Lauri's Stampin' Corner

The Perfect Bag This tutorial came from demonstrator Jan Farring that she learned at the Stampin’ Up! Convention in 2008, and with it, you will be able to recreate your own bags for the holidays. They are fast and can be made in any size or shape for the perfect gift! WARNING!   I’ll caution you right now, these can be very addicting! Once you get started you won’t want to stop! Here’s a picture of some of them that I made… For the largest bag, you need 2 pieces of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper of the same design. Score both sheets of the paper at 2” on three sides and 1 ½” on the top side. This is so easy with the Simply Scoring tool! Lay your paper on your scoring tool with the side that you want to be the front of the bag pointed up.   If your paper has a direction to it, make sure that the design is going the right way. Fold and crease the top 1 ½” of both 12 x 12 sheets to the front side of your paper and adhere with Snail. Crease all score lines with your bone folder....

Wrap it up with these simple, fun tags! I had so much fun making these! The Two Tags Die, the new Peekaboo Frames Die, and the Circles and Scallops all cut with the Big Shot make it super simple and fast! I used an assortment of punches, lots of  paper scraps, and stamps to put them all together.                                                    This one looks like an ornament!                                    The Dasher stamp is embossed in silver and the scallops are the new silver glimmer paper. It's so sparkly in real life! A little piece from the Top Note ...

With Thanksgiving come and gone, the lights and the tree have gone up and the decorations set out. It really does look a lot like Christmas around here! I love this time of year and the anticipation and excitement of Christmas! I have spent the last couple of days stuffing envelopes and writing little notes with all the cards I have finished and they're going to the post office today! It feels so good to be done this early and I made almost twice as many as I usually do. Accomplishment! YEAH! I'm so excited too for our last class before Christmas called Wrap it Up! I've had so much fun designing the projects. The only hard part is knowing when to stop! I really must warn you ahead of time...some of these projects can be addicting! Before I share those though, I'm going to share the last Christmas card that I did. I was short about 15 cards, so wanted something that was quick, easy, and beautiful. A fellow demonstrator, Dawn Olchefske shared this card on our Stampin...