So this whole dark at 7pm thing is getting old. And we finally had to turn on the heat a few days ago to keep warm. Oh well, enough gripping. On to the card!

I hope everyone's day went as well as it could. I am very thankful for fall colours and being able to walk through the woods with my husband and mother, thankful for my father's great Coconut Cream Pie recipe and thankful that the 2 dogs (Hoover and Samuel) got along!

The project today is a Designer Series Paper bag complete with handles, stuffed with cards and matching envelopes! I cannot take credit for coming up with the original idea for this double sided paper card holder bag, I found a great website here by Chiaki Haverstick. There are some wonderful tutorials and ideas on this website! This uses just over 1/2 a sheet of 12x12 paper for the bag and it defintiely needs the double sided paper to be able to create the top accent. For this bag I recommend using a regular hole punch to create holes for the wide grosgrain ribbon to slide through, I tried originally a 1/2" circle and it was too large!

The flower card is stamped using the kissing technique, the whole stamp is inked with a lighter colour and then kissed around the outside of the stamp with a darker colour.

The bird/heart/leaf card is my favourite. It originally wasn't laid out the same way it turned out. That is one of the great things about creating projects, you start out one way and it changes along the way into something better! The background of the card is made using 2 different sized circle punches, 1/2" and 1" punches, and laid out to mimic the background of the Main Blueberry Designer Series Paper.

Stamps: Best Wishes and More
Ink: Night of Navy, Old Olive, Bashful Blue
Paper: Maine Blueberry DSP, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Old Olive textured card stock, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Whisper White grosgrain ribbon, sticky strip, 1/2" circle punch, 1" circle punch, Baja Breeze striped ribbon

This card is a Christmas case of my own card that I posted here a little bit ago. This will be one card that my Aunt has requested we make at her workshop on World Card making day.

Are you interested to having your own Christmas themed Stamp Camp - where we make 10 cards or maybe a Christmas styled workshop? Contact me today to pick your date and please check out my upcoming events here.

New this year is on-line ordering! Give your wish lists to your loved ones and friends, point them to in this direction to my demonstrator website. In the top right hand corner all they need to press is Shop Now button where they can order your next must have stamp set or much needed supplies for Christmas, birthday or just because!

Stamps: Holiday Trinkets, Many Merry Messages
Paper: Baja Breeze textured cardstock, Whisper White, Pacific Point, Basic Grey
Ink: Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Basic Grey, Versamark
Accessories: Whisper White grosgrain ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, glue dot, embossing buddy, white embossing powder

So over at Splitcoaststampers.com they have been looking for index cards for Stampin' Up! stamp sets. These are very simple cards that include each image from the selected stamp set and is the icon for that gallery. For example, this card is the index for Holiday Trinkets gallery (click Holiday Trinkets to check out some great examples!)





Stamps: Holiday Trinkets
Paper: Night of Navy
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: White grosgrain ribbon, white embossing powder, Mat Pack



This next card is another index card for the retired Garden Annuals Stampin' Around Wheel:



Stamps: Garden Annuals wheel
Paper: Kraft, Shara Sand Patterns Hostess pack DSP, Whisper White
Ink: Always Artichoke, versamark
Accessories: scalloped edge punch

With fall here I'm drawn to these colours: Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust and Very Vanilla. I know these colours were used in yesterdays post, and the truth is that the card does go with the bag I made yesterday for a hostess thankyou! But these colours are yummy!

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Really Rust, Very Vanilla
Ink: Versa mark
Accessories: square button from Neutrals Assorted, linen thread, stampin dimensionals, chocolate chip ribbon, retired rubons, black embossing powder