Tip: How to make an open wreath using a vine stamp and it's coordinating die

Do you ever see a card by one of the fabulous Papertrey Ink designers and think I've gotta make a card just like that now!?  But then you realize you don't have all the supplies the designer used?  Well that happened to me recently.  I sat down to make some Christmas cards.  I immediately thought of Betsy's amazing card using the PTI Dress Up Dolls: Elves stamp set.  I couldn't wait to start making this:

Isn't it wonderfully cute!? (You can see more details on Betsy's blog here)  I was soo happy my daughter had the PTI dress up doll basic set because it gave me an excuse to buy the Elf set and thus I could recreate this card.  Or so I thought....I didn't have that rustic wreath stamp set.  So I got to thinking what I could replace the wreath with.  This is my finished card...see what you think?!

Can you guess what I used for my wreath?  I used the vine included with PTI's What the Doodle:  Ornament stamp and die set.  I had to do some snipping though to make it work.  Here let me show you.

First you stamp and die cut or fussy cut several of the vines.  (I wanted a hollow wreath for the elves to pop out of so I cut a circle out of my card front and the size of that determined how many vines I needed)  Next you will snip apart the vine as indicated above.  Then begin layering your cut peices around the circle.  I lay the middle black part of the vine directly along the edge of the circle so half  the vine is on the cardstock and the other half is hanging out of the circle.  As indicated in the photo you will want to flip the top half of the snipped vine so it is facing the wrong way.  You will also want to overlap the vine pieces slightly when you glue them around the circle.

Above is a picture of the completed wreath.  The red showing through is mat on my table.  I decided make another card using just the open wreath since it's so pretty on it's own.

I colored the wreath and bow with Prismacolors an used a sparkle gel pen to color the tiny berries.  The bow and sentiments were all from PTI's Bells and Boughs stamp set.

Supplies are listed and linked below:

PTI Dress Up Dolls: Basics Stamp Set	PTI Dress Up Dolls: Elves Stamp Set	PTI Bells and Boughs Stamp Set

PTI Stylish Sentiments: Holiday	PTI What the Doodle Ornament

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Christmas Candy Treats: Rudolph

As I type these words I'm sitting here totally amazed it is November!  Every year the days seem to fly by and Christmas comes way too fast!   Our church is having a craft and bake show on November 19th.  So I have been busy making items for this as I do every year.  This year though I thought I would share my creations on my blog.  I do hope I can inspire you to make some crafty goodies for Christmas this year.  But...shh...I am getting older and it seems sometimes I have a hard time remembering what I made in the past!  Thus if I put it on my blog I can refer to it next year to jog my memory....hopefully!

A friend of mine was explaining how she saw these candy bars wrapped to look like Rudolph on the internet but she couldn't remember where she saw them.  So I headed to Pinterest and found these adorable candy bar wrappers made by Ally Egas.  Click HERE for more info.  So went about duplicating here treats with supplies I had around the house.

These went together fairly quickly and were very inexpensive. Any snack sized candy bar would work.  I did find the Kit Kats are a bit wider then the Cookies and Cream so keep this in mind when cutting your paper.   I used brown wrapping paper to wrap around the candy bars.  I used a very old Sizzix leaf die for the antlers.  The eyes are common googly eyes.  The nose is a piece of red glittered paper punched with a Creative Memories circle punch adhered with foam tape for some dimension.  I stamped the bow from PTI's bells and boughs stamp set using Momento Cottage Ivy ink.  Then used a Copic marker to draw the line wrapping around the candy bar to form a collar so to speak.  A little bit of gold Stickles added to the center of the bow finishes this treat.  It would be perfect for stocking stuffers!

Oh and just a tip.  The hardest part of assembly are the antlers since my leaf had an itty bitty stem.  It is easier to apply a glue dot to the leaf stems and add them to the candy wrapper prior to applying to the candy bar.  I also added a piece of clear tape on the inside across both antlers (stems) to secure well.  I lined up the antlers by centering them with the bow I had stamped previously.

I hope this gets you in the gift making mood!  I have several more ideas so stay tuned for them! 

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Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday 214: Stamping with Neutrals

Dawn McVey has a wonderful video showing how to make neutral colors shine in your projects for the latest Make it Monday challenge.  Check it out here.

I decided to make a rustic card for the challenge.  I stamped Papertrey Ink's Turning a New Leaf  in Memento Rich Cocoa onto rustic cream card stock.  I just love the little flecks that add such interest to this card stock!  My PTI craft ink pad needs refilled but in this case the semi-dry pad was perfect for stamping a lighter set of leaves.  I added berries from PTI's bells and boughs in PTI scarlet jewel ink.  The sentiment is from PTI's Year Round Puns stamp set also stamped in scarlet jewel ink.  The flowers are from PTI's Honey Bees stamped in PTI melon berry ink.   This is definitely an older set but I have used the various flowers from this set over and over again.  They are just the perfect size!  The card seemed a little plain so to add some "zing" I added teeny tiny bronze beads to the center of the flowers with glossy accents. 

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