Stamps & Stretchy Pants

Hey Hey Hey! Welcome to my 3rd share of 12 Days of Christmas with Melanie and Brenda. We hope you have been enjoying our projects so far. Did you know at the end of this hop you will have 14 project ideas? Isn’t that amazing?

I have to admit, I am pretty obsessed with the Reindeer Fun Dies at the moment. In particular, the adorable, genius reindeer head that you can make.

I started with a base of Real Red and added a first layer of Basic White card stock. I then added a layer of DSP from the Reindeer Days collection. I used the largest die from the Stitched Dies in Basic White to be my base for my little reindeer.

The adorable reindeer is put together using Reindeer Fun Dies from the Holiday Catalogue. I used Pecan Pie for his face, Basic White for the behind layer and Early Espresso for the antlers. The wreath is in Garden Green to coordinate with the DSP.

The sentiment is from the Greetings of the Season stamp set which you can find in the online store!

Tomorrow you can hop on over to Melanie’s blog and see what she has to share for a holiday project.

Welcome to my second post of 12 Days of Christmas! Today I want to share a quick and easy holiday gift—A Take-a-Way cup with a fun label that you can fill with hot chocolate!

My kids and I love to drink hot chocolate and I often send some with them to school in a disposable cup (much easier than remembering to bring home a travel mug to your mom, haha!) and I often make some as gifts for my stamping friends. The Holiday season is busy so its fun to have inspiration for projects that don’t take up that much time!

I found these gold striped To Go cups at my local HomeSense and I took the sleeve that came with them and deconstructed it so it was flat. Then I traced it onto some of the Reindeer Days DSP to create my own sleeve.

I punched a 2 3/8 circle from Garden Green and ran it through the Dashing Designs embossing folder. The sentiment ‘Christmas is Better Together’ is from the Reindeers Days stamp set and is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White.

I used the heart die from the Friends for Life dies to cut out the sentiment and I was so happy it fit so perfectly around the sentiment. The gold bow (to tie into the lines on the cup) is from the Reindeer Fun dies and I snipped a couple pieces of Granny Apple Green card stock into little banners to add behind the heart/bow.

This is such a great, fun and easy project to give a little treat of hot chocolate, or fill the cup with chocolates or other treats.

Head on over to Mel’s Inky Fingers tomorrow to see what she has to share for holiday inspiration!