Water Bottle Treats

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I got the tutorial to make this little water bottle treat holder from Cristena Bagne and she is giving away Blog Candy chances for posting your treat box and what you love about summer. So, here is my entry. It is basically just like hers with color changes and few little tweaks.  Thanks Cristena and I hope I win!

Using Your Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Everytime I show the stamp-a-ma-jig at a party or get together I get someone who says, I just don't know how to use it! Here is a great article by a fellow demonstrator.

How to Use Your Stamp-a-ma-jig
The Stamp-a-ma-jig is a wonderful tool to help you with perfectly aligned stamped images. The are several uses for the stamp-a-ma-jig including perfect placement on a project and perfect placement for two step stamping. This tutorial shows you how to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to two step stamp a peony from Stampin' Up!'s Pretty Peony.

1. Lay your Stamp-a-ma-jig (SAMJ) down and slide an imaging sheet into the corner of the SAMJ.
2. Ink the detailed stamp with the darker color. Hold down the SAMJ and stamp the imaging sheet, butting the stamp into the corner of the SAMJ.
3. Carefully raise stamp. You dark detail image is now on the imaging sheet.
4. Stamp your bold image with a lighter color on your cardstock. Take the stamped image sheet and place it over the lighter image. Align it to where the detail stamp will lay.
5. Carefully reposition the SAMJ to the corner of the imaging sheet. Take care not to move the image sheet.
6. Hold the SAMJ in place and carefully lift the imaging sheet from the cardstock. Ink up the detail stamp with a darker color and butt it against the corner of the SAMJ. Firmly stamp onto the cardstock.
7. Remove the stamp and now you have a perfectly stamped flower with details.
8. Finish your project as desired.

Bonus tip: Have you run out of imaging sheets? Use overhead projector transparencies! The imaging sheet used in this tutorial is actually a one quarter sized sheet of an overhead projector transparency.

25 Days of Christmas - Day 1

On the 1st day of Christmas, my demonstrator gave to me...

A cute ornament/game idea. I picked the little circle things up at Target last year and made a couple of quick ornaments using them. It was fairly easy so I am going to attempt to tell you how to do it in 10 easy steps.

1. Using your trusty Circle Scissors Plus cutter cut a circle the size of your ornament. I did 2, one for the bottom(real red) and one to stamp on (whisper white) using dimensionals to give it a lift.
2. Stamp your image. I used the snowflake from 2 Cool Dudes and stamped it in Bordering Blue.
3. Using your Crop-a-Dile, punch 3 holes in the side of the tin.
4. Weave about 24" ribbon through holes starting and ending with 2 pieces coming out of the center hole. Tie a knot at top of ribbon pieces.
5. Punch holes in strategically places on stamped image.
6. Now layer using the afore mentioned dimensionals.
7. Use adhesive and stick the layered images to the bottom of the tin.
8. Add BB's for the game pieces.
9. Glue lid to top of game(I used the sticky strip)
10. Hang on tree or give to child to enjoy!

Keep checking back as I will have 25 projects posted between now and Christmas!