Hello! I can share part of what I’ve been up to at last! YAY! Click the picture and take a look. Starlitstudio has the NEW collection in stock.
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Avery Elle Kitsch Christmas birthday card…
Hi everyone! Just stopping in to share a birthday card for our grandson Bryant. I just had to use this adorable Avery Elle Christmas Kitsch stamp and die set! Soooooo CUTE! So fun to color.
I made an ink blended sky with Distress inks and stamped the three snowflakes from the set with Delicata Silver ink. I added a few Pretty Pink Posh 3mm Sparkling Clear sequins. I love these tiny ones!
The Memory Box Fresh Pine Landscape die is the background piece die cut in white card-stock.
I used the poppystamps Delicate Holly Frame die adhered to the scene with mounting squares under the solid holly leaves.
The deer are colored with Copic Sketch Markers, the E30 series. Copic Opaque White painted on the eyes and the spots.
I hope you’re having a nice relaxed Christmas prep week! Tim went to turn on the oven Saturday and the element in the oven went bad. ugh. So all of a sudden we were stove shopping…or he was! lol Poor guy. He even went and picked one up by himself! It’s really nice! I will enjoy heating up my cocoa with it! lol
I was busy making gift tags! hoho I have a picture over on instagram but haven’t taken a picture with the camera yet. They’re cute if you want to see… ugh…more deer! WHAT?! They are fun though…the Printworks antlers and googly eyes and a big red nose ‘Cool Yule’ kind of tag on kraft! yes! Link to my IG page is over in the sidebar.
ok – I’ll shut up and get back to work! Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy some cocoa with me next! (I wish)
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Simon Says Stamp Hey Love release…
Sharing a card today from the NEW release at Simon Says Stamp. So many pretty dies and stamps! Love is in the air, along with the snow on my blog and in Iowa. hoho
My photos don’t do this card justice. Black and gold can be so dramatic and I assure you they are on this card! (no sunshine for pictures today)
I used the Memory Box Master Oval Frame die to set this card up, then tied on some thin gold thread.
Two white die cuts glued on behind the gold die cut…
You can see this die and the rest of the release at SSS, HERE. Have fun looking and shopping!
Thanks for stopping by!
P.S. Here’s a phone picture I just took this a.m. Sun is bright today!
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Memory Box Snowglobe Wishes card…
Tis the season…for all things Christmas and snow related! Do you have a collection of snowglobe stamps and dies? I do! Oh, I know, what don’t we collect?! lol
This adorable set is an Open Studio stamp set with coordinating dies from Memory Box called Snowglobe Wishes.
I colored the images with Copics, inked the background with Distress inks, spritzed with a pearly spray and then stamped snowflakes with Delicata Silver ink and white ink.
I die cut the snowglobe die in the top panel and glued the snowglobe to the card-base.
This Santa and reindeer are so cute! I love all the images that come in the set and it’s so wonderful to have dies for all the pieces too!
Oh, for the snow piece they are standing on, I used Stampendous Frantage Chunky Deep White Deep Impression Embossing Enamel. Love this stuff for snow!
Linking to some challenges…
HLS December – Anything Goes With Dies
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge – Winter Fun
Scrapyland – Anything Goes (using die companies they sell)
Addicted To Stamps and More – CAS
Simon Says Stamp – National Christmas Card Day
SSS Monday Challenge – Let It Snow
HOHOHO, it’s back to work I go! Thanks for stopping by today and thank you for making the season merry and bright with your comments and everything you share!
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PTI Christmas Card for stamp club
Hi everyone! Here’s the card I made for our area stamp club gals! PTI (Papertrey Ink) had a challenge going on for assembly line card making so I had to enter. hehe
Dorothy had my name in the gift exchange and she gave me this old Santa Memory Box stamp that I wanted. She got it last year in the club gift exchange! It was so fun to open it and see she’d given him up for me! One of the other things in the package was this Sizzix tree die that I used on a thanks card that I mailed to her. Hopefully she’ll get it before she sees this! hehe A fun time was had by all! We missed the gals that couldn’t be there though!
Thanks for stopping by today! See you again soon!
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Ombre Hero Arts Scene for Addicted to CAS challenge…
Hi everyone! When I saw the challenge at Addicted to CAS…I just knew I needed to use some of my Hero Arts stamps with the Hero Arts Ombre stamp pad! I had to hurry though cuz we’re down to the last few hours! eek! Life on the edge when you have too many things going! lol
I tried a few different backgrounds but ended up just going around the perimeter of the image with a gold paint pen after I inked and put 4 inch wide double stick tape over the top and covered it with Judikins Micro Clear Beads… I have to use them at least once a year! hehe
I die cut a Memory Box Postage square die, Holly die and the sentiment from Cottage Cutz in white glitter card-stock, holly in green. So festive but with a vintage appeal too.
I’m happy so it’s back to work on the house. The living/dining room is painted and we’re working on moving things back in. Tim washed some windows and I’ve been cleaning blinds! oh yuk is right! Double yuk! That’s why I had to stop and make something! haha
ok – ttul!
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3 Memory Box and poppystamps Christmas cards…
Hi everyone! Starting out the week thankful I woke up early to get a post written! I was inspired to make this card using these colors and design by a little Christmas card catalog that came in the mail, a business would order personalized cards from. I don’t normally think to mix white with gold!
I embedded the Memory Box Arpeggio Snowflake die like my video HERE…such an easy way to adhere this detail image and love how it looks on the back side, even though I trimmed the panel down and glued it to a card base. hehe
Merry is die cut in gold and glued on…Christmas is white heat embossed and from the poppystamps Christmas Greetings stamp set. I’m getting a lot of mileage out of that stamp set!
The black card-stock background panel is cut with the Memory Box Speckled Background die. An A2 size, top folding card.
oh, I had fun playing with the new Memory Box Circle Bump Borders die set! Here I die cut one of the sizes twice at an angle in a 4.25 x 5.5 panel of white card-stock. I scotch taped the straight lines on the back side and glued the panel to an A2 size card-base. Then you can just slip a gift card right under the bumps and it holds it perfectly and stays! So happy when done! hehe
This was a surprise drawing/gift at our stamp club party Friday. Jan won! Thank you Carolyn for the HyVee gift card!
I’m loving this new poppystamps Pine Twig die. Die cut it twice and glued on. But of course it needed holly! I die cut poppystamps Holly Leaves and Berries die twice and glued them on. Fast and flat if you want to mail it! oh, a little glittery snow would’ve been fun…ok, on the next one! lol
Here’s the Memory Box Circle Bump Borders die again! I used a bigger one this time. That poppystamps Christmas Greetings stamp set again, some little strips of gold metallic card-stock that I did run through the big shot with the bump die so the ends would be curved, the pretty little poinsettia from the Memory Box Fanciful Poinsettia Ornament die and the pine branches from the Memory Box Blissful Bundle die.
You’ll notice the front panel has a little border…I like to use the A2 size rectangle die from the Avery Elle Custom Panel set, when I need the front panel back side to be covered. Then I just glue it to an A2 card-base.
I was happy with this sweet A2 size CAS Christmas card. Should be easy to mail even with that small gold pearl.
Well, yesterday we went to Costco and bought an artificial Christmas tree. We’ve had real Christmas trees for over 30 years. I’m not sure I’m gonna be alright with it. sigh. Sounds so silly typing it. I won’t have a tree to water every morning! One daughter told me, I can always buy a real tree too! hohoho She’s right but one of them would never get decorated cuz I gotta make cards you know! lol I do love real trees.
Happy Thanksgiving week to you wonderful blog friends. You’re the best! I’m thankful!
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