Christmas Card 2009

This was our Christmas card for 2009. I knew I wanted to use this fold for our Christmas card when I first saw it.....just wasn't sure how to put it all together. Lo and behhold, Becky Roberts (aka: Inking Idaho) came up with a great card using that fold with a picture, so I totally CASED her layout! Thanks Becky! You make life so much easier with your incredible creative mind!

Here are the two versions. My family preferred the red/green one so that is the one we went with.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas weekend celebrating the Savior's birth!

Christmas Goodies

I wanted to share with you what my upline, Barbara Welch, dropped off at my house the other night. (Her blog can be found HERE.) Isn't this adorable? It is a basket filled with holiday goodies! I love the reindeer theme of this gift. (Reindeers really are the rage this year, aren't they?) Inside the beautiful basket, you will find: dish for dip with a cute reindeer knife, a couple of packets dry dip mix, frame, York Peppermint Patties in a cute cello bag, guest hand towels, kitchen towel, and a beautiful Christmas card! THANKS Barbara!

Dasher Meets Starbucks!

Have you seen these mugs at Starbucks this year? The image on the mug is an embossed reindeer who looks EXACTLY like Stampin' Up's Dasher stamp! As soon as I saw this mug, I KNEW some gifts would be in the making! Of course, there is a Starbucks gift card inside. I made some of these for some of my friends for Christmas.

Caramel Sweet Treat

I forgot to post this from about a month ago! These are little sweet treats with home-made caramels inside. They don't stick to your teeth, so they won't pull your cavities out! LOL)

Here is the recipe for the caramels.

Caramels

2 C. sugar
2 C. heavy whipping cream
1 C. Karo syrup
1 C. butter
1 t. vanilla

Combine sugar, syrup and JUST 1 C. of the cream (for now). Bring to a full boil, then add the other cup of cream. Boil until it reaches the hard ball stage, stirring constantly. This part takes about 30 mn.
Remove from heat, add butter.
Stir until it's all blended. (It will separate at first, but the more you stir it and it cools, the more it will blend together).
Add vanilla.
Pour in buttered 8x8 pan.
Cool and cut into pieces.


I found these glass containers at IKEA.



Recipe:
Stamp Set: Holiday Best
Paper: Real Red, Very Vanilla
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Real Red
Accessories: Scallop Circle/1 3/8" Circle Punches, 1 1/4" Striped Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon

12 Days of Holiday Sales!

WOWZA! You won't believe the sale Stampin' Up is offering this month! It is called "12 DAYS OF HOLIDAY SALES"! These will be on sale from now until Dec. 22nd.

You can click HERE to get to my Stampin' Up website to view pictures of items on sale.

You can order on my website, or give me a call/email and I can get that ordered for you. THANKS SO MUCH GALS!

Pumpkin Mousse

I made this dip for a workshop I did yesterday. The gals wanted the recipe so thought I would post it here. I like to serve this in the fall/winter because of the cinnamon/pumpkin flavor.

This makes SO MUCH, even 1/2 of this is going to probably going to be enough!!!

Pumpkin Mousse


1 medium container of cool whip
1/2 can pumpkin (15 oz can)
1/2+ bag of powdered sugar NOTE: I use a little more to make it a little thicker. I just buy Safeway or Fry's brand, it is just a regular sized package, same size as the brown sugar package.
1/2 t. pumpkin spice
1/2 t. cinnamon

I serve this with these Ginger Thins by Anna's. You can buy them at the grocery store (by the fance cracker section), and I have even seen these at Walgreens! I think the mousse would be good with sliced applies, too! ENJOY!

weSTAMP Christmas Party!

We had our annual "weSTAMP" Christmas party this week!! What a fun evening, and great attendance! We started out the evening with some YUMMY snacks, then moved onto our "Shoebox Swaps". Here are the projects we made, and the gals who provided the projects.

Melissa's Make and Take:

Linda B.'s Make and Take: (the black is soot from a burning candle, then stamped the image - no ink! - the stamp lifts the soot off! Cool technique!)

Another Make and Take by Melissa:

Barbara's Make and Take:

Rachele's Make and Take:

We also had a voluntary gift exchange. The only rules were that it had to be hand-made. Two gals can't post yet because they are making more and giving them as gifts, and don't want the recipients to see them here.

Here are the projects, and the gals who created them:

Melissa:

Peggy:

Rachele:

Patti:

Jenn:

Leah:

Linda R.:

Pam:

Ginny:

First Christmas Card!

I got my first Christmas card in the mail the other day, and just had to share it with you! This is from my sweet CREATIVE friend Chris! I wish you could see it in person! I love this, it's so beautiful it belongs in a FRAME!

10% off! EVERYTHING!

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my stamping friends! As a THANK YOU, I would like to offer you 10% off of your total order now through Dec. 13th. These products would arrive in time for Christmas. Please email me if you would like to order anything so I can adjust the pricing. LorriHeiling@gmail.com

These stamp sets will be retiring on January 4th, 2010, so get them while you still can!

Item Number Stamp Set

113407 Back Woods
114492 Beautiful Baby
114486 Birthday Wish
113200 Branch Out
114496 Celebrations
113732 Central Park
113206 Classic Sketches
113226 Classy & Fabulous
114498 Flowers in Silhouette
113405 Font of You
113216 For the Bride
114494 Forever
109425 Friend by Definition
114488 Fun Flowers
113716 Garden Greetings
114490 Glad Friends
111580 Grand Soiree
113242 Hit the Road
113710 Lexicon of Leaves
113236 Man's Best Friend
114423 Ocean Commotion
113728 Playful Petals
109276 Polka Dot
111544 Putt Putt
113240 Quilt Quips
113754 Really Retro
113403 Sip by Sip
113726 Sweet Stems
113250 That's Funny
113688 Wonderful Watercolors
114028 Para la novia
114032 Acuarelas Maravillosas