Category: Winter

January AJ Page-BRR!

Hello friends!  Hope you’re enjoying your day so far and staying warm!  We’ve just recently survived a very cold below freezing temps in my area, so going outdoors is not that pleasant even bundled up!  So with that, I stay inside and find crafting to be my happy space!  

I’m very excited to be joining with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper) for another year of SMASHING OUR STASH!🎉  I love the inspiration that we bring each other as well as accountability for getting those piles of stash used up!  Thank you for joining me again and please be sure to check out the wonderful inspiration on her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with this month’s prompt of “COLD” (anything related to this word):

Of course when I think of cold, I think of my favorite animal…the penguin!!  I pulled out some Lawn Fawn stamps to use on my page today.  Lots of blues and silver and sparkle help with the feeling of cold too!  I have so many sparkly items, so it was great to use some up!

For the background:  I started with a piece of Canson Watercolor 140# coldpress 5.5″x8.5″ pre-punched holes at the top and covered it with blue colored acrylic paints using a baby wipe.  I also went around the edges with a darker blue and then used a number stencil with white paint which you can barely see as I’ve covered most of it up.  I then splattered with white paint using a fan brush for the snow.

  • I also found a cool icicle border and cut it out with my Cricut machine in silver glitter cardstock for the top of the page.  I then used my Zutter machine to punch the holes again and used a corner chomper to round the top edges.

For the bottom:  I used all Lawn Fawn border dies for the mountains and snow hills.  The blue ice water the penguin is standing on is just a straight piece of blue cardstock covered with a glitter brush pen.  I also used Stickles glitter to cover the snow cone that the penguin snowman is holding.

The lettering was done with a Lawn Fawn alphabet die that I ink blended in blues and covered with crystal effects.  I foiled over the “January” word with blue foil and cut it out with a die and placed a couple of silver rhinestones next to it.  This was popped up with foam underneath the “BRR” letters.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my AJ page today and have been inspired in some way!  Thanks so much for stopping in!

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – It’s On the Calendar (January is COLD!)
  2. Kreativ-Tanten – Snow
  3. Once Upon a Time – Mr. Popper’s Penguin book cover
  4. Penny’s Paper-crafty– Anything Goes with Paper
  5. The Sisterhood of Crafters – Winter Blues

Happy New Year! Mixing Up with Mixed Media!

Hello friends and welcome to 2024!🎉  I’m looking forward to a year filled with many happy memories and fun!  I’m wishing these things for you as well!  So to get the year started, I’m inviting you to a fun challenge to play along with at the Mix It Up Challenge!

The theme is always ANYTHING GOES with an optional theme of MIXED MEDIA!  With these challenges, you have plenty of time to enter as they run for 6 weeks!  I look forward to seeing what you come up with!  

I know that mixed media can seem a bit intimidating, but it’s only using more than 1 extra medium of any kind on your creation.  I usually do that anyway!  Here’s the card that I came up with for this challenge using the Mixed Media option:

I’m really loving how this turned out!  I’ve used another fun card kit from Taylored Expressions with the Snow Crystals card kit. (no longer available)

Background:  I started by white heat embossing the Swirling Snow Background Stamp over watercolor cardstock.  I used different shades of blue watercolor with a bit of turquoise in there as well.  I spritzed it with water to get the “watermark” look and let it dry.  I then used some Copic opaque white mixed with water and splattered some over top for another layer of snow.  After it was dry, I also filled in the circles with a glitter brush pen.

I die cut the snowflake die in navy and again in white cardstock 3 times.  I layered the navy at the bottom over the background.  The three snowflakes cut out with white were glued together and then I took 2 layers of sparkle silver embossing powder to heat set.  I layered the embossed snowflake slightly tilted from the navy snowflake and attached over top.  I also silver embossed the sentiment over a navy strip and added some “dash marks” with a white gel pen before attaching to the background.

Finished off the card by running the edges of the background panel with liquid glue and then attaching some chunky glitter to the edges.  I also attached a silver rhinestone in the center of the snowflake.  It’s so glittery and shiny in person!

Thanks so much for stopping in today and I hope that you will take the time to play along with us!  Be sure to check out the Mix It Up Challenge Blog for the design team inspiration!  

Challenges:

  1. Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes
  3. Allsorts – Cold & Ice
  4. Crafting Happiness – Anything Goes
  5. Gem of a Craft – Anything Goes
  6. Four Seasons – Winter Season

December AJ Page-Keep Dancing + book and review

Hello friends!  Hope you had a great Christmas and were able to make some wonderful memories!  I can’t believe that we are ready to close out another year!  The time just goes way too fast and there’s so much more to look forward to!  I think the theme for my upcoming year is in this title post – KEEP DANCING!!!🕺

The last Saturday of the month (AND THE YEAR!) brings us to the monthly Art Journal Page collaboration with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month.  I know she always has great inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” December prompt of “Previous Prompt”:

Since this is the time of the year that we have a “look back”, I thought it would be fun to take one of this year’s previous prompts and come up with a new AJ page.  I chose April’s prompt of “SHINNY/SPARKLY”, and you can catch that page in the photos below or see my previous blog post HERE.

There’s nothing quite shinny or sparkly than New Year’s Eve!  I always think of the ball dropping on Times Square in New York, but it also had me thinking of a disco ball that is very sparkly.  Found this image online and printed it out.  Cut it out with a circle die and then added a bit of colored shading with my markers in grey.  I took a sponge to add glue to the entire ball and then covered it with chunky glitter.   I added some sparkle images and filled them with silver glitter and then die cut the numbers and glued them over top of the ball.

For the background:  It’s just a 6″x9″ black cardstock pre-punched at the top and then splattered with silver watercolor.  I added some music notes and die cut stars.  For the bottom, I used some woodgrain texture paper and cut strips to make a wood floor for the Riley the Moose disco dancer.  A silver metallic paint pen was used for the ball string at the top and the wording around the top of the ball.

I stamped, colored and hand cut the moose and popped him up over a die cut shadow for under his feet.  I typed a quote on the computer and printed it out over silver cardstock.  While it was still wet, I sprinkled clear EP over top and cut rounded corners for the page.  Lastly, I just popped up the glittered ball with foam tape and added some silver rhinestones at the bottom.

  • I thought it would be fun to do a review of all of the monthly pages that were created this year.  I put the months in order below.  (If you are on my website, just click on the photos to enlarge them.)
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November

I pre-punch the holes at the short side of the pages each month and then at the end of the year, I use my machine to bind them together to make a book.  I add covers and decorate them.  There is a post with last year’s book HERE.

For this year, I went with the vertical look and added a stretch cord to keep them together better.  I also tried out the napkin with the cover:

The napkin is at the bottom with the foil marble look.  My husband got some napkins for New Year’s, and I thought I’d try it out.  I added some chipboard, stamped and cut out numbers and added some wooden pieces.  I used the rose papers for the covers on the inside as well as the back of the chipboard covers.  It was put together with my Bind-It-All machine and coils.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my Art Journal Journey throughout the year as I sure have enjoyed doing them!  I get to pull from my stash to use, but there is also so much more to use!  So this means that I will for sure be continuing with this journey and I hope you’ll join me too!

Thank you so much for stopping by to have a look back.  Wishing you peace, love and health for the upcoming 2024 year!  See you in the next year friends!!!🎉

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Above Us Only Sky (New Year’s Eve Ball Drop on Times Square with stars in the sky!!!)
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes #8
  3. Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media Goes with option of Christmas
  4. Alphabet – ‘T’ is for Texture (texture on the top page with woodgrain floor, the chunky glitter disco ball.  Texture on the book with chipboard, wood pieces and paste.)

Lots of Joy Mailed Out!

Hello friends!  I hope that you’re having a great start to your week!  We’re almost there as Christmas approaches us quickly!  I’ve been enjoying the Season and having fun keeping busy.  Currently baking cookies and decided to take a break from that to sit and make a post about all of things that I’ve been doing besides posting!😆

This is just one of the several similar cards that I created for my Christmas cards this year.  It came from a Christmas in July card kit from Taylored Expressions.  It mainly used the Wreathed in Joy Stamp & Stencil Combo set.  There are dies you can cut them out with as well as foilable panels which is shown on this one.

I do not like to make several of the “same thing”, so I’ve changed them up to different colors, layouts, etc.  So you can see the different versions I’ve done below.  (If you are visiting my web page, just click on each photo to see it enlarged.)

 *Apologies for the messy stack for photo taking…it was a lot to do all at once!

Most of these are blue and silver which is my favorite color combination for Christmas colors, so I did about 6 of these.
I think these look the most vintage with the soft tones. Only 2 of these.
These are more traditional looking with the red and greens, plus some were foiled and some heat embossed. There are 4 of these.
These are all pretty similar with the larger wreath used. I changed up the green colors a couple of times. There are 6 of this kind.

I thought these would be enough for all of the Christmas cards to send out, but I realized going back through my list that I wasn’t going to quite have enough. 

So I’m glad that at the beginning of this month I took a Hero Arts Stamp-a-Long and made several different types of Christmas cards.  Here are the results of these below:  (Again, if you’re looking on my web page, just click on the photos to enlarge them.)

background using sprays and coloring die cuts
simple CAS card
northern light mixed media technique
emboss resist background and dimension die cutting
gift tag card with a pocket inside for holding a gift card
reverse die cutting on gatefold card
layering tree stamp and gatefold card
using die cut plate for stenciling
Watercolor CAS projects
using a die cut plate for embossing and masking
mirror stamping technique and rub-on background

So some of these were also taken and used for sending out more Christmas cards.  I’m glad that I did the projects for this class or I probably would not have had enough cards.

BUT WAIT!  That’s not all!  I’ve also made a few other Christmas items that I’ve also sent out.  I’m also sharing some gifts and gift tags that I’ve made from a Taylored Expressions Advent Calendar that I got this year.  I made some more cards and tags.  (I tried out wax melting which is something I’ve never done…it was fun)  Others are from classes I took or participated in Craft Roulette for.

If you’re on my web page, just click on the photos below to enlarge each one.

a craft roulette challenge
another craft roulette challenge
Inky Stamper OOAK class
craft roulette challenge
stencil from my advent calendar
melted wax, tags, pine sprig die and stamp set from advent calendar
I usually make these every year along with a poem on the back for the hot cocoa ingredients. This one is called “Santa’s Soup”. I might add a few other fun items in there as well! The people that get one of these knows to look inside right away!

Wow, so that was a lot!  I know that my blog has been pretty sparse with posts lately and I am finally getting around to posting the things that I’ve been working on, so I hope you’ll get that and you’re able to take some time for yourself this season and enjoy the peaceful quiet moments!

I will be sure to take a moment and catch up with everyone before Christmas arrives.  In the meantime, it’s back to cookie making!  Thanks so much for stopping in today!❤️

Guest Design for Try it On Tuesday

Hello friends!  I hope that you’ve had a great start to your December month!  I promise I haven’t been hiding, but it’s a busy time of the year and I’ve been doing all of the Holiday things, so my time has been limited.  I’m glad to have just now finished up some Christmas cards!😉

Speaking of Christmas cards, I have something fun to share with you today!

TioT Guest Designer 2023

Last month I had won a top 5 in a challenge and was asked to be a guest designer for this Try it on Tuesday challenge!  I really enjoy playing along in the challenges to keep motivated, so I was thrilled!   For THIS challenge, the theme is “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” which inspired me to pull out this fun Santa stamp for a chuckle:

So, this is Santa’s excuse for being late!  Like me, he’s NOT hiding…just delayed!😆

The stamps and die cuts came from an older My Favorite Things card kit I had called “Stuffed Santa“.  I had fun putting this one together and was the beginning of the cards made to send out this year. (It was my plan to be early, but you know how THAT goes!)

For the background:  I ink blended in a couple of blue oxide colors with the center panel fading to the lightest color.  I sprayed the panel with some shimmer spray for that cold frosty shimmer sky.  I then splattered some white opaque Copic mixed with water for the snowfall.

The Santa, hands, sentiment bubble, and lights around the chimney were all stamped and colored with Copic markers.  I die cut them out along with the chimney, snow and rooftop pieces.  I die cut the pieces with white and used my Copic markers to color in the chimney, roof, window and lights around the roof line.  For the sentiment panel on the house at the bottom, I cut it to size and used my Copic markers to color the same as the roof peek.   I added the sentiment to it, and made this the “base” for the house.

To finish it off, I added some chunky glitter to the die cut snow on the chimney and roof.  I also used a glitter pen to add some sparkle to the inside window panels and the Christmas lights.  I also used some foam squares to pop up the sentiment bubble and Santa’s mittens.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and that you’ll play along with this fun challenge over at Try it on Tuesday as well!  Thanks so much for dropping by!

Challenges:

  1. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – 2349 Anything Goes
  2. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  3. Crafty Catz – #662 Anything Goes
  4. Daring Cardmakers – One Word Prompt: LIGHT (Christmas lights and window light)
  5. Gem of a Challenge – Anything Goes
  6. Inkspirational – Designer’s Choice: Add Glitter
  7. Krafty Chicks – Stamp Act

November AJ Page-Winter Wonderland

Hello friends!  Hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving for those that celebrate.  And with that, there is also the Black Friday deals, and today is “small business Saturday”.  So have you’ve gotten some really good deals or do you shop during this time?  I don’t really shop too much during this time, but I enjoy hearing about the great deals everyone has gotten!

The last Saturday of the month also brings us to the monthly Art Journal Page collaboration with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month.  I know she always has great inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” November prompt of “STENCILS” (can also make your own):

I do love stencils, don’t you?!  I have lots of them in my stash and I don’t always use them as much as I’d like to, so how fun to pull out several of them for this month’s prompt!  All of the ones I’ve used on my page are from Tim Holtz.  The entire page is stencil expect for the deer, sentiment and bottom snow!  (I would’ve used the deer for a stencil too, but I don’t have one.)

For the background:  Started with my usual 6″x9″ 140# watercolor pre-punched holes on the side.  I took the large star looking stencil and sponged some VersaMark ink over it towards the top of the page and heat embossed it with clear EP.  (This made a “resist” for the ink I layered on top.)  I took a long strip of masking paper and ripped it to create some hills for the bottom.  I needed to mask so the colors didn’t go over it.   I took several different colors of Distress Oxide sprays along with spritzing with water to help the colors move around and made a few layers with this.  Once dry, I went over the background with the dotted stencil and sponged ink over it with a blue color.

For the tree stencil, I needed to be sure that it would cover the background I created, so I used some green paint to sponge over the stencil, but because the background is blue, it’s sort of harder to see the green.  This stencil also had a second part where you can cover each tree with another layer for either another green or snow.  So I used some Hero Arts white paste to cover it with.  I also used the same paste to add another layer of stencil to the sky for snowfall.

The silhouette deer is a stamp that I stamped with black pigment ink and then I heat embossed it with clear EP.  My final touch to the page was to take the Hero Arts white paste and cover the hills at the bottom using my spatula.  Really love the dried look of the paste as it has a wonderful shine to it which works great for snow!  It didn’t take as long as I thought it would to dry. (About 2 hours it was hardened.)

I found a couple of the Tim Holtz sticker quotes to go with my theme, added to black cardstock and went around the edges with a silver paint pen.  I cut them out with scissors and glued to the page.  I took some silver wax and went around the edge of the page with my finger and lastly added some glitter drops to a couple of the centers of the “stars” in the sky.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my art journal page today or have been inspired!  I appreciate you taking the time to stop in! 

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Nature (I love nature in the wintertime!  So pretty covered in snow!)
  2. Try It on Tuesday – Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
  3. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes
  4. Creative Artiste – Anything Goes Mixed Media (stencils, pastes, paints, inks)
  5. Stencil Fun – Anything Goes using stencil(s) optional: leaves
  6. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes optional embossing (heat embossed)

Winter Animals for Sparkles Monthly Challenge

Hello friends!  I hope you’ve had a great start to your November so far!  It’s been a few minutes since I’ve posted, but I have to say that I’ve been pretty busy in the background!  Hoping to share what I’ve been up to soon!

Today begins a new challenge over at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge!  This month, we’re looking to see some WINTER ANIMALS!  I hope you can join in the fun with us!  A reminder that this will be the final challenge for the year as we’ll be on Holiday break until January.  Here’s my take on the theme:

My first thought of a winter animal is a penguin of course!  I’m a huge fan of them and have so many in my collection…including other than stamp related!  These guys are really enjoying winter on this scene!  I’m using the My Favorite Things Playful Penguins stamp set and I started with a stencil from MFT that has “pond” shapes and lightly stenciled the soft blue for a place for my “ice platform” to be.

After creating the “ice pond”, I used some tape to mask off the bottom portion so that I could ink blend a sky at the top.  I used some White Opaque Copic and splattered it over the sky area.  I then used another MFT stencil to create some snow drifts in the background.

The two penguins, igloo, ice pad and sign were stamped, colored with Copic markers and die cut out to be placed over the scene.  I added the flattened penguin to the ice pad and then had the igloo in the background while the sign and penguin are waiting at the side of the pond.  I used a pen and wrote “FREE RIDES” on the sign.

I finished it off with a glitter pen over the “ice pad” and igloo and then used some Stardust Stickles over the snow on the sign.  I thought it needed some more snow falling down, so I took some sequins and added it to the scene.

If I were on that scene, I would probably be more like the flattened penguin on the “ice pad”!😆  How about you?  Do you like the snow?

Thanks so much for joining me here!  I hope you like my penguin card and will sharing your favorite winter animal in the challenge too!  Have a great day!

Challenges I’d like to enter this card for:

  1. Pearly Sparkles – #90 Christmas/Winter
  2. Craft Rocket – #109 Wintertime (No Christmas)
  3. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes with animal(s)
  4. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes featuring a critter(s)
  5. Love to Scrap – #164 Anything Goes
  6. Crafty Calendar – Anything Goes
  7. Creative Moments – Winter
  8. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes

Mixing It Up with a New DT!

Hello friends!  Happy November!  The time is getting closer and closer for Christmas to arrive and so the Christmas cardmaking ramps up!  Have you started on yours or have them done?

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I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined up as design team member over at the MIX IT UP CHALLENGE BLOG!  Woot! 🎉 Really happy to be supporting a fellow blog friend Leslie with one of the many challenges she runs!  Thanks for having me along!  So, I hope you’ll go check it out and play along with us!  The challenges run for 6 weeks which is plenty of time to enter and these challenges are always “Anything Goes” with an optional twist involving a technique of some sorts.  Sounds fun to me!  And I can use any products I like!  Count me in!

For the November challenge this month, we have “Anything Goes with optional stamping (use clear or rubber – no digis)” This is my first creation with the team, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with for the challenges too, so I hope you can join!

Of course, I love to stamp!  I have SO many and why not use them?!  I was lucky enough to have gotten the STAMPtember Trinity Stamps set called: “Sledding Gnomes” (no longer available) and it was so fun to play with for this card.  I also decided to make it a slimline card which I haven’t made in quite a while.

For the background:  I white heat embossed some snowflakes from the Simon Says Stamp “Frozen Fractals” stamp set (no longer available).  Then I took some Oxide Inks in Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire to ink blend over the embossed snowflakes for an embossed resist technique.  Lastly, I’ve splattered some Copic Opaque white with water and a fan brush.  This panel was cut out from the Trinity Stamps Stitched Card Panels & Window Slimline dies.

I stamped, colored and die cut the characters and cut out some white cardstock using a Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders die set.  I arranged the slopes and tucked in the trees behind each layer and popped up the characters with foam tape.  I also white heat embossed the sentiment with red cardstock and die cut it out, which was popped with foam tape.

Here’s a closer look at the coloring: (using Copic markers)

Before attaching the stitched slopes to the bottom of the heat resist snowflake panel, I sprayed some shimmer spray to give it a snow look.  I attached this panel to a red piece that was cut from the Trinity Stamps Scalloped Card Panels & Banners Slimline die set.  I then layered both of these panels to a white side folding slimline card base measuring 8.5″ x 3.5″.

Lastly, I’ve added some Stickles Stardust glitter to the gnome hat ends and the hat on the reindeer.  You can see where I’ve added some white highlights with a gel pen and then I took some gold glitter gems and attached randomly.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project today and will stop by the Mix It Up challenge blog to check out the rest of the inspiration and play along with us this month!  Remember you have 6 weeks!

Thanks for stopping in today!

Challenges:

  1. Crafty Catz – Anything Goes optional: 4-legged critter (reindeer)
  2. Daring Cardmakers – A Bit of Bling (shimmer spray, Stardust Stickles, and gold glitter gems)
  3. Allsorts – Embossing Heat/Dry (heat embossed snowflakes & sentiment)
  4. ABC Christmas – ‘U’ is for “Use it Up” & ‘V’ is for “Vertical” (I made a vertical slimline card and I used up my supplies of sprays, glitters and gems!)

More Christmas Smells

Hello friends!  Since it’s still so very warm outside, I thought it would be fun to do a bit of coloring which I haven’t really done much of lately and create another Christmas card in July!  Hope you are staying cool…or warm depending on where you live! LOL

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A cup of cocoa with marshmallows, a candy cane and a chocolate cupcake with a gingerbread friend to share it with sounds wonderful to me!  You may recognize the image from Digi Doodle Studios, which is where this retired image is from called “Jacks Ginger Cocoa Mug“.   It was just nice to be able to spend time coloring up a cute image and enjoy more from my long-forgotten stash!  I’ve used Copics to color the image and cut it out with my square dies to layer for my card design.

I thought the brown gingham papers went well with the cardstock that I’ve used from Stampin’ Up! called Baked Brown Sugar. I wanted to also bring in some red to the design because of the candy canes/peppermints in the image.  I layered a piece of lace ribbon over it and then popped up the layered colored image on top.  I used a photo corner punch for redder in the right top corner of the image.

The sentiment was white heat embossed over the Baked Brown Sugar cardstock and cut out with a stitched banner die.  The sentiment is also from a retired Pink & Main stamp set I had in my stash.  Lastly, I added some round peppermint clay accents to finish it off.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my Christmas card today or have been inspired for Christmas..or food!  Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges I’d like to enter:

  1. Christmas Kickstart – Gingerbread Treats
  2. Rudolph Days Challenge – Anything Goes Christmas (June)
  3. Merry Little Christmas – Anything Goes Christmas
  4. Crafter’s Cafe – Christmas in July
  5. Double D – Christmas in July
  6. Creative Knockouts – Christmas in July
  7. Crafty Catz – Anything Goes with optional Christmas in July

It’s Christmas in July at Sparkles Monthly!

Hello friends! Have you’ve been enjoying the month of July so far? We finally got some rains, but now it’s humid and warmer. That’s OK because it’s always warm this time of year anyway and a great time for crafting indoors with the air conditoning!

Today starts up a new challenge for the Sparkles Forum Monthly Challenge Blog with the theme: Christmas in July! It’s a favorite for many card makers this month so that they can get an early start on those Christmas cards without having to wait last minute to get them all done. I don’t have an outrageous amount to send out, but I do like to donate and I have done 5 Christmas so far! So if you’re up for it, make a Christmas card and join the gallery at the challenge! Here’s the card that I’ve made:

There’s nothing like the smell of peppermint for Christmas (for me anyway!)  I had gotten this Candy Cane Lane card kit from Taylored Expressions last year and never really used it, so I thought this would be a good time to pull it out.

In the set, there came this cover plate die and I cut it out in the following, gold mirror, white glitter and white cardstock in A2 sizes.  I paper pieced each one over an A2 sized white card base front.  I added some light blue ink blending around the edges and bottom of the center panel and stamped a few “snowflakes” in the same color.

I die cut the candy canes and leaves and ink blended/stenciled those stacked together.  I used a white gel pen for the highlight over the canes, added a gold cord bow and some gold drip drops for the “berries”.  There was a stamp set with sentiments that I stamped out in red and then went over top of it with VersaMark ink so that I could emboss some Peppermint smelling embossing powder over it…that’s where the smell of peppermint came in for me!  I die cut it out with the coordinating die and glued it at the bottom of the candy canes.

Hope you can join the challenge with your Christmas cards this month!  Thanks so much for dropping in today!

Challenges:

  1. Sparkles Christmas – Include Gold
  2. Merry Little Christmas – Anything Christmas Goes
  3. Get Creative – Christmas in July
  4. Craft Rocket – Christmas in July
  5. Most Magical Time of the Year – ATG Christmas/Halloween optional:  Christmas in July
  6. Christmas Craft Creations – Christmas in July007July
  7. Little Red Wagon – Christmas or New Year?  (I hardly ever send out New Year cards)
  8. Krafty Chicks – Christmas
  9. CRAFT – Christmas