Classic Ornament

  I'm trying to get through all of my Christmas projects so that I can start sharing some projects with new Occasions and Sale-a-bration goodies!  It's the last day of school before winter break so there is a lot going on today!  I'm hoping I don't forget anything!

  Here's a quick card using the Keepsake Ornaments and matching framelits.  You can crank out a bunch of these at once by using the different ornament stamps and running the stamped images through the Big Shot with the matching dies.  You can fit several of the shapes on the cutting plate at once so you can do 3-4 at a time.  With the magnetic platform it goes really quickly!

 

Doesn't the Midnight Muse look terrific paired with Whisper White on a clean and simple card?

  The ornament is "hung" using the silver 1/8" ribbon in the Holiday catalog and a bow is added with a glue dot.  For a little bit more sparkle a mini punched ornament is glued on top of a silver glimmer paper circle.  The ornament is of course popped up!

 Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Keepsake Ornaments, More Merry Messages

Paper: Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer paper

Ink: Midnight Muse

Accessories: ornament framelits, Snow Flurry e.f., silver ribbon, circle punch, Christmas mini punch pack, dimensionals

Winter Wonderland

Here's a fun little card...maybe you've got a scene like this out your window now or are hoping for a scene like this in time for Christmas??  I wouldn't mind a bit of snow but it will be in the 70s in Richmond this weekend!  What??  I know it's December isn't it??  I'm thinking it won't be a white Christmas here.

  We did this one at my last stamp club of 2013.  It's a fun bit of emboss resist (heat emboss and then brayer ink over the image).

  I've been partial to using the Gorgeous Grunge splatter stamp as snow lately and here we have it again.  How cool does that look with the Lovely As A Tree trees?  We used a little sticky note circle for the moon before we brayered over the embossing.

  A simple fork bow and some roughed up edges finish this card off.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Lovely as a Tree, Sweet Essentials

Ink: Versamark, Smoky Slate, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate, Whisper White

Accessories: white embossing powder, distressing tool, cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon
 

Snowglobe Ornament - Fab Friday 33

 We've made it though another week...this time of year it's certainly an accomplishment in my book!  So to celebrate get yourself to your stamping room/table/corner/basement and get to working on the last challenge of 2013 at Fab Friday!

  Here's what we've got for you this time:

  So many possibilities right?  I know a few of you still need to make some Christmas cards so jump on in with Fab Friday!

    I used a mix of old, current and brand new supplies to pull my card together.  I've been trying to use up some really old DSP so I had this woodgrain pattern out on my desk and I can't even remember the name!  Frostwood Lodge???  The new item is the embossing folder; Decorative Dots!  Look for this baby during Sale-a-bration as one of your free gifts!  Woo-Hoo!  Doesn't it look awesome with the Core'dinations paper?  I just lightly sanded the embossed pattern...so cool!

  After stamping and cutting out the ornament I covered it with Iridescent Ice for some fun sparkle to go along with the faceted buttons.  It made me kind of think of a snow globe, hence the title of my post.

 Go check out the rest of the design team cards and play along!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree

Ink: Early Espresso, Versamark

Paper: Soft Sky, Early Espresso, Soft Sky Core'dinations, Frostwood Lodge DSP(?), Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Apothecary Accents framelits, Decorative Labels framelits, Ornament framelits, piercing kit, Decorative Dots e.f., Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon, Iridescent Ice, pearls, faceted buttons, corner rounder

Clean and Simple Snowflake Re-done

It's not that I haven't been stamping because I have; I just haven't had time to photograph and edit and blog.  One of these days I'll figure out some kind of schedule! Maybe that could be a New Year's resolution?  At the rate I've been going lately 2014 might be the next time I post!

For now though this card might be an inspiration to others out there who may be a tad bit behind on their Christmas cards.  It's a re-do of a card I made a while ago.  I re-designed it for a private stamp-a-stack I was asked to do.  The original HERE had paper piercing all around the top panel that just wasn't conducive for a stamp-a-stack.  I changed it to score lines instead but they are kind of hard to see in the photo.

Here's the re-do:

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Snowflake Soiree

Ink: Smoky Late, Perfect Plum, Black

Paper: Perfect Plum, Basic Black, Whisper White

Accessories: Simply Score board, rhinestone

Christmas Chickadee

  Where has the time been going lately?  Almost everyday I have good intentions of sharing a project and the next thing I know it's 10pm and I'm ready for bed!  Well tonight I'm going to try to get it in before bedtime!

  I made this card weeks ago using Friday Mashup 134 challenge.  I must not have gotten it finished or photographed and edited in time to enter it.  Isn't this a sweet little bird?

  Not much stamping on this one but lots of Stampin' Up! supplies.  The bird is made using the bird punch and various extra layering and trimming.  Thanks to Ann Fitzgerald for her wonderful chickadee tutorial.  I did not do each step but it was a great help for me for figuring out how I needed to cut the layers.

  I used the branch portion of the bird punch for the green leaves which I was kind of wanting to look like mistletoe hence the little white berries I made using the smallest adhesive pearls.

  There are lots of layers on the banner shape along with some textures.  And a sweet fork bow made with Very Vanilla seam binding ribbon.  Click HERE for a fork bow tutorial.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: More Merry Messages

Ink: Soft Suede

Paper: Very Vanilla,  Wild Wasabi,  Garden Green, 1st Ed. Specialty paper, Smoky Slate, Basic Black

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dot e.f., Bird punch, seam binding ribbon, pearls, Finishing Touches Edgelits

Fab Little Santa - Fab Friday 32

Now that we've got Thanksgiving under out belts it's time to fully focus on Christmas....at least at my house!  I have to take one holiday at a time or I get too overwhelmed!  I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

  It's time for another Fab Friday challenge....and we've got some great Christmas colors to get you started (or finished) on your Christmas projects!  The colors can totally work for non-holiday projects too so I'm really excited to see what you all come up with!

  Check them out!

  I totally went with Christmas since that is what I need most this time of year.  Isn't that little Santa cute??

 I know my photo looks kind of funky but I can't seem to photograph the Real Red/Gumball Green combo very well...you get the idea though!

  Santa is stamped on Whisper White with black Stazon ink.  Then I used my Real Red, Pink Pirouette and Soft Suede markers to color him in.  He's mounted on a piece of Coastal Cabana with a little curly label tag sticking out from the bottom.  The "merry" is from the Pennant Parade set and fits perfectly with the little punch.  Santa also has an adhesive pearl as the ball on his cap.

  The base of the card is Gumball Green.  Then I cut a Real Red scallop strip with the Tasteful Trim die.  Then I embossed it with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder for a bit of texture.  A little baker's twine bow was added to the scallop trim before adhering it to the card base.  It's Cherry Cobble baker's twine but it matches pretty well.

  The Santa panel is popped up on dimensionals for added interest.

  I hope you'll join in on this fun color combination and share your project over at Fab Friday.  Check out all the other design team projects as well....they are Fab as usual!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Color Me Christmas, Pennant Parade

Ink: Stazon  Markers: Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Soft Suede

Paper: Gumball Green, Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White

Accessories: adhesive pearls, small curly label punch, baker's twine, Perfect Polka Dot e.f., Tasteful Trim die, dimensionals

Fab Birthday Toast

How did another Friday come around so quickly??  I haven't posted in a week!  I guess time really does fly when you're having fun!  Come have some fun with us at the Fab Friday challenge!  Remember it lasts for 2 weeks so you can have even more fun!

Check out this sketch that Mindy has for us this week!  That tag shape has lots of possibilities doesn't it??

 Don't forget to check out the Fab Friday challenge site to see the design team projects as well as the other participants cards!  Like I said, fun!!

  Here is my contribution to the samples...  It's a birthday card for my father in law.  There are always plenty of adult beverages when we get together so I thought that using the Happy Hour set would be appropriate.

  Masculine right?  I inked up the glasses with my Basic Gray marker and then cut them out.  Then I stamped the "wine" using So Saffron and Cherry Cobbler, cut them out and glued them to the inside of the glasses.  Then glued the glasses to my tag.

  The sentiment was also inked up using markers.  The white twine was leftover from a previous Paper Pumpkin kit I think...the eyelet was retired a few years back but I still love to use them when I can.  First, because I get to use my Crop-a-dile to set them but also because they are a pretty cool element for a masculine card.  The Basic Gray taffeta ribbon finishes off the details.

  I hope you'll play along with us at Fab Friday!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Happy Hour

Ink: Basic Gray, So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Basic Gray, Very Vanilla, Howlstooth & Scarringbone DSP (retired)

Accessories: bakers twine, large eyelet (retired), taffeta ribbon, dimensionals

Stitched Rudolph

A super quick post today; I've got some paper to cut for a private stamp-a-stack tomorrow evening and I feel like I'm running behind!

Here is the 2nd card we made at my regular stamp-a-stack last week.  How fun is this guy?  I love the fun bright Christmas colors on this one.  And who can resist a red glimmer paper nose on Rudolph?

  Some fun details to note on this card--

  …. the stitching on the Gumball Green strip is made with the chalk marker from the Holiday catalog and just free handed along the edges.  Doesn't it remind you of the wide stitched ribbon we had a long time ago?  I like the chalk marker because it seems a bit more reliable than the white gel pens…my gel pens always seem dried up or clogged whenever I go to use them!

  ….the Real Red panel (though hard to photograph) is embossed with the Chevron embossing folder…see how it mimics Rudolph's sweater??

  ….the glimmer paper nose…so cute I had to mention it twice!

  ….Rudolph is stamped on watercolor paper and colored with blender pens and ink pads.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Color Me Christmas

Ink: Stazon  For watercoloring: Baked Brown Sugar, Real Red, Gumball Green

Paper: Gumball Green, Real Red, watercolor paper, Soft Sky, Red Glimmer paper

Accessories: Chevron embossing folder, chalk marker, owl punch (for the nose), blender pens, dimensionals