Here’s a HO HO HO banner that I made for a door prize at our weSTAMP get together.
I prefer to use the sponge daubers when sponging the banner. The spritzing method recommended didn’t come out very well. The ink ran under the stencil.
Rusty jingle bells are from Hobby Lobby.
Click on photo for upclose look. Sorry such poor lighting in these photos!!!
Some days I crave sweets so much this is what I feel like doing!
Here’s one of the make and takes from our weSTAMP Christmas party. I LOVE all forms of these legs that can really brighten up a party! I have done witch legs in the past HERE.
To create the elf feet, I just used the Top Note die and cut it equally into 4ths (one Top Note die will make 2 pairs of feet).
Punch the top of the shoes using the XL Oval for the larger punch, and the 3/4″ Circle for the smaller punch. Tape them together.
The ends have popsicle sticks that aren’t covered in DSP.
The link to the M&M’s poem can be found HERE.
Take a look at the Weekly Deals today that started today! 
Here’s a couple more coffee cup ideas for you that you can use all winter long! Inside the cup I added “fixings” for hot chocolate.
The first one you may notice the “Snow Day” snowman is super small. Thanks to my awesome downline Sue Parker, she shrunk him down in MDS so we could fit him on the cup! THANKS SUE! The arms are just free-hand and bent out so they are a bit 3-D
To see post on where you can purchase coffee cups and also download the FREE pattern to the coffee huggers (courtesy of Deb Valder!) click HERE.
Here’s a project from Stamp Club last month! I am IN LOVE with these coffee cups!
If you were in my Virtual Stamp Club last month, you received a completed coffee cup, along with two other completed projects, in the mail! Do you want to join Stamp Club in November and receive 3 new projects? Please visit my page HERE to find out how you, too, can become a Virtual Club Member!
If you are local (in the Phoenix area) and would like to join my local club, there are new clubs starting all the time! Please email me for details!
Here’s a fun LITTLE treat! We’re talking this little thing is about 2″ x 2″!
Recipe:
Paper: Gumball Green, Whisper White, Basic Black, Witche’s Brew DSP
Accessories: 1/2″ Circle Punch, Cupcake Punch (black center of eyes), Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker, Silver Brads, Paper Piercer
Sheila L was the lucky winner of the new Envelope Punch Board! Thank you for those of you who participated and ordered from my online store this month! Sheila, your new toy is on its way!
Last month we made these coffee gift card holders in Stamp Club. One of my downline, Jeanette Weeks, played around with it and showed me a fall version of it. She said you can even get Starbucks cards with fall leaves that match this! LOVE IT! You can easily recreate this. I made a video for it in a previous post HERE.
Our weSTAMP team meeting was this week, and our swap theme was Fall/Thanksgiving/Halloween. Here’s what I came up with. I took a brown flat bag and turned it into a gusseted one. (Just score on 3 sides at 1″, leaving the open top edge unscored).
Recipe: Stamp Set: Halloween Happiness, Positively Chevron
Paper: Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Concord Crush
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, 5/8″ Satin Ribbon (retired), 1/4″ Hole Punch, Pinking Shears, 1 3/8″ Circle Punch
Inside was the caramel corn recipe that I make ALL THE TIME! If you’d like the recipe, click HERE.
Here are my roomies at Convention! The “blind mice” are: Me (Lorri), Dawn, Melissa and Linda.
It is tradition to make room mate gifts and here they are! The notebook cover was made by Linda. Inside was a pen and notebook to take notes at Convention. She even made a coffee theme for me, knowing how much I love my coffee! Melissa made a survival kit for us. It was a bag full of things we would need to “survive” convention! Dawn made us eye shades, which you can see in the photo above. The shades have the words “I Stamp in my Sleep” embroidered on it. We sure had fun with those, as you can see!! LOL What a great bunch of gals! THANKS ROOMIES! I MISS YOU! My gift to my roomies were the witch cauldrons, which I posted a while ago HERE.
Becky Roberts and I hold our Team Meeting together at Convention. Here we are right before it got started. We had so much fun PLANNING it – that was as much fun as putting it on! We had so many silly conversations/texts/even iPhone videos explaining things! What a hoot! 
Here is a gift from Becky, isn’t it darling? Lots of goodies – THANKS BECKY!! The 2nd picture below shows the back side of the easel frame.
Here’s a little nostalgic birthday themed gift for a dear friend of mine, Nancy Riley! The tin with the chalk board element on it can be found at Target’s Dollar Spot this season! I wrote the words “Remember Your Roots”. Then I filled the bucket with candy from Nancy’s era! Think Zots, Pixie Stix, Boston Baked Beans, sucker with the looped white handle that is out of thick string, Chicklets, etc. Then I wrapped the handle of the bucket in different ribbons with the colors Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Basic Black, and shades of gray.
This card is a TOTAL case from Connie Babbert. I received this DARLING card in our Control Freak swap at Convention. I didn’t change a THING on it!! Connie is amazing, she comes up with such creative ideas. The heart and silver circle have Dimensionals behind them to give them a POP.
On the inside of the card, I wanted it to look like a Polaroid snap shot. Nancy’s gift is another nostalgic themed item. Nancy is originally from Iowa and her heart is near and dear to that state. I ordered a t-shirt that has a shape of the state Iowa on it, and it says “home.” The website is found here: The Home T. I copy and pasted the photo of the t-shirt from the website, then I morphed Nancy’s head into the photo of this shirt! Since the shirt hasn’t come yet, I didn’t have it to actually wrap it, so this was the next best thing.
Hope you enjoy this! It’s fun to get creative with gifts!
To get the cake pop stick on the “lollipop” just stick a thumbtack into the end of it, then hot glue it to the lip balm. I also added a circle punch to cover up the thumbtack.
Here are some treats I made for some special friends at Convention. Have you tried these lip balms that are the fad now? The lip balm is a round ball inside. I LOVE THEM!
Recipe
Item # 130333 (C) Really Good Greetings $14.95
Item # 130330 (W) Really Good Greetings $18.95
Item # 129983 Chalk Talk Framelits $24.95
At Convention, it is tradition to make gifts for your roommates. This is what I came up with.
The cauldron pattern was found online here. I cut it out with my Cameo Silhouette machine. The witch feet were made in a previous post HERE. I use those feet ALL THE TIME! They are fun to stick in a bowl of snacks around Halloween. (You can click on photos to make them larger)
This little Frankenstein was so easy to make. I bought some Orbit gum at Walmart (tiny size) and then just made a wrap around it using Gumball Green cardstock. I poked holes in the sides and put two silver brads in there. The hair was created using a non SU punch called GOOEY or something like that! The eyes were made with circle punches.
This treat pocket was made by using the Chalk Talk framelit.
The monster treat holder is just a matchbox style project. There is a small pack of M&Ms inside.
For the past couple of years, Becky Roberts and I do our Team Meetings at Convention together. It’s such a fun get together and this year was NO EXCEPTION! I will post more photos later, but I wanted to show you what our gifts were for our downline this year! We found the cute little burlap bags online and made the dots using daubers and white craft paint. On the inside are some of the new “button brads”.
Lorri Heiling
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator
