sending holiday cheer...

Hello!!  Hope all is well in your part of the world.  Yesterday we got snow (thankfully it stopped by about 9:00 am), but now we have sunshine, but freezing temperatures.  Hubby works nights and told me this morning that he had to pry the car door open when he got off work at midnight!  Crazy, right??  Anywhoo... we should be back to our normal northwest weather of rain in a few days.  Being that it is so cold this is the perfect time to stay inside and do some crafting.  I made this card for several challenges, Color Throwdown, Addicted to CAS (Dots) and Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday (holiday).

I got this fun Hero Arts stamp, Shari's Tree No. 2, last year and had never inked it up.  Thought it perfect for the current Addicted to CAS challenge.  I inked in a neutral kraft colored ink and then filled in all the circles with buttons and sequins in blue, red, kraft and silver.  The star was covered with glue and then blue glitter glass added.  I die cut the hill using an MFT die, applied glue to the cut edge and then added white glitter glass.  The sentiment is from the HA set "Sending Holiday Cheer".  Finished things off with a few bits of washi tape.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, kraft; Stamps:  Hero Arts, Ink:  Stampin Up!; Buttons:  PTI; Sequins: Lawn Fawn and Verve; Washi Tape:  My Mind's Eye

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Hey friends!  Been making a lot of Christmas cards lately so thought I would switch gears and make something else... a thank you card.  Will be posting this one to AAA Cards (Thankgiving/thankful), ColourQ and Freshly Made Sketches.



I haven't played along with ColourQ in ages and when I saw the colors in the current ColourQ combo the first stamp set that came to mind to use was my SU! Kinda Eclectic.  Love me some collage stamping, lol!  I combined that set with an image from the SU! set French Foliage and a sentiment from the Altenew set Label Love.  Clean and simple... just how I like it!

Wanted to remind you that Top Dog Dies is having a Black Friday sale going on.  Click here for all the details and a link to the Top Dog Dies website.

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Season's Greetings...

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US celebrating today!  Popping in with a card for the current Merry Monday challenge (green, red and white).  Also popping it into the current Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday (holiday) and Wednesday Challenge (anything goes).

I recently purchased this gorgeous Penny Black cling stamp called Red Star and finally found the time to ink it up.  I colored it with some Ranger Distress ink markers (Barn Red, Fired Brick, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint & Wild Honey), spritzed it with water and then stamped it off.  I spritzed the stamp a second time and then stamped it on some Ranger water color paper (on the smooth side) and this is the result.  Love how it looks.  Added some yellow Stickles to the center of the flower and then edge the piece with Delicata Golden Glitz ink.  The sentiment (comes with the stamp) was stamped using Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black.  Mounted the piece on olive card stock.   Kept it simple to let the image shine.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Old Olive, Ranger water color paper; Stamps:  Penny Black; Inks:  Ranger Distress Markers, Memento Luxe, Delicata Golden Glitz; Yellow Stickles

{create it wednesday}...

Hello friends!  Popping in to let you know that I have a post up over on the Precious Remembrance Shop blog.  Hope you will stop by and check it out.  Here is a little peek:

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Top Dog Dies... black friday sale

Hey there... popping in to let you know that Top Dog dies is having a Black Friday sale going on right now!  Black Friday Sale #1:  15% off orders over $100;  Use coupon code BLACK15.  Black Friday Sale #2:    10% off orders over $40;  Use coupon code BLACK10.    The sale ends Sunday, November 30th. 

Top Dog has lots of fabulous dies so I hope that you will check out this fantastic sale!   Thanks for stopping by...

PTI November Blog Hop... let it snow!

Hello!  The 25th of the month has rolled around again and that means time for a new PTI blog hop.  This one is all about snow!  Here in Western Washington we don't get a lot of snow, except up in the mountains and that is where I prefer it to stay, lol.  Love looking at Mt. Rainier covered in snow on a bright winter day.  But driving in it??  Not so much!  Anyway... on to my card.

I bought the PTI Wonderful Words: Snow set last year and this is the first time I have actually used it.  I stamped the word "snow" and the phrase "let it" from the set in watermark ink, applied white embossing powder and then heat set it.  Once that was done I stamped the snowflakes (from the PTI set Winter Swirls) in three different Distress inks (Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans and Salty Ocean) randomly around and over the embossed area.  Stormy Skies was then sponged on over the sentiment and snowflakes.  I finished off the card by adhering some snowflake, light blue and clear sequins.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & spring rain; Stamps:  PTI; Ink:  VersaMark and Ranger Distress inks;  Sequins:  Lawn Fawn and Pretty Pink Posh