Copic Fun!!

How about a little Copic fun today? First I have a fun new card to show you, then I have some Copic prizes to talk about. Let's get to the card first. Today I've used Karen Lockhart's new Candy Wreath stamp to create a whimsical holiday card. This image is chock full of wrapped peppermint candies. I colored the candy stripes with a Copic Sketch R29 red color and then finished up the twisted wrappers with a Copic Sketch BG11 color. To make the candies shiney, I added Ranger Glossy Accents. My image is cut and layered with Spellbinders Square and Scalloped Square Nesties die templates.

For some fun finishing touches, I cut Papertrey Rustic Snowflake patterned paper into strips and adhered them to my card front at a diagonal....keeping with my peppermint stripes theme. Finally, I took my same R29 Sketch marker and drew a red line down a long strip of white satin ribbon. It looks just like peppermint candy, don't you think? Love that look!

Now for the prizes. Copic has added some new regional certification instructors and is celebrating by giving away prizes on each of the blogs listed below!

Winner gets their choice of either an ABS-1 or any 12 Sketch Colors.

Please leave us a comment letting us know either how you use Copics/which Copic products you use/why you love them or why you wish you had Copics. One winner will be chosen randomly from each blog. In addition, Copic will be reading through the comments as well. From those comments, a few other winners will be selected based on a testimonial that we really like. That person will be contacted to use their story for our CHA booth and they would then be given an equal prize to the random winners. Make your comments good! There will probably be 2 or 3 winners chosen total. These will not be announced right away. The drawing begins on Wednesday, November 11, and ends on Saturday, November 14 at 9pm, CST. Good luck!

You can enter for the prizes by visiting and leaving comments at the following blogs:

Marianne Walker http://www.ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/
Debbie Olson http://debbiedesigns.typepad.com/muse_and_amuse/
Sherrie Siemens http://sherrie-cardcreme.blogspot.com/
Sally Lynn MacDonald http://www.inkyheart.typepad.com/
Sharon Harnist http://paperfections.typepad.com/paperfections/
Lori Craig http://loricraig.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Colleen Schaan http://www.distinctivetouches.com/

me......right here :)

Note: If you left comments on my previous Candy Bar Wrapper post, I will make sure that those get to Marianne also. :)

Chocolate Bar Wrappers

Need something quick and easy to give as little gifts this holiday season? Then try out my chocolate bar wrappers. Homemade fudge is wayyyyyyy over rated......Hershey bars are easy peasy! :) I've used Pine's adorably sweet Rustic Snowflakes patterned paper and Scor-Tape to wrap up the chocolate bar. For the little fancies, I used Papertrey Pure Poppy Luxe Satin ribbon, an Aqua Mist punched snowflake (the yellow punch, Extra Jumbo), Aqua Mist button, Rustic Twine and a stamped and punched tag from the 2008 Holiday Tags Collection. It doesn't get much easier than this!

I've put together a few kits for you try out in my Etsy shop too. The papers have adhesive on them, so all you need for this little project is 4 Hershey chocolate bars and a pair of scissors to trim the ribbon and twine.

Hope you're getting a head start on the holiday gift giving. I think these and notepads are going to be my little gifties for the holidays, how about you?

Vintage Ornaments

Cath Edvalson is celebrating the one year anniversary of her Moxie Fab blog today. She has teamed up with the Papertrey girls to showcase some fabulous stamp sets and samples......and some fabulous prizes too. Be sure to visit Cath's blog for all the details. Here's my sample that is showcased on Cath's blog today:I used Dawn's Vintage Ornaments paired up with Pine's fabulous new Rustic Snowflakes patterned paper. The ornament is all decked out with shiny sequins and a silver ribbon. Image is cut out with Spellbinder's Labels 1 die templates. I first stamped the label image from Vintage Labels in Pure Poppy ink.

The card is finished off with a pretty bow in Aqua Mist.

Congratulations to Cath on her fabulous first Moxie Fab year!!!

Holly Gift Card Envelopes

A box full of pretties........ Stamped 4 x 4 envelopes, using a Hero Arts background stamp.

Tied up with wide vintage lace, a glittery holly leaf, Christmas tag, button, leaf ribbon and twine.......perfect little envies for gift cards or cash this holiday season.

Just uploaded to my Etsy shop, see link at the left. Hope you're having a great Sunday afternoon! Off to visit with my company more. :)

Believe Gift Card Envelopes

Recently, I scored this entire giant spool of wide, vintage lace. I looooove to find treasures like this on my junking ventures. I created some beautiful gift card envelopes using the pretty lace and some Papertrey goodies.

I used Stocking Prints to create a sentiment tag and a paper pieced stocking. This is such a fun little set, I can't wait to ink it up again.

I created my tags by stamping my sentiment in Dark Chocolate ink onto creamy cardstock. I then cut my tags using Spellbinders Nestabilities ovals. The stocking was paper pieced with some pretty holiday paper. I tied my wide lace ribbon around some medium square envelopes that were covered with snowman patterned paper from my stash. The tags were tied to the lace with Martha Stewart red and white striped twin, with the addition of a little silver jingle bell.

Perfect for gift cards or money cards this holiday season. I always like to fancy up the gift cards since they come in such a small package. It's fun for the recipient to open a pretty little package.

Warm wishes mug cards..

I love my friend Pine's (Heather Nichols) set called Warm Happiness. Her sets are so simple to use which makes for some quick and easy stamped images.Actually this mug image is so easy to cut out that I stamped it with Scarlet Jewel ink onto scraps of the Basic Grey background paper and paper pieced the images by cutting them out with fine tip scissors.

Before I adhered my mugs to my punched squares stamped with Borders and Corners Squares, I stamped the oval image from Warm Happiness with Aqua Mist ink. I love how this creates a little shadow for the mug. Aqua Mist Vintage Buttons with linen string finish off the mugs. A little Aqua Mist ribbon and a sentiment from an old SU! set finish off the cards.

These cards would be great to give along with a packet of hot cocoa, perfect for this time of year. I found a new hot cocoa recipe mix that I'm so anxious to try. I have searched and searched for the perfect homemade cocoa mix and hopefully this one will be the one. I'll be sure to share the recipe if it's a keeper.

The Office Christmas Party Kit

THE KITS ARE NOW SOLD OUT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORDERS! DON'T WORRY, I'LL MORE FUN GOODIES IN THE SHOP SOON!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!!

Update: The Office Christmas Party Kits are now up in my Etsy shop. It's always open, just click on the link below the Etsy photos where it says mwooderson. Enjoy!!

Hi everyone, I found some more of those cute Really Useful Boxes so I decided to whip up a few more kits for my Etsy shop. The Office Christmas Party Kit is chock full of goodies to create Christmas cards, gift tags, post it notes, etc. Imagine the night of your Christmas office party. You dread going but don't mind the free meal and drinks. You'll only stay for a little while you tell yourself. You walk in and these goodies are all lined up as party favors. Now that would be my kind of Christmas party! That and a big fat bonus check. ;
There's Post It Notes for everyone along with fun colored clips, metal tags, a clothespin to embellish and more....
Snippets of pretty ribbon, buttons, felt snowflakes, and glittered stars.....

......and lots of hand made embellishments, my favorite part. Let's get this party started! Somebody pass me a margarita!!

A few goody sacks, lined papers and envelope......

......and the ever popular Really Useful Box in green or red. It's going to be a fun time! I can hear the chatter at the water cooler now.:)

Here's a photo of the kit contents below.

Close up of 4 x 4 assorted Christmas papers to use on cards, bags or tags...glittered star, punched label, glittered chipboard piece, Elle's Studio tag, Crafty Secrets vintage Christmas image sheet...

Two sizes of Post It Notes, metal tag, small and jumbo paper clip, flowers, buttons, clips, giant brads, clothespin....

Assorted ribbons, ric rac and lace in greens and reds.... And my personal favorites.......the DooDads....little handmade tags, lovingly pieced together with buttons, punches, flowers and string........circle tags to add to cards or gift bags...stamped and punched sentiments.......a snowflake with button........just add a pop dot to the back and adhere to desired surface.

I'll be showing a few items here on the blogaroonie for a few sample ideas so stay tuned. A perfect little kit for an afternoon or two of Christmas crafting....fun for the kids while the count down to Santa's arrival is on.......use in Christmas countdown journals......add a special embellishment to a gift sack or card....lots and lots of fun uses. Hope you enjoy!!

Details: The kit contents will be packaged in a glassine bag and the Really Useful Box....all tied up just like a little present to yourself......or to give as a gift. I'll be listing the kits in my Etsy shop(see left side bar on my blog for the link) tomorrow morning (Friday) between 7:30 and 8:00am Central Time. Kits will ship out on Monday or Tuesday of next week. Once these kits are gone, I probably won't have anymore this year. Thanks for visiting.......and as always, thank you for your wonderfully sweet comments. I so appreciate you guys!

Just a note on my shop policies:

1. I only accept PayPal for payment of purchased items. Please have your PayPal account established before placing an order. I will only hold orders for 24 hours before I relist an item.

2. I'm sorry but I cannot hold orders or accept pre-payment for orders. I'll try as much as I can to give notice here on the blog as to when big items will be listed in the shop.

TFIG.......have a great weekend everyone. P.S.....also coming soon: more Christmas notepads, gift card holders, treat wrappers, cards and more. It's going to be a fun month!

Happiest of holidays...

Tis the season to be making Christmas cards. If you like to add colored images to your cards but also want to mass produce a bunch of cards, then Karen Lockhart's Itty Bitty images are just the ticket for you. The Itty Bitty images are usually around 1" tall but are still full of details that can be colored. For my Itty Bitty Wreath, I used traditional colors of Copic reds and greens to color my image. I stamped a Papertrey Christmas sentiment right beside the wreath and then cut both images out with a Spellbinder's Mega Deckled Rectangle Nesties die template. The embossed detail and the deckle edges really add a lot to the focal image. I made a few little snips on a strip of patterned paper to make an accent banner behind the main image.

For the base of my card, I used some holly printed patterned paper, dotted with clear EK Success sticker dots. A pretty ribbon in Aqua Mist finishes off the card.

So have you started your holiday card making for this season? I love it when a little stash of cards starts to pile up. I typically make a couple cards.....one for me and one to share in the shop. I think it's time to break out the Christmas music soon, whaddya think?