Pink Christmas

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

It's October and time for the Jingle Belles Pink Christmas.

I really appreciate that Stef and Lauren do this every year!

I've embossed poinsettias on some light pink cardstock (it's really more pinky

than this photo shows).  A few pats with a white inkpad over the raised portions

made a quick background.

I pulled out a die set with a poinsettia in it and die cut it three times; once from

a light green and twice from white.  I used a small blending brush inking it with

some pink ink and added color to the center of the flowers and lightly pulled the 

color over the petals.

The set included some Christmas greenery and I cut some of them from light

 green cardstock.  After inking them up, I tucked them around the flower.

The berries were punched from white glimmer and I used the ink left on the

brush to color them for berries.  The were placed over the "leaves" on a

sprig included in the die set.

I think this challenge ends this evening.  I really meant to get an earlier start and

make more than one.  Best laid plans!  Do check them out and I hope they get

lots of entries again this year.  You can find them here.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Wishes (Kaiser Craft)

Ink:   Morning Mist (VC), Whisper White, Light Cranberry, Medium Cranberry, Jelly Bean Green, Warm Cocoa (GKD)

Paper:   Pink Pirouette, Neenah Solar White, Soft Seafoam

Other:  Scenic Poinsettias EF (SB), Christmas Bird Poinsettia dies (SB), Nesting Slim Labels die (Alt)

Enjoy!

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Berries Merry Christmas

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

We're having a nice taste of fall after highs in the 80's last week.

I LOVE IT!

Sweater weather!

This is a CASE of one of Michele's cards.

Her berries were purple, which I loved, but I went with red today.

I had to mimic her with the burlap embossing.  That made the card IMO.

I used Jen T's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #758

Here's the sketch...

I find that I do much better with layering stencils if I use my Misti.  It makes

it much easier to get each layer lined up perfectly.

I did two (you'll see the other at a later date).  The first had a disastrous

splatter episode! Oy!

This time I used some chunky frantage embossing powder to add white specks.

Then I embossed it and the embossed bits flattened and look like perfect splatters,

which is something I seem to be incapable of doing!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bitty Holiday Wishes (MBT)

Ink:   Lumberjack Plaid, Aged Mahogany, Bundled Sage, Vintage Photo (DI)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Real Red, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Berry Brances stencils (PTI), Burlap EF (HB), Merry Frame die (SSS), Chunky Frantage EP

Enjoy!

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Orange and Black for Color Hues

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

It's time for another challenge from Color Hues.

This month our talented Tracey picked our colors.  She chose....

Aren't these perfect colors for October?

Originally I was going to do something with pumpkins but when I opened a

surprise package from Michele, I knew I needed to go in another direction.

Recently Michele posted this card when she was our Guest Designer and I loved

that little bird and that she used vellum for the background.  So I CASEd 

her card using the new Color Hues colors.

I had some trouble figuring out how to put all those die cut pieces together!

So I got out some Press & Seal and put everything back together on the die.

After that it was smooth sailing and I LOVE the results!

Now let's go and see what my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designer Annette have done to inspire you.

Your card and or project can use ANY HUE of the TWO Colors selected for you, 

and of course, neutrals are welcome.  

Our Neutrals are: white, black, grey, kraft, brown, cream, and metallics. 

Remember that green is not a neutral. 

I hope you'll create a card using Orange & Black and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on October 29.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

Most importantly, just have fun!

Edited to add:

Double D Challenge - Windows 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Nature's Dance (SB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black, Pumpkin Pie, Pale Papaya

Other:  Bird Watch Inlays (C9), Nature's Dance die (SB), Oak Forest EF (SB), Essential Arches die (SB)

Enjoy!

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Golden Baubles

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Two more Christmas cards.

I had some more embossed vellum from several years ago.  This vellum has gold

embossing instead of silver.

I've used gold foil and glimmer paper to cut some Curio Attic Ornaments

from the Greetery. 

Sorry for the glare.  It's so hard to get a good photo of foil or glitter!

Challenges:

Peace on Earth #121 - See bottom left on mood board below

Krafty Chicks #841 - ATG Christmas

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Matte Gold Foil (SSS), Print Vellum (ret SU), Gold Glimmer

Other:  Curio Attic Ornaments, Curio Divider & Details Die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangle Labels, Botanicuts: Pine Bough die (all Grtry), Foiled Sentiment (Alt), Joy die (Elizabeth Crafts)

Enjoy!

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Silent Night

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

I hope you had a good weekend.

I had some patterned paper pieces sitting on my desk and when I saw Jen M's sketch

at Freshly Made Sketches, these pieces just screamed "use me".

Here's the sketch...

Another piece went for this one...

I dipped the edges of the patterned paper in VersaMark and then in gold

embossing powder and heated it up. A very subtle edging.

Just a few hours left to join in.  Hope to see you in the gallery!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Sing a Song of Christmas (Grty)

Ink:   Night of Navy, VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, White Texture, Gold Foil, Patterned paper

Other:  Nativity (AE), Gold EP, Star of Wonder die (MB), Subtle EF (ret SU_

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Jewish Celebrations (ret SU)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Patterned Paper, Scraps of Gold and Shimmery White

Other:  Menorah Die (AM), Gold EP

Enjoy!

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