Winter Frost Handmade Greeting Card

First, I have to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a lifelong and dear friend of mine who is celebrating today! Jennifer, may God grant you a year full of blessings! I love you!

Winter Frost Handmade Greeting Card

At the scrapbooking retreat I went to at the beginning of this month, I made lots and lots of handmade cards and other projects. Pictured above is a beautiful card that I made using the Winter Frost designer series paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog.

There’s a lot that I love about this card, but easily my favorite part is the Frosted Finishes embellishments! WOW! It just adds such a special touch to any project for the holidays!

I’d love to hear what you think in the comments. Also, let me know if you have any questions. Happy Crafting, my friends!

How I Store My Big Shot Dies & Embossing Folders

In this fifth post in my “Storage Series” I share how I store my Big Shot Die-Cutting machine, dies & embossing folders.

In a previous “Storage Series” post I showed you that I keep my Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine on my craft table virtually ALL the time. So now I’ll show you where I keep all the dies and other accessories handy:

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My Bigz Dies all live in two top drawers of the dresser to the side of my craft table. On the far right I keep my longer dies and the extended cutting plates that go with them. On the right side of the the middle drawer I keep all my standard sized dies and their coordinating cutting plates.

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Just to the right of my dies, in a handy-dandy basket from the dollar area at Target, I keep my Embosslits, Framelits, Sizzlits, and Embossing Folders. The Embossing Folders are on the left side, facing sideways. My smaller items (Sizzlits and Embosslits) are in the Iris containers I have mentioned before.

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I keep all of my packaging for my Framelits (in case I need them someday) but I do take them out of the packaging and store them in these DVD cases (clear-mount stamp storage) that you can buy in a 4 pack from Stampin’ Up!  I have decorated the outside of the cases with designer series paper, but you could also make a cute insert in MDS.  I plan to do that at a later date.

Do YOU have lots of dies and embossing folders? Share your storage ideas in the comments below. And, as always, let me know if you have any questions!

“12 Weeks of Christmas” Emails – Beginning Next Week!

12 Weeks of Christmas for 2013

In just over a week, my annual emails full of ideas for Christmas cards, gifts, bags, tags, & wraps will begin!

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Hope to see you there!