I'm dreaming of a Pink Christmas (& Better photography light on the cheap!!!)

First the card, then the rambling about lighting your photos (made me so happy that I wept!) :O)

I can't get over the wicked sweet sentiment in the Little Paper Shop's Snowflakes set: ("Snowflakes are the Flowers of Winter.") You know me, i loves me some flowers (and snowflakes are my favourite Christmas stamps) so snowflake flowers...I'm a sucker for that! :O)

To make these snow-flowers,
I just used speedy two-tone stamping:

Step 1: Cover stamps in ink (Pink Pirouette)
Step 2: Add a couple lines of marker (Pixie Pink)
Stamp 'em


To Embellish:

• Pierce along the lines
• Stitch along lines with pink thread
• Cut 'em out (don't snip those threads) :O)
• Add beads (with Crystal Lacquer)

The leaves:

• Cut leaf shapes out of cardstock with text printed on it
• Shade them with Pink Pirouette & Pixie Pink
• Cover them with Stickles (Crystal Ice)

This purse measures:
3 & 7/8" high, 2 5/8" wide, & 2 2/8" deep (at bottom.)

You can download the
template for the purse box here

How it's made:

To make this purse box the fast way, just print the template on cardstock
(though you will see lines on the inside of the box.) To have a box with no lines, make the template and trace it over a sheet of cardstock (trickier to see where to score, but ultra tidy) I printed mine, lol.




To make a quick perty background, arrange snowflakes onto an acrylic block. They fit nicely in with each other.



Cover stamps in ink (Pink Pirouette)



Add a couple lines of marker (Pixie Pink)



Stamp 'em all over the box & then assemble it:

The handle is made with two large white glass beads, little pink seed beads, & silver wire. To see one way to make a beaded wire handle please see this post. The bag is closed by punching holes & tying with silver cording.

Details at a glance:

Stamps: {Snowflakes} Little Paper Shop (background on card done with paisley from Double-Line Doodles.)
Cardstock: Naturals Ivory with stripes done using a Scor-Pal (glittered with a Sakura Stardust pen) tutorial here. Whisper White for snowflakes & Pixie Pink for main card.
Ink: Pink Pirouette & Pixie Pink
Accessories: Sticky tape, 2 shades of pink embroidery floss, paper piercer, needle, Pink gems (dollar store), wire, pink seed beads, Crystal Ice Stickles. Silver cord, hole punch.


& this made me weep with joy when I saw the difference it made to how true the colour was in my photos and that they were all in focus and not yellowed, sigghhhhhh:

I have Light!

The photos for this tutorial were all taken inside in the dead of night. I'm still no pro, but now I gots me a work light! (1000 watts of halogen beautimusness.) It was only $40.00 (Canadian) and it's lovely. I'll post a bit of the details about it if anyone is interested in it. [I am now going to dance around the room with it kissing it (after it cools down, because it's hot.) Oh how I love it Passionately! (jumping up and down, heeheehee!)]

Thanks for readin' Sweet Stampers!! :O)



P.S. Like purses?
You can find 144 (& counting) templates & tutorials here.