Season's Tweetings

Hi everyone! It's Laurie and I'm back with a new soon-to-be-released stamp set called Sweaon's Tweetings. 

This is such a cute bird set for the Holidays or winter cards. I stamped each of the birds and the tree in the sections created by the postage stamp die. Each of them is colored using Copic Markers. 

I added a bit of texture to the owl using rubbing alcohol and a paper towel to remove some of the color. I also added some glossy accents to the yellow bird's glasses. In real life, it shines! 

Stay tuned as I will have another card using this set next Friday. 

Christmas wishes

Hello! Here is a card I created using distress inks and a Penny Black stamp.

I smooched bundled sage and aged mahogany onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and picked it up with the stamp. Then stamped it onto watercolor paper on the smooth side. Then took a paint brush and filled it in here and there. 

Added the sentiment and some gold pearls and layered it with the same colors of cardstock. I really like how it turned out. I also found that using red rubber stamps works best for this technique too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Holly using Grunge board

Hi everyone! I made this clean and simple Holiday card out of some grunge board!

I have an old Sizzix die called Holly and Berries that I used to cut the grunge board out with. They are both colored with alcohol inks in Willow and Cranberry. I got a little creative on the edges and colored them in with a blending stump dipped in the alcohol ink.

Scarlet jewel cardstock was used as the base for this card. I glued the die cuts down with some Mono Adhesive and then paper pierced around the perimeter. The sentiment is stamped in Memories Chalk ink in delicate rose, which sounds like it wouldn't even be close to matching that scarlet cardstock, but does! No other embellishments needed on this one!


Have a great weekend! I'm off to do some Holiday baking!

Supplies:
Grunge board
Alcohol inks in Willow and Cranberry
Blending stump
Memories chalk ink in delicate rose
Sentiment stamp - The Angel Company
Cardstock - PTI

Golden Ornaments

Hey everyone! Here's another Christmas card I wanted to share!

The designer paper is Reese from The Angel Company. The ornaments and sentiment are stamped directly on the tan layer with versamark and then embossed in gold embossing powder.
I cut a 2 inch strip of the circle patterned paper and adhered it to the top and then added the grosgrain ribbon. Three self adhesive gold pearls are added to the left side, which are from the Reflection line at M's. The bow is tied with the bow-easy.

What do you think? This card is super fast and easy for those last minute cards!

Have a great day!

Blue Christmas

Hi everyone! Here's a Christmas card that I did about a month ago when I found the new holiday stamps from Memory Box. The set is called Snowy Eve and I've made up two samples for you to see. Here's the first one!

I stamped the Christmas and the script images in Starry Night Palette ink. Then sponged some faded jeans distress ink around the outside. The snowflakes on the left side are punched out (Martha Stewart) and glitter in dark blue, light blue and white was added. The designer paper in the back is a long ago retired Stampin Up (I think)! I also added a bit of sponging around the outside of it to give it some added definition. Pretty quick card that has lots of bling to it!

Have a fabulous weekend!

Another TAC Christmas Card

Hello there! I was playing around and came up with two versions of this card and thought I'd share them with you. I just added a few more embellishments and changed the card base color and layers.

This first card uses a cream card stock for its base. I stamped the images in versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder. I also took my ruler and a versamark pen and drew an outline around the main panel and embossed it too. The holly is done the same way but on very heavy cardstock and cut out. I added liquid pearls in Ruby for the berries and then let it dry (which seemed to take forever). Then I used my fingernails and bowed the holly so that it stood out when I added the dimensionals to make it pop. I found a bulk package of these extra large eyelets by We are Memory Keepers and added it to the bottom and threaded wired gold ribbon through. The red paper in the back ground is from Hot Off the Press.

On this one, I did the exact same things except I added two more sprigs of holly and used Bazzill red card stock as the base, and layered it with white card stock. I think I like the one above the best. What do you think?

Supplies:

Stamps - The Angel Company - Sprigs, Deco Designs, Christmas fun and a GWP sentiment.

Paper - Bazzill red, HOTP, cream and white card stock and heavy duty green cs.

Gold ribbon

Gold extra large eyelets

Versamark

Gold Embossing Powder

See ya soon!

Crystal blue snowflake

Here's a real quick card that I put together using some paper scraps that I had from last year.

The paper is from Hot off the Press, called Christmas Creative Pack and well worth the money! I've ordered two in the last several years. The papers are classic but also on the cutting edge, too. The card measures 3 3/4 x 4 1/2. I cut a piece of card stock 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 and then scored at 2".

I haven't used my corner rounder in ages, so I thought I'd round a few of the corners on this card. I layered the Christmas paper onto the base - and added the right hand side ribbon at the same time. I cut two scalloped circles, glued them together while inserting the other ribbon for the tie. I stamped the snowflake on and then decided to embellish with some rhinestones. This card took all of 10 minutes or less and could be mass produced very easily. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Paper - Hot off the Press - Christmas Creative Pack

Ink - Versamagic in Night Sky

Stamps - Let it Snow by Provo Craft

Rhinestones - Kaiser craft

White grosgrain ribbon

Christmas cards

Hey everyone! I've been trying to get all my Christmas cards done and thought I'd post a few of them. I never make more than three alike....to me it gets a bit tedious.

This stamp is from Great Impressions. I stamped the image twice, cut out the holly and popped it up with dimensionals. The holly is colored with Copic Ciao markers in Go5,R29 and C1. I added some sparkles using the stardust gel pen on the snowflakes. The red berries have a bit of red sparklets glitter by Denami Design on them. The plaid designer paper is from last year and I have no idea who makes it. Red brads are added to the corner to finish off the card.

The deer image is from The Angel Company and I colored him with Copic Ciao markers in R29, E37, E33 and C1. I decided to color his nose red and make him Rudolph. The reindeer back ground stamp is from Auntie Amy's that I bought at a stamp show and is stamped in Impress Emerald green. Bazzill scarlet paper is used to layer both images.

The snow on this one is done with white craft paint and a dots stamp from Stamps by Judith. The tree is from The Angel Company and is stamped in Palette Jardin Moss. The sky is daubered on with sky blue chalk ink from colorbox. The sentiment is Holiday Script from Lizzie Anne Designs.

Have a great day!