Freshly Made Sketches #762 and NBUS #92

Karren has an interesting sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I want you to see it first so you know what I mean.

So the question is: Do you decorate each shape (they don't have to be squares) or do you add shapes to your card and decorate over them?  Guess which I chose?

I purchased this Trim a Tree die from Tim Holtz after Christmas last  year.  It was time to get it out and decorate it.  It's a big tree so I made a 5 by 7 card which meant that one of the small square dies from MFT fit on there perfectly.  The cardstock for the tree and stand are Core-dinations that I've had for over 15 years. The ornaments are three layers but I kept it to two:  the back one is silver and the top one is some Glimmer cardstock from DCWV that is dated 2009.  I guess you can say this is a retro tree.  LOL  

It's also going to NBUS to brighten their gallery. 

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Just Us Girls #849 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and Carol is our host.

This word can conjure up many images but I went with the word and a Christmas card.

Berries Abound from Penny Black was embossed and stenciled with Altenew inks on SB Alabaster cardstock.  The panel was trimmed and added to some C9 Poppy. The sentiment from American Crafts was cut from Altenew Treasured foil in ruby. 

The Design Team and our guest Jane Delen have made some merry cards to inspire you.  Take a look and then make a card for our gallery.   

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Time Out #326 - Inspired By

We are to be inspired by gratitude with our cards this week at Time Out. 

My card is one I made for my pastor for Pastor's Appreciation Month.

I made a shaker card using Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves that were colored with a variety of autumn inks. The background was colored with an MFT cloud stencil, the branch is from Altenew Vintage Roses. and the sentiment is also from Altenew. The sides were built up with three layers of heavy cardstock, then acetate, followed by another white layer and the gold cut with Waffle Flower Quilted Frames. 

This challenge is being sponsored by Poppystamps who will award our winner a $20 store credit.  

We are being joined for this challenge by Stef Perry as a guest designer.  We hope you'll join us too.

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The Paper Players #811 and Inkspirational #380

Classic Christmas colors are what Joanne picked for the color challenge at The Paper Players.  My first thought was Christmas greenery which made my card perfect for the Inkspirational challenge too.

I got the Festive Layered Poinsettia press plate and stencil set from Spellbinders last year before Christmas.  I went looking on my blog to see what I had done with it and couldn't find any cards posted. I thought I remembered using it and just now went to my Cards Not Posted folder and found 6 cards I made that I never posted.  I have no idea why I didn't' share them.  For the required gold, I used Lisa Horton gold metallic ink on the press plate for the background.  The shine doesn't show up much in the photo.  I used the same ink to color the background of my sentiment which is from PFS.  Altenew inks were used with the stencil.  

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Freshly Made Sketches #761

I knew the minute I saw Cecile's sketch on Freshly Made Sketches that I had the perfect stamp for it.  

It's Festive Christmas Greetings from Memory Box and it gave me a chance to practice my alcohol marker coloring with my Altenew artist markers.   The sentiment is an old one from Catherine Pooler and the PTI Pine Feather background panel was embossed with SSS Holiday Greenery. 

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