JOY

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

How are you coming on your Christmas cards?

When my sweet friend Michele came to visit, she brought her night and day pine press plates 

and they were the first things I dug into.  I had a new set of ink cubes from 

Pinkfresh Studios and we found that they worked beautifully with the Betterpress system.

This was my absolute favorite of the two plates.  It inks the background and leaves the

pine boughs looking white and snowy.

The Immense Joy die cut was a fun surprise in the mail and I thought they went

together beautifully paired with my favorite Nativity die.

I used a little chunky gold embossing powder on the center of the O and heated 

from the back for a "starry" backdrop and layered the white die cut slightly offset

from a gold die cut.

I'm hoping to find these press plates half price one of these days (wink)!

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #753 - Word Week (Joy)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Day and Night Pine plate (SB)

Ink:   Sage (PFS)

Paper:   Watercolor (Canson), PB Porcelain, Gold Foil

Other: Immense Joy die (PB), Nativity die (?), Chunky White & Gold EP (Stmp)

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Hemlock Chickadee

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I don't mean to alarm you, but do you realize that we're more than halfway

though November and Christmas is just around the corner?

I used to do a lot of different crafts and loved to use the hemlock cones that I

would collect at my Dad's house in VT in the summertime.  I still have a kissing

ball made with these cones and an artificial sprig of mistletoe.

When this die set went on sale, I couldn't resist.

The branches and chickadee were cut from mixed media paper and

watercolored.  I cut the hemlock cones from kraft and added a bit of color

with a marker at the tops.  They are very tiny and my fingers had as much color

as the cones when I was finished.

I put it all together on a piece of kraft embossed and ink swiped for a

snowy forest background.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - W is for Watercolor or X is for Xylophone

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Third Monday is Embossing

Krafty Chicks #742 - Christmas

NBUS #68 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Hemlock Cones & Chickadee die)

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Merry & Bright Sentiment Strips (Spl)

Ink:   Rustic Wilderness, Pine Needles, Vintage Photo, Smoky Gray, Basic Gray, Crisp Cantaloupe, Peach Parfait (SU), Black Marker (SU), Whisper White, BP Black (Spl)

Paper:   Kraft, Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Hemlock Cones & Chickadee dies, Scrolled Punch & Pierce Plate, Mirrored Arch Labels (all SB), Tall Pines 3D EF (SSS), Merry & Bright Sentiment Strips Die (Spl), Sparkle Texture Effects (MS)  

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Pink and Aqua for Color Hues

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I am so excited to be part of the Design Team at Color Hues!

It's one of my favorite challenges and I'm thrilled to join these talented 

designers to bring you inspiration using the chosen colors.

For my first card as a Color Hues designer, I chose to use this sweet

Sing Joy elfette!

My sweet friend Marcia chose the fantastic colors of Pink and Aqua for this challenge.

I'm calling this little gal Joy as she has a joyous spirit and sings with all her heart.

She was stamped on Mixed Media Paper with Memento ink and watercolored using

Stampin' Up inks.  I used the die to cut her out and cut the sentiment too, adding

a little ink to shade it.  Her hat brim and pom-pom are winked.

Snowfall was added using chunky white embossing powder and heating from 

underneath so it didn't blow away.

There's a special Guest Designer, Teresa, joining us for this challenge.  Do check out

her fun card and see the wonderful inspiration that the rest of the team has to

share with you.  Then I hope you'll join us using any hue of these two colors.

Neutrals are always welcome.  The challenge closes on November 29th.

How can you use these colors?  I hope to see you in the 

Color Hues gallery.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sing Joy (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Pool Party, Coastal Cabana (SU), Tattered Rose, Tea Die, Vintage Photo (DM)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White, Pink Pirouette, Silver Glimmer

Other:  Sing Joy Cutouts (PB), Stitched Rectangle die (SSS), Snowflake EF (MS), Snowflake Die (IO), Chunky White Frantage (Stampendous), WOS

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Gingerbread Bouquet

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I'm squeaking in at the last minute with this card.

Gingerbread is a staple for our Cookie Day and this gingerbread man stamp

and die is always among my Christmas cards.

The bouquet is new and I had fun coloring and arranging all the pieces.

I stamped the edging with white pigment ink and heat embossed, then used a

stencil to add some cracks in the cookie.

The enamel buttons and black dots were in my stash.  All of the greenery and

candy canes were cut from white Neenah and inked up with finger daubers.

A pierced cover plate provided the background.

Added to add.  I don't need to decide whether to eat the head or feet first.  I claim

all the broken pieces (on the real thing, not the paper version).

Challenges:

Peace on Earth #75 - Inspired by the gingerbread on mood board below

Jingle Belles - Christmas Feast

NBUS #68 - Never Before Used Schtuff ( Spellbinders Dies)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage), BP Plate Merry & Bright Sentiments (foiled)

Ink:   Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Real Red

Paper:   Kraft, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Gingerbread Boy Die (RC), White EP, Textured Peeled Paint Stencil (MB), Christmas Bird Poinsettia Dies (SB), Pinpoint Snowflake Plate (MB), Glimmer Machine, Gold Foil

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Snowflake Faith, Hope, & Peace

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I had classes last week and this was made from a leftover.

It won't be long before we need to get those Christmas cards out!

I've got to say that I LOVE the look of the pressed sentiments foiled!

I've used two different snowflake embossing folders and layered all 

three of the dies in this snowflake set.

Challenges:

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Second Monday is Dies

Just Us Girls #752 - Color Challenge (Gold, White & Blue)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Merry & Bright Sentiment Strips (SB)

Ink:   

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Soft Sky, White & Gold Glimmer  

Other:  Glimmer Machine (SB), Gold Foil (SB), Winter Snowflakes EF (SX), Flurry of Snowflakes EF (SB), Star of Wonder Die (MB), Stitched Alpine Snowflakes Dies (PS)

Thank you to all our Veterans

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