Hello there! Popping in with a card for a couple of challenges: Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown. Twice this week I got the chance to do a little shopping at one of my favorite places Impress Rubber Stamps. During my first shopping trip I picked up a Memory Box die set called Delicate Pine Frame. I used that die set to create my card. Another thing I picked up was a paper pad from American Crafts that has lots of fun Christmas/holiday themed papers as well as glitter paper and mirror cardstock. I used a piece of patterned paper that had a gray background with snowflakes on it to die cut the larger frame. The frame with the tree was die cut from the green glitter paper in the pad. The birds were die cut from red and coral card stock. I die cut a piece of white cardstock and then adhered the snowflake frame. The tree frame was adhered with foam tape and then I added the little birds. The sentiment is from the PaperTrey Ink Make It Market Holiday Folk mini kit and was stamped with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink. Super simple, but that what I need right now to get the last few Christmas cards I need done! My sweet friend Greta reminded me about the monthly Memory Box challenge so I will be adding my card there, as well. Thanks, Greta! Realized that this will work for the new Time Out challenge so I'm sending it off for a visit there!
Hello there! Popping in with a card that I will be sharing over at the Paper Players challenge, the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge and the Visions of Sugarplums challenge. Last year I purchased the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings stamp set. At the time it came out there weren't matching dies, but about a month later they released the matching dies. Sadly I wasn't able to get them at the time, but finally this year I did... yay! I used that stamp set and the dies along with the SSS Frozen Fractals set to make my card. I stamped all the snowflakes on white cardstock with VersaMark watermark ink, applied clear embossing powder and heat set. I then inked up the piece with distress oxide ink in blueprint sketch bluffing off the excess. The piece was then splattered with white acrylic paint mixed with water and when dry die cut with a rectangle die. The words were stamped on vellum with VersaMark, embossed in white and then die cut with the matching dies. I adhered the words and ampersand by rolling up medium sized glue dots and placing them behind the words where there is embossing. The little sentiments were stamped using VersaFine CLAIR in Nocturne on a strip of paper, trimmed down and adhered. The finished piece was adhered to a white cardstock base. This has also been entered in the SSS flickr challenge #111.
Hello! Well... the rush for me to make and send out Christmas cards is on, but thankfully I have two more made! Both of these were made with the fun November Spellbinders small die kit. I think the name is a bit of a misnomer because the kit comes with 14 dies... that isn't a small number to me, lol! Anyway the first card is very, very simple. I used the layout from Freshly Made Sketches to help me along. I used glitter cardstocks in bright green, bright blue and sparkly white for all the top die cuts and then made additional cuts using plain white cardstock. All the cuts were stacked together and then adhered to the black cardstock panel along with the little dots (another one of the dies). Another panel of cardstock in a color similar to the bright blue was layered behind the black panel and I was finished with the card. This card will also be heading over to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes. 
The second card will be heading over to the Fusion challenge as most of the colors found in the inspiration photo are also used on my card. I used more dies from the November Spellbinders small die kit to make this one, as well. When I originally started working on this card I die cut the words Merry and Christmas from the kraft cardstock because I just wanted to have the words to move around and place where I liked them. But then I decided to actually go with that color as part of my design. I die cut that sweet little deer from the same kraft cardstock and brown glitter cardstock and then pieced the glitter cardstock inside the kraft outline. The bow was die cut from red glitter cardstock and adhered to the deer. I die cut the berry branches from dark red cardstock and adhered them together. I die cut additional words from the same dark red cardstock that was used for the berry branches and then stacked them together with the kraft words. I love how you can just see the red peeking out from underneath! Then everything was arranged on an off white cardstock panel. I finished by adhering the berry branches to the deer. I really like the rustic look of this design. Will be sending this one over to the Visions of Sugar Plum Christmas/Winter challenge.
