Let the Heavens.....

Hello friends!!  Wow... time sure is flying!! Christmas is right around the corner.  Spent the last several days putting up our two Christmas trees.  I was worried it was going to take me longer, but thankfully it didn't... yay!!!  May try to take pictures of them at some point... both are decorated entirely in Hallmark ornaments are pretty darn cute!  

Anywhoo... inbetween getting the trees outs of storage, along with all those Hallmark ornaments, putting them up and decorating them, I managed to get a few cards made.  The one I'm sharing today is for the current Catered Crop challenge (Silver & Gold... I went with silver) and the current Deconstructed Sketch challenge.  The card was made using things that were close at hand on my kitchen counter.  The patterned paper is from a Stampin Up! designer paper pack from last year called Frostwood Lodge.  The stamp is from a new Hero Arts set Heavens Rejoice.  I stamped the sentiment using VersaMark watermark ink, applied silver ultrafine embossing powder and heat set it.  When I was done I was quite surprised at how nicely the embossing turned out.  Sometimes when I embossed sentiments the wording can end up not so clear, but this time it was perfect.  The fishtail flag banners were cut using my MFT fishtail flag stax dies.   Finished things off with some red bakers twine and two silver bells. 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI; SU! Garden Green & Cherry Cobbler; DP:  Frostwood Lodge; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing Powder:  Ranger UltraFine Silver; Baker's Twine:  The Twinery - Red; Bells:  Michaels; Dies:  MFT Fishtail Flag Stax dies

CCC #21... past, present, future

{for my shining the light post, please scroll down}

hello there... i'm back!!   here with my card for this week's CASology challenge.  the cue word this week is time.   lots of different directions you can go in with this one.   our quest designer this week is the very talented N@.  All the details can be found here.

 



close up

i have to admit that when i saw the cue word my first thought was to use a clock.  but i don't have any clock images in my collection.  that left me with only one option... get outside my box and put my thinking cap on!   so i thought and thought some more... then i remembered that last week i had made a card for a splitcoaststampers challenge that used a lovely new stamp i had recently gotten from penny black.  the stamp is appropriately titled "time".   i had paired that stamp with another penny black stamp and used the emboss/resist technique for the card.  i decided to sort of recreate that card, but keeping this one more CAS than the other card.  i did this by stamping the sentiment in black ink, stamping the 2nd image over the top with versamark watermark ink, applied embossing powder and then heat set.  After that I applied Chipped Sapphire and Dusty Concord distress ink to the piece.  The final step was to die cut the image using a Spellbinders plain long rectangle die.  The finished piece was then adhered to the center of a white card base using foam dimensionals.   here is a close up shot of the sentiment... isn't it beautiful?  i just love so many of sentiments that you can get from penny black. 

thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, N@! can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white; stamps:  penny black; inks:  memento tuxedo black, versamark watermark ink, ranger distress inks; ultrafine clear embossing powder; spellbinders dies

ODBDSLC132... Chickadee Ornament

Hello friends!!  Tuesday is here and that means time for a brand new Shining the Light challenge!!  This week the challenge team is asking you to make a holiday card that has an ornament or something hanging on it.   For my card this week I used the brand new Chickadee Ornament set.
This is the last week with our fabulous guest designer, Barbara.  Please make sure you check out her blog and leave her some love.

I kept things really simple and just let the chickadee ornament shine.  I stamped the ornament image using Memento Tuxedo black ink and then die cut it using a Spellbinders plain circle die.  Once it was die cut I colored the image with Copic markers.   Some red cardstock was die cut using another plain circle die to use as a mat for the ornament image.  The little hanger was stamped using Delicata Golden Glitz ink, trimmed out and adhered to the ornament.   The ornament was matted with the red circle and then the bakers twine was adhered to the back.   Some additional baker's twine was tied in a bow.   The white cardstock piece was embossed using my SU!/Sizzix woodgrain embossing folder and then inked with some Old Paper distress ink.  At the time I took the photo the ornament is actually hanging free.   I didn't put a sentiment on the front, but will add that to the inside at a later date. 

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, December 1st at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, December 1st at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC132. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Barbara! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI red and white; Stamps:  ODBD Chickadee Ornament; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Dies:  Spellbinders; Embossing Folder:  SU!/Sizzix Woodgrain; Baker's Twine:  The Twinery; Diamond Stickles; Copic Markers

wishing you the best ....

hello friends!   here with a card for several challenges:  Less is More - Glitz & Glamour; Retro Sketches & Dynamic Duos.    love it when saturday morning rolls around and i can see what the new LIM challenge is going to be for the week.   i also love checking a few other favorite challenges like Dynamic Duos to see if i can somehow fit a couple of them together.   was so glad to see that i was able to make one card for three!!  love it when that happens! 

the Dynamic Duos colors this week are midnight muse (a navy-bluish color) and silver... fit perfectly with the LIM challenge as i have lots of silver bling!  then i checked out the new Retro Sketch and thought... hmmm i can use that lovely sketch for my card!  the card base is made using midnight muse cardstock and the ribbon is PTI's enchanted evening... which is a pretty good match for midnight muse.  the ink is versamagic ocean depths.  the bling is from recollections.  i used several flourishes from the package and cut them up to suit my purpose.  in addition to the silver bling i used a bit of silver washi tape, as well.  pretty satisfied with the overall card although i may take a new photo of it in daylight... then maybe the washi tape will show up better!  must say a big thank you to allyson and deanna over at dynamic duos... lovely allyson picked my card as the winning card for dynamic duos challenge #28 and then this past week the super sweet deanna picked my card as a dynamic darling for challenge #29!   thanks, ladies!!

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supplies:  cardstock:  pti and stampin up!; stamps:  pti; die:  stampin up!/sizzix; ink:  versamagic; ribbon:  pti; washi tape:  impress; flourishes:  recollections

CCC #20... Gobble, Gobble

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hello!!  i'm back with my card for this week's CASology challenge.  here in the USA thanksgiving is just a few days away and our cue word this week is "gobble"!  how fun is that???  i can tell you that the design team has come up with some really clever cards!  this week we are joined by our super talented guest designer... donna!!  yay...woot, woot!!  you can find all the details for the challenge here.

i'm going to be real honest when i say that i was really worried about being able to come up with something for this week's CASology challenge.  when i saw the cue word "gobble" all i could think of was something food related... more specifically... turkey!  okay, i admit it i'm not the most original thinker... hee!!   but then i had another problem... only one small turkey stamp in my entirely too large stamp collection!  ugh... what to do, what to do??!!!  so i headed off to joann's to see what they might have in store for me and as i was wandering the papercrafting aisles i saw this little googly-eyed turkey peering at me from a package of k&co stickers.  an idea was finally forming, thank goodness!!   putting the card together was pretty simple... some die cutting, applying the sticker and then handwriting the sentiment on the little tag.  i was going to use the word "run" on the tag, but then i thought it would be funnier to use the word "yum" with the question mark.  i ran it past my 13 year old and he thought it was hilarious.  but honestly.. what does a 13 year old or me know? 

thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, donna.    can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

supplies:  cardstock:  stampin up! crumb cake & old olive; dies:  sizzix and pti; sticker:  k&co;  black micron pen

ODBDSLC131... Celebrating the Holidays!

Hello friends!!   It is Tuesday and that means time for a brand new Shining the Light challenge!!  This week the challenge team is asking you to make a holiday project, Christmas or Thanksgivings, the choice is yours or you could make a card for both!!  I decided to make a Christmas card using the recently release ODBD set Perfect Gift.



Inside of Card

The layout for my card is based on this month's Sketch for You To Try.   The papers are from My Mind's Eye (of course!!)... the Winter Wonderland collection.  I stamped the tree using Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored it with Copic markers and then trimmed it out.  It is hard to see, but some of the ornaments were not colored, but filled in using Diamond Stickles... looks really pretty in real life.  I also stamped the two little images of Christmas packages in Tuxedo Black, colored them and trimmed them out.  I added some texture to the light blue piece of paper by embossing it with my Swiss Dot embossing folder.  The die cut is a Spellbinders Lacy Circles.   The interior of the card was finished off with the sentiment die cut using a Spellbinders plain circle die.  It was then matted with an additional plain circle and another Lacy Circle die cut.   I like to finish off the interior of the card and provide a photo, but for some reason lots of people don't seem to understand that it is the INSIDE OF THE CARD because I get comments on how pretty the second card is!  Anywhoo... the above photo is of the INSIDE of the card and not a separate card.

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, November 25th at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, November 25th at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC131. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Barbara! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream & red; PP:  My Mind's Eye; Stamps:  ODBD; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers; Dies:  Spellbinders; Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug; Ribbon:  PTI; Diamond Stickles