warm wishes...

Hello friends!!   Wow... just a few more days until Christmas and my little guy just can't stand it that he has to wait that few more days!  He wants Christmas and he wants it now, lol!!  Haven't shared a card in a few days... Mo and Jo left town for a while on a pre-Christmas holiday, but I think they returned this afternoon and I was able to get something made.  Not my best effort... Mo and Jo are a bit tired from their trip!   This little number is for the current Dynamic Duos challenge and uses the new Sketchbook Saturday sketch.

I recently purchased two sets of Avery Elle stamps during Ellen Hutson's Christmas sale.  I inked up stamps from both sets for this card.   I stamped the wreath image from "Winter Wreath" using SU!'s Smoky Slate ink and then added the berries using Cherry Cobbler.  The bow was also stamped in Cherry Cobbler, trimmed out and adhered to the wreath.  I die cut the wreath using a Spellbinders plain circle die and matted it with black cardstock also cut with a plain circle die.  I cut the Cherry Cobbler cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot in my woodgrain embossing folder.  After adhering it to the card base I added some white lace and then layered on the wreath.  The sentiment (from the AE set "Let It Snow") was then added.  

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & black; SU! Cherry Cobbler; Ink:  SU! and Memento; Stamps:  Avery Elle; Lace:  The Funky Junkie; Dies:  Spellbinders dies

a quick christmas card...

Hello friends!!  Popping in to let you know that I have a post up over on the CardMaker blog with a quick and easy Christmas card that I made.  I hope you will take the time to stop by and check it out.  Just click here.    I'm providing a little peak of it. 

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CCC #75...

Hello friends!!  Wow.. Christmas is almost upon us!  Are you ready??? Not me, ha!  Today is Tuesday and that means a brand new cue word.  Wow, wow, wow!!!   The gallery was crammed full of absolutely STUNNING projects for last week's cue word:  snow.  This week's cue word knit should bring out the creativity in everyone!  No sponsor this week, but we do have the absolutely fabulous Kim joining us as guest designer!!

 

So... this week's cue really had me stumped at first.  I know that PTI has a super cute set devoted to knitting, but I don't own it and I don't own many other stamps that feature knitting... except for a few stamps featuring scarf wearing snowmen... so that's where I went!  The image from Penny Black is called "happy soul" (4106K).  I used some patterned paper from the Teresa Collins Santa's List 6x6 pad that featured the diamond pattern on the top.  I cut the piece of paper as you see and then stamped the image.  I did a bit of Copic coloring on Mr. Snowman and then added subtle glimmer with silver and black Wink of Stella brush markers.   The piece was adhered to a kraft card base and the sentiment (from the Penny Black clear set "the Wonder" (30-040) was added. 

Thanks for stopping by... I cannot wait to see where this week's cue word "knit" takes you!  In the meantime make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Judy, Meghan, Ardyth, Gillian, Maureen, Kimberly, Tracey and guest designer, Kim!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; PP:  Teresa Collins; Stamps:  Penny Black; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers; Wink of Stella silver and black markers

two cards... two challenges

Hello friends!  I have a couple of cards to share.  I don't normally do posts where I have a card for one challenge and then a card for a second challenge, but I didn't really want to do two posts so I decided to combine them.

The first card is for the current CAS(E) this sketch.  I recently purchased a bundle of BasicGrey 25th & Pine products from Peachy Cheap (they have daily deals... check'em out!).  One of the items in the bundle was a pack of die cut numbers (large and small) so I decided to use them for my card.  I cut a strip of patterned paper from the 25th & Pine 6x6 pad and adhered it to my white cardstock panel.  The numbers 2 and 5 were adhered.  A piece of baker's twine was cut and attached to a chipboard sticker from the bundle and then adhered to the panel.  A little twine bow finished things off.  The sentiment is from the Penny Black set called "Christmas Treasurers".

My second card is for the current My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch challenge.  I haven't done one of their sketches in ages, but this one caught my fancy and so I made this little Valentine.  I used patterned paper from the PTI Simple Valentine paper pad and the MFT stamp set Homespun Hearts.  The "hello" was die cut using the MFT Happy Hellos Die-namics set.  I stamped the dots image from the MFT Distressed Background Blocks on white cardstock using light pink ink and then die cut the word.  The word was also die cut from pink cardstock and then the stamped word was inlaid into the pink cardstock.   A heart was die cut using the Rustic Hearts Die-namics and stamped with the corresponding heart image using dark pink ink.  I punched the scalloped edge with an EK Success punch.   A pink button and some red sequins finished off the card.

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Supplies:  Card #1:  Stamps:  Penny Black; Cardstock:  PTI; Patterned Paper and embellishments:  BasicGrey 25th & Pine;  Card #2:  Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Cardstock: PTI, Stampin Up! & Bazzill Basics; Patterned Paper:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Button:  PTI; Sequins:  Lawn Fawn

a new adventure...

Hello friends!!  Hope you are having a lovely weekend.  Popping in with a quick post to let you in on a little secret that I have been keeping.  I'm on the design team for a brand new color challenge called "Colour Me"!!   You can find out more about the challenge and the design team by clicking here.  I hope you will check out the challenge and play along with us starting in January!

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santa was here...

Hello friends!!   The rush to Christmas is on!  I have been busy trying to get a few little paper crafting projects wrapped up and so far haven't accomplished much... yikes!  But I had time to make a card for a couple of challenges:   ColourQ and RC's Sketch for You to Try #7.  Gotta have your priorities, right? 

I recently got some yummy new Reverse Confetti... two stamps sets and their brand new Confetti Cut die set Tag Me and I have been dying to use them.  Of course their SFYTT was the perfect opportunity.  I stamped one of the circle images from the RC set Whole Lotta Dots on kraft cardstock using kraft ink and then die cut it using the large tag from Tag Me.   The circular image from the RC set Tinsel n' Trim was stamped in red ink and die cut with a Spellbinders circle die.  The arrow image was stamped using Always Artichoke and trimmed out.   I cut some patterned papers from various manufacturers, layered then and then adhered the tag and sentiments.  I finished off the card with a bow tied with kraft and dark green hemp twine, adhered it to the tag and added the snowflake/pearl embellishment.

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Supplies:  Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Dies:  Reverse Confetti & Spellbinders; Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Chocolate Chip; PP:  Teresa Collins and PTI; Inks:  SU!:  Real Red, Always Artichoke & Crumb Cake; Hemp:  Hempotique; Sequin:  Lawn Fawn; pearl