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)

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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

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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)

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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

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Spooky Hugs

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With fall comes Halloween.

This jack-o-lantern die was in a box from a friends downsizing.  He's a scary one!

When I added some leftover gray ink on the yellow background his eyes

were really scary.  I'm not sure the googly eyes make his less or more scary!

He's going over to Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge then into the mail and

off my desk.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Life of the Party (TH)

Ink:   Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Buttercup

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black, Scraps of yellow and peach

Other:  Thinlits Jack-o-lantern (TH), Spiderweb EF (SU), White EP, Betterpress Sentiment

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Acorn Almanac for Fun

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

I was recently quite taken with a stamp from Unity.

Trying to get the look I wanted, I ended up with several cards.

So grab a cup (or glass) of your favorite beverage for a lengthy show.

This was the first one.  I stamped with Sepia ink and embossed with a new to me

matte clear embossing powder on mixed media paper.

The camera is seeing it much darker than it actually is.  The border is Cajun Craze-

more rust than brown and the leaves and acorns are lighter too.

The second one was done the same way but embossed with gold. This one has a border

of dark brown.  I used acetate to smoosh some ink into the background on both of them.

I didn't like the embossed caps on the acorns so I stamped some more acorns with

black ink and colored them in, fussy cut and popped them up.

The third ended up being my favorite.  It was the second attempt.  The first attempt

was a mess.  More on that later.

This time no embossing.  Just stamping, coloring with Zigs and my waterbrush. 

I did a wet on wet wash around the mage and added some splatters.

I added a bow (not as wonky as it looks) and some little copper punched circles.

Again the actual colors are lighter.

Finally....

I'm not even sure if I would send this one.  It's the result of trying to die cut 

before the splatters dry.  Those little splatters became ugly smudges!

I salvaged some of it.  You can see the results of cutting before drying.

And the worst got cut off.

It was a fun play with this stamp set and not all on the same day.

I hope you have some fun creating this weekend.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Acorn Almanac (Unity)

Ink:   Versafine Sepia, Encore Gold, Vesafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Natural

Other:  Zigs CCRBM, Matte Clear EP, Gold EP, Deckle & Stitches Nesting Dies (Unity), Essential Arches Dies (SB), Stitched Circle Dies (SSS), Oak Forest EF (SB)

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Poinsettia Joy

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

I had some leftover strips of embossed vellum and I knew if I tried to put them

back in the paper box, they would get messed up.  Solution: put them on a card.

But them what to put with them?  One of my many poinsettias of course.

This poinsettia is from Concord &  9th.  The set has a background and this

layered poinsettia as well as berries and greenery.  It's a fantastic set of dies!

For this card I used the poinsettia and berries.  The silver sprig was already a

leftover from one of my friend's gatherings.

I cut the poinsettia from Neenah Solar White and ink blended with

red and green ink.  It's popped up on the front with a dimensional.

The sentiment is always the hardest part for me.  Nothing was working.

Then I thought of a tag.  That was the best solution.

It turned out to be one of my favorite cards.  And the pretty silver embossed

vellum found a happy place.

Challenges:

CAS Christmas - Poinsettia (A great challenge, Col)

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S.- 1st week of the month get inky

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink: Real Red, Garden Green (SU)   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Embossed Vellum (ret SU), Silver Foil, Gold Foil, White Glimmer

Other:  Festive Blooms (C9), Pinpoint Main Street Tags (PS), Joy die (Elizabeth Crafts)

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Treasured Garden

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

I had pulled this die set out to use.  It's been in the NBUS box for a month 

or so now.  I die cut the blooms from mixed media paper and colored with

Zig markers and a waterbrush.

When I saw Kim's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #756, I thought

these pieces would fit into this sketch beautifully.  See if you agree.

I had a few pieces left over and put them on another card.

I didn't follow the sketch for this one.

Card Recipe

Stamps:

Ink:   Betterpress Black (SB)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Treasured Garden (SC), Zig CCRBM, Charming Flora Cover Die (AS), Betterpress Plate, Border Die (2024 Advent Calendar)

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Awesome Mum

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

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

Here's a card I did with our Craft Group last Wednesday.  It's always so

much fun to get together with these gals! 

This time I was hosting and this is one of the projects I had for them to do.

The heat embossing makes for some easy watercoloring.  The die to cut the 

flower and leaves makes it even easier.  No need to be neat!

I had an extra, just in case, and colored it up afterwards with my Zigs.

I lent the stamp and die to one of the gals that wanted to do some at home. It was easy

to fussy cut this flower. Phew!  It's on it's way to a friend with some medical worries.

I don't know about you, but I have plans to do some cardmaking today.

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday #335 - Birthday card/Use Fall Colors

Krafty Chicks #840 - Birthday

Four Seasons - Fall

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Mandala Blossoms (SSS), Jumbo Mum (Ton), French Foliage (ret SU)

Ink: Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Dried Marigold

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Watercolor Cards (Strathmore) (thanks Sandy), Copper

Other:  White EP, Distress Re-inkers (Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint), Autumn Serenade EF (SB)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Jumbo Mum (Ton), Praying for You Sentiments (PTI)

Ink:  Whisper White, Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White

Other:  White EP, Zigs (Lt Violet, Purple, Olive Green, Deep Green), Argyle Plaid EF (SB)

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Amber and Burnt Red for Color Hues

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

It's time for a new challenge at Color Hues.

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

Aren't these beautiful fall colors?

They were perfect for this Papertrey Ink bird die set that recently arrived in

my craft room.

I die cut this plump little guy from a piece of Crushed Curry textured cardstock that

I'd been hoarding for a 'few' years.  I added a bit of ink blending around the edges

and plopped him on a branch watercolored in shades of red.

I punched some bits of gold metallic cardstock to add to the background 

and leaves.

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

fantastic Guest Designer Crystal 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 Amber & Burnt Red and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on October 14th.

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!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Just a Note (?)

Ink:   Dk Cranberry w Fired Brick (GKD & DI), Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey, Brushed Corduroy, Aged Mahogany)

Paper:   Neenah Natural, Crushed Curry Textured (ret SU), Watercolor (Strathmore)

Other:  Vine Canopy EF (SSS), Privet Branch die (SSS), Simply Birds Die (PTI)

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