holiday fun

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Designer: Sharyn Tormanen
www.sharyntormanen.typepad.com

As you might imagine, knowing that I’ve been crafting and scrapbooking for well over thirty some years already, my drawers and cupboards are overflowing with tools for the trade – tools that make what I do just that much easier and, well, more fun!  So when I received the stamp press from Fiskars – I couldn’t wait to get acquainted with it and see what it could help me do.

It found it’s new home within easy reach of my desk (this means it was good).  What I loved about the stamp press was how easy it made lining up my images and keeping my images straight. 

In the layout – I was easily able to stamp the ornament border all the way across my layout simply by using the lines as my guide to keep things straight. 

On the ornament card, the grid helped me to make sure I was stamping straight on the card – with the grid line lined up with the edge of the card – I couldn’t go wrong! 

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Instructions (Print version)

1. Cut 11” square of vanilla cardstock
2. Adhere to red Christmas paper from kit
3. Cut all the way around with Fiskars scallop scissors
4. Adhere to green Christmas paper from kit
5. Cut 5 1/8 x 11 piece from other green Christmas paper
6. Adhere to layout – 1 ½ inches from the top
7. Use stamp press to stamp ornament border above the green piece
8. With stickers, create title above the ornament border
9. As I used the candycane stamp for my t, see if your title works with any stamps for letters
10. Adhere photo (5 x 7) and journaling (3 7/8 x 5) to the green paper
11. Cut holly paper – 10 15/16 x 4 ¼ and adhere to layout
12. Cut flower embellishment in half and adhere to layout below journaling

Supplies
• Christmas kit
• Stamp press
• Fiskars Scallop scissors
• Li’l Davis Stamps

1. Cut vanilla cardstock 4 x 4 ½
2. Using the guide lines on my stamp press, I kept each row of ornaments within a 1 ½ inch area (three rows of 1 ½ = the 4 ½ card size – adjust to meet your card needs)
3. If you don’t have a stamp press, use a ruler and lightly pencil lines to keep you straight
4. stamp rows of ornaments

5. round the corners with the corner squeeze punch
6. adhere vanilla panel to blue horizontal fold card
7. stamp Christmas message on 2 ¼ x 1 1/8 vanilla piece
8. mount on blue cardstock and trim (blue cardstock matches the blue card)

Supplies
• Li’l Davis Stamps
• Squeeze Punch – Corner rounder
• Heidi Grace Christmas stamp
• Stamp press