Winterberry Merry Christmas

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

It's almost time to start sending out Christmas cards and I still need a few.

So I'm grabbing every chance I get to get in the studio and work on them.

I think I need to work a little faster!

When I saw the Inspired By Challenge photo this week, the candles made me 

think of the background I'd done a few weeks ago with Paper Glaze and a stencil.

The white glaze puts me in mind of a candle.

So I die cut a berry branch from mixed media paper, my Distress Markers and waterbrush

and colored it up.

Challenges:

Inspired By Challenge #196 - Christmas Splendor

Penny Black Saturday - ATG 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Distress Markers (Peeled Paint, Pine Needles, Candied Apple, Barn Door, Vintage Photo

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series

Other:  Snowdrop White Paper Glaze (Picket Fence), Mini Stencil Set 32 (TH), Winter Berry Branch (PB)

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Feathered Cardinal for Rudolph Days

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

It's time for Maureen's (Scraps of Life by Scrappymo) Rudolph Days where we're challenged 

to do a Christmas card to share the end of each month (25th to the end).

I used a NBUS cardinal die that I've cut from red cardstock and sponged

with more color.  The background is gesso applies through a stencil.

Challenges:

Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas (25th of the month to the end of the month)

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff

Christmas Craft Creations - No Stamping

 

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Festive Berries, Crackling Campfire, Fired Brick, Black Soot (DI)

Paper:   Poppy Parade, Black, So Saffron, Crumbcake, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer

Other:  Gesso, Flourish Stencil (TH), Feathered Cardinal Die (TH), Holiday Word Script Die (TH), Flower Stems #1 Die (TH)

Splendid Poppy Stems

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

It's been a busy month and I didn't think I'd get to some of my favorite challenges,

but I managed a bit of creative time after all.

The Memory Box Challenge this month is to use paint.

I love to watercolor and sometimes use watercolor paint as in the piece I die

cut these new to me pretty poppies from.  The stems are from a piece of dirty pour 

done with acrylic paint.

I love the detail on these flowers!

It was pretty quick if you don't count that I had to try 4 (yes 4) times to

get that sentiment to come out.  White embossing on black can be tricky!

Challenges:

Memory Box Outside the Box - Paint

NBUS  - Never Before Used Schtuff

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips (Alt)

Ink:   Whisper White (SU)

Paper:   Black Licorice (MFT), Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Splendid Poppy Stems (MB), White EP, Stately EF (ret. Craft Concepts)

Prancing Reindeer

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

I have another Christmas card to share today.

I'm so glad my Christmas stash is growing!

I found this guy hanging out in my Christmas UFO box.

He was cut from corrugated cardboard but I chose the smooth side to show.

The corrugation pops him up a bit.

The background was stamped with a Christmas background stamp, 

splattered with red ink and die cut with a Deckled Edge die.

I sponged around the edges of the die cut and a bit on the deer too.

I love the kraft, red and white color combination and

my dear friend Loll chose this as the challenge at

CAS Christmas

I love this color combo so much that I did another.

How's your Christmas stash coming along?

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Christmas Background (Stampendous)

Ink:   Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Paper:   Naturals White, Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Other:  Prancing Deer (TH Bigz), Corrugated Cardboard, Snowfall EF (ret. Cuttlebug), Deckle Edge Die (Splbndr)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Winter Cottage (Alt), Season's Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler Marker (SU)

Paper:   Naturals White, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Other: Pine Bough EF (SU)

Flowers for Twofer

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

Have you had your COVID vaccine yet?  Things are still pretty tangled up here

with so many people wanting it.  Hopefully we'll get ours soon.  Meanwhile it's

still staying in and masking up.

Is it sad that coordinating my mask with my outfit is the highlight of my day?

I have some more flowers for Twofer.

I couldn't stop with just one set!

First up is super QACAS (Quick And Clean And Simple)

I die cut this fun flower from a piece of Neenah cardstock and saved that

little outline bit.  I used the subtle embossing folder on the cut out piece.  A piece of mop up tissue paper went behind the opening and the die cut was attached over top. 

There's some prills in the center to add a little more pizzazz.

I'm going to take this to the Inspired By Challenge #157

The colors really jumped out at me!

For my Twofer....

I used a background from my play with my Gel Press.

I was really getting fancy with this one and honestly I don't remember quite

how I did it.  There wasn't anybody else in the room, so I must have done it.

I'm pretty sure I had a lot of fun doing this!  It's definitely one of a kind!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Give Thanks (C&9)

Ink:   Tempting Turquoise (SU)

Paper:   Neenah, Mop up Tissue Paper

Other:  Tith Floral Die (MB), Subtle EF (SU), Prills (Art Quest)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Timeless Textures (SU), Sentiment Strips (Alt.)

Ink:   Soft Suede, Calypso Coral

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Tith Floral Die (MB), Stencil (?), Gel Press, Acrylic Paint (Magenta, Lemon - Dina Wakley), Subtle EF (SU)

Shimmery Dainty Blossoms

Hi there.  I'm glad you stopped by!

There's still time to join in at CAS Mix Up...

where Joanna has asked us to...

I used the Altenew Fine Frames die to emboss the background.

You can see it better here.

After I watercolored the die cut flower, I used some of the color to add

splatters.  The sweet little bee is from a Power Poppy set.

I added some colored shimmer to the flower. It was a free gift with an order

and had been languishing in my drawer.

The bees wings get their shimmer from a clear Wink of Stella.

My mixed media are Embossing with Die, Die Cutting, Watercoloring, Stamping

and Splattering.

I hope you get a chance to try your hand at embossing with a die cut.

Check out the videos and the team's fabulous cards to inspire you.

I hope you'll join us at

CAS Mix Up.

Challenge ends on the 24th.

Challenges

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff (Flower Die)

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS), Bee Kind Toile (PP)

Ink:   Gorgeous Grape, Versafine Onyx Black, Mustard Seed Distress Marker

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore), Neenah

Other:  Dainty Blossoms Die (Pinkfresh Studio), Fine Frames Rectangles Die (Alt), Gansai Tambi Watercolors (61 Cornflower Blue, 66 Menthol Violet, 139 Purple, 54 Olive Green, 43 Med Yellow), Pressed Peony Nuvo Glitter Marker, Clear Wink of Stella, Gold Sparkle Crystal (Studio Katia)

Memory Box Merry Christmas

Hi.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I recently borrowed a mini compressor from a friend and played

with alcohol inks! I used the compressor to blow the ink and alcohol around.

Where the ink was thick and sticky, I rubbed some Deco foil. I love the look! 

I've cut this beautiful ornament from the alcohol pieces and popped it atop

 a new embossing folder from Memory Box. Thanks for the enabling, Tina.  I

think I'll be using this a lot!

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - PQR are for...(Red Ornament)

Memory Box #64 - Happy Holidays

Rudolph Days - Anything Goes Christmas

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Scripty Holiday (GKD)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Gold Foil (SU), Neenah, Yupo

Other:  Alcohol Ink (Ranger), Deco Foil, Cabrini Ornament (MB), Glorious Leaves EF (MB), Gold EP

Memory Box Birthday

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

This is a CASE of a card by Joy Taylor

I stamped both sizes of the flowers from the Watching the World Bloom

stamp set from Memory Box with white craft ink and heat embossed.

Then I cut a circle from the embossed piece and a sheet of foam

cut a bit smaller than the design piece.

The solid butterfly and a circle insert were cut from vellum

and the butterfly outline was cut from Neenah.

Challenges:

AAA Birthday #14 - Use Vellum/Birthday

Memory Box Outside the Box - Birthday

NBUS #15 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Butterfy)

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Watching the World Bloom (MB), Handwritten Notes (PTI)

Ink:   Whisper White, Smokey Gray

Paper:   Neenah, Bashful Blue, Vellum

Other:  Drifting Side Butterfly Die (MB), Infinity Circles (HA), White EP, Sequins (SSS)

Clipping Heart Die Cut Stencil

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

It's a rainy day here and I'm looking forward to a day in the studio.

I used the SSS Clipping Heart Die to cut a stencil from a piece of stamping

that was pulled from the trash can.  It's Neenah paper.

You can see that I sponged the pink through the stencil onto my card front 

and also stamped the script in the same color I sponged with.

I die cut again from a clean piece of Neenah, and placed it on the sponged area,

matching up the hearts.

Then I inked up my French Script stamp  with white ink

and stamped it on the overlay and sponged area and heat embossed.

(It's important to make sure the sponging is dry before you do this step.)

There's an outline that I'd die cut with the hearts.  You can see it on the picture above.

I used the white outline over the sponged hearts and the sponged outline

with some patterned paper.

I hope you an follow all this.  It's confusing me as I read it back! LOL!
It doesn't take much to confuse me these days!

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is With Love

Double D Challenges: Hearts

Krafty Chicks Challenge: Must have Stamping

CAS Mix Up: Make Stencils from Dies

  

 

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  French Script (Darkroom Door)

Ink:   Whisper White, Worn Lipstick (DI and DOX)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Clipping Heart Die (SSS), White EP, Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS)

Brusho Butterfly Sympathy

Hello friends.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

The background behind the butterfly was done by sprinkling Brusho crystals

on and embossing folder, cranking through the Big Shot, 

then spritzing with water.

If you look close you can see the embossed feathers.

This die belongs to a friend and I'm so lucky that she let me borrow it!

It die cuts the window and butterfly and embosses the chevron design

at the bottom, leaving the space for a sentiment.

It's perfect for quick and easy cards!

I'm going to share this at

Krafty Chicks Challenge

Where it's Anything Goes for the 5th Thursday of the month.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Oh, Happy Day (Avery Elle)

Ink:   Island Indigo (SU)

Paper:   Neenah (110 lb. Solar White)

Other:  Butterfly Die (Little B), Brushos

Joyful Flower Die Cut and Stencil for CAS Mix Up

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

It's a new month and a new challenge at CAS Mix Up.

My very talented and dear friend, Joanna is hosting our challenge this month.

I die cut the Joyful Flower from Penny Black from Neenah and used the piece left behind

as my stencil.  Using a sponge dauber, I added color through the stencil.

I used another die cut flower to pop on the card as well.  This time I used

some background pieces that ad been smooshed with ink and shimmer spray.

The flower head was done with Melon Mambo and Vanilla Shimmer.

The leaves are from Wild Wasabi and Gold Shimmer.

The rest of the pink flower background became the backing.

I love how it shows through this hemstitch frame.

I added a few prills to the centers of the flowers for texture.

My mixed media are Die Cut Stencil, Sponging through Stencil, Die Cutting, Smooshing, 

Shimmer Sprays and Stamping

This is a great way to get more mileage out of our dies.

Our fabulous Design Team and Guest Designer, Ina, have some wonderful

examples of stencils from die cuts.  I hope you'll check them out and join us at

CAS Mix Up.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Special Wishes (PB)

Ink:   VF Smokey Gray, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Crushed Curry

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Joyful Flower Die (PB), Sponge Dauber, Shimmer Spray, Hemstitch Rectangle Die (Spl), Yellow Prills

Butterflies

Hello friends.  I'm glad you stopped by today.

I have a threefer of butterflies to share with you today.

These are cards I'd done through the year and never got on my blog.

My butterfly was stamped and heat embossed on vellum and

colored on the back with Zigs and a barely damp waterbrush.

When it was dry, I fussy cut it and trimmed down a piece of dry embossed leaves for

him to perch on.  Then I framed it all in some gray "white space".

This card uses a sweet little butterfly stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

I had the die cut in my UFO box with the background all picked out.

The background was smooshed on cardstock with re-inker and frost white paint.

All it needed was this fussy cut butterfly and a sentiment to finish it off.

He's been heat embossed and watercolored.

I love it when I can use one of those UFOs!

This beautiful die cut butterfly was from a play with my friend Nance (Soul Stampin' Designs).

It makes such a Quick And CAS card when paired with a colorful background

with Lindy's Magicals splashed onto coated cardstock.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Butterfly Trio (PB)

Ink:   Wow Embossing Pad

Paper:   Smokey Gray, Vellum Cardstock (SU), Neenah (110 lb. solar white)

Other:  Black EP (SU), Zigs (Lt. Blue, Violet), Stitched Square Die (SSS), Layered leaves EF, Subtle Texture EF (SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps: Butterflies Set (Lost Coast Designs), Thoughtful Wishes (Stampendous)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah, Whisper White

Other:  Mixed Media #2 Die (TH), Re-inkers (Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Not Quite Navy), Frost White Paint

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps: Thankful Wishes (Stampendous)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Neenah, Coated

Other:  Flickering Butterfly Collage (PS), Lindy's Magicals