Showing posts with label december daily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label december daily. Show all posts

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Working 9-5


By definition, a person who likes to have every element of their life orderly is called a Neat Freak. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Slob.

My question to you is, what do you call the person who likes to be neat at home but a slob at work? That ladies and gentlemen describes no other than, yours truly. You can take a peek into the BEEHIVE and see how everything is labeled with all my bottles of Glimmer Mist facing forward. But at work, my desk can barely be seen through the mountains of paper piles - one that is actually 1 ¾” high!

Fed up with my clutter I decided to make a stab at transforming my desk. No, not with filing and organization (how fun would that be?) but with altering my rather blah post-it-note holder.

Before
(I don't work for the credit union, it was a freebie!)


I dug out my December Daily Plate, Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder, Miracle Tape, a vintage Time Card and in no time flat – Voila, a transformation worthy of a movie starring Dolly Parton.

I added a bit of Washi tape to give the inside a bit of whimsy.



I love the way it turned out and think that my desk's appearance has been greatly improved. Next on the agenda might have to be my boring black scotch tape holder. Are you a Neat Freak or a Slob? Come on, be honest :-)

Monday, December 24, 2012

December Daily Tag



Judy here, this is a tag I made using three VLVS stamps! 


Broken china and tumbled glass distress inks were used to color #8 manila tag. 
Ink Christmas tree #18932 with Memento bamboo leaves and stamp on tag. 
Throughly heat set to dry tag before stamping December and 25 from December Daily with antique linen, while ink is wet pour ultra high gloss clear embossing powder over the inked images, pour off extra and heat set to a high gloss finish. Vintage photo distress stain was used to color the die cut deer, let dry or heat set, secure tinsel twine with Miracle Tape on deer. 
Apply deer to the tag with glue n' seal.
Blue star bling was added to the top of tree. 
Blue tinsel twine was added to top to finish this tag. 
Seasons Greetings!  




Supplies:
December Daily plate #1430
Christmas Tree #18932
Miracle Tape
Ultra High Gloss Clear 
Ranger Distress inks
Ranger Distress stain
Ranger Glue n' Seal
Tsukineko Memento bamboo leaves ink
Sizzix movers and shapers deer die cut
Ranger Tinsel Twine
#8 manila tag
Blending foam applicator
Chipboard
MS star bling

Thanks for Looking! 

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Still in Christmas Mode






Still making stuff for Christmas. As you know from my previous post I do love hearts and couldn;t resist buying this candle holders, which together they form a heart. And to make it myself easier I made altered this box and turned it into a candle storage. The original box already looked like a book but I didn't like the decor, so I stripped everything I didn't like.

And this is what I did with it:
1. I put a layer of all over the cover, not to thick because I wanted to show a bit of the original decor. Then stamped the Harlequin Diamond Background stamp (18920) all over the front cover. then stamped the Spotty Background (1461) on the lower half with a different colour. With Stazon Black I stamped the text December and Daily from the December Daily plate (1430).
2. Take a piece of paper and stamp with Stazon Black the Girl with Wings (19005), mask the image and stamp Flying Watch (19004). Cut this out and colour with water colours. Then stamp with Stazon Black the wings (not the whole girl) on transparant sheet, cut out roughly and put it through the Xyron Stickermaker. Peal off the backing and put some gold metall leafing on it (the photos don;t show it that well, but it looks awesome in real life), cut the wings out and glue them on top of the wings of the image.
3. Glue the girl with watch on the front cover and make some shades with watercolors.
4. Stamp on the spine: the dotty line, twenty, 12 and again the dotty line from the December Daily plate. And the barcode at the bottom.
5. Take some washi tape and tape the edges of the whole cover (so front,  spine  and back). And take some washi tape with text and glue on the box.
6. Put some candles in it and there you are! ready and set for Christmas.

VLVS materials used:
Harlequin Diamond Background 18920
Spotty Background 1461
December Daily plate 1430
Girl with Wings 19005 also on plate 893
Flying Watch also on plate 893
Stazon Black

Hope you like it.

HERMINE

Sunday, November 25, 2012

DD Inspiration Day #7

Hello!! Welcome to our week full of inspiration using Plate1430! Today is the last day!!


Today's post is by Sandra! Our resident Tangler and drawer! She's put together a collection of "Daily December Beasts: !!!


 While most people are familiar with the Grinch, they are unaware of the Daily December beasts that inhabit the North Pole.  These critturs hibernate all year long, except for one day.  A different beast wakens each day in December, and runs frantically about the workshops and factories, honking or hooting or chirping.  By this means, the elves always know what day of the month it is when they see or hear the Daily beast.

As you might imagine, pictures or photos of the beasts are rare, but I managed to do some sketches of them (don't ask when or how!) and I'm sharing a few with the world at large.
Leave Sandra some love for her beautiful monsters!!! I'll leave comments open until tomorrow (Monday) morning and then I'll draw a winner from all comments posted on each post. The more times you the comment the better your chances at winning! (One comment per day, please)

Saturday, November 24, 2012

DD Inspiration Day #6

Hello!! Welcome to our week full of inspiration using Plate1430! Stay tuned all week for some amazing works in which the Viva Las VegaStamps! Design Team has utilized our "December Daily" plate.


Today I bring you work by HERMINE, and this countdown just screams GLORIOUS.

Besides the December Daily plate, Hermine used:


Hermine has wonderful steps all typed out for each piece, but I have it in PDF form, if you'd like it, just leave a message with your email and I'll shoot it over to you!! Here are the final steps after each "smaller project" is complete : Start this project with the focal point, in this case its the number 25 because that is Christmas day.  Then decorate some of the larger hearts. Don’t over decorate all the hearts but keep at least half of them clean and simple to avoid an overkill. The hardest part is to assemble 31 little projects into one big one.  Start the tie your focal point in the middle and work from there.  Tie the strings with a single knot so you will be able to pull up or lower down the hearts if needed. When you are happy with the layout of all the hearts you tie a double knot in each and everyone. Another advice is to hang your project already at the spot you want the finished project to hang so you see how the layout works out best. 


And a daily mini full of wonders by leslierahye:




For This Project:


Miscellaneous Trims & Ribbons, May Arts Trim, Dollar Tree reindeer ornaments, Dollar Tree Christmas Quiz Card Game, Chipboard, Cardboard, Cardstock, Sheet Protectors, Transparency Sheets and Media, Envelopes, book paper, crepe paper and Memorabalia, Artists Spackle, acryllic paint, Prima roses, Tattered, Angels Mists in Apple and Lobster Red and Glam in Camel, Barn Red, Walnut Stain Distressed Inks, Rangers Black Archival Ink, Assorted circle punches & Word Window Punch, Sizzix and Spellbinders Die Cuts, Bind It All and coils, lined note paper, office supply clips and rings, foam tape, Tombow liquid glue and Sakura Crystal Lacquer




Leave a comment, show them some much deserved love!

Friday, November 23, 2012

DD Inspiration Day #5

Hello!! Welcome to our week full of inspiration using Plate1430! Stay tuned all week for some amazing works in which the Viva Las VegaStamps! Design Team has utilized our "December Daily" plate.

 First up in line today is JUDY and she's got a super cool altered canvas!



Wrinkle several pages of pale yellow tissue paper and smooth out a little bit. Adhere the pale yellow tissue paper with gel medium as an adhesive to cover front and sides of 8" square canvas. Set aside to dry.
Several Christmas trees from #1431 were inked with Memento bamboo leaves and Archival olive ink on the pale yellow tissue paper, cutout and applied to canvas. Tree tops were used as small tress in foreground.
The left and right ornate images from #1431 were inked with archival olive on the pale yellow tissue paper, cutout and applied to top corners of canvas.
Santa was inked and stamped on white paper and cutout. Small bits of collage was trimmed away from Santa collage. Distress markers and white paint on beard were used to color Santa before applying to canvas. Sharpie pen (gold) was used to color Santa's buckle.
December daily images from #1430 were inked on the pale yellow tissue using archival black ink and cut close before adhering to canvas with gel medium.
Several distress inks were applied to canvas to give a vintage look.
Joy stamped image was inked on Kromecote cardstock, while still wet Ultra High Gloss embossing powder was poured on and off and then heat set. The letters were cutout, stained with distress and applied to canvas.
White glue was added to bottom of canvas, flocking powder was added to resemble snow. White paint was applied to some of the lower branches on Christmas trees.
Use dremel tool with small drill bit to make two sets of holes on top of canvas. Flatten a dinner fork with a hammer. Thread and twist each set of wire all the way through the canvas and into the wood frame to hold the fork on top of canvas.
Several round tags were made with a die. Each tag was stamped with an image from December Daily #1430. Distress inks were used to apply color to tags. Black threads were strung to each numbered tag and laced in and out of the fork tines as a holder. Each tag will represent a December Daily number leading up to Christmas Day.
A coin envelope was attached to back of canvas to house the extra daily numbers.
 
Supplies
#1431:
Memento bamboo leaves ink, Archival Olive and black ink, Distress markers, Distress inks, Golden gel medium, White glue, Flocking powder, Sizzix tag die, Pale yellow tissue paper, White cardstock, 8" canvas, Scissors, Black crochet thread, White acrylic paint, Sharpie pen, Paint brush, Dremel tool with very small drill bit, Thin wire, Dinner fork ($ shop find), Coin envelope
Then up we have SUSAN who's put together this astounding 7gypsies holder!!!

She started with a 7 Gypsies Revolving Clear Stamp Holder that has been saved for this kind of memory project - an Altered Christmas Card spindle. She began by gathering all the saved Christmas cards from over the years {and this project needs a LOT of them}, the December Daily stamp plate, recycled 6x9 envelopes for making pocket pages, tag/label and various paper punches, black and brown dye inks, miracle tape, and misc holiday patterned paper, ribbons, stickers and ephemera....safe to say anything and everything saved for that holiday scrapbook! 

This has been a project Susan has been dreaming about for years and now has brought it to life. She has several of these spindles, with ATCs and technique pages and shares, "this project would not have been possible without the coordinating hand slot punch made for the 7 gypsies spindles." Now for the fun. She punched tons of cards, envelopes and patterned paper pages {over a hundred to fill this all the way around with room to grow} and mounted to the spindle along with the unused vinyl sleeves that came with the spindle. She reserved these for special cards and photos. 

Then she began creating an assortment of embellishments using the VLVS! December Daily stamps by stamping on assorted patterned and misted papers and tags. Punches are so much fun to make quick and easy layered embellishments by punching around the stamped image. **A TIP** turn your punch upside down so that you can see the item you are punching around for a precision placed cut. In no time at all she had a table full of holiday goodness to add to the endless pages of cards and holiday photos to be cherished for years to come. She will be sharing more of this project throughout the month of December on her blog HERE.



The design team is doing SUCH an AMAZING Job! I hope you're getting lots of inspiration from them each day, don't forget to leave them some love and be entered for a chance to win your OWN December Daily Plate!

Thursday, November 22, 2012

DD Inspiration Day #4

Hello!! Welcome to our week full of inspiration using Plate1430! Stay tuned all week for some amazing works in which the Viva Las VegaStamps! Design Team has utilized our "December Daily" plate.


First today is LYNEEN! She's created this wonderful Christmas Calendar and says "
Each day during the month of December I will feature each ornament along with an idea to do with the family each day... my count down to Christmas Day be sure to stop by my blog http://dreamingofcastles.blogspot.com/ "

 Along with Plate1430 Lyneen used : 
Swirl stamps
 Viva Las VegaStamps! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

Other Supplies:
 Ink VersaFine Black, Tim Holtz Distress, VersaMark, Green Glitter, Sakura Crystal Lacquer, Sand paper and Nail file, Pattern Paper, Tissue Paper Paint (old sewing pattern), Bakers Twine, Paint brush, Scissors, Display - Vintage Window and decorative Snowflakes.



 
1- Paint one side of the chip board ornaments with an off white color - let dry. Figure 1
2- Adhere pattern paper to the back side of the chip board ornaments. With sand paper & file sand them to get crisp clean edges.
3- Stamp December Daily Numbers on tissue paper that has been sprayed with hairspray to keep the ink from bleeding. Heat emboss numbers with VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder. Figure 2
4- Stamp images directly on the back (paper) side of the chip board ornaments. Heat emboss numbers with VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder.
5- Distress with Tim Holtz ink direct from pad to chip board ornaments.
6- Add green glitter to the edge of each ornament. Use Sakura Crystal lacquer as the glue.
7- On the painted side of the chip board ornaments randomly stamp swirls with Tim Holtz Distress ink. Heat emboss numbers with VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder.
8- User VersaMark Pad, directly apply to the swirl side of chip board ornaments, add the tissue paper number and apply VersaMark to the number. Cover with Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder and heat. The ornament almost looks like glass.
9- Tie bakers twine to each chip board ornaments at varying lengths, attach to display. My display is an old window I picked up at a thrift store!



 And 2nd today we have SHERI! This may not be your traidtional book, but Sher loves appreciating the little things and has this beautiful, bright Daily album for December:

 

Other VLVS! Used: Chevrons and Harlequin BG
Other Supplies: The covers are from a recycled book, the papers are Create collection by Recollections and The Snap Shot stack by DWCV. ATG tape, Miracle tape, 3 trims from May Arts, Pink trim s from Recollections, Black flower on cover is from Jolee's, 2 tags made from a manila folder, Bubble gum pink dylusion spray, neon green S.E.I. tumble dye spray, sky blue S.E.I. tumble dye spray, hot pink S.E.I. tumble dye spray, alphabet stencil, butterfly mask, black Memento ink pad, pink vivid ink pad, Salty ocean and Picked Raspberry distress ink pads, crop-a-dile to punch the holes, 3 binder rings
 
Let these gals know what you think of their FABULOUS projects and be entered to win Plate1430 all to yourself! :)