Hello! Popping in to let you know that there are still great deals to be had over at Spellbinders. Just click on the banner below to be taken to the sale. Lots and lots of great deals!
Thank you, in advance, to anyone who decides to use my affiliate link to make a purchase at Spellbinders. I really appreciate it!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Hey there! Hope you are well and are ready for Christmas. As usual I'm really not ready for Christmas, but that's okay. Have a couple of cards to share. First up is a card for Freshly Made Sketches and the Reverse Confetti stock your stash challenge. The challenge this month is thank you cards. I was still feeling in a aqua/red mood so I used those colors along with the Reverse Confetti Thank You stamp and die set, as well as the Sketched Florals stamp and die set. I created a wreath of sorts on the main panel of the FMS sketch from two of the images from the Sketched Floral stamp set. I stamped the large Thank You from the Thank You stamp set in aqua ink and then die cut it with the matching die. The shadow layer was die cut from red cardstock. I cut additional thank yous from white cardstock to layer behind the stamped one and then adhered them to the shadow layer. I nestled the thank you into the main panel and adhered that to the card front.
Hello everyone! I'm just popping in to let you know that Spellbinders has a couple of great offers going on right now. Click on the banner below to purchase your very own Super Surprise Bundle! This bundle contains stamps, dies, embellishments and an embossing folder. The total amount of the bundle is over $160, but you can purchase a bundle for $45! That is an amazing deal, right?
Happy Wednesday everyone! Wow... it is already the middle of December and Christmas is just a little over a week away! Anyone feeling the pressure?! I am, lol! Still working on presents for at least one of my boys. Anywho... it is Wednesday and that means I have a card up on the AJVD blog today. Here is a little peek:
If it looks a little familiar it is because I created it using some die cuts left over from a slimline card I made a few weeks back. I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to check it out, though! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Hey there! I got some crafty time today and I managed to make TWO cards! Pretty proud of myself although I'm sure I have made at least two cards on the same day in the last few weeks, lol! First up is a card for Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches. Amy Rohl, who is one of the designers over at CTD, created the most amazing cards using die cut poinsettias and die cut deer. My card is something of a shameless case of her brilliant designs. I die cut a tag from green cardstock and then two more from white cardstock and adhered them together. The poinsettia was die cut from white cardstock using the AJVD poinsettia die and the deer from aqua cardstock using another AJVD die. The AJVD deer die set includes a pair of glasses and other items to decorate your deer. I die cut the glasses and a little dot from pink cardstock and adhered those to the deer. The poinsettia was adhered to the tag and then I added the deer. I looped pink baker's twine through the hole in the tag and tied a knot at the end. Everything was adhered to a rectangle die cut from white cardstock. The sentiment is from the AJVD Light of Christmas stamp set. I stamped it using VersaFine CLAIR Morning Mist and die cut it with a banner die. As a finishing touch I added Glossy Accents to the glasses for a little shine and realism.
Hello! I'm back with an other post. This one is for the current MFT sketch challenge, the Paper Players challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. I have never been into stamps of animals. My preference for images is florals. But... I absolutely adore the sweet little images of foxes, bunnies, birds and other animals designed by Stacey Yacula. So last week I received an MFT/Stacey Yacula stamp and die set called Christmas Cheer. I just love the little bunny in the stamp set. So using the theme from Paper Players, the sketch from the MFT sketch challenge and dies (for the SSS Wednesday challenge) I created my little card. I stamped the bunny, the Christmas tree and the treeline on watercolor paper from Tim Holtz and then colored the images with watercolor pencils. Once everything was mostly dry I die cut them with their matching dies. To create the more angled slope of the treeline I trimmed off the little trees and then angled the little hills so they were a little steeper and then die cut with a rectangle die. The same die was used to diecut some very pale blue cardstock. I stamped the sentiment at angle directly on the snowy slope. I adhered the treeline to the rectangle and then added the smaller trees, the Christmas tree and finally the little bunny.
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hello! Popping in with a quick post to share a card that I made with one of the new dies from Simon Says Stamp's DIEcember release that went live on December 1st. I'm super thankful to Simon Says Stamp for sending me product to use for their releases! This time they sent me a gorgeous die set calld Snowflake Frame. It includes a large rectangular die with snowflakes around the edges and five small snowflake dies that can be used separately. I have not used those little snowflakes on a card... yet! This card will be heading off to the current Inspired By challenge as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to use dies. The Inspired By challenge always has really fun themes and every week I think I will play along and then the next thing you know it is Thursday, again, and I didn't play along! I die cut the frame from aqua cardstock and then stamped the sentiment (from an SSS stamp set that is no longer available) with watermark ink and heat embossed in white. The small thanks is from another Simon Says Stamp set and was stamped with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink on a thin strip and then trimmed down. I stamped the snowman (he is from the same set as the sentiment) on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored him with Copic markers. I cut him out and popped him up on the frame with foam dots. The frame was then adhered to a white cardstock base. My snowman isn't melting, but he is a snowman and I do have snowflakes!
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hello! Got some time to make a card today and of course I had to make a card using my two favorite challenges: Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches! I have been seeing lots of beautiful cards make with poinsettia images and dies and that inspired me to get out one of my favorite poinsettia stamp sets to use for my card. That stamp set is Festive Poinsettia from Altenew. I love the realistic looking poinsettia in this stamp set. I stamped the image on Canson watercolor paper with Vintage Photo distress ink. I then carefully wet different bracts of the poinsettia with water and watercolored with the dark red color from my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor set. I made sure to color one bract and then color another that wasn't close to it. This way I could make sure that the colors didn't bleed too much. The Vintage Photo mixed with the dark red to give it a more burgundy color, as well. Once one bract was mostly dry I would add an additional layer of color. The remaining bracts were just wet with water and then I pulled out the Vintage Photo to give the rest of the bracts a kraft/cream color. The stems and the actual flowers of the image were colored in the same way. Most people think that the red, white, pink or cream colored bracts are the flower, but they aren't. The flowers in the poinsettia are actually really tiny and look like what might be the center of a flower. Once the image was mostly dry I die cut it with the matching die. I then die cut some red cardstock with a rectangle die and tore off the bottom. I die cut a piece of the Canson watercolor paper with a large rectangle die and then stamped the sentiment from Festive Poinsettia with the Vintage Photo ink. I splattered the large rectangle and the poinsettia with black watercolor and let them dry. When they were fully dry I adhered the red cardstock piece and the poinsettia to the large rectangle and then adhered everything to a kraft cardstock base. Also adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of fun with dies.
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Yep... still making Christmas cards! I think I still need a couple more, but need to make out my list to know for sure. The first card is for Color Throwdown. I recently got the Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Plaid die set and have been wanting to make a card with it so I used it for this card. I die cut the bottom layer from green, the middle from red and then the top layer from aqua. I was going to go in one direction and tried the idea I had in mind. The idea didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to, but that happens, right? So I just moved forward with the rest of my idea and finished the card. I used my Glimmer hot foil system to foil the senitment in silver on green cardstock and then I used two dies from a Spellbinders small die kit to create the little bow for my present. I die cut white cardstock using a Spellbinders Essentials Rectangle die and adhered the kaleidoscope plaid piece to the rectangle and then added the bow. To bring in a little more silver I added silver flatback pearls from Spellbinders to the center of the bow and to the present. Going to add this one to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.
Don't forget that Spellbinders is having a huge sale going on through tomorrow. Click here or on my side bar to head to the sale. Lots of great deals to be had!
The second card is for the MFT sketch and color challenge. It looks alot like the first card in layout and honestly I didn't plan it that way. I actually made this card before I made the CTD card! I love snowflakes (seriously... who doesn't?) and have several older snowflake stamp and die sets from MFT so I pulled out one set to create my card. I used inks from MFT and PTI for the snowflakes. To bring in the red I stamp the sentiment from an older MFT sentiment set with watermark ink on red cardstock and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The sentiment was die cut with an MFT fishtail flag stack die. I used an MFT scalloped rectangle die for the center panel. I arranged the snowflakes and the sentiment strip on the panel and adhered them with liquid adhesive and foam dots. Once I had everything adhered down I added Nuvo Crystal drops in Morning Dew. I was going to add more around the snowflakes, but I just didn't have the nerve to commit to that, lol! So... I kept it clean and simple.
Hello and happy Wednesday everyone! I have a post up on the AJVD blog today and here is a little peek of my card:
I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to check out my card. Please check out this post for different Black Friday sales going on. Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hello there! I'm popping in to let you know about several black Friday sales that are going on right now. I have already mentioned the Spellbinders sale. Just click on the link in the side bar to head to the sale. I also want to let you know that ThermoWeb is having a big sale. Click on the banner below to head to the sale! This sale is going on right now and will last through November 30th.
A Jillian Vance Design is also having a big sale. The sale starts on Wednesday, November 25th and runs through November 30th! Click here to head to the AJVD sale.
Thanks for stopping by and if you decide to use my affiliate links to shop please know that I really appreciate it!
Hello! Stopping in with a quick post of a card that I made for Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches. I wasn't even sure that this card was going to get made as I was really having troubles with the CTD combo. I tried watercoloring, but couldn't come up with a nice color that would pass for cream so I looked through my cardstock and found some cardstock that I think is from Stampin Up! Or it could be PTI's Rustic Cream... I really don't know! I used the Simon Says Stamp Ornate Ornaments stamp and die set, as well as a sentiment from an older SSS stamp set called Gifts of Love. Since the theme at the SSS Wednesday challenge and the SSS flickr challenge is Christmas I will also be posting the card there. Super simple... I stamped the three ornaments in Versamark watermark ink on colored cardstock and heat embossed with WOW embossing powder in gold. The ornaments were die cut with the matching die and adhered to a white die cut cardstock panel with liquid adhesive. I added little gold twine bows to each ornament and heat embossed the sentiment in gold, as well. While I wasn't certain about the color combo at first I do really like how the card turned out!
Hello! I'm popping in to let you know that Spellbinders is having a HUGE holiday sale right now. There are tons of great deals to be had. Just click on the banner below to be taken straight to the sale. All prices are good through November 30, 2020.
Hello and happy Thursday everyone! I'm throwing you a little curve ball today because I'm popping in to let you know that I have a post up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog. Wednesday is my usual day, but because of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags post yesterday my Wednesday post got switched to Thursday. Here is a little peek of my card:
I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to check out the full project and to let me know what you think. Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hello everyone! Have you been playing along with Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas tags this year? I have created a few tags so far, but today I'm sharing a tag that I created as a member of the A Jillian Vance Design design team. Today is Wednesday and that means usually I post a project over on the AJVD blog and give you a sneak peek here on my blog. But today I'm sharing my tag (and a bonus tag) here on the blog. You can still head over to the AJVD blog to see what the other design team members created. I will be posting my usually Wednesday project tomorrow on Thursday.
I went a little rustic and a little elegant for my tag. I die cut the tag from white cardstock using the Minnie Pearl Tag die set. I then cut the Rustic Wood Slice from kraft cardstock and adhered just a portion of it to my tag, trimming off the excess. I used the Fresh Cut Pine dies to cut my pine branches from white glitter cardstock and the pine cones from brown glitter cardstock. I adhered these to the tag with Just Glue It adhesive. I tied a bow from rustic twine and adhered that to the tag with Just Glue It adhesive, as well. The sentiment is from the Just BeCLAUS stamp set on kraft cardstock that I had die cut with one of the strip dies from the Sentiment Strips 2.0 die set with VersaFine CLAIR Acorn ink. I trimmed the sentiment down and adhered it to the tag. Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of Christmas.
Now for my bonus tag. This one was super quick to put together. I got the idea from a card that I saw in a video I watched the other day. The card featured a deer die cut from white cardstock and then just the antlers die cut from gold glitter cardstock and adhered to the deer. I loved the look of the white and gold together. I used some very old Christmas paper called Santa's List (it is almost gone now!) and die cut some pieces using the Rustic Wood Slice die. I was going to use the die cuts that way, but really didn't like how it looked. So I die cut the wood slices down with one of the new Stitched Dot In and Out circle dies. I adhered the two circle together to give the tag a little more substance. I punched a hole in the top with a punch and threaded through gold tinsel trim. The antlers were adhered to my Stately Stag die cut from white cardstock and then adhered to the tag with foam tape. I die cut a sentiment strip using the Sentiment Strips 2.0 die set using coordinating patterned paper and then heat embossed the sentiment from the Just BeCLAUS stamp set using WOW embossing powder in gold. The sentiment was trimmed down and adhered with Just Glue It Adhesive.
Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out all the other tags created by the AJVD design team members!
Hello! Hope you had a great week. We are having some crazy windy weather right now. I guess winter is on its way! I have a card to share today, as well as two tags. First up is the card. Two of my favorite challenges are Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches and I often combine the two. I haven't lately, but I did for this card. As soon as I saw the color combo for CTD I knew exactly what I would be making and what products I would be using. That doesn't happen to often, lol! But I had recently purchased a fun die set from Spellbinders called Joyful Christmas Tree and had been wanting to make something with it. I love this little tree as it reminds me of something from a Dr. Seuss book. I die cut the base from white cardstock and then the outlines from a light aqua cardstock. I layered those up and then got to work creating the background for the card. I die cut a panel of white cardstock and then the red striped paper. I trimmed down the red striped paper and adhered it to the white cardstock panel. The sentiment was then foiled in red with my Glimmer machine. I then adhered the tree with foam tape. The star at the top was die cut from silver foil and a silver pearl added to the center. I then die cut multiple red flowers using another Spellbinders die set, adhered the flowers together and adhered them to the tree. Little silver pearls were added to the centers and then I added additional silver pearls as you see. The panel was then adhered to a light aqua cardstock base. It took me awhile to make this card, but I love how it turned out and seriously... who doesn't love aqua, red and silver?! Don't forget about the Spellbinders buy one get one free sale going on. Just click on the link over on my sidebar to shop.
Now for my tags. I created both of these for Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags event. One tag has already been entered into the gallery. I will be post the other tag to that gallery with this post. Both tags were inspired by day 2 of the event. One tag was created by one of the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge design team member Maura. She created a tag with an ice skater on it. Her tag was done in blues with snowflakes. I did mine using red and cream. The little ice skater is a SSS die that I got last year (I think) in a card kit that I purchased. I can't find the papers that I used for the tag, but I do know that it is an older paper pad. The snowflakes were die cut using the Daphne snowflake die from SSS. The sentiment is from the SSS stamp set Yuletide Holiday set. This tag has already been added to the 25 Days of Christmas tags gallery.
The second tag uses the fun little Gnome die from Simon Says Stamp that came in a card kit that I bought last year. I'm not super into gnomes, but they are kinda cute and when I saw SSS design team member Lin's tag using the same die I decided to create a tag similar to her tag. I used papers from a 6 year old paper pad from My Mind's Eye called Sleigh Bells Ring. I actually have some My Mind's Eye patterned paper that is even older and you will see it soon used on another project! I used some A Jillian Vance Design dies to create the main tag, as well as the small tag. The gnome was die cut from various papers and pieced together. After creating the tag I used a sentiment from the SSS Gnome for the Holidays set and embossed it on the tag in the lower corner. I then adhered the gnome and then added the little tag along with the red and green twine I used. This one will be added to the 25 Days of Christmas Tags gallery.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
![Spellbinders](<a target="_blank" href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1687275&u=1027333&m=70661&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="https://static.shareasale.com/image/70661/Email-NYEsale-03.png" border="0" /></a>){kind=link}
![Super Surprise Bundle](<a target="_blank" href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1682854&u=1027333&m=70661&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="https://static.shareasale.com/image/70661/DealsSurpriseBundleDec2020.jpg" border="0" /></a>){kind=link}