Review: Christmas in July class

This class turned out to be SO much fun. The guests ranged from “first-time stampers” to “beginner stampers”, to “it’s been a long time but I’m back” stampers. In 120 minutes we created a Christmas tag, Christmas card and a treat container. My favorite part of these classes is seeing the accomplishment and pride that guests experience when they’ve created something by hand. My second favorite part is seeing everyone come together and help each other out! This is such a great community and I’m so thankful for my new and long-time customers that I call friends.

Here is the tag we made:

a gold card stock tag, strips of DSP, a stamped sentiment and bells cut from the DSP. Sequins and twine to finish.

All 3 projects were created with papers from the 12 x 12 Season of Green & Gold Designer Series Papers. And we used coordinating ink colors: Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Wild Wheat, which surprisingly looks like a gold color, without being metallic.

The card we made was a simple design of DSP pieces and then a big lovely bow and tag to decorate the front.

4 pieces of DSP create the background on top of a Mossy Meadow layer. The tag is stamped. Add red (or clear) berries for a 3-D embellishment. The bow brings elegance.

And finally we made this easy-to-make treat container and decorated it with die cuts. You can imagine how many different looks you could get just from using the papers and dies cuts.

we used Soft Sea Foam ink for the little extra on the tag. Guests learned how to make perfect tag-ends with scissors.
One simple and one with an extra die cut. Put your sentiment on straight or at an angle. Choose how to finish with your ribbon.

These exact projects will not have tutorials on YouTube. I don’t want to give away free content that these lovely ladies paid for in their class fee. But – you’ll find similar ones in the days ahead. And if you have questions about these specific projects, you can let me know.

Coming up on August 5 will be a Beginners Class (for free) at my home. 6pm. If you live in town and would like to join us, contact me today for details.

Hugs & Happy Stamping!

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