Hot Chocolate Treat Card

Susan Campfield does a weekly Facebook live for her team and a few weeks ago she showed a treat holder that she modified one she saw from B.J. Peters.  I just knew I had to make it!  Partly because I still had some test tube treat holders left over from a past Paper Pumpkin kit and partly because it was just so cute.  Susan made hers with a penguin on the front using the Smitten Mitten bundle, I don’t have that bundle so I pulled out the Cookie-Cutter Christmas set.  I always have a tough time getting a clean image with such a solid stamp, I can’t wait until I get my Stamparatus!

The marshmallows are Jet-Puffed Marshmallow bits.  I colored in the rhinestones with a black sharpie (that somehow looks blue) and the dark Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Blend.  Since the little gingerbread man didn’t stamp so cleanly, I colored over him with a little Wink of Stella.

The Real Red is cut to 5″ x 9 3/8″ and scored along the long edge at 3 3/4″, 4 3/8″ and 5″.  Fold on the middle score line and cut two slits to the next score line so there is something to hold the test tube.  I used tear and tape between the 4 3/8″ and 5″ score lines because you want something strong.

Supplies:

144838	Watercolor Christmas Clear-Mount Stamp Set
142043	Cookie Cutter Christmas
140396	Cookie Cutter Builder Punch
126979	Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin’ Pad
144575	Stampin’ Blends Cherry Cobbler Dark
145409	Brights Best 12″ X 12″ Cardstock Pack
100730	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock
140272	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock
144629	Christmas Around The World Designer Series Paper
138292	Banner Triple Punch
144220	Rhinestone Basic Jewels
138995	Tear & Tape Adhesive
129026	Fuse Fast Adhesive
144612	Treat Tubes
143593	Something Good To Eat Kit

 

Watercolor Christmas Cards

 

This past weekend I had a class using the Watercolor Christmas card kit and I showed them how to double the number of cards they can make based on Rachel Tessman’s blog post here.  Her ideas are confined to each set of cards so you can make between 20 and 40 cards for this kit depending on what you need.  Rachel only used the supplies for the set of 4 cards to make the 8 cards, genius!

I do have a couple of suggestions if you want to try this.

• When stamping on the colored pieces, set them aside to dry or you will smear the ink. 
• Put down some Fast Fuse and then put the sequin trim into it to hold it in place.  (The Stampin’ Up! video I’m including at the end had this suggestion and it worked great.
• Stamping right on the card base is scary for me since I don’t always stamp well on the first try.  Leave the stamp down for a few seconds longer only gently pushing to wait for the ink to transfer.
• If your image didn’t stamp perfectly black, use either the Black Stampin’ Write Marker or a Sharpie pen to fill it in.
• You will need 3 pieces of Whisper White (I used thick) per set of cards to double them, so 15 to double the entire kit.

Here are the cards that the kit was designed to make.  You can make 5 each of the 4 cards.

Here are all the cards I make from the kit:

Here are each of the cards:

For this card, the original design was to use the sequins as the berries but we though that red berries would look so much better so I colored some rhinestones with the Cherry Cobbler Dark Stampin’ Blend.

Just in case you don’t stamp the trees cleanly, pull out the metallic sequins from last year and put some stars on top of the trees.

Here are the rest of the cards:

You can’t see it well in the photo, but I put Wink of Stella on all the little berries.

Attach the red banner first, hold the label in place to see where to stamp the branches, move the label and then stamp. 

Place the red strips red side together and you can cut the angle at the same time.

Supplies:

144649	Watercolor Christmas Project Kit
144838	Watercolor Christmas Clear-Mount Stamp Set
140931	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad
144575	Stampin’ Blends Cherry Cobbler Dark
140272	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock
144220	Rhinestone Basic Jewels
141897	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush
104430	Stampin’ Dimensionals
129026	Fuse Fast Adhesive
126889	Stampin’ Trimmer