Whiff of Joy’s new products for December–now available

Quick & Easy Pocket Card

Hello, every one! It's Alice here. I am sharing a really simple and easy to make pocket card with you today. Here is what you will need:

• a piece of cardstock measures 4 1/4" wide and 9" long
• scoring tool
• bone folder
• sewing machine or strong adhesive
• patterned paper
• stamped image
• embellishments
• decorative border die/punch (optional)
• corner rounder (optional)

First, score the piece of cardstock at 5 1/2" on the long side. This makes it easy if you want to mount this pocket card on to a regular A2 card base.

Fold with bone folder.

Decorate the card with patterned paper if desired. It's easier if you die cut/punch the borders of the card and the patterned paper separately before gluing so that the layers won't be too thick for the die/punch to cut. Trust me, I learned this the hard way... =)

Sew or use strong adhesive to attach the sides and bottom of the shorter flop to the back of the piece. I used my sewing machine for this, but score tape would work well, too. 

And here you have it. A pocket that you can tuck gift cards/certificates, tags, tea/chocolate pouches and more! 

Here is a look of my card after dressing it up a little.

I used the beautiful Christmas Dance for my card. I did a bit of masking to add the music background behind the image. The sentiment tag is cut using Cute Banners Trio die and the matching sentiment and frame are from Christmas Banners Set. I also mounted my pocket on to a card base so that I have more space to write the message.

This is really quick and easy to make and it comes in handy for the holiday season if you are giving out gift cards/certificates as gifts. You can always modify the size of the pocket to your desire, just have fun with it! Hope you will give it a try! =)

Thanks for stopping by!

hugs,

alice

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Creating a Christmas Ornament (with video!!!)

Hi dear visitors, it's Ingrid. Today I want to show you a video about creating a Christmas Ornament. It's my very first video I made... so please be gentle with me ;-) But I will start with showing you the result:

The base of the ornament is a wooden heart.

This stamp is called "Sweet Christmas" and cause she's holding a heart hanger I thought she would be perfect for my ornament.

These little sentiment stamps come with the Christmas Banner Stampset and the stamp I used on the flower is part of the set "Essential Backgrounds- text style".

I managed to put a few hours work in a 10 minute video ;-)

Thank you very much for your visit and I hope to see you also on my own blog.

Magnetic Book Mark by Jane Johnson

Good morning! Hope you are having a relaxing Sunday so far. Jane here and today I want to share with you a book mark that is very quick to make - perfect for little stocking fillers or any time of year! This is no ordinary book mark though - it is magnetic! So it will never fall out of your book in your bag or if it is dropped on the floor for example! I am already needing to make lots more for my family as they all loved this!

YOU WILL NEED:

Two die cuts in cardstock

Two die cuts in designer paper

One image

One image mat in cardstock

A piece of ribbon

One set of magnets

1.

Take one of the magnets and glue it towards the bottom on the right side of one of the cardstock die cuts. I like to use a glue gun for this to ensure a strong hold!

2.

Line both pieces of cardstock together, wrong sides together. To get the correct placing for the second magnet place it onto the second piece of cardstock and it will, of course, snap together with the other magnet. You can then draw around it. You can now glue the second magnet in the correct place. The picture above shows the two magnets either side of the cardstock so you can see what I mean.

3.

You can now glue the paper pieces over the top of the magnets so that they are no longer visible.

4.

Turn one of the pieces over and attach some ribbon to the top of the wrong side (the top is the area without the magnet under the paper). It doesn't matter which piece you adhere the ribbon to.

5.

Cover the top section in glue to around a third of the way down as shown above. Add the second piece over the top. You will now have a bookmark with ribbon coming from the top and the bottom section opens and closes with the magnet. You are now ready to add your image and decorate the bookmark!

Here is my completed bookmark using one of the new mini stamps which are to be released on 1st December! Isn't that dragon fabulous!? Perfect for a bookmark for a fan of adventures and fairytales! Here's a closer look at how I've decorated my bookmark. I like to keep the decorations reasonably flat so that you can still close the book nicely. You will see how well the bookmark works in my fun photo below! You can shake it like crazy and it still will not fall out :)!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I've inspired you to make one of your own! If you would like more details about the products I've used please visit my blog.

Jane x

http://janeslovelycards.blogspot.com/

A 'Mini Henry' Box in a Bag

Hi everyone, it's Sandie here and today I would like to share with you a project I made using one of the new ministamps which will be released on December 1. 

To complete this Box in a Bag you will need:

• Cardstock
• Matching patternerd papers
• Stamp/s
• Circle & scallop circle nestabilities
• Embellishments/ribbons of choice. 

and the instructions can be found HERE on Splitcoaststampers.

My papers are from My Minds's Eye Lost & Found Christmas. 

I coloured Henry with copic markers, cut him out with classic circle nestabilities and matted it with brown cardstock scalloped circle. I punched the border using the Martha Stewart Antique Lace punch. The ribbons are from my stash.

I filled the bag with marshmallows sachets of hot chocolate :)

Thanks for dropping by, I do hope you are inspired to try this sweet project. 

Sandie

xx

Black Friday special offers at Whiff of Joy

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the USA. Stores are having great sales and people spend shopping all day long :)
We are also offering great deals over the weekend. Don’t miss it!

Black Friday wird in den USA der Freitag nach Thanksgiving genannt. An diesem Tag überschlagen sich die Geschäfte mit Sonderangeboten.
Auch wir bieten vom 25.-27.11 einen tollen Rabatt an. Gratis Versand und 10% Ermäßigung auf alle Bestellungen. Also nichts wie los-geshoppt :)

Quick and Simple Christmas cards

Good Morning Everyone! It's Jane here today and I my tutorial today is making Quick and Simple cards using the Accessories stamps from the latest release at Whiff of Joy.

To make the cards, you will need:

• Whiff of Joy Christmas accessories stamps
• Kraft card and card blanks
• Fancy frame die and circle die
• Assorted patterned papers
• Border punch
• Baker's twine and button twine
• Stick on pearls
• Red, green and brown Coloured ink pads
• Whiff of Joy Cute Banner dies
• Christmas banner sentiments
• Glitter glue
• White linen texture card
• Small hole punch
• Antique linen distress ink

How to make the cards:

1. Stamp the images in coloured ink onto linen textured card

2. Die cut the images into circles and die cut 3 fancy edge circles from kraft. Ink the edges of the die cut circles

3. Cut paper to fit your card base and punch the bottom edge

4. Wrap twice with twine fixing at the back with double sided tape and then fix to card base

5. Mount the images onto the kraft die cuts and add to the card with foam pads

6. Stamp the sentiments onto kraft card

7. Die cut into banner shape

8. Punch holes in top of banner shape and tie onto card with twine, add pearls

9. Add glitter dots to the berries on the images

10. Leave to dry and your cards are finished!

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and will have a go at making some Quick and Simple cards with the new Whiff of Joy images.

Have a great Thursday.

Jane
x

Stamping & More #38 Video–Christmas Stocking giftcardholder plus free template

Hi everybody, it’s Katharina. Today’s video shows how to create a fun alternative to the regular christmas card. You can also add a little note or a photo instead of the coupon. Get the free template below. Enjoy watching!
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Hallo, hier ist Katharina mit einem Anleitungsvideo, in dem ich euch zeige wie ihr eine kreative Alternative zur normalen Weihnachtskarte basteln könnt. An Stelle eines Geschenkgutscheins kann auch eine kleine Nachricht oder ein Foto in dem Socken versteckt werden. Die gratis Vorlage könnt ihr weiter unten herunterladen. Viel Spaß beim Zusehen!