MeGa Stampin Studio

Holiday Wreath Card

Can you believe it's only 3 DAYS until Christmas!!  There's still time to make someone happy with a handmade card so why not try this beautiful front door card.  There have been many styles of this card made.  We were inspired to make one as well.  The door "panels" were just made by sponging around the layered, popped up white pieces.  It is amazing how much it looks like a door.  A silver brad is added for the door knob.

The wreath is from the stamp set, Welcome Christmas.  It was stamped in Garden Green, cut out, and sponged.  The red berries were added with a Real Red marker.  If you are ambitious, it would be great to punch a bunch of berries from Real Red and glue them on.  Even adding Crystal Effects would give great dimension.  We added a bow using the 1/8" Taffeta ribbon - we are loving this 1/8" ribbon!

   

We hope you are all ready for the holiday season!  Melissa and Gayla

 

Cookie Cutter Ornaments!

These are the fun ornaments that Melissa made for everyone at our annual SU Christmas party.  They were all different and unique.  Each was covered with a strip of DSP and embellished with ribbon, buttons, tinsel, bells, etc. 

 
Hang 'em on a tree or place 'em at each place setting.  They would also be a great trim for all your holiday packages.

 

These were fun and a great way to use lots of left over scraps of holiday paper.  Don't just think Christmas....we think they would be great fun for any party.  Be thinking hearts!

Melissa and Gayla

So cute snowman...

This cute little guy is the gift Melissa was fortunate to acquire. :) Isn't he the most dapper snowman you've ever seen?   Our friend and fellow stamping buddy, Patti O'Toole, is the talented one who created him!

 

His body is paper mache' boxes that have been covered with Deck the Halls DSP.  She used Early Espresso 1-1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon for his hat band.  Notice his buttons...they are the rolled roses made with the same Deck the Halls DSP.

Thanks, Patti!!  He has a new home and really likes it here.

Hugs,

Melissa

Merry Christmas card

This is a simple but elegant looking Christmas card.  We sometimes forget that simple embossing really adds so much to our projects.

 

Supplies:

• Card Stock - Night of Navy, Brushed Silver, Shimmery White
• Stamps  - Christmas Postcard
• Other - Navy eyelets, Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon, VersaMark pad, Silver embossing powder, Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder

 

Only 10 days until Christmas!!   Melissa and Gayla

Party Time!

This past Saturday was our annual Stampin' Up! Christmas party.  Not only did we all have a great time, the gifts that everyone created were wonderful!!  We will be sharing several of the projects with you over the next few weeks before Christmas.  But first, here are the two we made.

All the projects have to be handmade, of course, using Stampin' Up! products.  

J O Y to the world.....

Each of the wood blocks used for this project measure 3-1/2" x 6".  They were stained and were layered with Deck the Halls DSP.

The letters are chipboard that were covered with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

If you look close, the flowers and holly are all cut out and layered on the background.

It's all hinged together so it will sit perfectly anywhere.

The wreath is a wire frame that was totally loaded up with tags which we cut out using the Two Tags die.

The DSP is Candy Cane Christmas.

The several styles and colors of ribbon were used - Real Red grosgrain, 1/8" Taffeta; Blushing Bridge stitched poly ribbon; Wild Wasabi retired ribbon.

The base of tags were tied on and then layers upon layers of tags were added to create fullness and to fill in gaps.

Buttons and more ribbons were added as finishing touches.

We hope you have enjoyed these two projects and be sure to stop back to see more great ideas from our stampin' friends.

Melissa & Gayla

Christmas Greetings

Today's vintage card was inspired but several other similar cards; we think one was from Angie's site.  The large Christmas Collage background stamp was stamped in Early Espresso and sponged around the edges and over the top slightly.

The skaters are from the set, Winter Post.  They were stamped and then lightly colored in with a blender pen and stamp pads for just a hint of color.  They were punched with a 1-1/2" circle punch and then layered on a 1-3/4" Early Espresso circle.  These were then popped up with dimensionals.  The "Christmas Greetings" is from the retired set, Grateful Greetings.  It was then punched with the Decorative Label punch and then layered on Early Espresso which was then trimmed around that shape.

We used a small piece of eyelet trim - similar to the Stampin' Up! crochet trim, Chantilly and Victoria.

 

Simple and vintage!  Melissa and Gayla

A gift for someone who has everything..Initial Ornaments

We were inspired by the initial ornaments found at our local Pottery Barn.  We knew we could make something very similar with all of our stamping supplies.  These were made with Nestabilities but we also made some with the Big Shot Scallop Circle #2 die and the large clear circle die.  It will depend on what size of initial you use.  Ours were made with the Serif Essentials alphabet dies.

 
We cut two scallops from Very Vanilla card stock and glued them together for stability.  The letters were die cut with Basic Black card stock and glued on to the front with Tombow glue.  We used the Crop-a-Dile to punch and set our jumbo eyelets.  Silver glass glitter was used to outline the scallop.  You could also use the tinsel trim around the edges if you wanted to avoid the glitter mess!  We used Real Red grosgrain ribbon as the tie and embellished with small jingle bells. 

 
You can also use double-sided patterned paper.  What a great tag to add to all your wrapped packages.

Thanks for stopping by!

Melissa and Gayla 

Mitten, Mitten, Who's got the Mitten?

 
Believe it or not, it's time to start decorating for the holidays.  So, why not start with these!!

 

A red one for you and a ....

 
cream one for me.  These mittens were made using the template found here(View this photo) and stuffed with a little batting.  The mittens were hand-sewn using a blanket-stitch but you could easily use a sewing machine. They have been embellished with glitter, ribbon, buttons, bells, whatever you have and love.  You can make these any size.

These would be adorable on a tree OR added to a package or gift bag!  You still have a few days...get started soon!!  Melissa and Gayla

 

 

Christmas Gift Tag Idea

We've seen this project around but hadn't made one until we did at one of our quarterly Stampin' Up get-togethers.  Whether you've seen this idea or not, we still thought it worth showing as it is such a great way to store and/or give, tags as a gift.

The holder is made using one of the 6x6 page protectors normally used in your scrapbook.  The card stock measures 6-1/2" x 8-1/2" and scored at 1-3/4".   

 
These tags were all made using the stamp set, Tags til Christmas. 

 
Supplies:

• Card stock - Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Whisper White 
• Stamps - Tags til Christmas, Welcome Christmas
• Ink - Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green
• Punches - 1-3/4" Scallop Circle, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle, Scallop Square, Decorative Label, Ornament, Large and Extra Large Tag, 1-1/4", 1-3/8", 1-3/4" circles, 1-1/4" and 1-3/8" squares
• Other - eyelets and silver cord

Have fun and get creative making this great project!

 

As always, thanks for stopping!

Melissa & Gayla

 

 

Take Two Tuesday - "Things To Do" Gift Holder

 
Today we got a little crazy with our scoring and folding (you'll see as you scroll down), but check out this great coffee and chocolate gift idea.

 

We scored and folded the folder and then added DSP, matching top and bottom.  The Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper has some pages that are harder to use since they were designed to work great for scrapbook pages. We wanted to find another way to utilize those pages.

 
This photo really shows how the paper was cut and matched between the top and bottom portions of the holder.  You can see that the chocolate sticks and individual coffee packets fit very well in our "skinny" pockets.  We created these skinny pockets by just adding one more fold per section on the original tutorial.  You do not have to do chocolate or coffee.  These skinny pockets will also hold other things like - movie, concert or sport tickets, nail files, skinny note pads, candy canes, pencils, book marks, etc.

 
We hope you have enjoyed the four "Take Two Tuesdays" this month.  But wait, we aren't done...there are five Tuesdays in November so come back for one more idea next week.

Here is a recap of the other 3 projects we created using this one tutorial!

        
Christmas                        Mini Album                  Birthday

If you still haven't purchased this $5.95 tutorial and would like to, use the Paypal button below.  Please note that you will receive the inserts for the original tutorial, the Christmas organizer and the birthday organizer!!  Remember, if you purchased the original tutorial before we added these extras, please let us know and we will be happy to forward you the other inserts! 

Thanks for stopping and shopping with us!

Melissa & Gayla