Holiday Decor with Shellye

Thank you for joining us again today.

You will not be disappointed because

Shellye McDaniel

has the most incredible project to share with you.

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I'm a sucker for honeycomb stuffs...you know the tissue paper type of pretties that you can find to hang from a ceiling or to display as a centerpiece.  I think that they're so whimsical and fun!

  So when I ran across this package of three beautifully sculpted snowflakes from Wal Mart, I just had to put them into the shopping cart :)

 Next, I selected a couple of patterned papers from Christmas Cheer and set out to make two layers of pleated medallions.  For the first layer, I cut two 3" x 12" strips then scored and pleated at 1/2" increments.  For the bottom layer I cut two 4" x 12" strips and pleated the same as before. After both medallions were assembled end-to-end and allowed to dry, I began layering and embellishing!

 I found that the POGO adhesivewas the best for adhering the two medallions to each other.  Next, add fun die-cuts, ribbon and paper flowers to bring your snowflake to life!  I have this cute little fella hanging from one of my small pine trees beside the fireplace.  I look forward to creating a couple of non-Christmas ones so that I can use them throughout the winter months!

Supplies: Christmas Cheer patterned papers; Rejoice Die-Cuts; Tools- POGO Adhesive; Large, Medium and Small Paper Punches

12 Days of Christmas

With the holiday season now upon us it's time to think about making cards and for some of us, creating those mini albums to record the season's festivities.

Today we have Designer, Shellye McDaniel sharing her amazing talents with us.

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Instead of a full 25-Day December Daily Album, I thought it would be fun to put a little twist on the popular trend with a 12 Days of Christmas Mini Album!

In starting I used the largest and next to the largest Jumbo Fishtail Banner Dies from www.mftstamps.com to cut my cardstockand patterned papers.  I derived various numerals from my stash, as well as from the new "Love You More" Alphabet Sticker Sheet.  

To allow more room for embellishments, I decided to make the album flip-style...when doing so, just keep in mind the direction of your papers and embellishments when you get ready to tackle the even numbered pages.  

Two 1" rings were used at the top to attach the pages together.  After tying on coordinating ribbons, I added a date charm that I made from a Medium Magnet Daddy and Magni-Daddy Pendant.  

Now it's ready for small photos and journaling!

Supplies:Christmas Cheer- Candy Cane Forest 12 x 12 Paper; Christmas Joy 12 x 12 Paper; Be Jolly 12 x 12 Paper; Warm Wishes 12 x 12 Paper; Christmas Cheer 5 x 7 Canvas Sticker; Gift Giving 5 x 7 Sticker Stacker; Happy Holidays 5 x 12 Sticker Stacker; Peace on Earth 5 x 12 Chipboard StickerLove You More- Love Letters 12 x 12 Alphabet Sticker Sheet; Stuck on You Washi TapeMedium Magnet Daddy; Magni-Daddy Pendant; Hot Rocks Clear; Hot Rocks Glitter

Product Challenge - Day 1

We want to begin today's post with a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who joined us these past 3 days for our i-Challenge event!!   

We hope that you enjoyed the challenges and that you accomplished a lot.  We enjoyed seeing your work too.

Don't forget ... if you didn't have time to finish up the challenges you still have until this Wednesday, Nov. 21st to complete them.  You must submit them in order to be eligible for the prizes. (You can post them on the Facebook Event page.)

Winners from all the challenges this past weekend will be announced this coming Friday!

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This week we asked our Design Team to focus on a super fun & beautiful 

product from our i-rock collection.

The i-rock Iron-on Motifs.

These fabulous motifs are adhered onto paper, denim, t-shirts, etc using the i-rock Mini Iron.

Here's a few examples that we've had posted on our website.

Today we have a couple of our designers sharing with you what they created using these fabulous little rhinestone designs.

Let's begin with .... 

Regina Mangum

Queen for a Day Card

Thursday is Thanksgiving and we always spend it with my husband's family when we are in town. This year, my sister-in-law has agreed to cook the whole meal! I thought it would be fun to thank her by creating a card telling her that we will all stay out of her way and do exactly what she orders us to do -- making her the Queen for a Day! I created it with the fabulous Queen Bee Iron-On Motif. At first, I was a little dubious about using an iron on paper, but with the help of both this video and the iRock Mini Iron it turned out to be easy-peasy!

Supplies used:

Patterned Paper: Love You More & Sole Sister collections (Imaginisce); Accents: Queen Bee Iron-On Motif (Imaginisce); Cardstock: Basic Black (Stampin' Up!); Tools: iRock Mini Iron (Imaginisce); Fibers: striped ribbon (May Arts); Font: Edwardian Script (Microsoft)

Shellye McDaniel

This holiday card does double duty!  The recipient can remove the 'snowflake' medallion and use it as an ornament or package topper.  Just be sure to use a re-positionable tape when attaching the piece to the card-front. 

Supplies: i-rock Fleur de Bling Iron-On Motif; i-rock Mini Iron; i-top; Paper Punch - Medium; Brad Daddies - Medium  Christmas Cheer- Christmas Joy 12 x 12 Paper; Warm Wishes 12 x 12 Paper and Happy Holidays 5 x 12 Sticker Stacker

Aren't those pretty?

Thanks so much for sharing your ideas ladies!

Just a reminder our DT call ends in 2 weeks.

Click here for more info on that.

Love You More Release Party - Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 our release party for our Love You More collection.

Imaginisce has a couple of other new goodies in this collection that you are sure to love!!

Push My Button Pack

Stuck on You Washi Tape

The Design Team have been inspiring us already with their creativity using the Washi Tape. 

Let's take a look at what they have to share with us today.

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Guiseppa Gubler

My Sweets

I created this layout with my hubby in mind.  I really wanted to focus on the picture.  So, I decided to created a lot framing and layers.  There are so many fun patterns in this collection that the layering and framing really worked with all of the patterned papers.

I decided that the fun patterned paper with all kinds of frames and journaling spots would be perfect for a mini album.  I cut them all up, adding places for journaling and photos.  This is a fun way to create a mini album really fast.

Supplies: Love You More- patterned paper, stickers and letter stickers, I-Top

Other Supplies: wood embelishments, brads, buttons, Silhoutte and twine

Shellye McDaniel

Scalloped Heart Treat BoxI happened to run across this chipboard heart while digging through my stash...I've had it for quite some time, but you could create something similar using a favorite die-cutting system or those thin wooden hearts would work too!  

At the center of the scalloped heart was a smaller, pop-out heart.  I thought it would be a fun idea to make a little pocket between the two so that candies, trinkets or small valentine cards could be stored there.  This was as easy as tracing, cutting and gluing :) 

 For the banner, I wrapped bits of washi tape around baker's twine and then trimmed and added on sticker letters.  

Supplies: Love You More- Brave Heart 12 x 12 Paper; Love Letters 12 x 12 Alphabet Sticker Sheet; Love Birds 12 x 12 Sticker Sheet; Push My Button Pack; Stuck on You Washi Tape, Tools- d-stress; clicut


Sydnee's First Wedding LayoutSydnee attended her very first wedding in 2006...it's now almost 2013 and I have been waiting for the perfect papers to scrap this photo!  Because it is a single 5x7, I wanted to add lots of layering below the picture.  

After cutting her name out with apersonal die-cutting machine, I was able to build the rest of the title using different sticker alphas.  I'm so happy that Love You More came about...this sweet photo now has a home in our scrapbook :)

Supplies: Love You More- Love Notes 12 x 12 Paper; Groovy Love 12 x 12 Paper; Heart Attach 12 x 12 Paper; Bee Mine 12 x 12 Paper; Push My Button Pack; Love Birds 12 x 12 Sticker Sheet; Love Letters 12 x 12 Alphabet Sticker Sheet

Diana Fisher

This picture was taken at a casual home wedding we went to in October, and I could think of nothing better than the Love You More line to scrap this photo. With love on our minds that day, we'll always remember where we were when this picture was taken.

Supplies: Imaginisce: Love You More pattern paper, stickers, letter stickers, washi. May Arts ribbon, mists, white card stock, foam pop dots, TomBow adhesive dot runner

No better way to show your love than with a card! I love the hexagon paper in the Love You More collection and the sentiments on the stickers are so easy to use for cards.

Supplies: Imaginisce: Love You More pattern paper, stickers, washi, foam pop dots, twine

Cari Locken

I think that my most favorite thing about this collection is the gray patterned papers and the different embellishments that Imaginisce created with this line.  They are so striking, so versatile and just so much fun to work with.

I used my Cricut Expression to cut out the heart designs on the spotted paper. I traced the heart shapes onto the gray paper and then placed small scraps of different patterned papers.  I adhered the spotted paper (with the cut out heart shapes) using some foam tape. This gave a bit of dimension which I love.
Please feel free to hop over to my blog for more pics and details about my layout.

Supplies: Imaginisce (Love You More collection : papers, stickers, Washi tape)

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Would you like to be the lucky winner of this fabulous collection?

Just leave us a comment on the blog post today and 

tell us what you use the Washi tape for.

We will randomly select a winner from all the comments posted throughout the week.

(The winner will be announced here on the blog Friday, Nov. 16th)

Join us again tomorrow for Day 4 of our LYM release party!

Veteran's Week - Day 3

Welcome back to Day 3 of our

Veteran's Week Blog Hop.

Don't forget (As mentioned on our introductory Monday post): Throughout the hop this week you'll notice that some of Design Team members are hosting some fabulous & BIG giveaways on their blogs! So you won't want to miss out!

Today's line up is as follows:

1. Mary Ann Jenkins

2. Shellye McDaniel

3. Rhonda VanGinkel

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Join us again tomorow for the final day

of Veteran's Week Blog Hop.

Let's Clicut with Shellye!

First of all ....

Happy Halloween!!!

The costumes are planned and the candy is already making my kids giddy!!!

What about you?

Are you ready for the little ghosts & goblins to come knocking at your door?

Have a fun & safe night.

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Well, today marks the end of our Clicut feature this past month.  We hope that you've enjoyed the variety of creations that our Design Team has come up with and that learned how incredibly easy it is to use the Clicut Retractable Pen Knife.

Today we have Shellye McDaniel sharing her talents with us.

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I've made up many, many of these little altered houses over the years and have tried many different ways of cutting the paper...using the Clicut has been by far the easiest method yet!

 By laying the house onto the paper and cutting while turning the house, you get an even cut without gaps on one side or the other.  

For the roof, I punched the papers with a scalloped punch and then cut into strips using the Clicut, 14x14 i-mat and CutRight Acrylic Ruler.  

Covering the windows has always been a little tricky as well.  The Clicut cuts through paper like butter! 

Inside the windows I cut out a wreath from Candy Cane Forest Paper and the gingerbread boy and girl were also cut from the same paper.

Supplies: 
Clicut; 14x14 i-mat; CutRight Acrylic Ruler; i-rock setter; Hot Rocks Compact - Glitter; Christmas Cheer- Snowdrift 12 x 12 Paper; Christmas Joy 12 x 12 Paper; Candy Cane Forest 12 x 12 Paper; Christmas Cheer 5 x 7 Canvas Sticker; Pogo adhesive dispenser

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Thanks Shellye.

This is a beautiful holiday creation!

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We've got some exciting things happening and we'll be sharing some of the excitement here tomorrow so make sure to stop by!!!

You won't want to miss it!