Happy Winter Solstice!

Well, winter is officially here!  Although folks on the east coast will agree that it came in with a mighty big punch a couple of days early.  I hope everyone is safe and warm!

Here are a couple of sneak peek layouts of the January kits.  These were made by Emelyn.

 

 So pretty!!

The kits go on sale on December 31st at 7 PM!

Christmas Tag Tutorial by Jennifer

First, I'd like to THANK Jennifer Priest for agreeing to be the guest designer for the last three months.  Her layouts and projects were just awesome.  If you are in So. Cal. you need to take a class with her!  Her classes and projects are just way too cute!!  Thank you Jennifer!!

Jennifer created some tags with the December kit and wrote up this little tutorial on how see made them.

It's happened to the best of us...wrapping presents at midnight on Christmas Eve and you run out of gift tags! My mom took to using Sharpie right on the gift wrap when presents were "from Santa" because she always ran out of tags but being a crafter, it's got to be handmade for me!

These gift tags can be created in a snap using scraps in your stash. Using the Round-It-All gives these "scrappy" tags a finished, professional look. And you don't have to wait until Christmas Eve to make some -- use them as tags all year long, just change the color scheme.

Supplies:
Corner Rounder - Zutter Round It All
Hole Punch - Zutter Rivet Hole Punch
Paper - Graphic 45, Bazzill, My Mind's Eye
Baker's Twine - Raffit
Punch, Felt Snowflakes - Stampin' Up!
Stamps - Basic Grey
Ink - Memento


Assembly:
1. Cut some double sided paper into 2.5" or so squares.

2. Stack up the squares and use the Round It All to round the edges all at one time (nifty, huh?)

3. Punch a hole in one corner and put a string through -- you can use yarn if you don't have any cute baker's twine or ribbon. You can use the Zutter Rivet Hole Punch to punch holes through your stack of tags all at once.

4. Stamp "To" and "From" on the back of the tag.

5. Punch stars or holiday themed shapes from scrap cardstock or use stickers & pre-made accents, like the felt snowflakes I used on my tags here, to embellish the front of the tag.

Happy Wrapping!

Countdown to 2010

Ready for some sneak peeks of the January kits?!

Here are two pictures of the main kit -

A picture of the add-on:

And two pictures of the Valentine Mini-Kit:

Kits go on sale on December 31st at 7 PM (Pacific time).

Have a great week everyone!

Holiday Greetings from Emelyn

After today, there is less than 10 days left until Christmas!  EEECK!  I don't know about you, but I've still got gifts to buy and cards to mail.  Can we rewind the clock back to Dec. 1st?! lol!

How about some eye candy from Emelyn to get you into the holiday spirit?  Here are some more wonderful goodies from Emelyn using the December kit:

Come back tomorrow night for pictures of the January kits!

Take care!

Drum roll please ...

And the winners are:

For Kit #1:

Blogger  AmesOx said...

    What a wonderful sale! I am off to check it out :)

 November 28, 2009 1:13 AM

For Kit #2:

Beverly M of Michigan!!

Congratulations Ladies!!

AmesOx, if you could send me your mailing information I'll get your kit out to you right away!

Beverly, I have your address and your kit is on it's way!

THANK YOU to everyone for playing!!

Have a great week!

Giveaways are now closed

I'll be back with the names of the winner shortly ...

12 hours to go ...

There are only about 12 hours left to try to win one of two My Mind's Eye Mega pack of goodies!  Leave a comment or shop at the Miki-Mart by noon (PST) on November 30th.

Would you like to see what the Maya Road Chipboard tree looks like all painted up with Maya Mists?

I just love the gold shimmer to the tree!