Snow

Hi everyone! I was inspired by the Fusion challenge and decided to play around a bit with it. Here is what I ended up with.

The red gingham stood out as did the color in the pine cone. I decided to follow the sketch and use those two colors as well as a white card base.

Fishtail banner is from MFT and cut out using kraft cardstock. I layered it with pure poppy cardstock from PTI. The red gingham is a stamp from Kaisercraft that I inked up with wild cherry colorbox ink from MFT. 

Snowflakes are cut using white cardstock and dies from Penny Black. I then sprayed them with some frost smooch shimmer spay to give them a little bit of bling.

Using alphabet dies from Memory Box I cut out the S,N and W. A dauber with white ink from Fresh Ink is used to do the snowman face to take the place of the O. I added a bit of orange cardstock for his nose and tiny tiny black pearls for his mouth.  This idea was another Pinterest find.  I also added a small snowflake to the inside of the card, which you can barely make out.

Thanks for stopping by! Off to run a few crafty errands today.

Christmas cheer

Hi everyone! I got a chance to play around with this weeks Freshly Made Sketch and this is what it ended up being.

I had this idea in my head that I wanted to stencil some molding paste onto the background of this card. I've got this really nice splatter/coffee cup stain stencil that I was bound and determined to use. Well, it was a great idea but I just could not execute it without much success. After getting very frustrated I gave up and ended up using the SU Gorgeous Grunge with Vintage Photo distress ink instead. I did use part of the stencil in the lower right hand portion of the card. I had to get that coffee cup stain in! Does this remind you of coffee or cocoa?

Coffee to go cup die is from My Favorite Things. Dug into my stash of Christmas paper to cut the top and the holder.

Sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. The little stars or snowflakes on each side is a stubby stamp from Stamps by Judith. I did add a tiny white pearl to each center.

Cup is popped up using foam tape as is the sentiment, as you can see by the shadow. Thanks for stopping by!

A little snow scene

Hi everyone! I played around with some die's this past weekend and came up with this little snow scene that made a wonderful Holiday card.

The birch trees were cut out of rustic white cardstock so that they stick out a bit from the white snowy hills. Pure poppy cardstock (PTI) used to cut out the birds to make them into cardinals. One of the white pine trees are  popped up using foam tape. Both of these dies are from Impression Obsession.

The hills are cut using dies from Simon Says Stamp. To create the snow flakes, I used the dots stubby stamp by Stamps by Judith with white acrylic paint.

Holiday greetings sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

This is being entered into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Christmas Holiday
Dazzling Diva #54 - Snow/Snowflakes
Dream Valley - True Blue
Merry Monday - Feathered Friends


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Hang in there

Hi everyone! Came across two items in my "to make into cards" area on my desk and they worked themselves into a pretty cool card - no pun intended.

I made the blue piece a while ago when dropping water into splats was all the rage. Well, they're more dots than splats anyway, so I'll link this up to the Addicted to CAS Dots challenge. 

The girl is a digi stamp from Mo Manning and colored with Copic's. I added a bit of sparkle in the snow falling and wind elements using the clear wink of Stella brush.

Sentiment is an old one from the former Angel Company that I stamped and cut out using a tag die from Paper Smooches. A little bit of red and white baker twin tied into a bow finishes it off.  I chose this sentiment as a message to all of us to "hang in there" during the stressful Holiday season. We don't have to do it all and remember to delegate to your family! They have to learn sometime! right? 

Thanks for stopping by!

Celebrate

Hi everyone! Less is More is celebrating it's 200th challenge and the theme is, you guessed it, Celebrations.  Here is what I did with it.

I cut out three balloons using the die from Papertrey, Ink using glitter paper from DCWV. Popped them up in varying degrees using different sizes of foam tape and then added the silver strings and a bow.

Sentiment is from PTI's wet paint III set. I stamped it in versamark then heat embossed in silver. Also used a versamark pen and ruler to do the outside of the layer that was then popped up on the card base.  Sorry the picture is so dark, we had a bit of snow yesterday morning and the grey skies are playing havoc with my lights in my room.

Happy 200th Less is More! I've only been following and participating this year and it's a pleasure to get to know all the great ladies and gentlemen across the pond! Thanks to Chrissie for leading the charge and to many more challenges in the future!

Thanks for stopping by!

Snowy tree tag

Hi everyone! Here is a card I made using the Tag You're It! challenge and it happens to go well with this weeks Addicted to CAS too!

Tag is a die from PTI and cut out using rustic white cardstock. The trees are sponged on using Mojito pigment ink from Fresh Ink. I had cut out the tree's using the die from Taylored Expressions and used the negative as a stencil. One of the cut out trees is colored with ink and then popped up in from with foam tape. I also added a bit of bling using the clear wink of stella pen.

The snow scene is done using the snow embossing folder from Taylored Expressions.  Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink and cut out using the fishtail banner from MFT.

Added three tiny gold pearls to the left side of the fishtail banner to add a bit on interest and to sort of match the jingle bell that I tied to the top of the tag.  Red designer paper is from Authentique and cut out using the stitched die from Simon Says Stamp.

The tartan ribbon is from my stash and went really well with the rustic theme I was going for on this card! Thanks for stopping by!

ETA: entering this into the The Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge. Tree, embossing and glitter.

Sparkle

Hi everyone! Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch. I kept it very clean and simple!

The reason why I named this post "Sparkle" is that this sparkles in real life. The grey weather outside did not let me take a very good picture of this card to do it justice.

I started with some shimmer cardstock from PTI and played around with a navy reinker from Fresh Ink and some rubbing alcohol.  The back ground is a little uneven and wavy in the depth of the colors, which was very hard to pick up in the photo.

Sentiment is from PTI and the snowflakes is from a very very old set from Provo Craft. I stamped both the snowflakes and sentiment in versamark and then heat embossed using white embossing powder. I did this prior to playing around with the reinker and alcohol. Layered this with deep navy cardstock from Bazzill and found a length of silver ribbon in my stash to tie at the top.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm not going to brave the crowds this Holiday weekend, instead I'm going to stay in and try to organize my supplies. I can't find the counters any more! =(