Christmas Cards 2022-Oct-09

 Hi,

Just a quick share of a pink addition of my Christmas cards stash.  

I did some light stenciling (with a tiny bit sprinkle of glitter) on the background pattern paper panel first, once it's dried I adhered a group of pink trees (with some lustre polish) and sentiment strip that was gold heat embossed.  Simple as that.

Challenges:

Jingle Belles: I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Happy Little Stampers October Anything Goes with Dies

Supplies:

Spellbinders Bottle Brush Trees Die Set

Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greetings Stamp Set

Mama Elephant Easy Sentiment Creative Cut

Stamperia Stencil KSTDL65

Golden Light Modeling Paster

Elizabeth Craft Design Micro Fine Cold Diamond Glitter

Creative Expression Snow & Ice Lustre Polish

Versamark Watermark Ink

WOW Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine embossing powder

Thanks for coming over.  Have a great day!

Christmas Card 2022-Sept-26

 Hi,

I am sharing another addition to my Christmas card stash.  I've just picked up Tim's Distress Mica Stain Holiday Set #3 so....

Don't you love all that shimmery goodness?!  I do!!  I sprayed Winter Frost on the house (die cut using pattern paper), Fresh Balsam on the pine branches, and Tart Cranberry on the birds.   The bird house die is an easel set, but I skipped the easel and just made it a shaped card.  

And then I made a matching envelope.

Challenges:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #66 - Home For the Holiday

Poppystamps Challenge #96 - Anything Goes

Simon Wednesday Challenge - Card + Matching Envelope

Happy Little Stampers September Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes (optional Metallic)

Supplies:

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stain Holiday Set #3

Poppystamps Bird House Pop-up Easel Set

Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greeting Stamp Set

Mama Elephant Easy Sentiment Creative Cut

Versamark Watermark Ink

Wow Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine Embossing Powder

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Christmas Cards 2021-Sept-07

 Hi,

Time to share another addition to my Christmas cards stash.

Very CAS with plaid!

Challenges:

CAS Christmas September Challenge

Happy Little Stampers September Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge September Anything Goes

Supplies:

KaiserCraft Snowflakes Embossing Folder

Memory Box Curved Happy Holidays Die 

Elizabeth Craft Designs Winter Home Pocket Die Set

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely day!

Spring Poppy

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Welcome back to my blog. 

I am sharing a simple card with watercolored poppies adhered onto an ink blened card base with score frame.

Challenges:

Simon Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday

Happy Little Stampers April Watercolor Challenge - Anything Goes

The Flower Challenge #55: Pretty Pastels

Supplies:

Hero Arts Hero Floral Poppy Stamp & Frame Cuts

Simon Says Stamp Tiny Words Birthday Stamp Set

Altenew Watercolor 36 Pan Set

Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)

Ranger Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peeled Paint)

Versamark Watermark Ink

Wow Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine Embossing Powder

Black Gel Pen

Thanks for visiting!  Have a lovely day.

Christmas Cards 2021-Jan-19

 Hi,

I took my time and simply enjoyed the process of making a card with (new to me) Altenew Sophisticated Wreath Stamp & Die.  

I stamped and die everything, arranged into a Christmassy wreath, added sentiment strip, and splattered with gold ink.  Once dried, I adhered it to a card base which has gold splattered pattern paper panel affixed. Lastly I applied some Sprinkled Sugar Stickles to the "berries" and flowers.

 Do you see some dimension on the flowers?  I took the time to curl each so they are not flat.  I like how this turn out, and I'd definitely make more.  😀

Challenges:

HLS January Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #30 - January Anything Christmas Goes

Supplies:

Altenew Sophicticated Wreath Stamp & Die

Ranger Distress Inks (Cracking Campfire, Barn Door, Peeled Paint)

Hero Arts Mid-tone Shadow Ink (Red Royal)

Hero Arts Shadow Ink (Field Greens)

Hero Arts Gimmer Metallic Gold Ink

Versamark Watermark Ink

Wow Gold Rich Metallic Embossing Powder

Ranger Sprinkle Sugar Stickles

Thanks for coming by my blog.  I wish you a sweet day!

Christmas Tags 2019-Jul-24

Hello and welcome back!

Instead of sharing Christmas cards in this post I am sharing some tags.  These would be handy to use during the holiday season.  I am pretty happy how they turned out, so I would make more!  :D

I die cut the tags using Cas-ual Friday Scallop Tag Fri-Dies.  And made four different styles.

For this tag, I simply stamped (Happy Little Stamps Merry Kissmas) and colored.  To create some visual depth, I used both light and dark ink for the outline and different shades of reds.  The greeting is stamped in black and I added an die cut bow (Hero Arts Ornament Infinity Die) that is made up by two die cuts glued together in an offset fashion.  I also coated the berries in Sprinkled Sugar Stickles which does not show up in the photo.

For this one, I stamped the wreath (Winner & Walter Bloom: Hollie's Festive Floral) in distress ink, but clear heat embossed the red berries.  The pine cones (Hero Arts Vintage Christmas Post Stamp & Frame Cut) are stamped and colored in pencils, and embellished with Platinum Stickles.  The greeting is stamped in Walnut Stain and clear embossed.

For the third tag, I stamped the background using Cas-ual Friday Stamp Starlequin.  And then layered the poinsettia stamped using Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia.  

My last tag is similar to the third, instead of a stamped background, I dry embossed it using Kaiser Craft Wood Grain Embossing Folder.  And used a gold leafing pen to edge the poinsettia and leaves.

Challenges:

Tag You're It! Challenge #92 - Christmas In July

Simon Monday Challenge: Not A Card

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies

Die Cut Divas July Challenge - Anything Goes

A Blog Named Hero Challenge - Christmas In July

Thanks for stopping by.  I wish you a lovely day!

Christmas cards 2019-Apr-11

Hello,

Slowly but surely I am adding to my Christmas card stash.  The special thing about today's card is that I did some stamping with alcohol ink.  Yes, I inked up my rubber stamp and stamped the background of my card.

I started by placing some drops of alcohol ink onto the applicator felt and inked my rubber stamp then stamped on a Yupo paper panel.  After I stamped on the Yupo panel I tapped the Alcohol Lift-ink pad on my tap and stamped off in my art journal.

This panel is 8.5 by 5.5 inches.  I cut it into two panels.  On one of them I splattered some Cranberry  alcohol ink and glimmer gold ink.

Next step I stamped the sentiment, then added a couple die cut pine branches, and a couple of watercolored Cardinal birds.  And I stamped a matching envelope too.  :)

Challenges:

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #93 - Feature a Creature

Happy Little Stamps April Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes (optional: Nature)

Simon Wednesday Challenge - No Designer Paper 

Supplies:

Hero Arts Vintage Christmas Post Clear Stamp

Hero Art Vintage Christmas Post Frame Cut

Memory Box Pine Branch Cutting Die

Ranger Alcohol Ink (Lettuce, Cranberry, Stream)

Hero Art Glimmer Metallic Ink (Gold)

Memento Dye Ink (Tuxedo Black)

I am so happy you stop by, have a great rest of the day!

Color Layering Poinsettia Trio on a2z

Happy Sunday!

I must say I am doing pretty well in building up my Christmas Cards Stash this year.  Today I share three cards on a2z Scrapbooking Supplies.

I have other poinsettia stamps already, but when I saw the Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia Stamps and Frame cut, I just could not resist!  LOL   Right after I got them I tried different color combinations, the reds ones were easy.  But it took me many tries to get the white/yellow ones to my liking.  So let's see this one first.

Colors for the poinsettia are (base, middle, top): Ranger Distress Squeezed Lemonade, Lemon Yellow (from Jayne's Fall Color), Lime Green (from Amy's Shades of Green). 

And I used a paint brush to add some Perfect Pearl solution for the shimmery highlights on the petals, and used Liquid Pearl for the center.

The sentiment is stamped in Ranger Distress Crushed Olive and clear heat embossed.  The decorative strip is part of a panel I did by painting wide strips of Glimmer Metallic Gold ink across a white panel with a flat toothed watercolor brush.  I cut up my panel and used on all three cards.

Colors for this poinsettia are (base, middle, top): Ranger Distress Barn Door, Hero Arts Mid-tone Shadow Red Royal, Ranger Distress Vintage Photo.  The flower center is painted with Glimmer Metallic Gold Ink.  The sentiment is stamped in Ranger Distress Peeled Paint and clear heat embossed.  

On this last one, the sentiment is gold heat embossed but it was kind of lost, so I used a marker and added shadow to make it stand out.  Instead of sequins I added dots of Glimmer Metallic Gold Ink.

Here's a couple close up you could see the glimmer and shine.

Group shot Here.

Challenges I am linking up:

A Blog Named Hero - Sparkle & Shine

Simon Wednesday Challenge - Stamp On It

Happy Little Stampers September Anything Goes with Die Challenge

Supplies:

Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia Clear Stamp

Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia Frame Cut

Hero Arts Winter Cheer Tag Set by Lia

Hero Arts Congrats Stamp & Cut

Hero Arts Glimmer Metallic Gold Ink

Hero Arts Mid-tone Shadow Ink (Red Royal)

Hero Arts Jayne's Fall Colors (Lemon Yellow)

Hero Arts Amy's Shades of Green (Lime Green)

Ranger Distress Ink (Barn Door, Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Chipped Sapphire, Squeezed Lemonade, Vintage Photo)

Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad

Memento Dye Ink (Tuxedo Black)

Clear EP

Gold EP

Ranger Liquid Pearl (White Opal)

Ranger Perfect Pearl Powder

Thanks for visiting my blog, I wish you a lovely day!

Christmas cards 2018-Aug-17

Hello there,

I am sharing a couple of Christmas cards I am adding to my stash.  

I used the same sketch and the same stamp set for both cards with a slight variation.  Which one is more pleasing to you?  Both I stamped Tuxedo Black and colored with Copic marks.  And embellished with sequins.  I used a clear gel pen to give a little bit of shine on the "berries". 

Card on the left is "one layer", the sentiment is stamped and masked before the mistletoe branches.  But it was kind of lost, I outline it and use a grey coloring pencil to a shadow.  

This one on the right is pretty self explanatory.  

Challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch #285

Happy Little Stamper August Christmas Challenge Anything Goes - optional twist (Sequins)

Supplies:

Happy Little Stampers Merry Kissmas

KaiserCraft Woodgrain Embossing Folder

Little Things from Lucy's Cards Sequins - Apple Ice

Simon Says Stamps Tiny Flowers Mixed Sequins

My Favorite Things Stitched Square Scallop Frame

Memento Dye Ink - Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers (YG00, YG25, R39)

Thanks for visiting.  I wish you a sweet day!