Evergreen Window Stands Tall

Hello friends.

I had done this card a while back and liked it so much that I decided to

use it for one of my Christmas card classes.

One of the gals had her card this way to cut and I liked the way it turned out.

So I CASEd her.  Sometimes we have those happy accidents!

I stamped the sentiment crooked. What a surprise!

So I stamped again on a snippet and put some Dazzling Details 

around it to cover the boo boo.  

I added some sparkle to the trees and sky while I was at it.

I'm going to take this over to 

Rudolph Days at Scraps of Life by Scrappy Mo

Thank you Mo for hosting this challenge each month!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Treasures (wish)

Ink:   Night of Navy

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. cold press), Neena

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolour Paint, Salt, Evergreen Window Die (SSS), Dazzling Details (ret. SU)

Light Touch Split

Hi there.

The weekend is winding down.  For many here in the US it was a long weekend

full of food, family, friends and shopping.

I hope it's been a good weekend for you.  It has for me.

(I fit in all but the shopping.)

Another card using the Light Touch stamp.

This time I inked it up with Distress Markers.

By using the MISTI, I inked the red and stamped, repeated until I was
happy with the depth of color, then inked the stems and leaves.

Entering at Penny Black and More
FLOWER POWER

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Light Touch (PB)

Ink:   Distress Markers (Barn Door, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot)

Paper:   Solar White (Neena 110 lb.), Real Red (SU), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Paper Cutter (Fiskars)

Happy Thanksgiving

Hey there.

Happy Thanksgiving
if you live in the US and are celebrating today.

I am thankful for all you wonderful blog readers whether you are celebrating
Thanksgiving today or not.

I've used another tissue paper leaf.

Here's a photo that shows more of the shine.

I used the same technique that I used for this card.

This technique was brought to us by Loll.  Her tutorial is featured at Splitcoaststampers this week.

If you're not a member at SCS, you can find the tutorial here on YouTube.

Since I used watercolor on my tissue paper leaf and

Thanksgiving is a holiday, I'll add this to the gallery at

CAS Watercolour.

Challenge ends at midnight PST, November 24th. 

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Happy Harmony (retired SU)

Ink:   VersaMark, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Seedless Preserves (D)

Paper:   Vanilla Thick, Very Vanilla, Whisper White (SU), Tissue

Other:  Gold EP, Pinewood Planks EF (SU), Stitched Squares Die (LI), Piinpoint Main St. Tags (PS)

More Tags

Hello friends.

These are the last of my tags for
Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends.

 First up was a die cut piece with the sentiment all stamped and embossed.

I can't find the sentiment in my collection so I'm not sure where it came from.

The poinsettia was all assembled and miraculously intact.

I stamped and heat embossed a flourish for the flower to sit on,
adhered the die cut design piece to a silver foil die cut tag, and tied a ribbon on.

The second tag is my favorite of all my tags this year.

The image was all stamped and colored.  It was a stamp borrowed from a friend

who had bought the set at a yard sale.  I believe it was made by Stampin' Up!

but I have no idea of the name of the set.

I believe the image was colored with Stampin' Up! Markers.

I die cut the image into a tag, then used a Zig glue pen on the pears

and sprinkled some glitter over it.

I added a thin strip of gold glitter paper on the bottom to 

hide the fact that the piece was too short for the pinpoints on the bottom.

In the light the glitter sparkles beautifully.  The camera doesn't want to show that.

Using stamping, marker coloring, heat embossing, die cutting and glitter.

This tag was backed with another die cut piece of whisper white for stability.

Now I need to start shopping to have something to put the tags on.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Tag Recipe (tag 1)

Stamps:  Sentiments (?)

Ink:   Encore Silver

Paper:   Silver Foil, Whisper White (SU)

Other:  Silver EP (SU), Timeless Rectangles die (Spellbinders), Poinpoint Mainstreet Tags Die (PS), Poinsettia Parade Die (SSS)

Tag Recipe (tag 2)

Stamps:  Tree (?), Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Encore Gold

Paper:  Whisper White, Gold Glimmer (SU)

Other:  Basic Bookmark 3 (PTI), Zig 2 way glue pen, gold glitter

Mitten Tag

Hello, friends.

I'm almost late for the Tag You're It Challenge where my friend Hazel is
the Featured Artist and my friend Darnell is the Guest Designer.

Here's my tag

Here's Hazel's tag that inspired my tag.

I had this piece of mitten left over from last week's class and thought it would make a cute tag.

I die cut a snowflake from a piece of smooshed cardstock. 

To smoosh, I dropped some re-inker and frost paint on a split cellophane bag,

closed it and smooshed, opened it back up, put some cardstock in and smooshed again.

I actually put 2 pieces of cardstock for a twofer.

The picture doesn't show it, but the snowflake has a nice frosty look.

I was inspired by the pink and sweet bow.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Thick Vanilla (SU), Neena

Other:  Mitten Die (IO), Snowflake Duo (PB), Simply Scored, Basic Pearls (SU)