Monday's Project Idea...

How about a Holiday Tree for a fun project! Below are a few close up's of the items I made to put on my tree. This is my "Holiday Tree". Every holiday, I dress it up for the festivities...in May when my daughter graduated from HS...I made diplomas and hats with tassels for the tree. So think of some great ideas and then make it happen.

HAPPY CREATING - KENDRA

Taking some time off!

Thanks for your patience as I work thru this back pain and take some time off to recoup. Several of you already know, but for those who don't...I was helping my dear hubby and son clean out the garage and get Christmas boxes down. Even after being told by both of them NOT to pick up the box, stubborn me picked up the box and was greeted immediately by pain in my low back and radiating down my right leg. You would think after already having two back surgies, I'd learn! Sad thing was I just wanted to be more help to them both since they were doing me the favor:) So that is why some posts have come thru (if they were already planned and saved) and why some have not (ones I still needed to do). So with that being said - I am doing better today and that's what counts! Thanks for your patience and for all you phone calls.

Hopefully back to normal soon!

p.s. - This incident has been helpful in my year long ploy to get my hubby to by us a laptop - I just had to find something good out of a bad situation! I'll let you know how that works out:)

Saturday Sketches...

One last chance to get your Fall sets out and play! Try this layout this week when you have time to play. You can change it up, add something, omit something, turn the sketch to landscape...whatever you want! Just have FUN! I hope you survived Black Friday and that you are able to enjoy some quality family time!

Thursday's Scrapbook Basics!

Scrapbook Techniques: Cropping Quickies

One of the most important scrapbooking techniques to remember is cropping your photos. When cropping photos, show only the most important parts of the picture. This makes the page more interesting and allows room to place more photos and for journaling. There are several different scrapbook techniques you can use for cropping photos. You can use scrapbook templates, you can try silhouetting, i.e. cutting around the main subject, or bumping part of the picture out beyond the “frame”. Feet, hands, hats, balloons, are ideal - you are limited only by your imagination.

Try cropping & matting your photo and placing it a little off your page.

Or cropp your photo and then turn it in a different direction than when it was taken for an interesting page .

***These pages were done by Shelli Gardner CEO of Stampin' Up!

HAPPY, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope your enjoying your day, maybe even taking time to blog hop, C.A.S.E. ideas, or even play and create while football, games, and fun is all around - well enjoy your time and have fun!

HAPPY CREATING,

KENDRA

Wednesday's Inspiration Challenge...

It's beggining to look alot like Christmas! Are you feeling it in the air? Are you sick of long lines already? Or do you just want to stay in and stamp? Well take a minute from your busy schedule and use this picture as your inspiration this week when you take some time to play. I'm excited to work on my Christmas Cards this weekend for friends and family...there's always something extra special about receiving a homemade card that I just love!

On a personal note, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and that you get the chance to play!

Kendra

Tuesday's Tool, Technique, or Tutorial...

Today it's a tutorial that I promised my club members for this Double Slider Card. I took LOTS of pictures with each step - so it should be easy to follow along for you.

Here you can see the page that I demonstrated to my club members this month. I attached the Double Slider Card to the page for a fun interactive page element.

Start by cutting your card stock 5 1/2" x 11" and then score it @ 3 1/2", 7 1/8" , and 10 5/8".

Cut (2) pieces of card stock (these will be your pull out pieces) 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".

You will also need a (1) Old Olive & (2) Real Red - 5 petal flowers punched out & a barely banana brad from the soft subtle collection. Cut a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock 4 1/8" x 3 3/16". Then cut some Designer Paper in (2) different patterns that coordinate; 2 1/2" x 3 1/8" and also 2 1/2" x 1 1/8".

Use your bone folder and score fold on your score lines. Also you will need to cut a strip of grocery bag (I used a walmart bag) 1 1/2" x 12 1/2".

Lay your card stock in front of you as seen in the above picture. On your left hand scored panel...you are going to wrap the grocery bag around the panel adhering the ends of the grocery bag together with snail, making sure that NO adhesive gets on your card stock! The grocery bag should not be toght, but it shouldn't be loose either. You want it just so that you can slide it up & down with your fingers easily.

Next take your slider pieces and you can sponge the edges as I did in Old Olive and Real Red, you can stamp a greeting or a design, or you can hand write a note, or even attach photos.

Next, take your snail and put a small amount of adhesive just at the bottom of your grocery bag, making sure NOT to get adhesive anywhere else.

Then adhere the left slider card face up (if you have a picture or have sponged edges or if you have stamped something). After that, take the 1" Circle Punch and cut a small half circle directly in the middle of the center panel.

Then fold your left panel over.

Put snail on the grocery bag at the top, making sure NOT to get adhesive anywhere else.

Adhere your second slider card face down.

Then apply red sticky tape to the very right edge (it's hard to see it in this picture).

Very carefully peel the red sticky tape backing off...I appologize for the way this photo turned out, but I need to show you this part. Before you adhere the red sticky tape to the folded up card...you need to make sure that your slider card is underneath that flap so that the adhesive will not keep it from sliding in & out of your card. (so the grocery bag is on the leftand I have pulled the slider portion carefully over and put it under the flap. Then adhere the card together. It will not match up exactly to the other side & that's okay!

Your folded card should look like this when all adhered together.

Next take you Ticket Corner Punch and punch the two bottom corners in your Chocolate Chip card stock, and also the two bottom corners of your biggest designer paper piece as shown below.

Adhere these two pieces together.

Adhere the second designer piece to the top, leaving the same width at the top and bottom...it will not meet up in the center.

Take a piece of Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon just a little wider than your Chocolate Chip piece and adhere (I used snail) to the front of your card and adhere the ends to the back of the card stock.

Assemble your pointsettia flower and adhere with a glue dot to the front of your piece.

Next pull up carefully on your top slider piece that shows thru where you punched your half circle out. Using a regular sized hole punch or your Crop-A-Dile . Then cut a length of 1/4" Old Olive Grosgrain and pull thru and tie for your pull string.

Next adhere your decorated designer piece to the front of your pull out card and your project is complete!

This shows you the starting of pulling it out.

All the way pulled out! Wouldn't this be darling with your family photo and your holiday message! You can also make this the other direction by decorating this landscape to accomadte a landscape photo.

This was my very first slider card that I made - thanks Traci!

This is a slider card that Demonstrator Dawn Griffith made. these are darling cards for everyday occasions as well and I just wanted to share this with you! I hope you have fun creating your very own Double Slider Card.

Happy Paper Crafting - Kendra

HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, HOLIDAY SALE!

HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, HOLIDAY SALE THROUGH NOV. 30TH

FOR ONE WEEK ONLY

Click icon above to take you to my online shopping store where you can see ALL the sale items and bundles SU! has come up with - these are just a few of them below. There is also a CLEARANCE section of items deeply discounted.

But remember... LAST YEAR THESE BUNDLED SALES ITEMS DIDN'T LAST LONG - SOME ONLY HOURS...NO KIDDING!!!

So get your holiday shopping done now with the ease and convienence of your own home, or you can me to place your order. I'll be placing an order on Friday - but if there's something that you really, really want and don't want to take a chance on missing...then I'd order it now!

Monday's Project Idea...

Christmas is nearly here and with Thanksgiving this week...it's the perfect time to save those fruit, vegetable, and pie filling cans for this simple project. These decorated cans are perfect for a smaller gift item or home made and packaged goodie! Save time and money by saving your cans and decorating them! Have fun - Kendra

Sunday Share...

For my Sunday Share...I wanted to show you what I demonstrated in my Clubs this month and what the Club Members Gift and Make & Takes were. So enjoy and I hope these ideas help you out!

This was each Club Members Gift this month. These pumpkins are made by punching out (9) Round Tab Punches and adhering back to back until your pumpkin is complete. Super easy and cute. Just add a ribbon and some curled CS to complete. These would be darling name place cards for Thanksgiving Dinner.

This is an under 10 card. This means that you can complete this card in under 10 minutes...and let's face it, we are all strapped for time these days!

This is a cute Gift Card Holder. This is such a nice way to dress up a gift card during the Holiday season...better yet, make a bunch of the basic holders and then decorate as occassions come up!

This shows you the inside of the gift card holder.

This was such a fun page to put together based on a sliding card my friend & downline team member, Traci showed me. Make sure to check back Tuesday for the tutorial on this slider card.

This picture shows how to pull up on the slider card.

This is perfect for hidden journaling...or how cute would it be to place a holiday family picture on one side and have a Christmas note on the other to send to family or friends!

This was the 12x12 Make & Take page that my Scrapbook Club Members got to make.

I just LOVE this snowglobe and these CUTE snowmen!

My Card & Project Club members made a 6x6 snowglobe card.

This was an under 5 minute page. We always have scraps of designer paper left over from the previous years projects...so why not just cut strips a bit wider then your photo mats and layer them behind the mats for an interesting and really quick page!

Happy Creating - Kendra