Last of the 2015 Cards

Just before taking off on 3 weeks of travel to Ohio and California earlier this month, I made these three cards at my beloved Tuesday Crafty group.   The stamp is from Technique Tuesday and I used some stencils and distress inks to add some interest. The sentiment comes along with the flower stamp. My Mother loved Agapantha's and when I saw this set, I knew I had to have it. She would have loved the cards.

Thanks so very much for stopping by.  Wishing you a New Year filled with good times, good friends, and good health.

Card Set

Sent these off to a girlfriend. She is a person who still writes notes.

Stamps-Clearly Besotted and Hero Arts, Die MFT, coloring Inktense Pencils, paper Strathmore and Wplus9.

A December Birthday...

I couldn't help but color up Holiday Anya one more time for a birthday card. She is so cute.

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Tis the season

I have fallen in love with coloring, and it is all because of Kelly Latevola of You and Your Big Dreams. Her colored images are so gorgeous.  I need lots of practice still, but even I can see I am improving.

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Bows

Back in February, I had a very busy week and I missed the Merry Monday challenge closing date for a challenge using bows.  I made the card before I double checked the closing time.

I used a Lawn Fawn stamp set, some distress inks, some post it's for masking and stickles for shine.  The bows are glittered epoxy bows left over from a Simon Says Stamp card kit.

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Seasons tweetings

Lawn Fawn for the stamps, Pretty pink Posh Die, CTHM Glitter Tape, Coloring Inktense pencils.

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Holiday Hello

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White Christmas

White Christmas is the name of the Stampin Up stamp set that I am totally crushing on.  I sat down with it to play a bit while increasing my stack of holiday cards.  I have 5 cards so lets get on with it!

I love that they provide both the right and left facing birds.  I had so much fun making these...I wonder if they will get stamps and be mailed.

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Birthday Poinsettias

For my darling and dear MIL!  Happy Birthday!

Stamps - CTMH (sentiment), Essentials by Ellen (poinsettia), die Wplus9, coloring Copics

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Christmas Cuties

This Stampin Up set has some adorable images.  The first card I made from this set can be seen here.  Here are the two remaining images and sentiments.

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A quick lil something

Today is my last crafty Tuesday of the year with the group of women I've recently joined. I wanted to bring a little token something to give to each of them.  I stopped by Target and found cute gift card sized pillow boxes in white with green and red foiled dots.  They were 3 to a pack for 1.00.

I picked up a bag of Ghiradellli Peppermint Bark squares and a bit of red gift bag filler.  I figured I could put 3 squares in each with a bit of filler and make a tag for the front and it would be a cute crafty lil something.

What do you think?

I cut the tag with a PTI die, stamped and white embossed the Stampin Up Sentiment and added a string bow with a tiny Pretty Pink Posh jingle bell.  Hope you are having a fabulous day!

Quick Blog Candy!

I missed my blogging anniversary this year due to travel.  I wanted to thank my followers for dropping by and leaving comments when they can.  I have a bit of blog candy to send out to one of you.  Just leave a comment by 12-6-2015 Noon USA Eastern time and leave me a comment; if your comment does not allow for email replies please include an email address at which I can reach you.

The blog candy includes a small Lawn Fawn stamp set and matching die, a Pretty Pink Posh Die, and a small Spellbinders die set.

Edited to Add:  Winner is  #5.  Congratulations Greta.  It'll be in the mail Tuesday!

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Christmas Greetings

This darling girl is Holiday Anya 3 by The Greeting Farm.

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Here come the holiday cards

With Thanksgiving behind us, the holiday card scramble is in full gear in my crafty spot.  Since it is such a busy time of year, I am going to post photos and not much else. No time for reading lengthy posts I fear.

Have a great day!

Oh My Word...

I am thrilled to be featured today on the  fabulous Kelly Latevola's Monday Blog Series--Caseing Genius. She is the GENIUS who through this series showcases and creates fabulous CASE's of other cardmakers cards in her gorgeous colorful style.

She is an amazing artist.

I have been stalking  following her blog ever since I first saw her work through this very same feature of a blogging friend of mine. From that day on...if Kelly posted, I made a point to visit.  If you are not familiar with her please hop on over you won't be sorry.

I am beyond honored and excited to see what she's done, so join me in heading over to Kelly Latevola's blog Your and Your Big Dreams to check it out!

Thank you Kelly, so much, for including me in this series.

Last of the frames

I had one more frame left from the set Greta sent me.  This time I colored up the frame with some Inka Gold paste in silver and added some silver embossed trees and snowflakes inside the frame  from a Stampin Up set.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you all the best of days.

Merry Monday 181

The challenge at Merry Monday 181 is to use blue and white with texture. 

 

My dear blogging friend Greta sent me these Simon Says Stamp Merry Christmas die cuts (thanks so much!).  I have been pondering how I was going to use them, and upon seeing the Merry Monday challenge, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I stamped the tree scene in versamark and heat embossed with white powder. This image from the Stampin Up set Happy Scenes is the perfect size for this die cut frame.  I added the little twine and bow to finish the card off.  I love the simple and clean lines.

I even had to make a second one in red I liked the design so much.

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Give Thanks

I love these little pilgrim mice from Lawn Fawn.

My Deer

The last of my cards for the night, its about to strike midnight and my bed beckons.  Merry Monday's theme is to use a reindeer. 

 

I recently acquired the adorable Winter Friends set by Clearly Besotted and there is a darling deer with a big nose included.

He makes me smile.  I hope you smile too!  Thanks for stopping by.

Muse 142

Anita Bowden gave us this lovely bit of inspiration for Muse #142:

I loved that panel offset by what appear to be two score lines on either side.  Here is my interpretation:

More of the Mondo Poinsettia set from Essentials by Ellen, and the sentiment is from CTHM.

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Be Merry

I was looking through my challenge list and quickly got this card made. The challenge closes in a few hours and I don't like missing one of Leslie's monthly sketch challenges over at The Crooked Stamper.  Here is the Sketch for Challenge # 10.  

 

I started with dies from Essentials By Ellen--Merry and Bright and Home and Hearth.  I spread some Inka Gold paste in silver onto a piece of card stock. This stuff dries incredibly fast, and I love the shine.  I cut the houses, trees and stars with the die set.  Next I cut my sentiment words from some red scrap paper.

I masked off the center portion of the card and inked it with some Tumbled Glass distress ink.  Once that dried, I adhered my die cuts.  

I hope to get a few more cards made tonight, but for now its off to the kitchen to make dinner!

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Hello Fall

I took these picture quickly with my point and shoot, I didn't realize they were so wonky...I can correct that with my phone but have no clue how to in my pc photo editing soft ware...so sorry!  I mailed them outlast week I cannot retake the photos.  Stamps by Newton's Nook - Exclusive for Simon Says Stamptember 2015. Love the images, and all those fun leaves.

Soft and Subtle

Tonight after taking care of a few chores I sat down to tackle my last homework for the Online Card Class Holiday Style. The lesson is for soft and subtle cards.  I admit to tearing up 4 tries...none of them even got to the sentiment stage and none were re-purposable.

This card, started as a oh what the heck...what would this look like...and I loved it.  The stamps sets are Ellen's Mondo Poinsettia, and Simon's Big Scripty Greetings Holiday.  Ranger's platinum embossing powder and two colored pencils one in Vermillion and one in Lemon Yellow. They are my neglected Artist's Loft pencils and had nice sharp tips. 

After stamping and embossing my images, I simply stroked on color very lightly at the inner and outer petals (leaves) of the poinsettia. No blending, just soft strokes of color.  I embossed the greeting, and added a toss of clear/silvery sequins.

So, what do you think? Did I achieve soft and or subtle?
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More Holiday Style homework

After getting the wild idea to reorganize my craft space last Friday, its been nothing but emptying, sorting, discarding, cleaning, putting away, building, putting away, and I am tired!  I had to take a break finally I was even glad to do LAUNDRY...can you imagine?   So tonight I am putting it on hold and catching up my homework for the latest offering over at Online Card Classes.   I have 3 cards for two more lesson days.

I had no "Santa" stamps until I picked up this set by Clearly Besotted, and all the images are adorable. Copic coloring  a bit of drifty inking and I put white flower soft on his had and coat, gossy accents on his boots and belt.  This card should be fun to hold for the recipient.

The next two cards are glittery...traditional and paste.

I have had trouble in the past die cutting using the double sided tape, but this time I put it on copier paper and die cut down through the release paper, since I wanted to add glitter, worked like a charm cut clean easily.  I used the fabulous glitter ritz micro-fine glitter for the greeting, some wink of stella and glossy accents on the holly berries and mounted it all on a woodgrained cardstock panel.  There is a bit of grey and white dotted paper as a grounding element. The die is from Avery Elle.

This is the second time I have gotten out the gold bo bunny glitter paste. I love the look of it using the Tim Holtz stencil.  I mounted the panel on a white card base and added the black sentiment strip, sentiment by CTMH.

That's it I am caught up on homework.  Have a fabulous day, and thanks for stopping by.

An organizing find...

I've spent the weekend reorganizing my crafting space...and it is a much bigger job than I anticipated. Apparently I am very creative at finding nooks and crannies to shove store things in.  I am adding a couple of small shelving units and hubs has removed the 30 boxes he had stored in this room! Yea!  But I seem to have crammed in so much stuff it it is like working a slide puzzle to get things into place.  It will take weeks to get all the fine tuning done.

I thought I would share my wood block storage.  It is a nail polish rack which hangs on the wall. Each shelf is about an inch and a half wide and 24 inches long. The space between shelves is about 5 or so inches.  I've put on display my most favorite stamps and have consolidated 5 shoe boxed sizes boxes to two plus the wall.  Storage plus decoration...that is win win.

I have not had a bit of crafting space to create anything, but hope to clear space by Monday night.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Thanks

Over last weekend I found out I was one of the lucky randomly drawn winners of a blog hop.  The prize I won was donated by Darnell, and I wanted to send her a thank you for donating the prize which ended up in my happy hands.

I spent most of last weekend playing with Clearly Besotted's Giving Thanks stamp set, and I loved the sunflower option.

I started with the wheelbarrow, added the flowers and masked that all off. I used the Hero Arts Large Lotus stencil with some scattered straw distress ink across the whole panel in a light to dark inking. The image was colored with copic makers.  The sentiment was stamped with versfine vintage sepia ink.  The card base is from Stampin up and the sequins are from A Muse -- each of the 4 mm sequins packets is a mix of light medium and dark shades of the color chosen.  I liked that that matched my inking.

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White on White

Today's lesson over at Online Card Classes' Holiday Style was Classic and Elegant cards.  An example of fabulous poinsettias by Debby Hughes was by far my inspiration for today's homework. There were die cut outlines, flower petals and gold glitter die cuts all put together as only Debby can do.

I do love white on white, and I am in the midst of reorganizing my crafty space so finding my gold glitter proved impossible.  I did find some iridescent glitter and a piece of paper I had covered with some Viva Inka Gold.  The Simon Says Stamp sentiment was die cut from the gold coated paper, and the Snowflake ornaments are from Memory Box.

The right most ornament has the open spaces filled with the iridescent glitter. As a finishing touch I drew lines in for the ornaments with a gold wink of stella ball point and added some white marshmallow and clear sequins by Pretty Pink Posh. My final touch was to round the two right corners.  Have you started your Christmas cards yet?

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Holiday Style

I missed a few of the Online Card Classes this year due to travel. So I was happy to sign up for the current one Holiday Style.  The first day's lesson was clean and simple cards, and the instructors were fabulous. 

I made 3 cards in each of the styles of today's lessons. I did not use the same, stamps or dies but rather dug through my collection for something that would work for a similar style and design. 

 Supplies : Stampin Up Stamp set Happy Scenes, Distress inks

 Supplies: Stampendous Tree Line die, Sentiment Big Scripty Greetings Holiday by Simon Says Stamp, Distress inks, Ranger embossing powser

 Supplies: Stampin Up sets Happy Scenes, White Chirstmas; Distress inks, Black Micron Pen

I do like the format for this class. Lessons and videos on day one, inspirations on day two highlighting the lesson. I have always enjoyed the classes, and it looks like this one will be no different.

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A Mash Up

A while back I was quite taken with this card by Michele Ferguson.  I told her so, and that I would likely case it before the year was out. Well I did, but I had to add some color to it.  I was also taken with Jennifer McGuire's Faux Textured Metal Post.  So this is a mash up of the two.

I made two cards, one is going to Michele and the other to my MIL.  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Darice Embossing Folder(Thanks again Greta!), Perfect Pearls, Lawn fawn Dies, Distress Inks.