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Merry Christmas!

It’s Christmas Eve and it’s almost here!  Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!   Hope that you enjoy the warmth and excitement of the season with the ones you love.

This is a Christmas card I had made last month using some Scrapbook.com products that I wanted to try out!  If you take a look at THIS POST, there is another card version using this same ornament stamp set.  I had gotten the Holiday stamps and dies plus papers and other die cut sentiments in a bundle.

  • On another note, I had made a set of 18 other Christmas cards that I totally forgot to take photos of and they’ve already been sent out!  I like how they turned out and was happy to use some more papers from my stash anyway! LOL

I had also been making some Christmas here and there throughout the year that I did remember to take photos of and that I didn’t share here on my blog, so here are some more:

This was a fun mitten shaped snowman gift card holder/tag I made back in January.  I think I may have already given this out too.  That was a while ago, so don’t remember much about it!

I made a slimline style tri-fold card in February using a My Favorite Things image (the little girl).  I ink blended a stencil on the front and the sentiment was printed out on the computer.  The photos below are what it looks like when you open the card up:

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I used a circle die to cut the openings and added a snow drift from glitter cardstock for the girl to stand on, on the inside panel. The last inside circle panel was stamped with a snowflake stamp and I colored the snowflakes with a white gel pen and then added a stamped greeting underneath it.

This is an actual greeting card that opens up, but I made the front of the card look like a post card with the stenciled edges and post markings on it.  I made this one last month.

I colored up this digital image from Whimsy Stamps and hand cut it out over the card.  The sentiment was printed from the computer and cut out as well.

Another card I made last month using one of my favorite Lawn Fawn stamp sets called Winter Skies.  I also used the Stitched Mountain Borders dies for the background.

I ink blended a couple of blue colors for the main panel in the background, stamped the Santa and sleigh image in black and then arranged the mountain border.  I added a piece of vellum and used a falling snow embossing folder over it before adding the snow hills with glitter cardstock over it.  I covered the edges with a gold mirror cardstock frame and added to the red A2 top folding card base.  I colored, cut out the critters and trees and placed them on the scene.  Lastly, I white heat embossed the sentiment from the set and cut out with a banner die to place under the critters.

I almost forgot to take a photo of this one too, but it’s now hanging on the tree before it gets gifted.

I had to make a handmade ornament for my grandson’s first Christmas!  It’s actually a wooden shaped ornament that I painted the back red and the top/sides in gold acrylic paints.  I then used some snowflake paper and covered the front.  Then I turned this into a shaker by adding an additional circle with acetate on the front.  The Santa comes from a Doodlebug stamp set and the lettering was printed from the computer that I hand cut and added to the front.

And this is the little guy at Thanksgiving with me!  Love that toothless smile!  Looking forward to spending some time with him at Christmas for sure!

Wishing you lots of joy and smiles for Christmas!  Thanks for dropping in!

Mix It Up by Keeping it Simple!

Hello friends!  Happy November!  It seems like I was just thinking about Autumn with cooler temps…and now we’re getting REAL close to Christmas and the end of the year! Time is going so quickly!  Are you getting your Christmas cards started yet?

So let’s take a moment for ourselves and work on keeping life simple!  This brings me to a new challenge over at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog.    The challenges always run for 6 weeks so there is plenty of time to enter.  The theme given for us this time is: KIS (Keep It Simple) or you can always do the ‘Anything Goes” too.  Here’s the card that I came up with for the challenge using the theme:

I thought that “keeping it simple” for Christmas cards and getting down to the wire for making them and sending out would be a good thought for this challenge!

I pulled out this cute Scrapbook.com stamp set called “Holiday” to create a simple design with the solid bauble images and added a few heat embossed elements over two of them and then heat embossed a hook for each.  I heat embossed the sentiment in gold to match the hooks and then just stamped a couple of doo-dads around the panel and drew lines from the ornament hooks coming off the edge with a gold fine line pen.  That’s pretty much it!  I did die cut a few “Mini Bows” from Taylored Expressions for each ornament.  Then I layered the ornament panel onto gold and then onto a white A2 card base.

This would certainly be a very easy design to mass produce using the MISTI tool.

I hope you like my card and will stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team has created too!  *NOTE* This is the last project that I’m making for this challenge blog as I have decided to step down from the design team.  Thank you to Tina for having me as part of the challenge team this year and keeping the blog running.  Best wishes for the coming year!

Thanks so much for dropping in today!  Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  2. Crafter’s Cafe – Anything Goes with optional: Christmas
  3. ABC Christmas -‘U’ is for Uncluttered (CAS) & ‘V’ is for Vertical
  4. CRAFT – Christmas

“V” is for Vintage

Hello friends and happy Friday!  Are you looking forward to a nice weekend?  I have some crafty time in store for me, but honestly, I need to be cleaning my craft room!

Today starts a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge blog!  Please be sure to check out the challenge blog to see how to play as we go through the alphabet letters every-other week (fortnight) for each new challenge.

 

For this challenge, we are at the letter “V” for Vintage and here’s what I’ve come up with:

I love the look of vintage style cards, but I don’t make them very often, so this was a great challenge to get me motivated in making one!

I fell in love with the Simon Hurley “In the Garden” stamp set (discontinued)  last year , but never got a chance to play with it until now.  I thought the images were perfect for a “vintage vibe”.  I got that along with these gorgeous papers from Scrapbook.com called “Vintage“, of course!  The imagery went well with the stamps in the set.

I started with cutting all of the different patterns from the paper pad into a card design.  I sponged around the edges with Hickory Smoke oxide ink.  I die cut the “graph paper” panel with Taylored Expressions A2 Postage Stamp Stacklets die.  On that panel, I stamped the wording from the SH stamp set with Hickory Smoke oxide as well as a few hearts in Tattered Rose oxide ink.  I also took a music score rub-on that I got from Scrapbook.com to add in the corner and then sponged around the edges with Hickory Smoke oxide.  I layered this panel onto a piece of grey cardstock.  The second layer was also layered onto another piece of grey cardstock and then layered over another piece of the Vintage pattern paper over an A2 top folding white card base.

For the stamped images, I stamped them in black pigment ink and then clear heat embossed them.  I used Shabby Shutters, Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet oxide inks to watercolor by smooshing the ink pads onto a surface and using a water brush for coloring.  I fussy cut out the images and popped them up over the panel with foam tape.

Before attaching this panel onto the next panel, I added some grey seam binding ribbon tied in a bow on the side and then popped it up with foam tape.  I also die cut the lettering from the Tim Holtz Script Words set in black and attached onto the  graph panel.

  • I hope you’ve enjoyed my card for you today and that you’ll stop over to the blog to play along in the challenge with us!  Wishing you a happy and productive weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Sweet Stampin’ – LOVE! (must use stamp)
  2. Allsorts – #816 Romance and/or Music
  3. Stamping Sensations – Valentines, Weddings, Romance or Anything Goes + must have stamping
  4. Aud Sentiments – Love/Anniversary/Wedding and/or Shimmer + sentiment
  5. Triple B – Birds/Butterflies/Blooms (must use at least one)
  6. Try it On Tuesday – Romance