Candy Cane Lane DSP Archives - My Elegant Cards

I’m planning to make gifts for my team at work and they are likely to be edible. Hence I decided to make some tags for the gifts and I’m using the Candy Cane Christmas as inspired by the tags in the Holiday catalogue on page 4. I went to Onstage local yesterday and have seen the upcoming Occasions catalogue which will be live to customers on January 4th and it made me realise that I’d better get moving on using up my DSP! I came home and quickly put in my preorder (a perk of being a demonstrator and attending the event) so that I’ll be able to share a few sneak peeks with you soon. In fact, I’ll be making some samples in the next day or two with product that I received whilst at the event. It was a really fun day and I’m already planning to attend the next one.

This actually isn’t helping much with my DSP use; I cut a strip 2 1/2 inches wide and then cut that into 2 1/2″ squares so you get 4 per strip, and therefore 16 per sheet of DSP. Then I stamped my sentiment in real red or crumb cake onto whisper white and decorated with images from the Candy Cane Christmas in real red or garden green. Since I have a diverse team I wanted to stay away from actually saying “Christmas” and stuck with this saying on all of the tags. I used both sides so that there is even greater variety in the tags. I used the 2 inch punch to cut out the circle and put a little fuse onto the back at the top. This made it easy to anchor the thread which is from the baker’s twine trio pack and then I glued this onto the DSP square. Quick and easy and fun. And now they are made so I won’t be hurriedly making them whilst I’m baking in 6 weeks or so time! I’m getting unusually well organised!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Hallowe’en! I hope you have a fun day but I’m sharing a Christmas card today! There’s an enormous beautiful present in the Cozy Critters set and it was crying out to be heat embossed. Some of the detail is a little repressed with the heat embossing but it’s still gorgeous.

So I stamped the image from Cozy Critters – a stampin’ rewards set that you can only get for free! – in versamark on a piece of real red and then used the copper embossing powder to really make this luxurious. I just used a scrap of card stock and then cut it down to where it felt right and added a border of the copper foil. But this left me with a fairly plain card with “something missing”. So I started looking through my catalogue at the DSP to find a paper with real red – and Candy Cane Lane jumped out. I cut a strip and put it behind my main image and that’s just what the card needed.

The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP ends tonight!

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