Stamp 'n Hop - Anything but a Card

Welcome, for those who are here for the first time, 

my name is Annette Ball I am an independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in Canada 

All I can say is Wow!! Have I ever neglected my blog!! I guess that will have to be a New Years Goal!!   Today the Lovely Vicky Wright has invited me to make anything but a card!!  Below is a project I created for a class that no-one signed up for...I Know right?? Well it is a busy time of year so all is forgiven!! 

The first project starts with a piece of burlap ribbon that I Hot glued 3 square coasters to.  I then cut 3 slightly larger squares in Very Vanilla and ran them thru the plank embossing folder and sponged them and their edges with Crumb Cake.  I used the gorgeous banded dies to create the lacy Real Red frame.  I used the Stars dies and gold glimmer to cut out the scrolly star piece and cut it in half so it could peek out on both corners. and saved the stars to use as sequins all over the entire piece. I layered these die cut pieces first using tombow liquid glue.

I then placed 2 pieces of the same burlap ribbon horizontally and trimmed the edges as shown using Glue Dots.

The Real Red circle is the third largest of the circle dies. And the nested shape out of toile designer series paper is the second of third largest shape.  I then used the gold glimmer and my retired large letters..I hope you kept yours or you can find a substitute!! and die cut the word JOY. The letter was adhered using dimensionals.

I found this adorable wicker heart at the dollar store and instantly thought I could create something cool with that!!

I used our White ribbon that is edged with Silver..it makes a gorgeous bow! The banner is Night of Navy and I heat embossed the silver 'Christmas' from the Merry Christmas to all and cut the Merry from the Merry Christmas dies.

I really hope you enjoyed my projects today.  All the Stampin' Up! products used are available at my online store.  Clicking on the Canadian flag to your right will take you there.  You must live in Canada to shop with me.  Please continue to the next blog and enjoy the hop, there are many wonderful projects to help you with your Holiday crafting!

Merry Christmas!!