okay, that’s it for Christmas posts.

This card was made by Wanda.

This card was made by Liz.

This card was made by Sue A.

They did a great job on their cards!  I just LOVE getting handmade cards in the mail, don’t you?