another tag and card...

Hey there!!  I have another card and a tag to share.   I have been working on my tags for Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist and so far I have three tags done.  The tag I'm sharing today is for day 2, silver and gold.  I was inspired by Keeway's beautiful tags and created something similar.   I die cut the tags from white cardstock and then blended on some Distress Oxide ink in Salty Ocean.  I used lots of Essentials by Ellen products on these little tags!  I started by die cutting the EE Geo Tree from silver and gold glitter cardstock.  EE Brushstroke Peace was die cut from silver and EE Brushstroke Joy from gold.  Finally the star from the Season of Sparkle die set was die cut from silver and gold glitter paper.  I then layered everything on each tag as you see.  I finished the tags by embossing the sentiments (from Brushstroke Christmas stamp set) on black cardstock in white, trimming them out and adhering to the tags.   A bit of white baker's twine was added to each tag, as well.  I will also be adding the tags to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.

The card is for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge, as well as the current SIP challenge Let it Snow and Dies R Us challenge of Christmas carols (mine is Jiggly Bells).   I used more supplies from the Simon Says Stamp limited edition Mint Wishes card kit and some A Jillian Vance Design snowflake dies.  When I saw the SIP challenge I immediately thought of this pretty paper from the kit.  I trimmed it down per the FMS layout and adhered it to the mint cardstock base.  I stamped the little sleigh image from the Yuletide Holiday (also from the Kit) stamp set in Distress Oxide Cracked Pistachio.  I then overstamped the sentiment (from the same stamp set) in VersaFine Smoky Gray and trimmed down the piece.  Snowflakes were die cut from white and vellum cardstocks and adhered together.  I added some loops of silver embroidery floss to the panel and they layered the snowflakes and sentiment on top.

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:  Tag:  Cardstock:  white, MFT silver and gold glitter; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen and Our Daily Bread Designs; Ink:  Distress Oxide and VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts white

• Card:  Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp, PTI vellum and white; Patterned paper: American Crafts Mint Wishes; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Distress Oxide and VersaFine Smoky Gray; DMC silver embroidery floss

Merry Little Christmas...

Hey there!!  Stopping in with another Christmas card.  I made this with supplies from the awesome Simon Says Stamp Mint Wishes card kit.  I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for my card and will also be adding it to the current Dies R Us challenge to make a card based on a song.  As you can see my card is based on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.  I stamped the house on white cardstock with Distress Oxide ink in Cracked Pistachio (came in the kit) and then overstamped the sentiment in VersaFine Smoky Gray.  The image was then die cut with a MFT oval die.  The little sprig of holly and the stars are puffy stickers from the card kit as well.  I adhered everything to some of the patterned paper from the kit that was die cut with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die.  Also adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes and the SSS flickr challenge to make a Christmas/holiday project.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white; Patterned paper:  Mint Wishes cardkit; Stamps:  SSS Yuletide Holiday; Dies:  MFT and AJVD; Inks: Distress Oxide ink and VersaFine; Puffy Stickers

Christmas blessings...

Hello!!  Hope your week has been good.   Here in the Puget Sound area of Washington our week started out pretty wacky with high winds and tons of rain. We lost power 3 times on Monday evening!  Thankfully the outages didn't last long, but it was still annoying!!  Our week has ended way better though with a little bit of sun!  Anyway... I have a card to share.  This is for the current Color Throwdown, Dies R Us and SSS flickr challenges.   The DRU challenge is snowflakes I pulled out my SSS Frozen Fractals stamp set and embossed all of the snowflakes in the set on watercolor paper with silver embossing powder.  Then I did a wash of dark blue watercolor over the top.  The SSS Christmas Blessings die set was cut from light blue glitter cardstock and then adhered to a vellum banner so that they would stand out a bit more against the blue background.  I finished things off with some silver embroidery floss tied in a little bow.  

Hope you have  wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, Range watercolor, PTI vellum, MFT blue glitter; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp, MFT and AJVD; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink; Watercolor medium:  Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors; Ranger silver embossing powder; Silver embroider floss

fall and winter...

Hey there!!!  I have a couple of cards to share!  I don't remember the last time I was able to make two cards in one afternoon, lol!!   I just haven't had the time or the inclination to make a lot of cards lately, but hopefully that is changing!  First up is a card for the current PTI Make it Monday challenge.  I don't often do the MIM challenges... not sure why... but there it is.   I actually wanted to play along with last week's MIM challenge, but never found the time so when I saw Stephanie Gold's fun technique I just had to give it a try.  Yes... my card is a rather shameless CASE of her gorgeous card, but I just loved her design!!  I changed it up a little bit by using the sketch from the current Stamp Ink Paper challenge.  I die cut and stamped the wreath using the same set Stephanie used (Twig Wreath), but all my bits and pieces also come from that same set.  After wrapping my wreath with twine and layering on all the little pieces I die cut the word bountiful (from the Color Pop Autumn Make It Market mini kit) from kraft cardstock and adhered it to my wreath.  I stamped the word blessings on PTI vellum (the best vellum to heat emboss on), heat embossed in copper, trimmed it down and adhered.   Some PTI bitty dot basics paper in Terra Cotta Tile was trimmed down and adhered to some PTI Rustic White cardstock.  Once everything was dry on the wreath it was adhered to my panel and then the panel was adhered to a kraft cardstock base.   I do really like how this turned out.  Also adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge... anything fall.  So that is the fall part of this post... now on to winter!!

The second one is for the current MFT sketch challenge.  I had one snowflake left that I created when I made the last two cards using the beautiful MFT Snowflake Splendor card kit and when I saw the new MFT sketch I knew I had found my way to use that snowflake!  I die cut my banner from Sno-Cone cardstock and silver glitter paper from the kit using a MFT Jumbo Fishtail Flag Stax die and then layered together.  The sentiment (from Snow Globe Sentiments) was stamped on vellum, embossed in silver and then trimmed down.  I adhered the snowflake to the banner and then added my banner to some MFT Sweet Tooth cardstock die cut with an AJVD die.  That piece was adhered to a Sweet Tooth cardstock base and then I adhered the sentiment strip.  Still have more ideas for ways to use this gorgeous kit... so stay tuned!!

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Card 1:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, vellum and Rustic White; Patterned paper:  PTI; Stamps and dies:  PTI; Inks:  PTI (Terra Cotta Tile, Summer Sunrise), VersaFine Vintage Sepia, VersaMark watermark; Twine:  Recollections; Embossing powder:  Stampin Up! copper

Supplies:  Card 2:  Cardstock:  MFT Sweet Tooth, Sno-Cone, silver glitter, vellum, PTI vellum; Stamps and dies:  My Favorite Things; VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Ranger silver

i'll never leaf you...

Hello!!  Wow... we had a wet and wild weekend!!  But thankfully it cleared up enough for the boys and me to get a few more pumpkins for our front porch and to have a little trip out to one of our favorite spots.  It was fun to head out of town in up more toward the mountains and to see all the trees in their full autumn glory!  It made me think of the current inspiration photo from the Card Concept.  When I saw the gorgeous fall wedding cake in the photo I just knew I had to play along! My card would fit in the Classy and Elegant or Clean and Simple categories.  I was inspired by all the leaves on the beautiful white cake.    I used the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, as well.  I inked up a piece of white cardstock with Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade distress oxide inks.  I then die cut two leaves from the AJVD Grand Leaf Trio set set and a small leaf from the AJVD Leaves & Petals die set from the piece.   The leaves were then inked with Fired Brick, Vintage Photo and a bit more Wild Honey distress oxide inks.  I absolutely love those inks for blending!!  A piece of white cardstock was trimmed down to fit the card front, then die cut in half using an AJVD Elegant Stitched Border die.  I then cut the pieces down further with the largest AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle die so that all the edges matched.  The sentiment is from the AJVD stamp set Be-Leaf in Yourself.  I arranged the leaves on the two pieces so I could get a good placement for the sentiment and then stamped it with my MISTI.  The leaves were added along with some red, yellow and orange dew drops.   I will also add this to the current Dies R Us challenge to use leaves on your project.   Can I just say that I am beyond pleased with how this card turned out???  I just love it!!  I'm going to add this to Lea Lawson's Crafty Come Back Party Day 8 link up.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps and dies:  A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Distress Oxide and VersaFine Vintage Sepia; Robins Nest dew drops

being thoughtful...

Hello from windy and rainy Western Washington!!  Our typical autumn weather has arrived with a vengeance!!   So... what do you do when the weather turns bad??? Why make a card or two, of course, lol!!  I got one card made and have a second one underway!  This card is for the current Where Creativity Meet C9 challenge to use the C9 colors (found in their company banner), the current Stamp Ink Paper challenge (tic-tac-toe - I went with leaves, sequins and die cut) and the current Dies R Us challenge of leaves.  I hunted through my ink collection and found three Hero Arts inks that were a good match for the C9 colors and then used them to ink up the leaf border image from the C9 Seasonal Borders stamp set.  The sentiment is from the C9 set Being Classy stamp set.  I inked up the word thoughtful using the same three inks and then die cut it with the matching die.  I laid the word on my stamped panel and then arranged the words being and is classy around it.  I removed the die cut and using my MISTI stamped the words in black ink.  The die cut was adhered along with some sequins in clear and a color similar to those used for ink up the stamps.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Fresh Snow linen, SU! dark gray; Stamps and dies:  Concord & 9th; Inks:  Hero Arts; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh and Verve

a wedding card...

Hello!!  Hope you had a wonderful weekend.   I did!!  My niece got married this past weekend and it was absolutely lovely!!  (Unfortunately I forgot my phone at home so I have no photos!!)  Of course I had to make a card and since the current WCMC9 challenge is anything goes I used the challenge as my starting point.   Many months ago I made a card using C9 products that would have worked for a wedding card, but since my niece was going with a mostly white theme for her wedding I decided to remake it.  Their invitation is very sweet and rustic so I decided to use the fun heart image from the C9 Cozy Up stamp set.   The paper I used is from the Teresa Collins Gold Glam 6x6 pad.  I trimmed it down and then die cut it with the die that matches the heart.  I adhered the paper to a white cardstock base using removable adhesive and then stamped the heart in kraft ink using my mini MISTI.  I stamped the Mr. & Mrs. from the Many Mandalas set in black and then adhered the die cut panel.  The little floral piece was die cut using one of the dies from the Layers of Love die set and then adhered along with some C9 gold sequin trim.   A piece of white cardstock was trimmed down to fit inside, stamped with the heart image and then added the sentiment (also from Many Mandalas).   I decided to be smart this time and take a photo of the inside panel with the card instead of adhering it inside the card and then trying to take the photo!!   I think I will add this to the current   Dies R Us challenge of anything goes.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, PP:  Teresa Collins; Stamps and Dies:  Concord & 9th; Ink:  SU! Crumb Cake, VersaFine Onyx Black, Embellishments:  Concord & 9th gold sequin trim

smile...

Hello!!   A new sketch is up on the MFT challenge blog and I found some time to make a card using it along with the current colors for the MFT color challenge.  I will also be adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of put a sentiment on it.   I still had the July MFT card kit and I wanted to make another card before I put things away.  This time I used the lovely script smile die from the kit long with the one of the large flowers and the leaves stamps and dies.  I stamped the flower using the coral color and the leaves using colors close to the Spearmint and Green Eyed Monster colors.  The smile was die cut from cardstock in a color as close as I could get to blueberry.  I did die cut the word three times and then adhered them together.  I used the soft gray cardstock to break things up a bit.  The strip and the rounded rectangle were die cut using the MFT Inside Out Stitched Rectangle dies.  After I layered everything up per the sketch I stamped the sentiment on vellum using watermark ink, heat set it with white embossing powder and then die cut it with the banner die (the free with $60 die set).  A panel of white cardstock was die cut, the rounded rectangle adhered to that and then everything was adhered to a coral cardstock base.  I love it when I can "kill two birds with one stone"!   I think I will also add this to the current Word Art Wednesday challenge.  ETA:  Today is the last day of MFT's Camp Create, part 2.  I have not had time to do any of the other "crafts", but since my card has lots of die cutting on it I will be adding it to today's "craft" of die cutting.  Adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge of anything goes.

Have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white and vellum, Ranger woodgrain, MFT Coral Crush, SSS fog, blue; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT and AJVD; Inks:  Stampin Up!, Hero Arts and VersaMark; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts

remember this...

Hey friends!!  Well... my kiddos finally go back to school on the 9th of September.   We have all enjoyed the extended summer, but I'm ready for them to be back in the classroom.  And with that in mind I have a card to share that I made for the current Fusion challenge:  back to school.  I used both the inspiration photo and the sketch for my card.  The stamps I used are the newly released Precious Remembrance Shop set School Days (I just love that fun little bus!!) and a sentiment from the Precious Remembrance Shop set This Moment.   In keeping with the bright colors in the inspiration photo I used some fun, somewhat bright patterned papers from the BasicGrey 6x6 pad Shine On.  The bus was stamped on the orange paper and trimmed out.  For the circular element I decided to go more angular and used a square instead. I die cut the squares using Spellbinders plain square dies. The banners were die cut using a MFT fishtail flag stax die.  Initially I had all three cut from patterned paper, but the bottom sentiment was nearly invisible so I switched it out to white cardstock.  I now see after taking the photo that the top sentiment is a bit hard to read, as well.   So... I have included a close up photo so you can see both sentiments clearly.  Some yellow enamel dots were added to the bus headlights for a fun look.  And for a finishing touch I added some baker's twine in a light green.  Adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge:  Back to School.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Patterned paper:  BasicGrey; Stamps:  Precious Remembrance Shop; Dies:  Spellbinders long rectangles and plain squares, MFT fishtail flag stax; My Mind's Eye enamel dots

live in the sunshine...

Hey friends!!  Hope your week is going well.  Can't believe that summer is coming to a close.  We are still have great weather (after some thunder storms over the weekend), but the temperature has come down into the mind 80s...YAY!  I have a card to share that I made for several challenges:  CAS on Sunday - vellum, Sweet Sunday Sketch (layout) and Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  Citron.   The color combo is based on this week's Splitcoaststampers color challenge.  The colors are yellow, coral and lavender.   I had a hard time putting the colors together until I decided to use some patterned paper in the lavender color.  The stamps I used are from Stampin Up! (Butterfly Basics and Pursuit of Happiness).  The cardstock and patterned paper panels were die cut using my A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Backdrop dies.  Love the clean, crisp look that die cut panels provide!  The butterfly was die cut from PTI patterned vellum using a Stampin Up! butterfly die.  After stamping the fern image I adhered the panels per the sketch adding in a thin strip of grey cardstock.  Some lengths of baker's twine in the three main colors were cut, added to the mini clothes pin, the pin adhered to the butterfly and the butterfly adhered to the panel.   Adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge:  the great outdoors.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Simon Says Stamp Fog; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Dies:  Stampin Up! and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Baker's Twine:  My Mind's Eye and Stampin Up!; Vellum:  PTI; Mini clothes pin:  Impress

oh happy day...

Hey friends!!  Wow... feels like ages since I last posted.  Well... it has been five days, lol!   My mojo went missing even though I have tons of new paper crafting products and some more on the way.  To be honest I think all the new stuff kinda overwhelmed me and created a bit of a crafting block. Too many choices!!  In order to break the block I decided to go simple and created something for several challenges:  Stampin Celebration (layout), Colour Me...! (white on white) and Less is More (lucky dip week - 2 or 4 legs). ETA:  adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge:  love birds.

I love the Perched Reed Bird die from Memory Box and don't use it enough so I pulled it out, along with the Memory Box Small Circle Burst die.  I cut the main panel from PTI's white linen cardstock and then die cut it with the Circle Burst die.  The bird was also cut from the white linen cardstock.  The banner was die cut from plain white cardstock since I wanted to stamp it with the sentiment (from the Precious Remembrance Shop Blossom set).  After layering everything I added some white and silver sequins for a little sparkle.   Just love a crisp, clean card design.

 

Thanks for stopping by..

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI and Recollections; Stamps:  Precious Remembrance Shop; Dies:  Memory Box and My Favorite Things (banner); Sequins:  Verve

weddings and anniversaries...

Hey friends!!   Popping in today with two cards for two different challenges... CASology where the cue word is wedding and Dies R Us where the challenge is to make an anniversary card.   Earlier this month I got the Simon Says Stamp May card kit which is perfect for wedding and anniversary cards.  I don't have any weddings to attend, but I just fell in love with the kit when I saw it so I had to have it.  I used it to create my two cards.  First up in my card for CASology.  There is absolutely no stamping on this card.  I used different bits and pieces from the kit to make the card.  In fact the two strips along the side of the card are from the piece of paper from the kit that I used to create the second card.  I used a banner and word strip from the kit, a circle punched from cardstock and some gold metallic twine to create my little sentiment embellishment.  The white cardstock partially embossed before I added the two paper strips along the one side.  One corner was rounded and the piece was then mounted on a dark grey cardstock base. 

The second card is for the Dies R Us challenge.  They are celebrating their 1st anniversary and so the challenge is to create an anniversary card.  I think this card would be perfect for a golden anniversary card or any anniversary really.  I die cut the patterned paper using the Lawn Fawn Speech Bubble border die.  The "congratulations" from the Simon Says Stamp set "Congratulations" (it is part of the May card kit) was stamped using VersaMark watermark ink, gold embossing powder applies and then heat set.  The bottom paper is also from the SSS May kit.  Love all those fun gold foil embossed diamonds.  I adhered just a strip of that to a cream cardstock panel and then added the sentiment portion on top using fun foam instead of foam dimensionals to give the piece more stability.   The panel was then attached to a cream cardstock base.  

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Simon Says Stamp dark grey and cream; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Ink:  VersaMark; Embossing powder:  Ranger gold; Patterned Paper:  My Minds Eye; Dies:  Lawn Fawn; circle punch

masculine birthday...

Hello friends!!  Popping in with a quick post to share a card I made for a couple of challenges:  Color Throwdown and Dies R Us challenge - one for the boys.   I just recently found Dies R Us and was blown away by their die selection.  I haven't had a chance to buy anything yet, but hopefully in the near future I can change that.   

The color palette from Color Throwdown just said "guy" to me.  I used a recently purchased Stampin Up! set called Sheltering Tree.  I stamped the tree, ground and swing using all of the colors in the palette and then die cut it using a MFT fishtail flag stax die.  I cut a piece of kraft cardstock and then partially embossed it using a woodgrain embossing folder (although you can't really see it in the photo).  I die cut a circle of black cardstock using a Spellbinders plain circle die to use as a mat of sorts for the banner.  Before adhering the banner to the circle I tied some black twine around the banner.   After everything was layered up I added the sentiment (from the Altenew set Label Love).

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI rustic white & kraft; Stamps:  Stampin Up! and Altenew; Inks:  VersaMagic Pumpkin Spice and Brick Red; Memento Pistachio and Cantaloupe; woodgrain embossing folder