Tag: STAMPtember 2023

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!)

Things That go ‘BUMP’ in the Night for Sparkles Monthly

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a great weekend!  Did you have “good luck” on Friday the 13th?  It’s getting closer to Halloween!  I don’t send out very many Halloween things, but it’s something that I share with friends and my adult kids because it holds some special memories of just having fun.

Today begins our October challenge at Sparkles Monthly with a theme that was my turn to pick: Things That go ‘BUMP’ in the Night (Does not HAVE to be Halloween!)  So, if you’re not a Halloween person, this theme is open-ended.  Try nocturnal animals, Santa on the roof, etc.  Just have some fun crafting!

Of course, I love Halloween and had fun making my card:

I thought these mice were just too cute!  They were out bumping around in the night trying to be scary but scared each other instead! LOL

The mice came from the STAMPtember collaboration with Whimsy Stamps and the set is called Spooky & Mice.  I colored them with Copic markers and die cut them out with the coordinating dies.  They were popped up with foam tape over the background.

For my background:  I used a cloud stencil on a white piece of cardstock and blended some clouds with purple ink and then blended around the edges with black and grey ink.  I then took the SSS Spook Up Some Fun stamp set and stamped black stars over the background and I also white heat embossed the oval sentiment panel that was in that stamp set over black cardstock and set it aside.  I’ve also splattered the background with black, white and silver acrylic paints.

While that panel was drying, I heat embossed the Whimsy Stamps Spider Web Frame with a white sparkle EP and then cut the middle of it out with scissors so the cloud background would show.  I stamped the spider hanging down onto the background while sizing it up with the frame and then drew a black string with a marker for it. Glued on the frame, attached my oval sentiment panel, and attached it to a top folding A2 sized grey card base. (Then added the mice with foam squares.)

Lastly, I’ve added some silver gems on each side of the sentiment oval and attached a few clear sequins over the night sky background.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ll be able to join along in the fun with us this month!  I’ll be seeing you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Two Old Bats Halloween – Anything Goes Halloween
  2. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes with an animal
  3. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes with a featured critter
  4. Creative Inspirations – Autumn or Halloween
  5. Craft Rocket – Autumn and/or Halloween
  6. As You Like It – Favorite Halloween or Fairies & why? (I love to make Halloween theme because it’s so fun with cute, scary or fun characters and I love the colors too!)
  7. Most Magical Time of the Year – Anything Halloween or Christmas
  8. Creative Moments – “It’s Alive!”