Inkspirational #333

There's a snow theme over at Inkspirational and with all the snow we've had I thought it would be fun to make a card.   It's way more fun than tromping through it or even worse shoveling it. 

I brought Stump out to play again.  I'm glad you can face him different ways and I only had to do a little surgery on his scarf to make that work.  I also must confess he had a little nose job too.  😉 The tree is from Honey Bee, layered white on dark green.  It all started with PB's Classy Frames, cutting it from blue and then twice from white.  A little splatter helped get the snow falling before putting it all together. 

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The Card Concept #202

I love the photo at The Card Concept and an idea popped into my head right away.  It took a village of stamp companies to make my clean and layered card.  Don't they play together nicely.

I was drawn to the pillow with the graphic trees in red and the sentiment in the window.  I used Distress texture paste through a Lawn Fawn stencil for the snowflakes on dark gray cardstock cut with Waffle Flower A2 dies, as was the red frame.  The tree is from Reverse Confetti (oob) embossed with red glitter from Ranger and the sentiment is from Penny Black.  

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Tic Tac Toe #235

I'm finally able to do a little card making and i have a card for Tic Tac Toe - blue, snowman sparkle.

I used my favorite Snowy from Penny Black, coloring him with Zigs and paper piecing his scarf.  The  sparkle on his hat, the snow on the tree from Altenew and the ground is Snowflake Tinsel embossing powder from Ranger. I'm disappointed in how yellow it looks and that you can't really get the full sparkle effect in the photo.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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Online Card Class and Christmas Kickstart #56

I have taken a number of the Online Card Classes from Jennifer and Kristina but not recently.  I don't know what possessed me to sign up for their Holiday Workshop 2021 but the classes were great although I didn't do homework for all of them.  Then came bonus day 14 with Jennifer and I was so excited about using up scraps of ancient Christmas DSP that I went overboard.   If you didn't know, I am a quilter and I love putting 'bits & pieces' together, whether fabric or paper.  Hence the name of my blog.

I'm only sending one to their gallery and the same one to Christmas Kickstart but let me show you what I did.

These all involve making your own striped paper using scraps.  I started by cutting Stick-It to a size larger than the openings on my cards and applied the strips.  All the panels were cut with Waffle Flower A2 dies, one in color and one in white which was stamped with the sentiment.  For the ornaments I used a die from CASual Fridays and cut the topper in silver as well the chain from Poppy Stamps.  The stripes were taped behind the opening and the panels glued together on a top fold cardbase.

I did the same thing with a square die from MFT, adding a strip for the ribbon and a bow from Sugar Pea Designs.  If I do more of these I need a bigger, better bow.  The "piece" de resistance is the tree.

Here I glued the strips in a chevron and cut the panel with a die from Concord and 9th.  The tree was big enough to cover the entire card so no matteing done on this one, and I barely fit in the sentiment from Reverse Confetti.  

As you can see, once I got started I couldn't stop and I saved a bag of strips to make more when I have time.  

ETA:  Di from Snippets Playground saw my cards at Christmas Kickstart where she is the visiting elf and asked me to join the gallery there.  I'm more that happy to do so since I used so many snippets so make these cards. 

 

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CAS Christmas Challenge September 2020

The fact that I found a stamp set I brought with me at the last minute that was hidden in a hastily packed bag means I can enter the CAS Christmas Challenge- Tree. 

The tree and sentiment are from RC and the dome die from WF.  I stamped the tree with C9 Parsley and clear heat embossed it, then colored the circles with Zigs and added Glossy Accents over them.  I embossed the panel behind and lightly inked with Speckled Egg before popping up the domed panel with foam.  The sentiment looks crooked but then so does the bottom of the card.  A photo mystery for sure.

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CAS Christmas Challenge - April 2020

Back in 1958, Brenda Lee recorded a song called "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".  During that same time, aluminum Christmas trees were all the rage.  I took those elements and a stamp set from My Sentiments Exactly and made my card for CAS Christmas Challenge - Christmas Song.

You don't know how many times and ways I tried to photograph this card so the silver embossing would show.  It looks really dark here but it's so pretty and shiny IRL. Before the embossing, I stamped the tree in Antique Linen Distress Ink to make it easier to color the tiny circles with Zigs.

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Addicted to CAS #174

Do you have your Christmas Cards done?  Here's a chance to make one more although you really could make a different tree for the challenge at Addicted to CAS.  It's hosted by Ceal and her code word is

I got the chance to go with a friend to Gina Marie's and see all her fabulous dies.  You know I couldn't leave without purchasing at least one.  Ha, I did more damage than that but for this card I had a particular one in mind.  The Artistic Tree.  I'm glad I got it when I did because it's retiring.

I cut the tree from both gold foil and a smooshed panel, inserting the later into the foil.  I got a smudge when the glue interacted with the DI and so I inked a scrap of brown for a trunk.  The sentiment from C9 is gold heat embossed.  I couldn't just disregard the smooshed outline cut so I made a second card.

This time I inserted green foil and used a sentiment from HLS.  So now I have two more cards for my Christmas stash.  Will you make a Christmas tree?  Or do you have something else in mind?  I wonder what the Design Team did.  Let's go check them out shall we? 

CAS Christmas - November

That's right, friends.  I'm a guest designer at CAS Christmas after winning the challenge in September with this card.  I'm so happy to join the designers for their November challenge.

My first idea for a card I'll show you on the reminder post but after my craft session with Michele and Marcia and the sharing of stamp sets, I'm showing this card today.

Michele's bears from Sugar Pea Designs are so cute I couldn't resist them and they are warm and cozy dressed in sweaters and scarves colored with Distress Ink.  I also had the sentiment from Penny Black that gets the idea across.  To make it a little more Christmas-y I added the tree from MFT.

Want to see what the Design Team did?  Let's head on over to CAS Christmas for some wonderful inspiration.

Happy Little Stampers Christmas - September

Another month has flown by and it's time for September's challenge at Happy Little Stampers Christmas.

Of course I had to do the twist.

I have this layered tree stamp from HA and wanted to see how it would work with my Puff embossing powder to add snow to the branches.  I loved how it looked but then I had to figure a way to display it.  I watercolored around the edge of the tree and cut it with a scalloped oval from MFT.  I knew I wanted a plaid background, something soft to bring out that sky so I used my C9 plaid background and stamped it in Sea Glass and Frayed Leaf  from Altenew.  The sentiment is from the same HA set stamped on a banner from LF.

The Design Team has cards for your inspiration and we look forward to seeing what you make for our challenge this month.  The winner will receive a $20 voucher to HLS which will be doubled if HLS stamps are used.

CAS Christmas, Watercolor and Mix-Up

I thought I'd make it easy for the gals who run the CAS challenges and show all three of my cards on one post.  No going from post to post to comment. 

First up is CAS Christmas where the prompt is tree.

I started with three layers of UTEE embossing powder on a scrap of cs and added glitter.  The paper was too thick to cut with the SSS tree so I trimmed the edges and just cut the outline from green and glued it on.  I found the star brad among my embellishments and have no idea where it came from. The SSS sentiment is cut from red foil, layered on white for stability.  Here's a close up.

The prompt at CAS Watercolor is sunflower and I used the PTI botanical block.

The image and sentiment from Verve are embossed with copper and the flower is colored with Zigs.

My favorite is for CAS Mix-Up.  We were to do stencil monoprints, and they have several videos listed on the blog to give you ideas on how to proceed.  I played around with a couple ideas before I ended up with something I liked.

I made my own tattersall plaid by inking up the SSS grid stencil with Distress Inks in Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo.  When it was dry I reinked with Blueprint Sketch and aligned the stencil between the first stamping.  The little dog from Gerda Steiner was laying on my desk and the colors worked beautifully with the plaid so I popped him up and added the sentiments from the same set. My choice is watercoloring and die cut.

It's been fun and I hope you like them.

Merry Monday #288

No stamps!  Gasp!  Whatever will I do for the challenge at Merry Monday.  Die cuts it is and one I've long neglected.

Not too bad of a photo.  You all know how difficult it is to take pictures of foil.  I used the negative and positive of this SSS tree and then cut the accompanying sentiment from red foil and layered it on two of white.  In retrospect I should have done all red layers.

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Inkspirational #157

What would you do for this challenge at Inkspirational?  I don't have any dragons or fairies or unicorns so I wasn't sure what to do but my friend and host for this challenge told me to use my elves.  What?  You mean Santa's elves aren't real?  ;)   Carol, this one's for you.

I started the background by masking off the bottom so I could ink it up to look like the floor and then using the same Distress Ink and an MFT stencil made my wall.  The elf and tree are colored with Zigs with a little Glossy Accents added to the ornament.  The sentiment is from HLS.  I liked this so much I made another one with a different colored brick just for fun.

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Merry Monday #269

I'm running late with my card for Merry Monday.  I quickly made it last night and am posting before church this morning.  It's a color challenge.

Stamps from Neat and Tangled, inks from Altenew, aperture from Pretty Pink Posh.  The tree is silver embossed and the ornaments clear embossed for shine you can't see here.  Maybe this photo is better.

I did this in remembrance of the aluminum trees back in the day.

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