Christmas Gift Exchange, Stampin' Up! Style

Jeanie Carter made these adorable angels out of DSP, a christmas ball, feathers, and a pipe cleaner. 

Don't you just LOVE my little angel?

 Peggy Patterson created this one of a kind ornament above. She is known as the "scrap" lady and uses scraps in all of her projects. She is a true artist!

 Karen Kerr made the cute snowman candy bar wrapper above. I love how she added fleece for more dimension. Did you know you can too make a professional looking wrapper by using a crimper? Who would want to rip this open for the chocolate? It's too cute to eat!

 The photo of the ornament above doesn't give it justice. Martha McCollum created it using the ornament punch and glued several of them together. She added beads to the bottom. A lot of punching, folding and gluing went into this gift.

 Crystal Lafitte made this cute notepad cover so we could keep up with our Christmas shopping lists. I love shopping in style! Crystal added a lot of detail to this project such as embossing, coloring on stamps using markers, and adding ribbon with jingle bells.

 We all ate dinner together for the gift exchange at Sonoma Grill. I made place cards for everyone that attended. I love making personalized things for people...it lets them know you were thinking of them. (I even made one for myself and I felt special knowing I was thinking of me....LOL! )

 I used the Peek-a-boo frames die and Red glitter Cardstock from the Holiday Mini Catalog.

Peek-a-boo frame die: $32.95 124587

Red Glitter 12x12 Cardstock (2 sheets) $4.95 121790

The main place card is the size of a cardfront, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. 

So you get 4 out of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of carstock.

 Chrissy Kelly created the glitter ornament below. She used reinkers and dazzling diamonds. She said "don't shake" but swirl the reinker and glitter inside the clear glass ball ornament.

 Dola Morgan covered a plain paper mache ornament with DSP, glitz, and ribbon to create this masterpiece! She is very generous when using rhinestones, pearls and glitter. Detail work is her gift!

 Josie Kendall made this Santa ornament. When I saw it I felt JOLLY...Hoo, Hoo, Hoo! I really did. She started with a glittered ornament from a discount store and embellished it with ribbon for a belt and made a glittered square for the buckle. She used hot glue to keep things in place.

 Jessica Taylor made the ornament below by stamping using stazon ink and 

coloring in using sharpie markers.

 Teresa Sherman made this gift card holder for all of us and added a

giftcard to Einstein's Bagels inside! Yummy!

 Here we are at Sonoma Grill enjoying the evening together.

Left to Right: Jessica Taylor, Me, Crystal Lafitte, Chrissy Kelly, Dola Morgan, Jeanie Carter, Martha McCollum, Karen Kerr, Teresa Sherman, Peggy Patterson

Happy Holidays! Maybe one of these gifts will inspire you to make something! 

Christie