Hump day!

Venetia's Year End Top 5 List!

Hi everyone, Venetia here. I love lists. I am such a sucker for lists of anything, and this time of year is a goldmine for year-in-review lists. To help you through your week, I am going to share a list of my favorite projects from this year. Hopefully, you will feel inspired, and I hope you share your top five project of the year in the comments below! Celebrate your creative successes with SWAT by choosing your top five projects of 2013.  

#5 Fall Pomander

 

#4 I am not amused layout

 

 

 

#3 ATCs

 

 

 
 

#2 Return with Honor Canvas 

 

#1 Wind Chime

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!

 

See you Saturday!!

 

Venetia

BasicTraining

Basic Training

 

Washi Tape for ANY Occasion

I am sure, if you are like me, that you have quite a collection of washi tape.  I mean, who doesn't??  It is the perfect little accent for any project.  Michele here this fine Saturday and even though I have close to 100 rolls in all different colors and patterns sometimes I just don't have exactly what I am looking for.
A very good friend of mine, DeeDee over at VLVS!, did an awesome tutorial on how to make you own washi with just a few supplies that you will definitely have!

You will need double sided tape, (I used Miracle Tape from VLVS!), tissue paper, a stamp and ink.

Cut a piece of tape the length you want your washi.  Leave the paper on the back side of the tape for now.  Then cut a piece of tissue a little larger than your tape.

Stick the tissue onto the tape.

Ink up your stamp and stamp the tissue.  I used a VLVS!, washi lines background.

I wanted a very light pattern for my project but there are so many possibilities...you are only limitied by your imagination.

Carefully tear off the overlapping tissue.

Very subtle on this project.

 

To see the finished project pop over to my blog, let me know what you think...

 

Here are a few photos of other washi tapes I have made. 

 

 

 

 

 

You can also use pre-printed tissue...like the pink with white polka dots in my photos above.  All the others are hand stamped.

 

Thanks so much for spending some time with me today!  I hope you are inspired to create and design your very own washi!! 

 

Until next month...Merry Christmas!

&

Don't forget to link up your December Daily Projects!

 

Michele

Happy holiday hump day!!!

Happy holiday hump day!!!  Michele here to share a quick little piece of holiday home décor.  Christmas is literally right around the corner and if you are like me you are in a mad dash to get all of your holiday projects finished in time for the big day.  I made this tree with only 5 items, birch tree discs, a vintage spool, a Studio Calico heart pin and two May Arts ribbons-red twill chevron and burlap twine.

The hardest thing about this project is deciding if I am going to keep it or give it as a gift.

For more holiday inspiration stop by my blog, stuffbybelle.blogspot.com.  I will look forward to your visit.  Until then, thanks for stopping by today.



Drill #21 Caroling We Will Go

Drill #21

Caroling We Will Go

For this weeks drill we challenge you to create a project with a Christmas Carol for the title. Any song new or old, fast or slow, any song that makes your heart fill with Christmas cheer!

And just for a little Carol Creating motivation, one lucky winner will be randomly selected to win this prize pack from S.W.A.T.

***We are only able to ship to the US & Canada

Now before you go take a look at what the  S.W.A.T Team has created to get your mojo flowing.

Claude Campeau

Bev 

Michele

Charity

Venetia Holbrook

Nicolle Kramer

Doris Widder

Nicole Laha

Becci Manies

Lisa Peeples

Alison Day

Thank you so much for stopping in today.

 Now it's your turn to spread the cheer!

Just make sure you link up your project by December 31st at 11:59PM EST.

** This month we are giving you a few extra days :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

And don't forget to link up your December Daily Projects!

December Daily!

Hello All!

I hope that you are having a wonderful December so that your December Daily Album will be stuffed full of wonderful Christmas memories! A few of the S.W.A.T Ladies have stared working on their Albums and a few are behind already, well I am anyhow. So I thought if you are anything like me you might need a little push to get your album done.

So here you go just a little extra Christmas Cheer here at S.W.A.T! This month I challenge you to link up your December Daily Pages all month long! Just a few details to play along:

1. Link your December Daily Page/Cover up here at S.W.A.T with a link back to your site, by the end of the year.
2. Anyone can enter even the S.W.A.T Team! 
3. You can enter up to three times but you can only win once. * We are only able to ship to US & Canada.
4. S.W.A.T. Prize Packs will be drawn at random  for the rest of the month. 
5. It must be this years December Daily, No past albums please.
6. Have fun & Make lots of memories!

***We are only able to ship to the US & Canada

Here are a few covers and pages from the S.W.A.T  Team to help inspire you: 

Nicolle's - Cover

Inside Cover and page1

Alison's Cover

Michele

This December Daily design is UmWow Studios and was offered as an on-line class in 2012.  If you would like please visit my blog to see all the pages.

Thank you so much for stopping in today!! 

See you Saturday!

Hump Day! Recipe Holder

Happy Hump Day! Yikes, with Christmas so close I'm not sure if I'm excited that the week is halfway over or if I'm freaking out because there is so much to do and time is slipping by way too fast. Today I'm going to share a super easy Christmas gift that I made for a sweet friend.What I love about this gift is that it's perfect for Christmas, but it is also usable all throughout the year. Check it out... a cute little recipe holder for the kitchen.

I picked up a wooden block and tin set from a Pick Your Plum deal way back in the spring intending to find some way to use them for Mother's Day. That time obviously came and went and when I found the box of goodies on the back of my craft shelf I decided they would make perfect recipe holders. They are just the right size to sit on the counter and if you are like me, you find yourself looking for your recipe the whole time you are cooking because you are constantly moving it out of the way as you make a mess in the kitchen. Anyone or is that just me?! Well, problem solved. With the recipe clipped on this baby, my sweet friend will never lose a recipe again.

Totally thought this little bird was so adorable. This is an older Christmas line from Imaginisce that I had in my scrappy stash. So cute. After painting the wooden block I glued some scrap paper and  added the Love sign and the bird to give the block a cuter look.

At this point you may be wondering how this cute little holder fits in the kitchen the whole year round. Let me show you!

Here's a look at the back side. Just flip it around and you have a cute little holder for the rest of the year, yummy little cupcake and all. Again I dug into my stash and brought out another very old line. This time it's Bo Bunny. Can you tell that I'm a paper hoarder? I have had this paper for so long and have been waiting for the perfect food page, it just never came until now. See, there is good that comes from hoarding! (Try convincing my sweet hubby of that.)

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Thanks for sticking with me today. I would love for you to visit my blog and let me know what you think. Have a super scrappy day!

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Lisa~

November Winner

Now its time to celebrate our November Winner!

As always before that we want to thank everyone who entered the Drills. As always we were so impressed and with all the submissions!

This Months Random Draw Winner Is: 

Tina

Please contact us with your mailing address at swatscrappygirl@gmail.com 

to claim your prize by December 15th. 

Thank you all for playing along and sharing your 

amazing works of art with us! 

We hope you will join us this month again! We have a lot of fun prizes to celebrate the season!! 

See you Saturday!