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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Gingerbread Plaid

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

Fall is in the air.  And Christmas is right around the corner!

My favorite Gingerbread Boy came out to play.

He's so easy to play with.  Just some simple stamping with embossing ink,

heat embossing and a bit of inking with leftover ink from a blending brush.

He's done up with candy hearts and gemstone eyes.

I've paired him up with a strip of Christmas plaid.

Another Christmas card for the stash.

Challenges:

Tic Tac Toe #331- Top left to bottom right (Plaid, Gingerbread, Enamel Dots)

Peace on Earth #50 - ATG Christmas

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage), Happy Holly Days (HA)

Ink:   VersaMark, Brushed Corduroy (DOX), Cherry Cobbler

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Holiday Plaids (Photoplay)

Other:  Gingerbread Boy die (RC), Scallop Borders 2 die (Pretty Pink Posh), Subtle EF (ret SU), Hearts (ret SU), Enamel Dots (?)

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On the Beach

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

This is where I'd like to be.

This is an old stamp that I've used a few times.  This time I colored with Copics.

Challenges:

Just for Girls #684 - Inspired by the colors and wood siding in the inspiration photo below

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Beach for Two (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Gray Flannel

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Blueberry Bushel (SU)

Other:  Copics (R24, $29, E11, E33, Y15, Y18, B0000, B23, B24), Stitched Rectangles Die (SSS), Pinewood Planks EF (S&), Copic Multiliner

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Gingerbread Cookies

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

I'm behind on Christmas cards...again!

Hope to get caught up by the end of the month.

Hopefully I'm in time to get this in a challenge...or two...or three...

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - D is for Die Cuts

Jingle Belles - Embossable You (Heat embossing and dry embossing)

Peace on Earth Christmas - ATG Christmas or inspired by mood board

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bitty Holiday Wishes (MFT), Gingerbread Boy Small (Rubber Cottage), Jolly Bingo Bits (ret SU)

Ink:Whisper White, VersaMark 

Paper:   Kraft, Neenah Solar White, Real Red

Other:  Gingerbread Boy Small Die (RC), White EP, Red EP, Subtle EF, Heart Blooms EF (Spl)

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Gingerbread Snowflake

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

It's time to start on my Christmas card stash for this year.

I do enjoy making Christmas cards when I'm not in a rush.

I pulled out an older and well loved gingerbread boy stamp and die.

He was stamped on kraft cardstock with heat embossed "icing".

He's popped on an embossed snowflake and I thought it would be fun for him

to hold a candy cane.

While I had him out, I stamped and die cut another and added him to a snippet piece

of patterned paper.

This time I used my pinpoint snowflake plate for the background and

some tiny resin hearts for his buttons.

Challenges:

Peace on Earth #31 - I was inspired by the top left photo in the mood board.  See that little gingerbread man with his candy cane?

Can You Handle the Pressure - Dry Embossing with a twist of snow

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage), Christmas Candy Canes (Spl)

Ink:   Whisper White, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Paper:   Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar (SU), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Gingerbread Boy Die (RC), Christmas Candy Canes die (Spl), White EP, Clear EP, Red Sharpie, Holly Punch (MS), Holiday Sentiments 2 Glimmer Plate (Spl), Glimmer System

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps: Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage), Christmas Candy Canes (Spl), Merry Up (PB)

Ink:  Whisper White, Real Red 

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Real Red, PP (?)

Other:  White EP, Clear EP, Gingerbread Boy Die (RC), Christmas Candy Cane die (Spl), Pinpoint Snowflake Plate (MB), Resin Hearts (ret SU)

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On the Beach

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

Summer has certainly arrived in North Carolina and I'd love to be

sitting near the water.

This would be a better view!

As you know, I've been cleaning out my UFO (UnFinished Objects) box.  I'm

almost finished.  Whew, it was pretty full.  Some of the fullness was because of my

calendars.  I can't bear to throw out the pages when the month is done.  So I throw it in

the UFO box and worry about it later.

This image was from June of 2020. 

When I saw the challenge at Double D and that row of colorful beach chairs,

I had an aha moment with this image.

All I had to do was color the chairs with colored pencils and pop it in a

die cut frame.

I left off the sentiment until I need it.

Thanks Double D for helping me place this UFO.

Challenges:

Double D - Beach Time

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Beach for Two (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Archival Shadow Gray

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (Raspberry Red, Yellow, Golden Ochre, Turquoise, Beige, Warm Gray, Gray, Sky Blue, Greenish Blue, Scarlet, Black)

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Gingerbread Treats for CAS Christmas

Hello friends.

I'm back with some more holiday treats for CAS Christmas.

Our hostess, Nance has challenged us to make

I found this stamp that's a miniature of my larger gingerbread man and the 

matching dies at our stamp show during the summer.

I stamped and heat embossed with white on brown cardstock.

The die was a huge help in cutting them out and I also cut from some brown foam

to add dimension.  I like my gingerbread with some thickness!

Ummm, they are making me wish for gingerbread!

I had an extra cookie so I made another in your face red card.

Check out what our fabulous Design Team and Guest Designer, Birgit

have done to inspire you.  They'll make your mouth wish for holiday treats!

I hope you'll share your treats with us at

CAS Christmas.

Challenge is open through the 24th.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (Card 1)

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy Small (Rubber Cottage), Festive Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White, Real Red (SU)

Paper:   White Textured (Darice), Real Red ( SU), Neenah

Other:  Square Windows Trio Die (Honey Bee), Red Ultra Fine Sharpie, White EP

Card Recipe (Card 2)

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy Small (Rubber Cottage), Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White, Brown Sugar (SU)

Paper:   Real Red ( SU), Naturals White (ret. SU)

Other:  Square Windows Trio Die (Honey Bee), Red Ultra Fine Sharpie, White EP, Classic Label Punch (SU), Baker's Twine (Darice), Subtle EF (SU)

Fun Snowflakes

Hello friends.  Are you ready for the weekend?

The hurricane is gone.  Thankfully we didn't have any damage in our area.
The folks on the coast weren't so lucky and neither were the people in the Bahamas.
My heart goes out to them.

I needed a lift.  And the Christmas Kickstart Challenge was just what I needed!

Get a Head-er Start

For this challenge we'd like you to take your inspiration from the blog header!

This stamp belongs to a friend and I happened to have one more stamped in the 

Christmas box.  I colored these crazy guys with Copic markers.

There's some Nuvo Crystal drops here and there and a gold tooth.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowflakes (Rubber Cottage), Believe (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Bermuda Bay, Real Red (SU)

Other:  Copic Markers (R13, R20, R29, R35, R39, BG13, BG1, C00, C0), Subtle EF (SU), Nuvo Crystal Drops

Fun Snowflakes Tag

Hi.  I'm back with another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

I had some fun with this one!

My mixed media are stamping, Copic coloring, and stenciling with shimmer paste

This is a borrowed stamp that I enjoyed coloring with Copic Makers. 

The stamp is called Snowflakes.

After I cut it down, I used some shimmer paste through a stencil to make some snow.

It's layered up on green and red cardstock .

I should have used some glaze on the glasses but it's not too late.

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowflakes (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Real Red, Cucumber Crush (SU)

Other:  Copic Markers (R59, R29, $35, YR18, YG17, YG67, G14, E23, #25, Black, C00, E000), Cosmic Shimmer Paste, Snowfall Stencil (SSS)

Gingerbread Tag

Hello.  Are you ready for the weekend?
I still look forward to weekends even though I'm retired.

I have another tag for Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas.

This is my favorite gingerbread stamp!  I picked it up at a stamp show

several years ago.  He's so easy to stamp on brown cardstock.

I stamped him, heat embossed the stamping and stenciled the

"cracks" over him.  I find that Sharpies work well for coloring

his buttons and bow.

Stenciling with a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil and a Clarity Brush 

made easy work of the base of the tag. The tag is one that Christine sent me.

I've finished this off with some snippets of Cherry Cobbler

a wooden snowflake and some scrunched seam binding.

Loll has done fantastic mixed media tags and each day a friend joins her

with another outstanding Christmas tag.

So much inspiration there!

You can enter the challenge until the 23rd.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:   Baked Brown Sugar, Cherry Cobbler (SU), Tag

Other:  White EP, Layering Stencil #32 (TH), Texture Scraped Paint Stencil (ret. MB), Wooden Snowflake, Seam Binding (ret. SU)

Having Fun with Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday morning!

I hope you are having fun getting ready for Christmas.

Here's something to make you smile.

I had this in my UFO box.  I'd stamped it from a borrowed stamp.

When I saw Lori's challenge, I couldn't resist using it.

These guys make me smile every time I look at them!

Come join us if you have a chance.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowflakes (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Garden Green, Whisper White (SU)

Other:  Copic Markers, Glossy Accents, Wink of Stella

Beach for Two

Another stamp from the stamp show last month.

This one is from Rubber Cottage.

I stamped it with Archival ink then used watercolors, Zigs and 
Polychromos pencils to add color.

Makes me wish I was enjoying a water view.

This will have to do for now.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Beach for Two (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:  Black Archival (SU)

Paper:  Basic Gray (SU), Watercolor (Strathmore-for mat), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Zigs, Aquapainter (SU), Re-inkers (Crumb Cake, Soft Sky, Bashful Blue), Polychromos Pencils (Warm Grays-Faber Castell)